Let Your Heart Soar (Danny Worsnop Fan Fic - A Love To Give Book #2)

Trying To Slow Down

“You ok, Cass?” Danny asked snapping me out of my thoughts. I couldn’t get what that girl had said out of my mind. What if she was right?

“Um...yeah,” I lied. I knew I should just ask him. Even if he lied, it would make me feel better if he told me the girl was wrong.

“You sure? You’ve seemed kind of out of it since after the show,” he pointed out. We had decided to watch a movie together before bed, but I couldn’t pay attention to it.

“It’s just something someone said,” I replied vaguely. I still wasn’t one hundred percent sure I wanted to ask him about it.

“What did they say?” he asked adjusting his position on the couch so he could look at me. I skillfully avoided his gaze though.

“It’s silly,” I told him trying to avoid the subject.

“Tell me, Cass,” he ordered. I could hear Ben, James, Sam, and Cameron yell about something. By this point, they were pretty drunk. All the noise they were making didn’t help my concentration.

“She said that... that you were sleeping with other people,” I told him finally. Saying it out loud made me feel like a bad girlfriend. I should just have faith in Danny no matter what and I knew that.

He picked up the remote and hit pause on the movie. “Cassidy, that’s rubbish. I would never cheat on you. I wouldn’t do that to you,” he told me. He was clearly shocked that I would give what the girl said a second thought.

“That’s what I told her, but I don’t know. It just doesn’t sound like something you wouldn’t do. I mean, you did it before...” I trailed off knowing as soon as it came out that I should have kept the last part of that to myself.

“And I’m not going to do it again,” he said his voice getting a bit louder. He looked slightly angry and I knew why. He was trying really hard to forget about what he did in the past and I was obviously not helping.

“Ok, I’m sorry,” I replied timidly. I hated when Danny got mad. He seemed almost like a different person. He hit the play button and the movie continued, but I still wasn’t able to focus.

I knew he loved me, but I knew that Danny really had no limits, or at least didn’t used to have limits. He had started to control him. He stopped drinking, stopped sleeping around, stopped doing drugs, went to rehab, and pretty much became the Danny I met in high school again, but there wasn’t much he hadn’t done, so who was to say that he wouldn’t start doing things again like he used?

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I woke up the next morning in Danny’s bunk with his arms around me just like I did every morning. I wriggled out of his grasp trying not to wake him. After five years, I had learned how to get out of his bunk without waking him up. I paused before closing the curtain to watch him sleep. He looked so cute when he was sleeping. I smiled at the sight and closed the curtain. I grabbed some close and changed in the bathroom.

Tyler, the band’s assistant, was already up. After all these years, he still worked for them, too. After all this time, we had become really good friends. “Morning, Cass,” he greeted as I stepped out of the bathroom. 

“Hey,” I replied.I grabbed a Poptart and a glass of milk and sat down across from him at the small table. We sat in silence for a few moments.

“Can I ask you something?” I heard myself ask. I had been thinking about asking Tyler about what the girl had said. I still couldn’t get it off my mind even after I talked to Danny. It was just something about the way she had said it; it made me almost believe her.

“Yeah, sure. What’s up?” he replied taking a sip of his orange juice. What if he said she was right? 

“You have to promise that you won’t tell Danny I asked you, though,” I told him looking at him seriously. If Danny knew I had asked Tyler, he’s probably be mad at me for not believing him.

“Wow, this must be serious. I promise I won’t tell him,” he told me with a hint of sarcasm. I fiddled with my breakfast not sure how to ask my question.

“Is...is Danny sleeping with people again?” I asked bluntly. I looked across the table at him curious to see his expression. He didn’t even flinch, which I thought was a good sign.

“Not besides you,” he replied a small smile creeping up on his face. I couldn’t help but smile back. Tyler always knew how to make me a bit happier. “Why?” he added his smile fading.

“Some girl told me her friend claims to have slept with him a few months ago and I know I shouldn’t let it bother me, but it did,” I told him a little embarrassed. I usually knew how to let what people said slide right off my back.

“He’s not. Believe me. He loves you to much. He’s head over heals for you,” he reassured me. I blushed a bit. Danny did love me a lot, didn’t he?

“Really?” I questioned dumbly. I had never thought of Danny being head over heals in love with me or anyone else for that matter.

“Hell yeah. I can tell by the way he looks at you. He never looked at Myca that way,” he replied. Myca was Danny’s ex-girlfriend that he had cheated on. 

I suddenly felt so reassured. As soon as he said that Danny loved me too much, I knew he was right. I guess I just needed to hear it from someone else to believe it.