Highs and lows [Imagine Dragons Fanfic]

Dream

Dan:

I softly close the door behind my back, hoping the chattering coming from the kitchen would be loud enough to cover the sound. Maria, or mom, told me that she is having friends over today and she would like for me to meet them.

I don't like the idea. Dads friends never liked me. What if her friends don't like me either? What if they convince her to give me away? I quietly take my shoes off and head over to the stairs, still hoping mom would forget about me.

Why does it have to be today? The only day Wayne isn't here. And of course, today is the day I get to meet new people. I sigh. As I place my foot on the first step to make my way up, I can see a person standing in the doorframe.

Maria crosses her arms and shoots me a half angry, half grinning look. "Nah, nah, nah, where do you think you're going?" She asks in a played mad voice. I shoot her a begging look.

Now she sighs. "They are my friends. They are nice people and you are going to like them. You have to start meeting our friends and family since you are a family member yourself now.." I don't even try to talk back as I put down my backpack and walk over to her.

She puts her arm around my shoulders and together we walk, through the kitchen, into the living room. I can see four women on the couch. They all have glasses in their hands and are chatting.

As we enter the room, they stop and all eyes are on me, which I hate. I'm not made to be the center of attention. I always get anxious. I'm afraid of making mistakes I guess.

"Let me introduce someone to you." Maria starts off. "That's Dan. We adopted him last week. He will live with us from now on. Dan, these are Linda, Barbara, Jennifer and Susan."

A moment of awkward silence hangs between us until I get to find the right words. "Um, h-hey. It's nice to meet you." Their expressions soften instantly. Maybe because of my stutter, who knows..

"It's nice meeting you too" Susan says. "I can totally tell, why you adopted him," Linda adds while mom and I sit down. "You're sweet." I can feel my cheeks blush and look down.

The conversation continues like that, them gushing over me and my shyness. After a few minutes I even start to talk to them and I really enjoy it. I'm glad they accepted me and didn't ask why Maria adopted me..

I shift a bit and open my eyes. After a few seconds of reorientation I remember where I am. My head is resting on Waynes chest, one arm lying across his stomach. In the background, I can hear indistinct chatter and as I turn my head a bit, I can see an episode of Supernatural running on the TV.

"Finally awake?" Wayne's voice brings me back to reality. I turn my head around again and face him, not willing to let go of him yet.

"Did you sleep well?" I nod. "Your chest is a good place to sleep on." He laughs and I join him. "So I guess you won't lift your head of me yet? Because you're also half lying on my arm and I can feel it anymore.."

I shoot him a mischievous grin. "Too bad for you, but I think I will remain like that." "Oh really? Well then I guess, I have to remove you."

"I'm just about to ask, how he wants to do that, as he starts to tickle me with his free hand. His action caught me off guard and I jump a bit, revealing his second arm, which he instantly uses to tickle me even more.

I try to roll away from him and curl into a ball to protect myself, but he is too fast. So I decide to fight back. We both try to tickle each other and move around the whole bed, so that the other one won't get us.

We fight like that for a few seconds until I catch Waynes arm in the middle of his movement. I pull him closer to me until I hug him really close to my chest. It just takes me one or two seconds and I'm so in the momentum that I fall backwards, taking Wayne with me.

Both of us end up on the floor, where  we continue laughing, until our stomach hurt and we have to gasp for breath.

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A brighter one today, because I'm still happy and overwhelmed by the success of my first story. Thanks to all of you again. It's really good to see, that someone actually likes my stories.

I hope you're all having a good day. See ya.