Trapped (egobang trans)

Chapter 47 - Room 6

A/N: I finally found an Arin song!! :0 sounds a little dark and could potentially work for Danny too, but I think the lyrics really represent Arin's inner thoughts... like, the really not nice ones

That week Brian was allowed back to band practice after school, and tagging along with Danny, Arin could tell how excited he was for that. It made her happy by extension seeing him like that. Not to mention, she was actually fairly comfortable around Brian, so she enjoyed his presence. It definitely softened the blow from how out of place she felt around TWRP. Brian was more... normal.

Every day that week Arin would walk with Danny after class, and while he helped with lyrics and sung his heart out on the stage, she would sit and doodle in her sketchbook (she paid attention when they performed).

One day, however, Arin's bubble of focused drawing was popped unexpectedly as a mass of curls suddenly swamped her vision. Tilting her head up she saw Danny leaning over her. She giggled at his position and asked what he wanted.

"Just thought I'd see what you were up to. What's this masterpiece in the making?"

Arin blushed at the compliment as Danny came around from behind her.

"Oh, n-nothing. I was just thinking about that movie we watched at the weekend, and... this kinda happened."

She nervously showed him the page so he could get a better look. Danny tilted his head to one side as he looked over the half way finished sketch, trying to figure it out. Then he smiled as he finally picked out the rough outline of a unicorn, mane flowing in unseen wind and flowers surrounding her as a sort of border.

"Wow, that's awesome! We've actually been thinking of trying to do a version of The Last Unicorn song, so that's some mad foreshadowing," Danny laughed, and Arin placed the sketchbook down in her lap.

"I think your voice would really suit that song, Danny," she said with a bashful smile.

"Aw, thanks man." Danny waved his hand dismissively before his eyes lit up with an idea, "Can you sing?"

Arin blinked up at him, but his face showed no signs of a joke. She looked away, laughing nervously.

"I've never really tried."

"Do you wanna give it a go?"

"What? W-Why?"

"I dunno. If you don't want to that's fine, I just thought it would be fun. We could do, like, a duet or something?"

Arin didn't say anything at first. She didn't know where this idea was suddenly coming from, and her initial instinct was to refuse, obviously. But on the other hand, watching Danny sing and be so happy doing it, she wanted to know what that felt like.

"Sure, what song?" she agreed with a smile.

Danny looked surprised to hear Arin agree so easily, but only for a second before he grinned. Taking Arin's hand he dragged her onto her feet and over to the stage where TWRP and Brian were just jamming out with some random tunes and talking. Brian turned his head when he saw Danny and raised an eyebrow at his obvious enthusiasm.

"What's got you looking so happy?" he asked, almost suspiciously.

"Cause, this guy agreed to sing a song with me! Would you guys play for us?" Danny beamed, gesturing to Arin.

Brian looked at Arin surprised, probably equally as shocked as Danny had been to see her agreeing to something like this. To be honest, Arin surprised herself. Meouch and Sung, however, smiled wide at the news. Meouch bounced excitedly, almost dropping his bass in the process.