Paths chosen

so uh I decided to finally write this after more than three months of it not leaving my brain alone so I finally decided to write it so here goes nothing

oh btw this story is gonna sort of be a slow burn, cuz I don't wanna just write a ship story about them I want to construct a proper meaningful story so please bare with me, also this is a universe where neither Arin or Dan are married and they are a bit younger than they are right now by a good few years Arin is in his Mid 20's Dan is in his late 20's almost early 30's and in general all the grumps and non grumps are younger.

Also additional info in this world/story Dan an Arin have been Friends since late high school but Arin didn't go off to collage Dan however did, Dan also has been best friends with ninja Brain since they where kiddos but insured of four years older he's 5 years older than Dan