#but yeah my danny feelings lately are OFF THE CHARTS 🚨🚨🚨

[bobmckenzie]

danny ramble because i'm in my feelings!! 😵‍💫

thinking about Danny being the overlooked child growing up bc his older brother was the popular sports star who brought home trophies and had games to go to and was charismatic, popular, etc while Danny was a little awkward and his interests were more solitary. to top it off, at school he was never "nerdy" enough to fit in with the AV club kids but never "cool" enough to fit in with the kids in his mechanics class. sure he had people he'd make small talk with and somewhere to sit at lunch, but he never really made friends, never was able to be known as more than Kevin's younger brother until Becky was born and he started connecting with other parents in Urbania. For most of his life he felt basically invisible.

Now he's a staple of the community, everyone knows the man who runs the gas station, who makes small talk in check-out lines and always leaves great tips at the diner. but STILL he's never really had a best friend, never had someone to share deep secrets and fears with...

and then I show up out of the blue, some random hitchhiker who on the surface he has nothing in common with. there's almost twenty years between us, I know nothing about cars, or football, I'm so shy compared to him, and I have no clue what it's like to be a parent. but something just... clicks. we make each other laugh, we like the same music, movies, like listening to each other ramble about mechanics or books... and for some reason the things that don't make sense to tell anyone else, make sense to tell each other, whether we mean to say them or not.

it's more than the attraction, though there's that too. beneath the butterflies and the flushed faces, the hearts that race when hands brush passing a lug wrench to tune up Becky's go kart or a spoon to stir dinner with, the compliments that we try so hard to make sound casual... it's all so easy. because beneath it, we're each other's best friend.