Shotgun with Daniel

“Thank god Bryce got me out of that detention,” he told Daniel, relaxing in the passenger seat of his car.

“Yeah true, you finally get to meet my girlfriend tonight,” he told him.

The girl that Daniel met over the recent summer holidays attended South Miami college. With no care in the world for football, Daniel was just excited to get a chance to see her for the weekend.

“You do have a lift back don’t you? I’ll probably be crashing here with Liv,” he warned him.

Mark didn’t think much of it then, he was just assuming that he would get a lift back with Tiffany. And if worst came to worst, he would just find someone else to ride with.

The two cruised down the highway, pumping their music loud. The famous ‘Life is a Highway’ blasted from the car speakers as they sung along. Right there and then, Mark again found himself appreciating his life, how could he complain.

When they finally arrived, the boys didn’t have too much time before the start of the game so they would be meeting up with Liv outside of the stadium. Unless he was just imagining it, Mark noticed that Daniel was twitching a little bit as they walked to the Sharks home field. His fingers kept moving as he walked, hands shaking. Very much a sense of nervousness.

Mark didn’t know if it was about how nervous he was to see her again or nervous to introduce her to him. “Are you alright man?” he stopped to ask him.

“Yeah. Sorry, I’m just being paranoid,” he said, shaking his head a little.

“Paranoid about what?”

“That she’ll dump me, see that compared to everyone else from our college, I look pretty much like shit,” he straight up said as they walked to the outside of the stadium.

Mark had never heard Daniel speak like that about himself. Yeah he wasn’t the most popular or handsome guy going around but he was doing fine for himself.

“Man, you’ve got nothing to worry about. Look at me,” Mark directed his attention back on him. “I’m dating fucking Tiffany. This face is dating Tiffany. If I can somehow pull that off, you know anything is possible.”

That cheered him up a little, Daniel started to laugh quietly, “Thanks brother.”