“Welcome to the club. Sober sense not allowed,”
A smile played upon his lips as he watched the girl from his side of the elevator, raising the bottle as he took a small sip before pushing it to her side. “I’ll cheer to that,” Dan whispered, as his eyes fell on her once again, watching as she took a drink illuminated by the red lighting in the elevator. There was no doubt in his mind that neither Valerie nor Dan would leave the elevator sober… if they could even leave tonight. Which, from the way this conversation was going, he didn’t necessarily mind if they didn’t as he was enjoying the girl’s company… truly making him wonder what had happened all those years ago to cause a rift between them in the first place. Though, he was brought out of his drunken thoughts as she asked if he was going to go to Harvard or MIT.
A slight sigh left his lips as he sent her a smile. “They were contenders, but I ended up settling on the University of Oxford, back in England. Jessica’s headed there and someone needs to take care of her,” Dan stated, telling the honest truth for maybe the first time in his life to someone that wasn’t one of his closest friends. Though in retrospect, it wasn’t like Daniel had any close friends left. And yes, Dan knew that Jessica didn’t need anyone to take care of her. At the same time, he… needed to. She had done the same for him years ago when she followed him to America, and in a strange way, Parker wanted to do the same for her. “You remember Jess right? She’s about to hate me because I f*cked up, I always f- up” Dan mumbled, taking another long drink as he remembered the message about Andy… knowing that would be one long… conversation whenever she arrived in the morning. After all, not only had Daniel put Andy in Juvie - he had also hacked Jessica’s phone to make sure she got no news or calls from the man so she wouldn’t know.
Suffice to say, Daniel was glad when they moved from that conversation onto a more interesting one. After all, who knew Brian the ginger was freaky in bed? And not the good kind. “You know… I always knew there was something off about Brian. He once asked me a favor to get him backstage tickets to Beauty and the Beast on ice. I thought it was for a girlfriend or something but damn,” Daniel laughed, running his hands through his hair as the girl talked about Brian’s dirty talk in bed. “I have to ask, did he call you Val or did he call you Belle in bed? Because there are some lines you shouldn’t cross,” Dan grinned. “Anyways, Beauty and the Beast was kind of a f*cked up movie anyways so I wouldn’t lose sleep over never being able to watch it again. I mean the whole premise is the beast kidnaps her to make her fall in love with him. Kinda bs if you ask me. At least Mulan is badass.” Dan explained, handing her the bottle at the end of the story. “Oh you win. Without a doubt. That sounds traumatizing.”
“Funniest drunk moment?”
As he thought back to his various drunken stupor moments, he raised his eyebrow to her story. “Okay but seriously. Luigi does all the damn work and his older brother just takes all the damn credit. Luigi needs his own franchise that just goes into him secretly hating his brother,” Dan agreed, “but I would love to hear your arguments on the subject,”
After a moment of thinking, Dan smiled. “Alright, but I swear Val, you can’t search this up. Two years ago Jessica and I made a bet about who could dance better so I hacked us as contestants into this old show called 'Lip Sync Battle’ that only aired in Canada and I did a rendition of Umbrella by Rihanna in fishnets and leather. I was drunk out of my mind and have absolutely no idea what I was doing - but Jess and I are now famous in Canada if that tells you anything,” Daniel laughed, remembering the moment they had gone on the show as a joke. “and No,” Dan said almost immediately, watching as Val started to make a comment. “I know what you’re thinking. I’m riding on the fact that you’ll be too drunk to remember I told you this,” he smiled, “and yes, I was wearing heels. How the hell do you girls do it with those death traps?”
“Funniest untrue rumor you’ve heard about yourself recently?” Daniel questioned, getting up from his sleeping position as he instead leaned against the elevator, looking at the girl with curious eyes. "The freshman girls apparently think I’m a god and have something to do with everything falling apart in their lives. Last week I read a few texts, and I sh!t you not, it said “Oh may gawd,” Daniel started in a very valley girl accent, “Did you know what Daniel did today. He broke Emma and Jake up. OMG they were supposed to be together forever but like apparently he paid Emma to break up with Jake and date Adam. ADAM. Of all people. Ugh whatever,” Dan laughed, rolling his eyes as he told the girl the story. “They also think I have something to do with tictok not getting banned, but I can’t take credit for that one,”
@CerealKiller - Val (That Lip Sync battle had to exist in this world somehow hehe)