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[sub]A [@LovelyComplex], [@NeoAJ], & [@BrutalBx] Collaboration || Featuring: [color=a95963][b]Kylee Grimm[/b][/color], [color=D2D518][b]Roddy Callahan[/b][/color], [color=005d9e][b]Danilo Belmonte[/b][/color], [color=fd9100][b]Jillian O'Brien[/b][/color][/sub]
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[indent][color=005d9e]“Would you shut up!”[/color] As if matters couldn’t get worse, all eyes were on them, or well, him, which caused Danny to sweat. Danny from highschool would love the limelight but this Danny, he was anxious and nervous because knowing these numbers meant somehow he was tied to this and he didn’t like that. On top of that, Kylee and, goddammit, Roddy decided to insert themselves. 

[color=a95963]“Is everything okay?”[/color] The Mayor’s daughter smiled with faux concern, while releasing Roddy from her hold. [color=a95963]“I couldn’t help but overhear… you might know what the numbers mean?”[/color] The minx that was Kylee Grimm ate up all this tension and poked the bear a little more. She wanted him to spit it out already so they could go to their next lead. 

[color=005d9e]“It’s just a hunch...”[/color] Danny’s mind was kind of distracted with how harsh Jillian was to him, but there was no turning back. He didn’t want to give her another chance to scream at him. Even if he messed up sophomore year, he didn’t think he deserved any of this. She was just being a bitch and taking out her misery on someone that still legitimately cared about her. Maybe the only person that wanted to save her. 

[color=a95963]“A hunch? Hm. Well we’re all ears.”[/color] Kylee gestured to them four but also the people around them. His whole class. [color=a95963]“A hunch is better than what we have.”[/color] 

Okay. 

Having stared at those numbers for a bit, from when they went on the wall to when Jillian screamed at him, Danny did find himself in a memory, freshman year, where he was talking to Francis early in the morning. It was one of those memories that at the time, all Danny could see was that beaming smile, but somehow, he looked past the miraculously handsome jock’s face and saw his senior open his locker. 

Combination 16-7-5. 

Even through all the idle chatter and listening to Francis’ laugh, Danny Belmonte was able to ingrain this in his mind and [b]that[/b] made him panic. Why of all the details about Francis did he remember this? It made him seem like a creep. He wasn’t a creep! He was just head over heels for the guy at the time. Clearing his throat, and cracking his knuckles, he looked from Jillian, to Kylee, and ended his green gaze on Roddy. If anyone needed closure, it was Roddy Callahan. This was probably eating him alive, when really, it was just a simple answer. The next lead was Allison’s boyfriend’s locker. Made perfect sense and didn’t take a rocket scientist.   

Danny was nervous people would look too deep into him knowing this. Like instead of thinking oh maybe Francis needed Danny to open his locker in the past, they’ll immediately jump to Danny’s gay. The thought of being ridiculed and judged… 

He didn’t want that. Especially not after Jillian made his ears bleed. But, if he acted like this bothered him, or changed the tone of his voice in any way, then someone, like Kylee, who was good at picking up things, would definitely catch on that he was in the closet. He had to act normal. Maybe they’d leave it alone and not ask why. [color=005d9e]“I’m pretty certain we have to go to your brother’s locker, Roddy. That’s his combination.”[/color] 

[color=a95963]“I thought you said a hunch!”[/color] Kylee became totally flabbergasted. And yet, she still wasn’t done talking, intrigued at the fact that Danny of all people, knew this was Francis’ combo,  [color=a95963]“Why the hell do YOU know this?”[/color] The exact question that Danny didn’t want to be asked, the gossip girl was quick to ask. [color=a95963]“Like come on, were you really THAT close to Francis?”[/color] 

[color=005d9e]“I don’t know… I just do.”[/color] 

Roddy was unsure what to make of this revelation. Why would Danny know Francis’ locker combo? For all intents and purposes and as far as Rod was concerned, they’re relationship didn’t extend beyond sports. It was a long standing theory that Danny was Francis’ heir apparent to the crown of Eden’s premier jock. Danny, like Fran, was not an out and out duck like the guys you see in movies. He was genuine and caring, had his faults sure, but was a decent human being nonetheless.

[color=D2D518]“I would just call him and ask but…”[/color] Even in such a confusing time, Roddy was trying to be rational and logical. He was not an outwardly emotional person and often thought about life in ones and zeroes. It was this aspect of him that really created the great divide that separated him from his peers. Some even teased him with the nome de plum of [i]Robo Roddy[/i]. [color=D2D518]“Fran and Joaquin are somewhere in the fucking mountains right now shooting. I’d need a satellite phone to get in touch with them.”[/color]

Francis had met Joaquin his first year at Yale. Having come out as gay but still trying to find himself, he wasn’t expecting to meet his soulmate at the first party of the year but that’s what happened. By all accounts, aspiring filmmaker Joaquin made the first move. Whatever the case, the two just worked together and when Fran brought home his new beau (not that one) the Callahans were impressed and just as smitten.

If Danny’s demand for silence didn’t stun Jill, him being able to nail down exactly what those numbers were certainly did the trick. Would anyone have been able to pull that answer out of thin air? Shoot, Jill was still trying to remember what she did that summer. It was getting harder to remember things. Ask her what flavor was on the wings she had earlier, she’d be hard-pressed to tell you. But she knew there was no way Danny should have had that kind of answer to that question.

Luckily, Kylee was there to ask the questions that Jill wanted answered. Granted, Jill could have asked them herself, but it probably wouldn’t have been that eloquent. [color=fd9100]“My colleague from the daily paper raises a very good point, Danny boy. How’djya get that locker combination in the first place? Let alone remember it years later?”[/color]

In these moments, the cold exterior that Marco had witnessed countless times when people pressured Danny too much started washing over him. Balling his fists, digging his nails into his skin, Danny reiterated, [color=005d9e]“Like I said, I don’t know. And does it even matter? Or have you—”[/color] he specifically directed this to Jillian, [color=005d9e]“—forgotten why we’re here?”[/color] 

Annoyed now, Danny eased his way through the crowded group and took charge, [color=005d9e]“We’re here because of the letters and look, there’s a dead girl on the wall. Let’s stop wasting time and just see if I’m right.”[/color] Why call Francis when they could just check themselves? 

If Danny wasn’t caught up in his head, angry at feeling cornered, he would’ve looked for Marco and helped him out. Right now though? He just needed to leave. Marco was with Lanie anyways. He would be fine. Danny, however, could no longer be in this gym that should be filled with good memories but only reminded him of how much of a disappointment he was. 

From getting reacquainted with his ex, to him hurting Tiffanie’s feelings, to Jillian’s hollering, to Francis’ stupid locker combination, today was not his day. He was ready for it all to be over. The sooner they got to the bottom of this, the better. 

[i]Sigh.[/i] 

Roddy placed his hands upon his hips and shook his head. Maybe the purpose of all this was to drive some sort of wedge between the kids of Edenridge? For what purpose he wasn’t sure but one thing that Rod was certain of was that whoever was doing this, under the guise of truth and justice, did not have the best interest of these people at heart.

[color=D2D518]”Lets just go to the locker, it can’t hurt any.”[/color]

Without a second thought, the second born son of Callahan span on his heel and pushed his way out of the gym and into the derelict halls of Edenridge High.[/indent][/color]