"Please? I love the new couch. I promise not to spill anything on it."
"Don't make promises you can't keep," Dean says, smiling.
"It's okay if he spills," Danny says to Dean. "It's fake leather. If you spill on it, just wipe it off."
"Dean, can I sleep there or not?"
Dean nods. "You can have it."
Dean will finally have a bed to sleep on. Maybe now he'll get more than a couple hours of sleep a night.
The doorbell rings.
"What was that?" Dean asks.
"Your doorbell," Danny says. "We fixed that too."
"I've never heard it ring."
Danny goes to the door while I walk alongside Dean as he makes his way back to the living room. He's not very fast on the crutches.
"Dean, you got some company," Danny says. "Can I let them in?"
"Who is it?"
"Just a few of the guys from the team."
"Yeah, go ahead."
Danny opens the door and the whole team comes in, filling the entire room.
"What the hell?" Dean says, laughing.
"It's your welcome home party," Josh says, going up to Dean. "Good to have you back."
"What the hell did you do to my house?" Dean says, pretending to be angry.
Josh doesn't get the joke. "You don't like it?"
"I'm kidding." Dean smiles. "The place looks great. Better than it's ever looked."
"Dean, they got pizza!" Jake yells from the kitchen. There's a stack of pizza boxes on the counter and cans of soda. "Can I have some?"
"Go ahead," Danny tells him.
The door opens and Kendrick walks in, followed by Eve. We all stare at them.
"What's everyone looking at?" Eve says, giving them all her death stare.
Eve's been talking to Kendrick at school but as far as I know, they're just friends. But seeing them walk in together makes me wonder if she's not telling me something.
"You going to the game tonight, Dean?" Mark asks. He plays defense like Dean.
"Probably not."
"You gotta show up," Tyler says. "You're on the team."
"Not really. Not anymore."
