Danny was standing in the living room, the inflated dinosaur head towering above him causing a shadow on the floor.
He was staring at the shadow, his shadow for the day, when Kai called out from upstairs.
"Ready?" Kai yelled out.
"I have been for an hour now!" Danny called back, looking up, dinosaur head moving with him.
"It's been ten minutes Danno," Kai said as he walked down the stairs.
Danny gaped at Kai.
He was wearing his Navy Seal formal uniform, pressed and ironed with his stars and medals. He looked like he was ready to go receive another medal to add to the collection on his chest.
He looked dashing.
"What the hell are you wearing?" Danny said. He would have crossed his arms but the small inflatable dinosaur arms he was wearing didn't allow him the luxury.
The grin on Kai's face said I look good and I know it. "I'm a SEAL."
"No," Danny said, the dinosaur head shaking furiously with him, "that's not fair. You were supposed to buy an actual seal costume!"
"Don't I look good Danno?"
"Ye-yes, v-" Danny allowed his eyes to look Kai up and down, "very. But that's- that's beside the point! Or, actually, maybe it is the point. I'm-" he took a step back and pointed at his costume, a big green inflatable dinosaur, "and you- you- you look so fucking hot and-and I don't know that that's fair because this was your idea, you're the one that wanted to do a dinosaur and a seal, and you said you were going to go buy a seal costume and-"
"I did! But it's unsettling Danny! It's got dead-looking eyes! But okay fine! I knew you'd make a fuss so I bought a backup costume!"
“Okay, but wait, before you go!” Danny said, he waddled over to the sofa and picked up his phone to take a picture of Kai.
"You're putting that back on tonight," Danny said as he watched Kai go.
Kai grinned as he made his way back to their room.
“Okay, you can open your eyes,” Kai said as he stood in front of Danny.
“I hate you.” Danny said.
Kai grinned, “c’mon this is perfect!”
“You’re so inappropriate.” Danny’s dinosaur head shook in disapproval.
“How is this inappropriate?!” Kai said, pointing at his own inflatable dinosaur.
When he saw it at the store, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity. It was an inflatable dinosaur, but unlike Danny’s, it wasn’t one you wore, it was one you rode.
“Look,” Kai said, pointing at the small inflatable legs at his hip, the ones that gave the illusion of riding the dinosaur, “he’s wearing camo pants!”
“We’re going to be late because of you.”
“The party starts in an hour!”
“Joey asked us to bring ice!”
“You’re just mad because you put on your costume too early.”
“Because I didn’t know how long it would take to inflate! And you said you’d be ready in 5. I’d assumed you meant 5 minutes, not 5 hours!”
Kai grinned, “Well, at least now you know how I feel whenever I’m waiting for you to get ready.”
Danny's face replied for him.
Kai was about to add something else when the door rang.
Danny waddled to answer it but had difficulty unlocking the door with his tiny dinosaur arms.
Kai was more than happy to come to the rescue, making a show of galloping over to Danny’s aid.
Danny rolled his eyes as Kai opened the door.
“Trick or treat!” Cristie and Elena said in unison.
“Happy Halloween!” Kai and Danny said as Cristie and Elena walked in.
“Superheroes!” Danny said as he took in Elena and Cristie’s costumes, “I like that theme much better,” he gave Kai a pointed look.
“Oh, I get it!” Elena said looking back and forth between Danny and Kai, “you’re riding Danno!”
Danny and Cristie locked eyes and had a brief mental conversation, which concluded in a shared resolve to kill Kai.
Kai nodded at Elena, aware of the silent conversation happening between Cristie and Danny but choosing to ignore it, in the most stoic nonchalant innocent voice he could muster he said, “yeah, I am.”
“Cool,” Elena said, “that’s funny.”
“Yeah, and creative too,” Kai added.
“I thought you two were doing dinosaur and seal?” Cristie asked.
“That was the plan,” Danny said.
“The seal costume was scary! And the head was dark and smelly and I couldn’t really see that well.”
“What about a onesie? There’s some really nice onesies, seals and dinosaurs,” Cristie said.
Danny and Kai were quiet, realizing that would have been a better idea.
“Anyways, I brought ice! In a cooler in the trunk,” Cristie said, “wanted to drop it off with you two for your party before we go pick up Robbie from work.”
“Thanks Cris,” Danny said, “you excited to go pumpkin carving monkey?”
Elena nodded, “I’ve been watching some really cool tutorials!”
“Can you carve an extra pumpkin for us?”
“Mhmm!” Elena said.
“Can either of you sit down?” Cristie said, looking at the inflatable tails Kai and Danny had attached.
“Umm,” Danny said, he’d tried earlier but the costume had started making noises and it felt like his head was actually being swallowed by the dinosaur, “no.”
Kai looked back at his tail, trying to grab at it like a puppy.
“How are you going to drive?”
Kai and Danny blinked.
“Are you even going to fit in the car with that thing on?” She said, pointing at Danny’s big dinosaur head.
The guys blinked some more.
“Um,” Danny said eventually, “you make some very good points Cris.”
He pulled his hand into his costume and turned off the little fan inflating it, it started deflating falling in on top of him, he quickly unzipped himself and took it off.
He looked up to see Kai doing the same.
“Wanna go buy some onesies Kalani?”
“No,” Cristie said, “if you like them then you can just inflate them once you get to Joey’s house!”
“No,” Danny said, “I don’t want him wearing that, or if he does then we have to go and find one of a guy riding a seal because-” he remembered Elena was in the room, “because, then, that would be even more funny!” and more representative of the truth he added in his head.
“I doubt that costume exists,” Kai said.
“Should we put them on?” Kai said as they parked outside Joey and Mikael’s house. He was looking at their inflatable costumes in the backseat.
They hadn’t found any inflatable seal costume but they had found a cute dinosaur and seal onesie which they got, complete with the big fuzzy slippers. As a backup they had brought their dinosaur inflatables.
Danny was in the passenger seat, his dinosaur hoodie on, “no I feel cozy, and I can move my arms!” he waved his arms in front of him, he had the mitten’s attached to the onesie on.
Kai looked at him, a soft grin growing on his face.
“Plus, I’ll be able to sit down and eat food with this!”
Kai chuckled, “alright, c’mon Danno.”
“Happy Halloween!” Joey and Mikael said as they opened the door for Kai and Danny, “ayy you dressed up!”
Kai and Danny grinned at Joey and Mikaels costumes. “Space boyfriends!” they said.
Joey and Mikael grinned and nodded in unison. They were dressed up as Lex and Don from Astral Wars.
“We should have done that!” Kai said.
“Yeah, I wish we’d thought of it,” Danny agreed.
“Well, happy you didn’t.” Joey said, “but I like your’s, that’s cute and it’s with your names.”
“Jojo,” Mikael said pensively, “what animal goes with Jojo?”
“Well, I already know which one goes with yours,” Joey said, “should I go get an orange eye mask, some nunchucks, and order you some more pizza?”
“Cowabunga!” Mikael grinned.
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