Doki Toki Dessert Shop - Gaithersburg, MD - Thursday Afternoon

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It was hot out. And it wasn't the Hawaii hot, it was the kind of hot that Danny had definitely willfully forgotten about back in New Jersey.

Which was why he was more than willing to let Steve talk him into traveling way too far to get ice cream on the mainland as a sort of date night. While trying desperately to not melt the entire time.

"I can't believe I'm saying that I miss the summer in Hawaii," he grumbled as they got to the shop.

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Steve held up his phone. "Please say that again. I want it for my ringtone."

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"Nah!" Danny said, holding up a finger to stop him.

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"Please?" Steve wheedled.

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"Order me a damn ice cream and maybe."

Oh, that was a no. He just wanted ice cream.

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"Now I kinda want a milk tea," Steve said, looking at the menu.

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"Get both." Danny would steal the milk tea once he realized how sweet it was gonna end up being. Because neither of them knew how to order it less sweet.

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"I will get both," Steve agreed, smiling. "Two half and halfs and a brown sugar milk tea, please," he told the perky teen behind the counter.

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And the ice cream was already starting to melt a little as it was passed over to them. Because summer in Maryland. "This better be amazing," Danny informed him.

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"It's gotten good reviews online," Steve told him, taking a bite from his cone almost immediately.

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Danny made a pleased noise almost grudgingly as he tried his. "Don't get a brain freeze, okay?"

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"I'm a grown man, Daniel," Steve said, taking a bigger bite. "I'm not going to get a brain freeze."

He was definitely going to get a brain freeze.

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Oh, without a doubt.

"Uh huh," Danny said, just watching him.

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"No one likes you very much," Steve told him.

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Danny blew a kiss at him before having to lick the melted ice cream off his hand and stop egging Steve on before it was soup.

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Steve winked at him as he juggled holding a rapidly melting cone and a plastic cup of milk tea.

"Facing some logistical hurdles here," he said with a laugh.

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"You did it to yourself," he drawled, holding out a hand for one or the other.

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"You told me to do it!" Steve said, frowning.

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"You're melting!"

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"Because Maryland is ridiculous," Steve muttered, licking ice cream off of his wrist.

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"I'm getting napkins," Danny informed him.

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"Thanks, Dad," Steve said, eating his ice cream faster.

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"Not sexy!" Danny called over his shoulder.

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"I'm made of sex," Steve called back.

The teenager was giving him such a glare right now.

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"Apologies, he was raised by wolves," Danny said.

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"Yep," Steve agreed, finishing up his cone.