Great progression through the years. I particularly love this line: "They stayed there, until Daniel stopped feeling wrong." Just kind of gave me the jittery shivers. Lovely.
Five Things is a great starting point. I've written to this prompt over there, too. Reading yours made me smile ... no, not funny ha ha ... I think you'll find some interesting parallels and differences in what we've written. :-)
Thanks for these five things. :-))