Friday 12th December 2014, the date most students had marked in their diary, even before they had moved into their new homes, or even started their new classes. This was the end of term; this was when they were free to go back home to their parents, get drunk and celebrate Christmas. Also, seeing as it was the last day of term, many people used this as an excuse to go out partying, getting wasted and completely having no idea what they did the following day.
Seeing as it was the Christmas period, there were a lot of parties being organized to uphold the Christmas theme; nearly every pub you passed had some sort of fancy dress element to it. The streets were filled with drunken Santa's and 'sexy' elves, fast food joints were filled with drunken people, falling over each other as they tried to get their orders out. This was the night Dan had decided to actually go out; normally he would stay in his room, film some videos, eat, Skype his parents, but even they had somehow managed to convince him to let his hair down and head out and enjoy the last day of Uni before he would be heading back to London.
This is how he ended up stood in his tiny room in front of a shitty mirror re-arranging his outfit to try and make it look like he had planned this from the start. He was wearing a brown t-shirt with black jeans, he had cut up a light brown t-shirt to make a belly patch and sewed it on, finally he added a pair of brown bunny ears on his head and drew on a pair of whiskers. "Surely this has to be okay?" he mumbled.
He grabbed is black leather jacket and threw it over his shoulders before heading outside of his room and to the kitchen, he had decided to grab a quick drink before heading out so he didn't look like the only sober person there. His flat mate walked in and laughed lightly, before pointing out he looked like he was going to an Easter party, not a Christmas one. Dan shrugged it off, he didn't really care that much, he just wanted to stand out a little, he didn't want to look like everyone else and he was pretty sure everyone else would be wearing stupid Santa costumes, or Angel's, elves and reindeers, so he decided he would be a bunny.
Dan met up with PJ and Chris outside their local student bar and they headed inside together, the place was packed full of drunken students, singing, dancing and grinding on each other. When he finally made it to the bar he ordered himself a drink and then followed his friends back to a table, this was the first time he had been out, so he wasn't really sure what to expect, though to be honest it wasn't as bad as he though it would be.
The night went on and Dan had drunk a number of drinks, which is how he ended up getting pretty drunk and leaning on the table to watch the people on the dance floor. Part of him really wanted to dance, but he knew he would make a fool of himself; he had no idea how to dance and he didn't have a dance partner, so he couldn't exactly go and dance.
"You okay man?"
Dan looked back over at his friends and laughed lightly, "Yeah! I am great!"
Pj laughed, he hadn't really recalled a time Dan this happy, he wondered what was going on his head, but didn't really dare to ask. He picked up his drink and went back to his conversation with Chris, this time Dan joined in a little and pulled a few jokes.
"Excuse me…"
The three boys looked up at the newcomer, he had black hair, similar to Dan's, and he was pretty tall and thin. He was stood wearing a black t-shirt and black bear like ears on his head, his long legs was covered by slightly baggy black jeans, but Dan could tell they was pretty thin under it.
"Did you want to sit?" Dan slid over more to the wall leaving a space next to him for the boy to sit down, he had no idea why he was inviting this stranger to sit with him, but he was hot and Dan couldn't just let him walk away.
"Well actually… I was going to ask you if you wanted to dance… with me… maybe?" he scratched his head lightly and closed his eyes, he had spotted the way Dan was dreamingly starring at the dance floor all night, and had finally decided to pick up the courage to ask the boy to dance.
"Me?... I can't dance, I mean it's not that I don't want to dance, with you… I just can't dance, I would probably fall over and make a fool of us…" he mumbled the last part and placed his head back on the table. " Chris is a good dancer though, I am sure he will dance with you, he is better than me anyways…"
Dan had no idea when he suddenly became jealous of Chris, but it seemed like he was, Chris was Pj's best friend, they was inseparable, he was funny and cool, Dan wished he was like that, though in all honesty all he wanted was a best friend.
"Well, I'm bad at dancing too… I saw you looking up there and well thought I would come and ask you. Sorry to bother you." He turned back around and started to head for the bar before he felt something grab his hand.
"I suppose I could dance 'one' song with you." Dan slid out of the booth and stood next to the other, it was pretty rare for Dan to come across someone who was equally as tall as him. "My name is Dan by the way." He grabbed both of Phil's hands and walked over to the dance floor with him.
"Phil." The other replied, when they got to the dance floor he moved his hands from Dan's and placed them on the boys waist. "Is this okay?" He asked softly, their hips slowly moving in time with the music.
"Feels pretty good to me?" Dan laughed and wrapped his arms around Phil's neck. Their bodies pressed together as the started to move back and forth together, it was nice and sweet. So far Dan hadn't fallen over and Phil hadn't stood on anyone's foot yet.
They had been dancing together for a while when they heard a man say the pub was closing and everyone had to make their way out of the building. Dan pouted, he was having a great time with this boy and he didn't want to go, not yet. They made their way outside where Chris and Pj was waiting for Dan, Phil leaned down and wrapped his arms around the other and pressed a small kiss to his cheek.
"It was nice meeting you Dan, hopefully I will get to see you again some day?" Phil smiled softly and gave him one last hug.
"I hope so!" Dan yelled as the tall boy started to walk away.
