I thought considering it was already written, I would give you the rest of that life.


He didn't look stunned or disgusted at all, actually. He really surprised me. He just looked slightly bemused.

"Being gay is bad? Well, I've been living my life wrong for years, then."
"Wait.. What?"
"Phil, being gay is nothing to be ashamed of! I'm gay, and I honestly don't think that anyone really minds.. Well, none of my friends or family do. Why do you think it's bad?"
"Well.. My mum, she thinks it's not right, unnatural."
"Oh hunny. Well, yeah, not absolutely everyone is going to be okay with it, some are just so stuck in their ways that they can't hear the voice of reason."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean" He said, shuffling closer to me "That everyone is going to have their people who dissaprove, everyone is going to get the weird looks. But, love is love. If they can't see that, then they aren't good for you."

It took a minute or two for what Dan had said to sink in. I just couldn't believe it, I thought that he would tell me the same things my mum did: It was wrong, unnatural, immoral. That was the entire reason she sent me here, for crying out loud. What would she say if I came out of this room and said that it was okay to be what she sent me here for?

"But-But.."
"But nothing, Phil. The only problem we have here is that we need to help you to stop damaging yourself."

I just blinked at him, I had nothing at all to reply to that.

"Phil, would- Would it be alright if I saw them?"
"Uh, well you'll be really grossed out so I think I-"
"Should show them to me. Try me, hun." With a hard glint in his eyes, he shuffled out of his beanbag until he was kneeling directly in front of me, leaning his arms on my legs.

"Well. Don't say I didn't warn you."

And I forced my walls down, and pulled my sleeves up to show him the one part of my self that I was ashamed of.

He pulled my arms on to his lap, and just looked at them.

"Phil, close your eyes."
"Why?"
"Just do it, okay?"

And so I did. After half a minute, he asked me to open my eyes. As my eyelids fluttered open, I did a double-take at what I saw.

"Look, we match."

Next to my arms, were two much more tanned ones, with almost identical scars. The cuts that belonged to him were far more faded than mine.

"What you need to realize is that you're worth more than this. We're all here for a reason, Ok? I mean, I personally think that we're here because someone is going to need us..."

I looked up, and Dan turned his head, facing away from me. He was blushing.

"Call me a hopeless romantic, whatever, but there has to be a reason we're here, Phil."

"...I believe you."
"Huh?"
"I believe you."

He smiled at me- a proper, real smile that reached his beautiful brown eyes- and just whispered "Same time next week?"

I nodded, returning the smile with so much enthusiasm that I ended up laughing. He just hugged me, and said to me that I should just tell my mother that we were slowly working on my problems- a half truth, I guessed.


I ended up talking so much to Dan that it was almost like he wasn't my counselor- he was more like a best friend. We knew pretty much everything about each other. We actually had a lot in common.
We both loved Muse, we both loved games, we were both quite antisocial in real life.

It turned out that I was right about his age, too. He was only twenty-three, so there was only a six year age gap.

It also turned out that he depended on me as much as I depended on him.

He was right about something though. He said, when we first met, that we were on this planet because someone was going to need us; someone was going to love us. And I think he realized from the start that it would be me for him, and him for me.

My mother never approved, but I was soon old enough to move out, and not listen to the things she said about me.
I moved in with Dan as soon as I could.

And we were together and happy until the day we died.


Wahey, that's another life over and done with. That's three now.
Oo-er.
Don't get your hopes up about me updating quickly though, I'm awful at it.

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