Chapter 7

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Dougie POV

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After that night, the walls that seemed to be dividing me from the others had well and truly broken down. I found myself being happy sometimes when I thought it'd be impossible after what had happened. Danny had also given me the strength to continue. He was something to protect and I loved him. We managed to get by together for the last few years and my bond with him has got so much stronger. I'll love him forever I think.

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I woke up and sighed contently. Living with Danny and his mum is great! I get to see my boyfriend every day and Danny's mum treats me as if I was one of her children. Life couldn't get any better but I was still paranoid to say the least. I was terrified of the people that would come back eventually. Just because they haven't shown up for these few years, doesn't mean they've given up. I needed to think of something that could help us. I turned to face the sleeping Danny behind me and smiled at the cute look on his face as he dreamt. I brought my hand up and moved some of the curly brown hair that had fell over his face. "Dougie...that's nice..." Danny said in his sleep and I felt myself blushing but put my hand in his while drawing patterns over the back of them carelessly. He woke up about half and hour later and grinned when he looked down at our joined hands. "Morning handsome" and I kissed him while smiling into it. Eventually we had to pull away for air and I continued to smile at him. "What was that for?" he asked and I couldn't help but laugh. "You were talking in your sleep" I said while giving him a knowing look. "Oh..." he said while turning red and I just kissed quickly before getting out of bed. "We gotta get ready for school. I'll even jump us there if you get ready quickly" I said while trying to give him incentive to get out of bed. "Oh! But I don't wanna!" he said then pulling the covers over himself. I rolled my eyes and began to wrestle him out.

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After a while he gave up and got ready so that we were at school in half an hour. But when we walked past the gates someone called out at me. "Faggot!" and I couldn't control my anger for a second. It suddenly became really windy as I let myself go but Danny tugged at my arm and looked me in the eyes before shaking his head. "He's not worth it Dougs, you don't want to get caught" he said and I nodded then smiled at him, the wind subsiding but I looked over at some people playing football and made the ball come over and hit the guy on the back of the head. Me and Danny walked away laughing and the guy didn't suspect a thing.

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"You're late! Detentions for all four of you" a teacher said as we all walked towards the assembly hall. Apparently we were meant to go straight to assembly instead of first lesson at the beginning of the year. Tom looked slightly peeved but Danny and Harry seemed okay like they always got detentions. We continued into the hall and sat down.

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The rest of the day remained uneventful but we arrived at detention and we weren't alone. Sam was in the room with us but he was in his own corner of the room. He had stopped talking to me since I became friends with Danny, Tom and Dougie. Sometimes I even caught him glaring at them sometimes during lunchtime. "Hey, is that kid glaring at me" Danny leaned in five minutes into the detention and I looked over and in fact it was true. It was actually quite scary and it sent a shiver up my spine. "Erm, no. You're probably just imagining it" I said, trying to make him feel better and he nodded. "So what was you exactly dreaming of?" I asked, trying to change the subject and he laughed. "Wouldn't you like to know" he smirked. "Yeah, you seemed to be enjoying yourself" I smirked back and he blushed. "What you two whispering about?" Tom asked while leaning in closer to us. "Oh, nothing really" I smiled. We hadn't told the other two about us being together yet. It was actually a lot more fun this way because it was like hiding a big secret that you just wanted to tell everyone but couldn't.

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After our detention of an hour, we got out and it was already quite dark due it being winter. No-one was around and it felt weird. A strong breeze blew by which sent shivers straight up my spine. "It's freezing!" I said and I felt Danny pull me closer to him and I felt a lot warmer. "Thanks" I smiled. "No probs" he smiled back. "Dougie!" I heard a familiar voice call and I was pretty sure that it was Sam. What did he want? I turned around and so did the other three to see what was going on. "Hi" I said and he just smiled, but somehow it seemed sinister. He stared at us for a second before Harry shouted. "What's your problem mate? Just leave us a-" he continued but stopped when Sam leaned down to touch the ground while he glowed the deep green that I remembered was just like his eyes. His fingers touched the ground and it ripped out in a line towards Harry, sharp rocks were flying up in its path and I panicked. I grabbed Harry and threw him a safe distance and cushioned his fall. Just after that a green shockwave was shot at me, Tom and Danny. I raised my arms and the wave was blocked out which collapsed on itself. I grabbed a handful of the scattered rocks with my mind and shot them towards Sam, speeding them up with concentration. "Why are you doing this?!" I shouted and he just smiled before disappearing and the rocks hitting a wall which had been behind him. I looked back to see a excited but frightened Tom and Harry was sitting up from where he had landed. "This is bad."