"Mum! I'm home from school!" Dan shouted as he walked into the house.
It was around 9 o'clock at night and Dan had spent most of the night with Phil and PJ.
Dan, Phil and PJ had spent most of their time at the mall after they saw a movie. Dan felt like everything went okay. He didn't make a fool of himself which was a first time. Dan just hoped that Phil would want to hang out with him again. Dan liked being around Phil.
Dan sighed as he walked into the kitchen. He kind of wished that he was still out. Being at home was boring and he had no one to talk to. Dan looked up to see his mom putting away the dishes. She looked over and then she smiled when Dan walked into the room.
"You're just getting home? You were gone a while," She said.
Dan shrugged his shoulders. "I was just hanging out with some friends at the mall, we saw a movie as well," he told her. Dan smiled. He definitely liked the sound of that.
"You actually made friends?" Dan's mom, Diane, asked.
"Gee, thanks mum!" Dan rolled his eyes. She chuckled. "They're not really my friends. Not yet, anyways. It's only the second day of school and I don't really know much about them but they seem really nice." Dan explained as he walked over to the fridge and opened it.
"How was school?" She asked as she watched him.
"It was okay," Dan said as he pulled out a can of soda out of the fridge. "It was alright. Nothing real special." Dan mumbled. He then shut the fridge.
"Do you like this new school?" Diane asked. Dan looked up at her.
"I haven't gotten beaten up yet so yeah," He said. He nodded.
"You tell me if anyone is giving you any trouble and I will take care of it," Diane warned.
"Mum. I'll be fine. Don't worry about me," he said.
"That's what you said to me last time before we ended up moving to a different city and to different schools," Diane snapped. Dan went to say something but Diane continued. "I'm being completely serious right now, Daniel. I don't want to see another bruise anywhere on that body of yours. If I hear from your school that you've been skipping… then…" Dan stared at her. "Nevermind. Alright… you can go now I suppose." Diane sighed.
Dan nodded. "Thanks mum," he said. He turned and then walked out of the kitchen.
Dan walked to his bedroom and shut his door and locked it. He loved his mum, but he hated that she was so protective of him all the time. He didn't blame her though. Dan walked over to his computer desk and sat down. He opened up his laptop. Dan blinked a few times when he felt his phone vibrating in his pocket. No one ever texted him or called him. Dan opened up his phone and smiled when he saw that he had a text from Phil. This was the first text he had gotten from someone at his new school. He was rather excited about it.
From: Phil
Thanks for hanging out with us tonight. It was a lot fun.
From: Dan
I'm glad we hung out! Maybe we can do it again soon? x
From: Phil
Yes, of course! Talk to you tomorrow. Goodnight! x
Dan was smiling, he was even actually blushing. Dan never blushed like this.
Dan took a deep breath and then he sat his phone down on his desk. Dan bit his lip nervously as he began to think about Phil. He couldn't stop thinking about him.
'Join the club' is what Phil had said to him the first day of school when Dan had told him that he was gay. Dan had never really thought about it before when Phil had told him that but now it had gotten Dan thinking. Maybe Phil was gay too? Like Chris and PJ? Even though Dan was curious, he wasn't going to say anything to Phil. He wasn't going to risk saying something stupid to wreck a friendship that he was trying to form, especially it was too early.
"Bloody hell," Dan mumbled. He sighed and hid his face in his hands.
Two days later and now it was Phil that was coming over to Dan's house. They were doing the finishing touches on their essay for History class. They only had one more day to work on it before they had to turn it in and they wanted to make sure everything was right.
"Why do we have to learn about all of this American stuff?" Phil raised his eyebrows as he looked over at Dan. "If I wanted to learn about the American's then I would go America." Dan said as he was reading over what they already had written on their essay.
Both Dan and Phil were sitting next to each other on Dan's bed.
"It was the topic that I picked," Phil told Dan.
Dan looked at him and blinked a few times. "Oh. You picked it?" He asked.
"There was a list of things that were going to be on the upcoming test. The other topics were boring so just went for this. It's pretty interesting. I think American history is pretty cool and it goes way back in time. There's so much to learn about it. So, yeah." Phil explained.
"Oh. Um… okay then. I guess that makes sense," Dan said.
Phil raised his eyebrows as he stared at Dan.
Dan blinked a few times. "Well, I'm getting a little hungry. Do you want to get some snacks or something?" He asked as he looked up at Phil.
Phil nodded. "Okay, yeah. Sounds good to me," he said.
Dan stood up from the bed and then he pulled Phil up.
"Thanks," Phil mumbled as he stood up as well.
Dan gave him a smile and nodded. He turned around and then he led the way down the hallway. Phil bit his lip nervously and then he followed him. They walked into the kitchen. Phil stood there silently and watched as Dan walked around the kitchen and looked in the cabinets and then the fridge for a couple minutes. He sighed as he shut the fridge.
"Well, this isn't surprising... looks like we have no food in this bloody house… again." Dan mumbled. Dan rolled his eyes. He turned and then he looked over at Phil. "Do you just want to order pizza? Mum left me some money for dinner." Dan told him.
Phil frowned as he stared at him. "Where is your mum?" He asked curiously.
Dan shrugged his shoulders. "She's probably at work. She usually works until late at night."
"Don't you get lonely being in this house alone?" Phil asked.
"Sometimes but I've gotten used to it by now," Dan said.
"What about your dad? Is he at work too?" Phil asked curiously.
Dan bit his lip. "Um… h-he doesn't live here anymore. He left when I was little," he mumbled.
"Oh. I-I'm sorry. I shouldn't have…" Phil started to say.
Dan shook his head. "It's fine. Don't worry about it. So, um…Pizza?" He asked.
Phil nodded. "Pizza sounds good," he said.
Dan smiled slightly. "Okay then. I'll order it." He said.
Dan and Phil finally ordered their pizza and were back in Dan's bedroom.
Phil bit his lip as he looked over at Dan.
"I was just curious…" Phil started to say.
Dan looked up at him. "About?" He asked calmly.
"How come you moved here so suddenly?" Phil asked.
"Oh, well… I didn't really like my old school." Dan mumbled. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Really?" Phil asked. He blinked a few times.
Dan nodded. "I just couldn't really concentrate there," he mumbled.
"What didn't you like about it?" Phil asked curiously.
"What's with all the questions all of a sudden?" Dan asked nervously. Phil shook his head.
"Nothing. I-I just wanted to get to know you a little more. We haven't really talked properly since you've arrived… and it's been a couple days since we started hanging out." Dan took a deep breath. "Oh. Well, um..." He began to say.
Dan was a little afraid of talking to Phil about what happened at his old school but he did feel like he could trust Phil so maybe it wouldn't be so bad to talk to someone about it.
"Well, if you want to know why I moved to this new school… it's not that I didn't like school. It's just… I didn't like the people there and the people didn't like me because of the fact that I was gay so they made life at school a living hell for me. That's why I told you that I was going to hide because I was afraid of being bullied again." Dan explained.
Phil's eyes went wide with shock. "You were bullied for being gay?" He asked.
Dan looked at him. "Why's that so shocking?" He asked.
Phil shook his head. "That's absolutely ridiculous that they would bully you for being gay. I mean… didn't your principal or teachers do anything about it?" Phil asked curiously.
Dan scoffed and shook his head. "No. They didn't care about what the students did to each other or said to each other. I would walk into the classroom with fresh new bruises and they wouldn't question about anything. I tried to keep it a secret for as long as I could but my mum found out when she spotted a bruise on my arm and we basically left and moved here and so far everything's been going okay so I'm glad that we moved." Dan told Phil.
Phil smiled. "Well, I'm glad you moved too," he said.
Dan blushed. "Thanks. It's nice to know there are nice people around here," he said.
"People won't bully you at school here, especially at our school. Our principal made that clear after one student tried to commit suicide last year," Phil said.
Dan's eyes went wide with shock. "Well what happened to him?" He asked nervously.
Phil chuckled. "Don't worry. He's fine. Thanks for being honest with me." Phil added.
Dan smiled. "No problem. Thanks for not judging me. It feels good to tell someone else that. So…Tell me about you now before we get all emotional here." Dan said.
"Well, what do you want to know?" Phil asked. Dan looked at him.
"Anything." Dan said. "What do you like to do? What's your favorite music?" Dan asked.
"Well actually, I can tell you my favorite music… I love listening to Muse, My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy…" Phil started to say as he was listing off bands that he liked.
"Okay, stop right there…" Phil blinked a few times as he stared at Dan. "We're obviously meant to be best friends because I fucking love Muse. They're my favorite band!" Dan exclaimed.
"Really?" Phil asked, blinking a few times. "You like Muse?"
Dan nodded. "Yes, I love Muse. I saw them once and they were amazing," he said.
"Wow. That's surprising. No one around here really knows who they are!" Phil exclaimed.
"Yeah. People at my old school didn't really know the music that I listen to," Dan rolled his eyes.
"Well, at least we have one thing in common," Phil said.
Dan laughed. "Which is a good thing because I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of each other?"
It's been a couple hours now since Phil has been at Dan's house. They spent most of their time chatting and less of their time actually working on their essay. Dan and Phil had actually gotten to know each other a little bit more which Dan was glad. Phil seemed to be warming up to him and that's all that he wanted. Dan was really starting to like Phil.
It was now around 10 o'clock when Phil had fallen asleep on Dan's bed while they were watching movies. Dan was still awake though and was reading over their essay and making sure they had everything they needed, since they didn't really work on it earlier.
Dan looked up as soon as he heard the door open and close. Dan bit his lip as he sat there a few seconds and then sighed in relief when his mom walked into his bedroom.
Diane looked up and smiled when she saw Dan. "Hello dear. How was your day?" He asked.
"I-It was really good actually," Dan said with a smile.
Diane raised her eyebrows when she saw Phil. "Who's this?" She asked nodding towards Phil.
Dan glanced down at Phil for a quick second. "Oh, um... this is Phil. I told you about him yesterday. We were looking over our essay for class. I was paired with him on the first day of school. We've kind of been hanging out ever since then," he told her.
Diane smiled and nodded. "Well, you boys must have been working really hard then," she said.
"Well, actually we just…" Dan went to say something else but then he quickly shut his mouth before he said something that he would regret. Diane raised her eyebrows. "Nothing. Nevermind. Yeah, he came home from school with me so we can work on finishing touches on our essays. I figured you wouldn't mind if I brought a friend home." Dan said. He shrugged his shoulders. His mom was always encouraging him to bring home friends anyways.
"Did you boys eat anything for dinner?" Dan nodded.
"Yeah, we ordered some pizza a couple hours ago and we still have some left over." Dan said. "Is it okay if Phil stays over?" Dan asked nervously. "I really don't think he's moving any time soon." Dan added. Diane nodded.
"Of course he can stay over, Dan. He can stay as long as he wants." She said. Dan smiled. "Okay, well I'm going to bed. It was a long day. See you in the morning." Diane said. She let out a yawn. Dan chuckled.
"Okay. Have a good sleep." Dan said. He watched as his mom left his bedroom and shut the door. Dan sighed as he looked down at the essay. He let out a yawn. He then looked over beside him when Phil moved a bit beside him. Dan raised his eyebrows as he watched Phil. "Hey." Dan whispered when Phil's eyes finally slowly opened. Phil blinked a few times as he looked up at Dan. Dan chuckled and shook his head.
"How long was I asleep?" Phil asked. He let out a yawn.
"Only about two hours." Dan said. Phil slowly pushed himself up. Dan looked over at him.
"What time is it?" Phil asked as he looked over at Dan. Dan reached over and grabbed his phone and looked at the time.
"It's almost 10 o' clock." Dan said. Phil groaned. Dan looked over at Phil.
"I didn't tell my mum I was staying this long." Phil said. Dan frowned.
"Are you leaving?" Dan asked. He kind of wanted Phil to stay. Phil looked at Dan.
"Well, I…I don't know." Phil mumbled. Dan bit his lip.
"Mum said you could stay over if you wanted." Dan said.
"Really?" Phil asked. Dan nodded. "I'll have to call my mum first and see if it's okay."
"Okay." Dan said. Dan stayed sat on his bed while Phil went out to call his mum. Dan sat there by himself for a few minutes before Phil finally came back into the room. Dan looked up at him. "What did your mum say then?" Dan asked.
"She said it was okay." Phil told him. Dan smiled.
"Well…We have a couple of options here…" Phil raised his eyebrows. "We could both share the bed, it is big enough. One of us could sleep on the floor or sleep on the couch in the living room and to be honest…It's not very comfortable." Phil laughed.
"I don't mind sharing a bed." Phil said. Dan blushed.
"Alright then. I'll just go grab some extra blankets and pillows." Dan said. He stood up from the bed. Phil bit his lip as he watched Dan walk out of the room. He took a deep breath and then he shook his head.
"Don't think about him like that. Don't think about him like that." Phil whispered.