The amount of trouble I've had with this chapter is ridiculous. I just really didn't like it. I just want to get to the part where Sam gets drunk but it's like two chapters away. I just want to skip to then but I can't.

Thank you to BluBlush x2, AmazingRrrachel, crazyrapunzel, and freethinker1993 for the reviews.

Also I have no clue what to do for the chapter for Phil's birthday. GIVE ME IDEAS! Please :D

Chapter 34

The next day was very hectic. All three of us were up and getting ready to leave the house around the same time. Me for work and the guys for whatever they were doing today. I think they had a meeting but I'm not positive. I am a terrible friend for not paying attention.

It was like we were in some sort of domestic zombie movie where the zombies go to work and stuff, walking around the house being up so early in the morning. We swear we kept bumping into each other because we were too tired to open our eyes and instead of saying anything we just kind of groaned. On top of all of that, we ran out of the good coffee. Now all we had was Phil's instant stuff. No, just no. All I can say is thank god I work in a coffee shop.

I left the house earlier than normal because caffeine. I literally can't function without it. I honestly don't remember walking out of the house and getting to work. I must have been sleep walking. Today I was working with Mary again. Almost as if she knew, she had a cup of coffee all ready for me.

"You are the best person ever." I said while sipping the coffee.

"I'm just making sure I don't have to do all of the work by myself today. That Eric kid is terrible to work with." She said with a laugh.

After work I went food shopping. If I was going to function properly I needed coffee. Plus I picked up a few other things to get us through until we did a big food shop. The next day and the all of the days after where I had to work went slightly differently. Mostly because I went straight home.

For the first week, work was extremely boring. On top of that, I only saw the guys once. They had one day off and they wanted to stay home all day but I unfortunately was working that day so I was out of the house before they woke up and by the time I got home they had to do some work before they left again.

The few days off I had were either spent cleaning the flat or hanging out with Emily. Whose number I now have. She and I seemed to grow closer and closer the more time we spent with each other. We had so much in common it was scary. Same music taste, same movie taste except she actually likes scary movies, even the same clothes and makeup interests. But she was much more adventurous.

Emily was a free spirt and much more spontaneous that I could ever imagine to be. I mean as of right now, her hair is bright red. I could never do that. Not only does it not match my monochromatic aesthetic but it scared the shit out of me. I would end up hating it two days later. She seemed to have an air of confidence about her.

During the second week, Emily and I had practically the same schedule. We worked and had off on all of the same days so you could say that we spent a LOT of time together. On one of our days off we met for breakfast. We got to talking and it turned in to going for lunch. Then dinner. We just couldn't stop talking.

I learned that Emily never even went to college because she didn't see herself doing a job where she needed to have a degree. She really wanted to act but didn't know how to put herself out there. I totally understood but my problem was being too afraid to put myself out there.

We talked about how we both have siblings but unfortunately she didn't have a good relationship with her siblings like I did with Ian. She had three older sibling and one younger. She apparently didn't get along with her three older because they didn't like the fact that she rebelled against what her parents wanted. The only sibling she did have any sort of relationship with was her younger brother.

I learned a lot about her and her about me on this specific day. Like the fact that I can sing. Ever since the guys found out it's like some sort of dam broke from holding in my musical outbursts and now I would break into song and dance, okay so not dance because no one needs to be subjected to that, at random moments.

When we were at lunch Mr. Brightside by The Killers came over the radio and we both burst out into song at hearing it. Don't deny it, you would have too. Another thing I learned about Emily is that she can totally give Dan a run for his money when it comes to singing extremely high pitched and very off key. The thing was, she gave no fucks and I admired that. She obviously knew she sucked at singing but she did it anyway because it was fun.

I met up with Beth once but she said school was starting to get really busy so we only ended up hanging out for like an hour before she had to go. The rest of my time off was spent with Emily and I have nothing to complain about.

After the two weeks were finally over, the guys came home. Their first day, Dan didn't leave his bed let alone his room unless it was for the bathroom. I can't say much because I wore the same t-shirt and leggings I slept in all day that day. He managed to get me to bring him breakfast. When I did I ended up not leaving his room either. I sat down next to him and ended up getting stuck in the episode of Game of Thrones.

We set it up so that my back was against his head board and his laptop was on my lap. Then Dan used my stomach as a pillow.

"You're comfy." Dan mumbled while the next episode was loading.

"Is that just a nice way of telling me I'm fat?" I asked sarcastically.

"No, it means that from now on I'm using you as a pillow instead of the other way around." He said in a matter of fact way.

I laughed because that is probably what's going to happen from now on.

While totally immersed in the episode, I absentmindedly started to run my fingers through his slight hobbit hair. When I realized what I was doing, I almost stopped but Dan didn't seem to notice nor did he say anything so I just continued what I was doing. We ended up falling asleep halfway thought that episode only waking up when Phil came in to tell us that he ordered pizza and it had just arrived.

Because Dan and I had fallen asleep we were wide awake long into the night. The three of us stayed up and watched movie. Around two am we all decided bed was a really good idea and we said our goodnights then headed to our separate rooms.

I didn't wake up until almost noon and when I did I had a migraine the size of Alaska. Which area wise is bigger than Texas. Just sayin'. I knew I needed to go and get Tylenol otherwise I would be kicking myself in the ass later but I just wanted to roll over and hide under the blankets in the dark. I heard a knock on my door and I sunk further down into my mass of blankets.

"Sam?" I heard Dan's voice from the door.

I ignored him but I really hoped he wouldn't jump on me.

"Sam." He said.

He seemed closer this time. Like he was right next to my bed. I braced myself for the pounce but it never came. Instead he sat on my bed and shook me. I groaned.

"Sam, wake up and come hang out with me. Phil is busy and I'm bored." He said with a chuckle.

"No." I said my voice muffled by the blankets.

I felt Dan move the blankets and climb in with me.

"Please Sammie." He whispered in my ear.

I felt his hand on my hip and it gave me chills.

"Headache." I mumbled.

In response he threw the blanket back over my head.

"Fine, if you're not gonna get up then I'm just going to have to hangout in here with you." He said.

"Dan…" I said before he cut me off.

"I'm so bored." He said.

I felt his arm make its way around my stomach then he tucked his hand under me. I felt his chest against my back and I could feel my heart beating wildly. I'm almost positive that he could feel it too.

Keep it together girl. You know how you are when you're tired. Try and calm down. Otherwise you are going to kiss your best friend or say something you'll regret. Don't be stupid!

Even though I tried to talk myself down, I knew it wasn't going to work. I turned over to face Dan. I needed to get him to go away until I was fully awake and not in agonizing pain.

"Get me Tylenol and then leave me alone for like an hour. I'll hang out with you after." I said keeping my eyes closed.

Dan arm was still around me but now his hand was on my lower back and it was driving me crazy. Damn you hormones.

"Okay." He said getting up and leaving my room after a few minutes.

It was a huge relief that his hand was gone. I just wish that I could interact with my best friend without having to fight off the urge to jump his bones. When will this crush finally go away?

I guess I fell asleep again because the next thing I knew was being woken up by Dan laying down next to me again.

"Hey Sam, It's like six at night. Are you sick?" He asked.

"No I just had a really bad headache. It's better now though." I said sitting up and grabbing for the water on my night stand and chugging it.

"Okay well Phil went out with some friends so it's just you and me for a while. Are you hungry?" He said.

As if on cue my stomach rumbled answering the question for me. We made our way down to the kitchen and I took my normal seat on the counter while Dan rummaged through the fridge.

"What do you want to eat?" he asked.

I shrugged my shoulders in response.

"You gotta pick something." He said slightly exasperated.

"I don't know. I'll eat whatever you make." I said.

"You are so indecisive sometimes." He muttered while he started pulling things out of the fridge.

Once again I watched as he cooked. It was entrancing. I couldn't help but watch as he moved around the kitchen and threw things into the pan.

When the food was done we went into the lounge and Dan put some TV show on. I didn't really pay much attention to it. For some reason I was way more interested in watching Dan. Jesus Christ, I'm starting to sound creepy.

We had been sitting on the couch for a while when I heard Dan say fuck. I looked over at him with a questioning look.

"Live show." He said.

"Oh." I said.

I was kind of disappointed that I couldn't hang out with Dan now.

"Do you wanna sit and watch?" Dan asked.

"Really? I thought you felt it weird to have someone just in there watching you." I said.

"Yeah but I really wanna hang out with you. I could just cancel the live show." He said the last part almost to himself.

"NO! You can't cancel because of me. I'll just sit in the corner or something." I said standing and grabbing Dan's hand dragging him into his room.

He laughed at me but just followed along. Once in his room I made myself comfortable on the end of his bed while he prepared for his live show. I made sure to tuck a corner of the duvet under itself so that you could see a corner of the sheet while Dan tucked in the pillow that we don't talk about.

Then I made my way over to the chair in the corner of his room. I played with my phone while I listened to Dan talk. I wasn't really listening to him but just hearing his voice was so relaxing that it had me nodding off. This was a big mistake.

I caught myself falling asleep and my head jerked up but I ended up falling out of the chair. When I was going down I let out a little yip. When I looked up Dan was looking at me just laughing.

"Oh god, that was priceless. I wish I had been filming. That was great." He said to me.

"Ow…" I said quietly.

"Everyone is asking who's with me. Guys, it's just Roomie. Bring her in. No she's sitting in the corner." He said.

"Yeah. Dan said I was a bad girl and I needed to stay in the corner." I said with a smirk and sitting back in the chair.

"What? I never said that?" said Dan.

"Well, I never told you about Phil secret eating your cereal. I catch him all the time and I just don't say anything about it. Remember when you were filming your last Internet Support Group video and you couldn't find your wine so you had to use Ribena. Yeah I drank the last of it." I said.

Dan just looked at me. I got up and put my hand in front of the camera to say hi to everybody but Dan slapped my hand away when it got in view of the camera.

"No! Go back in the corner." He said pointing to the chair.

I couldn't help but laugh.

I didn't say much after that but Dan got a constant stream of bring Roomie in and Roomie this and that. Dan ignored them but I was watching the chat on his laptop. The amount of people asking about me was kind of overwhelming. Not long after Dan ended his live show saying that he was hungry but he and I had already had food.

"So do you really keep it from me when Phil secret eats my cereal?" Dan asked looking over at me.

"Yeah. He usually stops when I catch him." I said standing and stretching my arm above my head.

I watched as Dan got up and walked over to me.

"I can't believe you." He said grabbing on to my sides while my hands were still above my head.

His hand were there of only a few second when I realized what was going to happen next. Before I could do anything to stop it, he started tickling me. My knees gave out and Dan was holding me up. He dragged me to the bed and then continued tickling me until I couldn't breathe. He laid down next to me while I recovered for the tickling torture I had just endured.

"I hate you." I said looking at Dan when I finally caught my breath.

"No, you love me." said Dan confidently.

My heart skipped a beat. Did he know? No, he couldn't know. He's just teasing you. Hurry up and say something before this gets weird.

"Nope. Definitely not. No love in this body for you." I said instantly regretting it.

I closed my eyes and mentally slapped myself for that innuendo.

"Good going Sammie, you made it weird. Congratulations on your weirdness. You weird weirdo." I said out loud.

"I have a feeling that you didn't really mean to say that out loud." said Dan through his obnoxious laugh.

I face-palmed myself. I just managed to make it really, really weird.

"If it makes you feel better I love you in all your weirdness." He said trying to make me feel better.

I covered my face with both of my hands and then rolled off his bed towards the piano. I ended up face down against the piano. Every time Dan told me that he loved me it made my heart hurt. I wanted him to say it and have him mean that he was in love with me but I knew it was a purely platonic love.

I heard Dan still on the bed laughing at me. Eventually I recovered from my awkwardness and sat up still next to the piano.

"Don't laugh at me." I said pouting.

"I can't help it. I tend to laugh when things are cute." He replied.

I could feel my face growing hot. Damn you Daniel.

"Whatever." I said getting up and going into the lounge.

I sat on the couch and Dan sat next to me a few minutes later. Phil came home a little later and we ended up hanging out for the rest of the night. Dan and I didn't really talk much so when Phil came home it was like the air of tension disappeared.