When I woke up, I had Dan in my arms which caused a smile to start to form on my lips. Maybe I actually did have a chance with him.. but I wasn't completely sure. This was all new territory for me, I never would've imagined falling for a guy a couple years ago. There was just something about Dan that was different, I fell for him before I could even ask myself what I was doing.
Dan's eyes fluttered open moments later and he began to smile as soon as he saw me. For once, he actually looked rested up. The dark circles under his eyes weren't as noticeable as they usually were. "Good morning," he mumbled sleepily, yet happily. "Did you sleep well?"
"Good morning," I responded, speaking just as quietly as he did as I leaned down to kiss his forehead. Because of the bright light shining in through the window, I noticed something that I hadn't before, he was blushing. Maybe I was just seeing things, seeing what I wanted to see. There was no way that Dan liked me. "I slept well last night, I'm guessing you did also?"
"I slept extremely well." He cuddled up closer to me, laying his head against my chest. "Better than I've slept in a while. Maybe it's just because we were cuddling though, that's exactly why you need to cuddle with me every single night of the tour."
I laughed, looking at him grin. "Alright, alright. We'll cuddle, I promise." He pulled his head away from my chest and looked up at me, allowing there to be an awkward silence which I couldn't handle. I quickly thought up something to say, "So do you plan on leaving your bed today at all or are we going to get up and do something? We could watch TV or something to help calm your nerves about tomorrow's show?"
He didn't answer for a moment so I began to get out of bed, going to go get ready so I wasn't sitting around in the outfit I wore yesterday all day when Dan grabbed ahold of my arm, trying to keep me in the bed. "Stay with me, please. Let's just lay here all day, we don't need to get up and talk to anyone else. I want to spend time with you, please."
I was about to lay back down, when I felt Will's hand on my shoulder. "Ky," he cleared his throat and held out a phone for me to take as he kept his eyes glued to the ground. "Kyle, management wants to talk to you. I... I'm so sorry, it was only a joke. I didn't think that they would.."
I cut him off by taking the phone and letting the man on the other end know that I was know talking. I could hardly hear what he was saying, the only thing I could hear was my heart racing. Why did management want to talk to me, and what did Will do? "Kyle, were you aware of the picture that was recently posted on Twitter?"
I furrowed my eyebrows as I pulled out my phone to open the Twitter app, mumbling curse words under my breath when I kept hitting the wrong app due to my hands shaking. "No. I.. I don't know what you're talking about." I scrolled through my notifications, reading all the tweets I was getting. All of them seemed to be about Dan, some of them weren't as nice as they usually were. "What's going on? Why is everything-"
The man cut me off, it was obvious that this wasn't just a joke to him. He was taking whatever had happened quite seriously. "Will posted a picture of you and Dan cuddling. The caption said something that gave the assumption that you two are.. together. He says it was a joke, but it doesn't just seem like a joke to me. Now, are you and Dan together? Or do you have feelings for him?"
I froze with my mouth open, unable to speak. This wasn't supposed to happen, but I didn't feel mad at Will. I must've been caught up in my thoughts for a bit because when I snapped back into reality, the man was saying my name to make sure I was still there, obviously annoyed. "Will's just joking.." I said quietly into the phone, staring ahead at the wall with a blank expression. I didn't know what to feel right now. "I don't like Dan. He's just a friend and it will stay that way."
I could picture the man on the other line smiling. A twisted, cruel smile because he knew he had us wrapped around his fingers and there wasn't anything we could do to prevent it. "Good because we all know that if you kept this up, we'd have to get you a fake girlfriend. We're already debating on it right now, there were a lot of bad reactions to the post. You know what they say, being gay is unnatural and that's not something we're going to promote."
I was about to yell at him, tell him exactly how I felt about Dan and this entire situation when the line went dead. I let go of the phone, not even flinching once it hit the ground. I couldn't bring myself to do anything right now but obviously the other two had different plans. Dan was sitting up in the bed by now, letting his legs fall off the edge. "What did they want?" He asked nervously then turned to look at Will, "What did you do? What the hell did you post?"
I shook my head, turning my gaze to the floor. "It's nothing, Dan. We just.. We shouldn't do this anymore, alright? I'm so sorry.."
