Dan's POV
A few days have passed since my first day at school, things have calmed down a bit in my life, everyone seemed to lose interest in 'the new kid' and have pretty much stopped pestering me all together. Even though I sit next to him in English, I haven't spoken to Phil since the bathroom incident.
I was sitting with Eli at the lunch table, eating our lunch in a comfortable silence. It was now Friday, I was thankful that the school day would soon be over and I could go home and get some well deserved rest.
"Hey do you know who Phil Lester is?" Eli asked, looking up from her tray.
"Uh yeah he sits next to me in homeroom and English, why?"
"Oh, I was just wondering if you were friends with him or something, he's kind of staring at both of us right now." I swiveled in my seat to look in the direction she was and sure enough Phil was sitting a few tables down, glaring at us. He averted his eyes a second later turning back in the direction of one of his friends.
"Weird" I mumble when I turn back around. What was his problem? One minute he wants to save me from getting my face bashed in and the next he wants to send me and my friend death stares.
Before I could brood over the issue anymore the bell signaling the end of lunch rang, interrupting my thoughts.
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It was finally the last class of the day, English. I took my seat next to Phil not even sparing him a glance and turned my attention to the front of the class, wanting to get it over with.
"Okay everyone today I'm going to introduce you to your new projects" Mrs.Lewis announced. "Its going to be on the Shakespeare novel Romeo and Juliet." I inwardly groaned at that.
Really? Romeo and Juliet how cliché is that? I took the stack of papers someone handed to me and passed it to Phil, ignoring how our hands brushed. As I was looking over the outline for the project my stomach dropped. 'Take Home Partner Assignment' written at the top filling me with dread. I didn't know anyone in this class, there is no way I would find a suitable partner. Let alone one I would be okay with coming over to my house.
"Okay, as you know this will be a partner assignment that will be done at home. I suggest that after this you and your partner exchange numbers so you can figure out when to go to who's house." The teacher rambled on, going over the basics of the project. I couldn't find myself to listen as I was eternally freaking out. Someone was going to have to come to my house, I was going to have to go to someone else's house. This was going to be a regular thing for the next couple of weeks. The teacher started to call out who was partnered with who.
I don't know anyone in this class, this is going to b- wait I do know someone in this class. I glanced to my left to see a certain dark haired boy next to me.
No absolutely not. If I get partnered with Phil I will literally flip this table, walk out of this classroom, never graduate, become a bum and be forced to sell my bod-
"And Lastly Phil will be partnered with Dan."
That's it, goodbye academic career I am quitting. I turn to face a smug looking Phil next to me.
"Looks like I'm going to need your number Dan."
Yep this was going to be a long school year.
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Phil and I agreed to start our project on Saturday at his house. When Saturday rolled around I found myself sitting in my room, staring at the address he messaged me, racking my brain to find an excuse to get out of going. After a couple more minutes a let out a sigh, gathered up my strength and walked out the door.
Phil only lived a couple of blocks away from me so after searching for the street a bit I arrived at his house. There were no cars parked in the driveway so I could only hope that his family weren't home. What would Phil's parents be like anyway? Surely nothing like the juvenile delinquent Phil seems to be. After walking up the walking way and to the front door I hesitated before I finally knocked.
Only a couple of second later the door swung open to reveal a rather flustered looking Phil.
"Hey." I took in his Super Mario Pajama pants and bedhead, he obviously just woke up. I tried not to snicker at how out of character it was for Phil to be seen in such a get up.
"Hey, um did I come too early?" I replied
"No! No, come in." He said, ushering me through the door.
I walked inside, looking around. His house had more of a homey lived-in feel, nothing that I was really expecting from the Lester house hold, but hey what do I know? I proceeded to follow to his bedroom in the back of the house. He swung open his door and flopped into a desk chair seated by a computer, I followed suit by awkwardly sitting on his bed. After awhile I pulled out my books and cleared my throat.
"So what it looks like we need to do is read the entire book and fill out each worksheet as we go along"
"Okay how much should we work on today?" I looked through the pamphlet.
"I guess we could just read the prologue for today, even though its only a sonnet, it has a ton of questions." I say flipping to find the first page. He agreed and we both settled into a what I must say was very uncomfortable silence as we read.
Soon after I finished reading I glanced over to Phil who was still engrossed in the book. I took this opportunity to glance around his room. I recognized his a lot of his band posters and learned that we had a lot in common, not that I would ever admit that to Phil. No, I plan to get this project over with and in a couple of weeks, never have to speak to Phil again. I know that associating with "popular guys" like him was just asking for trouble.
"Hey are you done reading yet?" Phil's asks, snapping me back to reality.
"Oh, Yeah uh lets get started on the worksheets.
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After a few rather awkward hours of discussing the book we decided that that was enough for the day.
After Phil walked me back to the door I stepped out into the cool evening air.
"See you later then?" Phil asks.
"Yeah I'll text you later" I said, smiling a bit. Despite the awkwardness working with Phil today was a little more enjoyable then I expected. Phil grinned back at me, lighting up his entire face and complementing his eyes.
"Bye"
"See ya" He said closing the door, leaving me alone to wonder why I suddenly had butterflies in my stomach.
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A/N - Okay wow the ending was really cheesy but my sincerest apologies for not updating for a month, I havent had wifi so if i didnt reply to your comments please dont think im ignoring you or anything! Oh btw i've decided im going to start updating this fic every monday night so ya~
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Thorns (A Phan Highschool AU)
Fanfiction***ON HIATUS****Dans starts attending a prestigious school and meets a mysterious boy named Phil- Okay im not good at descriptions but phan high school AU because i have a thing for bad boy Phil.
