Beyond Fangirl

London Frog

Warning: this isn't a very Dan-filled chapter but please read it and tell me if you like these kind of things.

Lots of love <3
Laura

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Throughout the next few weeks, my life weaved around school, work and Dan. He would meet me in the morning for coffee or after school at his house to hang out or play video games, if I wasn't working. It turns out that I am surprisingly good at Halo but I continue to fail at Donkey Kong and every Mario game in existence. Despite my occasional victories, I was still in need of a ton of assistance.
I only cancelled on Dan to spend time with James and his friends. I had grown especially close to Tony and James over the past few weeks so I didn't want to seem like Dan was my first priority.

One day I got home after school and went to Dan's right away to pick up my sweater that I had left there. Phil let me in and I walked into Dan's room.
"So anyway," Dan spoke to his laptop in front of him. I could see YouNow open and comments flooded the screen. "Their new album is so good. I don't know, have any of you heard it? Keira Winchester says its he favourite yet. We Are Youngsters also likes it." He continued talking and scrolling through comments until he looked up and noticed me in the doorway. As far as I could tell I wasn't in the shot so the viewers couldn't tell I was there. Dan nods to me and turns back to the computer.
"Turns out it was Lil at the door." I look at him, uncertain of what I should do. Thousands of people are watching Dan right now. It's like standing in front of a huge audience that's invisible. It creeped me out. I "Did you forget something?" He asked me. I nodded.
"My sweater." I mouthed to him. He reached over to my sweater with lay on the chair beside him then threw it over to me before returning back to the camera.
He scrolled through comments until he laughed aloud. I looked at him, curious of what he had seen. He shook his head in a I'll-tell-you-later kind if way. I nodded and left. Phil was in the kitchen serving himself a glass of water he offered me some and after taking some he told me that Dan was nearing the end of the live show. I sat down with Phil and we started playing Halo.
"You know, Dan really likes you." Phil said thoughtfully while he lugged his machine gun around a desolate island searching for my avatar.
"Really?" I ask quietly, shooting Phil from behind a previously demolished building. "I really like him too." Gunshots from the game filled the silence.
"Anyway," Phil returned to his normal tone. "If you hurt him, you die." I laugh until my avatar dies from Phil's surprise attack. I throw him a dirty look and he gives me a smug smile. I heard Dan walking out of his room and he plops down beside me.
"So after you left, Lil, a bunch of people were saying things like '#dil' and 'fav OTP'." Dan paused and I smiled to myself. Phil took advantage of my lack of focus and shot me from behind. I swore and spun around shooting Phil with my weird, high tech laser gun. "Do you want to tell them?" Dan asked.
"Tell them what?" I sorta knew exactly what he was talking about but wanted to hear him say it.
He paused before replying with, "That we are unicorns from an alternate dimension where eating liquorice is considered a crime."
"We discovered a wormhole and we were led to a place called Earth."
"Now that we are here we no longer have access to our mystical powers that have all along masked our real form."
"As ugly, two-legged homo sapiens."
"See you knew exactly what I was talking about, you didn't need to ask." Dan said, absolutely straight-faced.
"Just making sure we were talking about the same thing." I nodded, trying my absolute best to keep from cracking a smile. I failed and burst out laughing.
Dan smiled, "But actually, do you?"
"Want to tell them that we're together?" He smiled and nodded. "I don't know maybe it's too early. Although I think most of them have figured it out. I just feel like if-" it doesn't work out then they will react badly. I didn't want to say that though.
"Yeah I get it. They might act weird about it." I nodded even that wasn't what I was thinking.
"Give it a month or so."