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Chapter Thirty Two - Love You More Than Cats

Dan's POV

"NO WAY!" I throw my ping pong paddle to the floor in a fit of fake rage. "You're a cheater!"

Kyle laughs, drops his paddle and laughs some more. "Dan mate you are such a sore loser"

"Because you cheated!" I cross my arms and pout. "Kyle I thought you loved me"

"I do love you" he runs over and hugs me "I love you more than I love chocolate chip pancakes and coffee in the morning and cats! I LOVE YOU MORE THAN CATS"

He puts all his weight on me and we both fall to the floor in a fit of drunken laughter.

Everyone is on a massive high due to the success of the gig tonight. I went for a cigarette once it was over and there were even fans waiting out the back!

I mean, they shouted at me for smoking but other than that they were awesome. I think it's the first time I've ever been asked to sign something for someone.

After talking to them for a while I made my way back inside where everyone had already started drinking, but I caught up quickly.

We made our way back to the house and it just got messier from there.

Emily has invited Chrissy over, the girl who was helping us out at the venue, I haven't had much of a chance to speak to her, but she seems nice. Her and Ems have been sitting on the sofa getting drunk and gossiping for the last two hours.

It's 2.30am and our first ever proper album came out two and a half hours ago, it's already selling pretty well on iTunes, along with Pompeii, which was released a few days ago.

Pompeii has made it to number 22 in the charts and apparently it's been played on the radio a few times.

Things are going really great for us.

I push Kyle off me and crawl across the floor to the fridge "Do you want another beer my dear" I sing to him.

"Oh Dan, this is why you're our songwriter, such talent" he blows me a kiss and nods, taking a beer from my outstretched hand.

"Oi! Psssssst" Will and Woody are trying to get our attention from my bedroom door. I'd been wondering where they got to, they've been missing for about half an hour.

"BAND MEETING" Kyle yells as we both make our way to my room. We throw ourselves onto the bed beside Woody and turn to face Will, who's sitting at my desk.

"Can we help you handsome gentlemen? Or have you just called us in here for no reason?" I ask, slurring my words.

"Woody has a crush on the venue chick" Will says quickly.

"Her name is Chrissy!" exclaims Woody in response.

"Ohhhhhhhh can I tell Emily? I think they're getting on really well" I say, a little too loud. I realise I'm almost shouting and put my finger over my lips, like they used to make you do in school.

Wills almost wetting himself laughing at me, which makes me laugh too.

"I'll talk to her if you want..." yawns Kyle, "Tomorrow though, because I'm tired now" he settles himself on my bed and pulls the duvet round him.

"Uh Kyle, I had planned on using this room tonight" I poke him repeatedly in the face.

"Tough shit mate, you'll have to go somewhere else or just bunk with me"

"NOPE!" shouts Will, "Claimed it" he says as he pushes me off the bed and crawls in beside Kyle.

I'm too drunk to care if I'm honest.

I pick myself off the floor and wobble a little on my feet. I grab Kyles beer, he's not going to drink it, is he? And stagger to the door, "Christopher, please join me!" I say as I make my way back to the living room.

"Ladiesssss" I shuffle in between them on the sofa. "I don't want to break this blossoming friendship up but Kyle and Will have stolen my bed and now I would like to steal my girlfriend so that I can share her bed please"

"Oh shit, sorry, I didn't realise you were all tired!" says Chrissy. She's definitely not as drunk as the rest of us. Come to think of it, Emily doesn't seem so bad either. I look at them both in turn and grin.

"Don't be silly! We don't have any other spare rooms but if you wanna stay here then this sofa doubles as a bed" Emily says, "That is, if you don't mind bunking with Woody"

She smirks a little at Chrissy and I'm not really sure what's going on.

Chrissy laughs. "I don't mind if you don't mind?" she looks up at Woody who's hovering in the doorway.

He gives her a thumbs up.

Emily gets up and pulls me with her, "Come on Daniel, let's get you to bed" she slips her arm around my waist and helps support me as she walks with me to the bedroom.

I can hear faint talking from the living room but Emily closes her bedroom door to stop me eavesdropping and lets go of me.

"Right Smith, clothes off" she demands.

I smirk at her in a very drunk manner "You're filthy"

"No Daniel, take your clothes off because I refuse to sleep beside you while you're drunk and sweaty and wearing jeans" she laughs and pulls my t shirt off over my head.

I sigh and kick my jeans off and throw them into the corner before crawling into bed.

She quickly gets changed into a t shirt that I recognise as mine and also a pair of my boxers. "I'd shout at you for always stealing my clothes but they look much better on you" I say as she gets into the bed and cuddles into me.

We lie nose to nose for a few minutes just talking and kissing.

I've never been more glad to have her than I was tonight, I try to tell her but by the time I get the words to make sense in my head I feel myself drifting off.

"Love you rockstar" she giggles and kisses me once more.

"Love you too Ems"