Lets Be Alone Together- Phan

Chapter Six

He lets go and burry his face in his hands, collapsing at the side of the curb, luckily there are little to no cars. "I hate him!" He screams through sobs. Dan doesn't look at me, his hands are hiding in his sweater and I can see tears drenching his sleeves. Just last night everything was fine, last night everything was magical. The thought that Dan's dad would react like this never crossed my mind once and I am probably just as confused as him.

My lip starts to quiver out of fear. He seemed to brave and strong when we first met at school. He seemed carefree in gym, I think that's one of the reasons why I like him. I feel tears form in my eyes. What if his dad forces him away from me? "What are you going to do?" I ask, my voice trembling. I don't want to loose him, I just got him. I finally feel fulfilled with who I am. I know that I've only known him for a few days but I already feel my negative personality changing to something more positive.

Silence,

"I'm not sure. Knowing him, he isn't letting me back home any time soon. Or any time at all."

"He can't just neglect you like that!" He looks up at me hopefully.

"Unless I could stay at yours for a while." I frown. I'd love for Dan to stay with me. But I'm not too sure if my mum will be keen on the idea of having a complete stranger to her stay at our house. That would also include either keeping whatever we have a secret, or coming out to her right away. I bite the inside of my cheek and nod.

"Okay, you'll have to make a good impression on my mum." He looks down and another tear drops from his nose and onto his black skinny jeans that he slept in. Before he can cover his beautiful brown eyes with his black sweater I move his hands down with one arm then push his face to look towards me.

  I can see the pain and hurt in eyes. "We'll make it through this." I say after wiping my own eyes, which are now red. He inches closer and leans his head on my shoulder. I wrap my arm around his skinny waste protectively. We stayed like that, kind of just talking about how we should tell my mum. Forgetting everything around us.

The curb we were sitting on was right in front of Dan's fathers house. Both of us snapped back into reality when his dad started yelling at us to get off of his property.

So I helped Dan up and we walked hand in hand back to my house. Dan wasn't going to stay with us forever, just as long as he needed to get his dad to stop being an asshole.

"It's still early, we'll need to be quiet and try not to wake my mum." I say holding a finger over my mouth. He nods and I lead him to the kitchen for some breakfast.

"What would you like?" I say, my voice slightly hushed.

"Urm, cereal?" I search through my cupboard and hold out two different brands of cereal. Shreddies and cheerios. Dan silently points to the Shreddies. I grab some bowls and start pouring the Shreddies as quiet as I can. I'm startled when Dan walks up from behind me and hugs around my waist. He sleepily rests his head on my shoulder and places small soft kisses all over my neck, kind of like as a silent thank-you.

My lips curl up into a smile and my pale face flushed. I wasn't thinking and dropped a bowl containing cereal and a spoon, luckily no milk.

But before either me or Dan can react, my mum is already down the stairs and staring at Dan hugging me and kissing my neck with a surprised expression. But it wasn't a bad surprise for her, not like Dan's father. It was more like an 'Aw my baby son has finally found love' kind of surprise.

I lightly elbow Dan, and once he notices my mum he quickly backs away from me and looks down in embarrassment. "Urm mum, I can explain." I say, ready to make up a lie if necessary.

"No need, Phil. Whatever makes you happy." She smiles, "But what I'm wondering is why are you both here so early in the morning? It's barely light out."

Dan doesn't talk as I explain to her what happened this morning -Leaving out the kisses and cuddling and stuff that wasn't completely necessary to share with her- and believe it or not she just nodded in sympathy for us.

"Well, Dan you're welcome to stay here." Her expression is soft and friendly. Dan looks up at her and smiles really wide. She holds out her arms to the two of us and we collide into a massive group hug.

We thank her and she starts asking Dan all of these over protective parent stereotype questions. Once he had made a decent impression on her we moved up to my room, leaving her in the kitchen to do whatever it is mothers do.

I close the door behind me and let out a big sigh smiling at Dan. We move towards the bed and sit down together. "Your mum is amazing!" Dan exclaimed.

I smile and nod. "Today is family game day. We usually play Mario Kart until one of us rage quits."

He smiles and raises his bushy eyebrows. "I love Mario. I'll wreck you."

"You might wreck me, but try beating my mum, she is the Mario Kart queen." I joke and brush my hand against his. I look up and catch him blushing and staring into my eyes.

He turns my hand over and intertwines my fingers with his own for a moment, before he started to play with my fingers and rested his head on my shoulder.

"You're so affectionate." I chirp, feeling my own face heat up.

"Your hands are cold." He points out randomly before he kisses the tips of my fingers, then the back of my hand. The butterflies in my stomach went wild and all I wanted to do was stay like that forever.

He put his legs over mine and cuddled into me. We talked about anything and everything for what felt like only a few minutes when we were rudely interrupted my mother calling us to play Mario Kart with her.

I nudge his head off of my shoulder and smile at him, showing my teeth. "C'mon, I want to see if you're as good at Mario as you claim to be."

"I'll bet you any money that I'll beat you." He says confidently giving my fingers a final kiss.

"How much do you want to bet Daniel?"

"If I win you have to... let me bring you on an adventure." What does he mean?

"Okay, whatever that means. But if I win, you have to give me a piggy back ride around the block." I wasn't sure what else to say. And I kind of want a piggy back ride, my dad used to give them before he left.

"You're on." He smiles.

"So on."