Awkward Encouter: A Dan Howell Story

Chapter 7

Autumn’s POV

I looked cautiously at my phone, careful no to get my hope up about it being Dan. But it was and I couldn’t help but be happy, I jumped a little and anwered.

“Hey, Dan…” I said slowly

“Hello Autumn….” He was being just as cautious, if not more. Things were definitely awkward now.     

He continued: “I talked to Veronica about this…mess…and she won’t budge. She’s hurt and she won’t let me go. She doesn’t even love me anymore and I’ve been out of love with her since I met you and this is all one big mess.” He spilled his thoughts out to me through the phone.

            I was silent for a couple seconds before replying.

“I don’t blame her, Dan. I wish she would just let you go…I’m trying to figure out how this will turn out okay but the more I think about it the more I can’t find a way.” I sighed, “The inevitable is going to happen, whatever that is. We just have to let this work itself out.”       

It was his turn to keep silent, for about one minute there was no sound from his end. I heard his breath softly hitting the phone but he was thinking to himself. As the seconds passes my heart felt heavier and heavier. Finally he spoke.

“You’re right, of course. I just wish you weren’t.” He spoke quietly, almost in a whisper. A tear rolled down my cheek. I am not sure why, we were not saying goodbye but it felt like we were. I closed my eyes and choked back more tears.

The silence this time went on for almost ten minutes, neither one of us wanted to hang up. The show was tomorrow and something was going down. We just wish we knew what it was. I  heard him sniffle on the other line and I knew a tear probably escaped his eyes as well.

“Its alright Dan, sometimes things don’t work out like we hope.” With that I said goodnight to him and he said it to me and it was very robotic, like it was out of custom. We wanted to say so much more but we couldn’t because it wasn’t right. I gripped onto my phone and laid my head on the crook of my arm. I sat there for an hour just thinking. I wish I knew what to do.

Dan’s POV

“Its alright Dan, sometimes things don’t work out like we hope.” As she said that my heart felt like it had been stung. I wiped a tear away from my cheek as she said goodnight to me, I said it back to her but there was no emotion. I would have never thought a word like “goodnight” would cause me pain, but it did because I knew what it meant. “We will probably never be together, so goodnight because I won’t get the chance to say it again”

I sat up against the headboard of my bed and fiddled with my phone, craving to call her again just to hear her voice. This cheesey sort of love was always over rated but now that I had it I didn’t want to let go. I knew I couldn’t, I would figure out a way to be with Autumn.

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