Boarding School - Phan

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**Dan’s pov**

When I woke up the next day, I thought everything was a dream.

Pj and Jack weren’t hurt. No one knew about me and Phil, only our friends. There was no picture and everything was fine.

But 3 seconds later, I realized Phil’s arm was around me. I remembered. It was like a knife in my heart. I couldn’t get up. It was I couldn’t face anyone. I knew everyone would get to know about it. How would I even get out of the room?

Phil kissed my shoulder and got out bodies closer. We didn’t need to say anything. I knew exactly what he was thinking.

Phil had more experience, that was true. But he was bullied in his old school, he didn’t tell everyone he was gay. He was just as scared as me. We knew people would judge, and give us weird looks.

It was 8:30 already. We wouldn’t have time for breakfast. We obviously didn’t care. Our first lesson was at 9 and we were trying to be strong and get up.

At 8:45, Phil said:

“Babe… We need to go. We need to be strong and don’t let them do this to us”

“But I don’t want, babe. I want to stay here forever”

We were in silence for more 5 minutes. It was 8:50.

Someone knocked at the door.

“It’s your room, you answer it” – I said. We didn’t want to move or do anything.

After a moment Phil got up. He put a shirt on and answered the door.

“What the fuck, you two? Mr. James is looking for you!”

Good. EXCELENT. Now, the principal wanted to talk. GREAT.

I covered my head with the blanket.

“He can wait.”-  I said.

“No, he can’t. You’ll probably loose your first lesson. Craig, Alex, Greg, PJ and Jack are already there. You should go”

Becky left. She had her own lesson so she couldn’t stay with us.

“Great, now we’ll be forced to talk to them? What?” – Phil said.

“I don’t know…But we should go.”

We quickly changed and were now wearing our uniforms. I was about to open the door when Phil put his hand on my shoulder. He hugged me tight.

“No matter what happens… Please don’t let it get to us” – He said

“I won’t.”

I kissed him softly.

In 5 minutes we were waiting for the principal. It was weird since we were expecting the see Craig and his friends there.

We waited 10 minutes. When his door finally opened, all the boys left the room in silence. Craig had a mad face, like something really bad had happened. He gave me a death look but didn’t say anything. They left the building. We were in silence, still waiting.

“Mr. Howell, Mr. Lester, you can come in.” – The principal said.

It was the first time I saw Mr. James. The school had A LOT of students, everything was big, so it wasn’t like we got to know every teacher and head teachers. But I knew everyone was scared of him.

He really didn’t look like a nice guy. He was wearing a suit and the situation looked very serious.

Phil and I got in. He sat on his chair and said, poiting at the chairs in front of his srs bsnss table.
“It’s okay boys, you can sit down”