Caught in the middle (Youtuber love triangle fanfic)

5. Revealing a Secret

Caspar's POV

Erin had such a lovely personality. She was funny, bubbly and caring. I want to get to know her as we only met yesterday. I noticed that she's very friendly with Dan but I hope they're just friends, as much as I like Dan, I want Erin to be mine. The thought of that makes me so happy. I'm not going to rush into anything though.

Erin's POV

I got ready for a day in the sun. I put on my bikini then put blue denim shorts, a white floral crop top, my new RayBans, sandals and put my hair into a messy bun. The picture at the top of the page is Erin's outfit which I made earlier :)

I locked my hotel room door and went to Dan and Phil's room and knocked on the door. Phil answered with a smile.

"Hey, Erin!" He said. "Come in. Dan's just in the shower. You look lovely by the way."

"Thank you, Phil." I said.

I went into their hotel room and sat down on a spare chair while Phil sat on the end of his bed.

"Do you know when Belle is arriving?" I asked.

"Dan said she's arriving this morning with Jack and Finn.

"Good, it's been too long." I said. Belle is one of my best friends and Dan's younger sister. As far as I know, Dan and Belle don't see each other as often anymore as Belle lives in Brighton with her boyfriend Jack and Dan and Phil live in London.

 Dan came out of the bathroom with just a towel wrapped around his waist.

"Oh, Dan. Erin's here." Phil said stating the obvious.

"You don't say." Dan said in the most sarcastic voice he could manage. "Sorry for scarring you for life." Dan said taking his clothes and going back to the bathroom to get changed.

"He doesn't have much confidence about the way he looks. I know how that feels. You haven't told him about it? You know the thing you helped me with?" I asked.

"No, but I think you should tell him. You know how it feels and he doesn't want to open up to me about it but he might to you. I'm pretty sure he has issues with the way he looks but he wont admit it to me." Phil said.

"If he doesn't open up to you then he won't to me. I'll give it a go though." I said.

Phil helped me when I needed it most so I'm going to help someone and hopefully I can make a difference.

Dan came out the bathroom, fully clothed this time, and we left their hotel room and walked down to get breakfast. I sat next to Joe this time to learn more about him as I haven't had a proper conversation with him. Caspar glared at Joe but Joe shrugged his shoulders and turned back to face me.

We had breakfast and me and Joe had a long conversation mostly about his pranks on Caspar. I have to admit his prank videos do make me laugh very hard. We were then joined at our breakfast table by Jack, Finn and Belle. The boys from Jacksgap and Belle who had her own successful Youtube channel unsurprisingly called 'Belle'. Belle has thick brown shoulder-length hair and black rimmed glasses and the boyfriend of Jack, they make the most adorable videos together. They sat at our table and Belle came and sat on the other side of me (she was one of my best friends :D). Jack watched Belle as she walked up to me with eyes filled with love. They are so adorable. After a while we left the table and went to the pool. I set my towel down on my lounger and took my top, shorts and shoes off so I was just in my bikini. I lay down on my towel and began to sunbathe. After a while, someone jumped into the pool and splashed my legs. I sat up and saw Caspar in the pool grinning mischievously at me.

"Sorry, Erin. It was definitely an accident." He smirked.

"You're gonna regret that." I said standing up about to cannonball into the pool when I saw Dan looking at me. I remembered what Phil said.

"I'll be back in a minute." I said to Caspar and walked over to Dan.

"Can I just speak to you for a minute?" I asked Dan who looked slightly nervous but stood up and followed me around the corner to a bench where we both sat down.

"What's up?" Dan said.

"I'm just gonna ask - are you self-conscious?" I asked.

"I'd say I'm pretty confident." Dan said.

"I mean about the way you look?" I asked and Dan looked at his feet.

"Dan." I said. "Look." I pulled my wristband away that I never took off to reveal a few small scars. Dan looked shocked but didn't say anything as I put the wristband back on to cover my wrist.

"I was so self-conscious and I hated the way I look so I did the only thing I could think of. I did it once but immediately knew there must have been a better way so I went to Phil. He helped me. He told me all the things I couldn't see and I never did it again. He was there for me and listened whenever I needed him to." I said. "You may not think it but it can be better to talk about it. I'm know there's so many good things that you can't see about yourself. So anyway, what I'm tryng to say is if you need to talk, I'm always here and I know Phil is too." I said.

"Thank you. I just sometimes get sick of me." Dan said hugging me.

"I understand." I said hugging him back.

We got up and walked back to the pool where everyone was looking a little bit confused. It felt emotional bringing up the painful memories of my past but if it helps Dan then I was willing to share them. When Caspar's back was turned I cannonballed into the pool next to him causing a massive splash to go over him. Caspar turned around with fake anger on his face. I laughed and tried to swim away but he caught on to me, lifted me up and chucked me back into the water. I decided it was time to get out of the water after a while and lay back on my lounger again. I put my headphones in and started to listen to Green Day when someone tapped my shoulder. I opened my eyes and Phil was standing over me.

"Sorry to wake you. Did you talk to him?" Phil asked.

"Yeah and I told him about my 'issues'." I said.

"But I don't know if he wants anyone to know what he said so I'll speak to him about it later and see what he says." I said. I hope I've shown him that it's better to talk to someone than keep troubles bottled up.

Dan's POV

Erin could not be any cuter at the minute and it's driving me mad. I'm struggling to keep my feelings for her hidden. I know Phil highly suspects that I like Erin but I can't even tell him. This is hard. Erin showed me her scars and told me that she use to really bad issues with the way she looks but she talked about it and it helped. I think I will open up to her about it but when I feel ready. I feel like Erin will always be here for me. I'm so thankful to have her in my life.

Caspar's POV

Erin is driving me crazy. She looked so hot today. She went to have a private conversation with Dan and came back looking a bit sad but she was grinning soon enough when she cannonballed next to me. I'm going to try and hang around with her more so we can get to know each other.

A/N Thank you to everyone that's reading and thanks again to @Erin_Poynter and @Kiwi-May for all your help and suggestions. Vote and comment if you enjoyed :)

Thank you :) xx