Threes A Crowd. (A Dan Howell and Finn Harries Fanfic)

Forever And Ever.

Aaleyah POV:

"Pooh, there's something I have to tell you" I smiled a Carrie, walking down the streets of London. "Is it something nice?" She retorted. "Not exactly" I pretended to pout and she lifted my chin up. "Then it can wait" my eye's brightened as we began to skip. "It can? For how long?" She was ahead of me so she turned around skipping backwards. "Forever and ever." She took my hand and we skipped together while Louis followed us with the camera. I began to sing "forever and ever, is a very long time Pooh" we slowed down so Louis could catch up with us. Continuing to sing, it was Carrie's part now. "Forever isn't long at all, when I'm with you!" We were making a YouTube video for her channel, to do with bestfriends. Alex skipped around the corner singing "I wanna call your name, forever, and you will always answer, forever! And both of us will be forever you and me, forever and ever."

It was my part now. Loads of people were staring at us, but none of us seemed to mind. "I wanna stay like this, forever. If only I could promise forever" I prepared myself for Jack and Finn to come in and sweep me up onto their shoulders singing the next part: "Then we could just be we, forever you and me." We were all smiling like idiots. As we sang together. "Forever and Ever!" Louis caught up with a smile on his face. "Guy's that was great!!" Jack and Finn let me down and we engulfed everyone into a group hug laughing. Winnie the Pooh was myself and Carrie's favourite program growing up so it made sense to sing it in her video, and the words just seemed to fit. I escaped from the massive group hug "Okay, so now that, that's done. I'm going to escape to Starbucks..Anyone care to join?" I looked around everyone in turn, Carrie shrugged "I've got to edit this." Jack, Finn and Louis had already left to pick up 12,000 balls, for a ball pit. I already knew that Alex would most likely go with Carrie, which meant that I'd go on my own.

"Or, I could just go alone and catch up with you's later" I tried to save myself the embarrassment of getting rejected yet again. We said goodbye and I began to walk. It's not like they always leave me, it's just that they're busy... That's all. I'm okay on my own anyway. I don't know them all very well, I only know Carrie through music school, and everyone else I know through YouTube. People such as Jack, Finn, Louis, Alex, Charlie, Bertie, Marcus, Alfie, Zoe and Louise are all the friends I made through YouTube. I got to Starbucks and ordered my Caramel Macchiato to go, because I hate sitting on my own. I'm just going to get the tube home. There's not much point staying in town on my own.

I was standing on the tube with my Starbucks, may I add that it was fully packed. Like, seriously, I've only lived in London for about 3 months now and I've never been on a tube this full before. The guy that was standing to my right kept elbowing my boob and I'm not appraciating it. I mean sure he's attractive and he's touching my boob but can you not, mate. He keeps looking at me too. Like every time his bloody elbow brushed against my boob he looks over and it's super awkward. I feel like we should go out on a date or something, he's already touched my boob more than 5 times. I managed to shuffle away from him a little so there was no more boob touching, but I still caught him looking at me. Okay, so do you miss touching my boob accidentally or what? I finally got off at my stop and made my way out of the station. The guy that was elbowing my boob in the tube, was still behind me. Is he... Is he following me? Oh my god, I'm not ready to die! I'm still young!

Panic began to wash through me as I realised he was still following me. I decided, that the socially awkward person I am, would rather divert him finding out where I live. So me, being me, crossed the road and walked into a shop. A sewing shop. Oh sweet baby jesus. Great, Aaleyah, you bloody reprobate. You can't even avoid someone right. "Excuse me dear, is there anything I can help you with" just tell her you came into the wrong place. She's not going to mind. "Yeah, I'm looking for some advise on how to sew" oh my god what are you doing!? You don't know anything about this stuff! "Okay well I can start you off with a nice starter kit and then we'll take it from there?" Abort abort abort!! A B O R T! "Okay, sure!"

I left the shop with £12 wasted on a monthly subscription to a sewing magazine that I'm never going to use, and no sight of the dude from the tube. A sewing subscription. What the hell am I going to do with that?! I got home a few minutes later and started aimlessly scrolling down Tumblr. What am I doing with my life? Its 5pm on a Saturday and I'm sitting in my apartment scrolling down Tumblr. Again, what am I doing with my life? Great way to spend a gap year. Most people travel and do exotic things, me? I Tweet more than usual. That's about it.

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I was torn out of my dreamless sleep by my phone buzzing under my pillow. I grabbed it clearly my throat grinning at the picture that popped up, before accepting it. "Hey, Finn" I sat up in my bed smiling "Hey Aaleyah, myself and Jack are having a house warming party later tonight... Do you uh, want to come?" I stood up messing with my hair. "Yeah sure who's going to be there?" I liked Finn, he was really funny and a really easy person to talk to. "Well, me, you, Jack, Alfie, Zoe, Louise, Louis, Dan, Phil, Sam, Marcus...excetera" I furrowed my eyebrows together. "Who's Dan and Phil?" I was searching through my wardrobe looking for something decent to wear. "Fellow YouTubers. You'll get on with them alright!" I smiled a little wider, new friends? Great! "Okay, If you give me the address I'll make my way later?" I heard him sigh as Jack made a weird noise in the background.  "I'm picking Dan and Phil up so I'll come by and get you too!" I smiled foolishly at myself and replied. "Okay I'll see you later! Bye, Finn" I grabbed a few items of clothing out of my wardrobe and threw them on the bed. "Bye Ali" 

I couldn't help my mind going back over to the guy that kept elbowing my boob yesterday on the tube. I was on my way to Starbucks, for my daily coffee when I began thinking about him again. He had his earphones in and was very loudly listening to Muse. Not that I minded, but I mean other people might not have wanted to hear his music, be it good or not. Plus, hearing it but not being able to make it out properly is annoying, or when they catch you singing along. Even weirder. I was sitting at a window table, people watching. My life is so goddamn busy, man, can barely catch a breath. A guy wearing black skinny jeans, an eclipse top - not twilight -and a grey cardigan walked past the window. My eye's followed the black haired boy, until he came into Starbucks and I realised who it was. Boob guy!! Oh god. BOOB GUY. He's here! Oh no, leave, leave now and never look back! Goodness sake, Aaleyah, you really know how to pick places to be.

Apparently if you think about something enough, it appears before you. You know if I were with my mother she'd be nagging that I should go talk to him, get to know him. It's obviously fate that's brought us together and blahdy blah blah. Well thankfully, she's back in Liverpool and I'm not going to talk to him because it's fate, I'm going to leg it because it's just a small creepy world. I bounded out of the door bumping into someone and spilling the remains of my Caramel Macchiato all down my front. Well, fuck. "I am so sorry!" I looked up at the tall stranger. His thick eyebrows furrowing together and his muscles flexed under his shirt. I am going to die. This is officially my last moments on earth. I'd like to thank my mum for raising me even though I was a terror. Robert Downey Jr. for making the Iron Man films so special. My friends for always making me smile even when some of them are so far away. Last but not least, I'd like to thank DC, Marvel, makers of True Blood, Death Note, Supernatural, Sherlock, Doctor Who and every other program I've wasted my teenage years on. It's been a bumpy ri- "I'm sorry sir, she's been out of it recently, lost a family member, you know it's tough on the mind. I'll pay for dry cleaners if necessary"

My head whipped round to the guy standing to my side. "Oh, pardon me, don't apologize, it was totally my fault! I'm sorry for your loss" he nodded politely and walked off. "What the fuck was that?" I thought outloud. Did Boob Guy just save my life!? "Y-you just saved my life!" I bounded towards him and threw my arms around him. After I realised what I was doing I jumped back, looking at his shocked, perfect, face. "I'm so sorry!" With that, I ran out of Starbucks without my Caramel Macchiato. It's a tough life.

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A/N

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