Talk To Me

Chapter 33: Valentine

A/N I have returned! Sorry about last weekend guys, unfortunately I won't be able to make it up to you this weekend because of school -_-. 

I'd been lazing in bed but I sat up when I felt the man beside me stir. I grinned brightly at him as he attempted to hide from the morning sun. 

"Morning," I said brightly. He groaned before reluctantly sitting up and brushing back his hair. I couldn't help but stare at him; he was so cute with his natural hair. 

"Morning," he murmured. 

"Do you know what today is?" I asked. He rolled his eyes.

"Of course, its Valentines Day." he replied. "Are we doing anything?" I didn't answer instead I dragged him out of bed and into the lounge. I'd stayed up late last night and set up a ton of blankets, pulled out all of our DVDs, and found every anime/ show that we watched on Netflix. What little of the coffee table that wasn't covered in shows was piled with snacks. 

"I figured we'd have an 'us' day." I explained, turning to him. He grinned and dived onto the couch before promptly falling off. I couldn't help but laugh as I gave him a hand up.

"Coordination at its finest," he said sarcastically, settling into his spot. By mid afternoon we'd ploughed through about 1/3 of our movies and all of our snacks so we decided to go to Tesco and get some Starbucks. It was still really cold outside so we bundled up and got through the shopping asap. We practically launched ourselves through Starbucks front doors. We quickly ordered our drinks and slid into a booth. We snuggled into each other, having opted to sit on the same side. 

"My nose is about to fall off," Dan complained. I laughed at him as he tried to warm it up with his cup. I was just about to offer some assistance in the form of a kiss when polite voice broke in. 

"Sorry," a short girl with dark brown hair and blue eyes bean. "But are these seats taken?" I straightened up from my position of resting on Dan.

"No, you're welcome to sit here." I replied, my natural instinct to be polite overriding my wanting to be alone with Dan. She smiled gratefully and slid in,  a taller man with darkish brown hair and light brown eyes followed her.

"Sorry," he said, smiling slightly. "It's so packed in here." Glancing around I realised that he was right, almost every seat was taken. 

"I'm Phil," I said, after a few seconds of painful silence. "This is Dan." 

"I'm Zoe," the girl said, smiling.She seemed to be permanently happy.

"I'm Alfie," the guy said. 

"Do you guys live in London?" I asked, trying to make polite conversation.

"No we live in Brighton, we just came for the day." Alfie replied. The conversation continued along a similar train for a while before Zoe interrupted it.

"I don't mean to be rude, but those look like a matching set." she said, gesturing to our promise rings. Panicked we quickly put our hands under the table. I shared a fleeting, terrified glance with Dan before looking back at them.

"They are." I stated, giving them a look that said 'you have a problem? Leave'. But Zoe just smiled and nodded.

"Cool," she said, moving to hold Alfie's hand. "We're together too." we relaxed slightly and I moved to hold Dan's hand under the table, rubbing my thumb over his fingers in a reassuring gesture and feeling a small thrill when I brushed over his promise ring.

"So what do you guys do for work?" Alfie asked, clearly trying to change the subject and make us more comfortable.

"Well..." I began.

How the hell do I explain YouTube?

"We both work as YouTubers, which is-" I was cut short by Zoe.

"Wow wait you guys are YouTubers too?" she asked.

"Yeah," I replied. "You guys do YouTube?"

"Yeah," Alfie said. "We're both vloggers. How about you?"

"Same," I replied.

"Do you know Tyler Oakley?"

"Do we ever." I laughed. "He's been our best friend since high school."

"Oh wow, wait are you guys the Dan and Phil he's always talking about. AmazingPhil and Danisnotonfire?" Zoe asked.

"He talks about us?" I asked, blushing. Looking over at Dan I saw that he was also blushing furiously. 

"Haha yep. He was planning on introducing us at VidCon."

"Wait at what?" I asked, confused.

"VidCon. It's a big online video convention. Are you going to go?" 

"I guess." I replied, glancing over at Dan. We continued to talk for a while before I noticed the time and remembered my promise to Dan to have an 'us' day.

"Sorry guys," I said regretfully. "We should go."

"It's fine," Zalfie said, also standing.

"Hey," Zoe said, quickly scribbling something on a piece of paper. "Here, if you need a guide for VidCon, we've done it a few times." she passed me her phone number.

"Thanks," I said. We made our way home and shed most of our winter gear.

"I'm sorry," I apologised, turning to Dan. He looked confused.

"Why?" he asked.

"Well I'd planned for an 'us' day but I guess that didn't happen."

"Hey," he said, moving in to thread his arms around my waist. "We spent most of the day together and we still have the rest of the evening. And I enjoyed meeting Zoe and Alfie." I smiled, relieved.

"So did I, I'm glad that we've made some new friends." I replied. "Hey, do you want to go to VidCon? There'll probably be a lot of people there." Dan seemed to think for a minute before replying.

"Yeah, I think so. I want to see what it's like."

"Okay then, to VidCon we'll go."

"I don't think it's for a few more months Phil." he laughed. 

"Oh well," I grinned. "In the meantime we still have a movie marathon to finish." I said, dragging him to the lounge. 

We settled back into our positions, this time however leaning into each other, as we'd done in Starbucks.

"Oh hey, I own you something from earlier." I said suddenly. Dan turned to me confused and I quickly launched in for a kiss.