Vulnerable • d.h

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"Okay Joe, your turn to spin the bottle!" Zoe pipes up. Lilliana wasn't really paying attention until she heard a whole pile of "Oooo". when she looked up she saw the bottle which was facing her and all eyes that were sitting amongst the circle including Dan's, pinned to her.

"Kiss!" One of Joe's friends at the time yells. Lilliana could feel her cheeks starting to rosy at the thought of kissing the hottest guy at the school. Both Joe and Lilliana crawled to the middle of the circle and their lips connected. It was short, no longer than 10 seconds, all Lilliana can really remember is how much tongue he used (quite a lot).

As they both pulled away her eyes immediately connected with Dan's, he looked uncomfortable.. almost sad. Lilliana wanted to talk to him but before she could he got up and walked away.

"So.. who's the unlucky girl?" Lilliana pesters playfully.

Dan slumps back into her bed while she sits against the wall opposite the bed. "Do you remember Cassie Slammer?" Dan has his eyes pinned to the ceiling.

As soon as he said the name she knew exactly who he was talking about although her and her friends did refer to her as Cassie Slapper because the fake bleach blonde bimbo would get with anything that moves. "Yeah." She nods in reply.

"Yeaah.." Dan takes a deep breath. Lilliana was confused, she never thought that Dan would go for someone like Cassie or that Cassie would settle down like that. "We've been dating for a couple of months now."

"Why haven't you mentioned her?" She questions, fiddling with her fingers uncomfortably.

"I didn't think it mattered..... Besides it never came up." Dan shrugs, making eye contact with Lilliana. She begins to feel almost betrayed, having been friends with him ever since they were little she would at least expect a text letting her know.

"I've been here nearly a week now I just thought that if anything interesting with your life had happened you would have told me by now." Lilliana begins to raise her voice, she was hurt and angry but she couldn't help it. It wasn't fair on Dan but at the same time she could tell he was trying to avoid the subject since the moment she got there.

"Okay Lilly, let's talk about our lives then How have you been in the past ten years?" She could tell he was getting angry too. She rolled her eyes. Dan got up, leaving the room without even saying another word or looking at her. Lilliana sighed, bringing her knees up to her chest.

Dan Howell

Dan was sitting on his couch, perfectly situated between the pillows creases. He had his laptop on his lap with the TV going in the background, it was something Phil was watching but he went to get some cereal. Phil came back in and sat down on the other side of the sofa, practically inhaling his food. No more than two minutes later, Dan's phone went off.

"Hey baby! I am so sorry but I won't be able to come over tonight.. something came up."

It was from Cassie, he wishes he could say it was surprising but in reality this isn't the first time she blew him off like that. Although it was almost a common occurrence, he felt disappointed.

"Cassie?" Phil asks, still not taking his eyes off his cereal.

"Yup..." Dan replied slowly before sighing. Dan takes out his phone and pulls up Liliana's name, he had no hesitation in texting her.

"Hey Lilly, you want to have a break from being a big girl with the parents and hangout with Phil and I tonight?" He presses send.

No more than two hours later there was a knock at the door. Dan jumps up immediately, leaving his sofa crease behind. Phil stayed seated on the sofa and let out a small giggle, he could tell that Lilliana made Dan happy and that made him happy. being dans best friend at all meant that he supported him with every decision but one decision that phil had second guesses about was Dan's choice on dating Cassie.

"Good evening Daniel." Lilly says, smiling from ear to ear as he opens the door.

"Lilliana i can see you dressed up for the occasion." Dan playfully pesters referring to Lilly's attire. She had pair of plain black leggings on and a plain white shirt that was way too big on her. Her hair was tied up into a small pony tail as he hair was too short to make anything too nice. Dan thought she looks nice.

"I hope we are getting pizza." Lilly walks through, past Dan and into the lounge. "Hi Phil." Lilly smiles, taking a seat next to him.

"Well that depends on whether you brought snacks or not." Dan says, leaning his tall body against the door frame while gazing at Lilly in a way that concernes Phil. Without saying anything, Lilly pull out a family pack of Maltesers, Tim Tams and sour worms. Dan's face lights up and he immediately snatches them out of her hands. "Pizza it is."

An hour later, they were all sprawled out over the sofa. Dan was in his usual sofa crease while Phil was sitting on the far side of the couch, Lilly had her legs placed over Phil's thighs while her body was laying against Dans's. They had all the lights switched off with only light in the room being the TV that was playing a scary movie. Lilly and Dan used to watching horror movies almost every time they had the chance, they loved them - it was something to do with the adrenalin rush they would get when a big scare would happen and in those moment Dan and Lilly would become closer. But It was in this moment where Lilly had closed her eyes and had fallen asleep.

"Phil!" Dad whispers, trying to get his attention without waking a sleeping Lilly.

"What?" Phill asks rather loudly, his eyes still glued the the TV.

"Lilly's fallen asleep on me and I can't get up." He looks down at Lilly and then back up at Phil with a face of plead plastered on his face.

Phil let's out a small laugh, not loud enough to wake her up but loud enough to make Dan get even more frustrated. Dan gives in and no longer than thirty minutes later, he had fallen asleep too.

The light was shining through the sheer curtains onto Dan's face, his eyes began to flutter open and adjust to his surrounding. He began to look around, realising he was still in the lounge and then in less than ten seconds he notices that he wasn't alone. Lilly was laying across the couch with her head rested on Dan's chest, she had one arm over as if she was cuddling him. He looked down at her smiling, he thought she looked peaceful.. As if he never wanted to let her wake. It must've been later than 10:30 Dan thought as there was no sign of Phil, he knew he had a meeting at eleven. As he is gazing down and Lilly he notices her eyes beginning to flutter open, she begins to move and stretch without fully opening her eyes, causing her to hit Dan in the face with her wailing arm.

"Ow fuck!" Dan cries out, making Lilly's eyes fly open.

"Oh my god! I am so sorry! Are you okay?" Lilly  wastes no time in turning her body around and grabbing Dan's face, feeling around for any possible bruises.

"Fuck!" He begins to laugh. "It's okay, I will only have a concussion." Dan jokes. Lilly removes her hands from his face and playfully hits his arm.

"Grow up." Lilly scoffs, sitting back down next to him. she begins to rub her eyes, Dans gaze right on her as she do's so. Lilly looks at him, pulling a funny face to break his stare. "Can I help you?" she playfully pesters as she unties her hair, letting her hair fall in front of her face. 

Dan gazes for longer before jumping up rather suddenly, frightening Lilly. "Breakfast. Lets make breakfast... Do you want breakfast?"

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HI HI!! I know I haven't updated I awhile... I am so so sorry but I hope you enjoy this new chapter, its not my best but its a little longer than the others. 

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