Flight 407

Chapter 23-road trip

A/n hi guys how have you been? I've been feeling a lot better lately so that's good, I went to a twenty one pilots concert and it was freaking amazing (this and the next chapter are inspired by it and I might add a video from the show to the next chapter).
Also, summer vacation started so I'm super excited, I hope that means I'll be able to update more often.
This chapter is kind of filler and you can see it as part one to the next chapter, I decided to post it because I figured it would take too long to write the full chapter and didn't want to keep you waiting for too long.
Before you start reading I just wanted to thank you for 2k reads, it's truly amazing and makes me so happy, I really appreciate all of your support, the votes, the comments and just reading the story.
Hope you'll enjoy this chapter, I really enjoyed writing it.

Two weeks have passed since that night, and Phil defiantly felt like Dan was opening up to him again. He let him touch his hips and waist and kiss him on the cheek and overall was much more free around him, he would speak more and louder because he felt confident and relaxed around Phil, they also have been hanging out a lot more, never in dan's house when his father was home though, so they would either go to the movies and after sit in a park or walk around and explore the neighborhood and talk, their relationship was getting stronger and yet Phil still worried, because Dan still looked too skinny and he continued loosing weight no matter how many times Phil would take him out to eat.and he never rolled his sleeves up, which Phil understood because he knew that even if Dan stopped cutting he still wouldn't have wanted people to see the scars. And he truly hoped that was the only reason because he had no way to know.
But at least Dan looked a lot happier, he smiled more and was way less shy in public and he would start conversations with Phil which was something the elder knew he had a problem with, since he always feared getting rejected although Phil had reassured him many times he would always answer or reply, even if a few minutes or hours late, he would.
Phil was happy to see Dan like that, he truly was, and whenever dan's name would pop up on his phone house screen signaling he had a new massage from the boy and that Dan started a conversation with him, a warm feeling of pride and joy would fill his heart and run through his entire body.
And when Dan would talk to The waitress in a louder, more confident voice than before, a loving smile would spread across phil's lips, because he knew that a few weeks ago Dan wouldn't have even been able to speak to the waitress at all, and he liked to believe he had a small part in that growth.
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Dan was walking back from his secret park, he started going every day again, he loved that place, he felt completely at ease there and he would spend hours drawing, gazing up at the blue sky and following cloud's movements or watching the birds and other small animals that lived there.
When he reached the door he already had a weird feeling in his gut, like something was off, but shook It off thinking he was simply over thinking things.
But when he walked inside he realized he was wrong, he did have a reason to worry.
Because sitting On the sofa was Phil, next to him sat a large backpack and on the armchair across from him his dad sat, looking angry and very unpleased by his presence, the air felt thick and it was obvious Dan had interrupted something when he walked in, something like a heated argument because his dad's face was read and his lips were pressed together in a thin line which was something he always did when he was upset or during arguments and fights.
Dan coughed awkwardly "um, hi?"
His father's and Phil's heads turned to him, Phil smiled but his father was frowning.
"Phil, what are you do-"
His dad interrupted him "I have been wondering the same thing for the last hour and he wouldn't tell me" he said, his eyes sending daggers towards the black haired boy.
Phil smiled at dan calmly, completely ignoring John's comment "can I speak with you privately?"
"Um, sure" Dan felt really weird and uncomfortable, his dad and him hadn't really talked about Phil ever since that evening and Dan was pretty sure his dad thought they haven't talked or met up since, and Dan was okay with that, he didn't need his dad asking him questions and getting involved in his life.
Dan reluctantly ushered Phil to his room and when they both sat on the bed he looked up at him "Phil, what are you doing here? And why does dad look so mad?"
Phil smiled "that's no way to start a conversation, no hello, no how are you?"
Dan clenched his jaw "Phil"
"Okay, look, I wanted to surprise you and I thought you'd be home and when your dad answered the door I came in because I honestly didn't think it would take you so long to get here. We didn't even talk that much, he just over reacted over... Stuff"
Dan took a deep breath in, giving himself some time to process everything "what'd you talk about?"
"It honestly doesn't matter, don't you want to know what your surprise is?"
Dan sighed "fine"
"Wow, don't get too excited"
A small smile spread across Dan's lips
"That's more like it, hold on a second" Phil lifted his bag up onto his lap and started rummaging through it "uh hu" he pulled two small pieces of paper out of a small compartment
"What's that?"
"Are you ready?" He didn't let Dan time to even open his mouth before calling out excitedly "these are two VIP tickets to see twenty one pilots, tonight!"
Dans jaw hung open in shock, he couldn't make a sound, that was the most amazing thoughtful thing anyone has even done for him.
Phil chuckled "go on then, get ready we're leaving in thirty"
Dan stayed frozen on the bed.
Phil laughed and pulled on dan's arm "come on Dan, we can't be late, I'm hosting it"
Dan snapped out of his gaze "wh-what?"
"Yeah, but it's no big deal I'm just gonna go, say a few words and then I'll be right with you, watching the show"
"Are you sure you want me there, I mean, what if your friends will be there, are you sure you want them to see me?"
Phil sighed, he hated it when Dan spoke poorly about himself "look, there are gonna be a few of my friends there, but not my close ones, I want to introduce you to my close friends another time, when you'll be comfortable and it won't be a last minute think. And trust me, I have /no/ problem being seen with you, I wish I could've introduce you as my boyfriend but I know you aren't ready"
Dan took a big breath, he was never too good with meeting new people and the new news about having to wait for Phil while he was hosting, even if just for a bit, stressed him, because he knew that VIP tickets meant he was going to be in a closed area with Phil's friends and just people he didn't know in general and he was not good with new people, he wasn't good with any kind of people.
"Okay" he said eventually and stood up "could you get out so I could, um, change and stuff"
"Oh, yeah, sure" he turned to leave
"Wait, Phil"
"Huh?"
"What about my dad, I have to tell him, what if he says no, what if he yells at me, what if-"
"Relax babe, I already took care of it"
But that didn't relax him, it stressed him even more. He nodded
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Around fifteen minutes later Dan exited his room, he was wearing black skinny jeans and a twenty one pilots shirt which he ironically, just got two days before. His hair was re-straightened and he had a small black backpack on his back. (Say that five times fast lol)
"Okay, I'm ready"
Phil looked up at him from his phone "great" you look hot as fuck
Dan smiled at him but that smile quickly disappeared as he saw his dad glaring at him "oh, hi dad"
His father hummed and turned to Phil "I expect him here no later then two"
"With all due respect sir, I don't think we'd manage, you see, the concert will only end by about twelve, and even that's if all goes by schedule, which it never does, and there might be a small um, gathering after and it's like a two hours drive and we're gonna want to get something to eat, so maybe we can just sleep there, I'll pay for the hotel and everything, so you shouldn't worry about that, and Dan will be back tomorrow"
Dan's father growled "no, no gathering, no hotel, no nothing, he will be here by precisely" he glanced down at dan and sighed "five am, but not one minute later"
Phil looked around the room, annoyed, his eyes landed on Dan, who now looked much less confident and was backed against the wall with his hand wrapped around himself and his eyes closed and just then Phil realized how mad they sounded and how loud they were talking
"Fine, five am, deal"
Dan's dad nodded
"Dan" Phil's voice softened and dan's pretty eyes looked up at him "let's go"
Dan nodded and walked out the door Phil held open for him, his head down, fearing to look at his father's mad eyes.
Phil grinned at John "goodnight mr. Howell"
John gritted his teeth as the door slammed shut.
~~
Phil held Dan's hand in the elevator and that made both of them feel much better and more confidant.
He let go of Dan's hand only when they exited the building and guided him to a black car that was parked in front of the tall building, it looked almost new and very expensive, even to Dan, who knew absolutely nothing about cars.
Phil fished a key out of his jeans pocket, unlocked the car and opened the passenger's door for Dan to climb in "my lady"
"Shut up" Dan blushed as he took a sit on the luxurious leather sit
Phil jogged to the other side of the car and also sat down, he than started the car and in a few minutes they started on their trip.
Phil laced his fingers with Dan's and smiled at him "are you excited?"
"I'm the most excited I have ever been, I still can't believe it, and I can't believe dad actually let me go, I keep feeling like its a dream and I'm gonna wake up any second"
"Well it's not, see, I'm real" he squeezed dan's hand gently
"That's sounds like something dream Phil would say so I wouldn't suspect anything"
Phil frowned and raised his other hand to his mouth "he's on to us, abort, abort"
Dan laughed and soon Phil joined too, after they calmed down Dan turned to Phil "that's so nice of them, to send us a car, and such a nice car too"
Phil chuckled "you're too cute"
"What?"
"It's my car"
"Oh" Dan blushed "you never told me you had a car"
"Yeah, I don't really use it too much because its always a pain to find parking, so I usually just use the tube"
Dan nodded
"They did offer to send a car though, a limo actually"
"Wow"
"Yeah, but I said I'd rather get there alone, a limousine would draw too much attention and also if they sent a car they would've sent a driver and then we won't be able to hold hands and talk freely and stop at every gas stations to buy all of the food"
Dan smiled and Phil glanced over at him "I really love your smile you know that?"
Dan blushed and hid his face and Phil grinned "and I love your dimples and your laugh"
"Stop" Dan whined
"Never"
~~
About an hour later in which they stopped at a gas station and bought a lot of snacks and ate most of them and after talking and laughing and a lot of compliments Phil suggested Dan would try to sleep a little because they had a long night ahead of them and he didn't want Dan to fall asleep and miss anything, especially not the after party that was supposed to be amazing.
Dan fell asleep quickly with his hand still held tightly in Phil's and Phil Pecked his forehead lightly, murmuring "goodnight Bambi" into his ear which caused Dan to sigh in his sleep and steer a little in his sit.
Phil awed at the beautiful boy, proudly thinking about how lucky he was to meet him.
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When they were nearing the venue Phil lightly shook Dan's shoulder "come on babe, wake up, we're almost there"
"No" Dan whined "tired"
Phil laughed quietly at how adorable Dan was when he was sleepy "aren't you excited to see twenty one pilots?"
"Yeah..." he dragged out "but am too sleepy to be 'xcited" he yawned and snuggled into his sit
"Come on Bambi, look out, pretty please"
Dan whined softly but still looked out through sleepy eyes "wow" he called, sounding like a little boy when first going to Disneyland "so many people"
"Yeah" they both looked through the car windows and saw a long line of what seemed like thousands of people of all ages and Dan hoped they weren't going to stand at that line since he knew that meant people would recognize Phil and he wasn't really in the mood for a bunch of fans jumping them, he just wanted to be alone with Phil and hold his hand or at least just be in a room with Phil where fans aren't hogging him.
Luckily Phil drove by that line and they neared a shorter line that headed towards an entrance labeled 'pit' and Dan thought that was where Phil was going to park but he drove past that too and headed to the back of the large structure, he drove up to a small back door that had a red barrier in front of it, he opened the window of the car, typed some kind of code onto a small machine and the barrier in front of them opened, making a soft squeak as it did.
They walked out of the car (Phil insisted on opening Dan's door for him even though he repeatedly reminded him he was perfectly capable of doing that alone, but Phil just said that that was the polite thing to do and that Dan deserved to be treated like royalty. Dan blushed)
A large, intimidating man opened the heavy door for them and Dan absentmindedly moved closer to Phil.
Phil smiled at the scary man "Larry, how have you been lad? Long time no see"
The large ma- Larry grinned at him happily "'been good"
"How's Haley, Tom and Alice?"
"Great actually, remember that job Haley really wanted, the one I had your dad look at her resume for?"
"At that hospital, yeah"
"She got it" he smiled proudly and Dan couldn't help but smile too, he looked so happy for his wife
"I never doubted she would"
Larry nodded "and Tom's doing well, his team just won first place and his boyfriend couldn't be more proud, and Alice" his smile widened, it was clear he absolutely adored his family and Dan was honestly surprised to hear the word 'boyfriend', Larry didn't look like an accepting man, he looked scary, but you should never judge a book by its cover "she's just my little princess, that's what she went as for Halloween actually" he chuckled "and she started soccer last month, she keeps getting scratches and bruises but she's a hero, you know that" Phil smiled and nodded fondly "and we've been practicing, so, you know, she's getting better"
"I'm so happy to hear that"
They both smiled at each other when Larry suddenly noticed the brunet standing patiently next to Phil, he smiled at him fondly "hi, who are you?"
Dan blushed "I'm Dan" he whispered awkwardly
"How do you know Phil?"
Dan shuffled closer to Phil and lightly held on to his sleeve, Phil chuckled "he's shy" Larry nodded "we're friends, and we both like twenty one pilots so I thought I'd invite Dan to tag along"
Larry nodded and looked down at Dan, who was much shorter and smaller than the bulky man "I hope you'll have a great time"
Dan looked up at him "thank you" he mumbled quietly
"Oh, I'm sorry, I always do this, come in, have fun, third door to your left is your dressing room, Maia is waiting, she'll give you any farther instructions and will lead you to your seats".
Phil thanked Larry, hugged him and promised to pay him a visit sometime in the near future before pulling dan in with him.
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When they entered the large dressing room Dan looked around them, amazed.
It was a fairly big room with three crisp white walls which had large posters hung up on them, the forth wall was completely covered with huge mirrors and had a large makeup table set up in front of it.
A soft looking, black leather sofa was placed in the right side of the room and had a glass coffee table sitting in front of it, a small flower vase stood in the middle of it.
Next to the sofa was a mini fridge and a long table with food and snacks sitting on it, Dan couldn't believe the entire room was meant for only one person.
just then a pretty, chubby, blond entered the room, she was arguing with someone on the phone and Dan had a feeling she was the Maia Larry was speaking about.
After her entered two slim men, dressed fashionably, one had black, curly hair and Dan was surprised to see he had a perfectly whinged eyeliner and was wearing a soft pink lipstick on his thin lips.
The other man had fairly long, straight, soft purple hair and had blue eyeliner which complimented his bright blue eyes, he also had a neutral colored lipstick on.
Dan looked at the two in awe, amazed at how pretty they looked and wished he had that amount of confident.
Maia left the room while yelling at the person on the other line and Phil approached the two, hugging them tightly "Angel, Ray, I've missed you guys, haven't seen you in a long time"
They both nodded and started an enthusiastic conversation with Phil. Dan felt pretty awkward and shuffled from one feet to another while standing next to Phil but farther away from him than before, he didn't want to interfere or annoy them.
A few minutes have passed with Phil talking to Angel and Ray, he suddenly shifted his gaze to Dan and gestured him over, which he did nervously, he didn't want to burden Phil.
"Guys" Phil said, cutting whatever heated conversation the two were engaged in, Dan already regretted joining them, he was being rude and annoying "that's Dan, he's one of my closest friends" Dan waved slightly and they smiled at him genuinely "hi"
"Where are you from?"
"How long have you known Phil for?"
"How did you and Phil meet?"
"Did Phil ever talk about us?"
"If he did I bet it was about me, I am a much better makeup artist than you"
"Shut up Angel"
They both asked Dan many questions, interrupting and cutting each other off as they did and soon started arguing, Dan shuffled closer to phil and once again clutched his sleeve tightly, it gave him a sense of security.
Phil chuckled "guys" he called, laughing "shut the actual fuck up" and they did
Dan was honestly surprised to hear Phil curse, he almost never did and it sounded weird coming out of Phil's mouth.
Just as Angel opened his mouth to ask Dan another question Maia barged back into the room, stood in front of Phil and started giving him orders, she also gave him some sort of schedule.
Ray tugged Dan's sleeve which caused him to jump in surprise and pull his sleeve down although it never came up, he hated it when people made any sort of contact with his arms.
Angel chuckled and Ray gave him an apologetic smile "sorry if I scared you, I just wanted to suggest you come sit with us because out of experience we know those kind of arrangements and stuff can take so long" Angel nodded in agreement and Dan nodded shortly and followed the both of them to the makeup table.
Angel spilled a whole bunch of make up out of a huge bag and Ray started organizing it on the table, Dan looked at them, not sure what to do.
"You can sit down you know" Angle said and Dan blushed and quickly sat down on the comfortable chair in front of the table
"I'm sorry we asked so many questions and maybe freaked you out, we just get excited and we always love all of Phil's friends, they are always so kind"
"We literally met two other friends of him besides Dan"
"Yeah and we fucking love them"
Dan giggled as he watched the two bickering yet again they seemed really nice, although a bit loud and over the top, which was different than what Dan was used to, he really liked that, it was refreshing
"Oh, my god we're doing it again I'm so sorry"
"No, it's okay"
They continued with general small talk while organizing all the different makeup on the table while Dan studied the products curiously.
When they were both done and satisfied they stood behind Dan and studied him in the mirror, not in a mean or rude way, more like in a professional way.
Ray ran his fingers through Dan's hair gently "do you straighten your hair?"
Dan nodded
"Why? based on your head shape I think curls would really flatter you too, maybe even more"
Dan blushed "I don't know"
Angel looked over his face "did you ever try wearing makeup? Not like, foundation, because you actually have great skin" Dan blushed deeper, he wasn't used to compliments, especially not from strangers, only Phil complimented him and even that felt strange sometimes "I'm talking eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara, lipstick, maybe even fake lashes if you're up for it"
"I'm not sure, I mean I like makeup, I just don't know if I'll like it on me, you know"
"Shut up" Angel basically squealed "that's exactly what I told ray, what, eight years ago, now look at me"
Dan chuckled
"Pretty please can we just try a little bit, if you don't like it you can take it off" Angel pleaded
Dan hesitated
"Plus" Ray added "we have to do something to pass the time while Phil's going over the schedule and whatever"
Dan sighed "fine"
"Yay" they both said together than laughed
"You are going to love this"
If only his dad could see him now.