Sunrise // a Bastille Dan Smith fanfic

22. Good Job

Dan's POV

Not going to lie, smoking really helped me forget about the stress and the shit that's happening. I know it's a bad habit and I know it's going to destroy my voice and possibly kill me, but fuck it, I'm not going to live long enough, I'm probably going to die by 25 years old anyway.

I grab a cigarette and stick it in my mouth, and putting the lighter in my pocket. I open the door to see Aurora standing there, with a shocked and scared emotion wiped onto her face.
We didn't dare say a word, her beautiful green eyes went glassy.

"A-Aurora?" I stutter, making the cigarette in my mouth hit the floor, the hallway was dead silent so I could hear the impact it made. She broke eye contact with me and ran.
Without hesitation I ran after her.

Fuck. I've messed up.

"Aurora wait!" I shout.
I lost track her when I ran outside, she was nowhere to be seen. I stand at the top of the campus stairs and curse at myself. I run my hand through my hair and search frantically everywhere for her.
Luckily, she was at the bottom of the stairs. Head in her hands, and knees tucked into her chest. Her silent sniffles and sobs filled the silence.
I run down the stairs and sit next to her.

"Go away Dan." She mutters.

"I'm-"

"You know what?! No, don't even start. Don't say you're sorry, you haven't bothered to contact me for a month and I've been non-stop calling and texting you for the past 4 weeks, all of them left unanswered. I've been worrying about you every single fucking day, I just want to see if you're alright because that day Kyle called me you were bruised and bloody! A simple text explaining to me you're alright would've been fine.
And here you are now, you're skin and bones, and you fucking reek of alcohol and smoke.
What happened to you Daniel?
Who did this to you?"

I stay silent and look to the ground and start tearing up. "I-I can explain."

"What happened Dan?" She sighs, looking me straight into the eyes.

I explain to her vaguely what happened, leaving our names, to what extent, the fact that I nearly put Jake in the hospital, and the fact that it's been happening every single day for the past month we've been apart, out of the story. I told her it was a one time thing but I don't think she believed me.

Technically I'm not lying to her...right?

After I told her the story we sat there in silence, not one of our usual comfortable silence, but an awkward silence.

"Aurora." I spoke up, "are you cheating on me?"

"You're telling me that I drove all the way here to see if you're okay just for you to ask if I'm cheating on you?! How fucking dare you."

"But I-"

"Y'know what, stop. I'm-im gonna go." She says, wiping a single tear away. She gets up and leaves me, making her way to her car.

Good job Dan.

But Kyle, he said "I love you" to her.
I furrowed my eyebrows together, there were so many grey areas. I don't understand and it's messing with my head.

I get out my phone and text Aurora:
D: I'm sorry.

I don't expect a reply back, hell I don't deserve one. I go down to the pub and find myself drinking away my sanity and problems.

After a few beers and shots I text Aurora again.

D: aurorie I'm sorr yy
D: pleas com back
D: I need u

I look over my shoulder, is that Aurora? I squint to get a better view of her. Oh god it is. She's got a guy next to her-Kyle.

I fucking knew it.

I make a b-line straight to where they were sitting and shove Kyle.

"Dan?" Aurora whimpered.

"I fucking knew it! I knew you were cheating on me! And-and with Kyle?! That's it were fucking done I was right. You never even fucking loved me." I laughed humourlessly.

"Fuck you Dan. Fuck. You. Stop making assumptions about things you don't know one clue about. Kyle, me-we aren't fucking dating. Also I did love you Dan, right from the very start. But you're right, we are fucking done."
She argues, tears forming in her eyes once again.

She storms out of the building, Kyle gets left behind and he looks at me. "Good job Dan. Good fucking job." He says to me sarcastically as he walks out of here too.

Good fucking job.

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