Part 1
Phil is the new boy to school. Dan is the loner who doesn't talk. After his new friends, Chris and Pj, convince him to talk to him, Phil finds himself fascinated with him. As they grow closer he learns that the silent boy has a lot more to hi...
I was woken very abruptly by something dive bombing onto me. Jolting up and looking around bleary-eyed I smiled at our three-year-old son Dilan, who was sprawled across me and Dan.
"It's Christmas!" he yelled, bouncing up and down. Laughing gently, I shook Dan awake, who looked unimpressed to be woken up so early.
"Dilly it's 8am." he whined.
"But it's Christmas!" he repeated, climbing off us and running down the hall.
"It's Christmas Dan." I stated smiling and turning toward my husband. He groaned and rolled his eyes, shoving me gently before rolling out of bed.
Literally.
"Owwww." Dan mumbled into the carpet.
"Are you okay?" I asked, stifling a giggle as I crawled over to his side of the bed to look at him.
"Thanks for the concern." he stated sarcastically.
"Aw don't be mad Bear." I begged, pouting, as I scooped him up. He rolled his eyes before kissing me.
"Come on!" Dil insisted from the door frame.
"We're coming," I assured. Dil loved Christmas (I think he got that from me) but this year was especially exciting. This was Dil's third Christmas with us as we'd gotten him when he was 8 months old, but this was his twin sisters' first Christmas and Dil was excited enough for all three of them. Dan and I picked up Daisy and Rosie from their cots, somehow Dil hadn't woken them yet, and made our way downstairs to where the small boy was eagerly sitting under our huge Christmas tree. Even though he wasn't our blood, Dil seemed to have our unusual tallness already, along with Dan's left handedness and my gingerness, although Dil's hair was more of a reddy-brown than a reddy-orange. He also had blue eyes like me, and the twins had soft brown ones like Dan.
We sat on the couch and watched Dil excitedly tear at the paper of his presents, before insisting we open Daisy and Rosie's. Dan had offered to put the twins back to sleep as they didn't seem impressed at being woken so early whilst I made us some coffee. When he came back we both sat on the couch and watched Dil. I felt Dan's hand slip into mine and I glanced down at our intertwined hands and admired our rings. I'd insisted Dan get the same Totoro ring as me but he'd gotten the inverse of my gold on silver wedding ring.
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I then looked over at Dil and smiled. Tyler and Troye were coming over later, and bringing with them Dil's cousin Mackenzie, along with Chris, PJ and Kay, who was bringing their little girl Alexis. Dan had recently hit 6 million subs, I was close to 4mil, Troye had was about to release his third album, and we'd done so many conventions I'd lost count. And Dan was okay now.
I smiled as I thought about how far we'd all come since that first day of year 13.
"Hey," Dan murmured, nudging my shoulder. "Whatcha thinking about?"
"How lucky I am." I replied. "And how far we've all come."
"I don't know about the first part; I think I'm the lucky one." I laughed lightly at his statement, this had become almost routine for us, arguing over who was lucky to have who. "But yeah, it's crazy to think about isn't it."
Before we could continue this conversation we were interrupted by Dil grabbing both of our hands.
"Play with me!" he exclaimed, pulling us down to the carpet.
"Sure buddy," Dan laughed, scooping the small boy into his lap and wrapping his arms around him.
"No hugs!" Dil protested. Laughing I joined in, ending with me tangled with my husband and my baby boy in a pile on the floor.
It was a good day.
A/N That's it ladies and gentlemen. That is the end. Sorry if it was a bit cringey I couldn't figure out how to end it off. I feel so weird, this book spawned from a random idea and was over a year in the making.
Anyway I just wanted to say a massive THANK YOU to each and every one of you! This book is nearly at 60k reads and 3.5k votes! I never in a hundred years would have imagined that it would get so popular when I first began writing it. So thank you again, for all the support, all of the comment are so funny and so supportive and I really appreciate it.
Also this thing is 52 chapters! It is officially the longest thing I've ever wrote and now that it's finished I feel like a proud parent.
This has been a roller coaster of emotions for all involved (including me) so thank you for sticking around!
Big shout out to my best friend who convinced me to write the stupid thing in the first place and also to for helping me along the way.
So that's it everyone, voting on what you want me to write next will be going up a little later!
Much love to your faces <3!
-Emma
^^^Also if you read through that whole thing, you're a legend :D^^^
