Such Is Life

[2] Shine A Light

{Hiya you all, hope everyone is doing well. Here is chapter two of "Such Is Life" Hope you're enjoying the story so far.} (Side note: any time you see "***" Its a time skip)

.:Light will lead the way, will set you free
I'm only looking for a little peace
And when the night falls
Oh call on me
Just don't forget to show me some mercy
Ooh, say you're mine
Ooh, take me higher:.

~Dans POV~

I feel myself slowly come to. Feeling a sudden weight on my limbs. Making an odd sleep filled morning . My eyes popping open immediately as realization struck. Something, or someone, was currently clung to Me as if their life depended on it. All I could see was a mop of raven black hair and an indistinct portion of my room.

The body that was tightly clung to my chest began to squirm around a bit finally awakening letting out a deep yawn and turn to face me.

Shocking blue eyes met my gaze, going wide as he (It was a boy) realized he was cuddling me in his sleep. I then recalled why the boy was in my bed in the first place. This was the boy I'd gotten away from those assholes. He had a dark bruise surrounding one of his fascinating blue eyes. As from what I could see there didn't seem to be a single thing about the boy that wasn't attractive. Even the bruises and cuts on is blindingly pale skin looked like beautiful art on a canvas.

"I- I um- Hi, I'm Dan." I croaked out, my voice raspy from having not being used. Neither of us daring to move even the slightest bit besides the steady rise and fall of our chests as we breathed.

"Uh hey," he let out a nervous laugh "I'm Phil." He finally finished in a raspy voice that matched my own.

"Would you like a shower or something? I'm sure it can't be too comfortable... You have a rock in your hair." I advised, slowly reaching up and pulling the small rock out of the poor boy or Phil's, messy hair.

"I- Well, thank you. Would it really be okay if I used your shower.. I hate to be troublesome." Phil replied quietly as we both sat up and he looked around my room curiously.

"Of course, it's perfectly alright. You could borrow some of my clothes as well as yours are dirty" I assured him with a soft smile. "You might should call your parents too as they're probably worried about you not coming home from school."

"Oh, Yeah! I really should, thanks for reminding me." Phil said thankfully still sitting on my bed seemingly deep in thought. I got up, walking to my closet to get him a shirt and pair of jeans placing them in front of him on the bed. Then walking right outside my bedroom door to the linen closet to get him a towel. Once again walking into my room to put the towel with the clothes I was loaning Phil. Upon arrival seeing that Phil was already standing and pulling out his phone. Giving a little stretch and wincing a bit as he was more than likely still in a lot of pain from the few hours before.

Once Phil was off the phone with his mum I'd directed him to my shower and decided to make some time of meal for myself and possibly Phil. Assuming he was as hungry as I was considering we both hadn't eaten in several hours due to us falling asleep.

After about thirty minutes of trying to figure out what to eat I gave up and decided to just make toast. By the time Phil was out of the shower I had long past finished my toast and begun playing Mario Kart on the sofa.

"Would you like to play?" I offered as he walked into the room in the clothes I'd loaned him to wear, which if I was being completely honest looked better on him than they ever had on me.

"Sure." Phil replied with a small smile, sitting down next to me on the sofa after I'd handed him a controller.

*** two hours of Mario Kart later***

"How the actual hell did you manage to beat me 7 times in a row!? I'll tell you how, you totally cheated!" I exclaimed rather loudly as Phil laughed at my loss yet again and danced triumphantly in his seat, until I unceremoniously pushed him over and started laughing myself.

"It's not my fault you suck at Mario Kart Danny boy." Phil said with teasing wink. Phil and I had learned quite a bit about one another during the two hours we'd played video games together. Turns out we had loads in common, we both loved most of the same music, we both liked video games, and YouTube. I learned that Phil lived with his mum and that his dad wasn't around much.

"Hey Dan, I think I may have to be going home soon." Phil stated with a sad expression.

"Oh, alright." I responded with the sadness evident in my tone. I didn't want him to leave. I'd never had a real friend and I felt like that was possible with Phil.

"Um, would you maybe want to hang out with me and my friends at school tomorrow? Like for lunch and all." Phil sounded unsure of his offer but still smiled.

"I, yeah sure, that'd be great. Thank you. Would you want to maybe meet up before school and walk together?" I asked a bit happier this time. In the few hours we'd been getting to know one another I'd learned that Phil only lived just down the street from me which was quite lucky as it was getting late and he still had to walk home.

"That sounds good." Phil said with a smile as he grabbed his dirty clothes and started putting his shoes on.

"We could meet by the sign at the end of the road if you'd like." I replied as I walked him to the front door.

"Okay, it's a date then." He replied, "Could I have your number by the way?"

"Oh, yeah sure." I said whilst handing him my phone as he gave me his.

"Well see you tomorrow then." Phil said after we re-exchanged phone, with a small smile and a cute little wave.

"See ya." I sang with a smile.

Phil was a really nice guy. I'll never understand why anyone would ever want to hurt him.

After sitting around for yet another several hours playing video games and scrolling through tumblr. It had gotten to be rather late already. I really need to get my sleep schedule back on track this is ridiculous.

I slide my laptop to the side and put my head to the pillow and finally am over come by sleep.

Haha yeah so that took a while... There's kind of been a lot going on since I started writing this and I haven't quite had the time to write and I'm really sorry for that.. I don't have much if any inspiration and it kind of sucks so yeah sorry if this chapter was short and kind of trash but yeah here it is. I didn't reread over this chapter to make sure it made sense either so yeah. Sorry.