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F O U R

January 30th, 2016

3:02pm

Dan and Phil stayed around for another hour at Louise's, since their train back to London was at 3:30pm.

Louise's daughter, Darcy, just gotten home from school. She suggested that they watch Harry Potter in the lounge room, Since Louise has been reading her the Harry Potter series.

During the film, Dan couldn't help but think of the book Eleanor and Park. He finished the book shortly after Harry Potter started playing, and now that's all on his mind at the moment.

Eleanor from the book reminded him from the girl earlier on.

Red hair

                Freckles

Nerdy

                                                 Shy

Her.
Her style of personality fits well with his; geeky, nerdy, awkward. Somehow, watching Harry Potter reminds him of her. Hermione's extreme curly hair cross between the Weasley's red hair reminds him of her . Everything small thing reminds him of her.

'Dan... Dan.. Jesus Christ DAN!' He finally regain his surroundings since Phil slapped him across the arm.

'Yes, sorry, what Phil?'

'We have to leave, remember? it's 3:30 and the time is what... 3:15 and it takes us ten minutes from here to the train station so it'll be 3:25 when we get there, then we have 5 minutes and-'

'Phil, calm down, we'll make it. If you and Louise are ready then I'm ready.'

He sighed, calming himself down.

'Right, lets go'

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Dan and Phil reached to their apartment door. Phil is jogging on the spot since he refused to pee in the train toilets.

As Dan open the door, he heard a sound behind him. Phil ran past him to get to the bathroom door, slamming the door on the way past.

He turn around behind him and see the girl from earlier on, the girl who he couldn't stop thinking about when watching Harry Potter.

'Hi' Dan say nervously. She gave me a small and awkward wave.

'How are you?' God you're so great with small talk Dan.

She gave him a nice smile along with a nod. Does she even talk?

'Oh um I have one of your books. I didn't steal it, I just somehow took one whilst helping you pack- oh god I'm just making everything worse, I-'

She cut him off when she put her hand on his left shoulder, smiling saying that it's okay, same way as this morning.

'It's okay? You're not going to call triple nine on me?'

She shake her head and giggled. She giggled. Oh that sounded so sweet.

'I um read the book on the train this morning and I have to say that I quite enjoyed it. How many times have you read it?'

She looked at her hands in front of her face, then putting her marriage and pinky finger down, leaving her remaining fingers up. 8 times she read the book. wow.

'8 times. I don't think I'll read a book 8 times, nor have the spare time to. Say won't you get bored of it? Since you know whats going to happen?'

She shook her head along with the shrug of the shoulders. Then silence. Ask for her name, Dan.

'Hey um also what's your-'

'DAN!' Phil, you call at the worst times. Dan turned his head to see if Phil was going to say anything else. He didn't. He turned his attention back to her.

'Oh um I guess I have to go then. Uh, Bye'

She waved goodbye and turned to her right, exiting out of the building. Dan turned to his left, entering into his apartment.

'Phil...' he wined as he trotted up the stairs.

'Dan, we have a dinner meeting with our Tatinof crew tonight and we need to request a restaurant.'

'Phil, you could've just waited until I was finished.'

'No Dan, I need to prepare everything before hand. If I don't then everything will go downhill then I'll start having a panic attack and-'

Dan walked up to Phil and place both of his hands on Phil's shoulders.

'Phil, I need you to slow down. Calm down and take a few deep breaths... There we go. Why don't you have a shower and I'll ring them up and request a restaurant. How about that?'

Phil nodded his head in agreement, then slowly walked down. He then turned to Dan and stared.

'Dan, you still have the book in your hand. Did you forget to give it back?'

He look down and see that the book with indeed still in his hands.

Shit.

'She went out, I can't give it to her now..'

'Just leave it by her door with a note, then she'll know that you haven't stole it completely' Phil yelled after he shut the door behind him.

Actually that's not a bad idea.

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