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Soulmates are Stupid: chapter 12

Trigger Warning: mentions of underage drinking, vomiting and rape (you'll understand throughout the chapter).

Dan woke up with a headache. He didn't really know why he had a headache in the first place, maybe he fell because of his clumsiness? He tried to remember what happened after he and Phil got to the party but it was all a blur. He looked at his night stand and there was a glass of water and two pills. He downed both the pills and water and took a look around: Felix was gone and it was quite bright in the room.

Dan got out of his bed and stumbled to close the blinds.

"I could have done that, Dan," a voice said.

Dan screamed, jumping up.

The person laughed. "Nice job."

Dan squinted. "Phil?" The blur of a pale complexion and dark hair transformed into the Phil Dan knew and loved. What? Phil is Dan's soulmate. Dan can call Phil whatever he wants.

The figure--Phil--nodded. "How are you feeling?"

"How did you get in?" Dan asked, completely ignoring Phil's question.

"Drunk Dan."

"Did I do anything?"

"Yeah," Phil lied (though Dan couldn't tell because of his headache). "You tried to rape me."

Dan's eyes seemed to have popped out of his head. "What?"

Phil laughed. "No you just trailed your fingers down my arms and jaw and you tried to lick me in the middle of the night."

"Oh thank God, I thought I actually raped you."

The room was filled with awkward silence before Dan got up and ran to the bathroom before spilling out everything he consumed into the toilet. Consequence of being drunk in the first place.

Dan flushed the toilet (after wiping his face) and lied his head on the beige-painted brick wall.

"Why did drunk Dan arrive?" Dan asked himself.

"I told you not to," Phil said in the other room.

Will you stay with me? Dan asked Phil in his mind, barely concentrating because of the sudden ringing in his ears.

Always, Phil replied.

You realize we just quoted the Hunger Games right?

Yeah.

~

Phil kept his promise. He tended to Dan's needs like food and those special pills that took the pain away (Dan didn't really care about what they were actually called). Phil was kind of turning into Dan's 'mother'.

"Dan, this is why you don't get drunk," Phil scolded on Monday.

Dan flushed. "Shut up."

Silence.

"Um, I don't know how to ask this but," Phil said. He looked at the ground. "We're kinda soulmates, and I'm wondering if we could go on a date?"

"Sure," Dan said. "I'd like that."

Phil blushed. "When do you want to go?"

"Friday, I guess. Where do you want to go?"

"There's a carnival in town or we could just go to the movies," Phil suggested.

Dan shivered, a blast a cold air across his back distributed to the back of his neck. "I have a deathly fear of clowns and the dark but a movie theatre is fine."

"Okay good, tell me what movie you want later, and I'll tell you the times."

Dan smiled, and the two boys walked to their classes in silence.

Dan got to his class first.

"See you later, Dan," said Phil.

Dan waved a goodbye and opened the door to his first class, which was empty.

Only the professor was in the class.

"Oh, Daniel," Mrs. Baxton said, looking from the chalk board to Dan. "You're ten minutes early."

Dan looked at his watch. "Am I really?"

She nodded. "Well I guess you have time to study for the test today."

Dan stopped breathing. "What?"

"The test?"

"Oh yeah," Dan lied. He smiled at his teacher and made his way to his seat in the middle of the desk arrangements.

He opened up his binder (that was falling apart already one half into the year) and got out his notes from the previous lessons. And he began to study.

"Oh wait, Daniel," Mrs. Baxton said, rushing up to Dan. "We actually have the test tomorrow."

Dan sighed, relieved to have no test that day and because Mrs. Baxton got the date wrong. "Okay, Mrs. Baxton."

"Professor," Baxton snapped.

"Why would you call me 'professor'?"

Mrs. Baxton rolled her green-grey eyes and spun on her heel to return to her desk where Monday's lesson was.

Dan smirked while putting his study materials back into the worn-out binder. In case you were wondering, the binder and every thing else in the supplies area was black. Including Dan's laptop cover.

People decided to come in 5 minutes before class started. Baxton looked quite happy that there were more students than just Dan. The professor had told the class that it was a study day, and you had to study so that meant no free-period. But then again, Dan could just go on his laptop and pretend that he was working. Also, Mrs. Baxton never checked on Dan, Dan guesses because she doesn't care what Dan does.

He quickly logged in, his fingers flying over the keyboard at a fast pace. He went on Safari and typed the IP-address for tumblr.

He thought for a moment and posted his new post.

danisnotonfire: my soulmate and i are going on a date soon ^_^

Dan smiled, looking up from the computer to see where his teacher was. Mrs. Baxton was on her phone so Dan was safe.

He posted it, before looking for typos in the little bit of words he had. And it was on the Internet.

He browsed a little bit through tumblr before noticing Mrs. Baxton was on the prowl, and he changed his tab to his electronic study guide.

Like he predicted, Mrs. Baxton skipped entirely over Dan's side of the room. So she skipped the couple of desks in the middle where Dan was. She made her way to her desk, and Dan switched back to tumblr.

He got a note on his text post.

amazingphil: same! i just asked my soulm8 out today.

Dan smiled and thought of a reply.

danisnotonfire: we should meet sometime ^_^

He waited a couple of minutes for a reply that never happened.

The tanned boy sighed. Not everybody can make friends over the Internet; that was a dream that can't be turned into a reality.

A/N well, that escalated quickly. It went from hangovers to existential crisises. And thank you guys so much for 2k reads! Last chapter there was 1.2k!