The Boy Upstairs (DanXReader)

Chapter 28: It's cereally raining...

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I sat in the hospital room I'd been assigned to, staring at my hands as I played with the blanket covering me. The doctor had given me some medicine to help me fully calm down. I hadn't really wanted to accept it at first but I'd still felt so scared and upset over everything that eventually I'd agreed.

I definitely felt a lot calmer but thoughts about everything were still swirling around in my mind. Everyone knew about Dan and I now. My phone had finally died from all the notifications constantly popping up on it. I really didn't want to even look at any of my social media accounts. I felt like it probably just upset me again and I was really scared that his fans wouldn't like the idea of us dating.

I wasn't sure why I cared so much what his fans thought of me but I was honestly terrified about it. I remembered picture of Phil and I at the coffee shop and how that had gone. This was a whole different league though. There were probably screenshots of Dan and I cuddling on his bed now. That was a lot more suggestive than a couple of people talking over some coffee. And to top it all off, I was a lot more recognizable and wider known than I'd been back then.

I looked up as the door opened. Dan walked in, Phil walking in closely behind him. I smiled gently at the two of them while Phil looked at me with worry and hesitance. I wasn't made at him, I knew it'd been an accident. "Hey," I said, my voice relaxed and slightly drowsy.

"How're you feeling?" Phil asked, his eyes pointed towards the floor.

"Alright, my head hurts a bit. But the doctor said that's to be expected and should go away after a while. The medicine has made me a bit sleepy as well."

"That's good..." Phil nodded, looking up as he seemed to search for his words. "I'm so sorry... I never meant for this to happen. I was just trying to entertain everyone on the live stream and I didn't even think about the idea that you might have been over. I figured Dan was just on Tumblr or something... I shouldn't have-"

"Phil," I said, looking at Phil seriously. He froze, looking at me nervously. I stared for a moment before cracking a tiny smile. "I get it. It's okay, just breath."

Phil nodded, exhaling and visibly relaxing slightly. "Y-you're sure?" he asked as Dan continued over to me and sat in the chair closest to the bed.

"Of course," I said. "I mean, it's definitely not something I was hoping would happen. But I know it was an accident."

Phil still didn't look completely convinced but didn't push it any further. We all visited until the doctor came in. All the tests had come back clean, the only thing that seemed to be wrong was my general lack of exercising and a severe anxiety attack. "Have you thought about taking medication to keep these under control?" the doctor asked once Dan and Phil had left the room.

"I... I tried back when I was in college and it didn't go very well..." I said.

"Would you mind elaborating?"

"The medications just never worked well with my body chemistry..."

The doctor nodded and jotted down a note on his clipboard. "Would you be willing to try again? A lot of the time it takes experimentation with different medication to figure out what works with different people."

I stayed quiet for a few moments, thinking hard. I was really scared of the idea of starting up medication before. But getting my anxiety under control sounded amazing. I supposed that I could always stop if the medication started having the same issues as before.

I looked at the doctor and nodded. "Okay... I'll give it another go..."

The doctor smiled encouragingly at me and nodded. We talked for a bit about different medications I'd already tried and he wrote up a prescription for me. Once we were done with that I was free to go. I checked myself out, walked out to where Dan and Phil were waiting and smiled at them.

"Everything alright?" Dan asked as I walked over to them.

"Yea, I'm free to go," I said with a nod.

Dan and Phil both stood up and we all headed out of the hospital. It was too late to go to the pharmacy at this point so we all took a cab home. I closed my eyes and leaned against Dan as he and Phil talked. I was tired and just wanted to get home so I could sleep. I was glad that it my weekend, it allowed me to sleep all I wanted for the next couple days.

I must've fallen asleep because the next thing I knew, I was waking up in bed with Dan holding me close. I smiled, knowing that the longer we could stay like this, the better. I wasn't looking forward to going onto the internet again. I wasn't looking forward to seeing what everyone had to say about us. I wasn't looking forward to hearing anyone say what I was already so aware and afraid of. I didn't need any upset fans to affirm how much I didn't deserve Dan. My self-confidence did that enough as it was.

I closed my eyes and allowed myself to fall back asleep. The next time I woke up Dan was no longer in bed. I sat up and looked around. I was alone in the room, though I did notice a sticky note attached to my phone, which was charging on the bedside table. I crawled across the bed sleepily and looked at the note.

Had to run a few errands with Phil, we'll be back soon. Feel free to hangout and watch Netflix or whatever. Disable push notifications for Twitter and Tumblr on your phone, it'll make life a lot easier on you and your battery life.

I smiled and quickly took the given advice. My lock screen was filled with notification but I did my best to not read them. Once everything was disabled I set the phone down and crawled out of bed. I walked out of the room and headed for the kitchen.

Once I was in the kitchen I grabbed a box of cereal and began eating from it. Phil had rubbed off on me in the cereal stealing department. But he and Dan didn't need to know that, it was more fun to play innocent and blame Phil anyway.

I walked into the living room with the cereal and tuned on the television. I looked through the DVDs and grinned, pulling Death Note out to watch. Dan and Phil had been telling me to watch it for a while, now seemed as good as any other time.

---Four episodes later---

I sat, munching on cereal as I focused all my attention on the show. So far, I was finding myself very easily drawn in. I leaned in, taking a large handful of cereal as the drug dealer saw Ryuk. "Oh shit..." I whispered, stuffing the cereal in my mouth.

"I KNEW IT! I KNEW I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE!"

I cried out in surprise, jumping up and throwing the box up in surprise. Cereal rained down on me as I looked and saw Phil pointing at me. My eyes widened as Phil grinned and began laughing at the scene, Dan walking up the stair and staring at us in confusion. "I-it's not what it looks like!" I said, covering my mouth and doing my best to swallow the dry cereal as quickly as possible.

Dan raised an eyebrow and walked over to me. "What is it then? Did it magically start raining crunchy nuts while we were gone?" he asked, picking a piece of cereal out of my hair.

I stammered for an explanation, my mouth still mostly full. "That's... exactly what happened..." I said, knowing there was no talking my way out of this. "Y-you two should really talk to management about it..."

A/N: So I actually just started watching Death Note and OHMYGOSH it's great so far!