Dan has a thing for coffee at exactly 6:32.
However, his exhaustion doesn't stop him from finding his way to the coffee shop down on the corner of the street every morning. Plus, he loves watching the cute boy dressed in pastels walk in around 7 to gift the barista who, Dan has assumed, is his boyfriend a flower crown.
The barista always smiles and lets the pastel boy adjust it perfectly on his head before preparing him a decaf white chocolate mocha latte with cinnamon. Don't ask Dan how he knows Pastel Boy's coffee order.
Over time, Dan gathered enough courage to introduce himself to Coffee Boy, who's name is Quinn. He won't tell you that he did so by walking up to the counter and sputtering out a nervous, "HimynameisDanandIthinkthatyouandyour boyfriendarereallycutetogether." But Quinn thinks it's funny and endearing and they become friends. He learns Pastel Boy's name is Alex.
Soon Dan and Alex and Quinn are friends and Dan opens up more about his astrology obsession. He shows them his tarot cards and his crystals and his notebooks with pages and pages of information about each sign.
Dan tells them about how their relationship should work out really well because well, they're both air signs and Gemini and Aquarius compliment each other greatly.
It's on one particular Tuesday that Dan's horoscope turns out to tell him how he's about to become 'so utterly fucked,' as Dan phrases it to Alex and Quinn that morning. He promises them that it's only because it clashes with what he read in his tarot spread this morning and Quinn was not going to be so utterly fucked and that it was nothing to worry about.
He completely understands when a particularly gorgeous boy comes stumbling into the coffee shop and Dan's heart stops, fingers almost losing their grasp on the mug in his hand. Alex turns around and hugs him, cheerfully greeting him before motioning for Dan to come over.
"Dan, this is Phil." Alex says and Phil's eyes are sparkling as he opens his mouth to say hello and his voice sounds like caramel on top of a macchiato and Dan is so utterly fucked. "He's a Capricorn."
Dan can feel the colour drain from his face as he hears Alex and his hand feels like it's burning as he shakes Phil's hand.
Geminis and Capricorns don't go together. He wills his mind to shut up and he feels Phil glance at the tattoos littering arm where his sleeve is rolled up. And then Phil lets go of his hand and he feels 10 degrees colder.
"I'm a tattoo artist." Dan mumbles as he looks down to avoid eye contact and Phil catches the glint of a helix piercing between Dan's curls as Quinn pipes up about how he's also a Gemini.
"Yeah," he exhales. "And a Gemini." Phil says cool and Dan nods and looks over at Alex expectantly.
"Oh, I thought I should introduce you two because Phil started telling me about astrology the other day and I said I knew you and you know about astrology and he said he reads your blog and he totally wanted to meet you and-"
Dan cuts him off.
"You read my blog?" He asks, confused and he realises he almost sounds betrayed. Phil nods with this dumb look on his face that just makes him look cuter.
Dan huffs and glances towards Quinn. "I-I have to go." He mumbles, turning heel and grabbing his notebook off of the table before hurrying out of the coffee shop that is suddenly too small and too suffocating and Dan feels like he needs a cigarette even though he has never smoked.
He glances back at the shop on the corner after crossing the street and catches Phil opening the door and looking around for him before a car blocks his view. Dan is turning around and almost jogging down the sidewalk before shoving open the door to his apartment complex.
He shoots a text to the group chat he has with Quinn and Alex.
"I have to delete my blog."
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Geminis and Capricorns Don't Go Together (Phan)
Фанфик"Dan, this is Phil. He's a Capricorn." Dan can feel the colour drain from his face as he hears Alex and his hand feels like it's burning as he shakes Phil's hand. Geminis and Capricoens don't go together.
