Boys This Young

9|WOW, Dan...Just Wow.

^^OKAY before I start this, why the hell is Dan out here looking like a snack and I'm out here looking like a prison burrito??
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"I miss Phil." Dan groaned, throwing his phone down and over exaggerating his moans of despair.

"Wow, Miss Independent. You're really doing a great job of proving you can be without him." Arin said sarcastically.

Dan rolled his eyes. "I can. It's just...I don't like it when we fight and he...he feels good."

"Ewwwww."

Dan stuck his tongue out at him. "Not like that, you nasty." Then he turned over on his back and sighed. "But also like that too."

"I'm disgusted." Arin said, "I'm just going to leave you alone to your faggotry."

"Noooooooo." Dan groaned, "Don't leave me here all alone."

"Call your boyfriend!"

"I'm being independent goddamn it!" Dan said, throwing a pillow at Arin. "And he, will come crawling back to me."

"It's been two days and I don't see him crawling anywhere."

"He's being stubborn." Dan said, "But he won't last a week."

"You said he won't last a day, yesterday. I think he's mad at you, and that he's expecting you to come back. I mean, he did say he doesn't think you can go a couple of days without attention from him. He probably just wants you to prove it."

Dan frowned. "But...he makes it sound like I need him to do everything for me. That, I'm just a helpless kid that needs him to take care of me or something."

"You do have a daddy kink."

Dan's head shot up from his pillow. "How do you know that?"

Arin sighed. "You talk in your sleep, Dan."

Dan blushed. "Well...shit, just forget about that, please."

"I wish I could."

"Well, it doesn't matter that during sexual matters, I like to be really submissive. That doesn't mean he can treat me like I need him for everything all the time. He shouldn't decide everything, especially this relationship when it's supposed to be the both of us. My whole life, he's never really treated me completely like a friend, but like a kid. And I thought we were over that. I thought, he'd look at me like an adult finally when we started dating. And if we go back to the sex thing, he won't do it with me, by the way."

"Wait, really?" Arin asked, "But isn't he your first relationship? So...wow you...but that means that you're-"

"Yeah, I'm a virgin." Dan said, "Is there a problem? Because I'd like to get back to complaining."

Arin gulped. "I...you just always made it seem like you guys...did stuff."

Dan scoffed like just thinking about it made him annoyed. "We make out sometimes, yeah. And he's given me a handjob once. And like half of one once, but we don't need to get into that. But every time it gets heated he ends it, or tells me to go home and kisses me on the cheek. And I know it's because he doesn't think I can take it. He treats me like I'm two, Arin, and I'm going to be twenty in a couple of months!"

Arin winced. "So...he won't have sex with you because he thinks of you as a little kid?"

"Exactly. See why I'm trying to be independent? He thinks I need him to tie my fucking shoes or something."

"Yeah, okay, I get it." Arin nodded, "I definitely see why you're so fed up with him."

"It's just frustrating, and I guess I've been holding this in for a long time, so thanks for listening. Troye thinks we're both overreacting and should just kiss and make up but obviously...even in me and Phil's relationship there are issues."

"Isn't it Phil and I's?"

"Bitch shut the fuck up and feel sorrrrrrrryyyy for meeee."

Arin rolled his eyes. "Well, I think it's kind of funny that you use your relationship with Phil as an ideal relationship for everyone. Like, 'we're so perfect but even we make mistakes.' boo hoo."

"We are perfect!" Dan exclaimed. "But we're not, but we're cuter than everyone else so..."

"That's...okay, no, you're right."

Dan smiled. "You're a good person to complain to, Arin. You don't bring your own problems into the mix, you just make fun of mine and honestly I don't mind, I know I'm overdramatic. Phil does the same thing."

"Make fun of you?"

"Yeah, it always...I don't know it somehow makes me feel better to see them as jokes rather than actual issues. And talking it out definitely helps me come up with a solution faster, since I like my thoughts out. I'm someone who talks to themselves a lot."

"I'm not going to be Phil's replacement while you're pretending you don't miss him." Arin said bluntly, "You understand that, right?"

Dan stared at him. "Do you really think I'd use you like that?"

Arin only shrugged. "I think you'd use anything to prove your point."

Dan frowned. "Why?"

"Because love drives you to do things you wouldn't." Arin said simply. "And you're easily driven, Dan. I know you."

"That's what Phil said." Dan sighed, "That he knows me, and that's how he knows I can't last without him."

"You can't." Arin said, "But you can pretend you do."

"Wow, you're even more blunt than he was."

"I'm just stating the truth. But, I'm also showing you how you can make this work. I'm showing you how you can win this, and put the odds in your favor."

"Alright...how?"

Arin smiled. "Like I said. You pretend. And that means, you need to look happy even though he's not here.

Arin pulled out his phone and put up the camera. "Smile."

"What?"

"MEMES, DAN, MEMES. DICK DICK WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE MEMES AND DREAMS ABOUT FUNNY DOGS!!" Arin shouted.

Dan laughed out loud and Arin snapped a picture, smiling at it and nodding. "Yeah, I knew that would work."

"You're an idiot."

"An idiot with a good photo though."

"Let me see." Dan said, getting up and looking at the picture. He nodded but then furrowed his eyebrows, "Okay, how does this change anything?"

"Post it." Arin said with a devilish grin, "And I guarantee he'll see it. And do you know what happens when he sees you looking all happy without him?"

Dan grinned, "He gets jealous, and it proves I can live without his attention!"

Arin nods and Dan high fives him. "Oh my god, Arin, you're a genius."

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