Howell (danxreader)

Chapter 12

A few weeks went by since I cried to Dan, nothing much has changed, he smiles at me more and asks if I'm okay, but that's it.
I hate it.
The craziest part of this is that I have changed so much, yet no one has noticed.
I don't pretend to be someone I'm not anymore.
I'm me. If people don't like it, they can leave, I don't care.
At least, I try not to care.
I've distanced myself from everyone.
I want to be alone, I'm not scared of being alone anymore.
I still haven't seen my parents but they come home tonight, supposedly.
It's a Saturday so I have nothing planned and I actually start to get excited for my parents returning. I haven't seen them in such a long time, it would be nice to have them back.
I hear a car pull up outside and race to the window to see my parents walking towards the front door. As soon as they open it I pull them both into a hug. I pull away to see their confused faces
"Hi mum, dad, I missed you"
"We weren't gone that long" great hello dad,
"It's been over 3 months"
"Thats nice dear, can you take this bag up to my room and unpack it for me? I have so many emails to read" what was I expecting? My parents to come home and suddenly care if I was alive? For them to finally realise that them leaving me alone for so long hurts? For them to apologise? Ha. Don't be absurd.
I carried the bag up to the room and put everything away, I didn't go back downstairs to see them, I don't want to be more disappointed in my parents lack of care for me, instead I went into my room and locked the door. I climbed out of my bedroom window and walked to mine and Dans old treehouse, it wasn't as big or magical as I remember and could some TLC but I climbed up and sat against the wall to think.
We used to have so much fun up here, this was our castle, over looking our town, the town was full of people who were always happy and they made us their king and queen. We ruled this town together. Or do we thought, but as we grew apart the town got smaller and smaller.
"I want to rebuild the town"
"I want rule it again"
"I want to see a town full of happiness"
"I want to rule with Dan"
Maybe now I'm just thinking out loud
"I'd like that too" a voice sounded from right next to me, causing me to jump out of my skin and my eyes to shoot open to see Dan
"How long have you been sat there?"
"About 15 minutes"
"So you heard all that?"
"Yeah"
"Oh god" I place my face into my hands to try and hide away from the embarrassment
"I think that ruling over our town would be great, but this castle isn't worthy of a king and queen. We'd have to fix that" I look up to Dan to see him starting to stand up, he walks around collecting up all the broken things from on the floor
" seriously?"
"Why not?"
We spend the rest of the day cleaning the tree house and we even painted it, made a new ladder and added in some old cute things.
"I think that this castle is great"
"It's good but it could be made better" I gave Dan a look of confusion "a queen needs her throne" before I have chance to reply Dan is climbing down the ladder and running off to his house, he returns about 10 minutes later with some beanbags, a tyre and some rope.
"What are you doing?"
"Well my plan was just the beanbags but then I saw this tyre and thought why not make a tyre swing, come help me" I laugh and climb down the tree. Me and Dan don't have the best diy skills so putting this tyre up caused a lot of hilarious moments between us.
After finally finishing everything we wanted we slumped in the corner and spoke about nothing for a while
"I know, every time one of us comes in here we have to write it down, this can be our escape, in this book we write down our name, the date, the time, how long we stayed and why we came, and if we happen to be here at the same time we make it our mission to help the other person with their escape. Deal?"
"Deal"
So the treehouse became just that, our escape.