Waiting for You // Phan

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Dan's POV

Dan unlocked the front door as he wiped his face on his arm. He had to look like he had at least a shred of dignity left when he entered.

I'm so stupid. 'Phil would never hurt me'. Why did I trust him so much, when I had only known him for less than three days? Well, I'm done with him. PJ was right all along.

"Dan? Is that you? It better not be."

"It's me, Peej. It's me." Dan said, walking through the door and into the house. He went into the living room and saw PJ has set up a true recovery area for him. The sofa was piled high with blankets and pillows, unhealthy food was covering every surface, and DVDs were piled in a neat stack next to the TV.

Dan almost laughed. "You had absolutely no faith that it was going to go well, did you?"

PJ spread his arms. "Well, I had to make sure if anything did go wrong, you had the best time ever when you came back, now didn't I?"

Dan smiled and shrugged.

PJ's expression became more serious. "How bad was it?"

Dan gave a hollow laugh. "Oh, you know, I was just waiting on the train station for 30 minutes in the pouring rain for a boy who never showed up."

PJ winced. "Ouch. That's bad. Well, you're in luck Dannyfire, because I have prepared recovery evening for you! Now forget everything that has happened, and enjoy."

PJ flopped down on the sofa and opened a tub of ice cream. "Are you gonna eat or what?"

Dan cracked a smile at last. "You better not eat everything, after all, it's my comfort food."

PJ sighed. "Ahh, you must learn to live with the consequences of having a foodie as your roommate, young Dannyfire.".

Many calories and bad movies later, PJ had passed out on the floor, wrapped in a blanket, leaving Dan awake and alone with his thoughts.

He couldn't believe Phil had completely left him like that. Dan thought that Phil genuinely cared about him. But apparently not.

Phil was probably off dancing with someone else, laughing with someone else, having fun with someone else.

His phone rang in his pocket. Phil was calling him. Dan ignored it until it stopped. But it just rang again, and again, and again. Dan put his phone on silent and put it up on the table.

Dan leant back on the sofa and closed his eyes. He was fed up of sixth form. He wanted to go home. But he couldn't, not yet anyway. However, Dan did know something he could do, to get a little closer to his home.

Careful to not wake PJ, Dan crept to his room and loaded up his computer.
The glare of the screen hurt his eyes in the dark, but he soon adjusted.

Dan opened up his emails. His face broke into a grin when he saw he had four unread messages from Adrian.

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Hey big brother

Im just checking you get this and Im doing this right.

You left like five minutes ago and mum is already regretting letting you go. She says shes going to miss you looooads. Cant see why shes complaining when she had yours truly.

Try and reply soon from Adriano x

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Danyul

Hows PJ? Tell him the parents say hi. Btw the parents also send their love. Its your first day tomorrow isnt it? Tell me about it plz. Arent you supposed to meet youre soulmate sometime soon as well?