The Benefits Project ; phan au

8 ; New Year

#8

Today was New Year's Eve. I had to admit after four days of skiing I was getting better and James was praising me.

Today we were going on a higher slope but not up into the mountains, he said we'd probably do that on our final lesson which kind of scared me slightly. In the group is also made friends with Louis and Kara who were really nice people and I spent a little time after hanging with them in the resort hotel. The good news was that there were no skiing lessons tomorrow because it was New Year's Day tomorrow. I hadn't really touched or spoken very much to Phil but he didn't seem to mind, he got a lot of satisfaction out of trying to seduce me daily anyway. I mostly spent time with Tilly as well seeing as it was her birthday yesterday and she turned ten. I still hasn't finished her present, it was just a drawing but Tilly is always bugging me to draw something for her so I was currently in my hotel room at the table with all my sketching equipment laid out in front of me with a half drawn person. I was drawing Papyrus and Sans from this weird game called 'Undertale' whom were Tilly's favourite characters. They was almost finished, I just needed to shade them in slightly and write the date at the bottom with a birthday message and I was done. I stuck my tongue out slightly as I finished shading an eye and wrote;

Happy Birthday Tilly!

At the bottom with a smiley face beside it. I carefully pulled the drawing out of my sketch pad and cut off the excess paper.

"Nice drawing Danny boy," a voice drawled from behind me.

"How long have you been there?" I asked.

"Just now, our parents want us to get something warm on because we're going up the glacier for our late lunch," Phil explained. "But it's cute Danny boy, you should draw me sometime... Naked."

I scoffed.

"As if."

"Just you wait," Phil chuckled slyly pulling on a snow coat. "It's New Year's Eve tonight who knows what could happen?"

Oh right, so I had to be on extra guard tonight?

"I'll be hanging out with Tilly so I don't think you'll get your hands on me," I replied sliding my snow coat on too.

Phil lent on the door frame looking at me with an eyebrow raised in doubt.

"Oh shut up let's just go," I told him shoving past as I felt myself turn redder.

We left the room tucked up in hats, gloves and our snow coats. We walked into the lift where I stood with my head inside the neck of my coat slightly, the drawing pressed against my chest, while Phil stood beside me his blue eyes twinkling slightly. My stomach churned as our gaze caught for a second but I looked away, walking out of the lift and into the cosy bar area.

"Afternoon boys," my mum smiled as we approached our families.

"Hey Tilly I have something for you," I said holding out my drawing. "Happy late birthday."

Tilly squealed and took the drawing, marvelling at it before running to my mum and showing it to her.

"It's Sans and Papyrus! Look mummy!"

My mum giggled slightly.

"Wow it's very good."

"They're my favourite characters from Undertale!" Tilly boasted hugging the drawing. "Can we frame it?"

"Of course we can sweetie, it's deserves to be framed," my mum said cheerfully before looking at me. "You're a very good brother Dan."

"Thanks mum," I said rather bashfully as Phil nudged me slightly.