sanctuary (a bastille/dan smith fanfic)

chapter 13

~dan's pov~

Maybe, this is how I can get her better.

Maybe, music does save lives.

I was lost in my own thoughts about helping Kyla and hadn't noticed that Will was talking. He stood up and waved his hand in front of my face. "you awake, mate?"

I apologised. "sorry, what were you saying?" he sighed and repeated himself. "I said that I play bass and a bit of keyboard. What do you think about playing music together sometime?"  he looked happy and when I look at Kyla I can see a smile appear on her face. I nod,  the idea of other people hearing my music may scare the hell out of me. But I might gain some confidence, and that wouldn't hurt.

"I play piano too, so you could  focus on bass." I suggest and down my glass of water.

We talk for a few minutes and I notice that Kyla is trying to be a bit more social.  I really appreciate this, even though she shouldn’t need to. Ralph and Will make some jokes and we all laugh. Even Kyla laughs het beautiful smile.  I am lost in my thoughts, she hadn’t smiled like this in weeks. I don’t realise that I’m staring at her mouth until Will smacks me on the back of my head “get yourself together Dan, not everyone wants to see you drool over Kyla. You can do that in your spare time!”  he says to me jokingly. I blush like a madman but manage to stop staring. Öh, and I’ve got some eehh...news” Ralph said blushing a little. We all looked at him and signalled for him to talk further. “you remember Kate...? Well I finally had the guts to ask her out yesterday. And she said yes. ” he said. We all aww-ed, because we knew how much of a crush he had on Kate. He wouldn’t shut up about her. She was kind, always smiling and helping people but still a bit shy. I don’t know her that well but she seems nice. “.... and she said that maybe we could have double-date sometime. What would you think?” Ralph said, I had zoned out again but snapped back to reality when Kyla elbowed me  and said that She/we would love to do that some time. This helped me remember that Kyla and I never went out on a proper date, I should think of something...

 Kyla and I managed to kick the guys out of the house around 1-ish.  “okay, I’ll see you tomorrow around lunch break in the music room. See ya mate, bye Ky.” Will and Ralph said before leaving. We closed the door and I went to the living room. Kyla went to take a shower because she still had dried blood on some places. An ugly reminder of what had happened yesterday, and how easily it could have ended badly.

I was on my laptop, sitting on the couch when Kyla walked in. She had put on the clothes she had borrowed from me earlier, saying she was too lazy to search for her own clothes. I snigger. They look better on her anyway. She saw I had noticed and did a little pirouette. “I just like your clothes” she said and collapsed next to me on the couch. “what are you dooooin’ Dan?” she said in a sing-song voice. “nothing. Literally.” I said and showed her the empty laptop screen. “couldn’t think of anything to do.” I said. She stole the laptop and quickly checked her E-mail and social media. I looked at the screen and made a mental note to remember to follow her on  twitter and stuff. She would never tell me her account-name. I checked what time it was and saw that my parents would be home any second now. Kyla gave me my laptop back and I went to put it back in my room.  When I came back I saw that Kyla was lying on the couch with arms and legs hanging down, taking up all space.  “please please please Ky, can I get my spot back?” I asked using my puppy dog eyes. She shook her head. “first a kiss, then I’ll think about giving you your spot back.” she said giving me an evil grin. I fake pouted. I put one knee on the edge of the couch and leant in for a kiss. She grabbed me by my hair, pulling me closer but I lost my balance and fell on top of her. I just can’t do anything without embarrassing myself, can I? I apologised and kissed her again.

This is when my parents decided to get home and walk into the living room. “for goodness sake not on the couch, kids!” my dad said sounding like a girl. He was joking a bit but it scared the shit out of us anyway. We managed not to hit each other this time. “I thought we made an agreement that you guys wouldn’t do... this.. where we can see it.” She said while rolling her eyes, also joking a little and walked away. Probably to the kitchen, read a newspaper. Do whatever people do on Sunday. Kyla and I are left in the living room, still red-faced and frantic heartbeats. “we should stop getting caught.” Kyla giggled. “Ÿeah, good plan” I reply. My dad suddenly appeared in the doorway. “by the way,  Kyla. Are that Dan’s clothes your wearing? Just curious.” he asked.  “uuhmm... no... well yes I am.” she said  “they are just comfy?”she explained but it sounded like a question instead. My dad’s eyebrows raised and he muttered something like “of course...”

We spent the rest of the day making homework and listening to music in Kyla’s room. Mine was too messy to do anything in. Dinner was nice as always, my parents didn’t do anything embarrassing. Thank god.  We went to sleep around 11 because there is school tomorrow.   I couldn’t sleep.  I grabbed my old diary , I haven’t written in it for ages. Never felt the need. But I feel like writing now, I don’t have anything better to do.  I wrote about everything that has happened the last year. The bad moments and the happy ones. A tear escapes my eye when I write about Kyla.  I suddenly hear a scream and crying. I drop the diary and run to the room where the sound comes from. Kyla’s room . I open the door and find Kyla crying from a nightmare. I crawl next to her in the bed and comfort her. “ssshh it’s alright. I’m here now.”

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