True Love Knows No Boundaries

Hidding

~Phil's POV~

School today was...normal I guess if that's what you want to call it. Louise, Chris, Pj and I all ate lunch together like usual and that's when the 'normal' came up to us. "Well, well, well!" Joe laughed as his hands firmly grabbed my shoulders, "Look who we have here fella's! All our favorite nerds and the pastel faggot! Oh, but, Tyler I count four..." he brought his head down, his words against my ear cause me to shiner, "isn't there usually five?" They all laughed, like the thought of Dan not being here anymore was amusing to them. "What? No Danny to protect his little Phil? Such a shame don't you think Louise?" In the corner of my eyes, I saw Louise flinch at her name, Tyler's hands on her shoulders. Suddenly, Joe smashed my face into the table. 

"PHIL!" Louise shouted as Chris tried to help me but Troye stopped him by putting him in a headlock. I struggled against Joe's forces as he began punching me over and over again in the gut. 

"Where's your savior now pastel faggot!?" Joe screamed in my face, I wanted to fight back but I knew if I did they would hurt my friends and then hurt Dan. I couldn't risk it. 

*After School*

It had been a long and painful day, to be honest. Every class I had someone was throwing paper at me with horrible messages written on them, spitballs and names were called for pretty much the whole afternoon. Louise and I waved goodbye to Chris and Pj before heading to the gates. My heart suddenly got a warm feeling when I saw Dan waiting by the gates. Louise nudged my shoulder with a smirk as I blushed through my laugh, "Shut up". She laughed. Dan must've seen my bruised eye because within seconds he started running towards me, his hands met my face like he was examining every detail. 

"Oh.My.God! Phil! What happened!? Who did this to you!?" his voice overflowing with concern and worry. 

"N-No one it was-" he just shook his head,

"You're a terrible liar Phil, I hope you know that" he smirked as he planted a kiss on my forehead and pulled me into a hug, I nodded. 

I smiled and pulled him close, he softly winced in pain as I pulled apart, "Dan? What's wrong?" He smiled and shook his head,

"Nothing, I just... Didn't want to hug to end that's all." Louise smiled as he smirked at me. I knew he was lying but, heck, I'll confront him later. When we parted ways with Louise I sighed causing Dan to turn to me, "Alright Lion, what's wrong?" His voice was soft and concerned. I pointed to the park bench and sat down with him next to me. I slowly turned my body to face him. I reached for his hand, his soft hand molding with mine as I looked at him, his eyes filled with confusion. I slowly took my free hand, the other still holding Dan's hand, and grabbed his sleeve and closed my eyes as I pulled it upwards. I felt his other hand grab my hand and squeeze it, my eyes were stilled closed, I didn't want to open them, I knew what it was, but I didn't want to know the extent of how bad it was. "Phil, please it's nothing just leave it-" I cut him off by opening my eyes. I felt the tears threatening to escape my eyes, I felt Dan's eyes on me as I brought my other hand to his arm. He must've had them bandaged because they were covered in dry blood and scratches. "I'm sorry Phil... I didn't know what else to do..." I felt my anger boiling over, mixing with my sadness to create something that felt toxic.