No More Golden Days

Chapter 6

Dan's pov........

I haven't been to school in two weeks. My mom's still in the hospital and is still in a coma, I don't think she's going to wake up but I still put the slightest hope to it not knowing why though. In the past week i've downed more than five big bottles of vodka and I am still partially hung over. I haven't seen Jason since the time at the hospital and I still wonder why he did what he did.

Today's a Wednesday so I should be in school but I'm not. I grab a bottle of vodka from the fridge and sit on the couch. Today I'm depressed, so I plan on becoming even more drunk than I already am so i'll forget. I've downed half the bottle until I hear a knock on my door.

I'm too drunk to stand, but I try anyway. I unlock the door and pull it open. And there stands Jason. He eyes me up and down, seeing the bottle of alcohol in my hand. I drink a little more until he pulls the bottle from me and I almost fall but he catches me. He walks me inside and sits me on the couch, and puts the bottle of alcohol in the kitchen then comes back. He probably assumes I was too drunk to correspond to anything so he takes his advantage and sits down next to me. I can feel him grab my upper body and pull me into his chest, and we lay there for a while, cuddling.

Soon enough we both fall asleep. At this point I was on top of Jason. Why did I let him take me like this so easily? He's the one who put me through hell in highschool and the one who punched me just days ago. Why was I doing this? What was he gonna do in school? Punch me so he'll look cool, or start picking on someone else because of what we were doing now? But all these thoughts drift from my head as I fall into a deep sleep.

Phil's pov...........

It's been a couple of days since London, but I will admit, it was fun. I made up with my friends so now I know they won't hate me and can actually get some sleep. We meet up before school in our normal spot and eat muffins and hot chocolate and talk about stuff before the bell rings, one of our new additions of our so called "routine" as a group.

Over the past few days i've realized Dan and Jason haven't been in school, and Jason's here all the time. It's been two weeks without Dan here and about a week ago Jason stopped showing up. I don't want to destroy myself thinking they may be doing something together, but why would they? They hate each other. I remember seeing Jason walking that morning, and he seemed pretty stressed. Maybe it's just family stuff? But I can't assume so I just stop thinking.

I arrive at school late today, missing our group session because I woke up late. My friends are already gone and there are only a few stragglers left in the courtyard signaling to me that I need to hurry up. I make my way through the building and to my locker, grabbing my books and heading into homeroom. I sit down next to PJ, letting myself sigh.

"Where were you today?" He asks me.

"I woke up late"

my voice is raspy and my throat is dry, I'm starting to feel sick that is until I glance at the door. In walks Dan, his eyes red and puffy, his skin pale and his face colorless, he looks like a ghost.

I stare. I can already hear rude remarks and teasing rising up through the room as he takes a seat and sets his bag on the ground. He looked awful, like he was a vampire of some sort he was so pale. I laugh at myself for thinking that, like vampires are real? But I shouldn't be laughing because he looks terrible, Hair shriveled and messy, he looks like he hasn't slept in days and he was hungover.

I turn around so I don't look like some sort of creeper.

"Oh my god", I can hear PJ say as I set my head down on the desk.

I don't want to listen to what people have to say, I try muting my ears, but I can't. I look back at Dan to see him looking down at the ground, crying for what it seems.

We leave for our first period class but Dan stays behind, so do I. I wave for PJ to go ahead so I could talk to Dan. He must of thought he was alone as he gets up to leave, because I scare him a bit.

"Hey, are you ok"? I ask hoping for a response, and not for him to just walk out and leave me behind.

"Yea" He says meekly.

As I observe him, closer, he has the smell of alcohol lingering around him and his eyes show no expression. I never thought I would say this, but it breaks my heart seeing him this way.

"The question is are you ok?"

I realize i've been staring for too long so I look away. I stare at the ground until I decide to speak up before were late to class,

"I just wanted to make sure, you didn't look ok".

I just messed up, I shouldn't have said that, what was I thinking saying you didn't look go-,

"Do you wanna skip school with me?" he asks, stopping my thoughts, I didn't mess up.

I've never skipped school for fun before, but he looks like he needs it so I let my nerves take over,

"Yes" I tell him.

He smiles and so do I, was I really about to do this? I was about to skip school with my crush, I grow nervous, what if I say the wrong thing, what would happen? He seems pretty chill but I just need to calm down.

We walk through the halls together towards the front doors. We don't say a word but I like this kind of silence, it's peaceful. I push the door open and Dan follows me out as we walk down the path leading off campus.

"So, where do you plan on going now that were out?" I ask.

He stares at me as we walk but doesn't say much,

"You'll see", he says.

As we walk I can feel a presence of another person as we talk. It feels like some sort of evil presence no one wants. What if someone was watching us as we talk? I can't ask myself these questions or I'll get more freaked out. Someone is following us and I know it. Dan keeps talking, probably so we don't stand there in awkward silence. He saying stuff about how school sucks, and how much he apologizes for getting me into that mess at school but I didn't give a crap about that. He also tells me how things are hard but doesn't specifically say what. I don't blame him though, because I wouldn't get into that type of stuff with a person you just met.

We arrive and I look at Dan in disbelief. It's a treehouse, that he built, or so he says. I couldn't believe it, I wouldn't be able to accomplish something like this. He stares at me as I admire his work.

"Well are you coming", he says as he starts to climb, leading me in.

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IT'S FRIDAY BICHHHHH

I just got out of school and forgot that I had this done so Imma just post it.

ALSO, this got more than 100 reads and I never thought I would get that much attention in my life! Like I have no friends so this is big for me😂

-Jay