Wayne:
I don't get it! Dan seemed like a normal person. Like a friend. He seemed to have fun and yet I don't know if he even likes us. He didn't ask to exchange telephone numbers. He didn't want us to accompany him to his house. He just doesn't want us to know anything about him and that makes me aven more curious. The way he acts, the way he talks, just everything gives me that feeling in my guts. A feeling I don't understand. I just want to know more about him. Maybe he needs friends. Maybe there is some really bad shit going on in his life.
"Hey Wayne what are you thinking about?" Platzs voice snaps me out of my thoughts again. I forgot that they are still here. I sgih and lean back. "I don't understand him. And I can't get him out of my head. Something about him makes me think about him every free minute." Platz nods and Ben replies: "Yeah same here. I can't live like that. We need to get him talking or I don't know..." "We tried that." Platz says. "We tried talking with him for about 500 times. You know that. But that doesn't work." I nod. "Yeah. Maybe his father is threatening him or he is in a gang or what do I know. Maybe he is going through a lot of shit. But I think he needs us. Maybe he just doesn' t want to accept it, maybe he can't. Maybe it's nothing. But we have to find out! He drives me crazy." "I already thought about that." Ben admits. "The only way to get at least something is his notebook. He is always scribling in it. It has to be important." "But what do you want to do with it? Steal it?" I ask. Ben shrugss his shoulders: "To be honest. I can't hink about another way, can you?" His question is followed by silence. "Maybe we should think about that, even though I don't think that it is the right way. We could make everything worse." I state. "Yeah, but I agree with Ben. Maybe his notebook will give us something. It's worth trying. And I mean what's the worst thing to happen? We aren't even friends, we have nothing to lose!"
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We have everything planned. We decided to talk to him during the day. Give him a last chance to open up. Now we are standing outside the school, waiting for Dan to come out. He din't tell us a damn thing, nothing. We tried several times and failed. So we'll try to find a place without all the people and talk to him a last time. If that doesn't help...Well we have to steal his notebook. Just to look through it. We'll give it back to him immediatly, but we have to do this. And we all know that but I still feel bad. But we don't have time to think about that now. Dan gets out of the building, his notebook under his arm. "We should follow him. The farther we are away from school the better." Ben suggests. Platz and I simply nod. Then with a few meters distance we follow Dan.
We've been following him for about five minutes, there are hardly people at the streets anymore. I look at the others, they nod. "After the next corner." Platz suggests. As soon as Dan turns around the corner we start running towards him. We don't want to miss our chance now. I run around the corner and immediatly bump into someone. I take a few steps back until I'm next to the others again and look up. Dan is standing in front of us, his arms crossed, angrily looking at us.
"Why are you following me?" I decide to tell him the truth. "We don't get you out of our heads anymore. You're always sitting by yourself. Not talking to anyone, no matter how hard we try. We want to know who you are, where you live, what your hobbies are. Hell, we want to be friends with you and you just shut yourself out." As I mentioned the word friends I could swear that I saw smething in his eyes. Regret? Delight? I don't know. But then the look in his eyes changes. "Well I don't want to be friends with you. Don't you get it? Let me live my life! Mind your own business. I don't tell you anything about me because I don't want you to know anything about me. Got that? Just leave me alone and accept the fact that you will never know anything about my life!"
That hit me pretty hard and all of us stand here for a second, doing nothing than staring at each other. Slowly Dan makes two steps back without taking his eyes of us. Platz, Ben and I look at each other. We don't have to do anything, we know what the others want. We start moving towards Dan at the same time. The shock effect always works. Platz takes Dans right arm. Ben takes his left and pulls out his notebook at one go. The book falls to the ground, directly into a pool of mud. Platz, Ben and Dan fall to the ground too. Dan hits the ground with his back pretty hard but he fights back. Nevertheless, he is pretty skinny and Platz and Ben are two, they have no trouble keeping him on the ground.
I quickly grab the notebook. It's covered in mud now, even parts of the pages are dirty but I can still read the content. I quickly flick through the pages. "Give it back to me. That's none of your business!" Dan shouts. "Guys let him go." I say. Platz and Ben look at me with a slightly confused look, then do what I told them. I hand Dan the notebook. "I'm sorry. But we had to do this. I know you don't understand that. But we can explain it to you." He grabs the notebook and looks at us angrily. "Don't explain nothing. Just leave me alone. I don't want to talk to any of you ever again!" With that said he turns around and stroms away.
I signal the others to do the same and we leave in the opposite direction. "What is in it?" Platz asks. "Lyrics." "Lyrics?" "Yeah. I stop and look at them. He is writting songs guys. Songs with amazing lyrics." "What does he write about?" Ben asks. "I don't quite know. Nothing good, those are pretty dark things. One of his songs is called 'Bleeding out'. That can't be good. I don't like to say that but I think it's not over. I think he needs our help. But we have to find about what he is writting about. We need to learn more about him!"
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Save my soul [Imagine Dragons Fanfic]
FanfictionDan is fourteen years old and has to change school. Many rumors come up about him. But are any of these true? Ben, Platz and Wayne want to find out more about him and soon find out that Dan has many secrets. Trigger warning: Depression and anxiety...