Our Laughter Lines (Dan Smith Fanfiction) - Watty's 2014

Keep You Head Up - Chapter 3

I had a shower and then went to the bedroom. Quickly I dressed my skinny jeans, an Artic Monkeys tee and put on my red converse. Then I brushed my teeth and tied my hair. I was ready within 30 minutes. I didn't even put some makeup. Why would I? It was our last talk as couple. 

"Are you ready?" Ryan hugged me. 

"Yes, I've had enough of this. I'm done." I said trying to feel confident. 

It was almost 11. I said goodbye to my bro and walked straight to the end of the street. I entered in the almost empty café. Nikki saw me and greeted me She was an outgoing French girl who studied architecture and was Leah's nice. 

It was 11:10 and John hasn't showed up. I'm getting even more upset. Minutes afterwards he decides to appears and tried to kiss my forehead but I pulled. He looked surprised and I gave him a disdain look.

"What's wrong?" He was staring at me confused. Confused? Pfffff...

"Seriously?" Another disdain look "You don't know what's wrong?"

"Nope..." 

"It's worrying that you don't realize I'd been the only making an effort.." I was so angry.

"So you texted me to talk about our relationship?" John was definitely a jerk. It took some months to realize it but I finally did.

"No, actually I texted you because I'm done of you, of our relationship and everything about us." 

"Are you breaking up with me?" He said laughing.

"Yeah, I am." 'He's insane', I though. 

"Whatever..." John said totally unconcerned "I think you have an emotional block"

Dafuq?! An emotional block?!

"Really?" I laughed sarcastically making fun of him "I would question your mental sanity" With this I left him alone. What a dumbass! I'm sure I wasn't okay when we started dating! 

I went back home. When I opened the door, my twin came running to me. 

"So..." Ryan 

"According to him I have an emotional block.." I told him.

"No, you don't." He embraced me "He's insane." 

"That's what I told him... Why this has to be so painful?" I started crying really hard and my bro hugged me even tighter. 

"Shhhhh beautiful... everything's gonna be okay..." Ryan stroked my hair. He always does this, to comfort me. 

"You are the most especial girl ever. Never forget that" Ryan smiled and took me to the living room. "Listen, I'm gonna call Rose and Emma."

"But..." I tried to speak, unsuccessfully though. 

"Honey, you need to cheer up!" My bro was already dialing a number. I adored him.

"They are coming." He said getting in the living room, moments afterwards. He changed his face when he saw me crying hard again. "Oh sweetie..." 

I buried my face on his chest. It's heartbreaking. I gave everything of me and didn't get not even a half back. It's so frustrating.

"I won't let you be sad because of that jerk" That was the moment when the doorbell rang. 

I went to the entrance hall and opened the door. Suddenly two girls almost threw me down. Emma and Rose loved to do that: hugging me that tight.

 "Sis, you definitely need to have fun, like a lot!" Emma stated. "Ryan, we're gonna have a girls' time!"

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Emma and Rose dragged me to the shopping. Literally 'dragged'. My plans were pretty much, watching romantic drama movies the whole day. But they didn't let me. We ate pizza, went to the hairdresser and then bought some clothes at Primark. Everything is so cheap there!

"Beauty, he's totally insane." Rose said drinking her coffee. "You don't have any emotional block. John has gone sick."

"I ask myself what he has been feeling about me all this time. I mean, if he truly loved me, he wouldn't tell me what he did."

"Know what?" I didn't have a clue about what Emma was about to say. She's so unforeseeable! We never know what to expect from that mouth! "Honey, honestly, I think this was meant to be."

"What?!" Rose and I were staring at each other, completely confused.

"Calm down, ladies! What I think is that if this happened, it's because it was meant to be. He's no the right man for you. And I guess something good gonna happen..." She smiled at me.

"Really Emms?" Emmeline has some crazy ideas, sometimes. But is a fact that occasionally she gets right. 

"Who knows, girl?" Rose was also smiling. What the hell is going on here?

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Dan's POV

After two hours studying, I decided to stop. "You need to have some fun, Daniel". That's what Kyle has been saying in the two last weeks. It was 5 and my tummy was desperate for food. While I was making tea, I heard some keys on the lock. 

"Hallo mate!" Kyle entered in the kitchen. "Vanilla! Hummm! Good choice, bro!"

I put some bread on the toaster and minutes afterwards everything was ready. 

"So how was Janna?" Kyle couldn't help but smile. He was madly in love with her.

"She was fine. And ya? What you've been doing?"

"Studying, pretty much..." 

"Like all this time?" The guy was staring at me with that face 'Seriously?'.

"Yeah buddy" I nodded. 

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Ella's POV

Monday morning. German class in 1 hour. I have a quick shower and put my black vans, my denim shorts and a Yin and Yang tee shirt. I took away of fridge a yogurt and grab my leather jacket. It was very warm, but we never know when it's gonna cool. 

The underground was full. 8 and half in the morning. Peak hour. We cannot expect something different.

After 10 minutes, I was finally in the class. I love German, it's a very different language, but the professor is a little bit annoying. I was feeling strange. I felt that I was being observed. But who would observe me? I mean, I'm very normal and a little bit boring. 

When we got of out of the class, I was totally distracted, typing frantically on my phone. In seconds all my stuff is on the floor, and I hear a husky voice saying "I'm so sorry!". In front of me there's a blue-eyed man, looking at me.

"Oh, no. Don't be sorry. It's not your fault. I was completely distracted, and then we collided." I said pretty embarrassed. He was smiling. "By the way, I'm Eleanor, but everyone calls me Ella." 

"I'm Daniel... Dan... Danny... Huh whatever" His cheeks were now red. Dan must me shy. "So... you also have German?

"Yes... I do" I said looking up at his face. He was incredibly tall. My phone rang and 'Fall For Anything' by The Script interrupted our talk. I answered. "Where the fuck are you, girl?!". Immediately, I pulled my phone away and Dan timidly giggled. It was Emmy. She didn't seem very friendly.

"Hey, Emmy! It's a wonderful day, don't you think?" I tried to calm her down which had the opposed effect.

"Honey, you're late. Rose and I are expecting you at least 10 minutes at the bar." 

"Oh... I knew it. I'm just... huhh... a little late..." But she hung up.

"So, Daniel, I gotta go. See ya!" And I started running.

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