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

Video Games - Chapter 5

Dan's POV

I woke up with the sunshine illuminating my face. A green-eyed girl takes place on my mind. Ella. I smiled. Hopefully, I will get the chance to see her again today. It was 7am. Why the fuck did I wake up at quarter past 6? And I'm not an early bird... I tried to sleep again but I just couldn't, so I decided to get up and have a quick shower. I went to bathroom, got undressed and got in the bath. Ella was again on my thoughts. Gosh Dan! Can't you just stop thinking about the girl you met yesterday?! I could repeat this countless times, but it was worthless: I kept thinking about her. After the shower, I took away from the drawer some skinny blue jeans and a tee with Video Games written, like Lana's song. It's true. I had a crush on her. A tiny crush. Lastly I put my black converse on. Then I went to the kitchen, where Kyle was half-awake, trying to find the cereals box fumbling things. I tried to not laugh although I would freak my mate out. 

"Kyle... Err... I guess you should find in this cabinet instead of that... Just saying" Then Kyle finally opened his eyes. I couldn't help but laughing when I looked at his pjs. It had lots of kittens.

"What Smith?" Kyle didn't have a clue.

"It's just that your pjs is... kinda cute..." 

"Oh I know... my nana gave it to me and... you know it has kittens!" Kyle fucking loved cats. He loved them in every size, every colour, of all species. "You're already dressed?" My mate gave me odd looks. "What time did ya get up?" 

"6 and a half, I guess... But I woke at 6..."

"I swear you..." Kyle put his hands on my shoulder and made a philosophical face. We coulnd't guess what was going to come from that mouth. "Dan... I never met someone who gets up at 6 and half in the morning when he can wake up one hour later..."

"Yeah... I know... I woke up thinking about..." I stopped. I couldn't say that.

"About...?" Kyle expected me to finish the sentence.

"About... errr..." What could I say?! "About... the German group work..." That part was true. I remember that the teacher said we had to find a mate for the work.

"Okay mate... okay..." But Kyle didn't seem very convinced.

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 (Still on Dan's POV)

There she is, sitting on a bench, typing on her phone frantically. She's with no one. I can tell she's listening to music because of the headphones. So she likes music! Come on Daniel! Go talk to her, you dumbass! That voice again... But what if she doesn't even remember you? Daniel Campbell Smith, are you man or not?! Yes, I am. I am a man. And I'm gonna talk to her now.

"Hey Ella..." I was stuttering. Literally. Why?

She turned her face and stopped typing. I think she recognized me. At least she remembered me. 

"Hey Daniel!" Gosh! Her smile was gorgeous! She actually remembered my name.

"So you remember me..."

"Yeah... I think I'm smart enough to remember people that I meet..." She was confused about what I said. Why do I always have to screw things up?!

"Nooo, I didn't mean that. I'm sure you're intelligent. Err... I mean... I didn't you actually remembered my name... 'Cause I'm not very... Errr... Popular..." I was running my hands through my quiff. Yes, I was pretty embarrassed.

"Okay... I get it now..." Ella giggled nervously. I guess she was embarrassed too. You can imagine how red I am now.

 I gotta keep the conversation, otherwise it's gonna even more awkward.

"So... what you're listening to?" I was shaking like never before and hoping she doesn't realize that.

"Video Games by Lana. Like it?"

"Absolutely." She has a good musical taste. "Actually today I'm wearing a tee with the title of this song." 

"What a coincidence!" Ella was looking at my chest, reading Video Games. She stopped and blushed a little when realized I got what she was doing.

Ella suddenly looked concerned. 

"Gosh! I'm so late for History!" Then she started running. 

"I also have History now!" Ella could run fast but I quickly caught her up. 

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Ella's POV

Dan and I were sitting next to each other. I enjoyed History but for some reason I couldn't keep my focus on what the teacher was saying. We were talking about Ancient Greece, which I was fascinated for, but I couldn't avoid looking at my classmate. Eventually, we could catch each other doing this. And when that happened we both blushed and Dan ran his hand through his amazing quiff. When he tried to get his pen, accidentally he touched my hand. His hand was warm and gave me, I don't know why, sudden goosebumps. Yeah, goosebumps. Hope Dan didn't notice.

Dan's POV

Just touched Ella's hand. Gosh, I just wanted my pen. Why did I have to touch her hand? I'm smiling nervously and I could tell my cheeks were redder than usual. Her beautiful green eyes make me shiver. I love learning about how things happened in the past but today felt like everything I could hear the old woman saying was neutral. When the class was over, I gained courage to talk to her again.

"Huhhh... Ella?" What a good start, Daniel! 

"Yeah?" The girl placed her stuff on her schoolbag.

"You know... The German work...? We need to find a mate for that and... I was thinking about..." Now, Ella was looking at my face. "You know... if you didn't mind doing the work with me..."

"Of course, I wouldn't!" The answer was a relief. "Why would I mind?"

"Huhhh... you could..." Shaking again. Geez!, I looked like an hormonal teen.

Ella thanked me when I helped her dressing her jacket.

"Do you have anything to do like... now?"

"Not like now. I have Public Relations within one hour..." The brunette girl looked up at me. "But why?"

"Maybe we could go to... Starbucks..." 

Ella's POV

Dan was going his hand through his quiff, again. But wait: he said Starbucks?

"Starbucks?!" 

"Yeah... But just if you're in that mood..." Awww... Dan was so sweet...

"Of course! I mean I love Starbucks." I smiled nervously. His eyes were sparkling.

"So... let's catch the underground!" 

When we were leaving the classroom I heard someone screaming my name. Then I realized they were actually two.

"Hey Ella!" It was the sweet Rose. 

"Hey girls..." I just hope that Emmeline doesn't say something embarrassing.

"You must be Daniel! Nice to meet ya! I'm Emma and this is Rose." Then Emma blinked me "Ella told us so much about you!" Nooooooooo! Emmeline couldn't say that! It was the last thing I wanted her to say. I face palmed. At that moment I just wanted to disappear.

"Huhhh... Nice to meet you too... Emma" Dan was visibly constrained.

"We gotta go, honey. Talk to ya later!" Rose and Emmy left me with Dan.

"So... we should be going..." I said noticing that Daniel was too embarrassed to say anything

"Yeah... Sure..."

We entered in the subway which was full. There was no vacant sea, much less some space therefore I had to be leaning against Dan. Yeah, like really. I had no choice.

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A/N I don't want to be repetitive but I'm so thankful for the support that I've been receiving from ya. :)