Together is enough // phanfiction

Part 4

Dan

While walking towards the cafeteria the bell rings. From all sides doors open and students walk the hall in. Within seconds the empty silent halls become busy, loud and crowded. Dan looks over to Phil and sees how he just blends in. He seems so smooth sliding through all the students, not touching or bothering anyone, like he was invisible to everyone. Not to Dan, Dan saw him. Dan was less smooth, everyone that walks by him makes sure to give him a bump or a shove. Like they're passing him around the hall like a ball. 

While trying to stay close to Phil Dan makes his way around the hall, until he sees them. The guys, the jocks, the bullies. Quickly he pulls Phil by the arm, causing him to turn around en Dan starts walking the other way, as fast as he can. "What are you doing?!" Phil tries to keep up with Dan but he seems in a real hurry. 

"Howell!! Come back!" Phil turns around to see the three guys from earlier gaining up on them. Dan tries to run but there are to many people in the way and within no time the guys are walking next to Dan. 

The blond guy, Nick, walks left next to Dan, putting his arm around his shoulders so Dan has no way to go but forward. "Hello Danny." he says in a condescending voice. Dan looks for Phil with his eyes but he is gone, probably got lost in the crowd. He is relieved, he did not want to pull Phil in to this mess with him.

On his right side Spencer grabs a hold of his arm while still walking. "So my boys tell me you actually carried an unconscious guy out of the class room. You took him to a bathroom huh? Did some of your gay shit to him?" Spencer spits out the word gay, like it's a curse word. "Leave me the hell alone." Dan tries to get his arm loose, zero result. Not only was Spencer a few inches taller than him, he was also strong as hell, something Dan was definitely not. "You like it when they're unconscious? Is that some dirty fetish?" Nick scolded. 

Dan tried harder to break free, it was no use. "I bet he just can't find a conscious person that will fuck him." Dan heard the third guy yell from behind, Dennis. They started to get to a quiet place in school, all the students were going the other way. "I bet the pigs wouldn't even fuck you." Spencer scoffed. "Hey Spencer, that's just mean, maybe he sexually identifies as a pig." Nick said sneering. "Isn't that the same as being gay?" Dennis called out. More laughter. Nick even starts to oink in Dan's ear. 

"Get the fuck of off me!" Dan yelled trying to hold back his tears. He knew that if they saw him cry it would get much, much worse. They arrived at the abandoned part of school, all the lockers and classroom were in construction here. They were all alone. At the end of the hallway Spencer and Nick both launched Dan forward with full power. Causing hime to fall and slide a few feet over the floor. 

Spencer kneeled down so he was on Dan's eye level, "I thought we made it pretty clear that this school is no place for you." He came really close to Dan's face, who was trembling with fear at this point. "And yet..." Spencer stood back up. "You keep.. coming.. back...." While he said the word back he swung his right leg backwards and kicked Dan in his stomach. 

Dan felt all the air being pressed out of his lungs, causing the feeling of suffocation. While gasping for air he tried to crawl away and that's when Spencer took another swing. This time Dan screamed out, feeling his stomach shrink. "You see..." Spencer used his foot to turn Dan on his back. "we don't want fags here at our school." "And what are you?" Nick came up really close, like Spencer did before. Dan tried tried to breath in, he just kept gasping. Tear came in his eyes, even though he tried to stop it, he couldn't. The embarrassment, the physical pain, it was all to much. "Hello? Are you deaf?!" Nick waived his hand in front of Dan's eyes. "That was not a rhetorical question. I want to know what you are."

Dan closed his knowing that they would only stop until he said it. "SAY IT!" Spencer screamed while he kicked Dan again, this time from above. Another scream, it felt like his stomach was imploding, like it was on fire on the inside. Tears rolling down his cheeks he was now gasping for air and also sobbing. Nick came real close until he was an inch away from Dan's ear. "Say it." he whispered. 

Still with his eyes closed Dan knew he couldn't take more of this pain. He took a deep breath, as far as that was possible, and whispered "I'm a fag." He felt more tears streaming down his face.

"A dirty fag." Dennis yelled. Spencer grinned as this was another opportunity to kick Dan. Dan opened his eyes and saw Spencer taking a swing. "I'm a dirty fag!!" He cried out, using his hands to crawl backwards. "I'm a dirty fag! Please stop!" His voice broke and he started bawling, still trying to get away. "Please stop." He whispered.

Spencer hesitated for a second, startled by Dan's reaction. Then he started laughing, not just grinning, laughing out loud, really loud. Like he just saw the funniest thing on earth. Soon the boys joined in and Dan felt himself surrounded by scolding laughter. He closed his eyes trying to stop crying, rocking himself back and forth. Slowly the laughter got more quite and when he opened his eyes he saw the backs of the guys as they walked away from him. He heard a few slurs and laughing in the background for a while, but it wasn't until it was completely silent and Dan was sure that they were gone that he let himself go. He started to cry and scream. Just laying there on the floor, like a broken kicked down dog. "I'm a dirty fag." he kept whispering to himself as he stayed in that corner for the next entire period. Crying and screaming until he had no tears and no air left. "I'm a dirty fag."