The Rainbow On The Other Side//Phan

5

The bell rang signaling the next hour, which met that Phil would now have English with Dan. Phil loved English and was very passionate about correct grammar and punctuation. Phil stepped into the class as the tardy bell rung and the seats have been filled. He looks around for a certain curly haired boy that was titled as his soulmate to everyone else but was more than just a soulmate to Phil. He was a best friend.

"Phil, please hurry up and take a seat." Mrs. Alight spoke softly as she nodded towards an empty seat in the back of the class.

As Phil walked to the back of the class, he heard snickering amongst a few students as if he had a note on his back that said 'kick me' or some toilet paper on his shoe he was unaware about. He took his seat next to a boy named Bringston. Bringston was one of the many bullies in the school who just loved picking on the gays even though they had no choice to be this way. They were simply just born like this. He was a fat kid with bright blonde hair as if he was a hot fuck boy. His green eyes were the color of vomit that had just been threw up when you're sick.

"Hey faggot," Bringston smirked as he looked at his own arm that said straight in black bold letters, and Samantha Whells underneath. "Where's your boyfriend?"

Phil shrugged slightly as he drew with his black pen in his sketchbook.

"Well, I wouldn't blame you for not caring," Bringston laughed. "I mean, who would care about a faggo-, oh, wait, you're a faggot yourself aren't you?"

Phil turned his head swiftly looking into Bringston's beady green eyes as if Bringston was saying 'it's true though' with his eyes.

Mrs. Alight continued with the lesson as she instructed everyone to take notes for the upcoming test. Phil was so focused on the lesson that he barely heard Bringston whispering his name repeatedly.

"Phil!" Bringston repeated with a whisper mixed with a yell. "I think you should go check on your boyfriend."

"What do you mean?" Phil inched closer to the blonde haired Mcnugget box.

"Well, shouldn't he be in this class right now?" He snickered.

Phil looked at the clock to see that ten minutes have passed since class had started. Even though Phil had just met Dan, he doesn't seem like he would be late for class or even just skip class completely. Phil looked at Bringston, he was using his fat fists as punching motions. That's when Phil knew Dan was in trouble.

"Um, Mrs. Alight?" Phil raised his hand awkwardly. "May I please use the bathroom?"

"Can you wait, Phil?" She asked, tapping her foot impatiently. Phil shook his head 'no' as she finally breathed out: "Fine, just go."

Phil walked into the deserted hallways looking for Dan quickly as he may most likely is in trouble right now. He picked up his pace and soon he was running looking left to right every moment. As Phil stopped to catch his breath he heard the sound of something being slammed into a locker and quiet whimpers. Dan, Phil thought as he moved to the sounds.

When Phil turned the corner he could see three of Bringston's friends holding somebody forcefully up against a locker. As the blue-eyed boy moved in closer he could see that it was indeed Dan being held against his will.

"What's wrong fag?" One of the boys named James asked Dan's shirt in his meaty palms. "Can your gayness not help you now?" James shoved Dan into the locker again as the two other boys named Austin and Nick laughed.

"Hey!" Phil began walking towards the boys with his fists in tight balls. "Leave him be!"

"Why?" Austin laughed. "So you can give him a blow job?" The three boys laughed at this.

"No," Phil breathed holding his phone in the air. "Because I have footage of what you've just done."

James dropped Dan on the ground with a loud thump. "What?"

Phil showed him the footage of what pain has been given to Dan as the boys watched in shock that neither of them caught Phil recording.

"What are you going to do with that footage, Lester?" James asked stepping up to Phil.

"I'm going to show the whole school if you don't leave Dan alone and walk away right now." Phil stared into the boy's eyes with no sign of fear, but inside he was scared for his life.

"Come on guys, let's go," James called off his henchmen and walked away.

Phil got to the floor and looked at Dan, grabbing his hand. "Dan?!" Phil began. "Are you alright?"

"Y-yeah," Dan shrugged. "Just dandy."

Phil saw that Dan's flower crown had been thrown across the floor and the flowers had been wilted a bit. Phil picked up Dan's flower crown and sat it on his ruffled up curls, on his head. Dan smiled at Phil with tears in his eyes from what had just happened. What a great welcome, Phil thought as he looked at the pain on Dan's face. He had gotten a bloody nose but, most of the blood had been dried by now and on the floor.

"What happened?" Phil asked, lost for words.

"I-I-I don't know," Dan explained still trying to hold his tears in. "I was trying to find the English room and I was late so I asked the only three left in the hallway which was those meaty boys. I asked them, and they noticed my outfit and my wrist so, they began punching me and saying things and pushing me up against my locker."

This was all my fault, Phil thought. If I'd just went to get Dan from band and walk him to class, none of this would ever have happened.

The two boys sat in silence, just gazing at each other once in a while. Phil caught Dan's eyes on Phil and as soon as he did, Dan gave a huge blush and smiled at the ground.

"Hey, Phil," Dan asked after a while.

"I know this is a cliché question but, who's your soulmate?"

"M-M-My soulma-ate?" Phil stuttered thinking of a fake name. "Sammy Lough."

Dan looked down at me with a hint of disappointment on his face. "Oh,"

The two boys sat on the ground in silence until the bell rang, but this time Phil would walk Dan to his next class. But, Dan had no idea that the Phil that was walking next to him was his actual soulmate.

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Hola amigos! I liked this chapter a bit so, yay! I actually like my work! Just to clear something up: The reason Phil didn't tell Dan that his soulmate was him is because that Phil is scared that Dan the only reason that Dan wants to hang out with Phil is because he's his soulmate and he wants Dan to be his friend.

I hope that helped a bit and made some sort of sense :)