Pen pal

8

I flung myself up over my the side of my bed. The morning glow from my window gave a warm feeling. I decided to go to school today, I would just try to ignore Phil. There was only one problem, I had to get his phone and unblock "Molley" so we could finish this stupid assignment.

My feet slid into my black converse as I rushed out the door, chewing my last spoon full of cereal. The weather was unpredictable, for London. It was normally raining, though, but today it was a bright day with only few clouds. I looked down at my phone, Jack had texted.

Jack: good morning
Jack:was that weird? we've only been texting a day now.

Dan: it's cute

Jack: like you?

A beam escaped my face. Nobody was ever this nice to me.

Dan: your sweet

Jack: I know. Wanna hang out after school?

Dan: sure. I'll text you

I put my phone back into my pocket as I arrived at the school. The bell was about to ring, so I picked up my pace. I looked to my left, to see Phil, with PJ and the new girl, Louise. She seemed nice. Her hair went nice with her eyes and clothing style. PJ said something funny, and all three burst out laughing. I smiled too. I was glad Phil wasn't trying to talk to me. So, if I was happy, why is there a knot in my stomach?

I continued walking until I arrived to my first period. The bell hadn't rang, so nobody was in here except a few nerds trying to cram for a test that I was sure to fail if I took it. I leaned back in my seat, crossed my legs over the top of my desk, and closed my eyes as I put ear buds in to drown out all noise except the music that calmed me down.

I felt good. Alone, in my own world, calm and collected. That was until a certain Phil Lester slammed his hands down on my desk.

"Dan Howell" he scolded. I opened one of my eyes, and raised the eyebrow.

"That's me"

"Why have you been ignoring me. I saved your life!" He pulled out a chair and sat across from me.

"I didn't want you to! I did not ask you to come and save me from anything! You ended up not helping me a bit." I mumbled the last sentence.

"What do you mean?" Phil asked, his tone more quiet and soothing.

The bell rang, telling the students they were late if they weren't in the class, and allowing me to escape this dreadful conversation.

Phil took a seat behind me rather than beside me where he always had. His new seat was by Louise. The teacher went on about, who knows what, while I drifted in and out of a translation. The only point where I was fully aware was when Phil told the teacher he needed to use the bathroom. He left his phone on his desk. I could just turn around, and unblock myself to finish this assignment. The only problem, Louise. I needed to find a way to get her to not speak of this. My body shifted to face her. "Hey, so this is weird, but Phil and I are- were, friends. And we are partners for this assignment and I kinda blocked myself on his phone so I need to undo that so ima just do it now." I reached for the phone, looking at Louise to see if she was going to stop me. Surprisingly, she didn't.

"You know, you really hurt Phil." Louise whispered. I grabbed Phil's phone, and went to Molleys contact.

"I didn't mean to. We were drifting apart anyway. He doesn't care." I mumbled.

Louise sighed. "He's coming" she whispered again. I looked up, Sure enough, Phil was indeed walking into the room. I slid the phone back onto his desk after unblocking myself. Before Phil was in his seat, Louise patted me on my shoulder. "Talk to him." She turned back to her seat.

Why was Phil so confusing? I didn't mean to hurt him. I had been falling for him for Christ sake. I wanted to talk with him again, hell, I wanted to cuddle him and watch a movie with him while he drifts in and out of sleep. The thing that was keeping me from doing this was the fact that Phil was safer off without me and he never told me if he was into guys.

The bell rang me out of my thoughts. My next period was art and I did not want to deal with mark asking about our videos, so I rushed to the back doors of the school and left without a trace. The sky looked gray now. I liked it though, it looked as how I was feeling. I always felt like this though. My phone buzzed. It was a text from Jack.

Jack: want a ride?

I stopped in my tracks, and looked around me to find nothing out of the ordinary.

Dan: what are you talking about???

Jack: look to your left.

I did as he told, and sure enough, I found Jack in a black mustang. I ran over to him, with a childish grin on my face.

"What are you doing here?! You stalking me?" I asked as I hoped into the car.

"Well I was driving around and I saw a figure that looked just like you, but then I was like: No, that's not Dan. But then I saw you put in ear buds and I was like: yeah that's dan." I chuckled to myself. "Anyway, where to?" He asked.

"Anywhere but here, or my house." My body sunk into the warm, leather seat.

"Bad day?" He asked.

"Of course."

Jack looked to me, with a questionable look on his face. I sighed. "Long story short, my ex friend totally hates my guts because he saved my life from these bullies and I told him to leave me alone because I wanted them to just kill me and said ex friend and I are partners in this assignment and, again, mid long story short, he doesn't know that I'm me in this assignment and I have to talk to him on this pen pal thing. It's kinda like a catfish but not a crime because the other person knows 100% what's going on." My lungs gasped for air after telling the story without more than one breath.

"Wow- um- if it were me in your shoes, I would try to text 'ex friend' as the catfish and make him understand kinda what you are feeling?" Jack suggested as he made a right hand turn.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"You'll see. And no I'm not taking you to get raped or anything."

"Or are you?" We both burst out laughing, but soon interrupted by my phone buzzing. It was Phil.

Phil: where are you? Are you okay?

I turned off my notification and sat my phone in one of the cup holders. I didn't want to deal with him right now. Because right now, I was happy. Jack was one of the first guys to be nice to me this much. I couldn't help but just feel lucky to be even noticed by him.

Wow um that was long and okay hru guys. Liking the chapters? I'm not good at socializing. Bye.