Miss You

Reunions... Kind Of

After the one incident with Phil, we never became more than just friends. After about a year, Oli stopped talking to me. We had steadily grown apart until nothing. I fell in love with a friend of Dan and Phil's, Pj Liguori. I grew into the music of the punk scene, I still listened to the music Dan, Phil, and Peej listened to, but I had branched out. Skye still talked to me all the time and had the idea to come down for a visit and go to a concert together. Of Mice And Men was newer to me than most bands I listened to, and we had VIP tickets over some of the more hardcore fangirls. The concert was tomorrow, but Skye had the idea to come into London today to go shopping. Her train would be here in about an hour, Phil and I were sent to pick her up.  I walk along the streets of London next to Phil, it was a nice day out for once, it was temperate and not cloudy, something that doesn't happen often. We arrive at Kings Cross and find the platform Skyes train was coming in on. We sit down on one of the benches and wait. Her train arrives earlier than expected and we walk back to the flat, Skye talking nonstop the whole way. We drop Skyes bags in my flat and invite ourselves into Dan and Phil's apartment.
"I'm home!" I yell as I walk into their lounge and sit down. Dan pokes his head around the corner.
"So I see. And you've made yourself at home as well. Who's that?" He says
"Skye, your roommates sister. I'm surprised you've never met her before."
"Oh, well he usually went north to visit family, not them come here."
"Stop being a terrible flatmate Howell. Learn his family." I joke. He scoffs and walks away.
"Should we really be here without asking? I mean we did just walk in uninvited, won't they mind?" Skye asks.
"Skye, sweetie, I always come here uninvited. They don't mind. If it was just Phil, I know you wouldn't have asked, but since your man crush is here, you're worried." She blushes. "I knew it. Dan doesn't mind you being here. I asked him before we picked you up."
As if on cue Dan yells from the other room. "Hi Skye, I accept you in my flat." I laugh and Skye hits my arm. I walk to Dan's room and knock before walking in.
"Hey, when Skye and I get back, will you talk to her? She's a huge fan, and won't shut up about 'if she met Dan Howell'."
"Yeah, sure she seems pretty cool."
"Thanks doll." I peck his cheek and run out to Skye. "Ready to go?" She nods and we find the nearest shopping center. She drags me from store to store, making me try everything on. When Skye finally finishes, I text Dan asking what he wants for take out dinner, since I know he and Phil usually wait for me to cook for them. He replies that Phil wants Chinese take out, and we stop at a Chinese restaurant by the highrise. Bringing the bags of boxes of food up to our flat, I fetch Dan and Phil to eat over at my flat so Skye feels more comfortable. I ask Phil to help me with something in my room leaving Dan and Skye alone in the lounge. I nudge Dan before walking out with Phil, to tell him to make a move with Skye.
"So what did you need Ali?"
"I just needed them two alone for a while, so I pulled you over here."
"Do they know you did this?"
"Dan does, Skye doesn't. She constantly goes on about Dan, it's quite funny how your sister fancies your flatmate."
"She fancies Dan!?"
"Shush, she might suspect something if you yell."
"What do you mean she fancies Dan?"
"What part do you not understand? It's pretty straightforward." 
"I don't want my sister to date my flatmate, or best friend. That's weird, it's like living with your brother in law, who just so happens to be your best friend."
"Phil, get over it." He pouts and moves to sit on my bed. "I know what'll cheer you up. You wanna go film a video?"
"Yeah, I need to get my mind off the thought of Dan possibly kissing Skye." I laugh and quietly walk out the door, walking to the lounge I see Dan sucking face with Skye.
"Too late Phil." I whisper to him. "You kids need anything? A snack, a drink, a condom?" Dan quickly pulls away from Skye, with a horrified look on his face.
"Oh god. I-I can explain." Dan tries to hide his embarrssment.
"No, continue, I was just going with Phil to go film a video. Have fun, wear a condom, and don't use my bed." I lead Phil back to his flat and into his room where his camera equipment was.
"That was terrifying to see." Phil says as I start setting up the camera.
"It's okay Philip, your sister is growing up. Maybe not as slowly as you want her to, but she's gonna grow up sooner or later. Better with Dan and not some hobo on the street."
"Thanks, you always see the bright side of things. Yeah she is better off with Dan than some people. At least I know he wouldn't just use her for sex and dump her on the street when he's done."
"See Phil it's not all bad." I finish setting up the camera and position Phil to where he was just to the side in the frame, leaving room for me next to him. I hit record and sit down next to Phil and he starts his intro.
"Hey guys, so today I'm joined with the always lovely PJ'S GIRLFRIEND." He laughs. "Aly, how have you been since we last filmed together?"
"I've been amazing Phil." I pause for a second. "Wow, that was completely coincidental, my pun was not intended. Anyways, what are we going to do today?'
"We're doing a secret q and a!"
"We're pulling random questions from social media from over time and answering them."
"Ali, prepare your twitter." Phil pulls up his Macbook and I pull out my phone.
"Consider it prepared." I start scrolling through Phils twitter mentions. I look over and see he's on his tumblr ask page."Ooh I found one. Phil, have you ever walked in on Dan doing the do?"
"What kind of question is that? That is not first question material. Why can't it be like, what was your first pet or something?"
"Phil, you're so innocent." I laugh and we continue filming until we have enough questions answered for a full video. He signs off, and stops recording. He pulls his memory chip out and puts it in the laptop, and goes straight to Final Cut Pro to edit the video. I watch him for a minute or two and get bored so I get up and grab his DS. I start it up and unsurprisingly Pokemon was in, I start playing and level up three of his Pokemon and catch another two before he finishes editing.
"There, I'm finished. It'll go live tomorrow afternoon." He smiles.
"Awesome now what do you want to do?"
"I don't know." There's a long pause of us thinking. I open my mouth to suggest something and hear screaming from my flat. "What is that?" Phil asks me.
"Well, it seems to me that Skye grew up pretty quickly."
"Ughhhh." He covers his ears realizing it was coming from my flat and not the other neighbors. I grab his laptop and play some music through YouTube, loud enough to cover Skye and Dan up. We put on a playlist of music and dance around Phil's room like mad people. Eventually I feel tired and sit down on Phil's bed. He sits next to me and changes YouTube to Netflix. We watch a Buffy the Vampire Slayer marathon, about halfway through I fell asleep.

"Aww look at the two cute lovebirds Pj. They're so cute." I wake up to see Dan's phone in my face with Pj's picture on the screen.
"What, where am I?" I sit up and notice I'm in Phils room still, him asleep next to me with his laptop folded halfway closed next to him. "Oh yeah, I fell asleep in here last nite. Hi Peej, what's new today?"
"Just finishing up my new film. It's going to be amazing. Also, I'm coming down to London tomorrow to see you."
"Just to see me, or is there another reason behind this?"
"You got me, I have a meeting to discuss the next film. But it's only in the morning, I'll see you around noon."
"Ok Peej, I'll see you then." He hangs up the facetime call, and I turn to Dan. "What do you want? You could've just woken us up, you didn't have to call Pj."
"Actually he called me, because you weren't answering. So I walked in here to wake you up. I see you and Phil had a busy nite."
"Daniel, we did absolutely nothing, unless Buffy marathons are something of your sorts. And don't play innocent, we heard you two last nite."
"I have no idea what you're talking about." I give him the 'don't lie to me, I know what you did' face. He walks out of the room, and into his own.
"That's what I thought Howell." I yell in the general direction of his room.
"F*ck off, you meddling kid, and your talking dog."
"That reference though. And if I'm not getting an answer from you, I'll just go ask Skye what happened last nite."
"No, we just did the dirty, are you happy now?"
"I knew it, I knew it. Phil denies it, but he knew it too." I joke and leave Phil's room. I walk back into my flat and wake up Skye.
"Hmm, what do you want?" She groans.
"So, you and Dan?"
"What? How did you know?"
"A little bird told me. That and Phil and I heard you two."
"Ugh, I thought he wouldn't find out."
"Why, he's ok with it. A little traumatized, but ok nonetheless."
"Good, I didn't want him to hate me, or Dan. Now off subject, let's make you hot for the concert." She jokes pulling me into the bathroom. She spends the rest of the afternoon doing up my hair and makeup, and picking out the perfect concert outfit for both of us. Once she finishes we head straight for the venue, only an hour before we had to be there for the VIP meet and greet. It only took about 10 minutes on the tube to get across town to Brixton Academy where the concert was. We make our way to the front of the queue earning a few jealous stares from some of the girls. We stand there until they began to let the VIP kids in, and are then led to the main floor of the concert hall, directly in front of the stage. After another minute or so Austin, Alan, and Tino come out from backstage. They explain that Aaron and Phil were feeling a little sick and were going to rest as much as they could before the show. We chill with the three for a while before some girls started screaming about someone named Oli possibly being here tonite. Austin quickly quiets them and then gets word from the tour manager that they were letting the GA people in soon. Those of us still in there line up along the barrier. Before running backstage, Alan asks me to come hang out backstage, handing me his lanyard before following Austin and Tino. The rest of the fans pile into the venue, all waiting for the same thing- Of Mice And Men. The concert was intense for me, nothing out of the ordinary for the guys though. I mean having only been to a Muse concert- courtesy of Dan- and an All Time Low concert I convinced Pj to go to, OM&M was insane. Afterwards I head backstage, and Skye heads back to the flat. A sweaty Alan hugs me as I come backstage.
"So what's your name? You seemed quiet during the meet and greet." He asks me.
"I'm Aly."
"Ooh that's like the girl version of Alan. I like it."
"Alan, leave the poor girl alone." Aaron comes out from one of the dressing rooms. The rest of the band comes out after Aaron and starts talking to me. After a while a knocking came from the back stage door. Austin runs to grab the door while I sit down and wait. When the stranger walks in, he seemed oddly familiar, and judging by his expression he seemed to think the same. Finally cutting through the silence, the soft voice with the northern accent I had slowly forgotten.
"Alyona Kayley Ivanov. I haven't seen you in years."
"Oliver Scott Sykes. I see you never forgot my middle name."
"You two know each other?" Alan asks.
"Yeah. We had a thing back in secodary school." Oli answers.
"A thing? Oli, we all know it was more than a thing." I retort.
"Did I miss something?" Alan continues.
"No, Alan. We dated in secondary school. We were in love, or so we thought." I answer.
"I always loved you. Distance got the best of us though." Oli admits.

Blarga blarga. Oh my English is terrible, sorry, I can only learn so much from British Youtubers. But oh my Ryan Ross, Oli's back. I'm Brittney and this is my colourless life <3