Find Me Again // phan

Eight

  "His name is Ely Masters." Jace said the next morning, sitting across from Dan in the school library.

  "What are you going on about?" Dan asked.

  "Your boy toys new partner in crime." He replied. "Ely Masters. He doesn't go here, he goes to some rich kid prep school about half a mile down the road. They wear uniforms and everything. He's an only child, parents are hot shot lawyers, lives in a big house downtown."

  Dan closed the book he'd been reading, staring at Jace curiously. "And how do you know all this?"

  "Extensive research, various sources." Jace replied, kicking his feet up on the table. "I don't like going into detail."

  "You just found out about him yesterday, and you know pretty much everything about him."

  "He seems like my type."

  "Oh no, don't do that." Dan groaned.

  "What?" Jace asked innocently, his green eyes wide.

  "Don't try and take him away from Phil with your little mind games, okay? Don't you think you've hurt him enough already ?"

  "It's not my fault he always goes after the good looking ones." Jace said, winking at Dan, who just rolled his eyes. "And besides, do you really want him with that shiny new toy?"

  "Just because I don't like the idea of Phil dating someone else, doesn't mean I want you ripping them apart. If he's happy, then leave him be."

  "Don't you want to be happy too, Dan?"

  Dan sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. "Can we just let it go? I'll get over it, seriously. I don't care what he does, or who he's with."

  He opened his book again, trying to focus on the words, but his thoughts we're on Phil and his new, much more attractive boyfriend. He'd been lying, about getting over it. It tore at his heart that Phil didn't care about him anymore, and that he probably never would. He had a much more handsome and probably more interesting person to spend all his time with, and all Dan was left with was a broken heart and Jace.

  He deserved it though. As much as he hated the situation he was in, he knew damn well he'd had it coming, from the first moment Jace had kissed him.

  There was nothing he could do but suck it up and deal with the consequences, no matter how much it hurt.

  "I'm sorry, you know." Jace said suddenly, and Dan looked up to see him twisting his fingers together anxiously.

  "It's not your-"

  "No, not that." Jace interrupted him. "I'm sorry that I started all of this. It's my fault you and your boy toy broke up in the first place, and I'm sure that no matter what I do, I could never make up for it."

  "It's my fault too, Jace." Dan said. "I didn't stop you, at any point, so I'm just as much to blame as you."

  Jace didn't say anything else after that, and soon enough he stood and left the library right before the bell rang.

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  "Alright, I'm sure everyone remembers the R&J projects we did earlier on in the semester, yeah?" Dan's English teacher said from the front of the classroom, and all the students mumbled their agreement.

  Ah, yes, when everything wasn't fucked up, Dan thought.

  "And I'm sure you remember your partners in that project." He continued.

  Oh, Dan really remembered his partner.

  "Well, I though that instead of going through the trouble of getting to know new partners," Oh, no. Please don't say it. "you could just work with the same ones as before!"

  Oh, fuck me.

  This could not be possibly happening. There was no way Dan would be able to work with Phil on another school project, he couldn't even think about him without getting incredibly frustrated and somewhat horny.

  "But, since we have an odd number of students in the class, there'll have to be one group of three. So, Mr. Winslow, you can work with, uh....you can work with Dan and Phil."

  Oh, he was dead. He was not going to survive this, he would end up killing himself before this was over.

  Was this karma for him? Did God hate him so much, he would bestow this kind of torture and pain upon him? Because He was doing a damned good job of it.

  Him, Phil, and Jace, all together in one room. The boy he loved, but who didn't love him back, and his ex-mistress/newfound friend.

  Great.

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  a/n: Just a quick update, sorry it's short. But oh yeah, shits going down now.

  Hope you liked it, I know I'm not the best, but whatevs.

  Peace :3