Cliché (Dan Howell/Danisnotonfire)

Chapter 34- He's Here

I glided my feet across the slippy wooden floor. Floor-skating from room to room in my big fluffy socks, still enveloped in the warmth of my PJ's.

Noah had to go out of town this week to spend Christmas with his family, which is convinient, because Dan was coming today, and leaving when Noah got back. He left the house keys to me, so I could start decorating this week, but the only problem was I wanted to spend as much with Dan as possible.

But it was my job, so unfortunatley, I had to do it. It was a Sunday, and Dan wouldn't be here until about 3 in the afternoon, whereas right now it was only 11.

Suddenly, I heard the front door opening and closing, only to see jess walk into the living room, she looked brighter, but darker at the same time, which was confusing, and to be honest I couldn't be bothered to think it through.

"Are you playing slippy socks?" She asked, a look of almost disapointment on her face.

"Yeah, wanna play?" I ask, slipping my feet forwards and backwards.

"Erin, we're 22... not 12" She says sighing, before walking up into her room. I was worried about Jess, she never wanted to be around me anymore, and it seemed anything I said or did these days were 'childish' or 'stupid'.

Shrugging off her negative attitude, I glided into my room, and switched on my music, before jamming out to some plain white tee's.

If all I wanted was love why would you use me up? 
Cut me down
Build a home and sail away
If all I wanted to be 
Was your giving tree 
Cut me down 
build a home and make... you happy.

I sing roughly along to the chorus of the song, as I flail my arms about and jump around my room.

Looking at the clock on my wall, the hands pointed at 11:15. it took me 3 hours to drive to the airport, so I decided to get ready.

Quickly hopping into the shower, I listen to the soft sound of the plain white tees fill my head, as I bursted out with every lyric, which I had memorised word for word.

Still mumbling the lyrics, I hop out the shower and sit at my dressing table, before putting on some mascara and coral lipgloss, and ruffling my damp hair, leaving it to air dry.

I pull out my aztec crop-top and white skater skirt, before slipping them on. Leaving my hair to air dry naturally, I take one last look at my reflection in my mirror, and nod, satisfied with the person staring back at me.

As I walk into the living room, I spot jess flicking from channel to channel, a blank expression plastered onto her pale face.

"Jess?" I ask. Her head snaps up quickly, and her deep brown eyes connect with mine. She looks impatiently at me as I process what I want to say to her in my head.

"Dan's coming here for Christmas, do you wanna come with me to pick him up?" I ask, my voice slighty shaky. She hesitates for a minute, before shaking her head and turning her attention back onto the T.V.

I sigh and massage my temples, trying to keep my frustration bottled in, but then, an overwhelming feeling of anger and hurt washed over me.

"Why are you like this Jess?" I snap. She turns her attention back to me, her eyebrows furrowed.

"What?" She asks non-chalontly... shes always been crap at acting.

"You know exactly what I'm on about. Ever since I came to Australia you've been different, you've been acting like a 40 year old that never had a good childhood or life, because I know full well before you came here you were pretty damn cheerful. Now you better tell me whats been going on, because I cannot be fucking bothered to try and decipher it myself, or to let this go on any longer" I breathe, looking at Jess with complete exhaution on my features.

But what really surprised me, is that Jess didn't have a go at me, get angry, or shrug me off... she cried.

She burst into a flood of tears, as she curled up in a shaky ball on the floor. Her breathing was panicked, and all of her body shook from the core.

"Jess?" I ask warily. All I get in reply is a scream. In complete urgency, I rush to her side, and comfort her. What was happening wasn't an unusual occurance I know full well whats happening, something I have to deal with more often than I should: Panick Attacks.

I rub her back soothingly, reminding her that I'm here, and that she shouldn't feel guilty over whats happening. Slowly but surely, she un-curled from her ball, the shaking decreaed, and her breathing was even again.

Her blood-shot eyes looked up to me, as she wrapped her arms around my shoulders. We stay there for a couple of minutes, before we break away.

"I have to go and pick up Dan, just get yourself into bed, and watch some movies etc, and I will talk to you about this when your ready to tell me.. ok?" I say soflty. Jess nods, and hurries off to her room.

I sigh heavily, and jump into the car, preparing for the gruling drive to the airport.

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I wait in baggage claim, as all the buzzing passengers from different flights walk past me and out into the blazing sun.

All of a sudden the voice lady comes on.

"Flight BX42 from Gatwick airport has now arrived" I stand up from my seat, and wait there with my hands grasping my skirt.

Then, I hear the hurried footsteps of the passengers that must have just got off the plane. The first few people come into view, the general buisness people, their walks fast and urgent. Then a wash of hurried families come trudging down the aisle as the struggling parents try and keep their kids in check.

Thats when he walks past the walls. Only a small back pack hung on his arms. I stood there, dumbfounded. As we both stared at eachothers familiar faces for what felt like eternity. Everything around me stopped, and every noise were just white buzzes lingering in the back of my head.

Then, I feel my feet start to sprint towards the brown haired guy, my feet were moving swiflty and quickly, as I tried desperatley to not bump into anyone.

Finally, I reached Dan. I jumped, and wrapped my legs around his hips as my arms pulled his neck closer to mine. Dans strong arms held up my body as I buried my head in the crook of his neck. Tears fell swiftly down my cheeks, as my heart pounded with adreniline and exitement.

With his arms around me, I was content. My heart felt bloated and full, and blood pumped through my body at the speed of light. Pulling my head back I look to his tear stricken face I breathe a sigh of relief

"I missed you so much" I sob.

"I missed you too" He sniffles.

I place my lips on his soft ones, a feeling I had missed greatly, and move my mouth against his as I tug at the roots of his hair. We pull away, and Dan swiflty puts me on the ground again, reminding me of my actual small height.

"This doesn't feel real" Dan laughs, as he takes my hands into his.

"I know, I feel like I'm going to wake up any minute" I shake my head, I reach up on my tip-toes and kiss him swiftly again.

"Come on, I want to spend some time with you alone, I'd rather we didn't have an audience" Dan winks, I lace my fingers with his, as we pick up Dan's luggage, and head back to the car.

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I unlock the door, and take Dan straight to my rooms, where we put all of his belongings in the wardrobe.

All of a sudden, Dan lifts me up as I instinctively wrap my legs around his hips, and my arms around his hot neck. Pressing my back to the wall, his lips collide with mine as they move together in perfect sync. I run my fingers through his fluffy hair as he removes his top, revealing his gorgeous torso.

Tossing me gently onto the bed, his eyes trail down my body as he presses kisses to my bare stomach that the crop top didn't hide.

He moves back up to my face as he starts sucking and nibbling on the skin on my neck, sure to leave a mark. His eyes look into mine, fired up, and animalistic, mimiking mine.