I am a good person with a bad attitude.

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"Dan, Dan, Dan."

"Shut up." Dan groaned and covered himself with the blankets. He could feel the sun rays on his face, but still refused to believe it was morning. Apparently, though, his big brother did not understand his struggle. "Just give me five more minutes."

"You have five seconds."

"Stop bu--"he didn't manage to finish his sentence as a sticky liquid fell on his face making him open his eyes immediately."What the fuck?"

Adrian just shrugged and handed his brother the empty beer can. "Now I have to take a shower,"he mumbled while rubbing his eyes"what time is it?"

"Six thirty."

"Six thirty? Why the fuck did you wake me up?"

"There's someone waiting for you downstairs." Adrian explained"Now go take a quick shower, you smell like booze."

"That's because you poured beer on me!"

"It's not only that." this time, Dan had enough consequence to know that his brother was mad. He walked to the bathroom with a pair of black jeans and a grey shirt-didn't want to ruin his emo persona after all this time-and tried to recall last night. He remembered drinking. Not too much but enough to have a deadly headache. He didn't remember how he had gotten home though. Maybe he had managed to call Adrian and they had fought over that or perhaps Skye and the others brought him home but that wouldn't explain why Adrian was mad. Skye would never tell Adrian if Dan had relapsed.

Unless of course Dan had done something very serious.

Had he done anything to Skye and gotten her mad?

Maybe he had returned home too drunk?

He was too busy thinking of all the possible scenarios that he didn't notice the water suddenly freezing making him yelp. He exhaled sharply and closed the shower, stepped outside and got dressed as quickly as possible. He walked out quietly, careful not to wake up Skye, and grabbed his backpack. As he bent down however, he realized that Skye wasn't in her bed.

It was almost seven and they had school in some hours and there was no way Adrian would have been able to wake her up that early. He grabbed his bag and run downstairs to the kitchen."Hey, where's--"he stopped himself as he saw Adrian placing a waffle on a dish while giggling with a stranger. Correction, not a strange. Phil fucking Lester.

"Morning Dan!"the boy smiled at him while Dan stood in front of them like an idiot. Phil looked great, he had his own bag standing underneath his chair, wore overly brightly clothes as per usual, and had that idiotic yet very beautiful smile plastered on his face. Beautiful, Dan thought, I think the alcohol is still in me.

"Phil." Dan stated as if this would be automatically be translated to 'Morning Phil, how are you? Also what the bloody hell are you doing in my house eating my cereal?'.

"Manners Daniel."

"Sorry mum."Dan mumbled to his brother and sat down. Seconds later, after he remembered Adrian was mad, he regretted being sarcastic.

"So,"Phil began sensing the tension"how are you feeling?"

"Fine. Why?"his reply came out a bit hostile. Not at all what Dan was going for. Sure, he was not so glad of Phil Lester completely invading his personal space but he didn't mean to sound that unfriendly.

"Phil is just worried about you."Adrian explained and placed-or actually hit-a plate on the table in front of Dan."You weren't exactly great yesterday."

With that comment, Dan thought that if his life was a Vine video the 'oh shit' song would play.

"I think they probably spiced up the drinks."Phil quickly said"Dan barely drank anything."

"He didn't?"Adrian asked surprised and looked at Phil. Dan was also confused, to say at least, he didn't remember how much he had drunk but it surely was a pretty good amount of alcohol. Phil nodded and Adrian seemed to believe him. Dan still couldn't understand how Phil could meet someone and have them fall in love with his sweet optimistic persona in just three seconds.

Fall in love, Dan thought again, wrong choice of words.

"Oh no! We must get going."Phil announced"We'll be late."

"Dan's usually late." Adrian stated making his younger brother glare him.

"Well, it's time I change my ways."Dan said and grabbed Phil's arm"Bye Adrian."

"Bye!"Phil waved to which Adrian smiled.

"Bye guys! Oh and Dan don't forget to pick up Skye after school!"

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The walk to school was quiet. At times, Dan would glance up to Phil-who would probably by looking at an animal or a tree-or at his phone. It was weird that none of his friends had contacted them yet. Had something happened to them?

"Your brother is nice."Phil blurted out, catching Dan's attention."I like him."

It was then that if Skye was around, she would smack Dan's head for what he was about to say."Wait,"-the two of them stopped and Dan put a hand on his heart-"you have a crush on my brother?"

"What? N--"

Dan continued looking offended and unnecessarily dramatic."Is that why you've been so nice to me? To get in my brother's pants?"

"That's not--"

"I'll have you know those pants are disgusting!"

"I  don't like like him!"Phil shout while holding Dan's both hands"I meant that I liked him like I would like someone's mother."

Phil was so anxious and nervous, saying things fast without even thinking of how wrong they sounded. Dan thought it was adorable which should had probably made him stop the teasing but, in Skye's and Adrian's words, Dan was an asshole."So you also have a mum fetish?"

"No!"Phil screamed in a high pitched voice"I don't have any fetishes and I don't like your brother."

"The second part I can believe, but the first one? Eh."Dan laughed making Phil flustered."I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I got what you mean."

Phil also laughed and let go of Dan's hands. Neither of them would admit it but it seemed their hands fitted perfectly with each other. Dan had felt a warmth in his heart, and despite him still laughing, he felt a bit empty inside like something was missing.

"By the way,"Dan began"thank you for lying for me."

"Yeah, I saw how uncomfortable you were."Phil explained"Plus, you weren't really being yourself yesterday."

"Skye says I can be a little all over the place when drunk." actually no, Skye uses many more curse words and shouting when she describes Dan being drunk. Other times she just uses the term 'alcoholic' but Dan wasn't going to spill his guts to Phil just yet. Maybe someday but surely not now.

"Well, a sober man's thoughts are a drunk man's words."Phil whispered adding a forced laughed at the end. The awkward silence returns for a brief moment until Phil speaks up again."Do you like me?"

If Dan wasn't already your typical pale British vampire, he would have looked like a pale corpse. Almost as pale as Phil himself."No! No, no, no, no, what? No. Nope. Nopity. God, no!"

"Okay!"Phil yelled to stop him"I got it."

"Yeah, um, why?"

"You kinda implied you hate me yesterday, when you were drunk yesterday."-nope, now he would have looked like a pale corpse- "And I guess, I just thought--"

"I do like you."Dan replied."I mean we're not best friends or anything, barely friends really, but you're pretty cool."

"Really?"

"Really. And give it some time, and maybe you're even reach Friend Level 5."

"Oh, do I get access to embarrassing photos then?"

"No, that's level 6. But you do get to call me silly nicknames."

"Well then,"Phil laughed as they reached the school's gates"I guess I have some work to do, gotta level up fast."

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Dan didn't like Phil.

Actually no, there was about a 25% chance he liked Phil. But he wasn't going to face those feelings any time soon. He was just going to try and be friends with the boy and see how it goes from there. After all, no great romance started immediately with romantic stuff.

"Hey." Charlie greeted as he sat next to Dan. Well, except Charlie and Matteusz, but Dan wasn't going to compare any of his possible future relationships to Britain's Sweethearts. Newt followed seconds after with Brendon by his side and all of them sat down at their usual table.

"This table seems so,"-Brendon looked around-"male."

"The girls are still in the hospital." Newt explained making Dan spat out the water he was drinking. "Dan, you do remember what happened yesterday, right?"

"Not really."

Brendon just burst out laughing."There's a video of me in YouTube,"Brendon continued laughing"twerking."

"What the hell?"

"But of course there isn't a video of him complaining about Ross." Charlie whispered quietly with a laugh"Quinn had a small accident with drinking and stayed to the hospital yesterday so she skipped today and Skye is still at the hospital for her leg."

"Which she broke and was apparently in so much pain that the doctors drugged her."Newt added"She was convinced that miss Romanoff was a superhero for a while."

"Although she could totally strangle us up with her feet."Charlie chuckled.

"Did she break her leg or something?"

"Yeah. She refused to say how, however." Brendon told Dan"I bet she was hula-hooping."

"Okay no,"Dan shook his head"so Quinn and Skye stayed in the hospital. Brendon is a twerk queen, I was drunk and out of my mind--"

"Phil had to take you home too because we had to drive Quinn."

"You're telling me you two were very boring and sober at the party?"

"Totally. Well, not Charlie. He was drunk on love."

"I was drunk on love? You brought that guy from WCKD Academy with us!"

"Details, Charles." Newt said quickly covering his cousin's mouth with his hand"Also we're grounded. Turns out miss Quill sat on a spinning chair for about three hours, petting a stuffed animal, only to wait for our arrival in order to turn it around and make us shit ourselves."

Dan looked at Newt and then at Charlie before shrugging."Our lives are weird and dramatic."

"And full of twerk!"

"No."

"Also,"Newt smiled"Brendon wore heels."

"I'm never getting drunk again."