1/09/09

[dan] : do u wanna talk [sent 7:34 pm]

amazinglion : course. what about [sent 7:37 pm]

[dan] : idk and idc [sent 7:37 pm]
[dan] : i need to distract myself from the real world [sent 7:37 pm]

amazinglion : what happened? [sent 7:37 pm]

[dan] : talking about it isn't going to distract me [sent 7:39 pm]
[dan] : i'll explain some other time [sent 7:39 pm]

amazinglion : alright [sent 7:39 pm]
amazinglion : so today i saw my professor after that pure embarrassing conversation we had [sent 7:40 pm]
amazinglion : and she SMILED at me [sent 7:40 pm]
amazinglion : and kept being keen on calling me [sent 7:40 pm]
amazinglion : i'm not just going to be rude to her so i responded with the same ‘enthusiasm’ [sent 7:40 pm]
amazinglion : i just hope she doesn't get any friendlier [sent 7:40 pm]
amazinglion : next thing you know she's going to be making me pie [sent 7:40 pm]

[dan] : sounds like u're in quite the predicament [sent 7:41 pm]

[dan] : wonder whose fault that is 😐 [sent 7:41 pm]

amazinglion : nah you're fine [sent 7:41 pm]
amazinglion : just means i'll have more to gossip to you at the end of the day [sent 7:41 pm]
amazinglion : and would you look at that, it's an excuse to talk to you [sent 7:41 pm]
amazinglion : so no not really a predicament [sent 7:41 pm]

[dan] : u're funny [sent 7:41 pm]

amazinglion : it wasn't a joke [sent 7:41 pm]

[dan] : whatever [sent 7:43 pm]

>•<

Dan sighed as he clicked off his phone, his room being plunged in darkness. Over the hum of Gerard Way's voice playing in Dan's headsets, he could hear clatters from outside his bedroom, indistinct gruff voices yelling and teasing and hating.

He just had to text Phil when he knew he was most likely in class. He just had to defy everything in him that said no, don't do it, and text him, and look where that got him. Or, rather, Phil.

Dan felt oddly at Phil's friendship advances. Not that that was bad. It was unfamiliar, but not unwelcome. No one else really tried to become Dan's friend, or be nice to him in general— except maybe Louise, but that was more because of her sweet and polite personality.

Something about Phil intrigued him. Maybe it was the way he seemed so determined to become his friend when no one had expressed those kinds of intentions toward Dan. Maybe it was that no matter how deliberately rude Dan was to him, he came back, even concerned for his safety. And they had been speaking for, what, six days? Maybe something about Phil said Hey, I like you.

Maybe Dan liked it.