Danielle's POV:

I think about 30 minutes into the nap I was having, I woke up. Simon was still next to me and he had an unknowing smile on his face. I adjusted my eyes to the bright day light and looked around.

"Simon?" I whispered, my head was now on his chest as it rose and fell, and I heard the soft beating of his heart.

"Mm" he mumbled. I chuckled slightly, but I couldn't bring myself to get up. I was so comfy...

"Simon we need to get up." I replied, sitting up slightly so I was laying up on my stomach. He finally sat up so he was cross legged and I did the same.

"So I'm cute?" I smirked.

"The cutest." He replied, yawning, making my cheeks go a bright red and my grin go wider. I stopped smiling when I realised I had gone hot, meaning i had definitely gone red. I heard Simon chuckle as he saw my change of expression and I looked away. I looked at my phone and I had two texts. One from josh and one from.. Justin?

Before Simon could see that I had a text from Justin, I went on to Josh's text which wasn't exactly any better, I know that now. Wait why do I need to hide Justin's text? Anyway, I clicked onto Josh's text to see a picture of a YouTube comment which had been on Simons video. The boy himself saw this and looked over to my phone. "Is that my name?" He asked but I didn't reply.

"Do you see the way he looks at her? Yeah. And the best part? She looks at him the same way." He read out pausing after that sentence and he looked at me. My heart started pumping getting faster and faster. "I ship it #Sanielle" He finished. Play it cool danielle. Play it cool.

"Wow we have a shipping name. What's next, fan fiction?" I joked, laughing a fake laugh.

"Yeah, I guess the fans like us together." He chuckled, obviously I could tell it was fake as well. "Anyway, I was wondering if you'd like to do a live stream with me later, no games or anything just us and the viewers with their questions. I was supposed to ask you after the Q&A but..." He trailed off, and if I didn't imagine it I saw Simon look down and smile slightly. I grinned and looked at him, nodding.

"Name a time, a place and I'll be there."

"Oh! G-Great. That's great. Erm what about 7-ish?" He stuttered slightly. Why did he seem so surprised? I smiled questionably, nodded a yes and got out my phone again to look at the text from Justin. I have no reason to hide it, right?

The text read:

To Danielle

Hey! Haven't seen you for a while... meet me at yours at 6?

From Justin

6? There's no way I'm going to be able to do 6 if I want to do the live stream with Simon. I decided to text him back.

"Who you texting?" Simon smiled.

"Justin. He wants to meet me at six." I said quietly. I think Simon caught on to the fact that it was either Justin or him, there's no way I could get back in time.

"Oh..." he whispered, looking down. An emotionless expression on his face. "You can go if you want and I'll do it with josh or by myself or something, it's cool." He finished, giving me a small smile. A fake smile.

I can't just leave him like that, it wouldn't be fair. And as much as I like Justin - and I really do, he's great - I like Simon more. He's... he's my best friend. God, it hurts to say that.

"I need to go and talk to Tobi about a video." he trailed off. jumping off of the bed, he walked to the door and just as he went to open it...

"Simon don't be an idiot." He turned around and looked at me, confused. "I'm not gonna ditch you dude. 7, yeah?" I beamed.

"7." He smiled sweetly, before walking back to the bed and sitting down. "I'll talk to tobi later." He said making me chuckle.

"You're still an idiot." I laughed with him.

To Justin

Hey Justin, I don't think I can meet at 6 because I'm busy with a friend. Maybe another time?

From Danielle

I got a reply almost instantly.

To Danielle

I'm guessing that friend is simon... what about Thursday?

From Justin

I looked up at Simon who was on his phone too, also texting. Probably Lucy...

"Are we doing anything Thursday?" I asked him slowly. He looked up and squinted his eyes, shaking his head.

To Justin

Sure Thursday sounds good. See you then.

From Danielle

I smiled, but then quickly frowned when I re read the message from Justin. "I'm guessing that friend is Simon..." what's that supposed to mean?

"You okay?" Simon chuckled. "You look confused as hell." He finished his text and put his phone down. I put down mine next to his and shrugged. "I'm fine." I smiled.

"Is Lucy coming round later?" I asked, for no reason at all. At this Simon looked confused, knowing I didn't like Lucy one bit.

"No but she's coming over tomorrow, why are you asking?" He replied, looking back down at his phone.

"Oh I was just wondering if you were going to make a video with her, a girlfriend tag or that kind of thing.." I suggested. He looked up, and on his face was a look of somewhat nervousness.

"No, no i don't think so. I'd rather just do the live Q&A thing with you." He said. I nodded and smiled.

"Well I'm gonna head back to my room, I've still gotta get ready and everything so, see you in a bit?" I rose up from the bed and began walking to the long, wooden door.

"Yeah see you." He put his thumb up and I turned around and went back to my bedroom.

I shut the door to his room and relaxed, and before I could actually realise a smile made its way onto my face. Walking into my room, grinning like an idiot, I shut my door and flopped onto my bed. I faced the ceiling and took a deep breath trying to get rid of all of the butterflies which come from just being with him. Now! Time to get ready...

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Simon's POV:

When Danielle asked me if Lucy was coming round I felt embarrassed. To be honest with you, I was saving my girlfriend q&a for someone i really wanted to share that with. I mean, I can't make more than one girlfriend tag it's not right. So by saving it for someone, of course I'm saving it for Danielle. That's if she'll ever be crazy enough to fall for me, even though we have been through some pretty weird stuff lately, like the river. But that was my fault, she didn't want to kiss me, it was all in my head. Yet somehow I can't stop myself thinking, was I her first proper kiss? I mean yeah she kissed Josh (as much as it angers me to say it) but that was only small. That one meant something, well at least it did to me...

All I know is that when she left the room, I couldn't stop smiling. If only she felt the same way.

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6:45pm

Danielle's PoV:

It was now 6:45pm and me and Simon would be doing the stream soon. I have to admit, I'm nervous. Something always seems to go down during these things but Josh tried to calm me down. He said "Don't overthink it, just act as if everything was completely normal. Oh and come to me straight after because something's obviously going to happen..." So really it didn't help but the first half kind of did I guess...

I walked into Simon's room and sat down on his bed, trying to be casual even though my heart was still hammering against my chest.

"Hey, we doing this?" I smiled, while shivering slightly, damn it was cold in here.

"Yeah just setting up the camera's. You cold?" He laughed, looking back at me.

"Only a lot," I chuckled. "One second I'll just go and get a jumper." I began to stand up, but Simon stopped me.

"No don't worry, here just chuck this on." He suggested, throwing me his black and blue sidemen jumper. Might as well, saves me standing up I guess.

"Um, thanks." I put it on and cuddled into it, it was so warm. Simon was wearing his sidemen top to, making us look matching.

"Okay ready?" He sat on his chair, giving me one to. On the computer screen was the two of us and on the other half was the comments section where people asked live questions from.

When he signed in, we already had a lot of watchers. Maybe about 7000? And that was just in the first three minutes...

"Hey guys thanks for joining us! With me here is Danielle, ask as many questions as you want." Simon said into the camera, as the comments filled up. Most of them included my name and I laughed.

"Oh god now I'm nervous." I joked, making Simon chuckle.

"Nah I think they're happy to see you." He grinned. "so what's the deal with you two?" He read out. Oh no here they come...

I put on a confused look and looked to Simon who looked nervous at first, but then he laughed.

"We're besties, duh." He put his arm around my shoulder and I smiled.

"Total B.F.F.Ls." I joked, putting a grin on my face. The two of us fistbumped and looked back to the screen. I saw more comments like: I'm not buying it, or then why is she wearing your jumper? Or then why do you stare at each other so freaking much? xD

"I don't think they believe us Simon." I breathed a laugh. "No guys, we've been best friends since we were like 6?" I looked to Simon and he nodded.

"Yeah it's uhh, it's been a long time." he laughed. "So to all of you telling us to kiss right now, don't ergh, don't do that." He chuckled.

But after that all we saw was even more comments telling us to kiss. "Yeah we said DON'T do that." I pointed to the screen. Still, there were many more comments. After long minutes of telling the viewers to give up, we ended up doing just that. They were persistent, obsessive even.

"Maybe we should just go for it. They aren't giving up and this way it doesn't have to happen again." Simon suggested, laughing.

"Y-Yeah yeah I guess we could." I stuttered. "I mean, if it means they'll stop."

"Yeah, if it means they'll stop." He repeated quietly, looking down at his feet. My heart rate started rising as i swivelled my chair to face him and he did the same. We both laughed and I covered my face with my hands.

"Okay this'll be a lot easier if we stand up. We're just making this really awkward for each other, Simon." I cracked up. He nodded and mumbled a "right..." as he stood up and moved the camera up to face slightly higher, but not much. You could still see our bodies and the top of our legs as well as our faces. I stood up with him and kicked the chair out of the way. "Ready for this Minter?"

"Bring it on Jones." He shook his arms. I laughed and stepped forward (as did he). But as he had an advantage on height by a good ten centimetres, I rested my arms around his neck so I could balance if I had to go on tip toes, which I did but only slightly. He rested his hands around my back and I smiled. God, this boy.

Before we leant in anymore, I turned to the camera and sighed, still unable to stop smiling. "Poo you." I shook my head, making Simon laugh.

"So Simon, how are we doing this-" but before I could finish my sentence properly, Simon's lips found mine and I felt myself smile into the kiss. I closed my eyes and leant in, moulding into the kiss. Simon's hands grew tighter around my waist, but with his right hand, he brought it up to my face and brushed my hair behind my ear.

"I'M HUNGRYYYYY." We heard a shout from downstairs. I felt simon laugh and that was it, we broke a part in hysterics.

"Was that Ethan? Who let him in?" I dissolved into more laughter. We grabbed our chairs and sat down, adjusting the camera once more. "Well there you go." I chuckled.

After that we heard a knock on the door.

"Hey guys do you wanna- oh sorry I didn't realise you were streaming." Ethan said, standing at the door.

"It's cool. Everyone say hey to Ethan!" Simon beamed.

"HEYYYY." He ran onto the shot. "So whatcha been talking about?"

"Not much, just the usual." He scratched his neck. "Well..."

"so anyway when are you guys finishing this because Lucy's here and I'm STARVING." He shouted humorously on the word starving. Okay, so now Lucy's here. Thanks for lying to me Simon.

"Wait, what?" Simon questioned. Ethan gave him a confused look.

"I'm starving." He repeated, "You know when you're incredibly hungry to the point that you could (as they say) 'eat a horse'."

"No not that, Lucy's here? I wasn't supposed to be seeing her today-"

"SIMEY!" I heard a loud squeal behind Ethan, then she came into the room. Ethan stepped to the side over to me and I stood up too. "Hey, I was bored so I came over."

"But I told you I was doing a live stream with Danielle right?" He asked Lucy, swivelling his chair around to face her.

"Yeah but I missed you too much!" She squeaked.

"I saw you yesterday..."

"You now what, I'm pretty hungry myself so you two can finish off the stream, I'm gonna go grab something to eat, it's okay." I smiled at Ethan awkwardly while I heard an "okay!" And a "no wait!" You can guess which one said which.

"Honestly, it's fine I'm sure your viewers want to know more about Lucy anyway," I smiled at Simon. "I could do with some chicken right now too. ¡Vamos!" I shouted high-fiving Ethan.

"Yay!" Lucy squealed bringing simon into a sloppy long-lasting kiss and I still felt distraught. After simon broke the kiss, Lucy sent me a smirk and a glare.

"Geez, we better go quickly because that is definitely something that could get rid of my appetite, not to forget that pink jumper too." i grimaced as a "joke" for the viewers, looking towards Lucy's choice of clothing, mumbling the last part. Her outfits are always the same, short, tight, pink and ew. "Anyway come on Ethmeister, goodbye to my favourite subscribers!" I waved, walking out of the room, while Ethan laughed uncontrollably behind me. "Brutal." He whispered between laughing fits. Lucy glared at me and Simon put his hands over his face, but still laughing slightly.

Ethan shut the door behind us and looked at me, a jokily scared expression. "What are you out to get Lucy?" He laughed making his way past me and to the top of the stairs.

"Are you kidding? Lucy's been out to get me since day one, God knows why." I grinned, "Oh, and i'll meet you downstairs, I'm just gonna go and see Josh." He nodded and i ran to my best-friend (or second best-friend, i don't know its confusing) Josh's bedroom.

I walked into the bedroom with my hand's over my face before bursting out laughing, him seeing me joined in. I trotted over to him and stomped my feet in excitement like a little 10 year old girl.

"Number one: That was great." He cheered, looking to the computer screen and pointing to it. "Her expression was amazing, you should've seen her face, and the people watching found it hilarious." He added. I followed him to the computer.

"Thank you very much, what's number two?" I grinned, expecting another compliment.

"Why the fuck did you kiss Simon?! Do you know how many problems it's gonna cause?!" He whispered a shout turning to look at me. My eyes widened at the change of tone.

"I didn't want to! I mean I did, but if I could've chosen to I would've said no, Josh." I protested, my hands out in front of me.

"You had the choice." He bluntly reminded me.

"I had two hundred thousand people telling me to kiss him, that wasn't my fault."

Josh sighed and walked over to hug me. "I know, I'm sorry but if it makes you feel any better about it, Simon was totally into it." He calmed and chuckled, patting my back. I smiled at first at the thought that he could be right, but I then frowned, for that was impossible and I hate false hope. I pulled out of the hug and shortly smiled. "Maybe."

"Hey, he looked like he was pretty happy to me but-"

"Oh well," I interrupted him, wanting to change the subject as quickly as possible. "Guess we'll never know. Anyway, I'm going out to get food with Ethan and probably some of the others. Wanna join?" I asked holding my thumb out, but switching it from facing up or down. Then, Josh grinned and coughed slightly.

"A-Actually, I have a," he coughed once more. "I have a date?" He informed me, more like a question. My mouth dropped and I squealed.

"What's her name? Where are you going? What does she look like? WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?" I started asking, filling so many questions into his head.

"Calm down, her names Freya, she is amazing and if this goes well, you'll meet her, don't worry." He laughed holding my shoulders to stop me from jumping up and down.

"Okay well this is amazing, talk when you get back and I'm gonna head out. Good luck!" I beamed before running out of the room and towards the stairs, until I stopped at Simons door. I don't know why, maybe it was just a habit. Something felt so normal about going into his room, it was weird. My thoughts were distracted by muffled voices beyond the door, they were violent harsh noises, but I couldn't quite tell whether they were angry or not. Deciding to leave them be, I walked downstairs and into the kitchen where I was met with Ethan, Harry and Aimee.

"Finally, lets go." Ethan sang. "I can't stand to hear anymore declarations of love from these two." He whined, making his way to the front door. I looked to the two and grinned. Harry had his arm around Aimee who was bright red.

"They weren't declarations of love Ethan." Harry complained, going slightly red as well.

"So you're officially together?" I smiled, following Ethan but looking behind my shoulder. Aimee nodded and Harry looked to her, resting his head on hers. I also noticed Aimee wearing one of Harry's blue jumpers. "Well that's freaking adorable, congratulations you guys." I gave them the thumbs up as Ethan opened the door, letting me walk through it.

"Thanks Danielle." Aimee smiled hugging Harry. "Well let's go then." She threw her loose arm up into the air. Harry laughed and they followed us out of the house and into the car.

"LET US GO GET FOOD." Ethan cheered as we drove away from the house.

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Simon's POV:

"@WedgemanSimon:

Sorry again that that the live stream had to end early, Lucy just really isn't feeling too good. A new GTA video will be out later though!" I tweeted, sighing onto my phone.

"I don't understand what the big problem is." I complained quietly, to be confronted with an angry Lucy.

"The big problem is that you kissed her simon, how could you do that tha-"

"But we're just friends! Nothing more, I've known her all my life if I liked her and she liked me back, we would be going out by now Lucy, I don't like her like that." I lied. Even though I did, I'm not going to admit that, because if I do that means the likelihood is that I have less chance of escaping those feelings and when Danielle doesn't like me like that, I have no chance.

"I can't, I just don't trust her Simon, she has hated me since I entered her life and I think that's because she thinks I stole you from her." She came out with. my eyes left my phone and travelled to Lucy's face which was full of anger and betrayal, but also a small hidden look of inevitability.

"Do you even hear yourself right now? No Lucy, Danielle doesn't like me like that." I sighed, getting slightly angry back therefore raising my voice. She paused and hesitated before saying:

"But you like her.. like that?" she whimpered, wiping her dry eyes.

"Wha-n-no but-" I choked, I was truly stunned. Quickly I got myself together and took a breath. "No I don't. She's my best friend. How many times do I have to tell you?"

"As many times as it takes until I believe you, Simon. I'm just not buying it and it makes it uncomfortable for me to be around you with her."

"Well what can I do to make it better, can't you just become friends?" I suggested, I knew it wasn't likely, but I had to try.

"Simon, I've tried, I really have. it's just her." Lucy said through gritted teeth. "I can't deal with her much longer, and there's not a lot you could do."

"well that means there's a little I could do, would you at least tell me that?" I pleaded, looking into her stone eyes. "please?"

"You could talk to Danielle." She suggested, slightly quieter, but on a level still confident.

"Telling her what?" I replied.

"Telling her that nothing could ever happen between the two of you." She snapped as if it were completely obvious.

"Well, what would that do? She doesn't like me anyway!" I argued.

"Do you seriously not see it? And soon enough you'll be gone with her and I'll be stuck here by myself." she grunted. "I'm fed up with this!" she shouted slightly as she stormed out of the room. I called her name as I chased after her, until I saw her knock on JJ's door. He opened it, perplexed.

"What's going on? Lucy why are you upset?" He asked until he looked towards my shocked expression. Why would she go to JJ's door? "Simon, would did you do?" he asked as he pulled Lucy into a hug.

"Nothing! I didn't do anything." I protested, raising my arms up in defence.

"Exactly." Lucy said into JJ's shoulder.

"What you want me to call Danielle up right now?" I asked, clearly making it obvious that it was a stupid idea.

"Yes, I do." She turned to me, her eyes watering. Was she for real? I sighed and looked at JJ who looked extremely confused, and I got out my phone.

"what happened?" JJ asked Lucy quietly. Lucy looked to me with a face of hurt, but something else was there, something i couldn't quite figure out.

"Simon kissed Danielle." She took a breath, JJ looked at me, angry and still confused.

"Simon, why the fuck would you kiss Danielle?" He shouted.

"Look, it was only for the live stream okay? it didn't mean anything she's my best friend." I said for what seemed like the one hundredth time today.

"Well if she is your best friend you'll be okay to tell her that nothing can happen, right? Because if you can't," She sobbed, clinging onto JJ's top. when did they get so close? "Then we're done."

"What? Lucy don't be irrational-"

"Irrational? Really Simon? You know what take it or leave it. Call, or we're over"

It took me a while to think. Do I risk it with Lucy? Or do I call Danielle, ruining any future chance I have with her? I mean, it's not like she likes me anyway, if anything this would be reassuring for her, knowing that I wouldn't think about it like that. And especially after every single moment where we've been... closer.

I sighed and got out my phone, going to Dani's contact and pressing the call button. She answered within a few rings and when she answered she was laughing gleefully. what am I doing? this just doesn't make sense.

"Hey! Simon what's up?" She asked, I could tell even over the phone that she was smiling.

"I just, I just need to tell you something." I spoke, trying to hear Danielle's voice over the loudness of the environment on her side of the call.

"Sure, go ahead." She replied, raising her voice. since when is nandos so loud?

"I just need you to know that, nothing can happen between us." I said, my voice slowing down and getting quieter and quieter. I looked over to Lucy and she was smiling slightly. I frowned and put my focus on jj who was still comforting her, glaring at me. Whilst on the other end of the call I head a door shut and it was instantly quieter.

"I don't understand, what's going on?" I heard a sigh. "is Lucy making you do this?"

"it doesn't matter. I-i just wanted you to know, because I don't like you like that." my voice cracked, I took a deep breath and continued. "You know that right?" my voice now a small whisper.

"Yeah Simon. You've made it perfectly clear." I heard, a slight tint of sadness in her voice. Did I come off as rude?

"Yeah, you know because you're my best friend and everything, and ... and I'm with Lucy now." I shook my head, trying to escape the (admittedly) horrible thought. I looked to her and she was smirking.

Where are the tears now, Lucy?

"Oh yeah? Then act like it." She retorted, and hung up. Then after the pain, I was greeted with nothing but silence.

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Danielle's POV:

I walked out of the bathroom to be rejoined with the party which I had previously left the others for. No no I didn't ditch them, okay maybe I did, but only because they said I could. I mean, at first I refused.

However, the reason I went to the party was actually because we bumped into Justin and he had invited me. I wasn't exactly wearing the right clothes for the party, but some how and for some reason he had a dress with him. He said it was his sisters, but I wasn't really paying attention. All of my attention was drawn to this dress, it was ice blue and smooth, cut down to the knee.

The others said they were just going to eat, as like Ethan said before, he was starving and so were Aimee and Harry. Don't worry of course Justin invited them too, in fact they all quite like him, it's just a shame Ethan was craving chicken and not party food.

So back to present time, I have no idea what happened with Simon, but I know Lucy was involved no matter what Simon says. Whatever it was, it didn't make me feel good. He basically just stated that nothing was ever going to happen. I mean, I knew it was a slim chance and i wanted it all to stop for the sake of our friendship but now? Now I needed it to stop for the sake of our friendship.

But at the end of the day, I just want Simon to be happy.

I walked over to the bar and sat on a stool to be accompanied by Justin. The bright lights had given me a headache, and after that call it was only getting worse.

"hey are you okay? you look kind of glum." Justin asked putting a hand on my shoulder.

"I'm fine. Dance with me?" I asked him. to be honest I needed a bit a distraction, it would be weird if I left this early. Justin smiled cutely and put out his hand that was on my shoulder before. I grabbed it and he lead me over to the centre of the room and started dancing with me. And for the first time in a while, I started to have fun with no interruptions.

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A/N

Okay this isn't completely edited, and sorry it took a while, I tried to make it longer than usual! xD And the next chapter on the other story will be out soon if you're someone who reads that too.

I'd also just like to make a huge thank you for the amount of reads this story has (and if you didn't know it's 30.9k). it's a huge amount and I can't believe it, I'm just so thrilled and it's because of each and everyone of you, you're all amazing! Whether you read it, but don't like to comment or vote or whether you do all of them things, I love you. And obviously thank you to Danielle too <3

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