That was a whole year ago, Pj was gone now and Shane took charge being the hall manager. He was in his 4th year like a boy named Felix  now, Other than Felix, Dan met the other two boys, Mark and Sean, Mark was in his third year just like Sean.

Dan being in his second year, was proudly wearing a gold badge on his uniform wherever he went, he had worked hard for it, stayed up late at night to earn it, so it was really a prized possession.

Phil on the other hand was acting worse. He left the campus during the middle of the day and at night and didn't show back up until around these times to. He was always staring at Dan, watching as he raised his hand high in class, and sat with his back straight, hands always laced together, or always writing in that dumbass planner.

Phil was confused. What was his deal? There was no way someone could be that.... perfect without having some dirt on him. Phil planned to figure out what it was.

Dan was eating his breakfast quickly that morning, wanting to get down those flights of stairs to get to class early, but Phil stopped him right when he got up to leave.

"Hey Dan come here." Phil said motioning for him to follow him out the doors.

Dan looked at him cautiously. Shane and the others were snickering but when he turned around to look at them, the boys coughed and went back to eating their eggs. Dan follows his retreating figure and they meet back in the hall.

"What do you want Phil?" Dan fixes his bag strap on his shoulders and looks at him pointedly. He makes an effort to steer clear of his antics, but no matter how hard he tries he's always there.

"Let's walk to class together."

Dan looks at him shocked, "I'm sorry Phil but I will have to decline your offer."

Phil was still smiling, "And why is that?"
"Your what the elders call 'a bad egg' and I can't have that on my record."

Phil steps closer to him, and Dan takes a defiant step back. "What exactly is going on inside that head of yours?" He mutters mostly to himself.

"I am puzzled by your question?"

Phil plays with his piercing as he just stares at him for a moment before flicking Dan in his chest, the brunette steps away and brushes off the imaginary dust off his crisp uniform and straightens out his burgundy and black tie.

"Looks like your late Dan." Phil says.
"What?" Dan looks down at his watch and the minute he does a bell for  going  to class rings out.

"Ugh! You... parasite!" Dan yells at him before walking quickly away from Phil's loud laughter.

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Dan had already recited an entire speech in his head to explain to the professor why he was late, but he came in the door the same time every one else was.

"Late!" Dan hissed as he strutted over to Professor Geoffrey.

"Professor-"
"Dan it's fine you're not late." He consoles him, he walks past him with a stack of paper in his hands and placed them on his podium.

Dan huffs out a happy sigh. "Thank you professor, I won't be late again !" He turns to go sit in his seat on the front row, and sets his bag down, pulling out his planner, pencils, and notebook.

After learning about complicated maths for 20 minutes, Phil strutted in with his leather jacket on instead of his blazer, and his tie slung around his neck.

"Phil you're late, as always." Professor Geoffrey sighs.
"Sorry I was upset, you see someone called me a parasite this morning, and I simply couldn't stop crying." Phil puts his hand on his heart dramatically and sniffles as he walks back to his seat.

Dan glares at his paper, but his cheeks heat up anyway. He shouldn't have called Phil that just because he was late, that was rude and very out of line, and Dan never stepped out line before! He would apologize after class.

Phil's phone started ringing in the middle of the lesson and people turn their heads to look over at him.

Kingston's Academy fact #4: phones are not allowed at all in the school unless it's for an emergency, on weekends they're is a toll booth that is unlocked where you can call home to check on relatives.

"Phil give it over." Geoffrey sighs, "and that's detention, for the 20th time."

Phil holds up a finger for him to wait and answers it, "Hello?, Yea just bring them up to my room." He hangs up and puts it back in his pocket.

Dan looks at him with disgust, why didn't he just follow the simple rules if he couldn't follow anything else? Phil catches his eye and winks at him. Dan turns around quickly, picking up his pencil and scribbling in notes, under no circumstance should he have the right to do that!

After class Dan walks up to Phil, who decided to stay in class surprisingly.

"Phil?"
He turns around grinning, "Do you want to walk to the next class with me?"

Dan's ears burned, "No, but I would like to apologize for calling you a parasite, it was out of line."

They were now walking to the crowed halls, Dan had History, Phil had Linguistics, but Dan didn't realize that they were walking to his class together.

"Oh it's fine Dan, but you definitely owe me."
Dan straightens his tie, "It's only fair, name your favor."
Phil puts a thoughtful finger on his chin and tilted his head to the side. "Hmm, I'm thinking a walk to class?"

Dan looks down at his shiny shoes. "Phil I already told you-"
"Oh look we're here! But this walk didn't count, so I'll see you after class!"

Dan stood there shocked as he looks up and confirms that he was now standing at the door of his History class. He felt like everyone was looking at them curiously, wondering why the star pupil was walking with the schools bad boy. He opens his mouth to scold him but holds himself back at the last second.

"Very well, you will walk me to lunch after this class but that is all."
"No Dan you said next class and then you said lunch! So two for the price of one!"

Phil ruffles his hair, and Dan jerks back shocked, "Don't touch me!"

Phil just shrugs, "I'll see you after class Dan."
As he walks away, Dan turns into his class the minute the late bell rings and he sits in his seat, fixing his carefully put up curls. Why did he have to insult Phil? He was making him later and later to class every time he talked to him. He was going to have to just stop talking to him, that's what was going to happen.

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Dan was hiding inside one the academy's dark spaces as he watches for Phil to pass him. He had to go back on his word, he didn't want to walk with him to lunch or his next class. He heard that Phil left class to go smoke and there was no way Dan would have him walking beside him with his jacket smelling like that.

Kingston's Academy fact#5: don't smoke

Dan holds his breath as he watches Phil walk past the space, his hair was ruffled. He watches as Phil looks around, almost a disappointed look on his face as he walks away from him and back towards the cafeteria.

Dan let's out a sigh of relief and counts to ten before coming out of the space and walking hard into a body. "Oh sorry- oh no."

Phil was standing there smirking down at him. "Dan! It's was nice of you to show up, I thought you ditched me."

Dan backs away from him, "No, I would do nothing of the sort, I made a deal and I intend to abide by it."

"Right." Phil laughs and starts walking, Dan follows him, but keeps a good distance between them.

"Dan you're not walking with me." Phil fake pouts.
"Yes I am," Dan answers back.

Phil stretches out his long arm, It didn't even touch Dan's shoulder, "You're basically on the other side of the hall."

Dan rolls his eyes and takes a few side steps over to him, "There are you happy?"
"Very." Phil says, but grabs his arm and pulls him close to his side.

Dan gulps as he starts to smell the incense of cigarettes and something else... he yanks away from his grasp. "Please don't touch me again!"

Phil holds his hands up in surrender as the enter the cafeteria, "Alright fine, but I'll be there to walk you to the next class." Phil walks away and out the door of the lunch room and out into the bright sunshine.

Dan sighs and grabs his lunchbox out his book bag and walks over to the lunch line. The lady already had his sandwich wrapped tightly in the plastic wrap and hands it over to him with a apple juice. Dan puts them inside it and zips it up.

Now Dan knew at this point no one liked him, he was a good student so naturally they didn't want to sit with him. Dan sits by himself at a empty table and right on cue, the minute he takes one bite of his sandwich, Melissa comes over to him, her red curls pulled up in a ponytail today.

"Hey Danny, mind if I have that apple juice?" She says with mock politeness.
"No." Dan says clearly, taking another bite of his food.

Her manicured hand lashed out and took it anyway. He looks up at her as she screws the top off and drinks it, not coming up for air until it was halfway finished.
"Ah! thanks Danny!" She throws the cap somewhere across the room and sits the bottle down, there was lipstick stains on the rim. Dan had gotten used to this behavior from Melissa , she did this to him every single day to him at the same time.

Being bullied by a girl, Dan didn't understand that, maybe it was because she knew he wouldn't do anything, and Dan wouldn't, he knows that bullying isn't tolerated at Kingston's but can you ever actually stop it?

The bell rang again and Dan gets up automatically gets up and throws his trash away, tucking his lunchbox under his arm, he runs back to his dark space and hides it for the next use. He had completely forgotten about Phil as he walks into his last class of the day, Law.

Dan hated Law, it was fun at first but now it was draining, all the giant words mushed together on the page and then exploded to either bigger words. Why did it have to be so boring? This was the only class he didn't pay attention in, instead he sat in the back and doodles on his paper, he loved to draw, especially anime.

He drew Eren from Attack on Titan and Haru from Iwatobi Swim club, even Victor and Yuri holding hands from Yuri on Ice. Drawing boys was easy for Dan. They didn't need curves or long hair that girls needed. He drew and drew until it was time to leave again.

Dan only made it a few steps before a loud voice called out to him. "Dan! Hey Dan!" He heard the pounding of Phil's feet come nearer to him as he tried to speed up and walk away from him.

Phil smelled like more smoke and this time he stank of alcohol. Where did he go to get this stuff?

"You forgot about me!" Phil pouted, pushing his quiff back up on his face.

Dan's eyes widen as he remembers. "I am so sorry Phil!"

They started taking the steps up to their hall. "That's okay you can repay me." Phil says.

"What is it?"

Phil goes silent as he starts to think. Dan prays that it's not walking with him for the rest of the five years. Phil was silent the whole time and only when they had got up to their hall did Phil push Dan up against the wall, making him gasp in shock.

"Give me a kiss." He whispers in his ear.

it took me two days to write this chapter because i was so stuck😂
HOE OUT✌🏼