Dan and the other boys had collected in the vacant room of 711 that night, and several cups were stuck to the far wall.

Phil had snuck James into his room late that night, and everyone wanted to hear what was going to happen.

"I don't hear anything!" Shane hisses,pressing his cup closer to the wall.

"Quiet sex?" Mark suggests.
"No way, James looks like he couldn't be quiet." Sean speaks up.

"Okay you guys, enough with the dirty talk!" Dan whisper yells, his face hot. Why was he even here? Why did he care what Phil was doing in his room with another boy?

"Shh!! I hear something!" Felix says.

The boys fall quiet as they listen intensely.

"Phil why don't you just stop it for tonight okay, I want to go back to bed."
James muffled voice says.

"Wait! Please one more time, I want to get it right." Phil voice sounded like he was pleading.

"Does he not know where the hole is?" Sean whispers,
"There's only one!"
"Not if you count his mouth!"

The boys all started snickering, Felix was shushing them loudly but he was also laughing quietly to himself.

"Shh! you guys! They could hear!" Dan exclaims. He starts chewing his nails, a habit he hasn't been into since he was 10.

"Dan! What if! What if Phil was so confused that he used his elbow!" Shane spits out.

This sends the boys into a fit of laughter, the cups fall from their hands and on the floor into a heap, thankfully the rug silences the noise.

Dan let's a small snort escape his lips until he coughs and goes serious. "Guys please!"

But they weren't listening, and they most certainly didn't hear Phil tell James to hang on as he storms out his room and slams open the door.

"Oh shit! We've been seen, separate!" Mark yells.

The boys scatter, running past Phil as he tries to grab one of them. He ends up grabbing Sean.

"Guys help! I got caught!"
"Leave him leave him!" Felix yells scrambling out the door.

Dan was halfway down the hall, but turns at the last second to run back to pull Sean out of Phil's grasp. Phil lets him go and eyes Dan as he stands there, shaking and brown eyes wide.

He opens his mouth to say something, but then shakes his head, turning back around to walk back into his room, but runs into James who had decided to leave after all.

"Phil I'm going back."
"Wait please-"
"Oh is this Dan!"

James comes over to him, even his night clothes were stylish! Dan suddenly felt self conscious about his overly large t-shirt and pants.

James brings a hand up and squishes Dan cheeks together, examining his face closely.

"You're cute, you have a baby face and really feminine eyes, and that dimple is to die for."

With his other hand he feels Dan's curls and pulls at the saggy collar of his shirt.

"And nice collar bones and a nice face, and hair,can I have your body like hello?"

"Let him go James, can't you see how scared he looks." Phil speaks lowly, one leg propped up on the wall behind him, his head down. It seems like he was always wearing that leather jacket, even with his all black night clothes.

James lets him go. Dan rubs his face as he stares open mouthed at the grinning boy.

"Hm it's a shame you're straight."

"I-I-"

"James! Go back to your hall!"

James winks at Dan and turns to Phil, "Yes sir."

"Do you need anything else?"
"Can I get a goodnight kiss?"

Phil looks over at Dan, and then back at James before picking up his hand and kissing it. James gasps.

"Goodnight James."

James leaves up the steps but Dan still stands there watching as Phil turns back to his room.

"Wait Phil!" Dan calls. Why is he doing this?

Phil turns back to him, his eyebrow arched high on his forehead.

"Good- goodnight!"

"What you want a hand kiss to?"

Dan turns deep red, "N-no of course not!"

Phil smirks, "Yea okay Dan, goodnight." Then Phil turns and leaves without further thought to the conversation, his door shutting slightly behind him.

Twisting his shirt in his hands,Dan goes back to his room, ignoring the quickly retreating faces of the boys as they close the doors to their own rooms. Why! Why did he feel like he was about to cry? Phil was nothing to him, and yet, he was also the world.

Never before has he felt this before about a person. And how he almost let it slip to James about what his sexuality was worse if he couldn't already tell. He wishes he could walk in there to Phil's room and ask what they were talking about, but he knew he couldn't. Phil was probably mad at him or Felix for making him stay away.

Was he falling for- no he wasn't, he would never fall for the schools bad boy.

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Dan is woken from his sleep by a loud air horn early in the morning, it was lucky that it was Free Friday so he wouldn't have to go to classes today.

Kingston's Academy fact#7: if the students have been working hard, they get a extra weekend as credit

"Get up you nosey fucks! You all have some explaining to do!"

It was Phil's voice, and he kept blowing that air horn over and over again that it was even flowing through the huge pillow that he had pulled over his ears, so he had no choice but to get up. As he opens the door, he sees the rest of the boys make their way down to the kitchen, Phil's air horn coming in that direction.

They all stand in the living room, lined up in a row as they watch Phil walk back and forth in front of them, the button of the air horn ready to be pushed again by his poised finger. Dan notices how he avoids his gaze every time he gets to the end of the line.

"Now, at approximately 2:00 am this morning, I heard the loud ass giggles of you four from the next empty room, spying on me."

"Who said we were spying?" Mark snorts from beside Sean.

"I don't know Mark, does 'oh shit, we've been seen separate!' Ring a bell?"

Mark rolls his eyes but guilt is written all over his face.

"Only because you came in last night at 1:30 with your lover!" Shane shoots back.

The boys make sounds of agreement.

"He's not my lover." Phil says gruffly.

Everyone makes a sigh of disappointment, but Dan tries not to grin.

"More of like a friend with benefits kind of thing, he's helping me figure out stuff."

Dan frowns.

"So you're not dating James." Felix says
"No."
"Did you have sex?"
"No! What is wrong with you perverts!" Phil yells.

"I could say the same thing to you." Dan smiles.

The boys 'oo' and Shane grabs Felix's arm excitedly. "Where's my fucking popcorn?"

"What?" Phil comes over to him and stands an inch away from his feet, "you have something to confess Dan?"

"Only if you're up to being exposed." Dan picks his head up, his eyes never leaving his.

"I could say the same thing to you.... Daniel." Phil looks at him, daring him to tell it.

Dan bites the inside of his lip, considering.

"That's what I thought." Phil chuckles, backing away, "still trying to protect yourself."

"Damn, and the tea was about to be spilled." Shane sighs letting his go of Felix's arm.

"Anyway," Phil turns back around to walk away from Dan, " as i was saying-"

"PHIL SNIFFS!-"

HONNK!!!!!

The air horn goes off in the room and everyone covers their ears as Dan yells out the rest of the sentence, but it gets drowned out by the loud noise. He blows the horn until it finally fuses out, out of air.

"That's all for today, go eat breakfast, dismissed." Phil orders.

Shane is still muttering as he walks into the kitchen with Mark and Sean, but Felix holds back and watches Dan, his eyes and cheeks were aglow in delight as he stares smugly at Phil. He makes a decision then.

"Phil." He says walking over to him.

Phil turns to him and Felix knights him, touching his right shoulder and then left, "Phil, I rebuke the from not talking to Dan, thy shall now talk to him."

Phil smiles and bows to him. "Why thank you kind sir."

Felix laughs as he walks into the kitchen with the others. Dan looks at the floor, the awkward tension had made its way into the room. Phil throws the horn on the couch beside him, having no use for it now.

"We don't speak about what happened that day to anybody understand?" Phil says.

"Are you embarrassed about sniffing my panties Phil? It looked like you enjoyed it." Dan says smugly.

"You're not intimidating in that shirt you know.."

"Oh so you are!" Dan claps his hands excitedly, "but why?"

Phil looks at him for a minute, "There are a million questions I want to ask to Dan, but the only one that's relevant to now is, where did the smart, clean and organized Dan go? The one that didn't want to talk about stuff like this?"

Dan opens his mouth to answer but then closes it thinking, where had that side of him gone? It seems like the more he hangs out with the boys, the less it seems like he is to blush at a innuendo or straighten himself out.

"He's still here," Dan says finally, "but just not as prominent." There, now that sounded good.

Phil comes over to him and rubs his arms, "Good because I been meaning to ask you something."

Dan backs away quickly, "Phil Lester if you lay another unprofessional hand on me!"

"There's the Dan that I know, come on I heard we're having pancakes!" Phil walks into the kitchen, leaving Dan staring after him.

All he wanted to know was, what was hiding under that jacket that was so bad, that he wouldn't take it off? Then Dan thought, maybe he should catch him with it off. He deserves it anyway from what he had did to him before.

why are my reads on this story being so weird??? i hope you're not skipping chapters!!

HOE OUT✌🏼