Adopted by Phan

Chapter 8

I woke up in the living room with no memory of how I got there. I saw the empty chocolate stained cups, the empty bag of marshmallows and saw the piles of DVDs. I lifted my head and I smelt the sweet, delicious smell of pancakes. I was wrapped in my duvet and lying along the couch. Then it all came back to me. The dream. I was screaming in my sleep. How they reacted. We'd ended up watching two files and ate and drank until early hours. I must've fallen back asleep.
"Morning" Dan said walking into the room wearing his pyjamas.
"Hey" I said as he handed me a plate of two huge pancakes cakes in syrup "wow!"
"You do like pancakes don't you?" Dan said sitting next to me with his knife and fork poised in position.
"Is the pope catholic?" I laughed and dove into my pancakes.
"I don't know, is the pope catholic?" Dan replied pulling out his laptop.
"Yes Dan" I said laughing "yes they are"
"Morning" phil said entering as Dan had done. He sat on a chair opposite us.
"Morning" I said with my mouth stuffed with pancake.
"Morning lion" Dan said blowing phil a kiss. Phil caught it and replied.
"Morning Danosaur" he said. I just sat and looked from one to the other waiting for an explanation.
"See, Phil's favourite animal is a lion and in the Krave challenge we did a few years ago, Dan's onesie was a dinosaur so I guess those name just kind of became us to each other" phil explained and I nodded.
"So what do you want to do today?" Dan asked.
"Weren't we going to some Kung fu place?" Phil reminded him.
"Oh yeah, we'll go after breakfast" he said
"Sure" I replied and we ate pretty much silently.

After breakfast, we got dressed and headed to the studio. We walked as it was only around to corner. I was wearing my old, black fuzzy leggings and a black and white (well it used to be white) top that used to be quite long but is now a crop top. I shoved on my old tatty trainers and my grey jacket.
"So Sophie, how about we go shopping later?" Phil said "like clothes shopping"
"Sounds great!" I said tugging at my old top.
"We'll call Zoe or someone, they'll know about clothes better than us" Dan said.
"I'll shoot Zoe a quick text now" phil said pulling out his phone. We passed a phone store on the way to the studio and I must've stared at the phones a little too hard as we passed because Dan noticed.
"Have you got a phone?" He asked.
"Nope" I replied and continued walking.
"Hey, would you like one?" Dan said catching me by the shoulder and pulling me back to the window.
"I'd like one sure but they're a lot of money and you guys have given me so much already I..." I began.
"Sophie, you're our child now. When you make a few friends you can go out with them and we won't have to worry about where you are and what your doing because you can just shoot us a quick text to let us know. You'd be doing us a favour" phil explained.
"I guess" I said. Dan dragged us into the shop with one hand on my shoulder and his other wrapped around Phil's waist. I side it was like technology heaven. Cases. Phones. Headphones. Keyboards. Laptops. I wondered over to the wall saying Apple. I caught sight of the IPhone 5S in white. It was amazing. So slim and tall and shiny.
"You want that one" Dan said coming behind me.
"No it's okay I'll have this one" I said pointing to the Nokia brick that read that it was £9.
"Your having something better than that" he said.
"Fine, I guess I'll have that then" I said smiling.
"Now a case!" Phil said waving his hands around the wall that was full of cases hung off racks. I caught sight of a blue one that was full of pink, blue, purple, yellow and green flowers. It was a Cath Kidston. Phil saw me looking. Smiled at me then took it off the rack.
"Now headphones!" Dan said presetsenting various colours, styles and makes of headphones. I panicked. I'd never owned a pair of headphones before. I didn't know which style I liked. I chose some comfy looking ones, they were white and they had a giant B on the side. Beats by Dr Dre. Dan raised an eyebrow at me then reluctantly took them off the shelf. I shrugged and we went off to pay. When I saw the total price I felt awful. We got the sim installed and got the phone working by the time we'd left the shop. We decided we'd get lunch before going to the studio and as we sat in Starbucks Dan asked me what social media I wanted. I had no clue.
"There's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, snapchat, whats app, tumblr, vine and loads more" phil said.
"I guess I'll have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, snapchat and whats app then" I said smiling. Dan installed them all and set me up with my very own apple account. The set up my social medias then added him and phil on them all.
"So when you make some friends, you guys can stay in contacts" Dan said. I suddenly got a ping on my phone and so did Dan.
NEW WHATS APP MESSAGE FROM PHIL
I turned to look at phil and he laughed. I opened the chat to see that he put us all into a chat called Family😸 (that's the cat emoji if anyone doesn't see it)
We left Starbucks and went to the studio. I felt a familiar pang of guilt and worry in my stomach. The memory of my secret popped into my head but I distracted myself by scrolling through my very empty twitter feed. I began following a few people. Why couldn't I just forget. Why do I have to keep remembering?

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