Laughter Lines

Brother.

I literally bumped into Dan when I left my appartment. 

'Oh hii, Dan! Sorry, I didn't see you. How are you?'

'Oh don't worry. I'm fine, thanks! How are you?'

'I'm on my way to school actually, so I couldn't be more happy'

He laughed and went over to his door, which was right across mine. 

When we were young we were neighbours and our parents were close friends, so we'd spent a lot of time together. 

We basically knew everything about each other, our deepest secrets, our flaws, almost everything. 

I guess you can call us soulmates or whatever that means. 

When we went to uni, Dan managed to find two appartments next to each other. 

'Now we can stay neighbors a little longer!' He had said when he announced the good news. 

So we're in Leeds now, trying to succeed in whatever we are doing. 

Dan is studying English, not sure what he wants to do with it when he graduates. 

Maybe he'll become a journalist or something. 

I'm studying history, which basically means I have no succesfull future ahead of me. 

It's our final year, not knowing what is coming at us once we graduate. 

Scary thought, isn't it?

'Steph, wait! Our movie-time is still on for tonight, right?' Dan asked, turning round when he heard me going down the stairs. 

'Of course! Your place or mine?'

'Yours, Haven't cleaned mine yet.'

'Have you ever?'

He laughed again. 

'True..'

'As much as I'm enjoying or little talk, I have to go now cause otherwise I'm going to be late. See you tonight, DANIELLA!'

'Right, see you STEPHAN'

We always did that. It started off as a joke, but after a while it became some kind of habit. 

When we teased each other, we always used each others transsexual name.

I closed the door behind me.

I hated long days at uni, I always returned home tired.

I hadn't even taken off my coat yet when I heard someone knocking at the door.

When I opened the door I saw it was Dan, holding a few DVD's and a huge box of popcorn.

'I heard you coming in, so I figured we could start right away!' He said excited. 

'Yeah sure, come in!'

We sat down on the couch and started to watch 'The breakfast club'.

It was one of our favourite movies. We must have watched it, like, a thousand times but it never got boring.

I rested my head on Dan's shoulder, eating most of his popcorn. 

In the middle of the movie, I started to notice how tired I was. I could barely keep my eyes open. 

But even before I could consider of getting up and go to bed, I slowly fell asleep on his shoulder.

I woke up by Dan's voice.