If I Stay

Mind | chapter 1

A/N: A NEW FIC!! I'm very excited for this one! Hope u enjoy<3

I was in the music classroom, practicing my piano skills, I was in the music, not just listening, I could feel the music.

"Dan, wake up!"

I opened my eyes as my hands stopped moving on the keys. I looked up, it was my best friend, PJ.

"Uh, sorry" I said gathering my notes.

"You didn't realise that everyone else left already? Seriously Dan, again?"

I just humphed at him, he didn't know what it was like, to live in the music.

"Anyways, let's go to lunch, I'm so hungry!" He whined and I stood up.

"And, by the way, that rock guy, Phil, was totally checking you out" he nodded towards Phil Lester, the singer of a local band.

"He saw me zoning out?" I asked quickly. Gosh that's so embarrassing.

"He saw you getting into the music, and he was totally into it too!"

"No he wasn't!" I glanced at Phil, through the window on the classroomdoor, he was staring at me. I blushed.

"Oh you like him!" PJ shouted.

"Shh! Oh my god Peej, I don't like him. Let's just go to lunch now."

I did like Phil, but I was never going to tell it to PJ, he would never shut up.

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Through the next week I noticed Phil hanging around the music classroom when I was practicing. He usually just stood behind the door and at times glanced through the window, I tried so hard to look like a human being while playing, but too easily I got sucked into the music.

This one Wednesday, on our lunch break, PJ was there with me, to judge, tocomplain about his boredom and mostly to play on his phone. I waspracticing to play the Moonlight Sonata for my audition to Juilliard, I was applying there for college.

"You can see him staring, right?" PJ asked me when I finished for thefifth time.

"Yeah,it's a bit distracting actual-"

"Don't worry about that! You are great, Juilliard will love you! The point is that he's totally into you!"

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Before lunch ended PJ and I left the music classroom. Phil quickly vanished, like he had everyday.

I wentto my locker to get my English books and PJ left for his math class. I was just putting my books in my back as, "Hey"

I looked up, it was Phil. He had his hand resting on top of my lockerdoor and he smiled at me.

"Hi" I smiled back at him, blushing.

"You're Dan, right?" I nodded.

"I'm Phil"

"Yeah I kno- I mean, yeah, cool." I laughed at my awkwardness and he laughed too.

"Anyways, me and my band, we have a concert tonight. It's at the Old Casino, do you know that place?"

Old Casino is an old building that just has empty halls and a small stagein it, the building actually use to be a casino, that's where the name comes from. That was years ago tho, these days it's a place foryoung garage bands to have gigs in, mostly rock bands. Not really my thing. The place is quite close to my house, of course I knew it. Also my dad's old band use to play there a lot.