Dan's POV
I was quite bored that night, Phil was out with some friend of his, I don't know her name, it wasn't worth remembering. I was watching some crap on TV about elephants in Africa, it was really boring but it was too much effort to turn over, Phil always said I was lazy...
Phil's POV
I was in a café having a drink with a girl I'd met in the cinema, her name was Cathy and whilst she was strikingly pretty, she was incredibly dull. I don't know why I agreed to meet her, but I guess I just liked the attention. I kind of wished I was back in the flat arguing with Dan over little things and scaring each other constantly. No such luck.
Cathy just talked and talked about herself, she was taking a history course at university... I was pretending to care. It sounds harsh, but the fact is whilst I would most likely have been able to tell her entire life story by the end of that awful date she probably had trouble remembering my name. That always seemed to happen with girls in my experience, I never knew what to say.
Dan's POV
Phil said that when he got home I was crashed out on the sofa. I was going to make some joke about him perving on me in my sleep, but I could tell he'd had a rough time with this friend of his and I got the feeling he wouldn't find it funny. I loved making him laugh but there were boundaries, there were always boundaries with Phil.
The fact is I loved him, like no one had ever loved anyone before, but we had the best friendship and I didn't want to jeopardize that for a relationship that could end terribly. At first it was like a pathetic crush and I'd convinced myself that I just looked up to him because he was older. As I later discovered that definitely wasn't the case.
The whole day Phil was in a weird mood, I offered him a singalong to a song of his choice, but for the first time on our friendship he declined... something was wrong. Phil disappeared off to his room a short while later, and I just left him to it.
Phil's POV
I needed space. I curled up under my duvet and just lay there. When would I meet the right girl? I'd always pictured my life at this age as me with the girl my dreams, possibly contemplating marriage, so where was she? I loved Dan as a roommate and it was going to be impossible to move away from him, but I was ready to start the next chapter. Even if it meant leaving what I knew and loved.