A/N: Alright then, hi. Welcome to my first Phanfiction! I've written a few fanfics back then (if you wanna check them out) but this is the first time I've written a Phanfic. And I really hope you'll like it! If you want to see the actual summary of this story then you might wanna check it out on my profile, it's all there :)

Just a little heads up if you don't know the summary, Dan and Phil started out as 11 year-olds in this story. But the boys grow up (obviously) as the story goes on, so don't worry ;D

Story inspired by the songs: I Can't Wait Forever by Simple Plan, Distance by Christina Perri and In Your Shadow I can Shine by Tokio Hotel. (Go check the songs out! They're amazing. And maybe you might hint out the things that would happen in the story if you listened to them)

-Nothing's Stopping Us-

Chapter 1: I owe you

I never realized how beautiful the sky really was, even when it's in the day. The way the sun shone its orange rays through the clouds made it even more beautiful.

It was around 5:00 pm when I realized I was starting to get lost in the beauty that was the outside world. I never really appreciated it; I was always isolating myself inside my house, watching telly, playing a lot of video games and all that stuff.

The way the wind brushes against my skin, the way it ruffled my hair, the way it made the leaves on the ground fly.

The sound of birds chirping,of trees rustling, it relaxed me.

I was simply at peace.

A familiar voice, calling out my name, pulled me out from my state of mind.

"Dan?" Phil called out, kneeling beside his best friend, who was lying down on the grass, and looking over him with a worried expression.

Dan, finally coming back to his senses, looked up at the tree above them with wide eyes, blinking several times. He looked around him curiously; they were under a tree in a playground. He noticed Phil, kneeling beside him, looking a bit worried.

"Phil..." he breathed out, letting his best friend know that he's conscious.

Phil let out a huge sigh of relief. "I thought you weren't going to wake up this time," he chuckled.

Dan occasionally did this, he would be sitting (or lying) in silence and then he would zone out, completely getting lost in his own thoughts. Phil never really understood why he would do this, what could possibly be going through that big head of his that made him get lost in it so easily.

Dan giggled as he sat up. "What time is it?" he asked.

Phil checked his watch and said, "5:40 pm, we need to get home or my mum's going to murder me."

Dan nodded. "Yeah, wait… but what about..?" He quickly looked around the playground. It was surprisingly clean, no dry leaves littered the grass, they were all compiled into one big clump that sat beside the tree they were under.

Dan stared back at Phil. "Phil, did you clean the playground all by yourself?" he asked.

Phil looked at him for a second and nodded nervously. Dan felt guilty. He was supposed to clean the dry leaves that littered the playground with Phil, but instead, he let Phil do it all by himself whilst Dan, on the other hand, was too busy daydreaming under the shade.

"Phil, we were supposed to clean the playground together; you should've woken me up…" Dan said, looking at Phil with a guilty expression.

Phil shrugged. "It's alright, it wasn't that hard and it didn't really take that long. Plus, you looked so peaceful; you know, you had a really long day and I thought you might need some peace and quiet." Dan caught a glimpse of Phil's pink cheeks for a second.

Dan sighed; he stood up and brushed his clothes, his best friend doing the same. He walked over to the two rakes that rested on the grass, walked back and handed one to Phil.

Phil gave Dan a genuine smile and Dan smiled back, still feeling rather guilty that he let his best friend do all the work for him.

"Now c'mon," Phil enthusiastically said as he started to walk out of the playground with a rake in one hand. "It's getting late and we still need to get these back to Ms. Jackson."

Dan sadly nodded and followed him. "I'm sorry I slacked off, Phil… I owe you one, how 'bout I buy you that ice cream you've been craving for since you got here? I have some spare change." Dan smirked.

Phil looked at Dan with a surprised expression. "Are you crazy? My mum's going to kill me once she finds out…"

Dan scoffed. "She's not going to find out, don't worry!" he said. "You need some sweetness in your life. I can imagine eating only 'vegetables' and other 'healthy stuff' must've been driving you insane."

Phil shrugged.

"C'mon, you have freedom. You don't have to be doing everything that your mum tells you to do. You have your own choices, it's your life, you can do what you want to do and make choices that you want to choose." Dan said, looking over his best friend's blank expression.

Phil looked back at Dan, locking eyes. He gave him a smile and shrugged again.

Dan chuckled and playfully punched his shoulder. "Don't just shrug at me. Think about what I said Phil." he said, "I'm just… you know, a bit worried because I feel like your mum has been way too controlling over you nowadays. I just wanted to remind you that you can make your own choices too, okay?"

Phil sighed and smiled at Dan again. "Okay…"

Dan was right; Phil's mother had been way too overprotective and controlling over her 11 year old son.

Phil understood that his mother was just worried about him, he understood that his mother wanted what was best for him and everything, but what Phil didn't understand was that his mother barely gave him his own sense of freedom.

His mother wouldn't buy him consoles or computers, she wouldn't let him watch telly for more than 3 hours a day, she would only feed him 'healthy food", she wouldn't let him out after 4:00 pm, she would tell him who to be friends and who to hang out with, etc.

Phil was lucky that she still agreed to him hanging out with Dan, he found his own sense of freedom when he was with Dan. He would play video games in his house and they would watch telly for hours (and his mum never found out about it). And now, apparently, Dan had offered to buy Phil some ice cream.

He never stopped hanging out with Dan ever since they moved in the neighborhood when he was 8. Dan and his family lived next to them, his family gave Phil and his mother a warm welcome and Phil's mother became very good friends with Dan's parents. Dan, on the other hand, became best friends with Phil, they would hang out with each other all day every day (well of course before 3:30 pm) they were inseparable.

Without Dan, Phil probably would've been a hundred times miserable by then.

"Here you go, Ms. Jackson," Dan said as he and Phil handed the two rakes to Ms. Jackson who was standing by her garden.

"Thank you," she said coldly as she took the rakes from both of their hands. "That's what you two get for littering my garden and destroying all my garden gnomes. You're both very lucky I didn't tell your parents and made them pay for it. Especially your mum, Philip, I know what she's capable of…"

Phil sadly nodded; he knew his mother would find out anyway.

"I'll go check out the playground to make sure you didn't just slack off. Do something worse to my garden and you two would do more than to just clean the playground," she warned.

Ms. Jackson was paid to clean out the playground by the mayor, even though it seemed like an easy job, it wasn't. She would gather up dry leaves, wipe down the slides, swings and the others when it gets wet from a rain.

They both nodded. "Yeah, sorry again, Ms. Jackson…" Dan apologized as we began to walk back to our neighborhood.

As they were walking back, they quickly spotted an ice cream truck parked on the other side of the street. And it wasn't just some random ice cream truck, it was Alan's.

Alan worked in an ice cream truck as a part time job. It was his father's ice cream truck and he was basically following his father's footsteps. As years passed, being an ice cream vendor became his full time job. Alan had been serving ice creams to Dan since he was 5. They became very good friends; Dan would buy ice cream from him two to three times a week and socialize a bit. And because Dan was one of his loyal customers, Alan insisted on serving Dan free ice creams. Dan said otherwise, since it would be kind of unfair to Alan that he would give out unpaid ice cream (even though he really wanted them free).

"Hey look, Phil. It's Alan!" Dan nudged. "So how 'bout that ice cream we talked about earlier? You up for it?"

Phil shrugged. "I don't know, Dan… are you sure it's okay? I mean, you think my mum would find out?"

Dan gave him a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, Phil. She won't find out, and it's the least thing I could do for you since I slacked off and you did all the work for me back there at the playground…"

Phil smiled back at him and hesitated a bit before answering. "O-Okay…"

Dan gave him a wide grin before walking to the truck, casually crossing the street. He took out the change he had in his pockets and began to count it as he crosses, not looking where he was going.

Phil was a bit concerned that Dan wasn't paying attention to the road. He suddenly began to panic when a car came out from the corner of the street and was speeding towards his best friend, who was a bit too distracted from counting his change still.

Dan was walking extremely slow, completely unaware that a car was speeding towards him.

"Dan!" Phil cried out. Dan turned and saw the car, unable to make an expression.

Time seemed to slow down as the car, a few feet from Dan, approached the boy. Before the car's hood hit Dan, he was reluctantly pulled behind by the collar of his shirt, away from the car's direction.

Phil saved Dan but he didn't anticipate something speeding towards him in the other direction. Whatever was speeding towards Phil actually ran into him, making crash down onto the hard ground.

And then everything went white…

A/N: Wow, okay. Sorry if the first chapter sucks BUT I promise it gets better! I really hope you guys like it!

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K byeeeee! See you next chapter!