Do you ever feel like you are just following a crowd, that your life has just become a series of events that just followed everyone else's that you know? You start school when you are 4 years old and then you move to the next school when you are 11 then the next when you are 16 and finally you attend university. Through out your whole school life you may have the same friends, you may have that one friend you have from when you was 4 years old and you attend the same school as them and maybe even university. Sometimes it makes you wonder if you are living your life for you or living the same life as everyone else in your class.

Not many people think this way but a certain 16-year-old boy does and always has. Seeing as his parents have never moved he has just followed everyone else in his year through different years of school. He never really made many good friends but he did have a few friends that he was very close with, the only problem was none of his friends was in any of his classes. From a young age Dan knew his mind was pretty special, most people only ever cared about what food they was having that night or what movies was coming out soon, where as he always worried about the future, not fitting in or getting left behind.

Today was one of those days, Dan was sat in his history class spacing out, he never really paid that much attention in history and everything they was getting taught he knew anyways. He rested his head in his hands and closed his eyes, more of those thoughts flooded through his mind about how much his life was like a repeat button. He let out a deep sigh and looked up again, he placed his hand on the table when he realised there was something in his hand. Curiously he looked down to see a folded up piece of paper.

iSleeping in class? Really Howell? /i

Dan looked around the class, none of his friends was in here so he had no idea who would of given him that piece of paper. The boy next to him nudged his head to the side indicating to look behind him so Dan did. Sat behind him was another boy with longish black hair, he smiled up at Dan when he saw him look over to him and gave him a little wave. Dan gave him a small wave back before looking back at his desk and pulling out a piece of paper from his note book.

i I shall sleep in class if I want to, plus I am pretty sure I have never been graced with your presence before so why should I be taking advice from a stranger? /i

After tapping the boy to his right on the shoulder and instructing him to pass the paper behind him Dan waited to see if he would receive another note but he didn't. He started to feel guilty, he felt maybe he shouldn't have been so rude when talking back to the boy but he didn't mean any offence with what he wrote. Finally given up on hearing back on the boy, he looked up at the clock, he knew the bell was going to ring in less than five minutes so he started to pack his stuff away.

Right on queue the bell rung and everyone in the class got up, tucked their chairs behind their desk and started to leave the room. Dan flung his bag onto his back and waited for the row next to him to leave before he could finally get out from behind his desk.

" Phil"

Dan tilted his head and looked up, was someone talking to him and why did they randomly say their name. When he finally looked at the person he noticed it was the boy he passed the note to earlier on this class.

" Now that you know my name you should take my advice"

Dan snorted, he had no idea who this boy was but he had no right to talk to him that way, he knew everything that was being taught in that class so if he didn't want to listen he wouldn't, plus, what gave this boy the right to talk to him like this.

"Oh really? I never noticed that you were my mother." He snorted and started to make his way from behind his desk. " Also, if I don't want to pay attention I wont. Do you really know so much about me that you would know what I do and don't need?"

This took Phil by surprise, for some reason he had this impression Dan would be this sweet book nerd, guess he was wrong. " Maybe not your mother but you clearly missed the assignment." He held his notebook in his hand. "If you want to talk about if I have a free period, I'm sure you know where the 6th form room is."

Dan was confused for a moment; he was in his GCSE year, so why was this boy talking about the 6th form room, no one other than 6th formers was allowed in those rooms. He wasn't letting this boy win so he just smirked instead. " Yeah I don't need help." With that he walked out of the door and headed towards his next class.

The rest of the week was as normal as it always had been, he went to his class, all his friends was in different classes, he then went to lunch with his friends and then back to the rest of his classes without friends. For some reason he found himself looking around his class to see if Phil was there, but he didn't see him again that week.

It had been a week since that first history lesson with that boy and it was rolling around in an hour. Dan was currently sat in art and was sketching away in his book thinking about this next lesson. Would that boy be there? Why is he so obsessed with looking for that boy? Should he actually pay attention since he still has no idea what the assignment was?

"Assignment… shit" he completely forgot about the assignment.

The bell rang so he started to make his way towards the history class, today he would actually pay attention in the hopes the teacher would talk about the assignment again. The class went past the same way it always did, long, boring and full of stuff that he already knew. He was tempted to just tune out again, but there was no way he missing the assignment details twice. He looked up to the side to notice Phil was in the class, part of him thought he should apologise for the behaviour he showed him the first week, but the other part of him decided he didn't really care.

He looked up at the clock to notice that the lesson was almost over and there was still no sign of his teacher talking about the assignment, he really couldn't afford to go another week without having a clue what the assignment is or when it was due. He started to notice people leaving the classroom and wondered what it is he should do. He could stop Phil and ask him about the assignment or he could just ask anyone else in the class. Packing his stuff up he started to make his way out of the door to head to his next class, on the way there he passed the sixth form room and saw Phil sat in there alone. He bit his lip slightly, he could always just ask the other about the assignment… but he really didn't want to miss his next class, he never missed class.

During his thinking session he hadn't noticed that his feet had dragged him across the empty hallway and to the sixth form room. His hand rose to knock on the door lightly and that was the action that snapped him out of his deep thoughts. Phil answered the door and looked at him somewhat confused as to why the boy was there.

Dan tilted his head also as if he was also confused as to why he was there. "Yeah?" He asked, completely forgetting the fact he was the one who knocked on Phil's door and not the other way around.

" Shouldn't I be asking you that question?" the black haired boy asked.

"Oh yes…" Dan mumbled, "Basically I am taking you up on that offer on telling me about the assignment."

"Oh really now? Well, you may as well come on in."

Dan wasn't sure if he was allowed in this room as it was strictly for the others and he wasn't in 6th form yet. After hesitating for a bit he followed Phil into the room and sat down on one of the many leather sofas in the room. He took a quick look around the room; they had lockers in the far corner, which was totally unfair since none of the rest of the school had lockers. The room's walls were painted different colours and they had all drawings all over them. It seemed as if each different student added their own drawing or graffiti to the walls, part of him wondered which was Phil's but he didn't ask. He then also noticed they had a tap, a snooker/pool table, a microwave, three sofas, beanbags and a television.

Phil sat down next to him with his folders on his lap, " You aren't missing any classes right?" He asked, his voice was less as sarcastic as it had been in class.

" No" he lied, of course he was missing class, the only time you have classes off is when you are in sixth form and he clearly wasn't in sixth form. Luckily he was only missing music which was another class that he normally breezed through, plus that teacher never took a register or never really taught anything she just told them to carry on with what ever their projects was.

"Okay, so I am guessing you still have no idea what the assignment is? Here you go…" he slid a folder on his lap, it was a Muse folder filled with plane lined paper.

" You like Muse?" Dan asked raising an eyebrow, Muse was one of his favourite bands and he knew these folders was pretty expensive so Phil must have been a pretty big fan to fork out for the payment and the shipping to the UK.

"Yes, I love them, they are one of my favourite bands, but you can use it for now you'll need to take notes either way."

Dan nodded and grabbed out his pen from his bag, he had no idea why Phil gave him a folder considering he had one in his bag anyways.

Phil explained how the assignment was to write a 5,000 worded essay on an event that happened somewhere between 1900 -2000, they had full control over what they decided they wanted to write about, but they needed to include at least 5 sources, have a bibliography and keep a booklet of every piece of material they read in books or on the internet.

They spent the remainder of the lesson going through different ideas, talking about which books they would need for their assignments and writing random notes to go with what they wanted to write about. Dan had to admit he was having a pretty good time chilling with Phil and doing work at the same time and part of him was really sad when he heard the alarm going off. For the first time in a long time he felt that his life wasn't just following the crowd, he had made a new potential friend on his own and what was coming next wasn't a predictable event.

"So I guess that's my queue to leave for French" Phil said he stood up. Dan stood up also and placed Phil's folder on the sofa and closed it, he had French also but obviously not the same class.

"Me also, so I guess we are going the same way?"

Phil nodded and put both of the folders into his locker and grabbed his French folder out. " So? Do you want to accompany me on the journey?" He asked as he made his way to the door.

Dan nodded and put his bag on his bag and sighed, God he wished they had lockers that way he wouldn't have to carry around all of his stuff. Phil must of noticed that something was playing on Dan's mind so grabbed the bag off of him. " It sucks doesn't it? Having to carry around so much stuff for 5 years, especially in a school as big as this." He walked back over to his locker and threw Dan's bag in there. " Do you need any books for this class?"

Dan nodded softly and walked over to him opening up his bag and grabbing his notebook and a pen out of the bag. " Are you sure this is okay? I'm not supposed to be in here never mind leave my stuff in here? Plus I wouldn't want to inconvenience you and take up your space; it is your locker after all."

"That is true, you aren't suppose to be here yet here you are." Phil laughed and locked up his locker. "Your stuff will be fine here I promise."

Dan nodded holding his books in his hand and making his way out of the door next to Phil, he could probably get use to this. They made their way through the hallways and up the stairs until they made it to the third floor where they knew their classes were. Their rooms was right next to each other so they said their byes at the door and Phil said he would wait for Dan after his so he could get his books for the next class or his money for dinner.

Dan made his way into his classroom and took his seat towards the back of the room. French class, another class he paid hardly any attention in, he was forced to attend French as there was no other subject available for him to do. He wasn't too bad at French but he wasn't brilliant either. The class started on time and he started to take notes which he usually did, the class was a pretty close group so they did group readings, group assignments, group parties and today was one of those days where they had to work in groups. Dan was put into a group with one other boy and two girls, he never really learned their names as most of the times names wasn't really mentioned in the classrooms.

"So I see you are hanging around with Phillip Lester." One girl spoke with a hint of a giggle in her voice, Dan wasn't really sure what to reply, was he meant to reply?

"Ah yes? I guess so." He continued to write the rest of the notes down from the board.

"Isn't he just perfect…" the other mumbled with a day dream look on her face, Dan just tilted his head, did he accidently waltz into the Phil appreciation society without realising it.

" I heard the staff and sixth formers ball is coming up soon and they are allowed to invite anyone they want as their 'dates'."

"Same, I heard Phil has turned down two girls and one boy already, I wonder if he is even going?"

Dan just rolled his eyes, why did this even matter, why are they talking about someone else's life, as it clearly didn't involve them at all.

" I wonder if he would ask.."

"Will you shut up" Dan groaned and looked up from his book, " It is Phil's life and he can do what he wants, if he wants to turn down three people then let him, if he wants to go alone let him, and if he wants to bring another person from another school then let him! This is not your business." He looked around to see everyone staring at him.

"Daniel…"

" Yea yea I know the drill" he grabbed his book and walked out of the classroom. Surprisingly he got kicked out of the French room a lot. Seeing as he had to stand outside the classroom until he 'calmed down' before the teacher would let him back in again his mind started to wonder back to why he snapped at them in the first place. Honestly he had no idea why it bugged him so much, normally he just let people gossip whenever they wanted but for some reason he snapped. Though he did always hate it when people talked about his friends and Phil was his friend now. He never understood as to why people wanted to gossip about people's lives anyways it has nothing to do with them so why should they care? Why should he care?

"What are you doing out here?"

Dan looked up to see a familiar black haired boy, how come whenever he was alone this boy would be there. " I may have created a bit of a scene and then got kicked out of the classroom."

Phil couldn't help but laugh, he had no idea that this boy, who normally sits quiet in a class, could create so much drama that he got kicked out of the class. "Do you want to talk about why you got yourself kicked out of class?"

" Not really no…" He couldn't exactly tell Phil the reason as to why he got kicked out of the classroom. He leaned against the door to his room before he realised he didn't actually shut it properly and went flying back onto the floor screaming.

"Daniel what are you doing now, haven't you caused enough trouble?"

Dan sat back up and looked across at his teacher. " I'm sorry I didn't mean to fall through the door way I can assure you that much."

" Yes, sorry, it was all my fault I pushed him by accidently." Phil walked into the classroom and leaned down pulling Dan back up to his feet.

" I should have known you would have something to do with it Philip, how come both times there was disruptions in my class today it had your name on it."

" Twice? But I have only just got here."

Dan just shuffled his feet slightly and laughed. " Haha yea… about that the reason I got kicked out in the first place was because two girls wouldn't keep their mouth shut about you… so I yelled."

"I see." Phil laughed. " I am sorry Miss it wont happen again I assure you." Phil smiled at the teacher and walked back out. " Hey Dan? Once you finished class I will be out here waiting so you can get your books out of my locker."

Dan looked slightly confused, was Phil saying he didn't want to be his friend any more. "Okay." Was all he could manage to say.

"Now that is sorted, can you please take your seat Mr Howell and shut up for the rest of the class."

Dan nodded and made his way back to his chair and sat down. He placed his book back on the table and started to doodle on the page. Today started off pretty well, then it got better, then it got worse extremely fast, there was no denying it, he was terrified that he had managed to upset Phil, maybe doing what he did was wrong, maybe Phil loved it when people talked about him after all it wasn't up to Dan to defend Phil. Maybe Phil was embarrassed that Dan, someone two years younger than him found the need to defend him, perhaps he had hurt Phil's pride.

Surprisingly the rest of this class went by really slow, Dan was dreading what was going to happen to him after he saw Phil. Finally the bell rung, it was the moment he was waiting for, he had no idea why he was scared after all it wasn't like him and Phil had been friends for a long time, they hardly even knew each other.

Dan made his way out of the classroom and as promised Phil was stood there. Both Dan and Phil was pretty tall, they towered the majority of the people coming out of Dan's class, there really was no hiding right now. People was more energetic this time as it was time for dinner, people would run to get to the cafeteria in time to get something good for dinner before it was all taken.

"Shall we go then?" Phil asked softly to break the silence between the two of them. Dan on the other hand couldn't do anything more than nod, he was sure he was in some sort of trouble.

The both made their way back down to the sixth form room in silence; neither really knew what to say so they just let their feet drag them along. When they reached the room Phil opened the door and let Dan in with him.

"So do you have your own lunch or do you have to buy something?" Phil asked as he made his way over to his locker to pull his bag out.

"Well I was going to buy some but I think I may be a bit too late to queue up for anything good now" he laughed lightly. " I may just head out to town and get something from there maybe."

" I could join you if you want… unless you want to be alone? I mean I brought lunch with me but a walk may be nice" Phil smiled softly and pulled out a sandwich, " or you can have one of mine?"

"Wait, you aren't mad at me?" Dan asked softly tilting his head to the side. He walked over to the locker and pulled his bag out.

" Of course not, why would I be mad at you? I said I would wait for you didn't I?"

Dan laughed, this whole time he thought Phil was mad at him and he wasn't, this whole time he was worried he would lose a friend and that wasn't the case. Now which option should he go for, should the head to town or should he nom on one of Phil's sandwiches. After thinking about it for a few seconds longer he decided it may be a good idea to go for a walk and get off school premises, he felt like he really didn't belong in the 6th form common room and he didn't want to force Phil to eat out in the canteen with him.

"Do you want to go to town? It may be a nice little walk, plus there are some amazing chip shops."

Phil nodded, " sounds like a good plan to me, you can leave your bag here if you want and just take your wallet or something, save you lugging all those books to town with you, it must be really heavy and you look like a matchstick."

" Rude" Dan laughed, he took the bag back off his back and placed it into Phil's locker, opening it up he pulled his wallet out and placed it into his coat pocket. "Thank you, you really don't have to have my bag if you don't want to, I mean I understand it is your locker."

Phil just shrugged. " Its fine seriously, I only ever shove my folders in there anyways and the lockers are pretty huge." He took his own wallet out of his bag and placed it in his trouser pockets. " So shall we go?"

Dan nodded and walked next to him, he was sure his friends wouldn't mind him heading out with Phil this dinnertime instead of staying inside. The pair made their way outside and headed up towards the town, it wasn't that far to walk but it was a nice stroll.

"So, how come you started to talk to me?" Dan asked as they walked along the busy road.

"Why not, you seemed like a pretty chill person." Phil shrugged, it was starting to get colder and he almost wished he had brought his scarf with him, that way he could at least keep his face warm. He slipped his hands into his pocket and started to play with his wallet, Dan was nice there was no question about it, he wasn't being pushy, he wasn't asking him to the dance, he wasn't doing anything anyone else had been doing to annoy or grab his attention for the past few weeks. Being with Dan was just so nice.

"Chill? Me?" Dan laughed lightly; clearly his exterior emotions are a lot bet than his interior. He noticed Phil put his hand in his pocket and he looked pretty cold. He pulled out a spare pair of black gloves from his pocket. " Want them, they are only cheap so I have no idea how warm they will keep you, but I don't want your hands to freeze off… that wouldn't be very good."

Phil smiled softly and took the glove's from Dan. " Thank you so much, that was really nice of you" He slipped the gloves on and carried on walking to the town with Dan. It only took them roughly 5 minutes to get into the town itself and then another 5 minutes to find the fish shop they actually want to go in. " So what do you want Daniel?"

Dan looked around, "Hm, I think I may have chips and sausage?"

Phil nodded and looked over at the server. " Can we have two tray of chips please, one with a sausage and one with curry sauce please."

The worker nodded and started to make up the food for them. " Would you like it to eat in or take away?"

"Take away please" Phil smiled and puled out his wallet, Dan also pulled out his but Phil pushed it back in. " No I will pay for this one as a sorry for worrying you earlier."

"You didn't worry me…" Dan lied.

"I'm not stupid, I saw the way you looked at me when you came out of the classroom, you looked scared, and then you didn't talk to me? I'm sorry for scaring you like that, I'm sorry." Phil smiled at him and paid the woman for the food. "Come on, I got a nice place we can go sit"

The rest of the month went the same way, Dan and Phil would arrive to school together, Dan would leave his stuff in Phil's locker then they would both head off for class, they would meet back up again to have lunch together and then they would meet up again to head home. They did this every day and they were growing closer and closer together, even though it started becoming repetitive Dan didn't worry about it at all.

Saturday came around and Dan was sat at home with his parents, he kind of missed going to school and seeing Phil, he couldn't really ask Phil if he wanted to give up his weekend to hang out.

"How come you are more excited to go to school instead of having a weekend away from school, you are not a normal child." Dan's mom joked.

Dan just shrugged and opened up his laptop to play around with it. He decided to go check YouTube to see if anything was recommended to him, or if any of his favourite YouTuber's had updated anything at all. After spending a few hours scrolling he happened to come across something that caught his eyes, Phil, Phil was on YouTube, he made videos. He slipped his earphones back over his years and started to play the videos curious as to the type of things he did on there. A number of times he caught himself laughing and smiling at the computer, he didn't even realise when his parents said they was going to bed.

Dan spent the rest of the night looking over Phil's videos, he was starting to become a bit of a fan of his. He wondered if it would be weird to subscribe to him, he went over to the main page to have a look how many people actually did subscribe to Phil and almost fell off his chair. Deciding that Phil probably wouldn't even notice the subscription he pressed subscribe.

Danisnotonfire is now subscribed to AmazingPhil.

Seeing as he spent so long on YouTube looking at Phil's videos, when Sunday came around Dan slept in until at least 3pm. When he finally got up he grabbed his laptop and logged on, deciding to check all his social media before he would finally get up to shower. Logging onto twitter he noticed he had a message.

AmazingPhil: hey! danisnotonfire, its me Phil! Can you follow me back so I can DM you?.

Dan blinked a few times, Phil posted this to him 2 hours ago and in that time it has had over 500 retweets, 300 comments… Hovering over the message he followed Phil back,

Danisnotonfire: Hello Phil, I followed you back like you asked, I hope you are okay bud.

" Wow that was lame Dan, bud? Really…?"

He didn't have to wait long before he got a personal message from Phil.

AmazingPhil: Hey Dan? How are you? Random question but I am heading to a Youtube meet up in London next week, would you like to come with me?

"MOM!" Dan screamed down the stairs, " Phil asked me if I wanted to go to London with him next week can I go?"

" Is his parents going?"

"Yea…" He lied, actually he had no idea if he lied or not but he knew his mother wouldn't let him go alone.

"Okay then!" She shouted back up the stairs.

Dan did a little jump and dance before pulling twitter back up. Now how to write this without sounding too excited.

Danisnotonfire: Sure I would love to; I have never been to one before.

AmazingPhil: Awesome! It would be great to have company traveling so far. Also, I may book my tickets tonight, would you like to come over and book with me?.

Danisnotonfire: To yours?

AmazingPhil: Yes mine, want me to give you my address?

Danisnotonfire:Yes please, I would like that.

Phil sent Dan a message with his address and told him he could go over any time he wanted. He decided the first thing he would do is actually pull himself out of bed and have a shower, his hair was getting pretty gross and there was no way he was going to go over Phil's house looking like this.

It was now nearing 6pm and he was finally dressed, this was the first time Phil would see him not in some trashy school uniform. He was wearing a pair of tight black jeans with belts to hold them up even though he was guilty of letting his ass hang out the back of them, and along side that he was wearing a grey shirt with a black jumper over the top. He straightened his hobbit hair so it was perfect and straight as it should be. He finally grabbed his coat, scarf, gloves and put on his shoes, "Finally ready"

He put his shoes on and made his way down the stairs. " I'm off out!" he yelled to his parents before running out of the house and down the street. Lucky for him Phil didn't live that far away, it was about a 10-minute walk or a 5-minute run, which he was currently doing. He only made it to the end of his street before he almost doubled over out of breath, " Okay, running is a bad mistake."

After walking a bit more slower to Phil's house, Dan had finally made it to the street, he looked up and counted the houses before he spotted the one that must have been Phil's. "Oh wow" He looked up at the rather big house, it had a huge front garden and steps to the door. "Well now I feel out of place" he laughed lightly opening the gate to the front garden before walking up to the main house. When he reached the house he knocked on the door softly and waited for Phil to answer it.

Dan waited patiently until he heard a loud skid then a bang, right before the door flung open. "Hey Dan! I'm so glad you came."

"I'm glad I did too, your house looks amazing…" he mumbled looked around.

"Well why don't you come on inside and have a look around." He smiled softly and opened the door for Dan. " Here, want me to take your coat and scarf for you? I can assure you the house is pretty toasty warm."

Dan nodded and slipped his gloves off and placed him in his pocket, he then took his scarf and coat off and passed it to Phil. He had to laugh slightly Phil looked like such a dork, he never saw him wear his glasses before, never mind a Pokemon t-shirt and some jeans.

"Hey! What's so funny!" he laughed lightly and nudged Dan, " Someone dressed up pretty smart for a Sunday didn't he?"

"Hey I always wear this, someone's dressed down for his age isn't he?" He joked. " So what did you want to do, I brought my bank card so we can order tickets if you want?"

"That sounds good to me." Phil smiled. "We can go up to my room that way we wont get interrupted by family and crap, plus my MacBook is up there."

Dan nodded and followed Phil up to his room; this house was like a bloody maze it kind of scared him a little. When they arrived at Phil's room he looked around, it was exactly like he remembered from the videos.

Phil grabbed his Mac and sat on the bed patting the space next to him for Dan to sit down. Dan sat next to him and smiled. "Oh wow this bed is so soft…. " He led back and groaned. " Okay I want to take your bed home with me" he laughed to show he was joking, but god the bed was so comfortable.

Phil laughed and tickled his stomach; he started to tickle even more when he noticed Dan laughing. Dan was almost screeching and rolling around Phil's bed in fits of laughter as Phil continued to tickle him.

" Stop stop stopppp" he whined as he tried to grab at Phil's hands, but Phil had no intention on stopping. Phil was laughing also and leaned over him to tickle him more. Dan wriggled more, accidently kicking Phil in the leg causing him to lose balance and land on Dan.

Dan blushed softly and placed his hands on Phil's waist; his heart was beating pretty fast from both laughing and the situation they was now in. Phil leaned down softly his eyes closed; the gap between them was getting less and less. Dan's eyes closed just like Phil's had, he tilted his head slightly to the side and leaned up before he felt something land harshly on his face.

"Oh my god I am so sorry!" Phil grabbed his glasses, which was now next to Dan's face. " They have never fallen off my face before, I am so so so sorry." He sat up and held his hand out to help Dan up also.

"It's okay." Dan laughed and sat next to him, "So… shall we book those tickets?" He asked softly, he was still in shock that Phil was about to kiss him and then there was no kiss so his head was everywhere.

Phill nodded and grabbed his laptop logging onto the National Rail website. "It is going to cost us, £22 each way, are you okay with that?"

Dan nodded, he had enough on his card since he saved up a lot of his money and hardly ever used it. "Yerp, that's fine with me"

Phil hover over the buy now tickets before looking across at Dan. " How about I buy the tickets for the both of us, and you pay for the food and other stuff when we get there? It will end up coming to pretty much the same price anyways"

Dan smiled "Okay, that sounds like a good idea to me! As long as you promise you will let me pay when we get there, you seem to have this running idea you can keep paying for me for stuff" Dan laughed lightly.

" Deal." Phil smiled and placed his laptop back down. " So do you have anything else you want to do, I was suppose to do a YouTube video but that can wait."

" Why not do it now?" Dan asked, I mean they both did YouTube, sure Phil had a lot more followers than him but it wasn't like he minded waiting for Phil to film or anything.

"Well I wouldn't want to bore you I was suppose to do a Q and A"

" I could do it with you." Dan suggested. " I mean, we could, if you wanted, create an amalgamation of our YouTube names and maybe make some sort of series?"

Phil thought for a minute and smirked. "That sounds like a pretty cool idea, I have always liked the idea of doing some sort of joint project with someone, but what would we name it? AmazingDan? No… that just sounds like a username."

"Well it has to be something about you as it is your video right?" Dan thought for a few minutes before smirking. " What about Phil is not on fire? I mean im more known as 'That guy who is not on fire' so if you took that part and put it with your name…"

" Mew! I love it"

"Did you just meow at me?" Dan laughed.

"Maybe…."

Somehow between filming they managed to draw cat whiskers on each others face, this had been the most fun Dan had in a while, he was really tempted to maybe do more things on his own channel if this is how much fun he was having on Phil's.

" So yes! If you want to check out Dan's channel the link will be bellow! Bye guys!"

"That really was a lot of fun" Dan laughed as he flopped back on Phil's bed. "It's getting dark out though, maybe I should leave we have class in the morning."

"Can't you stay?" Phil whined slightly, he really wanted to spend some more time with Dan and they did go to the same school.

"I'm not sure, my parents are pretty strict about what time I am home and stuff." Dan looked at Phil at the worst time, the older boy was pouting and Dan could not deal with the pouty face, not from anyone. " Fine I will phone them and ask them if I can stay, but I can not guarantee the will let me."

A few minutes later Dan hung up the phone to his parents. " They said I could stay as long as we go by my house tomorrow to pick up my books to head to school, that way they also know I have gone to school."

"YES!" Phil smiled and laid back on his bed when the sound of his twitter started to go off. " Hm I wonder who that is" he mumbled and flipped it over. His face dropped and he sighed sadly, his fingers roamed over the keys but didn't dare to press even one of them.

"What's wrong?" Dan asked softly, while walking over to sit next to him.

" My ex"

Dans face dropped also, of course Phil had dated people before that was a given, but even Dan knew when someone mentioned their Ex in that tone of voice, it wasn't going to be good. "Would you like to talk about it?"

"We met when my YouTube channel was a lot smaller, he made me feel really good about what I was doing and the content I was creating. He started to send me loads of messages saying I was cute and smart and funny, after a few weeks of talking we set up a joint account, like a collaboration channel. He asked me out and I said yes. He said he didn't believe in social network accounts and I genuinely believed him, 6 months into the relationship I found out that was a lie, he had a number of twitter account, facebook accounts and Myspace accounts. When I looked on them he was sending loads of other YouTubers vulgar messages about what he wanted to do to them in bed." He looked down at his hands. "Even though we never officially met it really broke my heart to be treated that way, I broke up with him and told him to never talk to me again… I cant find it in me to block him so every now and again I get messages from him acting as if nothing has happened. Acting as if we are still dating."

Dan placed a hand on Phil's shoulder. "He sounds crazy for being such a horrible person to you." He moved the laptop off Phil's lap and jumped on him, pushing him to the bed and giving him the biggest hug he could think of. "He is stupid for doing that to you, you are an amazing person Phil, please don't let anything he said or did to you effect the way you think about yourself okay."

Phil looked to the side, even though he could promise Dan that, he knew it would be a lie, he knew the way he was treated scares him so much for the future. " I will try I promise, but there is no guarantee that I wont feel that way."

"What did he message you anyways, would you like me to reply?"

Phil showed Dan the message, it wasn't really long but the message was pretty simple.

'Who is this Dan kid, if he even thinks of taking you from me I will hurt him. He's too young for you anyway.'

"I'm 16!" Dan groaned. He took Phil's laptop and logged into his own twitter, he searched for the boys account and sent him a little message. '

Hey there! I don't know you but you clearly know me. Look fuck off and never talk to Phil again, got it!

'Dan put the message public so all of his followers could see it also, it wasn't long before most of his fan base was behind him also. He felt kind of bad using his fan bases this way, but he deserved it for hurting Phil.

Phil put a hand on Dan's back. "You really didn't have to do that you know, he will just send you angry messages all the time now."

" I don't care Phil, sometimes people are worth getting angry messages over." He laughed and put the MacBook down. "Plus I hate it when my friends get bullied by assholes."

Phil hugged him back tightly and smiled, he never really had anyone stand up to him before and that made him really happy to see that someone did actually care about him. He rested his head on Dan's shoulder and stayed there for a while, today really was a great day and he felt like he and Dan was growing closer and closer together. Phil smiled as he pulled away from the boys shoulder and looked up at his face.

" Thank you so much Dan, I am so glad I have a friend like you, you make me feel cared about in a world where I felt like I was going to be alone." He hugged Dan again and laid back flat against the bed starring up into the chocolate brown orbs of his younger friend.

" Its okay Phil, I am here for you, I will always be here for you. I can assure you I am not going anywhere fast, I will be here for you for as long as you need me to be. I care about you just like you care about me, I can sense it in the way you treat me at school and they way you helped me in history. Thank you so much Phil, I really don't know what I would do without you. You have stopped the weird voice in my head and that means a lot to me."

"Shall we sleep?" Phil mumbled softly, his heart was beating pretty fast since Dan was still on top of him.

" I think we should" Dan rolled off him and laid next to him, looking up at the ceiling and wondering how life would be different if he hadn't met the boy.

"Hey Dan?"

"Yes Phil?

"I think I may like you…" He mumbled softly, he was scared of Dan's response; he was scared Dan would run away.

Dan smiled softly and looked over at Phil placing a light kiss on his cheek. " I think I may like you too… but honestly I don't know for sure. I don't want to rush anything encase it messes up our friendship… but I think I do like you to."

Phil got up off the bed and looked over at Dan. " You can borrow some of my pj's if you want, I mean I normally just sleep in my boxers but that would be a bit inappropriate right?"

"Not at all, I sleep in mine too so it should be fine, am, do you have a nother blanket for me?"

"Why? Are you not sharing the bed with me? I mean I totally understand if you want to sleep else where I mean… I will sleep on the floor if you want…"

"Phil! It's fine, I don't mind sharing the bed with you."

Phil pulled his top up over his head and wiggled out of his jeans before climbing back into the bed, Dan got up and took his clothes off too folding them neatly and leaving them on the side of Phil's desk. He shyly moved the blanket back as he climbed into bed next to Phil, he had never shared a bed with anyone before never mind shared it half naked.

"Are you nervous?" Phil asked softly. " I mean if this is too weird for you I could.." he pulled the blanket back and went to crawl out of the bed, but he was soon stopped by Dans hand pushing him back in the bed.

"I've never slept out before, never mind anyone see me like this… I was a bit nervous that's all."

"You have never slept out before? Ever? And no one has seen you like that? Are you a virgin Dan? Oh wow, that's was rude of me, you don't have to answer that if you don't want to."

" No no no its fine, I don't mind talking about stuff like this with you, for some reason I feel at ease and I feel like I can talk to you about anything. I'm not a virgin, but we had sex in the dark so her eyes never really saw me like this. Plus you don't have sex with your boxers on. I never stayed around her house as her mom thought it was a bit weird having her daughters boyfriend staying around too, she had this idea that I was going to get her daughter pregnant and it would be the end of the world."

"Ah, so you are straight? Sorry again you don't have to …"

"Phil its fine, seriously you can ask me what ever you want and I will answer you. I thought I was straight yes, which is why I am confused about the feelings I am having right now. I have never liked guys before, and honestly I don't know if I do like guys… I just think you may be different... maybe does that make any sense?"

Phil nodded. "Yea kind of, I have had a similar experience but the other way around I think. Unlike you I have always liked guys, I have dated guys before and one day this girl came into my life. She was really pretty with beautiful eyes; I fell in love with her pretty fast. I told her how I felt and she replied with 'Ah gross, I thought you was gay that's the only reason I was your friend as I knew you wouldn't be like the rest of the guys who just try to fuck me.' After that I just gave up" he laughed lightly, thinking back on it he really did find the whole event highly amusing.

"Ah, that's pretty sad, I hate it when people see gay people as an accessory and not a human being…I'm not saying you are gay though I mean…"

"Dan to be honest I think I may be, though I am not 100% sure. I think my parents are holding onto that little tiny bit of hope that one day I will meet a girl, but they are pretty supportive of me no matter what I do or who I date. To be honest I think they would just be pretty happy the day I actually bring someone home and introduce them to my partner. They kind think it's a bit weird that I have never had a real relationship and the few I have had where on the internet. They don't class childhood relationships as a series relationship."

Dan curled into him a bit more subconsciously. Phil was pretty cute and he was enjoying talking to him like this. "My parents are pretty nice, they have never said anything offensive against gay people so I have no idea how they would react if I was to tell them I wanted to date a guy, I guess one day I will have to find out." He laughed lightly. "I remember once they walked in on me and my girlfriend making out and I thought they was going to throw a party. That night when she went home my parents called me into a 'family' meeting where they decided then was the best time to tell me how to have sex, it was so embarrassing." He laughed remembering that day pretty well.

"Funny enough my dad tried to tell me all about anal sex and how it worked, I just couldn't take anything he said seriously, but maybe that was their way of telling me it was okay if I was to be straight, bi, gay or anything else in-between. I guess I will never know."

"I've never had sex" Phil admitted, he felt like Dan had trusted him with stories, and told him he wasn't a virgin so maybe he should tell Dan he was one.

"That's okay, some times people wait a long time to give it to someone they love." Dan smiled up at him with a dorky smile. He moved Phil's hair out of his eyes and tilted his head up. " You don't need to be sad Phil, your time will come. Sure some losers online where huge assholes to you but they really don't deserve you. If they couldn't see how amazing Phil Lester really is, then they don't deserve to have Phil Lester."

"I guess so, it does upset me sometimes that everyone in school talk about how much sex they have had, or who they are sleeping with now, they all just assume I must sleep around also and always pull me into it in which I just smile and say nothing. I feel kind of stupid sometimes." He admitted, he really did hate it when he was pulled into those situations; he hated how it had created some kind of name for him.

"Well, if you haven't had sex by the time I am 18 I'll have sex with you" Dan laughed, placing his hand in Phil's hair and wiggling it about.

Phil laughed at that, "You are on Howell"

"Who knows, if all goes well and my feelings figure themselves out, we may even have sex before then, I guess you will just have to wait and see Philip" Dan pressed up against Phil and rested his head on his chest, a yawn escaped his lips as he closed his eyes.

"Goodnight Phil"

"Night Dan, sleep well"

Phil pressed a small kiss to Dan's forehead and wrapped his arms around the boys body holding him close, before slowly slipping into a light slumber himself.

The next morning they both woke up roughly around the same time, Dan's back was against Phil's chest and Phil's arms was wrapped around Dan's waist. There was a loud knock on the door and when neither answered the door just opened to show a slightly confused looking woman staring at the two in the bed.

"I…"

"Its not what you think!" They both yelped at the same time, Dan pulled the blankets up over his head and hid. The first time he properly sees Phil's mother and he's semi naked in in her sons bed.

"Hey! I never said you was, I just came here to tell you to wake up or you will be late for school." She laughed slightly and walked back out closing the door behind her.

"Thank mom!" Phil yelled to her as he knew she would be half way down the stairs now. " You can come back out now Dan." He mused pulling the blanket back down. He looked down at the boy and smiled at him, he must admit he really did like Dan's hair, it wasn't as straight as normal, it was wavy and messy.

That day went past pretty normal, they got changed and headed to Dan's where the boy put on his uniform and grabbed his bag before they both walked to school together. For some reason Dan was itching to grab Phil's hand but he had no idea why he wanted to do it, he was pretty scared to do it so he decided against it walked with his hand in his pockets. When they made it to school Dan put his books in Phil's locker and grabbed whatever books he needed before he headed off to class. Even though today started out just like every other day he knew something was wrong. People were looking at him and Phil, watching every move they made.

"Ah Phil?"

" I have no idea… I shall see if I can find anything out when you are in class, I shall text you if I figure it out"

Dan nodded and went his separate way towards his class, when he got there everyone was staring at him. He tried to brush it off and sit in his seat but everyone was still looking at him. He placed his book on the table and finally snapped. "What are you all looking at!"

Two girls behind him giggled and started whispering too each other, everyone else just looked away. That wasn't the response Dan wanted but he guessed it was better than having everyone glare at him all class. Half way through the class someone tapped him on the shoulder, it was one of the girls that was giggling earlier, he turned around to see her pass him a note, he took it off her and began to read it.

'Hey you are Dan right? We saw you in that video with Phil! Are you two dating?'

He slammed his hands on the desk, which managed to interrupt the entire class, Mrs Helman, Dan's English teacher glared over at him for the outburst. " Is there something you would like to say Daniel?" She gave him that look as if to say 'you say anything and I'll kick you out.' But right now he was too far-gone.

"Actually I do." He stood up and looked at everyone, the note in between his fingers. " Is this why you have all been glaring at me all class, is this the reason everyone in this bloody school has been glaring at me?"

"Everyone's just curious mate." One of the popular boys spoke.

"Curious? Curious about what? I make one video with my best friend and everyone thinks we are dating! What if we were huh would that have anything to do with you? Yes? No?" He picked his book up. " You people piss me off, so what if we are dating! So what if we aren't! it has nothing to do with you!" He threw the note back at the girl behind him and started to walk to the front of the class.

"Is this because he is a YouTuber? Because you all want to be his secret lover? I had a similar incident a few weeks ago with narrow-minded people who saw Phil as an object and not a person. Do you know why Phil pretty much keeps to himself now? Because he is sick of people like you hounding him! He just wants to go to class and learn, he don't want you all putting bets on which one of you can sleep with him first or make him fall in love with you."

He flung the door open, as he knew he was well on his way of getting kicked out right now. " Oh and FYI I am not dating Phil but that does not mean you can go back to hounding him."

He walked out of the class and slammed the door on his way out. When outside he took a deep breath and checked his phone, after seeing no messages from Phil he thought he better text him to tell him what had happened.

'Hey Phil, Dan here, I just noticed we never text before but yea long story short, I know why they are starring at us, I shall explain it in a moment. I've walked out of class can you meet me outside by the field?'

Dan didn't have to wait long before a response came through.

'You walked out? Dan what happened, sure I will be on my way now I won't be long I promise! X'

Dan blushed at the kiss and started to walk to the fields, he decided to take the short cut through the art block, once he made it outside he left through the big gates and then followed the pavement to where he agreed to meet Phil. When he got there he saw Phil out of breath leaning down, clearly he had run there.

" Hey!" he yelled waving over at Dan. " Are you okay?"

Dan ran over to him and sat down on the floor. " I guess so, I just snapped and left"

Phil sat next to him and wrapped an arm around Dan's shoulder. " What happened?"

"I walked into class and everyone was starring at me, I asked them why and they all turned away giggling. Half way through the class a girl passed me a note which pretty much just asked if we was dating, so I guess that's the reason everyone keeps looking at me as if they want to kill me." He laughed lightly at the last bit.

"Let me guess, you made a huge scene and walked out?" Phil pulled an to his chest and hugged him tight, he didn't like his friends being upset, he really didn't want Dan to have to suffer because of him.

"Kinda yeah, I stood up and screamed at the whole class and walked out. Even then there was a tone of sixth formers looking at me weird. I never knew your channel was that big in our school."

Phil shrugged, "Neither did I to be honest, I had no idea that many people knew of it. I'm so sorry Dan, you shouldn't have to be going through all this because of me."

"Its okay, it isn't your fault Phil it is theirs, it just angers me that so many people seem to see you as an object and not for the wonderful person you are."

"Thanks Dan." It really did mean a lot to him to hear that coming from Dan's mouth. "I guess it will be a big shock for most of them when they find out I'm gay then." He laughed and winked at Dan, he really wanted to just make the boy laugh, and Dan did laugh.

"You dork, I think you would just turn them all on to be honest you know what people are like in this school it seems to be some sort of trend to fetishize gay people."

"That's true." Phil wrinkled his nose, god he hated how people treated others. They stayed that way, arms around each other while sat on the floor, for the next few minutes before the faint sound of the school bell went off in the back.

"We should really head back." Phil commented looking over at the boy who looked like he was sleeping on his shoulder.

" I really don't want to." Dan mumbled, he never wanted to have to back in there again, he was sick of people.

Phil just sighed and stood up pulling the other boy with him. "Come on it will be better I promise you."

Dan sighed, he had no idea how Phil could promise it would be better after his little outburst, Dan had class with the same people a lot so he knew he would have to face most of them again. Phil held his hand out to Dan and Dan blushed softly; surely this would just create more rumours for them.

"Take it, come on." Phil smiled.

Dan nodded and took a hold of Phil's hand, they both stayed like that for a moment before they walked back into the school holding hands, Dan had no idea what this meant for them but he didn't care. Phil was right though everything did seem a lot better, sure people was looking at them but he didn't care, right now it was just him and Phil and that was all that mattered. When they made it to their designated classes they both looked over at each other not really wanting to let go of their hands.

"I shall see you after class okay?" Phil smiled slowly letting go at Dan's hand.

" You shall" Dan laughed and hugged the boy before heading into his classroom. Seeing as he didn't head back to Phil's locker before hand he had the wrong books, but right now he didn't care. No-one seemed to really bug him this class, some people still looked at him but he expected that after turning up to class with Phil, while holding his hand also.

He paid hardly any attention to his class, as he was too busy thinking about everything that had happened the past few weeks. Soon his phone started going off like mad so he pulled out.

'Twitter?" he mumbled, why was his twitter going off so much, sure he had a few hundred followers but not many really spoke to him. His eyes went wide when he saw what he did, his twitter was blowing up, he had over 600 new followers and loads of comments saying they loved his accent and that his videos was amazing. He noticed there were a lot of messages about him appearing in Phil's video and how they looked awesome. He quickly checked over to his YouTube Channel to see almost 1000 extra subscribers and a lot of messages that wasn't there the day before.

"Oh shit..." he mumbled to himself, what was happening!

'Phil, mayday! Abort ship! I have over 1000 extra followers on YouTube, what the hell is happening on that video x'

He quickly text Phil and waited for his response, sure he could look over on Phil's channel but he wanted Phil to look.

'I have no idea Dan; my phone has being going off the hook! There is just a load of messages saying how they loved the video and how we work well together .x How is class? Xx'

Dan blushed that was three kisses in one text; 'It's going okay I suppose, no one has really said anything about anything.'

'That's good, I am starting a test now but I shall meet you after class, love you xx'

Dan almost fell off his chair, 'love', did Phil love him or did he just type that without thinking. For the rest of the class Dan's head was completely in the clouds, YouTube was going mad, Twitter was going mad, someone on facebook made a fan page for him and added him as an admin… and he was getting tagged in loads of art work from 'fans' on top of that Phil said he had loved him…

" Hey Dan?" The boy next to him, Dan recognised him as Alex, spoke.

"Hey Alex" Dan smiled softly.

"You know you are trending world wide on twitter right?"

Dan actually did fall off his chair now. " What!"

The boy passed his phone to the now on the floor boy. " Yes."

Dan gripped onto the phone and looked over what he was on the page, he was in fact trending on Twitter, what even was this.

"Howell get off the floor."

Dan got up and sat back on his chair tucking himself under. " I don't understand… how did this happen?" Dan whispered softly to Alex.

" I have no idea, I think it is because of you're video with Phil."

Of course it had to be the video with Phil, that was the only explanation it could have been.