~(-b-)~
"Hey, Dan?", Phil Lester called from within he and his friend's shared apartment. "I need to have a serious conversation with you."
"What is it, Phil?", Dan asked, popping his head out of the kitchen. Phil plopped down onto their living room couch, and Dan soon followed, sitting a polite distance away. They both sat in silence for a few moments.
"So, what did you want to talk about?", Dan prompted.
"I'm almost thirty, Dan.", Phil stated with a strange expression. "But I don't have a girlfriend, wife, or any sort of romantic partner. All I do is hangout with my roommate all day; and I'm starting to get bored."
Oh, crap. Dan thought, Is he thinking of moving out? But we're so happy here! Or at least-
"Or at least, I thought I should be.", Phil continued, his expression turning slightly confused. "But I'm not. I'm happier than I could have ever hoped to be."
"Phil? What are you trying to say?", Daniel asked, equally confused.
"I don't really know, Dan. All I know, is that with you, there was never any need to fill the void in my heart. Because with you, there was never any void in the first place. I don't know why, but I feel like it would make me almost unhappy to have a lover, because it would draw me further away from you. I don't know what this means, for us, or for anything else; but Daniel James Howell, I would be perfectly happy spending the rest of my life with you. In fact, it would make me unhappy not to."
Dan was speechless for a moment.
"Wow.", he finally breathed. "For what it's worth, I feel the same way. So what do we do? Does this mean that we're in love? Is Phan a reality?"
"I don't know."
"Should we just be open to 'more than friends', and go with the flow?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. Let's go with that. Let's maybe not tell the internet though? At least, not yet? I don't want people to freak out over this."
"Agreed."
~(-b-)~