Hey so this is my first phanfiction, I tired writing a Hunger Games one a few years back but I just lost interest and motivation to write it... maybe I'll go back to it someday. Anyway, this is just the prologue, so it's a bit short, but I hope you like it! It's obviously an AU where both Dan and Phil are the same age, and later in the fic they will be OOC but it's just the fic so please don't yell at me saying 'Dan and Phil are nothing like this irl you shouldn't be allowed to write' etc.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction and I do not cast any aspersions on the real Dan and Phil

Prologue

A boy with dark brown hair and chocolate-coloured eyes was playing in the sandbox at his local park, his mother sat on a bench not too far away engrossed in a book. The boy was so enthralled in making his sandcastle that he didn't notice another boy walk up to him until a shadow loomed over him.

He looked up and glared at the boy.

"What are you doing, you're making shadows across my castle!" he shouted.

The other boy pouted and ran a hand through his strawberry blond hair.

"I'm sorry I just thought you looked lonely and like you needed help building your castle and I came to keep you company and maybe help if you wanted me too and I didn't mean to upset you and -"

"Oh shut up and sit down will you?" the first boy cut through the intruder's ramblings, whose azure eyes had started to fill up with unshed tears. "I didn't mean to upset you, you just surprised me that's all," he continued, smiling sadly at the other boy.

"Oh," fair-haired boy giggled, "did you want help with your sandcastle?"

The dark-haired boy seemed to consider this for a moment before nodding. "Sure, why not. Maybe having two people make it will make it grow twice as fast!"

The dark-haired boy's companion's face lit up in a bright smile. "Yay! Thanks for letting me help. I'm Phil by the way," he said, holding out his hand just like he'd seen his parents do with other adults.

"I'm Dan," the dark-haired boy said as he took the other's hand in his own and shook it. "Now let's make this sandcastle the biggest in the world!"

Two years later

A dark-haired boy and a fair-haired boy were running around their school playground playing a make-believe game in their own little world, unaware of the other children who looked at their friendship and wanted to be a part of it, or wanted something similar for themselves.

One brave boy decided that he'd had enough of just watching and decided to go up to the two boys, aware that their entire year was watching him do something they'd all been too scared to do.

"Hey, um, guys," he began once he'd reached the two, running a hand through his blond hair, "would it be alright if I maybe joined in with your game?"

The fair-haired boy shared a look with his dark-haired companion before turning back to the blue-eyed boy who had just interrupted their game.

"Hi, um, sorry Caspar, this game's only really for two people to play and there's already me and Dan so sorry about that. Maybe we can make up a three-player game at some point?" he suggested, feeling guilty at the sad expression on the blond-haired boy's face.

"Oh, yeah, of course. I'll uh, see you guys later then," Caspar said, upset at the textbook 'we don't want to play with you' rejection, before walking off to go find a place to hide his embarrassment.

Meanwhile, Phil turned to the boy stood next to him, "I always feel bad turning people away, Dan, maybe we should start including more people in our games."

"Maybe, but I don't want to lose you, Phil," Dan said, looking his friend in the eyes, "because I feel like if we include more people, they'll steal you away from me."

Phil sighed. "Dan, you're my best friend, and you always will be, ok? No one's going to be stealing me from you, just the same as no one's going to be stealing you from me, yeah?"

"OK," Dan nodded, "but d'you mean it when you said that we'll always be best friends?"

"Yes, I mean it, Dan."

"Promise?"

"I promise you that we'll always be best friends."

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed the prologue; it is a bit short but that is because it's just the prologue!

Please review!