Note:

Rewind: Means to Flashback/go back in time

Fast forward: Means to go forward in time (or go back to the present if it is used after a "Rewind")

Pause: Everything pauses except for Dan and Phil

Play: Ends the Pause

BTW I drew a cover pic for this story and I don't think you can see it on my story for some reason so here is some visual aid: . /db5459badb381efb6680f150c23b93cb/tumblr_nyii3tf7PE1tcu8tzo1_

-Phil P.O.V-

"You guys can share my bed." Dil comments, as he gestures us to his room. His emphasis on the word 'share' makes me twitch slightly. "I'll sleep on the couch."

"What- No. We can sleep on the couch for you, Dil." Dan tells him and I nod in agreement.

"Yeah we'd both feel a bit weird just taking someone's bed away from them."

"No, It's fine." Dil smiles. "I want you two to know how uncomfortable it feels like to sleep on my cheap bed."

Dan and I both laugh nervously, maybe it was about time we got Dil a new bed. Dil heads over into the kitchen and prepares dinner for all of us as Dan and I sat on the dining table together. I looked over to my left to see that Dan was intrigued by the interior design of the house, but I was more fascinated by his appearance as a Sim character. It wasn't like he was unrecognisable, but he was definitely different. Dil hands us plates of cheese and macaroni and takes a seat opposite from us. He smiles as he watches us munch on our dinner and I was surprised that the food actually tastes real for it to be part of a game.

"So how did you two meet, Dads?" Dil suddenly announces.

I nearly choke on the macaroni.

"Oh- who wants to hear about their parent's boring life anyway?" Dan comments, trying to change the topic.

"Y-Yeah." I chirped in. "It's nothing interesting."

"But I want to know about your love life!"

"Well um…" I muttered, unsure as to what I should say to my virtual son in these situations. "Where we came from, there's this thing called soulmate counters!"

"Soulmate counters?" Dil tilts his head to one side. "What's that?"

"It's a device that you wear on your wrist and countdowns to zero until you meet your soulmate, and that's how me and Dan- I mean your Dad met."

"Ohhhh I see!" Dil says cheerfully, a huge grin across his face. "That means you two are meant to be together forever then! I'm glad…"I smile and try to hide the guilt inside of me as much as possible. I felt bad for lying to Dil, but our conversations with him increase the positivity in his friendship bar. "Well, I'll be off to bed now."

As Dil heads off to bed I see Dan plant his face into the palm of his hand, massaging his temple. "Soulmate counters? Really Phil?" Dan asks me sarcastically. "Wasn't that from a movie you watched on Netflix the other day?"

I chuckled. "Hey at least it worked."

Noticing that we were feeling really tired and that our energy bars were turning red, both of us headed off to Dil's room to sleep. We both faced the opposite direction as we laid awkwardly on Dil's bed.

"Maybe we should get another bed." Dan suggested.

"We can't afford one." I told him. "We could get another houseplant though."

"NO PHIL."

I chuckled. "One of us should get a job then." I told him. "While the other explores the Sims world and tries to find a way out of here." I explained to him. "I'll get the job."

"What, Why? 'Clumsy' is one of your traits Phil, what if you die at work or something?"

"But I've played the Sims longer than you have." I told him. "I don't mind either way, but it'll just be easier this way."

Dan paused for a while. "Okay." He finally agreed.

Fast Forward

I decided to go along with the career of a Tech Guru, since it seemed to be the most suitable career for me, and got a job as a computer programmer. I start work tomorrow, so I had the entire day to explore with Dan today while Dil was at work. We were walking from street to street hoping to discover some secrets or strange mysterious about the Sims world until I spotted a familiar figure in the distance.

"Is that Erika?!" I gasped.

"Where?!" Dan asks, looking around frantically. I pointed at the park, towards the figure of a woman in a yellow dress and ponytail. Dan smirks and punches his hand. "Let's teach Erika a lesson for messing with our son, Phil."

"Yeah, Let's go mate."

"…What the hell was that?"

"Nevermind, let's just go."

We took a step in front of Erika and stare at her for a while. At first I was confused as to why she wasn't noticing us, but then I remembered that we actually had to select an option for her to react to. Dan selects the option 'Yell at' and he starts hollering at Erika about llamas and rockets. Seems like he doesn't get to choose what kind of insults to throw at her, but Erika looks offended regardless. As things were getting heated up with Erika's friendship bar showing a few streaks of red towards Dan, I thought to myself: 'Since she's just a video game character, it should be fine to fight her right?'. A variety of options appeared before me, ranging from interactive choices such as 'get to know', 'enthuse about interests' and 'tickle mercilessly'. The option that I wanted to choose was 'fight' so I reached for that selection but mid-way I tripped over one of the chairs at the chess tables when I was trying to avoid getting mauled by Dan and accidently hit the option 'flirt' instead.

'CRAP.' I thought to myself as I watched as I walked to Erika as if my body had a mind of its own.

"Hey Erika, You're looking good today." I say, as a speech bubble with her face in it appears out of my mouth.

"O-Oh. Is that so?" She responds, and pink heart with a plus sign floats out, filling our romance bar. I watch as Erika's mood suddenly turns from 'Angry' to 'Flirty' in a matter of seconds.

Dan watches me and Erika from the sidelines, arms crossed. Judging by what the box says, Dan was still in an 'Angry' mood after that fight from Erika.

"Wow Phil." Dan comments. "We're supposed to be avenging Dil not flirting with her."

"I'm sorry I selected it by accident!" I managed to slip out a few words to Dan from my conversation with Erika.

Dan rolls his eyes. " 'Accident', Sure Phil." I hear him huff under his breath.

For a split second, I almost thought that Dan was jealous but I knew that the possibility of that coming true was around the same as me joining a rugby team. I assumed that he was probably just annoyed that things weren't going according to plan, so I decided to end my conversation with Erika here to not frustrate him any longer. I go home with a romance bar that had one quarter of it filled with pink for Erika, while my friendship bar with Dan was still a single green strip.

'If only it were the other way around.' I thought to myself.

A/N: I don't have much to say, but Thank you for reading Chapter 2 of 'Our Simphany'! :D Phil's recent Younow dou (He said that he had a dream that he was stuck in a game XD) And Also I am in much Excite for PINOF 7 tomorrow! w P.s In case you didn't get the 'Rugby team' reference, I think that Phil said that Rugby, or rather PE, was his worst subject in highschool, same for Dan XD And also, the title of story 'The green strip of fate' parodies 'The red string of fate', which is an old chinese legend for your soulmate ;D