A/N: SCHOOL IS ALMOST OUT. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?

IT MEANS I CAN DO NOTHING ALL DAY

NOTHING BUT WRITE THIS STORY FOR YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

I hope that somehow brightened your day. :D

Warnings: As always, the language.


Disclaimer: None of this is mineeeeee... except the plot and, well, the entire story. I don't own the characters. That's what I meant. Yep.


Chapter Eleven

"I'm sorry for being so... loud about your stupidly secret love for Dan," Phil heard a slight pause over the phone. "I promise I won't say anything else around the two of you. I'll keep it all to myself, even the sex jokes—wait, what?! PJ, you idiot! No way in hell am I promising that!"

Phil smiled softly, still on his high from yesterday afternoon. That had been the best... what was it? Was it considered a date? A friendly, platonic date? A date that Phil wanted to be a real date but was too afraid to do it?

Either way, it had been the best thing he'd experienced in a while.

"It's alright, Chris. We're both pretty used to it now," Phil said, holding the phone between his shoulder and ear. "It's just... awkward."

"It's awkward?Awkward? I'll tell you what's fucking awkward! What's awkward is being in love with a guy and then just sitting there like some dead fucking worm whenever he—" Chris' rant died down as Phil heard a shuffling on the other end—probably PJ trying to help Phil out.

The rustling came to an end soon, but Chris' shouts of "Damn it, Peej!" were still heard. "We're sorry about his little... moment there, Phil. We were actually planning on coming over later, if that's okay."

Whether it was Phil's extremely good mood or just his kind nature, he didn't know, but he mumbled a, "Sure, if you want. Just tell me when."

"Maybe in a hour or so?" He said. There was a small silence, which Phil took as PJ conferring with Chris. "We can pick Dan up, if you'd like?"

Phil sighed. Of course he'd like that. He always liked to be around Dan. But he was deathly afraid that Dan was getting bored of him. After all, they had just seen each other last night. Phil could survive a day. It'd be good for he and Dan, right?

"Um..." Phil said. "You don't have to do that."

"But Phiiilll!" Chris whined over the phone line. PJ must've put it on speaker. "The longer the two of you are together, the more the sexual tension will build, and when it gets to a certain point, you and Dan aren't going to be able to handle it, therefore acting on it! And when you act on it, that makes a certain Chris Kendall and PJ Liguori very happy campers."

"Chris," PJ warned.

"Don't get mad at me for speaking the truth!"

"Chris!"

"You two are such an old married couple," Phil broke through their argument. It may or may not have also been an attempt to change the subject.

"Excuse you, Philip? Old married couple?" He huffed. "I'm not particularly old, now am I? No! Peej and I are a young married couple. Just with the perks of being old thrown into the mix."

"Call it what you want," Phil murmured. Particularly eager to get some time to himself before Chris and PJ showed up, he said a quick, "See you soon," and hung up the phone.


Phil was on his laptop, scrolling through twitter, replying to a few tweets when Chris and PJ arrived.

"Hey," Phil said cheerfully with a smile when the two entered the house. PJ returned the smile with equal joy, but Chris stayed still with his arms crossed and a pout gracing his lips. Phil's mood instantly dropped when he saw him.

"Chris—"

"No!" He shouted. "I have no time for this, Phil. You had a perfect opportunity to see Dan again, yet you pass it up. For fuck's sake, I'm about to just give up!" Chris paused. "Well, no, I won't ever give up on it. But you're making me want to!"

"We just saw each other yesterday. I didn't want to suffocate him with my presence." Phil murmured in his defense. He waited for Chris to explode once again but his ears were met with silence. PJ closed his eyes, shaking his head, which lead Phil to fear whatever might happen next.

"I don't even know where to begin with this," Chris said, shaking his head. "For one thing, you could never suffocate Dan with your presence because, hello, he's in love with you!" Phil ignored this part of Chris' sentence as usual; he just couldn't bring himself to believe it. "For another, what do you mean you saw him yesterday?!"

"We went to Starbucks together yesterday," Phil explained cautiously, trying to keep from giving off the wrong idea. "It was his way of making me feel less guilty about posting the video on my channel."

Chris simply stared at him. Phil shot PJ a questioning, to which PJ returned with a "just let him finish," one.

"Oh my god, you painfully ignorant boy!" He yelled. "You know what I do when I piss PJ off? I sit there and annoy him until he shouts, 'Damn it, Chris, if I say I'm not angry anymore, will you shut the hell up?' I don't invite him on a freaking coffee date!"

"Me and Dan have a different friendship than you and Peej," Phil fought weakly. It was a shit excuse, he knew, but it was all he had.

"Hell yes it's different, because me and PJ aren't blissfully in love with each other!" He stopped. "Well, we are, but it's more of a friends-with-benefits type thing."

"You're such a fangirl," PJ muttered. Chris smirked at him in a "bitch please" type of way before continuing.

"My point is, you and Dan totally had a date yesterday, whether either of you will admit it or not. And I expect full details as of now."

Somehow, a half hour later, Chris was still bugging Phil for details. He had just finished explaining one of his and Dan's numerous conversations when he said the thing that seemed to throw Chris over the edge.

"...then he told me he was bisexual, I told him that was great, then we just sort of continued talking and—"

"What?" Chris said, surprisingly calm. "He... he told you what, exactly?"

Phil sighed. "He told me he was bisexual," Phil said, deciding against any details. That would only lead to more questions from Chris, questions Phil wasn't in the mood to answer.

"Oh, well... you know. No biggie. Except he just told you he goes for guys. Some pertinent information for a potential lover to know. Not something I'd tell just a friend after really knowing them for two months. But, you know, just my opinion. A popular opinion, I think, but—"

"I think he gets it, Chris," PJ interrupted, saving Phil the trouble.

To be honest, Phil understood more than he wanted to. He knew Chris had a point to some extent, and that, yeah, he should probably listen to him. But instead, Phil did exactly the opposite.

"Maybe he just wanted to get it off of his chest," Phil said, shrugging. "Or maybe he told me for the opposite reason; because he didn't wanna tell this person he could possibly be in love with. Maybe he wanted me know for some other reason." He sighed. "Besides, it's not very likely that he's in love with me."

"The obliviousness actually hurts," Chris murmured, putting a hand to his forehead.

"All he's trying to say is, the idea isn't as farfetched as you think," PJ said softly. "And that maybe you should at least think it over?"

Phil was really tired of this question now; it seemed to be all PJ and Chris wanted. And Phil was a people pleaser.

Phil nodded. "Yeah."

And maybe, he actually meant it.


No matter how many times Dan tried to tell himself it didn't matter if people liked him or not (hell, that was the story of his life), it did. It mattered to him a lot. More than he'd like. He wouldn't say their opinions dictated his life, but they definitely had more control over him than they should. What could Dan say? He's a man for the people.

Maybe that's why he was on page 42 of the comments on Phil's video.

He had received pretty positive feedback from what he'd read, a few being rude, but they had all been flagged as spam (Phil's fans were pretty intolerant of hate of any kind, it seemed.) Around page 7, Dan had learned to leave those comments alone.

It wasn't until he read a particular one that he got a little suffocating feeling.

More videos with Dan! whos with me?!

It had over twenty-five likes.

They wanted him in front of that camera again. But this time, he'd know. He'd be watching it's stupid red light flashing in his face, daunting him.

He'd feel the fear all over again he'd felt that first time when the camera was in front of him, his blank, emotionless face staring back at him.

But this time, he'd have Phil beside of him the whole time, smiling at him, encouraging him, prompting him to say something, and tell him everything was alright.

And suddenly, making videos didn't seem so scary anymore.


A/N: I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY SO JUST KNOW I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU LOVE YOU WHICH SHOULD BE A WHOLE LOT I FEEL LIKE YOU ARE MY FAMILY PRECIOUS READERS

REVIEW RESPONSES:

AwsomestPersonAlive: NOW YOU'VE GOTTEN IT! :)

Fred and George Forever: I KNOW I FINALLY DID! *brofist back because you're amazing*

NeverlandNat: YOU'RE ALWAYS SO SWEET TO ME! Even when I don't deserve it. :) I KNOW THEY NEED TO JUST SAY IT ALREADY! One of your favorites? Really? *mushy feelings everywhere* :D

Cosmo7Tails: I HOPE SO! Aww, again with the undeserved praise. You make me happy. I'm convinced too. Like, in PJ's video where Dan and Phil are playing tag, he's just got this "feel" about him that says "I am watching my OTP hahahaha" :)

EsmePadfoot: I love being demanded. :) Aww, thank you! :D

ThatOneOverTheTopPhanGirl: YAY! I'm sorry that's all my fault because I'm awful and take forever to update. *insert more self-hate* I WISH HE WOULD TELL THE MAN-CHILD!

DevTheManiac: OF COURSE HE DOES! I listened to the song (loved it so much oh my GOD) but I have no idea how it's applicable... sexual tension, I'm guessing? :)

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partyyou: All of those were beautiful things to say me. And I agree with them all. Except maybe that last one. I believe it's kangaroos AND giraffes. :)

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lifelane: EVERYTHING PHIL DOES IS ADORABLE! :) Thank you!

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InuNeko245: YES CORRECT USAGE OF THE WORD! Thank you! (Don't worry, my mind went there too.) :D

the-oncoming-storm-xx: Well, I already have this planned out, and I promise, you'll be getting what you want. :) Thank you!

RikkuPollendina: I KNOW I JUST WANT THEM TO KISS ALREADY TOO! Thank you so much! :D

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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR DEALING WITH ME FOR SO LONG!

YOU MAKE ME HAPPY!

PHAN

PHAN

PHAN

THE END

-Kristen