Phil's POV

"But if we put it on DanAndPhilGAMES, wouldn't people be confused if only I was in the thumbnail?" Dan said. We laid in my bed, Dan's arms wrapped around me, talking about our plans for telling the world about us.

"But it's a game with Dan and Phil," He motioned to us as he said our names, "And everyone who's subscribed knows who we are and our past and shit."

"Yeah," I said, nodding in agreement. He was right. It was the best place to post it. "Goodnight," I said, kissing him and turning off the light.

"Goodnight," he replied.

For a few moments we sat there, silent, then Dan broke it.

"Phil?" he called in the dark for me.

"Yeah?" I responded.

"I love you."

"I love you, too."

Melinda's POV

(Author's note: Mel is a character I created in order to give the point of view of the audience, or at least what I feel the majority of the audience would feel in this situation. I take a lot of my life and implant it into hers. Also sorry for the shitty writing, my apologies.)

Mr. Tavio rambled on about how important algebra is to the one kid who dared to question asked the question we were all wondering; "When would you ever need this in real life?" I suddenly heard a noise other than the music that I was playing in order to block out the bullshit of Tavio's "your grades matter" speech that had grown so infamous through the mere weeks we have had him for a math teacher, along with all the other jabber and laughter that went along with it. I opened up my phone and saw that I had a notification from DanAndPhilGAMES, a YouTube channel that I've been watching for a while. They haven't uploaded in almost weeks, so that made my day a little less depressing than normal. After all, the only thing that kept me going through high school was their videos and the music that I listened to, which was mostly made up of Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy, and Troye Sivan, with a little bit of Twenty One Pilots, My Chemical Romance, Hayley Kiyoko, Dodie Clark, and Paramore. "Hard Times" is basically my life anthem.

Anyway, the video was called "The Girlfriend Tag" which was surprising and slightly sad because I always thought they would eventually date. They were my OTP. Even if they weren't, I always thought that they were both too socially awkward to get a girlfriend, I mean, look at how socially awkward I am, and I barely have any friends, much less a boyfriend or girlfriend.

I shrugged it off and added to my Watch Later playlist so I could watch it during my lunch hour when I would usually do homework, and put my phone down. Mr. Tavio continued to teach after his lecture, and the first half of the day went on as normal until it got to lunch.

At lunch, I sat down under the stairs as usual (It's not as sad as it sounds) and began to eat my dry-ass chicken nuggets and smiley fries that looked dead inside, and put my headphones in, and played the video.

It started with Dan standing in front of the camera. "Hello, DanAndPhilGAMES Girlfriends. And yes, you read the title, and no, this is not clickbait, I actually got a girlfriend, and I am ready to introduce her to you guys." He looked to the side and motioned for "her" to come out.

Then, a body wearing black jeans, a very familiar Gengar T-shirt, and the Queen of England mask sat next to Dan. The sat for a moment then began to laugh as Phil took off the Queen mask.

"Hello DanAndPhilGAMES boyfriends," he said. But Dan didn't interject like he usually did. Almost every video that they posted Phil said "Hello DanAndPhilGAMES *insert whatever noun here*" and Dan responded with something like "Really you're gonna use that?" and Phil would come up with some sort of defense, saying that it fits with the theme of the video or some shit, but that didn't happen.

"So I was only half lying when I said that I would be doing the girlfriend tag, it'll be more like the boyfriend tag."

I was shocked and incredibly happy. I have shipped them from the first "Phil is not on fire" that I watched, about three years ago. I couldn't believe it. My and many others' OTP is confirmed to be real and in the cutest way possible.

"Alright," Dan said, "So how this is gonna work is me and Phil each have a notepad," they each held up a black pad and Phil fanned through it, letting the pages spring out of his fingertips. Dan continued, "I have some questions on my laptop and we are going to read them out loud and answer them on our notebooks at the same time and see what we have in common, or like," He turned to Phil looking for the word.

"Pays attention to us," Phil suggested.

"Yeah," Dan said, hesitating slightly. "Anyway," he continued, "Let's get to the questions." He clapped and picked up his laptop.

"Okay," He read off the computer, "Where did you guys first meet?"

They got busy scribbling on their notebooks and held them to their faces.

Dan looked at Phil. "Ready?"

Phil nodded. "On three."

They counted together and flipped their notebooks over, revealing their shitty handwritten scribbles, and they both began talking about how Dan stalked Phil and the day after they met, the filmed the first Phil is not on fire.

They were so connected, like they have been waiting to make this video forever, like the moment they met they were in love. The thought brought tears to my eyes, looking strange to some passerby, seeing this freshman girl sitting on the ground, her welling eyes practically glued to her phone, her lips slit into a smile, happy about something, happy about some adorable gay couple halfway across the world.