Phan Fic-

Based on "Made In The USA" by Demi Lovato

Phil shoved the last few items into his suitcase, squeezing the last odd sock into the tiniest gap between his clothes. He was desperate to go to bed , having spent the past hour packing everything for the trip to VidCon and it had quickly tired him out. It was almost one in the morning and even though their flight wasn't until the afternoon, Phil wanted to get some sleep as he doubted that he would be able to sleep on the plane ride to LA. He yanked the zip around the last corner of his suitcase and dragged it off his bed to the floor. Collapsing onto the bed, Phil felt his eyes become heavier as he quickly fell asleep. He dreamt about the last time he was at VidCon and remembered how much fun he and Dan had had and when Phil woke up he felt excited about the coming trip. Dressing in the first clothes he found, Phil made his way to the kitchen to get his breakfast. Dan wasn't up yet and so Phil contented himself with a solitary breakfast of cereal. Whilst Dan was not there, Phil started to think about his best friend , he had been acting so strangely around Phil for the last couple of days. Phil tried to think when it had first started and his best guess was the previous radio show after the Dan vs Phil challenge , Dan hadn't seemed the same since, he seemed so nervous around Phil all of a sudden. Phil sat for several minutes trying to work out what had changed but for the life of him he couldn't work out what it was, every idea seemed more ridiculous than the last and Phil didn't want to ask Dan outright what it was as it was clearly something Dan didn't want to talk about.

As Phil was tidying away the remains of his breakfast, Dan padded into the kitchen, yawning as he made his way to the kettle. It took Dan a minute to notice that Phil was standing in the kitchen with him and Phil noticed changes in his friend, his face seemed to redden slightly like he was blushing and his breath seemed to become slightly uneven as he smiled nervously at Phil. Unsure of what to do, Phil decided to try and calm down by talking to him,

"Hey, sleep okay last night?"

Dan paused in the middle of making his drink, as if his answer meant more to him than watching what he was supposed to be doing,

"Um, yeah , sure , fine, I mean I slept fine, you know what I mean?"

Phil watched his friend turn a deeper shade of red, deciding to carry on the conversation to try and see if he could work out what was bothering Dan,

"So, are you excited for the trip? Got everything packed?"

Dan stopped what he was doing again before answering and Phil wondered why Dan was putting so much apparent thought into his answers yet they seemed to come across as barely coherent to Phil,

"Yep, really I am, can't wait, should be a good trip, you?"

Phil could practically hear how nervous Dan sounded, as if he was worried about saying the wrong thing and it made Phil start to worry about his friend. He moved towards Dan and placed a hand on his shoulder to try and calm him down. Dan jumped a little at Phil's touch before turning red again and Phil found himself confused as to what was wrong with his friend. As Phil left the kitchen he hoped that he would find out during their trip and as he started to make the last checks that afternoon he hoped that it was something that the two of them could sort out soon.

It was soon time for them to lug their suitcases down the stairs to the taxi to the airport. Dan climbed in before Phil who made sure that their apartment was locked up before getting in the taxi. When Phil sat down in the taxi, Dan was already on his phone and seemed to be absorbed in whatever was on the screen and Phil left him to it , it was better than the nervous Dan that had been around for the past few days . Once they arrived at the airport and were checked in, they sat down on two seats together and waited for their flight to arrive. Dan had barely looked up from his phone since they had left the house and Phil wondered what he could have been looking at that was keeping him so entertained. Phil looked at his best friend properly for the first time in a while and noticed how different Dan was around him , he was a lot more guarded than he had been a few months ago and Phil wondered if he had done something to Dan to make him act that way but couldn't think of anything at that moment. As the minutes passed by, Phil pulled out his phone and pretended to be engrossed with whatever came up on his Twitter time line but found himself watching Dan more than anything else. Phil noticed that Dan kept looking out of the corner of his eye at him , that Dan blushed when Phil caught him a couple of times and Phil found his friends behavior almost fascinating and slightly endearing as Phil wondered if he was the cause of the blushing.

Their flight was called and the two of them made their way to the plane. Phil was suprised at how much leg room he actually had and was pleased at how much more relaxed Dan seemed to be when Phil told him and Dan smiled his first natural smile in days. This gave Phil a little hope for the trip as he settled down into his seat for the flight and started to try and get Dan to chat about little things on the plane , in the further hope that it would keep him in his calm state. It seemed to work for a while as for the first half of their flight Dan seemed to almost be back to his normal self with only a nervous laugh every so often and he seemed more comfortable with Phil than he had that morning. Only when a couple walked past their seats on their way to the bathroom did Dan seem to change, he watched the couple for a minute before Phil tried to get him to talk again and Dan blushed again and quickly pulled out his phone , pretending to answer some important message. Phil could feel himself becoming slightly frustrated as he had hoped that Dan was on his way to going back to normal and Phil put his headphones in and waited for them to touch down on the West Coast, hoping that a little bit of sunshine would help Dan relax a little bit.

As they walked out of the airport, there was a slight breeze in the air and Phil watched Dan's hair blow slightly in the wind and automatically reached over to put a strand back in place. Dan didn't react like he had back in the apartment , instead he smiled at Phil and thanked him before hailing a taxi. Phil was pleased with Dan's reaction as it seemed to suggest that he was becoming less nervous around Phil and Phil felt strangely happy about the way Dan had smiled for some reason that he couldn't work out. The pair of them climbed into the first taxi that stopped and Dan didn't seem quite as bothered about being close to Phil as he had been earlier, he seemed to be quite that happy that it was just the two of them. After a short drive they arrived at their hotel and Phil was glad to fall onto his hotel bed as he found himself suddenly tired by all the traveling. He closed his eyes for a few minutes, feeling sleep creeping up on him and allowed himself a quick nap before unpacking. When he came to, he opened his eyes slowly and noticed Dan was sat on his bed on his phone again and kept glancing over at Phil. Phil strangely found it kind of cute that Dan was watching him and he smiled to himself before making it obvious that he was awake. When Dan saw that Phil was awake he smiled brightly and put his phone aside. Phil decided to make the most of Dan's improved mood,

"Hey, do you want to go explore the hotel or something?"

Dan nodded in response and went into the bathroom for a few minutes whilst Phil looked in the mirror, he looked tired and he hoped that he could sleep for a long time when they came back. Soon Dan returned and the two of them set off to look around the hotel, running down the long corridors and occasionally playing hide and seek which earned them concerned looks from the other guests in the hotel. Before they returned to their room they decided to get a quick dinner from the hotel restaurant and they spent their meal, eagerly talking about what they were going to do during the trip. In the lift on the way back up to their room , Phil thought about how happy Dan seemed and how much more relaxed he was around Phil. When they reached their rooms, the two of them were so tried that they collapsed onto Phil's bed and fell asleep at once.

The sun was high in the sky when Phil started to wake , inching one eye open slowly to taken in his surroundings for a moment. He closed his eyes again and it was only a few moments later when noticed something was pressing him across his waist. Phil opened his eyes again and turned his head slightly. Dan had fallen asleep next to him, at some point whilst he had been asleep he had thrown his arm over Phil's waist, and he looked so relaxed in his sleep that Phil was reluctant to wake him. Even though they had a lot to do that day, Phil took a moment to look at Dan, it had been a long time since they had slept in the same bed and Phil missed it, and he found himself strangely wanting reach over and touch Dan's face to wake him wake him up. Ignoring the parts of him that were arguing if it was right to touch his friend in that way, Phil reached over and ran his finger gently along the side of Dan's face to wake him up. Dan moved slightly backwards in response before rolling forwards as he woke up so that he was right next to Phil with his arm still around Phil's waist. It was only after Dan blinked a few times to remove the sleep from his eyes that he noticed that the position he was in that he pulled his arm back quickly and blushed again. Phil wasn't sure what to do and it took him a minute to try and think of something to say before Dan took him by suprise and said,

"Hi, I slept pretty well last night. Want to go get some breakfast? I just want to grab a quick shower first."

Phil was in shock for a minute at the fact Dan had spoken and could only nod in response as Dan hopped off the bed and went into the bathroom. As Phil heard the bathroom door shut and the shower being turned on, Phil sat up on the bed and thought about what was going on in his head after the past few minutes. Now that Dan was gone from the room , Phil found that he could think more clearly about it all. Sure Phil had enjoyed waking up next to Dan, it didn't necessarily mean that Phil felt any different towards his friend than he had yesterday, did he? Phil was left with this question in his head until he heard the shower stop and Phil quickly gathered the things he needed for the shower. The bathroom door opened and Dan emerged with his hair slightly damp from the shower and he moved towards his suitcase to get his clothes. Phil took this as his cue to get a shower and he stood under the spray of the hot water , trying to ignore all the different thoughts in his head about his friend in the room next to him.

They spent the day sight seeing before VidCon the next day, they had a few things they wanted to see and do and Phil was glad to be able to spend some time with Dan without feeling as if someone was watching them. In London there were constantly people around and some of them were his fans, desperate to meet him or prove that Phan was real , meaning that he only felt relaxed some of the time so it felt nice that it was almost just him and Dan. They went exploring around the city , wandering in and out of the shops, taking pictures of the strangest things they could find, buying all their souvenirs in one go as they knew they would probably forget to later. By the time they had to return to hotel for the night, Phil was exhausted again, it was tiring him out walking around and he just wanted to collapse on the bed again and he did just that as soon as they reached the room. At some point during the night, Phil woke up when he heard a noise at the side of him and when he opened his eyes slightly he could see that Dan was still awake but felt was dragged back under the need for sleep before he could ask Dan why he was still awake. Phil could tell when he woke up again that it was before he had planned to and didn't open his eyes in the hope he could fall asleep. When he realised that it was going to be impossible to fall asleep, regardless of how tired he felt, he slowly opened his eyes, adjusting them to the bright light streaming through the windows. He looked down and saw that the bed covers had been pulled up over him even though he knew that he hadn't done it himself. Phil looked over at Dan, he was finally asleep in his own bed but judging from how the covers were twisted around him, it had been a restless night for him.

Looking at the clock, Phil decided he may as well get up and make the most of the bathroom whilst Dan was still asleep. Whilst he was in the shower Phil thought about the coming day and hoped that meeting people might keep Dan in his cheerier mood than he had been when they were back in London. After his shower, Phil realised that he had left his clothes back in the bedroom so he pulled a towel around his waist and crept back into the main room. Dan had rolled over in his sleep and so was facing away when Phil went back in and Phil quickly gathered his clothes. Just before he took them back into the bathroom , Phil felt an urge to go over and check on Dan, he would have to wake him soon anyway. Quietly, Phil crossed the room to where Dan was sleeping , and Phil leaned over to look at Dan. He seemed so relaxed in his sleep, as if what was bothering him before was gone away for a while, and Phil strangely felt as if he could watch Dan sleep all day. Phil stood there for a short while , it felt wrong in a way to watch his friend like that but he couldn't help himself and looked at the clock briefly for a second. It was far later than he thought and he would have to wake Dan up now or they would be late. Just as Phil was about to reach over and wake his friend , Dan seemed to start to wake a little and mumbled Phil's name. Phil was taken aback slightly at his Dan's saying of his name in his sleep and wondered what Dan was thinking before realising that he was stood looking at Dan in only a towel , so he dashed into the bathroom to get dressed trying not to think too hard about what had happened.

When Phil came back into the room Dan was awake , sat upright on his bed, his attention captured yet again by his phone. Phil coughed to signal that he was there and Dan looked up, smiling. He started to chat to Phil about the day's plans and Phil watched his friend for any sign that he was going to revert back to the nervous version of himself but seemed to be doing okay. Dan moved quickly around the room, grabbing items from his suitcase as he made his way towards the bathroom as he spoke , making manic hand gestures as tried to talk and pick out his clothes. He went into the bathroom and as Phil heard the click of the shower turning on, he thought he would be happy to find his friend more relaxed by found that he felt nervous himself and he couldn't work out why. He kept finding his eyes drawn to the bathroom where Dan was and couldn't explain why and tried to distract himself by taking out his phone and looking at the plans for the day. Soon enough Dan was done in the bathroom, he came out of the bathroom and dumped his things back in the suitcase, Phil could tell almost see Dan promising himself that he would put them back properly but Phil doubted it. Phil looked at the clock, seeing that they would have to leave very soon and quickly began to put his things into a bag for the day, Dan saw and started to copy him. They had already ordered a taxi so it was only matter of going downstairs to wait for it to arrive, they decided that the lift would be far quicker than attempting the stairs and once their room was locked up , they made their way down the hall to the lifts. Once they were in the lift, Dan pulled out his phone and Phil didn't know if he was supposed to say anything. He found himself more aware of Dan's presence than usual, even though people started to join them as the lift descended , Phil felt as if it was just the two of them again. Once the lift reached their floor, they filed out with the other hotel guests and went to find somewhere to wait for their taxi. After only a handful of minutes, the taxi rolled up outside the hotel and they walked to the exit to the hotel, Dan opened the door for Phil and Phil found himself blushing ever so slightly when he thanked Dan.

They climbed into the taxi and settled down for the ride to VidCon. This time Dan spoke to Phil who was prepared to spend the drive in silence and was caught off guard by Dan's sudden enthusiasm to talk. Phil felt the time pass by much quicker as they talked and he was excited about the day more than before, feeling the strange nervous feelings seep away from him as laughed and joked with his best friend. When they reached VidCon, Phil felt a mix of excitement and nerve about meeting all of the people he knew were queuing inside, and he found himself wanting to reach over hold Dan's hand. They went inside and Dan almost ran in front of Phil to open the door for him again like a gentleman. Phil managed to thank his friend again before he was drowned out by the cacophony of noise in the convention hall, many of them screams when people saw him and Dan. Dan and Phil looked at each other before going out to face the hundreds of people waiting for them and Phil was grateful that he had his friend with him at the moment.

Hours later they were finally finished for the day and Phil was happy to fall back onto the taxi seat on the way home and Dan seemed to feel the same way. Phil felt like he was going to fall asleep in the backseat and started to drift in and out of consciousness for a while. He must have fallen asleep at some point as when he opened his eyes again he was leaning closely towards Dan who had his eyes shut yet Phil could tell that he wasn't fully asleep. Yawning, Phil stretched his arms out slightly and Dan slowly opened his eyes, blinking a few times before they were fully open. Phil waited for Dan to come around for a minute before talking to him, keeping the topics light as they were both still fairly tired and they decided they were going to have room service rather than go out for dinner. However when they got back to the room, they found themselves too tired to even pick up the phone for food and the pair of them collapsed on Phil's bed again and Phil found that he didn't mind at all , he was grateful for the company and knowing that Dan was close to him.

They didn't have to wake as early the next morning and Phil was immensely happy about it, it was a great feeling knowing that every time he woke up that he could go back to sleep and that Dan was next to him, Phil was suprised at the feeling but chose to not fight it. Later on the two of them woke within minutes of each other and rather than dart off in embarrassment like they would have once had, they just lay there for a while and talked. They talked about everything from the pervious day to what they were doing for the rest of the trip to what they were going to when they went back the next week. Sadly it became time for them to get up as they had a few more VidCon activities to do and they reluctantly got up off the bed and once they were dressed , they headed out of the hotel and Phil found himself looking forward to spending another day with Dan in the hope that it might end in the same way as the previous one.

Once they were finally done with VidCon, Phil looked forward to spending the last few days of their holiday relaxing for a change. Between the two of them they had roughly planned what they were going to do for the rest of the rest of the trip and after they woke up the next morning they started to get through their packed list of things to do. After a few days spent exploring , video making and sight seeing, they only had one more full day left to themselves. Phil had felt as if he and Dan had grown closer during the trip but towards the end, Phil noticed than Dan seemed to be becoming nervous again, leading Phil to decide to spend their last day in the simplest way that he could. He planned to take Dan back to the last couple of shops that he had wanted to go back to, take one last walk along the beach and then go back to the hotel for dinner. Phil told Dan his plan and he seemed pretty happy to go along with it and so they set off for the last day together. After the first couple of shops, Phil realised how much he was going to miss LA and was sad for a moment at the thought of returning to England. As if Dan could read Phil's mind like a letter , Dan started to talk to Phil about all the things they were going to do when they got back home and Phil found himself cheering up as they headed towards the beach. Walking along the beach was relaxing for the two of them, feeling the warm air swirl around them and watching the tide come up to the beach every few minutes. Dan spent most of the walk looking towards the water and Phil took the opportunity to look at his friend again, he looked so much better in comparison to how he had the morning that they had left home and Phil was grateful for the change in his friend. He also noticed changes in himself , he found himself looking in Dan's direction without realising he was doing so and he started to wonder about what Dan was thinking about even the slightest thing.

After they had finished their walk , they headed back to the hotel for dinner and Phil was looking forward to some food as after the walk he was ready to eat anything as he was so hungry. He allowed Dan to choose what they should eat and as they waited for their meal to arrive they talked about the trip , reliving everything that had happened and taking turns to comment on their favourite parts. When their food finally arrived , even though Phil was was practically starting, he let Dan start first, just to watch him for a moment as Phil wasn't sure when they got back home how many more times he would be able to look at Dan like that without it being picked up on by everyone. To Phil's horror, Dan noticed him looking and raised his eyebrows to question his friend and Phil blurted out,

"You look really nice right now."

Phil could feel himself blushing and wanted to have the ground swallow him up there and then. However Dan smiled wryly at Phil as he said,

"You look really nice too."

Phil wasn't sure how to respond and looked down, concentrating on trying to finish his food rather than try to board the first plane he could find. He wasn't sure what Dan meant by his reply but it gave Phil the strangest feeling inside and he wondered what was going to happen after they finish. The two of them barely spoke throughout the rest of the meal, the only words they spoke were when the waiter came over to clear away their plates. After they had finished their last course, Dan stood up and walked towards the lifts back up to the room, Phil followed a few steps behind him, curious as to why Dan suddenly wanted to leave. Riding in the lift up to their room felt stranger to Phil that it had been coming down that morning, it felt different somehow in the lift, as if something had changed during the day and Phil had a slight guess as to what that change would be. The lift eventually stopped at their floor , the two of them got out and Phil felt unease as to what was going to happen when they got back into the room ,worried if he had secretly freaked Dan out with what he had said. Dan opened the door to their room and allowed Phil to walk in first. Before Phil could so much as flick the light switch, Dan had shut the door and walked straight up to him, looked him in the eyes for a moment and leaned in to kiss Phil lightly on the lips. Phil found that he didn't recoil from the kiss, rather he wanted more and when Dan pulled him , Phil pulled him back , locking his arms around Dan as they kissed. Part of Phil's brain was still in shock from what was happening and he wasn't sure for a moment about if he was going to carry through with his decision but when Dan took his hand, pulling him towards the bed , Phil knew he was going to as he wanted Dan badly at that moment and he wouldn't have it any other way.

The sun shone brightly through the window , a slight breeze came in through the window that they had forgotten to close the night before. As Phil started to wake, he felt a little cold from the breeze and was glad to have the heat coming from Dan wrapped around him like a sweater. Regardless of the change in temperature, Phil was still elated at the night before and part of him started to wonder if it had really happened, it wasn't until he could feel Dan pressing his body against Phil, that Phil knew it had truly happened. Phil knew all along that he'd had some sort of feelings for Dan that were along the lines of what he felt now, it had just taken the two of them until the previous night to finally work them out. Moments after Phil woke, Dan started to stir and Phil found himself becoming strangely impatient for his friend to wake up. Dan blinked sleepily, trying to keep his eyes open for more than a few seconds as Phil waited for him to wake up fully. Phil thought how much younger Dan looked when he was sleeping and promised to never let the world get the best of Dan. Soon enough Dan was able to pull together a smile for Phil and for a few minutes they just lay there, talking casually about whatever they were thinking. The talk turned to how they felt about their sudden relationship and Phil found out why it had taken Dan as long to do something about his feelings, Phil knew that he would take whatever blows came to him in his love for Dan, if Dan fell then Phil would fall with him, even if they spent a night apart then Phil would still be next to Dan. In between talking and occasional kisses, Phil felt himself losing track of time and a tiny part of his brain reminded him that they would be leaving that day. As the time came for them to finally get up, before one last kiss , Dan whispered into Phil's ear,

"Every day you're my everything."

They made their way to the airport, continuously checking their things to make sure they had everything. When Phil started to panic as he had left something in the hotel, Dan laughed, reached over to kiss Phil as he pulled the missing item out of his pocket. Phil blushed as took it from Dan and climbed out of the taxi at the airport. They checked in and sat together for a while, talking like they had when they had waited for their plane to bring them there. Soon enough their flight was called and they made their way to the plane. As the time came for them to board Phil noticed how different Dan was since the last time they had gotten on a plane, he had been so nervous and now he was happily holding Phil's hand. Phil knew that no matter what people said , they would never break and when people asked he would say their love was made in the USA.