Phil emerges from his bedroom in a bright blue t-shirt with black sweatpants and socks covered in little cartoon dogs. He makes his way down the hallway and into the living room, grabbing his computer and sitting on the couch. Phil logs into his email account and starts replying to business emails. A little while later, Dan walks in. "Hey, Phil," he says, sighing as he flops onto the couch next to Phil. "Hey," Phil replies absently, finishing up an email. Dan brings his feet up onto the couch and leans lightly against Phil's shoulder as he starts playing a game on his phone. Phil taps a button on the keyboard with an air of finality. "Done!" He announces proudly. He closes the laptop and sets it on the coffee table. Then Phil wraps his arms around Dan's chest and pulls him close. They lay down together and start cuddling.

"So what do you want to do today, bear?" Phil asks Dan, playing with his hair. "Hmm, I dunno," he replies noncommittally. A couple seconds of silence pass, and then: "Oh god, I'm sorry, I just realized!" Phil exclaims, sitting up. "What?" Dan twists around to look back at Phil, a questioning expression on his face. "You just poured your heart out to me, and I just made out with you and brushed you off afterward," Phil says, mortified. "I'm so sorry," he apologizes. "Phil, it's ok." Dan reassures him, sitting up next to Phil. "You told me you'd never leave me. That's enough. I don't need a huge speech declaring your love for me." Dan rolls his eyes, but then he softens and smiles, gazing into Phil's eyes. "Ok. Thanks, Dan," Phil says, relieved. "I do love you, you know," he says softly, looking up at Dan through his eyelashes.

Dan's eyes widen as the words register in his brain. "Y-you love me?" Dan stutters. "Of course I do," Phil says. Then he sees Dan's reaction and starts to panic a bit. "Oh god, I said it too soon. We've only been dating, what, a month? Now I'm freaking you out, oh god.." Phil rambles. "Phil, Phil, calm down. You're not freaking me out," Dan says. "You're right, we've only been dating a little over a month. But we've been together for so much longer. I have known you for almost eight years now. I've loved you for years." "You love me?" Phil confirms, a tentative smile growing on his lips. "No, Phil. I don't just love you. I am in love with you," Dan says. Phil smiles even bigger and a tear starts to brim in his eye as he gazes at his boyfriend. "God, Dan, I love you," Phil repeats. "I love you, too," Dan says back. He practically launches himself at Phil and they hug each other, so tight one would think they could never let go.

Later that day, Dan and Phil decide to finally upload their coming out video. They sit down in the gaming room and plug the hard drive with the footage on it into the computer. "Are you ready?" Dan asks Phil. He takes a deep breath. "Yeah," Phil says confidently, then starts logging into his channel. He presses a few more buttons, until everything is ready to go, successfully beginning the uploading process.

Dan and Phil sit on the couch together, looking at their phones, but every couple seconds they glance up and look at the percentage of the video that's been uploaded. 7%. 16%. 28%. "While that's uploading, do you want to upload the gaming video?" Phil suggests. "Yeah, sure," Dan says, and he leaves the room for a minute to get his laptop. Phil glances over - 45%. Dan walks back in to the room and sits on the couch with Phil. He logs in to the gaming channel and plugs the hard drive in. 87%. Then Dan start uploading the Pokemon GO video. "Alright, it's done," Dan says as he finishes getting everything set up. 100%. "The other video is ready," Phil softly remarks to Dan. They get up, sit at the desk, and check over everything. "Press the button with me?" Phil asks Dan innocently, finger hovering over the mouse. "Oh for God's sake!" Dan exclaims, but he laughs and lays his finger on top of Phil's. "Ready?" Dan asks. Phil nods and smiles. Dan presses their fingers down together onto the mouse, finally getting their coming out video onto YouTube. The gaming video is not quite ready yet, so they rewatch their new video, "BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!", and watch it gain in popularity.

The first view comes in. Then the second. Then the third. It snowballs, hundreds more views pouring in as people watch the video. After a couple minutes, Phil refreshes the page and scrolls down to the comment section. Dan and Phil take turns reading some to each other. Almost all of the comments were extremely supportive. Fans were saying how they would alway love and support them, how they knew phan was real, etc. etc. But every once in a while, a hurtful and just awful comment would pop up. One surpassingly rude, homophobic, and hateful comment is posted. Dan reads it, and he looks over to see if Phil has seen it. Phil has. "Phil, are you alright?" "No, Dan, I'm not! How can people be so hurtful?!" Phil cries, burying his face in Dan's shoulder. "Hey, Phil, it's okay," Dan says, and he lifts Phil's chin up so he's staring right in his eyes. Dan brushes a tear away from Phil's cheek and directs his attention back to the computer. "Look, here."

Dan reports the comment and removes it from the video. "Okay," Phil sniffles a bit. "But you can't do that to every comment." "Phil, we knew there was going to be some backlash from this video! Some people are just like that. But, look: 'Dan and Phil, ilysm and i'm so happy you decided to be open with us like this. keep making videos and i will support you no matter what!'" Dan reads. "There are hundreds of comments like that!" Dan says, trying to cheer Phil up. "I know, thanks," Phil says, grateful for Dan to make him feel better. "You're welcome. And whatever happens, we'll get through it! We're a team. Alright?" Phil finally smiles and agrees. "I love you, Dan," Phil says for probably the hundredth time that day, he just liked to hear the words come out of his mouth. "I love you, too, Phil," Dan says back. He smiles, turns back to the computer (their video was already on 'trending'), and closes out of YouTube and every other social media tab, not caring anymore what the world thought of them.

Later that evening, Dan and Phil are lounging on the couch in their pajamas and playing on the Nintendo Switch. After they finish up a game, Phil glances at the time. "Oh! Dan, it's past midnight!" "Hm, really? We should go to bed," he remarks. A couple minutes later, Dan and Phil are heading off to bed. But just outside his bedroom door, Dan stops and memories of the previous night come flowing back to him. Phil notices Dan's hesitation and concludes to what Dan must be thinking about. "Dan? Um, do you want to sleep with me tonight?" Phil offers gingerly. Dan blushes faintly at the innuendo and says, "Yeah, thanks," before following Phil into the bedroom. They climb into bed and snuggle together before falling into a dreamless sleep.

A/N: I hope you liked this chapter! It took me a bit longer to upload as I've been working on another phanfic, it's uploaded now if you want to check it out (titled 'a different kind of double date'). Also, for future reference, would you prefer shorter chapters uploaded more frequently or longer chapters but less frequently? Review, follow, and favorite please! ~L