Day 10

Prompt: Date night

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"You peel carrots really weird"

Phil stops peeling the carrot in her hand and looks up at the screen to see Dan is staring back at her. They're cooking dinner together over Skype, something one of the many long distance relationship websites Phil uses suggested. It's supposed to make couples feel closer, and since they're separated by a couple hundred miles because of the fact they're at different universities, they both decided to give it a go.

"How do I peel them weird?" Phil simply replies with a little shrug and continues peeling the carrot.

"You're not supposed to peel it towards you, you're supposed to peel it away form you. See, like this, look" Dan says, grabbing Phil's attention for a second as the dark haired girl watches Dan peeling the carrot away from herself slowly in demonstration. Phil just makes a noise as if to dismiss it and continues peeling it her way.

"You're so stubborn, you know that?" Dan states with a little laugh.

Phil just smiles, setting aside her now peeled carrot and moving onto the potatoes. Phil really wasn't so sure about this at first, mostly because she's not the best at cooking and didn't want to make a fool of herself, but so far it's been fun.

So they continue to cook their dinner together, they've gone for a simple vegetables, rice and meat combo just to keep things simple. They make lively small talk while cooking and it's all fun and games, that is until Phil nearly turns the rice she's cooking into extremely burned inedible rice. When she said she couldn't cook that well she wasn't kidding.

By the time they've both sorted their lighting for optimum Skyping conditions and sat down with their meals they're both full of so many laughs and giggles that they can barely eat their food. They keep looking up and catching each others eyes, Phil especially can't stop giggling as her cheeks heat up when she catches Dan watching her. She's lit a candle to make it like they're out a fancy restaurant, and although they're hundreds of miles away form each other she actually feels as though they're in the same room eating a meal together. Of course in reality she's in her dorm room and so is Dan, but the illusion of being together is nice. It's peaceful and calming, and Phil decides then that they really need to try do this more often.

"You look so beautiful"

The compliment catches Phil off guard, especially since she has a carrot hanging out of her mouth when Dan says it. She bites the tip of the carrot off and crunches on it in a hurry to reply to Dan although she isn't exactly sure what to say.

"I look beautiful while eating?"

"You look beautiful generally" Dan replies, sighing softly "I'm glad we did this, it's nice"

"Yeah, it's really nice" Phil agrees, taking the small pause to take another bite of the carrot currently hanging off her fork. "Right back at you as well, you look nice stuffing your face with rice"

Dan laughs, it's loud and slightly obnoxious, but a sound which makes a warmth blossom in Phil's stomach. She loves Dan's laugh, her smile, that little twinkle she gets in her eye when she speaks about somewhat excites her. They may only be pretty much kids dating in uni, but Phil is certain she's completely smitten with Dan.

Skype freezing for a second and Dan's stuttering voice brings her out of her thoughts. She groans softly, pouting at the screen and giving it her best death glare hoping it will fix itself.

"Skype is being a butt" she says simply, hoping the connection is working enough for them to hear each other. For a second it seems to go back to normal and Phil gets her hopes up, before it completely closes and the 'call ended' message is displayed on the screen. She groans more loudly this time, already seeing the little three dots to show Dan is typing.

'It died D:'

Phil types back, feeling a bit grumpy but also feeling better just from Dan's use of the cute sad face. 'I know. I'm so offended, I didn't even get to finish my potatoes'

'lol, I'll call you back in a sec'

Phil literally has all but five seconds before she's being called again, she smiles, accepting the call and seeing Dan appear on the screen once again.

"Think we can finish dinner before it dies again?"

"If we eat fast enough, sure" Phil answers with a grin "I'll bet you a fiver it dies again within the next hour"

Dan laughs once again, a small smirk spreading across her face "I have faith and think it might actually last. But fuck it, you're on"