Chapter 3 – Late night talks

Two weeks passed since Phil followed me on Twitter. School started and with the classes came the homework and the studying and the responsibilities. And that means I stopped being on the Internet for 16 hours everyday, which unfortunately doesn't help me in any way.

On the bright side, me and Phil have been talking every night after I get back home after school. We have exchanged private messages on Twitter for a couple hours before I had to go to sleep. As much as I like to sleep, it became a big inconvenience for me to stop chatting with Phil in order to have some rest. And by 'rest' I mean the four hours of sleep, until I had to wake up to go to school.

Because I had only been sleeping four hours everyday, my tiredness was starting to be obvious to anyone who looked at my face and noticed the big dark red circles under my eyes. My academic life had not started well either; I wasn't paying attention to most of my classes and, in some, I even felt asleep.

Today I arrived home and went straight to the computer. Logged in on Twitter to see if Phil had said anything while I was in school. He hadn't. Well, maybe he was too busy doing stuff, I guess.

I browsed a while through all the social networks I was on until I stopped on Dailybooth. I only started using this a couple days ago, mostly because lots of people I know have been using it to post photos of themselves or of interesting things. I still just have one photo there and it didn't get that many comments, only people being nice welcoming me to the website. Maybe it was time to post another one.

Before doing that, I looked to all the photos of the people I'm following to see if there were new ones, liked some, commented in others and then went to check if there were any new comments in that first photo I posted. There were only two new comments: One from another person welcoming and one from Phil.

Wait… From Phil?

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Phil

stop being so damn pretty dan howell

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My eyes could not believe what they were reading. Was Phil actually calling me pretty? What does he mean?

I checked the time to know when the comment was posted and it was thirty-nine minutes ago. Maybe he was still online, I had to say something to him, right?

I went back to Twitter and sent him a private message saying:

It's not like I can turn it off, you know? Am I detecting a little jealousy coming from your side? ;)

I decided I would write something funny, but that came out a little flirtier than it was supposed to be. Let's hope Phil doesn't take it the wrong way… After a few minutes I got the reply:

What are you talking about? O_o

Oh God, he probably forgot about that comment and now he's possibly thinking I'm some kind of pervert!

Ahh… That comment you left me on Dailybooth?

I have to confess that those two minutes he took to reply, were the longest two minutes in my life.

Oh, that, right… hey look, I was wondering, do you have a Skype username?

Did he just change the subject?

Yeah, I do. It's danjhowell.

Great! ^_^ Do you mind if I add you? It would be easier to talk, rather than only having 140 characters, don't you think?

Sure, go ahead

Does this means he wants to talk to me, like… actual talk instead of sending text? After a while I got a notification on Skype saying that Phil Lester wanted to add me as a contact. I accepted it and waited for him to say something.

Phil Lester

Hey Dan! Much better don't you think? ^_^

Dan Howell

Definitely :]

Phil Lester

Can I call you? I have been thinking… You know the sound of my voice but I don't know the sound of yours.

I had never thought about this, but he was right. I've been daydreaming and imagining conversations with Phil on my mind and I've always used his real voice, or at least the one I hear in his videos. But now that I think of it, he doesn't know the sound of mine… How could he? I don't make videos on YouTube, so there's no way for him to know. I just hope this don't turn out to be a really weird conversation.

Dan Howell

Yeah, sure!

And there it was the little icon saying that someone was calling me. I quickly clicked on the green button, accepting the call from Phil.

"Hello?" Said a voice I now new so well from all the videos I have seen. I actually never thanked Sara for suggesting me Phil's channel; I'll have to when I see her again.

"Hey Phil" I tried my best to control my voice. I didn't want it to get all high pitched with all the excitement I was feeling in that moment.

"Glad to finally be able to talk to you Dan" He said. By his voice I could tell he was smiling. I wonder if he was as enthusiastic as I was. Probably not, it's not like I'm some popular guy like him.

"I know, I can't believe I'm finally talking to the Amazing Phil" I said with a little mocking tone on his username. No, but seriously, who gives himself a username like that?

"Look who's talking, danisnotonfire"

"Hey, it's a username that I did when I was like literally twelve and I was in that phase of look at me, I'm so random"

"Still, you could have just changed it"

"Oh come on, it's not that bad" He just sighed.

We continued talking until my mum came to tell me the dinner was ready. I didn't want to say goodbye; I still have so much to tell him. But I guess I have to.

" Hey Phil, I have to go. Talk to you soon?"

"Sure Dan, see you later"

The Skype call ended and I felt like a child whose sweets have been stolen. How could I feel such strong connection with someone I never met and someone I just started talking two weeks ago? I didn't make much sense in my mind, the only thing I knew is that I can't wait to talk to Phil again.

a/n: There you go, my third chapter. For this chapter I did a lot of research to know more about the first conversations of Dan and Phil. I founded a print screen of Dan's Dailybooth where that comment of Phil was, I don't know if is true or not, be I thought it would be a useful thing to use in my story.

Anyway, hope you like it and thanks for reading! If you want me to know your opinion, please review, it would help me a lot! :] Have a good day xx

Mariana