Nothing Lasts Forever (Phan)

Chapter 8

No dedications to give as EVERYONE HAS STOPPED GUESSING THE PICTURES!!!! Come on guys I wanted to keep this going!!

Phil POV

I stare at the note in my hands. What was going on? Why had Dan left? What was all this about forgetting him? I couldn't understand, did Dan hate me?

I take off running down the stairs, straight for my mothers apartment where she and Uncle Rick were unloading everything.
"Phillip what's wrong?" Mum rushes over upon seeing my face. I push the note at her, unable to speak through my tears. My phone buzzes in my pocket and I leap for it, hoping its Dan.
"Hello?" I ask breathlessly.
"Hey Phil, uh are you or Dan coming into the radio on Sunday this week-"
"Call me tomorrow." I snap hanging up.
"Phil." Mum whispers sadly looking up from the note. She walks over and wraps me in her arms.
"Where'd he go Mum? Why?"
"I don't know sweetheart, why don't you ring his parents, maybe he's gone there?" She suggests. I nod, grabbing at my phone.
"Thanks Mum. I've got some people to call now."
I turn and head back up to my apartment, dialling Dan's number as I did so.
"Hello?" His mother answers.
"Hey it's me Phil, uh, is Dan there?"
Dan's mum hesitates.
"Uh, no sorry. No, he hasn't been home since New Years."
I sigh.
"Oh okay, um, call me if he shows up."
"Will do."
"Thanks, bye."
"Bye."

I hang up and begin dialling the numbers of other people he could've gone to. Slowly, the list of places he could've gone gets shorter, and I get closer and closer to tears. By the time I get to Louise, I'm unable to stop crying, and barely able to get the words out. Louise assures me she'll do her best to find out, and contact me as soon as she knows anything.
"Take care of yourself Phil, it's not your fault." She tells me.
"Okay." I whisper. "See you Louise."
"Bye Phil."

That was it. There was no one else to call. What could I do? I needed as many people to know as possible, so if anyone saw Dan, they could tell him to come home.
"Video." I whisper. "I make a video."
I rush to set up the camera, accidentally scrapping the light stand along the wall.
Within ten minutes I was ready, which was record time. Sitting down on my bed, I quickly think over what I was going to say, before smiling sadly at the recording camera.

"Hey guys, sorry for falling off the face of the earth, but if you've watched Dan's newest video, you'd know that I had a lot of family stuff going on. It turns out my dad had a brain tumour, and he passed away two weeks ago." I pause, taking a deep breath. "My mum has moved into an apartment just a couple of floors down from ours though, so it'll be nice for both of us to be close right now." Now it was time to talk about Dan. "But um, yeah, something's kind of, um yeah. Dan went to Manchester with me, and I sent him home yesterday, I only got back a couple of hours ago, but I came home, but Dan was gone. He wasn't in contact at all for today so I was worried already cos it wasn't like him and-" I was talking faster now, my anxiety spilling over. "I found this note."

I wave the note to the camera, feeling my eyes well up with tears.
"It basically says to forget him because-" my voice breaks, and I spend a minute trying to swallow the lump in my throat, trying to blink away tears. In the end I give up and start openly crying. "It basically says to forget him because he's not coming back. Now I've rung everyone on my contacts to see if they know anything, and either no one does, or they do and they're lying, because no one has seen him. I'm not giving up, I have everyone on high alert and now you guys too. If you see Dan anywhere, you corner him and tell him to come home because Phil needs him."

I stop the camera filming, and get all set up to edit. Watching the footage, I decided it didn't need editing, maybe if Dan saw how depressed I was feeling right now he would come home. Once the video was uploading, I go downstairs and start helping Mum and Uncle Rick. We were finished within two hours. We ordered pizza, which I only ate a slice of before excusing myself to go upstairs. The video had been up for an hour, and the were so many comments, all messages of support. I saw one with over hundred replies.

Don't worry Phil. We'll all spam Dan to the point he can't go onto any social media, and we all know he can't live without Tumblr, he'll have to come home.

318 replies

OMG YES!!

We got your back Phil

Haha.......totally don't spam you both on a daily basis anyway.......haha.........ha.......I'll up my game.

I have a list of spam tweets for any given situation, ready to go!

Dan will never trust the Internet again.......... MWAHAHAHAHAHHA

#comehomehowell

^^^^make it a thing guys #comehomehowell

Do you think sending him draw Phil nakeds will help? #comehomehowell

Smiling slightly, I exit youtube and open Twitter. Searching the hashtag #comehomehowell I gasp as I find it to be the number one trending topic. It looks like those people had been good to their word, there were million of tweets, all with the hashtag. I check Instagram and Tumblr to find the same thing. This had gone viral. Dan knew everything that was going on, when it was going on. There was no way he hadn't seen this. I smile on content. Whatever existential Dan was having would end soon enough and he would come home. Then we could start getting back to normal life.

I crawl into bed, a glimmer of hope warming my heart.
"Hashtag come home howell." I whisper.