The Bad Boy Experiment

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Author: Kaylee 

A/N: Thank you for inspiring me to write more to this!

"The bad boy; always more fun." -Ian McShane

"Um hey?" Dan called out.

Phil looked up and stuffed his book into his bag.

"Dan Howell. I'm glad you could make it." Phil greeted.

Phil's nonchalant attitude and indifference towards Dan's appearance was new. It was unlike the looks he was given at any other time of the day.

Although Dan was slightly intimidated, he couldn't allow this to show. It would ruin his bad boy rep before it'd even begun.

"Sup Lester? You had a question?" Dan said.

He sounded like a rapper wannabe. It was annoying but fine for the moment.

"Yes. Dan is this all an act for attention? A keen ploy to gain popularity? Or is this the real you?" Phil posed the question in such a way he almost sounded angered by Dan's very presence.

"No. I'm not in it for the popularity. I could go without it to be quite honest with you." Dan answered, more focused on the clouds than the conversation.

"I figured, so what about the girls? Are you doing this for them?"

"No! Why do you even care, Lester? Worried that you'll never get a girlfriend because they're into the dangerous boy their daddys don't approve of rather than the total nerd good boy you are?" Dan smirked at Phil.

"I don't know how Dan, or why, but something is going on. This isn't you. You're the invisible nobody kid and you can't just destroy the balance. The good stay in the good and the bad stay in the bad."

"Well I guess that just makes me even more of a rebell. Why don't you just go back to making smoothies with your mommy, kay?" Dan retaliated.

Dan walked away from the big tree leaving Phil with nothing to say.

It wouldn't take a rocket scientist or whoever specialized in this kind of stuff to understand that eventually Phil would figure out that he was right and that this 'bad boy' act was in fact an act and nothing more. The only reasonable action to take next would be to find something to keep Phil from spilling the beans. Besides, a guy that clean just had to be dirty.

Upon Dan's arrival home, he greeted his dad then headed up to his room, locking the door behind him. With one swift stride, Dan grabbed his laptop and plopped down on his bed. He opened up the laptop and searched up on his new friend.

Surprisingly, based on internet research, there was nothing that could possibly go against Phil, Phil's family, or his business. His whole record was squeaky clean.

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The next day was more of a secret spy mission than a continuations of the experiment. People still looked at Dan and girls still followed him and talked to him as if he was some god. The only difference today was that everywhere Dan went and every move he made, was a search for Phil. Throughout the whole morning, Dan was late to classes. That part only contributed to Dan's 'bad boy' image, but the reason did not. Dan was too busy locating Phil and secretly following him around.

Phil didn't really do anything out of the ordinary. He got a lot of text messages, but that was all. It wouldn't hurt to find out what they were.

At lunch, Phil left his bag unattended with his phone inside while he went up to get his lunch. This gave Dan an open opportunity.