A Birthday Mess

Summary: It's Dan's birthday and he thinks Phil has forgotten it and only gets his mood even more irritated when Phil sends him out to buy props for his new video. But actually, Phil's secretly baking a cake for him as a surprise. (If you want to learn how to bake a cake, this is not for you, as Phil is absolutely terrible at baking.) ((Birthday fic dedicated to my best friend, Casey aka Phan_fan!!! Happy birthday chummy!))

Genre: Fluff and humor?

Warning: None

Words: 1,989

"Good morning Dan," Phil said when his roommate walked into the kitchen that morning. He had been up since 8 and was trying to formulate a plan to get Dan out of the house so he could have a surprise for him later.

Dan yawned and sleepily replied back his morning greetings. "Morning. Lovely day isn't it?"

"Is it?" Phil smiled. He knew what Dan was trying to hint at, but he was going to pretend that he had completely forgotten his best friend's birthday. He was trying to keep his surprise a secret after all.

"Yep," Dan said. "It feels like a really special day."

"How do you know?" Phil asked.

"Oh," Dan mumbled. "I just feel it."

"Okay, if you say so."

Dan then went to open a cupboard and pulled out a box of cereal for his breakfast. He wasn't going to say anything, but he did feel slightly disappointed that Phil seemed to forget his birthday.

"So..." Dan started off. "What are you going to do today?"

"Not much. Oh wait! That reminds me," Phil said. "I need you to buy me some things. I'm planning a new video today. If you could go down and buy some food for me for a taste test video, that'd be great."

Dan raised his eyebrow. "A new taste test video? Really? How original, Phil."

"Well, I need a new video to upload so why not?"

Dan sighed. "Okay. So what do you need me to get?"

Phil pulled out a slip of paper and slid it to Dan. On it was a list of items that Phil had made up but still sounded believable. Hopefully it would stall Dan long enough, but to be sure, he had texted Louise earlier to ask her to distract Dan as well.

Dan finished up eating his cereal and put away his bowl. Phil had left him a while ago to return into his room, most likely to prepare for his video, Dan assumed. He walked back into his own room and got ready to go out.

Once he was finished, he stopped by Phil's door and called out to him.

"Alright, Phil. I'm leaving now!"

"Bye!"

As soon as Phil heard their door shut, he jumped off of his bed and practically sprinted to the kitchen. He looked at the clock on the wall. 10:47. Alright, I gotta move fast, he thought. He had about at least one hour before Dan realized that the items on the list were nonexistent, another two hours for Louise to distract him, and a half hour for him to get back home.

The only thing Phil needed to do now was to bake a cake. Now Phil hadn't had the slightest clue as to how to make a cake, but it was a good thing that the internet existed, otherwise, he would have been fucked.

He took out his phone and pulled up Google to search how to make a simple vanilla cake. He then opened multiple cupboards and grabbed his ingredients and utensils that he would need and scattered them along the countertop.

Phil wasn't going to lie. He was a terrible cook, and probably a worst baker. He was messy and got distracted too easily, but this time, he was at least 87% sure that he wouldn't burn down the house this time. Plus, if it was for Dan, he'd risk his life baking that cake until the end.