Dan and Phil at Hogwarts (A Dan and Phil AU)

Shopping Pt 2

Dan

               "PRAISE ZEUS IT STOPPED RAINING!" I proclaimed, stepping out from under the roofed bus stop and spinning around. "It's a miracle." Phil said, holding his arm up to test the sky. I grabbed his hand and pulled him off the bench. "WE HAVE PAPER TO BUY PHILU!" "You're in a rather loud mood today, Dan. Philu?" "Too much Anime? Pssh no such thing! THAT LETTER HAS MADE ME EXCITED DO NOT JUDGE. It's actually quite strange that I'm the one being giggly when it's usually you that cant stop talking." I said, pulling out my phone after hearing a tweet come in. phantryolertastic5716 responded to my houseplant tweet saying "Give Phil this website and he won't ever think of buying a houseplant again-or doing anything productive" with the link bit.ly/whalefollow. I clicked on it with some trepidation- some of my followers are a bit weird, believe it or not, and I wouldn't want it to take me to some website where you illegally download mice or something. I was welcomed with a whale face. A 5-bit crudely done killer whale pouting at me. But when I tapped on the screen the whale followed. Oh, Phil would never put this down for the rest of his life. At that moment I had an inner conflict. Be a good friend and save him the trouble of a distraction from Crossy Road? Or enjoy a laugh (plus a few days absence of new houseplants) and watch him name, create a backstory and play with the cgi whale? Yeah, you already know what I chose. "Phil, look what someone just tweeted! Go to this website on your phone." "This isn't another one of those screamer games like last time, is it? I almost did a Dan and fell off my chair." I chuckled and cringed at the same time and gave him the link. "Just do it. I'm sure you'll like it." "Does it have to do with capybaras?" "You and your weird animals, Phil." A few moments later he shrieked with glee as he watched the whale follow his finger and then stop to pout at him. "Oh I love this! I think I'll name him Jackson. He looks like a Jackson, doesn't he?" "Whatever you want, Phil." We continued to walk a bit, enjoying the temporary appearance of sun and I whipped out the vlogging camera to do another update. "Clear skies! Lets see how long that lasts. Phil, tell everyone what you're up to." "THANK YOU TO WHOEVER SENT THIS IN LOOK AT THIS WHALE! His name is Jackson and his family is from the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco!" "Already got the family tree going there, I see. We are walking to, where are we walking Phil?" "I thought we needed to get some house stuff while we're still in Kings Road before we head off to Kensington to Ryman's." I nodded at the camera. "Yes indeed. Aren't our lives exciting? We get to buy household items. Rock Star living." "Dan, remember we're buying the things for Hogwarts. This isn't just a normal Day In The Life video! Once we get to Hogwarts it'll be quite extravagant!" "Mucho exciting guys! Look forward to that." I turned the camera off as we entered a home-goods shop. After persuading Phil to put "Jackson" to bed, we split paths and went off on a scavenger hunt. On my list I had light-bulbs, a new potato peeler (Phil broke ours peeling a Satsuma, of all things) and a lint roller. Phil had 4 things on his list of equal importance but when we met at the register, his arms were laden with at least 15 things that he claimed "we needed".  "wHAT EVEN IS THIS." "That's an eye-dropper. For watering the bonsai." "Phil we can use a cup like all the other plant enthusiasts." "That, that is a necessity." "Phil. This. Is. A. Pen." "But it's special! Look, watch how it-" "I dont want to hear it!" I realized we were speaking rather loudly and holding up the line so I lowered my voice and placed all the merchandise in front of the shop owner. "This is such a domestic conversation Phil, we are holding up the line because you think we need special bristle to put on our broom." "They could come in handy!" Lets just say, we left the shop with twice as much as we needed and had a lot to carry onto the bus.