I'd Do Anything: A Phanfiction

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

It had been a few days since going to the cinema with Chris and PJ. Since then, the three of us have been getting together and doing all kinds of stuff to keep busy. Today, PJ was going out of town to visit some family and Chris was going to go down with him for a few days until his parents came in town for a big family reunion. This meant I would have to be alone today; at least until Dan comes back.

It was Friday. Almost a whole week since that video was uploaded. Dan is supposed to come home late today... or is it early tomorrow...? Either way he hasn't texted me or tweeted anything so I assume he still has no internet connection.

That video. I wonder how it's doing. How is everyone taking it? Or the bigger question: how are we going to back out of this one? How are we going to convince everyone this was a prank? I know for sure that I wouldn't be too convinced after hearing nothing for nearly a week from either of us. I sighed in frustration. I should've already fixed this. What if it's already too late?

I decided I should check on how it's doing, so I got up and got out the nearest computer. Quickly logging on and pulling up Dan's new video, I clicked pause when it started to play because I was there solely for the comments. Did I really want to see those? Yes.

I started scrolling. The top comment was nice, but not promising for the rest of the comments. "Guys stop it! They're still the same people! How does it affect you?" And then there were some swear words directed towards various users.

However I kept going...

"Ew I didn't even watch the rest of the video after the announcement."

"I don't think I can watch their videos anymore knowing that they're f**k buddies. D:"

"All you people saying good things about 'Phan' are disgusting... oh wait, there are none xD"

"Good for them. I'm glad they felt comfortable enough sharing this piece of personal information with with us. All of you who think it's gross can leave, we don't want homophobes in this fandom."

"GAAAYYYYYYYYYY"

"We all knew it; I mean who else predicted it?"

"Yay for Phan! At least they had the guts to come out like that!!!"

"Why are all the cute guys gay?!"

"Being gay is wrong #sorrynotsorry"

"THIS IS DISGUSTING!!!!!"

There were also several long paragraph-rants posted but I decided not to read those because they were probably the same thing but in paragraph form.

I exited the window and shut my computer in a panic. I felt tears well up in the corners of my eyes. I wiped them away hastily. How could so many people be so rude? I know there were a few nice comments, but those weighed nothing compared to the whole picture of things. I mean the video had more dislikes than I've ever seen on one of our videos! Why are people so unsupportive of me and Dan!? Again, not that I am dating him or ever really would.

I laughed through the tears. I'm crying over people hating a version of me that isn't really me. I'm crying because of all the negativity and unsupportive fans we have. I'm crying because of all the stress this video has brought upon my life. I'm crying because I should have fixed things earlier when I had the chance, and that now it may be too late.

I sat down on the floor holding my knees to my chest and burying my head in my arms. I wanted to just forget everything. I wished there were some kind of erase button for life. Something to the equivalent of Control Z for a laptop. I wanted to undo the past week or so.