PHAN FICTION

Butterflies

A/N This one may be a bit long and it's going to be written in the third person. It's also an AU. Love you all!

Phil walks into the hell hole that some call school. While the classes are boring, the teachers are mean, and some of the kids are just downright cruel, at least he has a couple of friends that he's known for a while. There's Pj, Chris, and Dan. Each friend has their own story. You know, to Phil. How they met, where they are now, who they are as individuals, that sort of thing.

Pj and him met 4 years ago. He was funny, kind, and extremely outgoing. They became fast friends. Chris was a bit more quiet, but still one of the sweetest people you will ever meet. He also happens to be very smart. And Then there was Dan. He originally didn't like Dan very much. Phil is generally a very happy and optimistic person. Dan however, was quite literally the opposite. A dark, existential, beautiful, pessimist. That's Dan.

But somehow, they did become close friends. Dan became one of the closest friends Phil had.

It was all going perfect, until Phil started having these thoughts. . . That's when his whole world turned upside down.

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It was kind of a gradual thing. At least, that's the way Phil likes to think of it. He loves all of his friends quite equally. Dan was really no different, well, at the beginning. Him and Phil would talk on the phone, text, and Skype, every night, for hours on end. Their conversations were sometimes very thoughtful and meaningful, and other times stupid and hilarious. Phil just loved that, loved Dan, loved everything.

He also happened to have a crush on this really pretty girl. Her name was Melody. They were good friends as well. She was funny, nice, smart, talented, mature, and beautiful. Maybe out of his league, but who cares?

Phil was laying in his bed one night, listening to music, dreaming about his life, and all of the wonderful people in it. He was thinking about Melody, and how badly he wished that they could become a couple. He really liked her a lot. But of course he would never have the courage to tell her that. Guess it'll just have to stay a dream for a while.

As he got into his daydreams, he suddenly has this thought about Dan. How he was so tall and handsome. His eyes were these big, beautiful, brown eyes, that he would tend to get lost in when they were talking to each other. And his hair was this silky smooth, chocolatey fringe that he loved playfully messing up all the time.

Wait WHAT? What the hell was that? Phil didn't just dream about his best friend in that way. He was straight. Of course he was. Dan was his best friend, practically his brother. He was probably just tired. People think weird things when they are half asleep. This was nothing. It will go away and never come back. He'll laugh at it later.

Phil convinced himself of all of these things, then finally decided it was time to go to sleep.

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Phil thought that night would be the first and last time he thought about Dan that way. Obviously, he was wrong. Sometimes when you start imagining or thinking something, it's your brain telling you how you might really feel. But Phil didn't want to accept that. He started having these thoughts more and more and each time got just a little more detailed. It started out as just a general observation about how pretty and gorgeous Dan was, but it slowly grew to imagining situations where they were holding hands or kissing.

Every time this happened Phil shoved the thought into a little corner in the back of his mind and told himself that it wasn't real. That he didn't have a crush on Dan. He wouldn't let himself love Dan in that way. He just would not.

All of this thinking and dreaming was making it difficult to carry on a normal conversation with Dan. As he was talking Phil would just get lost in an imagination where he would just kinda grab Dan and kiss him, or something like that. And when they were texting, the words just kinda flew off the screen and made their way around Phil's head, spinning, swirling, and circling.