Violins And Cookies (Phan AU)

The One With The Birthday

Today was Dan's birthday. He was turning 25. He stared at himself in the mirror. Was there any wrinkles? Probably not. 25 is still young right?

The first one to call was his mom of course.

"Oh my god Dan my son. I am so happy you were born. You are the apple of my eye. I love you so much. Have a good day" she said into the phone.

"Yeah mom thanks. I love you a lot too" Dan said.

"Yeah baby. Please come to Berkshire soon. Your dad and I miss you a lot" she said.

"Yeah mum. I miss you and dad a lot too. I'll come as soon as I can" Dan promised her.

Then it was his dad.

"Happy birthday son. Love you"

"Love you too dad"

His dad wasn't a man of a lot of words and Dan knew that.

The next one to call was obviously was his brother who teased him about being half fifty years old already and if he could feel his bones cracking yet.
Dan just rolled his eyes at those sarcastic comments from his brother. All of it just made him miss his family a lot.

He got wishes from his grandparents gifts and cards delivered to his house. And because it was a Sunday and his birthday he had pizza for breakfast, and who was stopping him?

What Dan didn't expect was at 4:00 pm precisely there was a knock on his door and it was Phil with Snowball.

Phil who hugged Dan tightly which caught him completely off guard as Snowball circled Dan's feet.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY" Phil said aa he closed the door and kept a big box on the table

"How did you know?" Dan asked.

"Facebook but you should have told me. I could have baked you a much better cake"

"You baked me a cake?" Dam asked.

"Of course. It's a chocolate cake with Maltesers on it because I know you love Maltesers"

"Wow jesus thanks Phil. It means a lot"

"Hey you're my friend" Phil smiled. "Anyway let's cut the cake"

Phil bought the cake at the coffee table and Dan got a knife. Dan was embarassed and happy at the same time. Phil lit the candles and Snowball sat on Dan's lap was watching the fire with fascination.

"Make a wish" Phil said with a huge grin.

Dan nodded and blew out the candles.

What did he wish for? He just wanted to be happy because he had forgot what it felt like to be happy.

"Yayy" Phil said. "Come on cut the cake now"

Dan cut the cake and fed a piece to Phil and then ate it himself.

Snowball was looking at them longingly.

"No Snow you can't have it" Phil said sternly to the cat who just meowed and settled onto Dan's lap.

"She is such a cutie" Dan said as he scratched her ears.

"Hey Dan" Phil said.

"Yeah"

"Look I got you something. Sorry it's not the thing you would want but I figured it was your birthday so yeah" Phil said handing Dan what seemed like a ticket.

"Phil you didn't have to..." Dan said.

"Please keep it" Phil said.

Dan took it.