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(double update!)

"dan! your phone has been buzzing since forever, who is texting you?"

"darling my hands aren't free, could you check who it is?"

"but you don't like me snooping through your phone. you said that yourself remember?"

"i didn't mean it," dan sighed. his stomach drops every time phil brings up the past but dan can't really blame him. dan was short tempered and stupid and just so fucking sorry but he had no idea how to apologise to phil for his actions. they just weren't acceptable.

"please check it for me?" he pleaded softly and heard a loud sigh erupt from phil's mouth before he checked it.

"it's um, it's chris," phil said uncomfortably, fingers tightening their grip on dan's phone when he saw that he had been texting him on snapchat. why can't they use normal texting forums? why snapchat? "on snapchat," he added, his tone hostile and dan just peeked his head out of the kitchen doorway.

"can you text him back saying that i'm busy?"

"i-um, okay," phil agreed, not understanding why it was important to text chris right away. was he that important? dan could simply reply to his messages once he was free, like he did to phil, but dan insisted that chris should know that he's busy.

"thank you sweetheart,"

"yeah," phil replied dismissively, biting his lip harshly to refrain himself from saying something that he'll regret later. "why is he texting you on snapchat?" phil blurted and dan just furrowed his eyebrows at the strange question.

"what do you mean?"

"didn't you say it was a family tradition?"

"chris is like a family member to me. he helps me so much through work and when i am not feeling good, so i thought he deserves it. don't you think? this one time when i was-"

phil tuned him out, shutting dan's phone and walking out of the living room to his own room, sitting on the edge of the bed and holding his head in his hands in frustration.

he had no interest in listening to dan ramble about chris for fifteen minutes, and that was the sole reason why he had stopped asking dan about his work.

he did not want to listen how chris made him laugh and how he cracked stupid jokes and how he was random and quirky and dan loved his personality.

maybe chris really was family to dan.

more than phil was anyway.