Chips and Salsa

Chapter 1

Dan was a chip.
Yes, you heard me correctly. Dan was a chip. For the first half of Daniel Howells childhood all he knew for certain were two things. He was a chip, and he was named Daniel. He wasn't sure what a surname was, or why he chose Howell, but it stuck, and that was it.
Even though he only knew those two things, he had been listening for a while. He wasn't sure how he heard things, or even how he had the ability to understand them, but he did.
He had heard about many things from the creatures that opened the door.
He had heard about parties
About restraint
About family
About where food went after being taken out of the fridge (he had even seen those creatures devour a chip once when the door was open, and he prayed he would never see that again)
About love.
Now, Dan was no fool. He knew that he, along with all of the other chips would be taken away soon, and that there was nothing he could do. He knew that fighting was worthless because he couldn't move anyways. He knew that even after he was gone people would continue to eat- it wasn't their fault that they didn't know he was conscious. He knew that he would never make a difference, so he stopped trying to.
Then he met Phil.
Phil was red dip, in which he longed to be. He wasn't sure why though, and he would have preferred to stay far away from Phil before getting to know him. Phil was a very strange dip- not that Dan had met many dips. But before Phil, nobody else in Dans life seemed to be really conscious. Well, they were, but in a very unaware way. Maybe they were trying to ignore the worthlessness of their lives. Phil was different though- even though he wasn't quite detached in the same way that Dan was, he still did notice how difficult it would be to do something with their lives; but instead of giving up, he decided to work twice as hard to get stuff done.
They both remembered when they introduced themselves. When the humans opened the door, he could hear a faint hello coming from the new can of salsa. His fellow chips would have fallen over themselves to introduce themselves if they could, but seeing how they couldn't, they instead decided to yell it out.
Phil instantly noted one chip who seemed to be ignoring him; so he introduced himself to that chip.
For some reason, Dan felt compelled to introduce himself as well.
That was the beginning of this short lived romance.