Those Girls (A Dan and Phil Phan fic) *Sequel to That girl*

It's all an act

Dan's POV

Phil's idea of a hall pass was brilliant. Basically what it is, is when you let your partner, spouse, whatever, have a week or weekend away from the relationship and you can basically be single. The thing it's good for is because you know how much they care by what they do or don't do. Some people wouldn't do anything, would come back and then you know they really love you. Others sleep with people and then come back and that shows they care enough to come back to you, but it wasn't hard to sleep with someone else. Then there's the worst findings. They sleep with as many people as possible, They love single life that much...They never come back to you. I was praying that with me and Ellen, she wouldn't go through with anything. It's stupid really, Giving her freedom and expecting her not to use it but as long as she actually came back I think I would be okay.

Phil's POV

Dan had this whole theory of what the girls do, shows how much they love us. I kind of agreed with it, But even if she slept with one person, I would have to consider breaking up with her. The way things had already been lately, I don't think I could stay in the same bed as her knowing he had been somewhere else. I decided the way to tell her would be over dinner. I wasn't going to say anything about how I thought she was unfaithful or that it was a test. We were both sat oppostie eachother, in the restaurant where Ellen and I had our first date. She seemed okay with me for once, she was smiling and giving me small kisses all of the time and it made me question... Maybe she hadn't done anything wrong. I took her hands and just told her straight up.

"Carlz...This weekend you're going over to Dan's place and Ellen's coming over here"

"What? Why?"

"We're giving you both a hall pass. From 9am friday morning till 12am sunday, You're classed as single. You can do whatever you want with whoever you want and I won't be around to stop you"

"urm...okay? But why are you doing this?"

"Me and Dan just thought it'd be best for our relationships if every now and again we can go out and not have to worry about hurting eachother"

"So you have this 'hall pass' too?"

"Yup, But one condition is that we have to tell eachother exactly what we did. You don't have to say who with but we have to be able to talk things out afterwards"

"Yeah, okay."

She seemed totally puzzled as to why I was doing this, But hopefully I was able to trust her.

Carlie's POV

He must know something and isn't telling me. I mean, this is Phil! He's so protective of me so it isn't like him to just say "Shag who you want" and to be fine with it. I would obviously take advantage of this opportunity though. It isn't very often your boyfriend of 5 months lets you have a whole weekend off from your relationship. I don't think I would tell him what I will do though, I have a feeling he's testing me and isn't saying anything. With Dan and Ellen it would be okay, I know how much they loved eachother and I know they would both come clean to eachother, but Phil would wrap me in cotton wool if he could. My acting skills from when I was a kid had been doing good so far but only one person knew my true personality: Joe. With everyone else I kind of put on this fake cute thing, I dressed very girly and pretty and made my voice a bit cuter and acted all sweet and innocent. The real me was more flirtacious, out there, I loved shorter skirts and flashing my skin and if Phil knew that he wouldn't like it. Obviously with family I was myself but it was like I had two me's. The real me at home would sit on the couch, wear no make up and burp and laugh. The real me with guys was what only Joe had saw.

It was now at the point where I couldn't stand the thought of being with Phil 24/7. His constant need of attention and hugs like that of a child was driving me insane. Really I have Joe to thank for bringing me to my senses in that I don't love Phil at all. I just pitied him this whole time and really what I needed was an actual man. When Phil and I left the restaurant we got straight in a taxi home. He tried to be all nice like there was nothing in this whole thing and that it was genuine. But he forgot I studied Psychology, I had acted in the past and he was completely bluffing.

Ellen's POV

I can't lie, I was beyond confused as to why Dan was letting me do this. He seemed so calm with it all but he just said "every couple needs to just relax and have their time apart without worrying that the other is hurting them" which seemed fair enough, but although Dan was an intelligent man, he definitely didn't come up with this himself. It had to be Phil, and Phil would only do something like this if he thought something was wrong with his relationship. The other person in that relationship was Carlie, and even I could agree she had been acting bizarre lately. She was constantly on her phone and excluding herself. I felt like as her friend, It was my responsibilitily to be the one to confront it all head on. I felt like Joe was part of this somehow...I just prayed that wasn't what it seemed to be.

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