The Sun On My Chest (dan x phil)

Through A Screen

 Phil wanted to talk to people. Share his life and create things. He also kinda wanted to get himself out there, show his marks to the world so maybe by some chance his soulmate would watch and see and know who he was. So he made a youtube. He didn't have a good camera at all and he didn't know what he was doing. But he decided to take the plunge and record then post his first ever video.

Surprisingly a good amount of people started to watch his videos. Phil was not expecting this. Youtube was fairly new at the time and not many people were posting videos of themselves on a regular basis. Just cats and babies and funny clips. No one expected people to gain an audience from this. But Phil did and he liked it, it gave his life a sort of purpose. It gave him something to do and people to do it for.

Skip a few years later into 2009 and youtube was getting bigger and bigger. Sense Dan didn't have many friends he spent a lot of time at home, on the internet. He liked youtube, he wasn't obsessed with it but he did like it and he did go on there and explore every once in a while. One time he found this boy "Amazingphil" just talking in his bedroom being what Dan thought to be super cute! So Dan subscribed and began watching more videos from this guy. And he noticed that his marks were grey. Dan knew what this meant. But he also noticed that the marks were of things he liked, things that he could attribute himself to. But it couldn't be right? Maybe he was just trying to make Phil's markings fit into him. And it's not like Dan could see that many, all he could see were the ones not covered by clothes. There must be at least a few other people that fit those few markings. He couldn't be this super cute guys' soulmate. He just couldn't.

But he was. And maybe it's because Dan could feel it or maybe because he was lonely or because Phil was cute. But Dan began to obsess a little bit over the youtube boy with dark hair and the prettiest eyes he had ever seen. Following him on every social media he had. Watching all his videos. Thinking about him at night. Just trying to find the courage to say something. Anything. But he never could.

"A marking of me?" a new video from Amazingphil sitting right in Dan's subscription box. Hitting play.

"Hey guys so something weird happened with my markings? I mean they were a bit usual before, being all black and white and all. But this time there is a picture of me! My face, on my hand. MY SOULMATE KNOWS WHO I AM GUYS! But the problem is I don't know who they are. Gosh who are you, mystery man? Well anyway here's the new marking close up!" Phil then proceeded to get up and put his hand in in front of the camera, showing a grey picture of him. Well not completely grey, the eyes were bright and the same color as the real Phil's eyes. "So anyway I don't know if you're watching this but if you are soulmate, please tell me. If you even think a little bit that you're him. Talk to me, please. I want to be there for you. And I'm glad my eyes could bring a little color to your life haha. So bye bye! See you next time!" and the video ended.

Could it really be? Was Dan Phil's soulmate? Was there even enough evidence for him to justify telling Phil that he might be? "do you know what? Yes, I'm gonna tell him!" he said out loud, luckily no one hearing. But he was too busy opening twitter and figuring out what to say to such a lovely boy to care anyway.

"@Amazingphil ur markings kinda match me and my markings kinda match u but idk" enter.

And so those words that Dan typed got sent off into cyber space. Dan wondered if Phil would even see it. Dan wondered if Phil would even care or believe it. Dan wondered if Phil would reply to him. Phil wondered who this boy was.

Phil recognized the username "danisnotonfire" he saw that name a lot recently, everywhere he went. He didn't know a lot about this mystery person but he recognized the name when it popped up in his mentions. Saying that their markings matched. There were other people sending him messages of the same sorts but none grabbed his attention more than this one. He should probably try to see what this Dan looked like, if that was even his real name. As all his profile pictures were of a cartoon llama. In his twitter bio Phil found out that his name was Dan, he was 18 years old, and he liked Muse. He had to scroll a bit back into his twitter to find a picture of the boy. And dang he was pretty attractive! Phil hoped Dan was telling the truth and the truth was enough for their markings to actually match. To be soulmates. Ok maybe Phil rushed into hoping all of that a little too fast, but he couldn't help it.

Phil followed Dan and DMed him. "Hi J I'm Phil, well you probably already know that but nice to meet you! Do you mind telling me a bit about your markings? Maybe a picture of them if that's okay?" and sent it off hoping for the best.

Wow. Just wow. Dan was not expecting a response. I mean he was hoping for it but not really expecting it. But what would he do now? Would he try to explain his markings, or send a picture? Markings are kinda all over the place, how much was Phil expecting? How much was he willing to send?

Dan decided to take his shirt off, he felt a bit silly and perverted doing it. But it allowed Phil to see a lot of the markings that way, especially what seemed like the most special one. The sun on his chest. So with his stomach showing, one arm to his side and the other stretched out and a bit up to hold the camera he took the picture then transferred it to his computer.

"sorry for the shirtless pic but this allows you to see a lot more of them. and if our markings do match maybe you know what the sun means, as it seems to be important" send.

"Thank you! And it's no problem. I actually do like a lot of the things that are in your markings. However, I'm not really sure what the sun would mean? But there are a lot of similarities with the other ones that our markings could actually match. I would like to talk to you some more and share some more markings if that's all right? You haven't seen all of mine either so." Phil sent the DM and then a second later he sent a picture of him topless. Phil also thought that Dan looked really hot but he didn't mention that at all to him.

Sweet Jesus on a boat! Damn Phil was really fucking hot! And now Dan had to figure out what other part of him he would send. His shirt was still off so maybe his back? But that would be really hard to take a picture of. His legs? Dan didn't really like his legs, they were all hairy and a little bit chubby, but what else was he going to send?

Dan and Phil sent picture after picture until ever part of them was seen by the other. Well almost every part. Each one confident that the others markings match them almost perfectly. A few markings were left to interpretation and they didn't want to get their hopes up when it could just be them reading into it too much. So they weren't sure. They also didn't want to bring up that they were most likely soulmates to the other so soon, that seemed like a weird thing to do.

What did this mean? Other than the markings, an age, a name and a face, Phil still didn't know much about Dan. And even though Dan felt like he knew Phil through his videos, he didn't really. There was still much to learn. And they would have to start a friendship before falling in love.