Boys This Young

14|I Just Think He's Pretty

Phil -8 years Dan -4 years

"Amelia!" Mel exclaimed, waltzing over to her best friend and giving her a hug. "So lovely to see you! Aw, and you too Danny."

Dan smiled up at her from hugging her legs in excitement, "Where's Phil?"

"He's upstairs, sweetie. It's early so he's asleep right now, but you can wake him up."

Dan dashed upstairs happily, his tiny legs carrying him all the way up to Phil's room. He quietly opens the door and peeked inside, seeing a mop of black hair sticking out of the covers.

He closes the door gently so he doesn't wake him up right away, climbing into the bed with his best friend and grinning at his sleeping form. In Dan's eyes, Phil is the coolest person he's ever met. He looked up to Phil a lot.

"Phil." Dan whispers, poking his face. "Philly, wake up."

Phil groans. "Five more minutes, mummy."

Dan giggles and moves his hair out of his eyes. Phil is the nicest boy to look at. "I'm not your mummy, silly." He pokes Phil's freckled cheeks. "Wake up so we can plaaaaayyyy."

Phil blinks his eyes open and he sees Dan, who was smiling up at him with his dimples prominent in his cheeks. "Good morning, Philly."

Phil smiles. "You're annoying." He reaches out to tickle Dan and Dan giggled and squirms away. "I need you awake!"

Phil sits up and stretches, rubbing sleep out of his eyes. He yawns. "What are we going to do today?"

Dan shrugs. "Whatever you want to do."

Phil laughs. "You always say that."

"Let's play outside!" Dan said, "We can play Castle again!"

"Okay." Phil said, rolling out of bed and quickly going to his closet, "What should I wear?"

"Ooh ooh!" Dan said scrambling to Phil's bottom drawer and clumsily pulling out a crumbled t-shirt, "This one!"

Phil laughed. "Dan, that's so girly. It's pink!"

"It's pretty!" Dan said, holding it out to him, "Pleeeeeeeaaaasse?"

Phil smiled. "Well, alright."

Phil took off his pajama shirt and slid on the pink one, grabbing a button up flannel off the floor. "Lets wear this too. Mum said I look handsome in it."

"I think you look handsome in everything."

Phil blushed. "Of course you would. You're the nicest boy ever." He patted Dan on the head and Dan smiled, watching Phil get dressed with an eager expression, ready to play.

"BOYS! Breakfast!" They heard Amelia shout and the boys looked at each other with a smile before dashing down the stairs.

When Mel saw Phil she raised an eyebrow. "Oh wow. Interesting choice of clothing. I thought you didn't like the pink shirt?"

"Dan said it was nice." Phil said.

"Ah, and the button up? It doesn't really match, dear."

"Dan says it looks good." Phil shrugged, sitting up on a chair and grabbing for the toast.

Mel gives Amelia a look and then smiles. "Well, I think you do too."