Phan Fluff

From best friends to boyfriends

A/N: In case you'd made it this far through my stories and hadn't figured it out yet, I'm a slut for sappiness

Summary: Dan falls in love with his best friend blah blah blah, aka the plot to every fanfiction ever, I'm so original I know.
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Dan and Phil had always been the very best of friends.

Ever since they were merely 5 years old and all throughout school they'd been with each other. And even now when they were at university they hardly ever left each other's side.

Sure there had been some rough patches along the way. Phil had had many a girlfriend (all of which seemed to have hated Dan) that would drift them apart and make them more distant. But unlike Phil's many relationships, Dan and Phil's friendship would never come to an end.

Dan was lying on his bed starring up the the ceiling blankly. He did have quite a large pile amount of homework piled on his desk but he knew what he would rather be doing.

He was waiting for Phil to arrive. Phil, who had mostly different lessons to Dan, often finished later than him so Dan was used to waiting.

Him and Phil didn't actually share rooms, not that you'd believe it, Phil was always in Dan's room due to the fact that he lived with a crazy group of compulsive drunks. And would much rather sleep on the floor in Dan's room than get pranked or woken up with shouting at 4am. Dan was pretty lucky to live on his own actually.

There was a knock on the door then, and Phil came bounding in to the room.
'Hey Dan, guess what?'
'What?' Dan sat up on his bed and looked at Phil.
'Chloe Parker says she likes me' Phil smirked. Dan held in a groan.

'Really her? You're not going to date her! Are you?' He asked. He often found he got a little over protective when Phil mentioned girls... only because he wanted the best for Phil though, of course!

'Well no... but I did kind of agree to go to a party with her. She said you can come too though, if you want'
'I er, yeah sure I'll come' Dan replied, though he was a little unsure.

They spend the rest of the evening sat on Dan's bed doing homework and telling various stories. Phil would occasionally talk about his various girlfriends (again), much to Dan's annoyance who was always very grateful when the subject changed.

Dan had never had any stories of girlfriends to tell, nor any girlfriends at all for that matter, he'd never seemed to see what everyone else saw in girls. Sure he had friends that were girls but he could never date any of them.
He'd felt this way for as long as he could remember. At first he'd thought that it was normal, that the feelings would come, but they never did.

'So, you sleeping here tonight then?' Dan asked, trying to push the thoughts he was having out of his head.
'Yeah, you don't mind do you?'
'No, no of course not. We can order pizza if you want?'
'Yeah and let's watch a film, I'm sick of all this homework'

After about an hour they had finished their pizza and the film was half way through, Dan looked over at Phil, expecting to see him sat up next to him, but instead he saw that he was lying asleep on the end of Dan's bed.

Dan couldn't help but think he looked kind of cute lying there, with his hair somehow all messed up as he lay curled up on the blanket.

Dan snapped himself out of his thoughts again and sighed. What was he going to do about that party tomorrow? He really didn't want to go. Letting out a huge yawn, he fell asleep before he could answer his question.

The next day had gone painfully fast. Before Dan knew it he was sat in the corner of a nightclub.

Phil had gone off with Chloe after about five minutes, Probably due to the fact that she seemed to have taken an instant disliking to Dan (maybe he was just a girl repellent) and had left him all alone.

Dan sighed and sipped his drink.

A little while later Phil returned, surprisingly alone, and sat next to Dan. Dan cleared his throat.

'So er, how'd the date go?'
'Well I'm not sure you could really call it a date, I kind of forgot her name and then she left'
'Oh... what did you call her?'

'Jessica' Phil blushed.
Dan looked at Phil and burst out laughing, his cheeks also turning scarlet.
'Really Phil? You are hopeless'
'I know' Phil laughed slightly awkwardly. Dan looked into Phil's eyes though Phil didn't look back, he was looking longingly and sadly over at the couples who were dancing. Dan had an idea.

'Hey Phil' he said standing up 'Why don't you dance with me?'
'What?' Phil was looking Dan in the eyes now, he thought he could see a cheeky glint in them too.

'Come on its just a bit of fun, it'll cheer you up a bit!'
Phil sighed
'Okay...'
Dan grabbed his hand and pulled him over to where everyone else was dancing and the two of them started to join in. But the song had stopped.

The lights went dim, all couples around them were holding hands are had their arms around each other. A slow, gentle song came on and Dan froze. Shit. He couldn't do that with Phil, that would be anything but platonic.

But then Phil took both his hands and started to dance along side him in time to the music.

Dan joined in too, trying best he could to look calm and collective. Phil occasionally averted his eyes when he felt that others were watching, but otherwise keeping strong eye contact with Dan.

He'd never really taken any notice of Dan's eyes before but now that he did he noticed how they were a rich and indulgent chocolatey brown.

The first song came to an end after a while, being replaced with a different but similar sounding one.

Dan didn't feel awkward anymore, the embarrassment had gone. He still felt a little confused though.

Why did this feel so natural?

Dan had never been in a relationship in his life, let alone danced with someone like this. Sure he had a very strong relationship with Phil and sure they'd been friends most of their lives but this felt different.

Surely he wasn't... he wasn't... he'd never felt this with a girl before, maybe he was.

Maybe he was gay.

At that precise moment Phil leaned in closer to Dan and caught him by surprise. Dan didn't know how it happened but before he knew it Phil was kissing him.

Phil's lips connected so perfectly with his and his kiss felt so gentle and soft. Dan was so overwhelmed by this that he'd only just realised he was doing nothing, he wrapped his arms around Phil and returned the kiss.

They stayed like that for a while, it was so perfect, until Dan pulled away and looked up at Phil.

He felt so alive. He finally realised what all his feelings meant now, why he felt so jealous around Phil's girlfriends, why he thought Phil was cute when he slept, why dancing with him felt so natural.

He was in love with Phil Lester.