Chapter One

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"Hey phil!" Dan shouted from outside the apartment door. "I left my keys inside can you open the door?" After knocking for what felt like an hour phil opened the door and shut it as dan walked in.
"Took you long enough" Dan said in a snarky tone, he giggled before placing multiple shopping bags on the counter, Phil raised his eyebrows at the amount of cereal dan had bought, 13 boxes of Rice Krispies. "Too much?" Dan laughed, he started to put away the boxes and phil went over to help. "My family wants me to go with them to Cornwall in the summer, obviously I can't go without you. You in?" Dan asked. Phil didn't look to sure, he shrugged,
"I think I have plans actually, you go without me" Phil said, still uncertain. There was an uncomfortable amount of awkward silence before dan spoke again.
"I can tell when you're lying Phil, you know that by now." They'd grown a bond so strong over the past few years and had begun to notice when things were off about each other.
"I don't know what you're talking about" phil shrugged and went back to packing the cereal boxes away.
"Do you not like my family? You met them last year and you said you really liked them." Before phil said another word dan interrupted him. "We don't have to go with my family, we can go together. Just you and me, we haven't been out in for-" Dan stopped rambling as he saw Phil's face fall.
"It's not that," he said.
"What is it then?" Dan responded, he hated it when phil looked upset; it made him upset. Phil didn't say anything so dan took phil's hands in his and kissed him gently, phil kissed back and for a while they were trapped together in a spiral of lips and tongues. Dan pulled back and flicked the hair out of phil's gorgeous eyes. "What's the matter babe?" Phil smiled weakly at dans attempt to cheer him up.
"Nothing bear," Dan loved it when he called him bear, but he was still suspicious; he decided to leave it and they carried on with their days.

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That night dan was on tumblr at 3am and heard a sniffing sound coming from phil's room. He got up and decided to investigate, he went across the hall to phil's room and tapped gently on the door. The sniffing stopped.
"Phil? It's just me, dan" dan said as he opened the door just a bit, not wanting to invade phil's privacy.
"No shit. We live alone" was his response. His voice was scratchy and harsh. Dan advanced into phil's room and saw him sat crossed-legged in his bed, arms folded. He switched the lights on and gasped, taken aback by the amount of blood everywhere.
"What the fuck Phil?" Dan said at first, then he realised what happened. "Phil..." he trailed off as Phil's head hit the headboard of his bed and his eyes rolled back. "PHIL! Stay with me, breathe. Calm down." Dan tried to reassure Phil as he got his phone out and rang for an ambulance. He told the woman on the phone their address and he turned to phil. He grabbed the tissues from next to his bed and placed them on phils wrists, putting pressure on them and hoping it would stop. Tears started to roll down his face as he tried to keep calm. "Phillip Micheal Lester, you have been and will always be the one I love. If I lose you now I will never forgive myself. Please Phil, open your eyes, stay alive, for me." At this point phil was paler than he originally was - if that's possible - his eyes were closed but dan could still feel a pulse. "You're gonna make it. I promise you. And when you do, I will stay with the man I love forever." He was lifted up in a stretcher and taken into the ambulance just a few moments later. Dan was allowed to go in the ambulance with him but he couldn't stand to look at his half-dead boyfriend. When they got to the hospital he paced the waiting room for hours, the other people waiting in there got concerned and a little girl stared at him; but he didn't care. He wanted phil.

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