Dan Howell + Phil Lester fanfic- Falling Phrantically

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DAN P.O.V

I smiled as I received the text from Dena, telling me she was coming over. Things were going great between us- we had been dating 6 months and although I had had my doubts, YouTube had not gotten in the way yet. I had thought long and hard about whether to tell all my Danosaurs about my relationship, and after careful contemplation, and (many persuasive hot chocolates from Dena) I had decided we should go public. Needless to say, all the Phangirls were disappointed, but the drama had (eventually) died down.

Tonight we had arranged to stay in and see a movie and order a pizza, just a casual night in. I went into the lounge and flipped through our DVD's, trying to find a good one for the evening. I decided on 'UP' in the end, a classic. Phil was in the living room doing a live chat, where he was laughing about the comments on his new haircut. He called me over and I stayed for about 20 minutes until he ended the liveshow.

"Whatcha doin' tonight?" He asked, dancing around a bit to the faint sound of Muse in the background. He manoeuvred easily around the kitchen, gathering up flour and eggs.

"Do you want to watch a movie?" Phil smiled over at me. I had to give it to the Philions, his hair looked really good. He flopped open the cookbook onto the pancakes page.

"Sorry, Dena's coming round tonight." I felt a bit guilty, Thursday night was usually our movie night. I had to escape his disappointed eyes so I reached over to the cook book and slammed it shut, replacing it with a Delia one. Much better. I could still feel Phil's eyes on me, and as I met them again he tried to hide his disappointment from me.

"Hey that's fine... Um, I'll be in my room." Phil closed the book altogether and shoved the ingredients back onto the shelves. He walked quickly off into his room. Great, now I felt awful. But not for long, as soon I heard the doorbell. Dena!

I flung the door open and was faced with a smiling, beautiful Dena. Even after all this time, I could not believe she was mine. She had been introduced to me via Zoe and Tanya, as she was Tan's best friend from uni. And even though we had only been introduced six months ago, oh so casually, it was difficult to imagine my life without her now. She flung her arms around me, and I inhaled her scent of coffee and freshly cut grass (I don't usually sniff people, but she just smelled really good). She had long, wavy, dirty blonde hair with hazel eyes and a friendly face. She was a fair bit smaller than me - which I didn't mind-  and a curvy, toned figure that had believing that she was really sporty but according to her, she's just as inactive as I am. She's more into music- she's a talented singer- and she's funny and cute and affectionate and loyal and intelligent. Basically, she's perfect. She lurched towards me and engulfed me in a big hug and a quick peck on the cheek. 

"Hey, Daniel. How's it rumbling?" She retreated from her hug and held me at arms lengths, looking me up and down. 

"Yeah, it's good. I was thinking we could watch 'UP'? I bought tissues for you especially!" I said, grinning. Dena was a crier, a bit like Phil, and UP was one that always got the tears flowing. 

"Well thought, my friend. UP may or may not be my favourite movie of all time. Oh,  and I brought ice cream for you!" She leaned down and pulled out toffee nut ice cream- one of my favourites. 

"YES!" I cheered.

"Gosh, you're more excited to see the ice cream than me!" Dena exclaimed, mock insulted. She looked so adorable that I couldn't resist leaning over and giving her a kiss. Which, as you might imagine, carried on for a bit. I had missed her, even though it had only been a few days. She weaved her hair through my straightened hair, but then gasped in surprise a little and leaned back. I turned around to see the problem, and saw a very stunned looking Phil frozen in place near the cooker. 

"I, uh, sorry. I just needed, um..." He scurried past us and headed for our DVD stack and retrieved one at random.  He ran out of the room, avoiding my eye. Dena laughed and shook off the awkwardness, but I now felt thoroughly embarrassed. Like, more than usual. It was always awkward to be walked in on snogging your girlfriend, but for some reason I really didn't want Phil to see me and Dena together. It just added to my guilt over the non- movie night Thursday thing. Ugh, damn you Philip. 

Phil P.O.V.

God, that was embarrassing. I had to take a detour and went to the bathroom, in attempt to get out of the room faster. Looking into the mirror, I could see my cheeks had gone bright red. I splashed water over my face, thinking that it would cool down my burning cheeks. It didn't. 

Did Dan have to kiss Dena in the living room? It was supposed to be a shared space, not one where Dan could practically undress girls in so that I had to see him kissing someone who- Woah. I just went into total irked-out jealous frenzy. Usually I didn't mind affection in public, it was fine when for example, PJ and his girlfriend were flirting together in front of everyone. But, lately I had felt that Dan had been way more interested in Dena than me, and to be honest, that hurt. Dan is my closest friend, and we usually do everything together. Meals, movies, shopping. Gosh, we sound like an old married couple. It's just, I guess I feel a bit... lost without him there the whole time. When you get to know someone that well, it's hard to just stop relying on them all of a sudden. 

I flopped on the bed, and scrolled through tumblr, trying desperatley to get away from all the pictures of Dan and I. But our walls are thin, and I could clearly hear Dan and Dena laughing together. I jammed my earplugs in and listened to some loud grungey music. But Dan's carefree laugh somehow made its way through my headphones. Automatically, I smiled on hearing it, but then I remembered that he was laughing with Dena, not with me, and I stopped laughing. 

I carried on scrolling through my computer files, until I found a picture of my ex-girlfriend and I. Her name was Cat. Yes, the Cat, as in catrific. Our relationship had been a short one, and quite secret- only Dan and her close friend Joey Graceffa had known. Cat was undeniably great and fun to be with, but at the end of the day, I had missed Dan. I had felt like he felt I was ignoring him and spending too much time with Cat, and that made me feel really guilty. When I had confronted Dan and asked him if he felt I was ignoring him, he just said he had been busy. Which just proves that I ALWAYS overthink things. Luckily Cat, ever easy going, had just smiled and accepted with the offer of still being friends. She seemed like a good person to call.

"Hey Phil!" Cat's American accent was reassuring at the other end of the phone line.

"Hey, Cat, I was wondering if you wanted to come round, maybe watch a movie or something?"

"Yeah, sure. But isn't Thursday yours and Dan's movie night? I don't wanna intrude on some guy code or whatever." I could hear the grin in her voice, and I swallowed down the lump in my throat.

"Well, he's actually with someone else tonight. It was a last minute plann, apparently." I said, trying really hard to sound like I didn't really care. But through some weird girl preminission Cat immediatley saw the problem and soothed me, telling me she would be round in a few.

I felt happy to have Cat as company. Because she was sweet, yes, but because god knows I didn't really have anyone else.