the boy from room 205 - Phan

Yeah, no | Phil

As Phil went back to his room after dinner and rest he silently wished Dan would be in the common room drawing or looking out of the window as he had seen him do multiple times. Although in Phils normal unluck, Dan wasn't sat in the green arm chair looking out of the window. He was in his room, the light read do not disturb and therefore Phil stood silent facing the door for a second without knocking. When Dan wasn't around Phil felt alone again. He heard footsteps to his left and turned to see dr. Monet or as they all called him, the foodie doc, he was the one to make sure the patients with eating disorders got what they needed, these patients were at the moment, Violet and Phil himself.

"Hello, Phillip" She cheered. dr. Monet always seemed to be glowing with hope. Unusual for people in her line of work. Phil gave her a weak smile in return and went across the hall to his room.

The rooms were placed by number, even to the left if you entered from the elevators and odd to your right. Phil was in room 205 and Dan in room 204 so he was across the hall from Dan. Phil was glad that Dan was there as well. It's sad that he had to be but if he hadn't been there they wouldn't have met and Phil enjoyed the company of his new found friend.

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*knock knock*
"were gathering in the common hall for an emergancy meeting"
Phil was shaken out of his sleep. Common hall and emergancy, was all he could gather from the voice outside.
"oh, o-okay"
he pulled a purple hoodie on and slowly pulled the sleeves over his still sore forearms.

"So some may know this already. Some may not." mrs Eden said. Everyone was gathered, and silent, in the common hall, same seats as before. Although someone was missing. "As you will all know we do scheduled check ups at the start of every even hour."
everyone nooded.
"This morning at the 4am checkup when we went to room 202, which belonged to Tobias Eaton we came to the horrific fact that he has unfortunately passed." said dr. Winston with a sorrow in his tone. He wasn't one of Phils doctors but he had seen him around. "We are therefore wishing each and everyone of you to either keep at your own rooms or in the ED resting room for the rest of today, lunch and dinner will be eaten in your rooms today. So will breakfast."
he died. Phil now realised why the room felt empty the three seats sofa he had been sitting in all week was missing one person. Tobias.

Phil decided to sit in the ED resting room instead of his cramped room all day. there was big bean bags, a sofa, two beds and a tv with a playstation in that room he knew that since he had been there before. he stood up from his sofa to go on, when he felt someone tapping his shoulder. It was Dan.
"oh.. h-hi Dan" he smiled weakly.
"terrible isn't it?" Phil nodded slowly turning back. " um so I was wondering f you wanna hang out with me in the ed room? they have a playstation and mariocart."
"s-sure. I was.. um.. already p-planning on g-going there." he studdered. Dan found Phils studdering quite adorable.
"Come on then" Dan took Phils hand carefully guiding him down the hall.

They pushed two bean bags in front of the tv as mrs Eden entered the room.
"Oh sorry boys. I was just looking for you two. Will you be here until lunch at least?" Dan and Phil looked at each other before looking back to the woman nodding.
"alright then. I'll turn on the do not disturb light so you boys can be alone"
Dan burst out in a soft laugh after she closed and locked the door.
"w-what?" Phil said quietly, blushing.
"the do not disturb light? gosh Phil she made it sound like we were gonna do the nastys. Although she probably wouldn't mind" he began laughing again and started the game. Phil bit the inside of his lower lip. He took the controller looked quickly at Dan and then concentrated on the game.

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"HA! beat you again" Dan smiled so his dimple showed. Phil could feel his heart melt at the sight.
"yeah, you're impossible Howell" Phil didn't mind that he was loosing completely he wasn't playing to win.
"I believe the right term to be undefeated Lester. Get used to it" they kept laughing and playing, sharing stories they thought of or asking each other questions until lunch.
They heared a soft knock on the door followed by the sound of the keys unlocking it.
"hello boys" the nurse said as she set down two trayes of food as well as glasses, water and utensils.
"Oh hi nurse winters." Phil said and looked back at the tv.
"Phillip." she said. "I expect you to rest for an hour at least and that's under the circumstances that you eat this entire meal. I'll be back in an hour to check up on you and take the trays. You know what happenes if you don't finish your dish, ba-"
"back on the tube. I know Anastasia"

Phil could see that Dan wondered what he had been on about so instead of letting the boy be in doubt he explained.
"three months ago I was hospitalized because everyone seemes to think I'm anorexic, which I am not by the way, I just don't like the concept of food. Also who wants to be fat?" without waiting for Dan to reply to his retorical question hekept on. "yeah no one. Anyway I was put in emergency cause I was 'too underweight for normal treatment' normal treatment means one of these places. I had to go back to tube feeding since they wanted to feed me excessive amounts of food and I refused because like the amount of food that was could fill a whale for months" Dan nodded slowly. He knew that Phil was in a terrible condition if he really belived all of the things he just said.
"Should we eat less then whale amounts of our lunches then" he said in a joking manner.
"yeah, no. It's chicken-noodle soup for dinner and an average bowl of chicken- noodle soup is 69 calories. which means if I take an average bowl and eat half they will be amazed, I'll get a stick and I've only eaten 34,5 calories which I then can burn with a hundred sit-ups in bed. So no Dan, This is going out the window"

Dan didn't know what to say. Phil had just blastered his entire plan for the rest of the day out infront of him. How was he supposed to react. If he stopped Phil from throwing it out and force feeding it to him he would loose his friend. He didn't wanna do that but at the same time he didn't wanna be the reason said friend dies.

Before Dan could do anything Phils lunch was already out the window and into the unthoughtfully placed bin outside.

"Now do you want to eat that or should I do the same with yours?"
"no" Dan said. "I want it"
"your loss kid"