The single dad || phan

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Phil's POV

What the hell has happened here? It looked like a bomb exploded in the house!

"I'm fine for like two minutes and this happens?" I looked at Dan and raised my eyebrows.

" don't blame me, the only time I've been here is to sleep"

"What happened then?"

" We had to have builders round to like make you able to get around so we decided to get a lift installed as surprisingly it was the cheapest option and I'm probably gonna use it more than you will" Dan laughed.

I saw the lift in the corner of the living room and thought about where it would go to upstairs.

"Where does it go to?"

" like the corner of our room"

" Cool... Can I sleep? "

"Yeah, we need to go up the lift tho..."

I drove? Is it driving? Well I wheeled towards the lift and I got stuck due to an ensemble of boxes and clutter. Dan moved it all to create a path for me. Dan opened the lift door and I wheeled in and Dan stepped in with me and pressed the up button. This was mad. I should have become paralysed sooner. Lifts are great! Well actually being paralysed kinda sucks but the up side is the lift.

"Dan, did you call my charity and let them know why I've not been there?"

"Urm... no... did you ask me to? If you did I'm sorry I didn't it's been really stressful"

I felt so bad. But this wasn't my fault, right?

"No, I didn't it's fine" I smiled. "I'm sorry by the way"

"What for?" Dan questioned.

"It's just... it feels like it's all my fault... your stress..." I said dropping my head. I was ashamed. But I couldn't get what Chris said, when he did this to me, out of my head.

"Why would you say that... hey" he said putting his hand around my face. "Look at me... please..." I did and he smiled.

"You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I don't care about anything that has happened, that makes you seem complicated to others, it all makes you who you are and hell yeah, I wish none of this stuff ever happened to you but you know what, you are the most strong, beautiful and intelligent person I know" I felt a tear roll down my cheek and he wiped it off.
"I love you, okay? Never forget that... you know you can talk to me about anything, and I mean anything, and I'll be here for you... if I have done anything to make you feel like this is your fault I'm so so sorry" he pressed our foreheads together.

"I love you too... and it's not your fault, it's just something Chris said when this all happened"

"We haven't really talked about all this... do you want to?"

"Yeah okay..."

We made our day out of the lift and Dan took me out of my wheelchair and put me in bed and he lay next to me.