Vlogmas: a YouTube Christmas Special [YouTube]

Day 13

On the thirteenth day of Vlogmas, YouTube gave to me:

Throwing Blue Shells Is Not In The Holiday Spirit (Dan Howell, Phil Lester, PJ Liguori, Chris Kendall [danisnotonfire, AmazingPhil, kickthepj, crabstickz])

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Dan and Phil's flat smells like pine trees. You shrug off your coat, breathing deeply. "Man," you mention. "That little Christmas tree sure got to work making the place smell all festive."

Dan makes a sound of mild disgust. "I can't believe I wanted that thing. Literally all it does is shed pine needles on the carpet and wriggle its smelly way into all my things. I gave someone a hug yesterday and they told me I smelled like Christmas." He throws his hands in the air. "I was wearing a shirt I'd bought that day. It'd never even been in the flat!"

Phil walks in, pouting. "I thought you liked the tree, Dan! We gave it a name and everything!"

You flick one of the branches of the tree in question. "Oh really?" You look at Dan, grinning. "What's its name, then?"

He sighs. "Barnaby."

You snort. "...Cute."

Dan scowls, but before he can make a retort the buzzer is going off frantically. "That'll be PJ and Chris," he mutters, hastening to get the door.

Sure enough, a few minutes later Peej and Chris enter the lounge bearing four pizza boxes and a grocery sack full of video games. Chris lifts the bag up and proclaims, "We come bearing pizza and video games! Let game night officially begin!"

You're not sure how you managed to weasel your way in to the boys' game night, but here you are. You think it happened when you dropped by Dan and Phil's in the middle of an intense Smash Bros tournament on a spontaneous whim to bring them some cookies you'd made too many of. You'd awkwardly put the cookies in the kitchen, feeling very intrusive, and were about to make your great escape when Dan and PJ simultaneously yelled for you to come join them. That was the night you met Chris for the first time. Ever since then, Phil always made a point to call you every time they were planning a game night.

The five of you file through the kitchen, filling your plates with pizza and getting drinks, and then settle down in your special game night places: PJ criss-cross on the floor in front of the television, Chris stretched out on his belly next to him, you slouched down in the 'lucky beanbag', and Dan and Phil sitting behind you on the sofa. Phil's already put in Mario Kart and the fight over who got which controller was quick and relatively painless, with only two rounds of Rock, Paper, Scissors instead of sixteen like last time (Chris kept cheating). You are sitting out for this Grand Prix, but in the next one you'll take Chris's controller and Dan will sit out. It'll continue in a circle like this until everyone has sat out a turn, then Phil will total up the points to see who will become the MARIO KART CHAMPION until the next time you play.

You have to say, it's amusing to listen to the boys threaten each other as they race. Well, mainly it's Dan doing the threatening. Phil just yelps and calls the AI names, and Chris tries to distract whoever he can with banter. PJ gets so into it that he doesn't make any noise at all due to his intense level of concentration. Come to think of it, that's probably why PJ usually wins these things. That, and he's Mr Nintendo.

"You know PJ," you say, thoughtfully chewing some pizza. "You and Dean Dobbs would really get along. I bet the two of you could talk about Nintendo for hours. Have a wee little Nintendo love child, even. Name it Link."

"I ship it," Chris announces. "Pean."

Dan almost splits his side from laughing so hard at 'Pean', which causes him to swerve and crash into a wall, allowing Chris to zip right past him.

"Look at that, Chris!" you gasp, reaching forward to pat him on the shoulder. "Your strategy of saying ridiculous things to distract people finally worked!"

"It's a gift," he replies, eyes glued to the screen.

"Hell yes!" PJ shouts abruptly. "Blue shell! Blue shell! Blue shell! Eat shit, first place!" And just like that, he crosses the finish line and the race is over.

Phil puts down his controller. "Jeez," he laughs in amazement at PJ's outburst. "Remind me never to be in front of PJ during Mario Kart."

"Not like that would ever happen, anyways," Dan comments drily.

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A/N:

I really enjoy the thought of PJ getting really competitive for stupid reasons

Happy Christmas
virtues