Dan is a homeless teenager who has to resort selling his body to be able to buy food. His life changes when he meets Phil, a cop who is unhappy with his marriage and wants to help Dan.

Phil is an orphan, bullied, and living alone with no friends in a home. He does his best not to let that fact that no one seems to care about him get to him, but it's getting harder. Then a nice couple start to take interest in him, and it turns out they have a son his age, Daniel, but the love they begin to share isn't of a brotherly nature...

just when the catipillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly × sequel to 'transgender' {HIGHEST RANKING #3}

Dan Howell Phill Lester That's everything that's important. (Or: Dan is the weird kid that dresses in pastels and hands out flowers to people for no apparent reason and Phil is the leather jacket wearing art kid who pretends to be immortal through his drawings. Despite the odds, they're best friends, and nobody quite understands the limitations - or lack thereof - of their friendship.) TRIGGER WARNINGS: major character death by SUICIDE, don't begin reading if this triggers you because that is the ending so it can't be skipped and there's nothing worse than an unfinished story

ephemeral ɪˈfɛm(ə)r(ə)l,-ˈfiːm-/Submit adjective 1. lasting for a very short time. <> Summary: They knew they were a time bomb, but they pulled the key anyway. Dan and Phil knew more than anyone that death wasn't kind to anyone, and though they know it's a bad idea, they can't help but fall in love.