Dan Howell is not a happy person. He relies on any type of high to get him through each day and he's never been in love with any girl he's dated. His parents want him to marry his girlfriend of two years, but he can't bring himself to marry someone he doesn't love, and who doesn't love him. He meets a man named Phil. Phil is so great, and has a lot in common with Dan. You'd think they'd be the perfect couple after they hit it off after only a day of knowing each other and become fast friends. Too bad they're both straight. Too bad his job causes him to lie to Phil perpetually. Too bad his feelings cause him to lie to Phil constantly. Can you look anyone in the eye and tell them you love them when you're lying about who you are? How long can you live on lies before everything falls apart? //Gay slang : Extensive Drug and Alcohol usage : mentions of depression and suicide : extensive strong language : Explicit sexual content

Dan is different. He's learned to accept that. Well, as best he can anyway, considering he's never really had much of a choice. It's been this way for as long as he can remember, the constant runaround process of trying to feel normal. His life is built around it, trying to trick both himself and everyone he interacts with into seeing him as your average person. The isolation as he desperately tries to keep others from finding out, the bitterness that wells up inside of him each and every time he's reminded that he'll never be like everyone else, the fear that nothing will ever change. He's fated to be this way forever; a misfit from society. Isolation can only go so far though, so when he's struggling to make ends meet and he's faced with the option of looking into a serious job or taking on a roommate, he opts for what seems like the easier option at the time. It doesn't seem so easy ten failed roommates into the process, or when he sits down at a table to meet with prospect number eleven and ends up with a coffee spilled all over his lap. Potential roommate number eleven, Phil, turns out to be an insufferable optimistic ball of sunshine that Dan wants nothing to do with. His options are running out though, as are the savings he's been using to pay his rent, so he finds himself begrudgingly agreeing to let the other man move in. Neither of them have any way of knowing just what they've gotten themselves into as they shake on the matter, but time will tell.

Phil has gone through some pretty horrible things in his life. He's sealed himself off from other people completely, hating himself for it all the time. One day, Dan, a handsome flight risk whose terrified of other people's emotions, saunters into his life. Unfortunately, Phil finds himself depending heavily on Dan for support and comfort from his past, and Dan just can't handle that.

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15 year old Daniel Howell has terrible friends, a huge crush on his best friend's boyfriend, tons of pressure from school and his parents, and to sum it all up he also has chronic depression. While planning on ending his life, he accidentally enters himself to a psychiatric hospital. During his stay at The Priory Hospital in Altrincham, Dan meets a series of interesting new people, including 16 year old Phillip Lester. No matter how hard Dan tries to confront Phil, there is something wrong about him and Dan is determined to help him while also helping himself. Based on the book and movie It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. Word Count = About 34,125

Dan comes home from Christmas shopping to find Phil in the bathroom passed out. He doesn't know how or why this happened, but is terrified for his best friend. Dan tries to help Phil but gets annoyed with himself in the process, writing everything he hates about himself along with his deepest secret: his love for his best friend. Will Phil ever find out? WARNING: Could be triggering, attempted suicide, fluff, angst, possible sexual references ©chloemitzu