Dan does not have a great home life with something deeper than just abuse. Most people don't care for him and he thinks getting away with someone who breaks into his house will help.... But will it actually make him happy leaving with this stranger or will it make things more complicated when he starts to feel things for the guy?

Phil doesn't talks. Well, not anymore. The last time he said something, was when he didn't hate himself. And that was a long time ago. But now, everything is different. He must struggle with depression, whilst new boy Dan Howell desperately attempts to win him over. [Warning: this could be triggering at some points]

Dan loves Phil. He has ever since. he set eyes on him on that tiny computer screen in his small bedroom back in Manchester. But Phil doesn't like Dan in 'that' way. Dan tries to make Phil fall in love with him, facing hardships and problems along the way, but how long will it take for Dan to give up? For Phil, to learn to love.

"Phil, let's play a game called ouija. "

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.

"hi, i'm phil and i have heart cancer." ☤ © phntasia 2015 HOSPITAL SERIES BOOK ONE HIGHEST RANKING IN FANFICTION: #461