"Are you serious, you could have at least gotten two boxes of cereal if you wanted it that bad!" Dan complained to his best friend, Phil.

"Well you can't blame me for the fact that your cereal is amazing," Phil laughed. Dan was glad that his pal was back, and he hated having nobody around to talk to. It was really lonely, and although he hated to admit it, he wished Phil were around to eat his cereal.

About five months before, Phil hadn't been feeling too well, and he had a fever, along with flu symptoms including extreme vomiting. Eventually, it got so bad that he couldn't stand out of bed without completely collapsing. Dan took Phil to the hospital, and as soon as he was accepted, a team of doctors rushed him out of the room on a stretcher bed. It could have been a movie scene, it was so intense.

Poor Dan was just stood alone waiting, waiting for someone to explain to him what was wrong with his friend. After what seemed like forever, an older looking man with gray hair came and asked Dan some simple questions, like who he was, and how long Phil had been sick. He told him that Phil had been diagnosed with some terrible, rare disease with a complex name that Dan didn't quite catch.

He sat in silence hoping that his best friend would be okay, and he didn't want to leave without knowing that he was okay.

"Hello Dan dear, sorry we didn't come earlier, we tried getting here as fast as possible." Said Phil's mum, patting him on the back and giving him a hug. His dad smiled and waved at him. Mrs. Lester had obviously been crying, her eyes were a bit puffy. Dan left the hospital with tears in his eyes, and let's just say he didn't have a great week.

"Earth to Dan!" Phil giggled, waving his hand in front of the younger boy's face.

"Oops, sorry, I guess I was spacing out again." He laughed, shaking his head. "Hey, Louise and I are going to go out and grab a bite to eat later. Do you want to come with?"

"Sure, if it's alright with Louise!" Dan didn't even care if Louise was going or not, he just asked Phil to come so that he could spend more time with him. Since Phil wasn't particularly in the best of health at the moment, Dan needed to spend as much time with him as possible.

Dan was oblivious to how quick people could just disappear, until the day Phil had gotten sick. It was immediately added to his list of existential crisises.

But how could he ever know what tomorrow brought?

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Okay I know that was short but I promise that the other chapters will be much longer. I hope you enjoyed that little bit of background info and bye!