*Dan's POV*
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"Dan Howell, I love you."

I stared at Phil. Did he really just say that? He loves me?

I feel tears start to prick my eyes, which of course, Phil notices and gives me a worried look.

"What's wrong? Dan, are you okay?" He asks, cupping my face with his hand.

I nod. "Yes, Phil! Of course. I just- you have no idea how long I've waited for you to say that. I love you too, so much!"

Phil chuckles a bit. "That's kinda cheesy."

I roll my eyes. "Yeah, look who's talking, 'cheeselover'."

Phil scrunched up his nose. "Cheese is gross."

I roll my eyes again. "You're such a dork." I say.

He pecks me on the lips. "Yeah, but I'm your dork."

I smile at him, and lean in to kiss him properly.

I was never going to get enough of this, I had waited too long and now that I'm actually kissing him and holding him, I don't want this feeling to end. Phil was so warm, and felt so right. I loved him way too much.

I break apart and look into his eyes.

"Phil, what does this make us?"

He purses his lips. "What do you want it to make us?"

"Well, um, do you think we could make this official? Like be an actual couple." I ask a bit nervously.

Phil smiles. "That sounds wonderful."

My eyes light up. "Really?"

"Really." He says. "So, Daniel James Howell, will you be my boyfriend?"

"Why, of course, Philip Michael Lester." I reply.

We both laugh and put our arms around each other.

"Hey, Dan?" Phil says.

"Yeah?" I say, while his arms are still wrapped around me.

"So, exactly how jealous were you when Cat and I kissed?" He asks, a hint of a smile in his tone.

I pull away and playfully punch him. "Shut up!"

He chuckles. "Ouch, that hurts." He says, to which I just reply with an eye roll.

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It was  now five in the afternoon and Phil and I were deciding to go out to Starbucks.

"What if people see us together?" I ask.

"Let them." Phil says. "I want everyone to know you're not available for dating anyone but me."

I smile, and reach up to peck his lips. "I really do love you."

"Same here, honey buns."

I scrunch up my nose. "Not for long though if you keep it up with those cringey pet names."

Phil just laughs. "Yeah, I'm never doing that again, I cringed internally."

"You're such a spork." I say before reaching behind me to grab a coat so that we could start to head out.

Once we were seated at the Starbucks and had both of our Caramel Macchiatos in front of us, I looked at Phil.

"Do you think we should tell the fans about us?"

"If you want to, sure. But you know they'll go crazy right?"

I chuckle. "Yeah, I bet they will."

"When do you think we should let them know?" Phil asks.

"Well, considering we could get spotted anytime here, really I think we should let them know tomorrow maybe?"

Phil nods. "Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good time, we haven't really uploaded anything in a while anyways."

I laugh. "Yeah... that's true, I'm really behind with uploading."

Phil rolls his eyes playfully. "Typical Dan."

I reach over the table and smack him on the arm. "Hey! I've been busy!"

"Ok, ok. Well, how do you want to do it?" Phil asks. "Do you want to be creative or do you want to get right to the point?"

An idea comes to mind. "How about we leave them on a bit of a cliff hanger today and then and explanation video tomorrow."

Phil laughs. "It's a bit evil of you but I love it."

I chuckle. "I just want to see their reactions."

Phil nods. "Yeah, it would be funny to see how much they're going to explode over this."

"So how do you want to do it? Live show or video?"

"Hmmm. How about we do it on your live show account tonight and then tomorrow we upload a video onto my account." He suggests.

I nod my head in agreement. "Yeah, that sounds good. Do we want to just randomly say something to each other that suggests we're dating or do we want to kiss?" I ask

Phil's face brightens up with an idea. "Ooh! I know! I saw this post when I was scrolling on tumblr about a cute way that 'phan' could come out. I think we should recreate it!"

"You're not talking about anything remotely close to hamsters, cherries, chairs, or milk right?" I ask with a hint of worry.

This time it's Phil's turn to reach over and snack me. "Of course not you spoon!"

"Just making sure." I say.

Phil rolls his eyes at me. "It  was a post about a way to come out to our fans during a live show that is not too direct, but still gets the message across."

"Ok then, what is it?" I ask.

"I'll tell you when we get back to our apartment." He says, and winks.

"Why, you little shit." I say, to which he just laughs.

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We finally got back to our apartment and had all the laptop and camera stuff ready for the live show.

Phil had told me the rest of his plan and I had tweeted about us having a live show around 15 minutes ago.

"You ready?" Phil asks.

I gulp. "If I'm being honest I'm actually kind of nervous."

Phil leans in and kisses me softly. "Does that help?" He asks.

I smile. "Yes. Let's do this."

He smiles back and turns on the camera to start live streaming.

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Hey, I actually uploaded!! Would ya' look at that. Tbh I actually got motivation from hopelessphantrash because of all of their lovely comments. Go check out their stories because they are all soooooo good!!!

Oki, well thank you to anyone who has been reading! I really appreciate it!!

AND 126 reads wtf thank you!!!!!  Ahhhh that makes me so happy you have no idea!!!