and everything in between

phan au pt 6

  shit im hungry again also my rat friend is reading this so waddup

part 6: daisy daisy

  the blue eyed boy wandered around the castle looking for his friend. he had to be hiding somewhere. 

  phil pushed opened the glass doors leading to the garden. it was dark but the lights of the fountain lit up the place.

  there sitting in a pile of leaves and twigs was who phil had spend his night looking for.

"here you are," the prince said as he sat down beside dan.

  "oh no! is the dinner over? is my mother mad?" he flustered, scrambling to keep up the books around him.

  somehow, dan had moved from reading in his bedroom to the garden. probably because he liked how the plants and the sky looked at night.

  the moon was shining particularly bright today and he noticed how phil's eyes had picked up the light. dan blinked and phil's eyes changed from blue to green.

  "the princess had to leave early because of some horse riding thing she has tomorrow. don't worry about your mother, i told her you had a headache." he wiggled his hands around his head.

  "she was a bit sceptical at first but i think my social skills calmed her down." he smiled.

  dan had calmed down too. the blue eyed boy had good calming skills, dan thought to himself.

  "oh! before i forget, your mom was eyeing the badge you gave me really suspiciously," phil eyed the pin under the moonlight.

  it was a family pin, passed down generations after generations. it was a bronze pin with two hands holding a heart in the middle.

  dan's mother had passed it to him when he was a young boy and told him that when he found the right person he would give the pin to that person.

  dan didn't fully understood why he decided to give phil the pin, but he knew that it was a right choice.

  "uhh..keep it. it's fine, nothing special really and besides it looks good on you." dan smiled, showing his dimple.

  "okay!" phil pinned the badge back on and smiled boastfully. the bronze glistened under the light.

  the two sat there the whole night talking about everything and anything. dan was happy he learnt more about phil's family and friends.

  he liked hearing phil's stories and adventures, he could listen to him all day.

  the morning after, phil found himself stuck in a situation. dan had fallen asleep on phil's lap and was sleeping soundly.

  phil watched the boy as he slept, his chest rising and falling and then rising again. the boy watched him longingly, small breezes occasionally blowing in his hair.

  phil plucked a wild daisy growing in the patch next to him. carefully and as quiet as he could possibly be, he placed it in dan's hair.

  phil couldn't help but giggle. "oh, sorry did i wake you up?" the boy cautious and a little guilty.

   dan brushed his hand through his hazel(or another shade of brown) hair and arranged it quickly once he noticed that phil was sat beside him.

  "phil, you're here. i didn't know it was already morning, my bad." dan picked up the books around him, shifting his body, ready to leave. "uhh do you want breakfast?"

  phil nodded enthusiastically and got up too to leave with him. "what are we having?"

  "is toast okay? i can steal some from the kitchen and we can have breakfast in my room." dan suggested.

  so while dan sneaks into the kitchen and grabs a plate of toast and butter, phil waits in dan's room.

  dan does an awkward slide through the corridor and stumbles into his room, phil giggles. both the boys munch on their toasts and talk about everything and anything.

  "so i was thinking we could go on an adventure together sometimes maybe soon.. tomorrow." phil blurts out.

  "uhh.." dan is unsure, he's never went proper adventuring like phil before. what if he was eaten by a bear?

  "it's going to be really fun! we'll explore this really cool place of the forest i've never been before!" phil almost squeals, dan had never seen phil this excited before.

  seeing phil's excitement, dan agreed.

  "great! ill meet you at your window tomorrow morning. be sure to bring your exploring gear!" phil says, he tries to make a serious face but fails.

  "i guess i better go, bye dan, see ya tomorrow!" phil swings his coat across his shoulders and swiftly jumps out the open window.

  dan is left there speechless, unsure and confused.