If Only The Stars Aligned {Phan}

Angels On The Moon

The following day came and went. The moment they left their room Dan and Pj were bombarded with questions about where they had gone and why they didn't tell anyone where they had went from adults who were more concerned for Dan's safety than Pj's as Pj was an adult and Dan wasn't.

After their half hour of scolding about their disappearance from Dan's mother the two returned to their rooms to eat. They spent the day just hanging out in their room relaxing, eating and playing earth games that they couldn't for the life of them remember having ever played before.

Now that it was night Pj was sound asleep next to him. No matter how hard he tried, Dan couldn't fall asleep. He was just lying there, staring at his friend next to him and silently counting the freckles on his chest and collarbone, tracing the outline of his body with his fingers. He had a lot, Dan would give him that, but even this boring of a task couldn't bore him enough to make him fall asleep.

After another hour of painful trying, Dan couldn't take it any more. He had to get outside. The night air would surely cause him to fall asleep. And if it didn't at least it was something to do aside from being trapped in this hell hole.

He slipped out of the bed as quietly and quickly as he could as not to wake his sleeping friend, the cool air hitting his bare legs and walked over to the door, grabbing the first pair of clothes he found and slipping the on.

He pulled one of Pj's oversized hoodies over his head and slipped on some shoes before walking out into the hallway, still being as quiet as he could all the way down to the back garden.

He slipped out the back door and closed it gently, breathing a sigh of relief as he could finally walk normally, not having to worry about making noise. He hasn't realized how big the back garden was. It stretched on for what looked like miles. Most of it looked to be empty space aside from a small cluster of trees mid felid. He decided that was his ideal place to go. It reminded him of home.

As he walked he looked around. The castle stood tall at his back, the moonlight causing it's tall black silhouette to look beautiful yet eerie. Stray beams of light illuminated the path before him. The grass swayed swiftly in the light breeze. Everything about the surroundings was calming and it reminded him so much of home.

Dan settled under one of the trees, laying his head in the grass beneath it. He looked up at the branches of the tree above him, noticing the outline of a person. He furrowed him brows him confusion, squinting slightly to get a better look. It was most definitely a person.

"Hey!" Dan shouted, sitting up and twisting to face the tree.

The figure moved, almost as if to look down at him, then disappeared around the back of the tree. Dan scrambled to get to his feet, slowly peering around the back of the tree, only to walk dead into someone else. The collision knocked him backwards into the grass and he heard a laugh from above him.

"You know, usually I'm the one falling over." A familiar male voice said, followed by more laughing.

Dan sat up again, facing the mysterious stranger. He looked up and saw a pair of blue eyes he couldn't forget easily. "Phil." He sighed, diverting his gaze to his shoes and running his hand through the curly mess that was his hair.

"Hey Dan. Mind if I join you?" He asked, sitting down next to Dan and making himself comfortable.

Dan giggled slightly "No, I don't mind at all."

"Nice night, isn't it?" Phil asked, attempting to make some form of conversation.

Dan nodded in response, lying down and looking up at the sky. "Yeah, it really is."

Phil smiled, lying down next to Dan and turning his head to face him. Dan turned to look at Phil, their faces were mere centimetres apart.

"You're really pretty, you know that?" Phil said, smiling slightly at Dan who's face was painted with a light blush.

"Am I now? I don't really think so." Dan said turning his head back facing upwards.

"Well you are. I don't understand why you can't see that." He replied, turning his head towards the sky as well.

"What do you think is up there? On the moon, I mean." He questioned, turning back to face Dan.

Dan smiled slightly, still staring up at the tiny speckles of light in the otherwise dark abyss of the night sky.

"Ah, well, this is gonna sound fucking ridiculous but, ever since I was a kid, I would always dream that there were angels on the moon, people who would watch over us when we were feeling sad, you know? It sounds really stupid, but it's something I genuinely thought, and still think for that matter."

Phil smiled, remembering things he also thought when he was younger. "That doesn't sound ridiculous at all. It reminds me of some of the stuff I used to think up when I was younger."

"How old are you anyway?" Dan wondered, looking at Phil out of the corner of his eye.

"I'm 21." Phil said, smiling at Dan who blushed slightly.

"Wow, that uh, that's quite the age gap. I'm only 17." He said, becoming even more of a blushing mess by the second.

Before Phil could reply, a voice sounded from behind them. "Dan! Oh my god I was so worried!"

Dan sat up and turned around to see the person who had spoken was Pj.

"Peej? You woke up." He said, standing up and walking over to his friend who instantly engulfed him into a hug.

"Don't do that Dan. I thought you had been kidnapped or something, I got so worried." Pj said, ruffling Dan's hair slightly.

"I'm sorry Peej. I just couldn't sleep but Phil here kept me great company, right Phil?" Dan turned back to look at the black haired boy who only nodded, his smile faltering ever so slightly that Pj didn't notice but Dan did.

"Well thank you for taking care of him for me Phil. I don't know what I would do if he had been kidnapped." Pj smiled brightly at the shorter boy who smiled back.

"It was no problem. Dan's good company." Phil smiled, looking over at Dan as he said that who blushed slightly.

"He really is. Well, we should head back to our room now and I'm sure you should do the same. Night Phil." Pj said, wrapping his arm around Dan as he turned to leave.

"One minuet Peej." Dan said as he rushed back to Phil, bending down slightly and planting a light kiss on the older boy's cheek.

"Goodnight Phil."

He smiled, skipping back over to Pj and wrapping his arm around his waist as the two walked away, leaving a red faced Phil behind them to dream of angels on the moon with brown eyes and blushing faces.