Dan & Phil Oneshots

I Give You My Love in a Video

A/N I did this for my best friend before he moved away, so I'm translating it into a phanfiction. Also, Pinterest prompts haven't been sparking my imagination lately, so let me know if you guys have any requests!

(Dan's POV)

"Arg!" I exclaimed, smacking my hands down on the keyboard for the umpteenth time this morning. Between this secret project I was working on and my school work, I was more stressed than I had ever been. It's not like I HAD to do this, but... But it seemed right.

You see, Phil was moving to another country, his birth country. In another continent for that matter. We had been best friends for the longest time. We knew what the other was thinking and feeling. We could always count on each other for support, comfort... I thought the rest of my high school career was laid out for me to see, but life likes to see how tough you are sometimes, and this was the hardest test I've faced yet. I still remember at the beginning of the year how he warned me that he might be moving. I simply hoped and prayed that it wouldn't happen. Alas, at the beginning of the second semester of school, he broke the news to me.

I was the first one he told. He told it to me in person, since we always valued talking face-to-face. I had to look away, trying not to cry in front of him. It's not that I didn't want him to think of me as weak, after all, he's seen me at the lowest point in life. I just knew that it was hard for him, too. If I cried, it would only make him feel worse and I didn't want that for him. I told him that I was happy for him. After all, he should be excited to go back! I always see how his eyes shine as he talks about his early years living there. After all these years spent together, his happiness has become my happiness. If he wanted to move back, then I would be the most supportive friend I could be.

Later on, I asked him to go the school dance with me, kind of. We decided on having dinner out together instead of going to the dance because we've always been more comfortable just hanging out and talking to each other than doing some sort of activity. However, as the year went on, our date kept getting pushed back further and further due to copious amounts of homework, and eventually, we decided the dinner would be the last time we'd see each other before he moved. Three days before he moved, to be precise. Not only that, but he mentioned buying me a going away gift for that night, so I got to thinking of what I could give him.

See, it's hard when you have a crush on your best friend, but you aren't sure how he feels about you. It didn't matter at this point whether or not we would date; we couldn't handle a long distance relationship at this age. And by we, I mean me. I've heard far too many stories about long distance couples cheating on each other or breaking up due to a lack of contact. It wasn't that I though he would cheat on me or I on him, I just didn't want to risk getting together just to break up. Anyway, I didn't want the gift to be just anything. Buying him something from a department store would be like saying he was an ordinary guy who deserved an ordinary present, and he was anything but that. I don't know how I got the idea, but I think I was sitting and chatting with him by our lockers when it came to me: a scrapbook of our lives together!

But that seemed too cliche and sappy.

Then how about a video of our time spent together?

Eh. Still too sappy.

I wanted something that wouldn't be anything ordinary or overly romantic. I wanted it to be completely unexpected and have him awestruck when he received it. I watched as our friend, Brennan, came up and started talking to Phil. They were laughing about some test they took in their inner disc class. It was always fun to watch Phil talk with his friends, especially since he always had a cute smile on his face when chatting.