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next time

dan was sat at the kitchen table a couple of days later searching for jobs on phil's laptop. even after they had resolved their argument, he still felt like he should be out doing something with his life. he had went to about twenty diffrent websites and his eyes were starting to hurt from seeing the 'not hiring' in bold caps on every page.

he could hear the water running upstairs from where phil is taking a shower, it was a saturday and everyone was taking it easy. but not alex who had appeared out of nowhere and slides in the seat beside dan who yelled loudly and slams the laptop screen down.

"jesus what were you doing? looking at porn?"

dan had his hand clutched at his chest trying to slow his heart rate down. "what? no you just scared me." he opens the laptop back up just to prove.

she looks closer at the screen. her hair was in a dark messy bun and she was wearing anoversized t-shirt that looked like it had the last four breakfasts on it. "hmm looking at jobs? did your argument with my dad really shake you up?"

"hey!" dan had gone beat red. "let's not talk about that okay?"

"come on, i'm being kept in the dark! dad won't tell me anything, what happened?"

"nothing."

"bullshit!"

"hey don't curse."

she opens her mouth to say more but then footsteps are heard and phil comes into the kitchen doorway. dan could control his mouth now so since he was an adult so it only dropped a quarter when he saw that phil was still wet from the previous shower without a shirt on and shorts. it felt like the first time when he first came over his house.

"hey you guys." phil greets but his eyes were on dan.

"hey." alex answers causally.

"h-hi phil." it came out as a stutter and red instantly grows in his cheeks.

alex had looked back and forth between them and gagged before she scooted away from the table, got up and walked past phil muttering something like 'eye sex'. phil didn't pay any mind to her and in a few seconds, there was the sound of a door slam and music being turned up.

phil walks over to him and leans on his chair.
"jobs huh? what do you think you're going to do?"

dan's breath was caught in his throat as he felt his warm breath on his ear. "well...well they're aren't a lot of jobs that are hiring except maybe a waiter so.."

"oh you should do that!" he rest his chin on his shoulder and dan turns and looks down at him. "what?"

"what are you doing?"

phil blinks up incredulous at him, water drops escaping from his eyelashes, "can i not put my head here?"

dan turns back around, burning up. "whatever."

he does a few subconscious clicks to the laptop before phil grabs his attention again.

"hey.." he says, grabbing his chin and turning him around to look at him.

"what do you want?"

"pay attention to me."

dan had looked down at his amused blue eyes and something grew in him, a fire maybe, but the way phil was looking compared to how needy he was being wasn't like him at all. and it was hot.

so, he kisses him.

when he pulls back, ready to see phil's shocked or angered expression, all he got was a smile in return.

"do that again."

......

dan doesn't remember how he ended up in the hall kissing phil on the same wall as they had when they were teens yet, here they were. dan's les were wrapped around his waist tightly as he clutched as phil's now dry bare skin.

phil's lips slipped from his mouth and traced his jaw line which sent shivers down dan's spine. his head was swimming as phil starts placing light kisses along his neck.

"p-phil.." dan stutters out. he had began nipping at his collarbones which made his toes curl.

phil let his hand slipped down the back of his waistband. "yes?"

dan tries to clear the fog from his head. "phil we- we can't do this." he gasps.

the hands and the kisses stop and phil lifts his head from his neck. "what?"

dan was still trying to catch his breath. "don't think i don't want to, but i just.... i feel like it needs to be different this time."

a look of confusion crosses phil's face as he gently slides dan down from the wall. "what do you mean by different?"

"well for one, your daughter is upstairs."

phil flushes red, "yea you're right," he mutters.

dan smiles, and kisses phil gently on the lips. "don't be embarrassed, we haven't been with each other in a while."

phil grins and leans forward to whisper in his ear. "when this happens again next time, i'm not stopping."

a fire lights inside his stomach as his warm breath tickles his ear and he tries to smother it.

"i'm counting on it."

this was crap i know but i needed a chapter filler 😭

~ alivia