Phan Oneshots

Insignificant

"Leave him alone." The male stated calmly, and Dan couldn't help but think that he was a bit too calm for the situation he had just put himself in. "What're you gonna do if we don't, Lester?" Another voice from above Dan made him roll his eyes. Couldn't the guy bother with sounding like he at least had a brain? Isn't that what words were used for? "I think I've got a better question. Do you want to risk finding out?" The guy responded, and Dan could hear the threatening tone behind his voice. To think that Dan thought he already had the shock of a life time, that was definitely wrong. What happened next? Now that had definitely won the title of the shock of a life time.

The group of three guys that had been beating Dan and spitting insults at him, they left. They hadn't even said anything back to the guy, they just spat another insult at Dan and left. He didn't have time to question any of that, because there was definitely a bigger question at mind. Who was that guy? When Dan looked up, he found another question. Where had the guy went? Or maybe he should ask himself why he cared, because after all, this guy was just as insignificant as Dan was.

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Days like that continued on, whenever something bad would happen to Dan, this mysterious guy would step in and stop it. Then, the guy would disappear and Dan had no way of knowing where to find him. Then again, it's not like he wanted to, this guy was insignificant. Right? But, at the same time he wasn't. Dan's way of thinking had entirely changed since that day. Still, Dan had never spoken to the guy, or even learned his name.

Exactly one year after that day, everything changed again. It started off as just another day, not an insignificant day, just a day. He went through his routine as usual, except now he was a year ahead in school. The guy from was almost forgotten by that time, the only memory of him being that Dan had a better way of thinking now. Well, that and now Dan would talk on occasion.

Dan was at his locker after school, packing everything up to go home, when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He had just shut his locker and spun around, expecting to get a punch in the face or something relatively close, but instead, there he stood. The guy from a year ago to that day, he was stood right there with his hand on Dan's shoulder.

"My name's Phil. You're Dan, right?" Phil asked with a small smile, taking his hand off of the boy's shoulder. He didn't know what was bringing him to do any of this, but there he was, talking to the boy that he had wanted to talk with for an entire year.

"Yeah, that's me." Dan replied in a soft tone, biting his lip and rocking on his heels. What did this guy want anyway? Who disappears after helping someone, only to come back a year later for a chat about something? Then again, it's not like Dan had any room to question.

"Well, Dan, care to go out for coffee?" Phil asked in a noticeably shaky tone, afraid that he was being too forward.

"I'd love to." Dan smiled, a genuine smile, something he had almost forgotten he had the capability for. He didn't have time to question that though, because Phil was intertwining their fingers and they were already walking off for their date.

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Now, if you were to ask Dan Howell to describe himself in one word, it would be happy. How couldn't he be happy with the way everything went? Everything had a meaning now, he felt like a weight was lifted off his shoulders. Insignificant, the word that he used to describe everything with, was now entirely gone from his vocabulary. Instead of existing purely to exist, now he was there to see what else life would throw at him. Sometimes it was sad, but he lived for the times that life would bring him something happy.

If you were to ask Dan Howell why he started talking now, he would most definitely answer. He would tell you that every word is meaningful, every word can change the world. After all, now he was living in a flat with Phil and making YouTube videos for a career, something that he never could've done without using words. He was the happiest he could imagine, all from using something that he first thought was insignificant.