The First Time (Phan)

Chapter 1 - Released from Hell

"No not really, I mean there was this one guy, umm... superphil, coolphil, amazingphil, something like that, he was a bit weird though, I didn't really like him that much, but you can give him a go if you want too." Emma shrugged as she lay back onto the grass and pulled some sunglasses out of her bag and placed them on her face.

"Hmm, I might have a look when I get home," I said as I wrote down his username on my hand, "I've just got to survive the rest of the day first." I said after I'd ate my sandwich.

"Oh come on Dan, cheer up! It's not that bad, I mean, you could be like Kathrine and have no friends." Emma said glancing over to the girl sitting on her own talking to a post and sniffing what looked strangely like glue. I mean no one was mean to her or anything, it's just, she was kind of scary, if you tried to talk to her she threatened to make a voodoo doll out of you, she believed in all that witchcraft stuff as well so people tended to avoid her.

"Mmmm, I suppose your right." I took a sip of my water, lay back on the grass and watched the clouds go by.

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The last day didn't turn out to be too bad. After lunch Emma and I had English together and that mainly involved us talking about Fall Out Boy's new album and playing paper football whilst Mr. Harold explained how much he had enjoyed teaching us that year, which was complete bullshit.

After English Emma went on a hunt to find Chris again whilst I placed my earphones in and walked home. I made sure to avoid the alley where the smokers and druggies hung out after school as I didn't want a load of bullshit when all I wanted was to get home.

Unfortunately God was against me that day because as I turned the corner that took me onto my street I felt a pull on my backpack. I turned to see who it was and found the three dickheads I was trying to avoid. Ben, Tiger and Tyrone stood in front of me, all with evil grins plastered on their faces.
"Oh look guys; it's our favourite posh fag! How you doin Daniel?" Tiger spoke with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and a smirk plastered on his lips. Tiger was the ring leader of this troublesome threesome, he was large, bald, round and quite frankly, terrifying; and his two followers looked just like him, just miniature versions.

I wasn't that scared of them, it was more what they did. Throughout my teenage years it had been their job to make my life hell; what with beating me and insulting me with words and through the internet. My mum did know about them, but she had tried so many times to get them off my back, but she was terrified of them as well so she wasn't very threatening, so I had to toughen up, deal with it and ignore them.

Usually I would just look at them, raise an eyebrow and walk off but since today was my last day I'd see these idiots I found myself plucking up a bit of sass, "Oh I'm fine Tiger, so why you late to find me then? Did the family caravan break down? Did your mum get on it and the wheels fall off? Or were you sent home late from Jeremy Kyle for being too ugly?"
I wish, I had a camera, because their faces were priceless, but I knew I had to be quick otherwise they'd beat the shit out of me, "Well, lovely talking to you, but I need to get home, toodles." I quickly turned and walked away, the temptation to do a hair flick was unbelievable.

Before I reached my house I turned to see the three idiots run past my road on the search for me. I wish I'd done that sooner, it felt so good!

As I walked into my front door the smell of grilled cheese hit me in the face. Yes! Mum was home and cooking my favourite snack, grilled cheese sandwich. I strolled into the kitchen and found mum peeking in the grill and smiling from ear to ear. I walked over to her and leant on her shoulder, "You've finally finished honey! It's over! No more exams, no more homework and no more bullies!" she sounded so proud and happy.

"Oh yeah, about those three idiots, I may or may not have stood up to them, and they now may or may not want to gut me out like a fish." I said as sweetly and innocently as I could.

"Oh Daniel! Why'd you have to anger them? They'd started to leave you alone!" she sounded angry but I could see the smile she was hiding and the pride in her eyes.

"Sorry mum, I just felt the need to show them I wasn't a puny year seven anymore."

Mum looked at me and shook her head with a smile on her face, "So what'd you say then?"

"Told Tiger his family caravan had broken down because his mum got in it and that he was sent home from Jeremy Kyle because he was too ugly." I said with a grin and a giggle.

"Nice one! Creative!" Mum laughed along with me, "You always were good with words. Well it's good you won't be seeing them anymore because I think they would literally kill you. Now, take one of these," she handed me a grilled cheese sandwich, "and go change out of those clothes, we're celebrating your release tonight with style!" she exclaimed. I gave her a salute, took the sandwich and bounced up the stairs with each spring bringing a bigger grin on my face. "Oh and put on something fancy! It's a posh place!" I heard my mum shout up the stairs. Tonight was going to be good.

After I'd ate my sandwich, which tasted like heaven, I realised I had two hours before I had to start getting ready. So I pulled out my laptop and placed it on my bed and pulled up YouTube in a tab. I had no new videos in my subscription box so I thought I'd check out this guy Emma spoke about.

She couldn't remember his name so I typed in all the names she said; superphil bought up a home video of a small boy with a superman cape on running around a living room whilst jumping on the furniture, something tells me this wasn't the guy. I tried coolphil but that had no results except for a video montage of a snowman which had been called Phil; sometimes I love YouTube but other times I think the people who upload the videos are just insane.

Finally I tried amazingphil. This had better results. Lots of videos with the same guy in the picture appeared. This looked more like it.

I clicked on his channel and saw that he had uploaded a video recently, AmazingAlex, huh? I thought his name was Phil...I clicked on the link and watched his video.

The first thing that appeared was Phil himself and to be honest, he was kind of good looking... he had a red checked shirt on that had the first few top buttons undone and his hair was styled in a similar way to mine, longish, dark and a side fringe; but it was the eyes! His eyes were amazing; they were piercing blue and just simply beautiful. I felt butterflies in my stomach, this was so weird, I've never felt anything towards a boy or girl but this Phil guy seemed to make me tingle all over.

I watched the video and smiled so big I thought my dimple would fall off my face, this guy was hilarious and as cliché as it is, amazing.

I mean I see where Emma was coming from, he is a bit wacky but I just find that even better, I like that he's so hyper and passionate about what he loves.

I scrolled down to his subscription numbers and saw that he had fifty thousand subs, wow! This guy was popular, almost as popular as, CTFxC, charlieissocoollike and OMFGItsJackandDean. I hit the subscribe button and felt another tingle inside my body. I don't know why I'm getting so excited about this boy. I clicked through and watched a few more of Phil's videos and found out a few things about him:

1) He had a strange love of lions and was kind of obsessed with them

2) He wasn't afraid to show the internet he was a bit weird and wacky

3) he had quite a lot of things in common with me

I may not know this guy but I instantly felt like we could be best friends, so I did something I hadn't done in a while, I left a comment.

Hey mate! Love your videos! Wish I could get to know you in real life, I reckon we'd be good friends ;)

Wow, a wink face, I was feeling adventurous. He would never see it anyway, it'll just get lost in the other comments he has.

I looked over at my clock and saw I had an hour to get ready before I left for my celebrationary meal, so I closed YouTube down, shut down my laptop and tucked it under my bed. I pulled myself up off my bed and got ready to go out with my parents.

I chose black skinny jeans with a back shirt and sprayed on some cologne, this was going to be a fun night.

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