the prompt thing? "You always this quiet?"
Finally got round to this with some 2009 Phan feels !
“I made you a bed up” Phil says gesturing to the makeshiftbed at the side of the room, Dan is standing awkwardly in the doorway, heglances at the sofa-bed and nods in acknowledgement. Dropping his bag in thecorner of the room he moves over and sits awkwardly on the edge of the bed.
“So, what do you want to do first?” Phil asks.
“Well, we can explore Manchester a bit, head to the cinema,film a video it’s up to you”.
“I don’t mind” Dan replies, his stomach is knotting up, he’sbeginning to think that the whole trip had just been a mistake, now he was herewith Phil in person, he couldn’t understand why on earth someone like Philwould want to spend any time with someone like himself. Their skype calls wereperfect and wonderful and made Dan feel all sorts of things inside, so had seeingPhil at the train station. But then the sudden realisation that he was real wasjust a little overwhelming. He knew Phil wouldn’t think any different of him inperson but he couldn’t shake the idea from his head that Phil would be bored ofhim soon.
“You’re the guest, it’s up to you Dan” Phil could seesomething was wrong with Dan, only he had no idea what he could do about it, hewas trying to be confident, trying to make Dan feel at ease. The thing was, hewasn’t at ease himself. He was worrying. Worrying that Dan was being quietbecause he had realised that Phil wasn’t the same in person. Worrying that hewasn’t good enough for him. Worrying that he couldn’t keep him happy while he wasthere. His stomach dropped as he thought how he would feel if Dan just left, ifjust decided he didn’t want to stay the weekend.
“Anything” Dan shrugged again he didn’t mean to seem sodisinterested but the reality of the situation had just seemed to hit him fullforce.
“You always this quiet?” Phil asks, a slight lopsided grinplaying on his face trying to make light of the situation.
Dan looked up, a coy smile playing on his own lips, theireyes met and Dan realised that he was worrying about nothing. Phil was Phil nomatter where they were, be it through a screen or five feet apart.
“Well actually I know you’re not always this quiet I thinkour countless hours on skype prove that” Phil sat down next to down on his bed,lounging back against the pillows and putting his hands behind his head.
“That’s true, though that first one was a little awkward tostart with” Dan laughed as he remembered how they both just sat in silence fora good ten minutes, neither of them having any idea what to say to the other.They got over it though and once they had got used to each other theconversation flowed effortlessly, seeing each other in person would be nodifferent.
“Come on” Said Dan standing up and grabbing his wallet outof his rucksack “Someone once told me there was a pretty cool Apple store in Manchesterthat I’d love to check out”
