Home, Sweet Home

When we got home from our visit to Brighton, we collapsed onto the couch and didn’t move all day except to get the door when our Chinese takeaway came.

“Okay, I think I’m going to go to bed now.” I said standing up and stretching when the end credits of the anime episode we were watching came on.

“I’ve been meaning to ask you something.” said Dan before I could leave the room.

“Shoot.” I said.

“Well, Phil and I are doing a day in the life video tomorrow. You are such a big part of our lives that it would feel weird for you to not be in it. Don’t worry, we won’t show your face but I really want you to be in this one.” said Dan, his eyes pleading for me to say yes.

I contemplated it for barely a minute before I agreed. The look on Dan’s face was totally worth it. I on the other hand was internally freaking out a little. Okay more than a little.

This is the first time I will actually be in a video not as an accident or as extra footage added to the end. I agreed ahead of time that I would be in this video. I know I’m going to be in it before we even start to shoot it.

I turned and left the lounge and made my way up the stairs to my room. What did I do when I got there you ask. Well I cleaned. If there was any possibility that someone was going to see my room, it had to be cleaned and as of right now, I still hadn’t even unpacked from going home and there were STUPIDFUCKINGFOAMPACKINGPEANUTS EVERYWHERE!!!!

Once I was finally happy with the way my room looked and every single last packing peanut was found, I got in bed and I swear I fell asleep before I even laid down.

Third POV

Phil woke up earlier that morning than he intended to but he turned on the camera anyway.

“Good morning. I had the weirdest dream,” he started.

The dream had to do with a gorilla and a really tiny car.

“Okay so I guess we should go and see if Dan is awake.” said Phil opening his door and heading to Dan’s room.

“Daniel…” said Phil walking in to Dan’s room and pointing the camera at him.

“Okay, that’s the scariest thing I’ve ever seen this early in the morning.” said Dan with a laugh.

“So are we going to go and wake up Roomie?” Phil asked.

“The same way I wake her up every time I get the chance.” said Dan with a smirk.

Phil turned off the camera and left the room so that Dan could get dressed.

“Okay let’s go get her.” said Dan now dressed in sweat pants and his Yeezus shirt.

They made their way to the stairs and then Phil turned the camera on as Dan started climbing the stairs. Dan turned back and put his finger to his lips then turned and continued up the stairs to Sam’s room. He stopped at the door and knocked. When he didn’t hear anything he slowly opened the door.

You could see that there was someone under the blankets on the bed. Dan couldn’t help but think, thank god Sam sleeps with her head covered.

As promised, Dan goes to wake Sam in the way that he has ever since they were friends. He jumps on her and proceeds to tickle her.

“Ahhhh, Daaaaaaaaan!!!!” Sam screamed and then is overcome with laughter.

“Daaaaan, stooooop.” said Sam now laughing too hard to yell.

She turned over causing Dan to fall off the bed.

“That’s what you get for being a jerk.” said Sam, her voice muffled because her head was still covered.

Phil turned the camera off and then told Sam. She popped out of the blanket and looked over the side of the bed.

“Serves you right.” She said and then stuck her tongue out at Dan.

“Sam, I know we just had them, but will you make pancakes?” Phil asked pleadingly like he expected her to say no.

“Why not. Now get out so I can change.” She said.

“You might want to run a brush through your hair too.” said Dan with a smirk.

“I wouldn’t have needed to if you weren’t a jerk.” said Sam with a glare.

The guys went down stairs and Phil started making coffee. He pulled out his camera and started talking to it.

“Ever since Roomie moved in we have had to make coffee with this contraption. Apparently she’s too good for instant.” said Phil.

“I’m not complaining.” Dan chimed in.

“Anyway, we aren’t having cereal today and it feels kind of weird because what’s a day in the life without cereal. Except for Japan. That doesn’t count.”

“Phil, you can’t just not count something because it doesn’t fit with your statement.” said Dan.

“Fine, anyway, the reason we are not having cereal is because Roomie is making breakfast.” said Phil turning off the camera.

It didn’t take long for Sam to join the guys in the kitchen and start pulling the ingredients for pancakes out.

“Okay Phil, get out.” said Sam with a sweet and innocent smile.

“What?! Why?” exclaimed Phil.

“Phil, it’s a secret recipe for a reason. If I tell you, it won’t be a secret anymore.” said Sam now with a smirk.

The whole time, Dan was in the back ground laughing his ass off at the look on Phil’s face.

“You too Dan.” said Sam turning to look at Dan.

Dan didn’t say anything but he just nodded. He led a sulking Phil out of the kitchen. Once the guys went into the lounge, Sam got to work on the pancakes. When the batter was done, same went into the lounge.

“Hey Phil, I have a really cool idea for a shot that you could use as like a segway between whatever you have shot already to a shot of you guys eating the pancakes or something. I don’t know, never mind.” said Sam turning and going back to the kitchen.

“No Sam,” said Dan getting up and following Sam into the kitchen. “Tell us your idea. It might be really good.”

Sam explained the shot to Dan and Phil. They both agreed that it was in fact a good idea.

Dan had the camera in his hand like he was going to start recording.

“Okay let me just get the pancake going. The first one may not come out so good so don’t record that one but the second on should be good.” said Sam.

She was starting to get more and more nervous as it came closer to Dan turning on the camera. She knew it was just her hands, but this was actually the first time she was going to be voluntarily in a video. There was also a bit of excitement hidden within her nervous anxiety.

Dan turned on the camera and Sam started pouring the batter into the pan. The shot was actually really cool. Dan planned on making it jumpcutty so it would be lit a clip of pouring the batter in then one from above of the pancake cooking then flipping it and then putting it on a plate with a few shots of the stack of pancakes as it grew.

Dan agreed that it was a good idea to record the shots and Sam couldn’t help smile.

“Hey, you wanna see something cool?” Sam asked.

“Sure, do you mind if record it?” Dan asked.

“I don’t care, just stand behind me.” said Sam.

She started a new pancake in the pan and let it cook a little. When it was ready she asked Dan if he was recording. Once Dan said yes, Sam readied herself for what she was about to do. Either this was going to be really cool, or a really cool blooper.

Sam loosened the pancake from the pan and then she tossed the pancake up into the air and caught it in the pan. She even managed not to make a mess of the pancake.

Once the pancakes were done, she and Dan made their way into the lounge. Dan with the pancakes and syrup, Sam with three glasses, somehow wedged between her arm and torso, orange juice, and a bowl of blueberries and strawberries for her. It’s safe to say that Sam was sick of pancakes.

Without any warning, Phil started recording.

“Okay guys, so Roomie made pancakes. Look at the beautiful circular puffy clouds of goodness. These are the best pancakes I have ever had.” said Phil then he shoved half of a pancake in his mouth.

Phil also managed to get a candid shot of Dan letting out a moan at his first bite of pancake. Both Phil and Sam couldn’t help but laugh at the look on Dan’s face when he noticed Phil was recording him.

“Okay Sam, I have missed your pancakes so much since you’ve been gone. You are never allowed to leave unless you leave the freezer fully stocked with pancakes.” said Phil between shoving very large pieces of pancake into his mouth.

“Phil, I could leave the entire freezer stacked full of pancakes and I’m almost positive that they would not last you more than a couple of days. That and you’ll probably be ten feet wide when I get back.” said Sam with a laugh.

Phil couldn’t say anything because he had just shoved the entirety of the last pancake into his mouth. He reminded her of a chipmunk or a hamster with their cheek packed full of food.

“Are you planning to save that for winter?” Sam asked sarcastically.

Phil nodded his head and tried really hard not to smile knowing he would lose the pancake out of his mouth if he did.

“So Daniel, what is on the agenda for today?” said Sam in her best posh British accent.

“Well Samantha, I don’t really know. Should we go shopping or something?” Dan asked.

“I don’t know. How is that going to work with our system?” said Sam dropping the accent.

“Well eventually the subscribers will see your face, I think we can be a bit more relaxed. Plus the last few times we went out, we didn’t run into any subscribers.” said Dan.

Sam was very hesitant to agree to this because she has always been so used to hiding in the shadows. That and she was actually having fun with the subscribers not being able to see her face. At the same time though, she wanted to go out with her friends and not have to worry about being spotted by random phans that pop up.

She explained this to the guys and Dan came up with the idea that she could be behind the camera. That way, if they did run into subscribers they could say that they hired her or something to carry around the camera or something stupid like that.

Sam didn’t think that anyone would buy it but she figured why not give it a try. She agreed to it because she could just imagine the disappointment on Dan’s face if she had said no and she definitely didn’t want to see that.

The tree finished eating breakfast and Sam and Dan made their way to the couch while Phil made is way to go and shower. They had been sitting on the couch for a few minutes. Sam was thinking about how her birthday hadn’t been that bad. She looked over at Dan and then she remembered something. She then turned and punched Dan square in the arm.

“Ow, what was that for?!” she said Dan grabbing his arm.

“That was for saying Happy Birthday to me on my birthday.” said Sam with a scowl.

She felt bad because she had hit him harder than she meant to and then when the guilty look came across his face, she just wanted to hug him and apologize.

“I thought you accepted my apology for being a prick.” He said.

“I did but the happy birthday thing is something we have always done. You promised me you would never say happy birthday to me on my birthday. The one day I hoped to not have a message from you is the one where you sent one.” she replied.

Dan leaned over and hugged hugging her. Any anger that she had left dissipated with the hug.

“I’ll make it up to you, I promise.” said Dan still hugging her.

“Oh yeah? How?” she said with a smirk.

“I’ll think of something.” said Dan with a matching smirk.

The two held eye contact for about seven seconds with Dan still hugging Sam. She couldn’t help but look at his lips and lick her own in desire. Then Dan winked ruining the moment.

“Oh gosh, inappropriate winking, god damn it. I’m so sorry- Ow what was that for?” said Dan getting another punch from Sam.

“Your inappropriate winking thing is contagious. A few days ago I was thinking to myself and for some reason, out of nowhere I just winked.” said Sam.

Dan was thrown into a fit of laughter at Sam’s expense. If she hadn’t have hit him so hard the first time, she would have hit him again now.

“I’m going to my room to get dressed.” said Sam getting up and leaving a laughing Dan still sitting on the couch.

When Dan finally recovered from his laughing fit, he also made his way to his room to get dressed for the day.

Not long after, the three met in the lounge. Dan was dressed in his typical all black. He was wearing his circle shirt which Sam so much wanted to steal but didn’t dare to. Phil was wearing a shirt that looked like a purple and blue galaxy with the usual black skinny jeans. Sam was also dressed in all black. Black skinny jeans, all black Converse, and the black long sleeve shirt that she got from Brandy Melville.

“Okay, are we all ready?” Phil asked taking out the camera.

Dan and Sam both nodded while Phil handed the camera to Sam and he then proceeded to tell her how to work it.

“Phil, I know how to use a camera.” said Sam.

“Sorry.” said Phil taking a step back.

“Okay, let’s get this show on the road. I’m sick of just standing around.” said Sam.

She handed the camera to Phil so that he could start the footage while Sam ran to get a jacket. She searched and searched for her leather jacket but couldn’t find it anywhere. Then when she remembered where it was she exclaimed, “That Bitch!”

She grabbed a black jacked that she hardly ever wore then made her way back down to the lounge.

Upon entering the lounge, Phil turned to her and said “You know we heard that, right? It’s going to show up in the video.”

“Let me guess, you can’t cut it out or bleep it because you were talking.” said Sam in an unamused monotone voice.

Phil just nodded and Sam sighed and shook her head. Dan on the other hang chuckled. Both Phil and Sam glared at him and he stopped. Phil went back to talking to the camera.

“Okay, so I’ve accepted Dan’s all black slash monochrome wardrobe but I don’t know if I can handle this.” said Phil turning the camera on to Dan and Sam to show their outfits and then turned it back onto himself.

“If this keeps up, the whole flat will soon be monochrome.” said Phil.

Dan and Sam both had to stifle a laugh. Phil then handed the camera to Sam. Sam turned the camera on Dan and he explained.

“So for this day in the life we wanted to include Roomie because she had such a huge part in our daily life. To keep her off camera, we have come up with her being behind the camera.”

“So on the agenda for today, is a shopping trip.” Phil added.

The three made their way to the stairs. Phil went first and then Dan with Sam bringing up the rear.

“For all of the fangirls out there, this is for you.” She whispered just loud enough for the camera to pick it up but not loud enough for the guys to hear.

She then zoomed in on Dan’s butt and whispered “You’re welcome.” then zoomed back out.

She then turned the camera off until the three made it to the underground.

“Okay so, Roomie hates the underground and it just so happens that there are no places to sit.” said Dan with a smirk to the camera.

“I hate you.” said Sam while glaring at Dan, not that the camera could see.

“No you don’t, you love me. Don’t lie.” said Dan in a teasing way.

“Only because I have to because of that one time you saved me on the subway.” Sam countered.

Dan just gave a “yeah, sure” look. Then Phil came into view and said “These two have this same conversation every time we have to ride the underground. If you haven’t already guessed it, Roomie really, really hates the underground.”

Then they started to move. Sam was caught off guard and ended up clinging to Dan to keep herself from face planting on the floor.

“Not this really reminds me of when I saved you from the underground.” said Dan.

“We are cutting this part out.” said Sam glaring at Dan.

Once again, his face was terribly close to hers and she couldn’t tear her eyes away from his lips. Then they jolted to a halt and Sam hit her head on the poll they were standing by.

“Motherfucker, oh god, OWW!” said Sam causing both Dan and Phil to laugh.

“I so wish we could keep that in.” said Dan.

Sam glared at him.

The rest of the day was filled with lots of shenanigans. Including Sam’s search for the bathroom which resulted in her exclaiming “I really need to pee” while Phil was recording something. Little to her knowledge, the guys were totally planning on keeping that in.

While Dan was of doing something, Phil and Sam picked up some masks so that if she did have to be on camera, she could hide her face. There were some truly grotesque ones that she planned on scaring Dan with.

The actually shopping trip wasn’t that successful when it came to clothes but they ended up going into a book store. Sam got a lot of books and the guys both teased her about it.

They didn’t film on the way home because Sam was too lazy and Phil just didn’t want to, but Sam did however film the trek up the stairs making sure to get a few really good shots of the guys butts.

Once in the flat, the camera was turned off and the shopping taken care of. Sam ditched her jacket and shoes then made her way down to the lounge where she laid on the couch. Not long after Dan joined her. She slid down so Dan could sit in his spot then she rested her forehead on Dan’s leg and closed her eyes.

“Aww I think we tired Roomie out.” said Phil coming into the lounge.

Sam knew he must have been filming because he didn’t say her name so she just flipped him off.

“I have to blur that you know.” said Phil.

Sam just shrugged her shoulders and went back to relaxing. Dan opened his laptop and started scrolling Tumblr while Sam laid there and scrolled through Instagram on her phone.

This is how most of the afternoon went with not much filming because the three of them just sat in the lounge. Phil was in the chair reading a book, and Sam and Dan were still doing the same as before.

Eventually Phil came over and handed the camera to Sam and said “Let’s go in the kitchen.”

Dan, Sam and Phil all crammed into the kitchen, which wasn’t that big with all three of them in there. Phil passed Sam the camera and she started to film.

“So what are we having?” she asked.

“What do we have?” said Dan turning to Phil.

“We have the stuff for curry or stir fry.” said Phil.

“Ugh, I’m so sick of stir fry.” Sam sighed.

“Curry it is.” said Dan.

Dan got started cooking and Sam filmed him. He sang a song about cutting the vegetables and Sam danced around the kitchen while Phil laughed at the two of them.

Sam passed the camera off to Phil so that she could go and grab one of the masks. She picked a truly horrifying one and then made her way back to the kitchen. She quietly snuck up behind Dan and grabbed him and made a noise.

Dan jumped a good foot in the air and then turned and hugged Sam.

“I swear to god… I’m going to squeeze the life out of you.” said Dan, clearly having been terrified but plastering a very wide, kind of fake looking smile on his face.

Sam started to laugh but Dan’s grip around her grew tighter and she stopped

“Daaaan, let go of me. Can’t. Breathe. Phil… help.” said Sam totally over reacting.

Phil just stood there laughing and trying to keep the camera from moving too much.

Then Sam went limp and Dan got a really worried look on his face.

“S-Roomie, are you okay?” said Dan.

Sam didn’t move and then when Dan looked away she jumped him again.

Dan just smiled and shook his head.

“I cannot believe you.” said Dan taking the camera from Phil and pointing it on Phil and Sam who had a hold of the counter to keep themselves from falling on the floor in laughter.

“I will get you back.” said Dan while Phil and Sam were still laughing.

Dan turned the camera off and Sam took off the mask.

“Thank god, it was getting hard to breathe in there.” said Sam still with traces of laughter in her voice.

“I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself.” She said again making her way over to a pouting Dan and giving him a hug.

“Don’t tell me you wouldn’t have done it too if you got the chance.” said Sam.

Dan’s pout turned into a smile and he nodded. “Yeah, you’re probably right.”

Dan finished the food than the three made their way to the lounge. Sam thought that the food looked really nice so she took a picture with her nice camera.

“Instagram?” Dan asked.

She nodded and he just shook his head.

Sam once again turned the camera on and showed the food.

“Okay, put the camera away so I can stuff my face.” said Dan.

Sam turned off the camera. “You better keep that part in.”

They all dug into their food and then when they were done, they turned on an anime Dan and Phil had been watching. While at home, Lily had made Sam watch this on with her so she had already seen it. Sam ended up falling asleep on Dan about halfway through the episode.

“Hey Dan, I think we tired her out.” said Phil quietly so as to not wake up Sam.

“Yeah.” said Dan looking down at her with a smile.

What Sam and Dan didn’t know is that throughout the day, he had been taking pictures and videos of the two when they did cute things and sending them to Lily.

“Oh my god, it’s like they are too blind to see that they like each other.” Lily sent back after receiving a picture of Sam asleep on Dan.

Phil had heard recently all about how Lily likes Sam brother and Sam has a growing suspicion that her brother likes Lily back and neither of them could see it. He didn’t say anything to Lily but he had a feeling Sam felt the same way about Lily and her brother.

Phil decided that they should probably end the day in the life. Dan woke up Sam and they made their way into Dan’s room. For the ending Sam had come up with a funny idea and she got a brown paper bag and had Dan draw a face on it.

Sam sat between the guys this the paper bag over her head and the guys said goodbye while Sam just sat there and didn’t move or say anything. That was the end of the day in the life video.

Sam grabbed her laptop and hung out in Dan’s room while he started to edit the footage. She on the other had was starting a blog post about her experience of college in the UK verses the US.

Sam ended up falling asleep again, this time on Dan’s bed. When Dan finally decided to go to bed, he didn’t wake her up. Instead, he just climbed in beside her. It was the best sleep either of them had had in a long time.



Back in the US, Lily was screaming at her best friend.

“Hey Lily, what’s wrong?” Ian asked coming over and taking a seat next to her on the couch handing her, her drink and the bowl of freshly made popcorn.

“Your sister is being… ugh.” Lily exclaimed.

“What did she do now, demand that you send her jacket back?” said Ian with a smirk.

“Yes but that’s not why I’m annoyed. Phil, one of the guys that Sam lives with, has been sending me picture and videos of Sam and Dan doing cute things that obviously point out that they like each other and they are both too blind to see it. Its infuriating.” said Lily.

Lily had sent almost the exact same thing to Phil after the picture he sent of Sam asleep on Dan.

“Speaking of my sister, I need to Skype her so we can start those guitar lessons.” said Ian. “Have you talked to her recently?”

“No, all she does is yell at me about her jacket. I might have to send it back just so I can get her off my case.” Lily replied.

“Are you really going to send it back?” Ian asked skeptically.

“Not a chance.” Lily replied.