Phillip's POV*

True to my word I beat both Dan and Phil in Mario Kart and Dan complained and made up excuses for at least the next twenty minutes afterwards. I ignored his comments though and decided to start making dinner for all of us.

I started to set pans up and spread oil round a frying pan when I heard a phone vibrate. I turned and saw Phil's iPhone on the worktop. I shrugged and walked over to see there was a text. My eyes widened when I saw what the text read, well of what I could see of it anyway ...

"DAN! PHIL!" I shouted, resulting in both of them running into the kitchen. 

"What?" Phil asked. I handed his phone over to him and he unlocked it and read the text. His eyes widened.

"Oh crap!" He spoke.

"What?" Dan asked, impatiently.

"Chris and PJ are making their way upstairs, they're dropping round to see us!" Phil exclaimed.

"Shit! What should we do?" Dan asked, looking panicked. 

"I'll hide!" I said and ran into the living room just as there was a knock on the apartment door. I gestured of Dan to go open the door and Phil to help me.

"Go hide upstairs in the office!" Phil whispered, pushing me up the steps. I hurried up and looked frantically round the room. There was no obvious place to hide except under the sofa bed he'd been sleeping on. I groaned and closed the door, sitting on my bed, hoping neither Chris nor PJ came up here.

Phil's POV*

Dan and I greeted both Chris and PJ as they came into our apartment. I was still anxious about the fact that my clone was upstairs with practically no place to hide. I know he'll get hungry soon and will have to keep quiet for a while.

"Phil, what's up? How have you been?" Chris exclaimed.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I tried to smile convincingly.

"Ooh, Mario Kart. Who's up for a game?" Chris exclaimed, not noticing my strain.

"You're on Kendall." PJ grinned and sat on the couch, grabbing a controller each. I glanced at Dan who was biting his already chapped lips nervously. Even though it was inappropriate timing, he looked really cute when he did that.

"I'm gunna start on dinner." Dan announced, he shot me a pointed look before leaving to go to the kitchen. I sighed a heavy sigh and joined our friends on the couch. 

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Two hours!

Two hours and not a peep from Phillip, I'm honestly impressed. Chris and PJ look like they were going to leave soon and Dan had an extra plate ready for Phillip once Chris and PJ left. I felt sorry for him, he'd be up there alone, hungry and bored.

"Well ... we should get going. Thanks for your hospitality, do you guys want to come over tomorrow? Maybe we could film another collab video? Haven't done that in a while." Chris suggested. I didn't think it was a necessarily great idea to leave Phillip alone in the apartment but I thought it would be rude to decline.

"U-um sure." I stuttered.

"Cool, see you two tomorrow-" 

"THUMP! Crap!" Came from upstairs. Dan and I tensed, knowing exactly what happened whilst PJ and Chris stood in silence, frowning in confusion.

"What was that?" PJ spoke up.

"N-nothing, probably the apartment upstairs." I replied, cursing myself for stuttering.

"You're lying, whos' upstairs?" Chris asked, eyebrow raised. His eyes widened, "YOU DON'T HAVE A SEX SLAVE DO YOU?!" He exclaimed. I heard Dan snort and muffle his giggles whilst I just stared in horror.

"NO!" I defended.

"So who is it?" PJ questioned.

"No ones up there, it's just the apartment upstairs-" Before Dan could finish his sentence Chris and PJ bolted from the room and to the hallway.

"WAIT GUYS!" I called, sprinting after them. I felt completely panicked as they reached the office door. They both turned to me, looking confused.

"Look nothing's there, just come back down!" I insisted, although it was obvious I was anxious and in panic.

"If there's nothing there then you won't mind if we take a look then?" Chris retorted and twisted the door handle.

"WAIT!" But it was too late, Chris walked into the room and I saw his body visibly tense and stop completely in its tracks. "Shit." I whispered under my breath.

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Chris yelled.

Phillip's POV*

Two hours I've been in this room. I'm so hungry!

I have been sitting here, playing on the office computer but now I'm seriously bored. I sit back in the chair and sigh, careful not to creak any floor boards as I made my way to the back and lay down on it. My eyes wandered round the room and stopped at the window sil. 

I admired the little action figures and toys littering it and walked over to look at them more closely. One of them I noticed was a furby and it was actually pretty creepy. I picked it up and looked at it's round unnerving eyes which seemed to stare into my soul.

Suddenly it's ears moved and it blinked and I yelped and dropped it, resulting in a rather loud thump on the floor. "Crap!" I exclaimed then clamped a hand over my mouth. I listened out for noise downstairs and panicked when I could no longer hear the murmuring of voices.

I could just hear the question "What was that?" and soon enough I heard two pairs of feet making their way up the stairs. I panicked and looked around frantically for a hiding space. I dropped to my knees to try slide under the bed but it was too late, one of their friends, Chris, burst into the room and stopped as soon as he saw me.

He was silent for a moment and I heard a very quiet "Shit." from down the stairs. My eyes glanced at PJ who was looking at me wide eyed, then probably to Phil who was at the bottom of the stairs.

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" Chris suddenly yelled, making me flinch.

"Look I can explain!" I tried to get out quick.

"EXPLAIN? EXPLAIN! HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN THIS? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!" He freaked out more.

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After a long time of trying to calm Chris down we sat both him and PJ on the couch opposite, Dan and Phil on the other one whilst I stood beside them. I sighed and glanced at Chris who was eyeing me and it made me feel uncomfortable.

Phil decided to tell the story for me, thankfully leaving out anything about Daniel. I think he wanted me to tell them if they HAD to know. After a bit of persuading and evidence from my hologram watch phone they believed us and Chris warmed up to the idea.

"Ok that's pretty frickin' cool! YOU HAVE A CLONE FROM OUTER SPACE!" Chris exclaimed, grinning.

"Well not technically out of space, I just from a different universe and I'm not a clone I am just the same exact image as him because they are parallel universes-"

"Phillip, it's fine. He's not very sciency." Phil laughed and I smiled sheepishly and nodded my head.

"Wait a minute, if there's another Phil, is there another-"

"Peej, don't." Dan interrupted, looking at me worriedly.

"What? You didn't even know what I was going to say-"

"Yes I did and it's not a comfortable subject for Phillip." Dan argued. I appreciated that he as making sure I was alright but really ... if they were going to know about me they might as well know about Daniel. I don't have much to hide. It's a pretty fair question.

"No Dan, it's fine." I sighed.

"Are yous sure? Don't feel you have to answer-"

"Dan it's fine." I smiled reassuringly and turned to Chris and PJ.

"Yes, there was another Dan, only he's known as Daniel. We were also friends in the parallel universe. We were partners to our company and also flat mates." I started, taking a breath.

"Was?" Chris asked wearily.

"He, um, was in a car crash two days before I came here. He was in a deep coma with only a 5% chance of waking up so we decided to take him off life support. He's dead ..." I choked and fought hard with the tears that were threatening to fall.

"I'm sorry dude." Chris sighed, glancing worriedly at Dan.

"It's fine ... oh and he was also my boyfriend." I smirked slightly as I saw Dan and Phil turn bright pink at the mention of it again. Chris and PJ's attention also went immediately to them and almost knowing smirks crossed their faces.

"Oh cool, well we should get going. Nice meeting you Phillip, don't worry you're secret is safe with us!" Chris grinned, pulling me into a quick hug. I smiled and hugged back, and watched them both leave the apartment.

"Well, at least we'll have some help if any other problems arise!" Phil breathed.

"Yeah ..."Dan chuckled.