Note:

Rewind: Means to Flashback/go back in time

Fast forward: Means to go forward in time (or go back to the present if it is used after a "Rewind")

Pause: Everything pauses except for Dan and Phil

Play: Ends the Pause

Dan P.O.V

Skin that looks like it was made out of playdough. Clothes that look like they were tattooed onto our bodies. An emerald green diamond floating above our heads in mid-air. There was no Doubt about it. We were fucking Sims 4 characters.

Rewind

"We haven't made a Sims 4 video in a while Dan." Phil chirps as he continued to stare into his laptop. Based off the reflection on his glasses, I could tell that he was looking at our gaming Channel.

I looked up from my whisker coffee mug filled with some espresso.

"You're right. Should we make one today?" I observed his reaction.

"Yeah, sure."

I turned on the computer and let the game load as Phil took a seat next to me. As he bent over me and adjusted the camera that recorded our reactions to gaming footage, I focused on putting all my attention onto the computer screen and not...Anything else. Out of all the video games that we had installed onto our computer, Sims 4 was the one I enjoyed the most, simply because pretty much gave Dil all the things I would've wanted in life. Even Dil's girlfriend, Tabitha, looked a lot like the gender bend version of Phil to me. I then noticed that the Sims game was taking an awful lot longer to load than usual, and I immediately turned to Phil.

"Did you download another Exe file?" I asked him sarcastically.

"No," He answered. "That's only for Spooky Week Dan." He chuckled.

I looked at the computer screen. "Then why is it taking so long…"

I watched the monitor as the screen turned black and two hands reached out from the screen. Me and Phil didn't move from our seats or react because we only assumed that it was either a new really good special effect or that one of us downloaded a new expansion pack for the game. Once we realised that the hands could actually grab us and pull us into the computer screen, it was already too late to react.

Fast forward

And Now I'm here, as a part of the game standing beside Phil in front of Dil's house. Although I had to admit that as someone who lives off video games, this wouldn't be as bad of an experience if it weren't for the fact that we may never return to our real lives ever again.

"What are we going to do now, Phil?" I stared at my hands intensely, unable to recognise them as a part of my body. "What will happen to my youtube channel? Will I become extinct? Will everyone we know be dead as soon as we find a way out of here?!"

"Don't be so tense, Dan." I hear Phil say. "We'll find a way out of this."

I lift my head from my hands to look at Phil. "Thanks Phil, I somehow needed that to keep myself sane." I smiled at him, but then I realized something. "Wait, how did you know I was feeling tense?"

Phil pointed above me. "There was a box there that said 'Dan Howell is Tense'." He told me. "Then all of a sudden I get these Sim options that suggested what I should do to you, so I selected 'try to calm down'."

I felt sweat dripping from my face, nervous about the fact that Phil could now literally read my emotions, and also about the fact being 'flirty' actually counted as one.

"Dan, You're tense again." Phil tells me. He puts a hand on my shoulder. "Should I try to calm you down again?"

"No…It's fine…" I wanted to thank Phil for figuring out how to calm me down, so I selected the 'express fondness option' from my list of choices. "Thanks Anyway."

As soon as Phil smiles, a green plus sign floats above our heads, and gives the empty bar labeled as 'Pleasant conversation' a small, green streak. So even though we're friends in real life, our friendship bar is zero when it comes to Sims, well I guess I have some work to do then. I took a glance at our romantic interest bar, which was empty as well without a single shade of pink. I watch as Phil explores Dil's front yard with admiration, starting with the llama hedge until he trips and falls head first into the cluster of leaves. Disappointment fills my chest as I knew that Phil was definitely one of those Sims that were impossible to date, since they kept rejecting our advances.

Phil pulls his head out from the llama hedge and I hear the door on Dil's house unlock. And then before my own eyes, I see Dil, the full grown adult Sim that I've been rising for a year now with Phil, standing in front of us. Dil looks at us and I watched as his emerald-like eyes shine as soon as he seemingly recognizes us.

"DAD!" His immediate reaction was to run up to us and give us a huge hug.

I wasn't sure how to react so I just stood there and looked at Phil. Should I hug him back? Should I tell him that I'm not his father? What am I supposed to do in this kind of a situation? Just when I was about to worry endlessly, I suddenly feel Dil freeze in place, lifeless and still as a rock.

Pause

"Don't worry, I just paused the game, Dan." Phil tells me. "From the looks of it, we're pretty much like Gods. We can control time, and look." I watch as Phil taps on Dil's shoulder and a variety of options appear from his body, just like how it'd be like if we were playing the game.

"So what do we do now, Phil?" I commented.

"I don't know…" Phil takes a look over at Dil, and pauses for a few seconds. "For now, why don't we pretend to be his Dads?"

"Phil we can't even look after ourselves, how can we possibly look after Dil?"

"Well statistics DO say that you'd make a better Dad than a son." Phil shows me his phone.

/danisnotonfire/status/668203119357095936

I chuckled. "WOW so you're gonna use THAT to back up your decision?" I flap my arms in a 'I give up' notion. "Fuck it let's do it."

"Then it's settled."

Phil gives Dil the command 'Get to know' and presses the play button to resurrect the Sim from his frozen life.

Play

"Dad! I haven't heard from you in a long time!" Dil starts chattering right away. Whenever he says 'dad' I get confused at who he's talking to: me or Phil. "Come on inside!"

As I entered Dil's house with Phil, I never would've dreamed that I'd be able to actually be in here, in a world that was built from my fantasises with Phil. Somehow, I'm relieved that I'm here with Phil, otherwise I might have gone insane by now.

"This is our first time meeting…Right Dil?" Phil asks him, trying to gain some intel from Dil.

Dil looks at Phil and raises an eyebrow. "What are you talking about? We've met many times before." Before I was even able to ask him anything else, Dil claps his hands and smiles at us. "Anyway, we're all together now so you can stay here, Dads!"

Dil pulls our hands on top of each other and grins as he clutches onto them. For a Sim who acted and looked so real, it shocked me that his hands had no warmth in them. It's not every day that I get to hold Phil's hand like this so while it lasted, I filled my mind with the touch of hand to remember it.

Today Marks our day of being a part of the Howlter Family, and I wasn't sure whether I should be happy or paranoid from this unexpected turn of events in our lives.

A/N: Before anyone asks there is really no real meaning behind the title XD I just really wanted to make it a pun with either the word 'Sim' or 'Phan' in it, so I decided to play on the word 'Symphony', but I guess you could interpret the characters going well together, like the movements in a symphony ;D (Im sorry if that made absolutely no sense I will leave now) I hope you enjoyed that story and please comment or follow or fav if you would like to see more XD