Camila's POV
"Hey Ally, how goes it?" I say to the short blonde popping up on the large iphone 9 screen in front of me,
"Im good Mila, how are you and Austin?"
"We're great, he's visiting family this week so I'm by myself until we start tour prep next week,"
"Next week!, What's the date today, tour starts on the 23rd?" I watched as the usually tan girl's face drained to a pale ivory shade as realisation hit her.
"The 23rd is in just over a week Allycat, we meet up on the 19th though, a week exactly, it's the 12th of June 2018 today"
"Oh my gosh, Mila! I need to pack, get everything ready. I haven't even visited my parents since we left for this break! I thought we had more time!"
We say goodbye and hang up as I giggle to myself. It's a rare sight to see Ally forget what's going on, although from occasion to occasion it does happen, clearly, and it's quite amusing to see the flustered Latina rush around all panicked last minute.
As time went on I emerged from my thoughts to find myself bored. I look to the table top at my right and pick up my laptop and open the macbook, seeing the white apple in the centre of the screen illuminate my previously pitch dark room. Once booted up I open safari and type Tumblr into the search bar.
Username: waakeme_up
Password: **********
I begin mindlessly scrolling through my dash without realising the hours pass by, until I come across some screenshots of a tweet by AwesomenessTV, retweeted by our very own record labels Epic Records and Syco Entertainment.
"Subscribe to see the next episode of Fifth Harmony Takeover and a VERY special announcement by two VERY special 5H members! Don't miss it!"
I find myself baffled as I have no Idea what this supposed announcement could be. I notice the post caption on Tumblr is "OMG cAMRen iS REaL!?" and the number of notes is exceptionally high.
And so with this romantic assumption I decide it best not to investigate anymore on this platform, yet doubtful of the authenticity of the image in front of me - half of the selfies I see on twitter of myself and Lauren, or the other girls, I can't even tell if they're real or manips made by talented, over-enthusiastic fans.
I open a new tab and log into twitter. I search for the official Awesomeness TV account, and low and behold, pinned to the top of the page, the tweet is real.
Im not even that surprised in all honesty that I didn't know about an early Takeover episode that we must obviously be filming in Los Angeles before we head for Texas.
Our management fail to tell us things all of the time, (I may have helped coin the #EpicIsntWorthIt tag, during the Harmonizer Blackout of 2k15 after the Billboard music awards) what does confuse me however, is that none of the girls mentioned any 'very special announcement'. Although we haven't physically seen each other in over two months, we've stayed in contact and regularly talked with one another, be it over video chat, phone call, text, or even just sending the occasional tweet to each other.
My first guess about the announcement was simply that Normani and Ally would be introducing our tour we were about to start, as we hit it off in Texas really soon, and those two are the only Texans (or Texicans, as I thought was the correct term for the first 15 years of my life) in the group. Normani having lived in Houston and Ally being raised in San Antonio.
I close my laptop and place it on the desk near my bedside, before picking up my phone from the docking station it was connected to and wincing at the bright light it was emitting, burning my retinas in the dark. I sigh at the time it was displaying, noticing finally how late it actually is; 2:47 am. I unlock my phone and start a group chat imessage, selecting 4 other numbers from my contact list
Group; AllyCat, ManiBear, LernJergi, D-Mac.
You: What's this announcement, two of you are sharing to the world via youtube, that you failed to mention to me? :(((
Sent: 2:49am 13.06.18
Not expecting a reply just yet I lock my phone and return it to it's charger before fully climbing into bed. I didn't realise how tired I was until now.
It's only the second night Austin has been away, it's so weird sleeping without him by my side. It's physically difficult.
Lauren's POV
Ive been staring at my lapstop screen for hours, watching netflix episodes in between bursts of scrolling endlessly through Twitter and Tumblr, being anti-socially social through the internet, and sitting in my own personal zombified ball of sadness.
My longtime boyfriend of two years, or as I like to call him Mr. Fuckboy Malik recently broke up with me, to reconnect with his ex-fiancée Perrie fucking Edwards.
I catch myself almost falling asleep with my laptop still atop my thighs when I become startled by a familiar buzz under my left butt cheek. I reach under myself to pull my old and battered iPhone 7 out of my back pocket and notice I've been added to a group conversation.
Opening the chat, I see my bandmate and best friend Camila asking about some announcement on youtube.
Group; AllyBH, NormaniKH, DinahJH, KCamilaC.
KCamilaC: What's this announcement, two of you are sharing to the world via youtube, that you failed to mention to me? :(((
Sent: 2:49am 13.06.18
You: What announcement? I've heard nothing either.
Sent 2:51am 13.06.18
I suddenly have a headache.