Authors note: This story does not start out from the point of view of Dan or Phil. That will happen like chapter three ish. Please bear with me.
Chapter One
My phone buzzed. I have to say, that is possibly the worst way to wake up from sleep. With your phone buzzing on your bedside table, having a seizure, and singing "I Will Always Love You" in a Darth Vader voice. Like I said, very appealing. I groaned and rolled over to grab it.
"CLAIRA!" Someone yelled from the other end of the phone call. I pulled the phone away from my ear the fastest I could possibly move in that moment. I gently put the phone back to my ear, waiting to see if the yelling would resume.
"Claira!" This time the person didn't yell, although their voice was way too perky for this early in the morning. I looked at the clock. Eight a.m. Yep, way too early.
"Hallo?" My voice came out a little scratchy.
"Claira! Yay! I'm sorry I was yelling, but this is just so exciting!" The voice took form and I recognized who was talking.
"Lucy?" I asked, just to make sure.
"Yes! Did I just wake you up?"
"Yes. Why are you calling at this ungodly hour?"
"Okay, okay, calm down, calm down." Lucy did that sometimes, tried to calm herself before she said something she found super exciting. "Okay. So, I was like, browsing on some vidcon websites and I found this thing that was like, offering free trips to vidcon for some reason. So I thought I would give it a shot, and I signed up. Turns out that I won! So I get to go to vidcon with four of my friends! For free! Isn't that exciting?!" She got steadily more excited as she talked.
"Okay, Lucy, slow down. What's vidcon?"
"You don't know what vidcon is?! Impossible!"
"Very possible. What is it?"
"Seriously?" I went silent. "Okay, well it's where all these youtubers talk on panels and everyone can talk to them and ask questions and-" I cut her off.
"What are youtubers?"
"Seriously Claira?! Have you been living under a rock?!"
"Okay hang on. Just give me a sec." I pulled the phone away from my ear and rolled out of my bed. I shivered when my feet hit the cold wood floor. I walked out of my room and headed down the hallway for the living room. Once I got there I saw a girl being swung around by a guy. They were moving too fast for me to really make out anything, but the music that was playing was classical type stuff, so they had to be doing ballet.
"Gemma!" I yelled over the music. Gemma was my roommate and best friend. She was just slightly shorter than me, had reddy brown hair, kinda the colour of rust, tanned skin and grey eyes. She was also a dancer, who woke up at 6:30 in the morning, every morning, to practice. Today she just happened to have a partner. Whoever she was dancing with swung her up into the air so I could see her toes brush the ceiling. I walked over and paused the music. "Gemma!" I called again. The dancing in the room stopped.
"Claira?" Gemma looked at me, kinda stunned. "Why are you up this early?" I rolled my eyes at her and held out the phone.
"Lucy is talking techy stuff. You might understand." Gemma nodded at my words and took the phone.
"Hello?" Gemma said hesitantly. There was some loud noise and Gemma lurched the phone away from her head. She shook her head and slowly pulled the phone closer. I guess I wasn't the only one with that reaction to Lucy. Gemma took a few steps away and started talking rapidly.
For the first time, my attention focused on the guy Gemma had been dancing with. He was taller than me and shirtless. Enough said. I suddenly felt self conscience in my plaid pajama shorts and tank top.
"Hiya" I said, kinda like a "I have no clue what to say, and this is the first shitty thing that came to my mind" statement.
"Hiya!" he said back, with exaggerated energy.
"You are?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Nick!" He keeps saying things with wayyy to much energy.
"Okay." I was kinda getting fed up with his over excitement and was about to leave the room when Gemma squealed from the corner. I stared at her until she hung up.
"What's going on?"
"Okay so here's the deal," Gemma took a breath before she continued, so that she could walk over to us. Before she started she jumped up on the counter that I was leaning against, swinging her legs over the edge. "Lucy essentially won five tickets to vidcon, including the one for her. She gets to take four friends and herself on an all expense paid trip to wherever vidcon is being held. I think she said it was in San Francisco. Anyway, I know you aren't much into vidcon or youtube or anything, but hey it's an all expense paid trip to San Francisco for four days. We have to share a room. The only one who gets her own room is Lucy, because she signed us up and everything. She's bringing Terra and Jane too."
"Okay. This is a big deal because?"
"She gets to meet all of her favourite people in the world, and we leave in two days."
"TWO DAYS!?" I shouted. I had some panic attack problems, so this was a little stressful.
"It's okay Claire. She gave the names of the people she is bringing and they sorted it out. We both got off work, you don't have to worry about anything other than what you are going to pack. Everything is sorted." She smiled at me and hopped off the counter. "We're going to San Francisco." Her smile grew to a grin and she threw her arms around me. I couldn't help grinning back.
Once we parted from our hug, Nick still stood there awkwardly. Gemma glanced at me and then at him. "Nick, I am going to have to ask you to leave. We have a whole shit-load of stuff to do." Nick nodded grabbed his shirt and lumbered toward the door. It slammed behind him.
"He was a bit of a ditz." I stated.
"I think a bit is an understatement." Gemma poked me in the shoulder. We burst out laughing.
We spent the day looking up weather conditions and what kind of stuff they had at the hotel, so they could pack appropriately. We spent the day after that finishing packing and double checking we had everything. And triple checking, and quadruple checking, until the time where we had to leave.
"Teresa!" Gemma screamed once we reached the airport. She was standing a little ways ahead of us and spun around when her name was called.
"Hey!" She called running over to us.
"Hey Terra, do you know where Jane and Lucy are?" I asked her. Terra was her nickname. She had blonde hair, with murky brown eyes. She was insanely smart, and from what I understood, a huge fangirl about youtube. She was like 5'5to mine and Gema's 5'7 and insanely smart. She was basically awesome.
"No I haven't." She turned and pulled her glasses out of her carry-on. "These might help though." She put on her black frames and blinked a couple of times. We laughed and looked around.
"Do you have any idea where we are supposed to go? I knew we were supposed to meet here, but..." I trailed off as two people came running towards us.
"HEY HEY HEY!" Lucy yelled, her brown hair swishing in its ponytail. Her blue eyes looked a little crazy and we all took a step back. The other girl caught up to Lucy and panted for breath. She had black hair, was about a foot shorter than me and had green eyes.
"Sorry we're late." The black haired girl said.
"It's cool Jane. Where are we supposed to go?" Terra asked.
"Follow me!" Lucy called and started to run.
"LUCY" We called. "SLOW DOWN" we said it in almost perfect synchronization and it was perfect. Everyone stopped for a second before I called out "Jinx!" And jogged after Lucy.
We met in a lounge before the flight, which had some pretty comfortable couches and okay wifi. Then it was time to board the plane.
Once everything was settled, I was sitting next to Jane in the first class seats (which were really stinking cool). We talked for a while I got to learn a bit more about her. She was kind of new to our group of friends. We had just stumbled into a bookstore she had happened to be working in about three months ago, and she had been our friend ever since.
She was studying marine biology, worked every chance she could to pay for it, and her favourite kind of cookie was peanut butter. What more did you need to know in a person? After a while, I couldn't help but be lulled to sleep by the sway of the plane.