~laurenluciacicigoi
I sat on my bed paitiently waiting for Marlene King's big announcement. I had been sitting in the same awkward position for atleast an hour and I hadn't even noticed my back ache. 'This announcement will be life changing!' the tweet had said. I felt the excitement swirling in my stomach again. I didn't know if I would be able to contain myself for much longer. Then it happened...
'(1) Twitter' appeared on my tab and almost instantly I refreshed the page. There the tweet appeared in all its glory. I had to read it through continuously before my brain could even function properly. 'WIN A TRIP TO THE PLL SET FOR A WEEK WITH THIS COMPETITION' Marlene, the writer producer for my favourite hit tv show Pretty Little Liars, had tweeted. My excitement burst out of me like a cannon ball and I felt my cheeks growing hotter and hotter by the second. ''I HAVE TO WIN THIS'' I screamed to myself.
Clicking away furiously at the link to the competition, I grew anxious and my chest tightened. Thoughts I never even considered started to swirl in my head and I was beginning to feel guidy. 'Could I, a teenage nobody from Wales, really win a trip to the Pretty Little Liars set and meet my idols?' I thought out loud, just as the competition page loaded before me. Before I could even contemplate what was happening at that moment, I was typing away furiously. I entered my personal information into the boxes provided -things like my name, address, telephone number and Twitter name- and then moved on to the bigger questions.
By the time I had finished filling in the competition form and being an emotional wreck it was 11pm and my mother was telling me to go to bed. I checked my Twitter to see the fans reactions to Marlene King's news and doubt started to fill my body. Pretty Little Liars was a huge success with millions of fans all over the world, how could I seriously think that I stood a chance? With that thought in mind I closed down my laptop and sank into my bed. It took me a while to fall asleep that night, but when I did I dreamed sweet dreams of the future I hoped to have.