Chapter 2
(danisnotonfire voice)
(it's not the name of the chapter, it's how you should read the title)
Claire woke up the next day in the late-morning. Unlike her friends, she always liked to sleep in.
She went to the kitchen and found a note from Charlie and Liz on the counter.
"We went to find some kind of market around here.
Because we have NOTHING to eat.
Will be back soon.
C & L"
Ok, that's good, Claire thought to herself. She was never a morning person, and all she could think of at the moment was breakfast. "Food, food, food, food, food…" she muttered to herself as she walked to the fridge- which was empty.
"Oh, great." Said Claire sadly. "Guess I'll have to live on…" she looked around for something edible. "M&Ms for now."
Liz and Charlie woke up early in the morning, and decided to go out and find a market place- what was quite easy to do, as their flat was in the south-center of London. After a walk of few minutes they found a big local market place and went inside.
The girls split the work- Liz brought vegetables and Charlie the cheeses and sweets, and both of them brought whatever cool stuff they found on the way.
"So, what's left?" asked Liz.
"Umm…" Charlie looked at their list. "Find… some bread."
"'Kay."
Liz went on to find the bread. She looked at the spreads section, the cereal section, and of course the bakery, but she couldn't find the good old bread she knew back home.
She went back to Charlie near the refrigerators. "Couldn't find bread." She sighed. "Brought some Oreo's though."
"Really?" asked Charlie, unbelievingly. "Are you sure you looked?"
"Yeah! Of course I did!" Liz protested.
"OK, well… let's ask someone." Suggested Charlie.
Liz turned to find someone nearby. She walked towards a tall dark-haired guy who looked over frozen pizzas, standing with his back to her.
"Umm hi, excuse me… where is the bread?"
He turned to her. "Oh well, it's right there, near the sodas," he pointed. "… Are you OK?"
Liz froze. "Yeah, umm… it's just… you're-you're Phil, aren't you? I mean, of course you are! But… you're Phil! Amazingphil!"
"Yes, yes I am." He smiled shyly.
Charlie noticed Phil and joined the conversation. "Oh my god, you're Phil!"
"Well, thanks Phil, bye!" Liz said and quickly and dragged Charlie with her, leaving Phil with the pizzas.
"Why didn't you just tell him we watch him, or that he's awesome or something?" wondered Charlie.
"I don't know, I panicked OK? It was embarrassing! Let's just get the freakin' bread and get out of here."
The girls took the bread and stood in the line. It took some time, but finally they paid, took their bags and left the store.
After leaving the market place, Phil realized he can't carry all of the bags by himself and called Dan to help him. Now they were walking down a secret alley they found just when they first moved to London.
"So, what were you doing before coming to help, actually?" Phil asked Dan.
"Well, you know… Things… Usual things… Human things… Yeah." Said Dan, avoiding the obvious answer- he did nothing.
"Oh by the way, Peej is coming over tonight." Dan added. "He said he'll bring pizza."
"I just bought pizza." Replied Phil.
"But he's bringing DOMINO'S pizza!"
"Huh. Ok." Phil agreed immediately.
The two kept chatting as they walked to their house- about the video Dan is planning on doing later, about life, about their video games' high scores, and about food. Mostly food.
They were close to the building's entrance when Phil noticed two girls crossing the main street towards them.
"Hey, Dan," Phil caught his attention. "I saw these girls at the market just now." He paused for a second. "I'm scared."
The girls stood a few meters away when they noticed. The shorter one talked first. "OMG! Phil!" she turned to her friend. "It's faith, I'm telling you." She turned back to the boys. "And Dan too! Yay!" she smiled from ear to ear.
"We haven't followed you, I promise." The taller girl apologized.
"That's fine, really." The boys replied, smiling a bit impatiently.
"No, really, we haven't followed you," She repeated. "We just li-" she looked at the bags, then back at the boys. "Wait. Is this where you live?"
"Um… Yes?" Dan said, craving for his laptop.
The shorter girl talked again. "That's so great! We just moved here."
The boys lightened up. "Oh, so you're the new people here. We heard something about that."
"Yep… We've got another friend, but she's probably still sleeping." The short one said, what put a sad look on Dan's face, probably because he wished he was sleeping now too.
There was a bit of an awkward silence until Phil talked. "Ok, well, this is getting heavy," He said looking at his bags. "So… I guess we'll see you later then."
The boys went up the stairs, creeped from the thought of the new fangirls living below them. Wonder what is worse, thought Dan, the guy having sex in the morning or three squeaking girls.
They could hear the girls going up the stairs a few seconds after them, opening the door and shouting "Ok Claire, you're not gonna believe it!..."
Dan and Phil were sitting in their living room talking to PJ, each of the three secretly glancing at the pizza box once in a while. Dan already told PJ about his new video (which- how surprising- involved pranking Phil and be half naked), and PJ told them about his new video, which involved him telling a weird story. At this point, the three were staring at the pizza.
"Oh, you know," opened Phil. "We have new neighbors downstairs. Three girls."
"Oh, that's nice. How are they?" asked PJ.
"They know us." Replied Dan a bit depressed his face blank. "Oh… Well, it'll be fine." PJ encouraged his friend.
"I know!" said Phil. "Why won't we go say hi? Properly this time. We should be nice. And we can bring them some pizza because they probably have no food." He finished. "Dan?"
"I'm hungry." Answered Dan. Phil ignored him. "Peej?"
"Yeah, sure, why not… I guess."
"Dan?" Phil tried again.
"Fine. I'm hungry, but fine." He consented. "and… I have an idea." He added. "PJ, you got your camera?"
"Umm, yeah."
"Good. So let's go say hi to our new neighbors!" Dan finished, a saucy smile on his face.
"Is Doctor Who on yet?" asked Claire from her room.
"I dunno. I'm watching X-Factor!" replied Charlie from the living room.
Claire got out of her room and stood in the doorway of Liz's. "What are you doing? Writing something new?" Claire asked her.
"Uh-huh." Was Liz's answer.
"Well I'm going to take a shower and after that we'll arrange a dinner, alright?"
"Uh-huh."
Claire snored and turned to the bathroom when the doorbell rang.
"Hey, people! I'll get it!" Claire turned to the door.
"People? People!" She heard her friends running towards her. Claire opened the door when her two friends standing behind her.
"Hello!"
There were about two seconds when the girls saw three familiar faces, holding cameras, and then there was a very bright flash and they saw nothing.
"Ouwww!" the girls screamed.
"Oopps, sorry," came a reply. "Didn't think it'll be so bright.
"It was his idea!" another voice said.
The girls were rubbing their eyes, but Claire was the first one to talk, her eyes still shut.
"Phil? Dan?" she hurried to open her eyes now. "PJ! Oh god!" then she realized what was happening. "Wait, did you just take a photo of us and you're filming us now?" she said embarrassingly.
"We just wanted to say a proper hello. Hello!" smirked Dan, still filming them. Liz froze, but Charlie talked.
"Oh no no no! I mean, we love you, but please don't do that!"
"Well, now you have your first proper London picture!" said PJ, the one who took the photo.
"And your first proper London video!" Said Dan excitedly. "It won't go anywhere, don't worry." He assured the girls.
"We brought you pizza, if you want?" said Phil, ignoring his obviously annoying friends. The pizza cheered the girls up immediately. "Ok yay! Come in!"
The six were sitting in the girls' living room now- which looked exactly like Dan and Phil's- ate pizza and tried to talk without being awkward (the boys) or without fangirling (the girls).
It was the first time the boys could look at the girls properly- one of them was medium-height and the other two were short- and taller and shortest were the ones from the market.
"We haven't done much yet," said the taller one. "But tomorrow we'll go site-seeing."
She had a dark-blonde hair, short and curly. Her eyes were bluish- gray, a bit similar to Phil's, and she wore feminine-yet-cool glasses. And her name was Liz.
"yeah, it'll be great," said the shortest one. "and it is so cool we live right below you!"
"It is, isn't it." Said Dan sarcastically, but no one noticed his tone.
This girl had light-brown hair, a bit darker than the other one's, but it was long and wavy. She had hazel eyes and she smiled and giggled a lot.
"Are you ok, umm…?" PJ asked the third girl.
"Claire." Suggested Charlie.
"Oh yeah, thanks, my eyes just still hurt a bit." Claire answered to PJ and blinked a few times. "And I'm just… thinking my thoughts, you know." She stared at Dan for a brief moment, but no one noticed. Then she smiled.
The third girl, Claire, was very short too. She had chocolate-coloured medium-length hair, dark brown eyes, and ever since the boys arrived she looked something between excited and nervous.
"Well, we better be off then," said Dan, took his two friends, their mouths half-full of pizza, and shove them out the door. "Have fun tomorrow and see ya!" he shouted. "Sometime." He added to himself.
"Ok erm bye!" the girls called behind them. "Thanks for the pizza!"
End Of Chapter 2
(Dan's voice, yeah?)