Arya kept her head down as Dan pulled her towards the ever increasing crowd of people. Dan was aware of a few people taking pictures of them. No doubt they'd be all over the internet late on, especially tumblr, with speculations and comments like 'Dan has a new girlfriend!' He stopped abruptly, turned around to face Arya and lifted her chin up with his free hand, so she had to look him in the eyes. "Just go and have some fun okay? Don't worry what people think of you, chances are, you'll never see them again." He reassured her. He felt very protective of her for some reason, like she was a mystery waiting to unravelled, and he had to be the person to unravel her. Arya nodded, but didn't move from where she was. "And, um... how about you stick around afterwards and you can come some place with me and the guys." Dan asked softly. He was really fascinated by Arya, and he wanted to get to know her better, but he thought asking her to go somewhere with him alone might be weird.

Arya didn't know what to say to that. She was only expecting to spend a few minutes with each of her favourite YouTubers, not go somewhere with them afterwards! She nodded dumbly as she tried to find her words. "Yeah... great... I'd love to!" She managed to say at last.

Dan grinned. "I'll see you later then!" He said as he walked off to greet people who had started gathering at a slight distance.

Arya stood there for a minute watching Dan interact with his fans until one guy walked up to her. "Hey, isn't your name Arya?" He asked her. Arya nodded. "And you make videos on YouTube right?" Again, she nodded. The guy turned around and called "Hey guys! I've found her!" A group of about 10-15 people came running up to her. She was somewhat overwhelmed, being the first gathering she'd ever been to, and she came to meet YouTube, not to be bombarded with a group of fans! "You have no idea how long we've been waiting to meet you! Not to sound creepy or anything." He said as his friends were running over. "My name's Tom, by the way."

Arya smiled. "Nice to meet you-" she started, but was interrupted when one of the group yelled.

"We LOVE your videos!" Soon enough they were asking her questions and wanting her to sign their books and iPads. Arya had no idea what to do. She only ever spent time with people at work and with the people she shared her apartment with, and she rarely had a proper conversation with any of them.

"Hey, hey, HEY! Guys, why don't you calm down a bit? Can't you see she's a bit overwhelmed right now?" Tom interjected, winking at Arya while he did so.

Arya blushed and averted her gaze. She caught Dan looking at her with a confused expression, so she sent him a small wave. He smiled and turned back to his demanding fans. Arya spent the majority of the following hour signing things, chatting with the group of people surrounding her and having awkward pictured taken as more and more people came to see who she was. Arya hated having her picture taken.

Dan couldn't get Arya out of his head. The first time he glanced back, she was still looking at him with those magical eyes of hers. In a way, he was worried that she'd just stand there and not talk to anyone, but he had to turn back to the constantly expanding group of 'fans' that were demanding his attention. A few people, who had seen him walking back with Arya asked him if they were dating. Every time, he replied the same: "No, I only just met her. She was on her own, so I was being nice to her."

About 5 minutes later, a small girl with a sweet, innocent pixie face stepped in front of him. She resembled someone he used to know. "Hey, I saw you walking back with that girl, you know, the one surrounded by all those people-" she pointed behind Dan. He turned to look where the girl was pointing and saw Arya surrounded by a group of at least 15 people, looking completely out of her depth... He was very confused. Arya noticed him and threw him a small wave with a shy smile. She looked so adorable. He just managed to catch the end of the girl's sentence "-so are you two dating or something?" She asked.

Before he could stop himself, he said "maybe something" with a small smile. It could've been his eyes deceiving him, but the little pixie girl looked infuriated for literally a millisecond, before she covered it up with the sweet innocent look she had before. He signed her iPad and took a picture with her before the next person butted in and Dan could see that the girl was enraged at being shoved out of the way. Somebody's got anger issues.

Arya had been standing and talking to people, or her 'amigos' as she called them in her videos (she used to be obsessed with Dora the Explorer), for at least an hour before she excused herself. She was here to talk to other YouTubers after all, and the daylight was fading fast, so she wouldn't have much time. She hadn't expected so many of her subscribers to live in London and come to a gathering to see her. How did they even know I was going to be here? I only posted it on twitter yesterday and I only have like 30 followers, and most of them are the people I work with.

"I'll see you at the next gathering then, whenever that is, okay? Or we might even bump into each other before then!" She called to some of the 30 or so people as she walked away. Arya was a lot more relaxed than she had been earlier on and happily turned around, and nearly bumped into a small, pixie-like girl who had planted herself right in Arya's path. "Oh, sorry, I didn't see you there." Arya said with a kind smile, and tried to walk around the girl, but she purposely moved back into Arya's path. "I'm sorry, is there something you want?" Arya asked, still with a smile on her face. She was having a good day, and it was going to take a lot more than a small girl intent on blocking her path to bring her down.

The girl scowled, contorting her delicate little face into a grotesque grimace. "Yeah actually." Her voice was so squeaky and high pitched, it made Arya wince. "Keep away from Dan, alright? He's mine, I'M the future Mrs Howell, got that? Me, Chrissy, not you, ME." Arya tried hard not to laugh. Some of Dan's fans really were crazy. Anyway, she'd never have a chance with Dan, she couldn't have been any older than 15. As if reading her mind, the girl burst into a fit of rage. "I'm not a stupid little teenager you know! I'm 20!" Whoa... I was not expecting that... Arya though, but before she could say anything, the girl, sorry, woman, grabbed Arya's arm and bit her bare hand, before stalking off.

Initially, Arya just stood there in a state of shock with her mouth hanging open, but then the pain set in. She looked down at her hand to see blood dripping off her little finger. That Chrissy girl had bitten right through the flesh of her hand and left a bloody tooth-shaped wound. Arya reached into her bag with her other hand and rummaged around for her first aid kit. After about 10 second of sifting through her drawings, she found it (but not before a few drops of blood from her hand had managed to fall onto some of the drawings). The kit was filled with bandages, antiseptics and numbing creams, and Arya was used to bandaging up wounds, so she made short work of making it seem like she hadn't been bitten at all.

Most of the people were in random groups now, as many of them had got over the excitement and had seen all of the YouTubers they wanted to and were now talking between themselves. Arya made a quick idea of who she wanted to go to first. She eventually decided to head over to Carrie, then Benjamin Cook (who'd recently started a web series called 'Becoming YouTube'), then Dean Dobbs and after that, anyone who she fancied talking to. She wasn't particularly bothered about talking to PJ, Chris or Phil because she assumed that's who Dan meant by 'the guys'. Hopefully she wouldn't run into that crazy pixie girl again... or any other Mrs Howell wannabe's for that matter.

A/N: Thanks for reading this so far ^_^ I hope you've been enjoying it. Let me know what you think.

Quick question, since Dan and Arya are obviously going to be in a relationship at some point, would you prefer that:

1. they're obviously attracted to each other

2. they're attracted to each other, but they're too afraid to put it out there or they don't think the other person likes them

3. there's some competition