Just a heads up, this chapter went on a little longer than I expected, so the twister isn't going to be in this chapter (sorry!). It will DEFINITELY be in the next chapter though, I promise!
Chris was the first to break the silence. "Hey, guys," he started, directing the conversation towards Dan and Phil. "You know Ari's studying Actuarial Science. I mean, she's athletic, she can draw, and she's brainy, plus she's drop dead gorgeous." He winked at Arya.
Arya cringed in embarrassment. "Shut up." She gave Chris' leg a whack.
"What? I'm just telling it how it is. I think we've got ourselves the perfect girl here... I call dibs!" He laughed.
"Different topic please!" Arya begged, throwing her arms up in the air.
"Okay, umm... I had an idea for a video planned." PJ started.
"Yeah, so did I..." Dan added.
They both looked at Arya apologetically. She knew what they meant. They'd planned Fantastic Foursome videos, and Fantastic Foursome meant no Arya. Arya didn't mind whatsoever. She'd spent so much time around people today, she needed some alone time.
"Go ahead, make your videos. Don't let me get in the way." She stood up.
"No, don't go!" Dan blurted out. Somehow though, as soon as he said it, he knew that it was irrelevant. He had a feeling that Arya wasn't planning on going in the first place, not yet anyway.
"I wasn't planning on leaving." She said, half smiling. Dan blushed, but she carried on, seeming oblivious to his embarrassment. "I was planning on doing something by myself anyway. Do you mind if I use one of your bedrooms?" She asked. Chris raised his eyebrows. "Oi, not like that, you pervert!" She grinned, whacking Chris again.
That made Dan smile. He doubted Chris had ever been hit so many times in one day before. "Let me show you where it is." He stood up and lead Arya up the stairs to his bedroom. "This is it." He said, swinging the door open for her, kind of like when he opened the door to the apartment. This time however, Arya seemed a lot more comfortable, walking in and dropping her bag at the foot of the bed. She sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him leaning on the doorframe, her shimmering red hair tumbling over her shoulders. He liked the look of her sitting on his bed like that... maybe with less clothes though... DAN! Stop thinking like that! You haven't even known her a day! And she doesn't even like you in that way! He mentally chastised himself for allowing his mind to wander that far. He'd have to control himself in the future.
Dan realised he'd been standing there for a while, and when he looked back at Arya she was sifting through her bag. He hoped she hadn't seen him and thought of what he might have been thinking.
Arya looked up at him, tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear and grinned. Dan noticed a streak of blue hidden in the masses of her hair. "Thanks, by the way."
"No problem. If you need anything, don't be afraid to call me, or run in and ask. What ever you want to do. We'll all be in the living room if you do need anything." Dan grabbed his tripod and camera and walked back down the hallway, back to the rest of the guys, closing the door behind him. They had a few of things planned that might take them a couple of hours.
Arya only really realised where she was when Dan had closed the door. She was in DAN'S FREAKING BEDROOM! She calmed herself down before she started freaking out, and carried on sifting through her bag. Honestly, it was like she had a whole new universe in her bag, she felt like she'd placed an extension charm on it or something. Eventually, she managed to find what she was looking for... her camera. She set it on the bed and pulled out her laptop from it as well.
She switched on her laptop and started typing a script. She thought that while she was here, she might as well make a video. She spent the next 20 minutes typing out her script. It wasn't particularly interesting, she'd normally take a lot longer typing her script, but it was a question and answer video, so it didn't need a lot of work.
After looking around the room a bit, she found the spot that Dan usually used for filming his videos. He'd taken his tripod and camera into the living room with him, so she set her camera as close to that spot as she could and started filming. She was quite proud of the fact that she had a proper camera like all of the professional Youtubers. It had taken her ages to save up for it.
"Hello there my lovely amigos! How are we all feeling today? I know I'm ecstatic! For 2 main reasons. The first one, which was earlier today... The festive gathering! I went to my first gathering today to meet some of MY favourite YouTubers, and instead I had about 20 of you run up to me saying that you watched my videos! So I would like to thank, -let's see if I can remember your names -" She listed a bunch of names, starting with Tom. "-for making my time at the festive gathering very enjoyable and a lot warmer, thank you."
Arya paused and took a sip of the hot chocolate, which, surprisingly, she still had some left of. "Now, for the next really important thing that's making me feel ecstatic right now. Some of you, might have noticed that my background is looking pretty familiar to some other YouTuber's. I'll give you a second to figure it out." She paused. "Yeah, you're most probably freaking out right now aren't you? I'm in DAN'S BEDROOM!" She made a shocked "O" face and started having a silent, theatrical freaking out session. She quietened her voice for the next part, she realised she's gradually been getting louder. She hoped the guys hadn't been able to hear it from the living room. "No, I didn't break in through the window, actually -" She stopped as the door was flung open. It was Dan. A very breathless Dan.
"I heard shouting, are you-" He stopped himself as he saw Arya sat in front of the camera, looking sincerely apologetic.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be so loud. I didn't ruin anything did I?" Arya relaxed a little when Dan smiled.
"It's fine, we were just going over some stuff. Why don't you come and film with us later? We can all do something together then."
"Great!" Arya replied, beaming. "Just, something before you go, if it isn't too much to ask..." Dan didn't even let her finish her sentence before he agreed. Arya mentally laughed evilly, she could potentially make Dan do anything now... But no, she shoved that thought aside. "I just need to to verify something for my err... camera..." She said, looking between the camera and Dan.
Dan laughed lightly, she looked so awkward having someone see her talk to a camera. "Yeah, sure... no problem. What do you want me to do?"
"This is going to be a bit weird." Arya warned him. She grabbed his sleeve and yanked him onto the seat. "See! I wasn't lying, he's here!" She started creepily stroking his face and his shoulder. "And he's all mine!" Arya said manically and wrapped her arms around him, pulling him closer to her. "My precious." She said in a voice that sounded uncannily like Gollum's.
The next thing Dan knew, Arya was licking his neck. He spasmed and fell on the floor, clutching his neck. "JESUS CHRIST ARYA! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!" He shrieked, while Arya was convulsing in silent laughter. He had to admit though, in a weird way, he kind of liked it.
"I am so sorry!" She managed to say at last, still laughing. "They made me promise!"
"What, they made you promise to lick my neck?!"
"Yeah, they said if I didn't they would kill their pets, and I don't want to be responsible for any animals' deaths. You're not the only one with crazy subscribers you know." Arya had managed to calm herself down by the end of the sentence.
She walked over to him and offered her hand to help him up. Instead he yanked her onto the floor with him and started tickling her. Arya, being extremely ticklish, screamed and tried to roll away from him but he pulled her back laughing and carried on tickling her. "No! Stop it! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Please stop!" She yelled whilst trying to wriggle away from him.
Thankfully he stopped and they both just lay on the floor breathing heavily. Arya didn't think she'd have been able to take much more tickling. She could feel the pain coming from just underneath her ribs.
At that moment, Phil burst through the door, closely followed by Chris and PJ. "We heard screaming, are you okay?"
"Yeah." Arya replied breathlessly from the floor, warranting an odd look from Chris.
"What happened?" Phil asked slowly, unsure of whether he wanted to hear the answer.
"I licked Dan's neck-" Arya started, giggling.
"-and I got my revenge." Dan finished, laughing lightly.
"Why on Earth-" Chris started, but then decided against it. "You know, I don't even want to know." He said, and just walked out of the room.
Phil and PJ just shrugged and went to help Dan and Arya off the floor. They brushed themselves off and they were just about to leave when Arya had an idea.
"Umm... Dan, I was just thinking... I was going to do a Q&A video, but I though, maybe I could it with you four." She said hopefully.
"Of course." Dan smiled. "Do you want to come and watch us film our videos?" He suggested.
"Yeah, sure. I'll just put my stuff away and then I'll come in. Oh, and er-" She added before Dan left. "Where's the bathroom?"
"Just there." He replied, pointing to his right. "I'll see you in a minute."
Arya slumped in the chair for a minute after Dan had gone before putting her things in her bag and headed to the bathroom.
Arya lifted up her top and ripped off the bandage from her side, revelaing a 3 inch long wound surrounded by a giant purple-black bruise that spread up her ribs. The bruises on her face may have gone, but she had even worse problems that she never let on about. Working for her alcoholic father, she often ended up in hospital when he went on one of his rampages. She usually received her injuries when she was protecting Katie. Nobody would ever lay a finger on Katie as long as she could help it. Katie had been born when Arya was 7 years old and Arya had pretty much brought her up, making sure that Katie was okay and had often been referred to as 'mummy'.
This particular wound she'd received a almost week ago from landing on a broken vodka bottle when her father had thrown her down the stairs, yelling at her never to come back. Obviously she'd have to come back to work, but her father would've been so drunk the night before that he would have no memory of what he'd done to her and he'd most probably yell at her for being late.
So, for the second time that month (even though it had only just reached the second week of the month) Arya hauled herself to the hospital to have it stitched up. The staff at the hospital had given up asking how she received her injury since she'd been in so many times before and had either not told them or had made something up (even though they didn't know she was lying since they were pretty good lies).
Arya pulled the first aid kit out of her bag for the second time that day and cleaned and re-bandaged her side, and then did the same for her hand. It was a long process, but she eventually managed to finish.
A/N: Hey :) This time I made sure I didn't call Arya 'Violet'... Yay me!
So if you've been reading my amazinphil fanfic you may realise quite a few similarities between the two (such as the back story, the sister, the red hair), but I thought them both up at pretty much the same time, so sorry if it gets a bit confusing or if it seems a bit too similar but that's just cus it is.
Anyhows, let me know what you think :) (and I'm sorry again for the no twister)
Thanks for reading and I love you all mucho ^_^