I hadn't gotten a job since I had come back from London, I felt as if I got a job here then it would restrict me when I could go and see Phil but not having the money was the largest barrier. The little money I had from my job went to helping Gran with the bills and grocery shopping and last year, I foolishly bought myself a laptop to help me with my YouTube videos but now I would have to sell all my possessions just for a simply train ticket. I knew that Gran wanted to buy me a ticket to go to London, but we both knew that she couldn't afford too and I had even caught her working extra hours, making herself completely exhausted to earn a few extra pounds.
It had been three weeks since I'd last seen Phil, or that's 21 days, 504 hours, 30,000 minutes and 1,814,399 seconds of torture. We talked every day, I was always texting, calling, Skyping him or of course watching his videos. I'd made a few more videos myself, but I had barely any inspiration recently, even though I had entire days to edit and film. I had just gotten after a walk around the shops, bored out of my mind from waiting for Phil to text me back and when I saw an envelope on the floor waiting for me. I rarely ever got letters, so my first though was that it's just junk mail, but the address was handwritten by somebody. By Phil.
I rip open the top and pull out a rectangular piece of card, it was too big to be a train ticket. It took me a few seconds to read and understand the writing on the card and I am filled with excitement and adrenaline as soon as it sinks in. I am holding a plane ticket to Los Angeles in my hand and it's for a week's time.
I pull out my phone from my pocket and dial his number straight away, he picks up quickly, as if he was waiting for the call. "Oh my God! I can't believe this! Is this real? Is this really happening? Oh my God!" I rush out, not letting Phil get a word in, "I guess that you got the tickets then?" He laughs from the other side of the phone. "Yes, Oh my God! This is unbelievable! I can't believe you did this!" I can hear him laughing away and I can picture his smile in my head.
"It's for Vidcon. I was booking the flights with Dan the other day and I felt really down because I would be even further away from you and it would be even longer till I next see you. So Dan suggested that you come along too, that way it could be like a holiday for us. I booked the hotel for us for the event, but when it's finished we can stay longer together. What do you think?" "I think that I am the luckiest person alive right now and I cannot wait to see you again and go to America with you!"
Phil tells me more details, where to meet him and Dan at the airport and which trains and tubes to get too, but I am completely blown away, up high on cloud nine and I never wanted to come back down to Earth.