"Thanks again for your awesome and quirky twitter questions! Ill see you next week! Bye!" Phil says cheerfully looking into the camera lens, the video had gone well and I didn't get as nervous as I thought, it seemed kind of natural to me, like I had been doing YouTube videos for years. After Phil had finished his sentence I waved to the camera and said a hearty goodbye and Phil presses the button on the top of the camera and the red light flashed off.
"That went really well, you were amazing, are you sure you haven't done this before?!" Phil asks wrapping his arms tightly around me; I smiled at his kind words. While still in Phil's embrace, footsteps creaked in from the doorway.
"Awww so cute!" Dan cheekily exclaimed, me and Phil disembarked from our hug and Phil turned away as did I because I had blushed from what Dan said, another reason why I love Dan, his ability to make things awkward in seconds.
"How did it go?" Dan said after realising he made it awkward, Phil suddenly gleamed a smile and stood up walking towards him.
"It was great, Alex was great! When are you doing your video, I have finished with the camera equipment" Phil asked leaning on the breakfast counter facing Dan while I stood up and followed to then stand beside him.
"Well I've been really busy all week, and since I haven't dont one in a while, I thought I would do a day in the life of Dan" Dan replied flailing his arms around when he said 'day in the life of Dan', me and Phil giggled.
"When are you going to start filming?" I ask with curiosity.
"Haha! Who said I haven't already?" Dan said then taking a camera from off the counter and turning on the button and once again the red light flickered on.
Phil does a little dance, like a salsa-on-the-spot dance while I just start pulling funny faces at the camera, cross-eyed, scrunching my face up, sticking my tongue out, and just making other silly faces.
"Look what I have to put up with" Dan says laughing and we join in before he zooms into our faces. He then presses the on/off button off and puts it down on the kitchen counter.
"Carrie should be over in a few minutes right?" Dan says, I had completely forgotten, I quickly rushed out of the room and into Phil's bathroom shouting to Phil asking for permission. After getting his consent I went in and quickly brushed my teeth and brushed through my knotty hair and washed my face
I walked out of the bathroom and shuffled past Phil as he goes for his turn in there. I looked in the long mirror, I couldn't look any worse then I already did, red cheeks, grey under my eyes, spots in various places, great.
I frown at my reflection, why can't I look like someone like Jennifer Lawrence, she is beautiful and she's lucky to look how she does, im just me, im short, I haven't got a flat stomach, my arms are horrible, my- I feel some firm hands on my shoulders which stop my trail of thoughts, I look to see Phil behind me smiling.
"Aw, you look so cute in my clothes" Phil said quietly, I said my thanks with a fake smile because hes probably saying that so be nice, why would Phil say that about me?
We stand there for a minute or so before a few taps on the door brings us back to our senses, Phil walks out of the room towards the door and I follow, me and Dan go into the living room while Phil opens the door.
"Hey guys!" Carrie says walking in giving Phil a hug and walking into the living room giving Dan a hug before turning to me.
"You must be Alex! You are as beautiful as Phil described you" She says turning to Phil who is looking down smiling, this makes me smile, Carrie gives me a warm hug and-
*BANG, CLUNK* out greetings were interrupted my Dan in the doorway leading out of the apartment with 3 massive bin bags filled to the brim.
"Help?" Dan says out of breath with a giggle, when hearing this Phil hurries to his rescue and takes two of the bags.
"Oh, these are for you, there is some other things in there that I dont want, but it might be useful for you, but mostly clothes! Im really sorry about your situation, luckily you have these two to help you out" She says turning to them shuffling the bags along...well Phil shuffling three bags and a Dan.
"I want to help you as much as I can!" Carrie says with a kind smile.
"Thank you so much! I feel bad; you seriously didn't have to bring this much me..." I say out of shock, I feel so grateful to have such awesome people around me; Carrie lays a friendly hand on my shoulder and protests that it was no problem and that if I need help, I can give her a ring, and we exchanged numbers. We then helped Phil and Dan carry in the bags and while Dan and Phil were in the kitchen making a mess of making tea, we sat on the sofa and went through the bags, she has such beautiful clothes, floral shirts, knitted jumpers, an odd pair of sneakers, colourful skirts, all so wonderful but one piece stood out to me, a v line navy dress with a flowing skirt thats about knee length.
"Carrie, this is so beautiful, are you sure you want to give it away, dont feel that you need to!" I exclaimed, the last thing I want her to think is that she has to give away loved bits of clothing to seem kind.
"Oh that! Of course not, I've never worn it and probably never will, I got it as present ages ago, you have it! Im glad you like it, you might want to wear it soon" Carrie says although whispering at the phrase 'you might want to wear it soon' along with a cheeky wink, although I haven't got a CLUE what she's on about, I say thank you without questioning the weird gesture...hmmm..
5 hours go by although it only seems like one, we had such a good time, playing twister, watching movies and playing Mario kart, I dont know why I was so worried about meeting Carrie, she's like the opposite version of me, apart from she's beautiful and I look like a potato.
After a final game of Mario kart as the clock struck 5:00pm, we all stood up to give Carrie warm goodbyes since she had to get the train home.
When it came to my turn to give my goodbyes to her, we shared a tight hug but just before we separated she whispered in my ear
"This goes great with the dress" and slips a necklace into my bottoms pocket, and she once again winks...
We wave Carrie off while Dan takes her to the train station as he has to go to a supermarket just past it to get more milk while me and Phil tidy up the empty packets of haribos and the Wii remote controllers, oh and the laid out twister mat.
"Do you like her?" Phil suddenly says out of nowhere.
"She's great! I think we're going to meet up for a coffee someday next week."
"Good!" Phil says in a jolly tone and goes into the kitchen and puts the empty wrappers in the black bin in the corner.
"Hey Alex" Phil hesitated. I walked other slowly, my eyes on Phil the whole time.
"Yes?" I whispered, worried about what he was about to confront me about.
"Um..." Phil said nervously.
"Phil, you know you can talk to me about anything...right?" I'm really starting to worry.
"No, im not upset I just, look, I really like you, I know you probably dont like me to, nobody seems to, but I guess it's better I try then not at all right? Anyway, I was wondering if tomorrow you want to go to...um...dinner, I mean you dont have to if you dont want to" Phils words ring through my ears and my heart pounds faster and harder. Phil looks up from the metal kettle and looks me in the eyes with his beautiful glistening ones. A huge smile stretches across my face, who would have thought it, and when he said that nobody seems to like him, are they mad, who wouldn't, hes perfect. Instead of an instant reply I take him by surprise and wrap my arms around his neck and his arms wind around my waist and he pulls me close. I nestle my head in the crock of his neck and mumble barely audible 'yes', although by the beautiful silence and the sudden tighter hug, im sure he heard.
Things are finally going right.