"...so we were at this party. You know, all drunk and giggly. And this guy came up to my friend Cat, and I thought he looked suspicious, but I ignored it cos I was drunk and didn't really care. So they danced and all that, then they kissed etcetera. And then... can you guess what happened?"

Dan raised an eyebrow as he sipped his coffee. "What happened?"

"She found out that the 'guy' she was kissing was actually a girl! Oh, God it was hilarious! Her face was priceless. You should've been there."

Dan almost spat out his coffee from laughing. "Seriously?!"

"Seriously," I nodded, "She looked horrified. Of course us lot burst out laughing, almost doubling over. Then she threw a strop and stormed out on us."

"So... Cat, do you live with her?"

"No, she lives in a flat nearby with her twin sister Lydia, who is also my friend and another girl. I live with my best friend Rose. She's so unsociable, though I can't talk. I spend my entire day on the games console. It's my job... kind of. I get to try out loads of new games then pick out the bugs and stuff then write a report about it. It's such a fun job, apart from the report bit. All Rose does is sit on the internet all day, either on Tumblr or YouTube."

"You lucky thing," Dan scoffed, placing the empty mug on the table and popping a marshmallow into his mouth. "Mind you, my life mostly consists of Tumblr or YouTube too... but mainly YouTube."

"So what do you do?" I asked, interested to find out more about him. He seemed like my kind of guy; a good sense of humour, incredibly sarcastic and spends all day indoors. Mostly.

"Well it's quite difficult to explain," he admitted sheepishly, and I could almost hear his brain cogs turning to try and think of a way of phrasing it. "You won't laugh, will you?"

I shook my head. "Of course not! Unless you're a stripper or prostitute that is... then I might. Which you better not be by the way."

"No, no, I'm neither of those," Dan laughed, "I'm a YouTuber. I make YouTube videos on the internet. Like video blogs, though people call them vlogs."

I bit my lip. "That's so cool! So how many people watch your videos? What are they about?"

"Quite a few actually. I have almost nine hundred thousand subscribers. About seventy percent of them are teenage girls... don't be put off or anything. And creepy twelve-year-olds."

My jaw dropped open. "Woah... nine hundred thousand?! That's amazing! So I'm guessing you have fans then. Are you famous or something?"

"I do have fans, and I guess 'YouTube famous' is a way to phrase it. Yeah."

"So your friend Phil, does he make YouTube videos too?"

"He does. Unfortunately with us making videos together, some slightly crazed fans decided that it would be cool to ship us together. They're insane... they write fanfictions about us, God it's crazy. But I do love my fans."

I burst out laughing, "Fanfictions about you? Oh my God... that's hilarious! Do you read them?"

"Some of them I do... but some are just weird, whereas others are actually really well written. Although I'd rather not talk about what they write about us..."

I actually had to put my hand over my mouth in order to stop myself laughing. "I'm surprised I've never heard of you. Rose rambles on about YouTube enough as it is. She's always yip-yapping about all these hot guys she's seen on there, I just keep telling her to shut up. Lydia's into this YouTube stuff too. Sometimes those two act like sisters the way they talk about it."

Dan realised I'd finished my coffee too and looked back up to me. "So... you want to come back to my flat? We can try and get in contact with your friends. Or something... unless you want to stay for a bit. But you don't have to. Although it might be better if you let them know you're safe first."

"Yeah. We can go back to yours, try and contact them. Maybe I could stay round for a bit. Got no parents around no more who can say no. Only if that's OK with you."

"Of course it is. You can meet Phil, too. He's nice... if sometimes a bit annoying."

"Yeah, that'll be awesome! I really want to meet Phil, he sounds like a nice guy. Come on then," I hopped down off of the stool and Dan followed, offering his hand to me which I gladly took. He smiled and escorted me outside, even opening the door for me. Going back with him might also help me to get to know London a bit better.

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As we walked through the streets rabbiting on about random nonsense, I could kind of sense some sort of familiarity about this part of London. I swear I'd been past here a few times. He said that there was only a few more minutes left now.

When we arrived at the building he said he lived in, I gasped. That was why this place seemed so familiar! It was the same frickin' building!

"Dan... this is the same building I live in," I pointed out, and he immediately stopped walking.

"What, seriously? We live in the same building?"

"We must do, cos this is where I live." An ear-to-ear grin spread across my face.

"That's fantastic, isn't it? I'd like to get to know you more, you seem like a nice girl," Dan smiled, as we started the long journey upstairs to our flats.

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"So not only do we live in the same building, we live on the same floor, only a few doors away from each other? Is this fate?" I exclaimed as I fished in my pocket for the keys to my flat. "So you live just down there... just a minute. Wait here, I just need to tell Rose I'm back safely."

"Yeah, sure," Dan nodded and took a step back as I walked inside. I heard shuffling from the living room as three heads poked around the corner, shocked expressions taking over their faces.

"TASH?!" they gasped in unison.

"Guys, I made it! I'm back in one piece, and thanks for leaving me by the way," the last part of my sentence was laced with sarcasm. Although in a way I was glad they left me, because otherwise I wouldn't have met Dan.

"I'm sorry, we were scared out of our wits when we realised you weren't with us. I'm so glad you're safe!" Rose beamed as the girls stepped out into the small corridor. "And your phone ran out, didn't it? We tried to call you but there was no answer. Text addict."

I swallowed guiltily. "Yeah... phones do that. The damn thing was out of battery. Maybe there'll be a day when phones all come with solar panels or something like calculators. Then you could just take them outside, and they'd never run out. Although you'd have to go outside more. Not really my thing, going outside..."

"You couldn't have got back alone. How did you get back?" Cat wondered, a hand on her hip. I blushed slightly, turning round and checking Dan was still outside, which he was. He was scrolling through his phone.

"DAN! Come here."

He looked up from his phone, slightly startled, and shyly walked inside.

"Girls, this is Dan, he helped me get back. Dan, these are my friends I told you about," I pointed to each one as I said their names. "Rose, Cat and Lydia."

When I looked back to them, they all just stood there like frozen statues, their mouths open in shock. Then they started screaming and jumping up and down.

"Um... what exactly are you doing?" I wondered, then it occurred to me. "Oh. Yeah... shit."

"IT'S DANISNOTONFIRE! OH MY GOD!" Rose squealed, running up to him and encasing him in her arms. Soon the other two joined her and he was trapped within the girls' arms.

"Woah, woah," he said, awkwardly hugging them back.

He just looked at me quizzically, and I shrugged. They really were nutcases.

Rose ran up to me and shook me by my shoulders. "You lucky bitch! You didn't get to kiss him, did you? Oh God, you're so damn lucky!"

"No, I've only just met him," I replied, then Rose started squealing again along with Cat and Lydia. "Girls! Calm down! Calm down and explain."

"You don't know how amazing this is Tash, I mean you actually got to meet him! What did you do? I bet you hid in a bush and snogged each others' faces off. If you did I'm so jealous," Lydia grinned, folding her arms and pouting.

"Shut up, we didn't do anything like that! We had a coffee together. That's all."

"What, he bought you a coffee? Oh my God, Tash! He asked you out!" Cat squealed elatedly, galloping around the hallway like an over-excited dog.

"Seriously, will you shut up! Just shush," I snapped, blushing and taking a deep breath. "If you're going to keep embarrassing us, then we're leaving. I don't think I can take it any more."

"Leaving? Where to?" Rose asked, her face bright red from all the screaming.

"His flat, it's just down the... oh, never mind. You stalkers."

"You're going to his flat!? Can I come?" Lydia exclaimed, eyes wide with excitement.

"No, you can't. Go away," I frowned, taking Dan's hand and making his head jolt up from looking at the ground. It was obvious he was trying to hide his embarrassment.

"Why not? Pleeease," they all begged.

"Not now."

"Can we at least get a picture?"

I looked to Dan. He shrugged.

"Fine, be quick."

They all grinned and took a group shot with Rose's iPhone. Cat squealed and pecked Dan's cheek, causing his eyes to widen in shock. She leant up and whispered in his ear,

"If you get bored of her, I'm right here."

He frowned as the group disappeared back into the living room, then turned to me.

"I'm sorry about them. They tend to obsess over people. And as for Cat... she's the worst. Once she likes someone she's determined to get them. Just ignore them."

"Don't worry, I get this a lot," Dan reassured me. "Some girl tried to give me a ring once."

My jaw dropped. "Really?! That's insane!"

"I know right. I've had Valentines cards, love letters sent to me... but this has to be the worst anyone's sent to me. Guess?"

I shrugged. "What?"

"Well, I was opening fanmail one day and I found that someone had sent me tampons with my face stuck to them."

I buried my head in my hands, laughing so hard my stomach hurt. "Oh my God that's funny! What sort of shit do people send you? Oh God..."

I just couldn't stop laughing as I locked the door to the flat and began to walk down the hallway towards his. He was practically next door yet I hadn't noticed him in the few days I'd been here.

"All sorts. Phil gets cuddly toys and cute things, and I get tampons with my face on. What does that tell you about our fans?"

I couldn't stop giggling as we stepped inside his flat, and I peered up through my hands to see Phil slouched on the sofa. He bolted upright when he noticed me.

"Phil, this is..."

"Dan, for God's sake! How many girls do you bring home?" I knew he was being sarcastic.

"I was about to say this is Natasha if you shut your hole. Natasha, this is Phil. And don't make me sound like a man whore."

"Hi," I waved meekly.

We exchanged hellos and stuff. He seemed like a really nice guy and I couldn't wait to get to know him better.

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