New Beginnings

Tik Tok

Noah's POV:

As if the timing couldn't get any worse I thought, it could've been my big break. I had been chasing my dreams since I was three years old. I wanted to become a pro soccer player in Europe. I had trials set for the summer, trials for clubs that were big names, real job offers. But those had to be canceled because of some new virus from China. It changed the world they said, but I was sure it affected me more than anyone. I hadn't eaten in days because I felt sad and angered but when I came out of my room for the first time in a while, I saw my sister Tatum talking to my mom. "You won't believe it I have 200k followers, you think that's enough for us to move to L.A?," she asked. God she never stopped talking about L.A. She needed to understand that we were a couple of nobody's. Small town people from Arizona. I chuckled as I walked towards them. "What are you guys even talking about." I asked. "I gained 200k followers on tik tok," she said with a grin. "I bet that's more than you will ever have" she followed. I congratulated her with a stank eye. I was never the type to lose or pass on a competition. That same night I downloaded the so called "tik tok" app and filmed a couple of videos. I cringed rewatching myself but I couldn't stand Tatum thinking she could beat me at something. I went to sleep thinking nothing of it.

Dixies POV:
As I was laying in bed, slowly drifting off to sleep I checked my socials one last time. I opened tik tok, and the first video I saw was this guys pov video. He was pretty hot I thought to myself, and soon found myself clicking on his profile. My god I thought, he was the hottest guy I have ever laid eyes on. I started daydreaming, my mind wandering off. Then my sister frantically came into my room with two outfits, one in each hand. "WHICH ONE?? CHASE WILL BE HERE IN 45 MINUTES." The one on the left I said, not bothering to even look up. "THANKS" she said. I don't think she noticed that my eyes didn't leave the screen. Sure I had a boyfriend, sure he was nice, and sure he kept me entertained, but quite honestly I fell out of love a while ago. To think about it I believe we were better off as friends. I didn't see myself having a future with him. I should've taken that as a red flag from the beginning, but I didn't care. At least I was drawing attention to someone else other than myself. But with Griffin it always felt like I was babysitting him than actually dating him. The amount of times I had gotten calls from random people to come get him because he was drunk was just hard to even keep count of. No matter where he went, he always made sure that he had a bottle of liquor with him. That reminded me to send him a goodnight text so I did. And to no surprise I had still been left on read from the text above.
-Next Morning-
Noah's POV:
That morning I woke up and like always, the first thing I did was a couple of push-ups, you know to get the blood pumping. As soon as I got up, I grabbed my phone and saw the home screen filled with hundreds of notifications. I rubbed my eyes just to make sure that my eyes weren't fooling me. Sure enough the notifications didn't leave the screen. I immediately opened tiktok and saw over 800k likes on my couple of videos. I saw that my account had reached 600k followers over night. I felt fireworks going off inside of me whilst I was reading my comments. Comments like "he's so cute", "I get lost in his eyes", "his curly hair is so attractive." Then scrolling further, the ego boosting comments like, "I want him to rail me" "I want to have his kids" "I would let him run me over" and even "the way I would let him rail me to death and over again." Did people really see me like that? I thought. I walked over to the kitchen where I saw my sister filming a tik tok and just held the phone to her face, letting her see the amount of followers I had. I got a feeling of satisfaction as soon as I saw her face fall. I walked away to grab some breakfast. "It was just a bet", I heard her say with a jealous tone as I was pouring myself some orange juice.
Tatums POV:
I was the first one up that morning. I thought since I had all of this time before everyone else woke up, I would continue to grow my account on tik tok. I really thought I could become a tik tok star. I mean i was funny, smart, pretty good looking, and I had a fun personality. Why wouldn't they like me? My entire life I was in the shadow of my older sister and younger brother. I never had any traits of my own. My older brother was the athlete, super star soccer player, my sister the brains on the class. I never seemed to meet any of my parents expectations. Better yet be my own person. I was only known as "Hayley's younger sister" or "Noah's older sister" I just wanted to be Tatum Beck. Being the middle child is always so hard. You get payed the least attention to, and my life revolved around hand me downs. When I gained a following on tik tok, I was thrilled. People would know me for me. That's the good thing about social media. You know you won't ever meet the person on the other side of the screen, so for now they would only see what I put out there. And what I put out there was my genuine pure self, no cuts, all raw footage of me, gymnastics, and fun. I heard Noah coming out of his room, I was ready to tease him about the followers again. He came out and without any words and hesitation, he held his phone 4 inches away from my face. Revealing 600k followers. He took one glance at my face and walked away. All of my excitement was gone. Completely drained away. I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction that it bothered me, that he gained more followers than me in less than 24 hours. I said "It was just a bet" in the most normal tone I could give. Trying not to sound upset.