Living with Tayler Holder

Chapter 12: First ever Tiktok

I woke up to find myself in my bed. It was weird because I could have almost sworn I gave Vinnie my bed for the night and took the sofa. I turned to the side to find my phone along with a folded up piece of paper on top of it. I opened the note and it read, 'thanks for the bed, but I couldn't let you wake up on a sofa — Vinnie'. It was really nice of him to do this but i can't help but think it was slightly unnecessary. I did my best to shake it off as I got myself ready for the day.

I cleaned my room, showered and got dresssed into this before heading downstairs.

As I went downstairs I noticed how silent it was and I was met with another note on the kitchen counter.
'Gone to an early morning shoot with the rest of the house. Make sure you eat something and we love you — TC'. I smiled down at the note left from the 'TC' and realised how much I love this house. The Triller Compound was my family.

I ate my breakfast whilst watching some 'Sidemen' videos on YouTube and when I finished I had mustered up the courage to film my first TikTok dance. There had been a song I'd grown obsessed with and there was a dance for it. It was 'woman' by Doja Cat.

I watched it a few times before picking up the choreography and I was finally able to film it. I walked around the house for a while looking for a plain wall which couldn't be recognised online before I set my phone down and filmed the dance. I did it a few times before posting my favourite one with the caption 'I love everything about this song😫'. I remembered to put the dance credits in the caption after seeing a girl on TikTok get flamed for not doing it.

Suddenly I heard the sound of clapping coming from the other side of the room. I snapped my head upwards from my phone to the source of the noise and I was met with Josh Richards.
"Um..what are you doing here?" I said confused.
"Woah! I had no idea you could dance like that!" He said completely ignoring my question.
"That still doesn't answer my question Josh" I said crossing my arms trying to give him a serious look.
"Triller Compound and Sway have a joined photo shoot and technically I'm not part of sway anymore so I decided to come chill. Vinnie wanted to come but he said he needed to film some more content."
"Oh so I guess it's just me and you today" I said smiling at Josh.
"I guess so" he said reciprocating my smile.
Josh began to walk around the house as an idea hit me.
"Josh...you know how we're really good friends, can you help me with something?" I said as a smirk appeared on my face.
"Go on.." he said hesitantly.
I slowly approached him so he couldn't run away before I said,
"I need to practice my braiding technique on your hair. It's a good length and it'll be a great bonding activity," I said trying to convince him.
"No way!" He said quickly as he turned away to walk upstairs.
"Please Josh!" I begged using my puppy dog eyes. After a lot of pleading he finally gave in.
"Fine then. Just don't take any pictures." He said rolling his eyes as he sat on the floor in front of the sofa. I grinned victoriously as I sat on the sofa and positioned him so he was between my legs. I grabbed the remote and turned on one of my favourite shows from back home 'Love Island'.
"Hey if you're going to do my hair at least pick a show I can understand. I never get what anyone says on this show. The accents are wayyy to strong." Josh said grabbing the remote from my hand.
It was fair enough because I can hardly understand them. He changed it to some anime thing and I just let it be. I started to comb out his hair and he had already started the dramatics.
"Ow, Grace! It hurts!" He said.
"Stop being so dramatic Joshua." I said sighing as I began to braid.

After a lot of fake tears from Josh I had finally finished my masterpiece. Just as I was about to hand him a mirror we both turned to the door as we heard it open. It was Vinnie with his eyes glued to his phone.
"Hey Grace, have you seen the response your TikTok has gotten?" He said as he looked up and began to laugh when he saw how I'd cornrowed Josh's hair.
"Oi it's not funny!" Josh said as he grabbed a mirror to see what I had done to his hair.
"I personally don't think it's that bad if I'm being honest." I said as I walked towards Vinnie to see what he was talking about. I peeked over to look at his phone and saw my TikTok had a million likes.
"Um, what happened there?!!" I said beginning to panic as I grabbed his phone to read the comments.
"Do you think they noticed I live here?" I said looking at Vinnie and Josh as I walked to the sofa with Vinnie's phone in my hand.
"Hey, chill out. Nobody noticed. You're just a really good dancer that's all." Vinnie said as Josh got his phone out to watch the TikTok.
"Woah, you've got everyone simping in your comment section as well" Josh said laughing. I looked at him with a look of distress on my face.
"I don't want to be noticed. I just wanted to have some fun. I need to delete it." I said as I put Vinnie's phone down and reached for my own.
"Hey, I get you're scared but you can have fun with this. Nobody knows you know us, and this way you can keep dancing without people poking their noses in your business." Josh said.
"How'd you mean?" I said confused.
"There are loads of famous dancers on TikTok and that's all they are. Dancers. They stick to dancing and people don't go digging because they aren't influencers. There's no need to go digging." He explained.
"Look, you've got a real talent Grace. You can't just waste it." Vinnie said.
"How long have you been dancing?" Josh asked out of curiosity.
"I don't remember a time I couldn't dance." I said smiling remembering the memories of dancing in the living room as a kid and blocking everyone from seeing the TV.
"You know what, you guys are right. I'll give this whole TikTok dancing thing a real chance. What's the worst that could happen." I said smiling.
Both Josh and Vinnie smiled at each other before sandwiching me on the sofa and turning up the anime. I looked over at Vinnie and noticed the curls on his head.
"Vin, you've got really braidable hair you know. It'd be great for practice." I said smiling at him.
"Oh not a chance!" He said scoffing at me.
"Please Vin!" I said pleading.
"Uh, fine" he said rolling his eyes. I cheered in victory as he sat between my legs on the floor so I could cornrow his hair as well. After I was finished we sat on the sofa together eating popcorn and watching an actual movie. After lots of arguing we decided on Frozen. Next thing I knew both the boys had fallen asleep on my shoulders with me in the middle. My eyes grew heavier and soon I too fell asleep.
My eyes were shut but I could hear loads of whispering.
"Look how cute they look"
"Quick take a picture before they wake up"
What on earth was going on? I opened my eyes to be greeted with something absolutely horrifying.