We'll Never Fall Apart - (Joey Graceffa)

Chapter 5

Charlotte's POV

June 23. The time has come.

I bolt up right from sleeping and get ready for the day. I get dressed in lazy clothes and comb my hair and brush my teeth. I go downstairs to get some breakfast at the buffet. Mel tags along 15 minutes later and I get some scrambled eggs with a muffin.

"Soooo..... are you pumped?!"

"Hell yeah I am! But also very nervous," I say, but then tone down my voice.

"Don't worry about it, you'll do fine!"

"Yeah, you're right..."

"Like always." Mel says while flipping her hair.

I take a bite of my blueberry muffin and start to gaze into space. My thoughts clog up my ears and vision, so I can't pay attention to the outside world. I am then awoken by Mel shaking me furiously.

"OhmyGod, look!" Mel points over near the entrance.

"What, wha..." I trail off as I see Alfie Deyes walk in. I look away trying not to seem creepy.

"Seriously, though, we need to stay calm, we act like we're 15." I point out.

"Yeah, but dang..."

"Mel, he's taken by Zoe c'mon!"

"Still, that doesn't stop me from thinking he's good lookin."

"You like everyone, Mel."

"What? You got a problem with that?" Mel tries to give me an intimidating look. I just shake my head and get up to throw my plate away while Mel follows me.

It is now 8am and we have to go pick up my headshots. We drive over there and walk through the door and hear a jingle. I walk up to the front desk and ask,

"Hey, I was wondering if you had the headshots that I took yesterday?"

"Hold on a moment." She types something into her computer and says," Charlotte Simmons?"

"Yes, that's the one."

"I'll go head back and get them for you," she leaves through a swinging door.

"Phew! Now I'm relieved."

"Same here."

We then stand there like idiots for 5 minutes and finally see the lady walk out of the back room. She is holding a huge stack of photos of my face and hands them out to me.

"Thanks again so so much!"

"Don't mention it."

We walk out of the studio and head back to the hotel. Once we got back, we headed up to our room for the last time before the meet up. It's now 8:30 and I have 30 minutes to get ready. I change into my outfit that I bought at the mall and put on my good makeup. Foundation, concealer, blush, eye shadow, mascara, eye liner, and lipstick. I curl my hair and they just about reach my shoulders. I get out of the bathroom and do a pose.

"So, whatcha think?"

"Fantastic, you look great without trying to be."

"Hey, don't say that, you're the one that's prettier."

"You're right." Mel laughs.

I check over myself 100 times before the time arrives. 8:50. Mel carries the headshots and I get out my small camera.. She's kinda like my assistant, but I don't like looking at her that way, she's my best friend. I turn the record button on and talk to the camera. I don't vlog a lot, but I have a channel for it for the times that I decide to do.

"Hey guys and guess where I'm at...." I point the camera out of the hotel window, "VIDCON! I'm heading there right now and I'll see you there!" I shut the camera off and leave the room.

Melanie's POV

Today's the day where my best friend in the whole world gets to meet her fans. I'm so excited for her, but also very jealous of how successful she is. I know that makes me sound like a horrible friend and even a bitch, but my history hasn't been the best and I thought that this time of my life would make up for it. But no. My best friend gets the good life and I'm stuck over here being left out. I'm glad that she took me with her and that I can go on some many incredible journeys with her, but the thing is that I wish I was the one providing for myself, if that makes any sense. Just the other day, I pulled Charlie out of the green room because I couldn't stand how I didn't deserve to be here, only Charlie did, but I dragged her along with me out of the room when she wanted to be in there. I feel like she's putting pity on me because she knows about my past since she was there with me everyday. I won't get into that right now. I'm now carrying her headshots to the meet up area. Outside of the building is a huge line of fans waiting to get in. Some of them start screaming and some are very confused.

"Charlotte, WE LOVE YOU!"

"Who's she?"

"I NEED A PICTURE!"

A security guard then comes out of nowhere and tries to calm down the fans and another escorts us to the green room. We walk along a balcony and see thousands of people staring up and us. I can see all of the flashes and am almost blinded by it. We reach the room and the security man leaves us in a place with so many youtubers. Dear God. I'm gonna freak, I know I am, but I can't not now.

It's now 9:28 and it's an hour and a half till Charlie's meet up. I'll probably just stay back here while it happens and hang out with some youtubers, if I can keep my cool. Just then I realize I have been so deep in thought that Charlie disappeared. Crap. I'm all alone in a room surrounded by youtubers, fun. In the corner of my eye, I see Joey Graceffa talking to some people. God damn, isn't he attractive? He's like my biggest YouTube crush and I need to talk to him, but how? I'll probably ruin it by being too awkward and weird. While creepily staring at him, I see how Charlie accidentally bumped into him. Great Charlie, great.

Charlotte's POV

We enter the green room and I take a huge glance at what's around me. So much blue and so much youtube, it's unbelievable. Smosh, Shane Dawson, Catrific, Joey Graceffa, Alfie Deyes, Zoe Sugg, Harries Twins, Ricky Dillon, Dan and Phil, and so many people are here right now I can't even comprehend it. Mel and I are just standing at the doorway not socializing, just staring, so I decide to walk around. Mel was still in a trance so I didn't want to bother her. I made my way over to where the snacks were, just because I was hungry and I needed comfort food. As I was making my way over to the long table, someone cut right in front of me and I ran into them. Them was Joey Graceffa. Shit, what the hell did I do?!

"Oh sorry, didn't see you there." Joey says.

"Oh no, my bad. I should've kept a better eye out, I'll get out of your way," I slide to the side, but he kinda blocks me.

"Hey, wait, what are you here for?" Joey asks.

"Uh... meet up."

"Oh cool, what time?"

"11am."

"Same here and what's your channel?"

Crap, this is what I prepared for with Mel when she was acting like Zoella, "CharlotteSays." I reply confidently, a little bit too much.

"Um... I think I've heard of you before, and it was nice meeting you!"

"You too!"

"See ya later."

"Yup!" I say walking finally to the food. That was ridiculous and awkward. That was probably the weirdest first impression that has ever happened to me. It was really cool meeting him though, but I haven't watched a lot of his videos, but apparently he has heard of mine! But his eyes, too, holy crap. What am I thinking, I barely know the guy, and I bet he thinks I'm really weird. And now I have to spend another hour waiting til my big moment happens!

Finally I updated! Sorry it was almost a week but I was busy with homework and after school stuff. Same old same old. In the next chapter the meet up will happen! And Charlie finally bumped into Joey!!! And I included Mel's pov too just to keep it interesting. Thanks for reading! - Lilah xx