We'll Never Fall Apart - (Joey Graceffa)

Chapter 8

Joey's POV

I walk into the green room for my break when everyone is freaking out.

"Um, what the hell is going on?" I whisper to Cat.

"Uh... look!" she points her finger over to someone on a gurney.

"Who is that?" I strain my eyes trying to make out who this person is. I see that it's a girl and she has a jean jacket on and her light brown hair is flowing over the edge of the gurney. "Charlotte?" I mutter under my breath. That's the girl who I bumped into earlier.

"What did you say?" Cat calls me out.

"Urm, nothing." I reply.

I push past some people and see that Charlotte and someone else hops into the ambulance after that person shouted, "BE QUIET!" at us. They drive off with the sirens blasting. Everyone left behind is murmuring to each other out of curiosity and shock.

"Listen up everyone!" One of the managers shouts to the crowd. The room goes eerily silent. "Do not be alarmed! Just stay calm and go back to your usually things!"

"What the heck happened?!" someone yells from the crowd.

"Nothing to be worried about, just a young girl getting sick over a peanut..."

"What?! That's the worst way to put it!"

"Well her name is Charlotte from the channel, CharlotteSays," some people recognize her and some people look confused," and this was her first Vidcon experience and meet up after reaching 100,000 subs."

"Aww that's such a shame," a British voice says, Tanya Burr.

"Well can we do something about it, like go and see her and make her feel better?" All of this is happening as I stand here in the middle, quiet. I feel really bad because she was probably looking forward to this and the opportunity is lost.

"I guess you could, but you shouldn't be out for that long, we have fans waiting..." A small group walks out the back door, indicating that they are going to see her. I make up my mind and go with them.

We arrive at the hospital and a nurse directs us to a waiting room near the emergency area. One person is in there and it was the girl who went in the ambulance with her. She looks up at us in shock with red, puffy eyes. I walk to her and ask, "You're the person who shouted be quiet right?"

"Uh... yes."

"So, you're her best friend?" I assume.

"Yes I am."

"Is she alright? One of the workers there told us not to be alarmed and quickly explained the peanut thing. They also told us how this was for her first meet up and how she just reached 100k subs. When they told us that, we all felt really bad, so we came to support her." I explain.

"I-I," she stutters as a doctor comes out telling that she's okay. Her friend goes in first as we all sit down.

"Well this is crazy."

"Yeah, I know."

"I just feel sooo bad."

We sit here for 5 minutes with chats like this being repeated over and over again. Her friend walks through the doors and tells us we should come back and see her. Everyone gets up and I am the last one through the doors. When we reach her room, we surprise her. Her mouth drops and her eyes go wide.

Each and every one of the youtubers that came went in and talked to her. I was the last one and it was my turn to have a chat. I enter the small, white room and look at her. I just realized how pretty she looked even with a sorta swollen face. Her makeup still looked good and her curly hair was still there. And her big brown eyes sparkled as she looked back at me with some tears in them.

"Hey," I start.

"Hi."

"Are you okay?"

"Yup!"

"Good, because I walked in the green room, seeing you being taken away in a gurney." I add sounding dumb.

"Oh, I was?- I mean yeah, that wasn't fun." she laughs.

"I'm sad that you didn't get to do your meet up."

"Stop, I'm the one who should be sad, but I told the worker guy that I wanted a meet up tomorrow and whenever I get out of this god damn hospital, I want to work on the details of jamming a meet up in tomorrow's schedule."

"Well, good luck on that," I saw about to leave, "And you look very beautiful," I smile and exit the room. Crap, what the hell have I done?

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I arrive back at the convention and get back to what I was doing before. I met up with my understanding fans and took pictures with them. Every now and then, I would take out my camera and vlog some of the meet up, showing awesome gifts that they made for me. I just felt guilty doing this and Charlotte not being able to. But, hopefully she could manage to get one in tomorrow.

After I finished, I get asked by a worker if I would like to write something or give something to Charlotte because all of her fans were giving balloons and get well cards and sending them up to her hotel room. I agree and the worker gives me a small green paper to write on. I put, 'Hey Charlotte, it's Joey and I would like to know if you are busy on the 25th? :)' I really want to get to know her better and potentially become friends or something like that. I can't get my hopes up too high, yet. I don't even know how I feel about her, all I know is that I want to have an official introduction , not in a hospital or bumping into each other. I give the note back and the guy looks over it and smirks at me. I rethink it and wonder if it was a mistake, but it's too late now because the guy left me and I'm standing here all alone.

Soooo? How was it? Trust me, his povs will get way more interesting, I just had to write his side to Charlie getting sick, cause next time it will be all fresh and new and I didn't want it to get confusing. Thanks for reading! <3 - Lilah xx