the life of ariel winters - jim chapman

Chapter 19: manipulative & meetings

Ariel's POV

"Okay Jim, I will be there in just a minute." I say into the phone, pushing my converse onto my feet. I'm running a bit behind because Chad forgot to set an alarm. I sleep over at his room last night, after our ice cream. I'm surprised I woke up actually. And no, we didn't have sex. He wanted to but we just got back together, no way was I doing it so fast.

"Ariel, please don't leave me." Chad whines from the bed, holding onto my waist. I laugh and push his hands off.

"Chad, you know I have to go. I have a meet-up with Jim."

He grimaces at the sound of Jim's name.

"Hey, what's wrong?" I ask him laying down right beside him. He loves physical touch like this. Just hugging, or holding hands. It's one of those cute little traits he has.

"Why do you have to do it with Jim? I mean, why can't you do one with Caspar or Joe or me? Why does it always have to be Jim?" He says angrily. I take his hand and kiss it.

"So just come with me. You can meet some people, but most of them will probably hate you. You can just stand in the corner or something. Please." I propose the idea, getting off the bed to get my purse. I look back at him to see him deep thought.

"Ariel, they won't miss you. Come on, just stay here with me. Have Louise fill in for you or something," He whispers to me persuadingly, grabbing hold of my hand as I walk back to the bed.

I sigh, knowing that I couldn't say no to him. He's right, they won't miss me. They're probably just there to see Jim. But what if they did come there to see me? I would be letting all of them down. They would be so disappointed with me, even more than when I told them about how Chad and I broke up. They were disappointed in how I let him do those things with me. How I let him destroy me. I wonder what they will say when I tell them we're back together. Oh how the shitstorm will begin.

"Ariel please. We just got back together. I want to make up for lost time. Please, just this once." His voice breaks through my train of thought, his words making another one.

He's right. I mean, we did just get back together. And a lot of things has happened since we last spoke to a heart to heart. I guess I can skip it this one time. It's not like I'm skipping something important. Chad is important.

"Ok, I guess I will stay."

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Jim's POV

Where is she? She is fifteen minutes late. Fifteen. Ariel is never late and when she is it's usually by like two minutes, not fifteen. I'm very worried. This is unlike her. Well, unlike the new her anyways. The old her wouldn't have thought twice about it. If Chad had asked her to stay with him, there was no if, ands, or buts. As I am pacing behind the curtain Louise walks up to me, a confused expression on her face.

"Louise, what are you doing here?" I ask her, a confused expression on my face too.

"I got a text from Ariel saying that she couldn't make it and asked if I could fill in for her. I said yes but asked why and she read it but didn't reply. I wonder if it had something to do with Chad." Louise explains, pointing to her phone every three seconds.

How could she do this? Not just to me but her fans too. They have waited in line just to meet her but she blows them off to spend quality time with Chad. Zoella was right, something needs to be done about this.

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Marcus Butler, Zoe Sugg, Alfie Deyes, Joe Sugg, Caspar Lee, Dan Howell, Phil Lester, Tyler Oakley, Troye Sivan, Oli White, Joey Graceffa, Sawyer Hartman, Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, Mamrie Hart, John and Hank Green, Benny and Rafi Fine, Jenna Marbles, Emma Blackery, Luke Cutforth, Jack Howard and Dean Dobbs, Korey Kuhl, Smosh, Connor Franta, Louise Pentland, and Frank Gioia were all the people that showed up for my meeting for Operation YouTube LV. That's a lot of youtubers in one room. These were a lot of Ariel's close friends. She's a very likeable person, if you can't tell.

"First off, I would just like to thank everyone for coming because it means a lot to me. If any of you don't know, Ariel is back with Chad. All of you know how bad she was when she was with him. And I know that a lot of you don't want to see her that way again because I know I don't. So I have called you all here today for a special plan I like to call Operation YouTube LV. Basically, it's going to be this huge video that will show how much we all love Ariel. I picked you all specifically because you are her closest friends. Louise is going to hand out a sheet that says, if you want to participate, what you will be videoing for the video. We are going to play it on the last day of the extra youtubers days so it will give us plenty of time to work on it. Please raise your hand if you have any questions." I say into the microphone, very pleased with the outcome of that speech. I see Emma's hand go up and I get a nervous feeling in my stomach. What if she thinks it's stupid? What if she doesn't want to participate?

"Yes, Emma?" I inquire, everyone looking back up at me.

"When do we need to turn these videos into you? Like, when is the deadline?" Emma asks, looking down at her paper then back at me. Relief flooded through my veins. Hallelujah, she didn't hate the idea.

"At the end of original playlist live. The day before the youtuber days start," I answer hoping that was enough explanation. "You can send them to me anytime during this week, also."

I hear them murmuring amongst themselves, telling each other what they're going to do. I think this is really cool. All these youtubers coming together for a simple cause. We're like a family, always wanting to help one another. And if one member of our family is hurting we will help them.

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A/N

Yay! I have updated which is amazing because it was really hard to write the first of it. It's kind of a look into their relationship, how bad Chad really is. so I hope you liked it!

The picture above is of Ariel!

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