Dancing with the Beast

27. You deserve to be happy

„Well, everything went according to plan.", Chris said while he drove the three of us to Karl's house. "Yep, totally.", Karl grinned. "Wait, you guys knew about all of this?", I gasped. "Kinda... Chris and I planned to get you here cause we thought this might fix the problems. Jimmy explained everything to us about what happened before so we made up this plan.", Karl nervously scratched the back of his head. "Oh my gosh, you guys are unbelievable...", I started laughing in disbelief. All the time they kept this as a secret. A part of me wanted to be mad at them but on the other hand they planned all this secretly just to help me and Jimmy out. "Yeah, and then Jimmy got cold feet, so I had to talk to him. Please don't hate us now.", Chris tried to make eye contact through the rear-view mirror. "Hell nah, you're just a bunch of idiots.", I laughed at them. "Should be madder at Mel because she is my best friend and seemed to know about all that." I should kick her ass when I head back home. Letting me fly over here with all this Jimmy stuff while she already knew what would happen. I decided to text her.

Mel, I fucking hate you lmao. Thanks for helping Jimmy with the dress, it's pretty af. Love you my favorite pain in the ass. <3

She immediately responded:

Hahaha guuuurl I'm so sorry but you deserved a big surprise. Enjoy your time, but don't forget the condoms, you're a bit too young for becoming a milf!

I rolled my eyes at the last sentence of her message. We arrived at Karl's and Karl and I left the car. "I'll wait here, hurry up. You have to catch a flight!", Chris said. We entered the house and I instantly went to the guest room, Karl was following me. "Are you happy?", he said, leaning against the door frame. I turned around and looked at him. I knew that he really meant this question. It wasn't just a superficial question. If Karl Jacobs asks you how you feel, he really wants to know how you feel. Was I happy? Was this what I wanted? I slightly started nodding. "Yes, I'm happy.", I started to smile. And I meant it.
I was happy. My crush told me that he likes me and he wants to take me to a dance event. Then I realized it. Jimmy wants to take me to a dance event. A charity event. With a bunch of other YouTubers and press and everything. "Shit.", I said out loud. "What?", Karl questioned. "He really wants to take me to a public event. So he is fine with showing up in public with me.", I started grinning like the corn kid when he was talking about corn, a big lump with knobs. "Yes, he's really serious about all this. But you don't have to go there in a couple kinda way if you're uncomfortable with this.", Karl responded with a smile on his lips. "I know.", I kept grinning. "Okay, enough grinning. You have to collect your stuff or otherwise Jimmy has to fly without you.", he laughed. "You're right.", I sighed and returned to packing.

10 Minutes later we left the building with my luggage. We put everything into Chris' car and took a seat. We chatted a bit during the car ride and decided to grab some fries and burgers cause we had some time left. Chris drove through a McDrive and we ended up with food in his car in a parking lot near the airport. "I'm so nervous right now.", I said, putting some fries into my mouth. I was a bit frightened because this charity event was huge. I was not used to public events of this size and I was afraid of the rumors about me and Jimmy. We were just getting started with dating each other and there were already enough rumors after the pictures on Instagram. "K, you got this.", Karl cheered me up. "Hell yeah Keira, you rock and you will rock this event too. I'm more concerned about Jimmy's dance skills.", Chris said and made the three of us laugh. "He did alright during the training, so everything should be fine I guess.", I responded smiling. We continued eating in silence. "Guys?", I broke the silence after a few minutes. "Thank you. For everything. I really appreciate you." I'm really thankful to have friends like them who always cheer me up and help me with my problems. "Awww, no problem, K!", Karl said and smiled. "You deserve to be happy.", Chris responded. "Stop it or I will cry.", I said and I meant it. I'm so happy to have them as my friends. We finished our food and decided to continue our ride to the airport.

"Hey Chris, can I connect my Spotify?", I asked. I needed to hype myself up because I was still a bit nervous about everything. "Sure. But I dare you guys to sing along as loud as last time.", I saw him grinning through the rear-view mirror. I rolled my eyes. I put my playlist on and Karl and I tried our hardest to not sing along. We lost as soon as Dancing Queen started playing. We both burst out singing loudly. Chris groaned. "For fuck's sake, I hate you!" "Stop lying, I know you love us!", Karl responded. "Well, fuck it.", Chris said and as soon as the chorus started playing, he started to join our choir. The ride to the airport continued with the three of us singing crookedly, dancing and vibing to the music and I felt the happiest possible.

Hell yeah, I'm back! I will finish the story asap. Had a lot of stuff going on the last months.
But at this point I have to say something about the stuff around Chris. As a part of the queer community (I'm all bi myself lol) I stand behind Chris. If you don't support queer rights just fuck off and don't read this story.
This story is nearly finished and I referred to Chris with he/him pronouns. As far as I know Chris goes by any pronouns at this point. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. If there are any upcoming changes in their decision pls let me know and I will immediately change the pronouns in my story. 🫶