Joey Graceffa

Chapter 3: First Day In LA

I walk into my apartment and sit on the couch, good thing this place was already furnished, it would have cost a lot to get my furniture from Australia to LA. It's going to be weird living here; it's so much different from Australia. I get out my laptop and plug in my camera and transfer the footage for my vlog. I spend the next hour or so editing and eventually wait for it to upload. I add in the annotations then hit upload. I finally close my laptop, and I plug it, and my camera in so they can charge overnight, ready for tomorrow. I walk into my room; it's so much bigger than my bedroom at home. I walk into the bathroom and remove all my makeup and put my hair into a high pony, I then change into my pyjamas and slip into bed. After 10 seconds, I open up my eyes and grab my phone to check my Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram. After some cool Gifs, funny tweets and excellent pics, I turn my phone off and drift to sleep.

Let me tell you a bit about myself; I'm five and a quarter years old well kind of, I was born on the 29th of February, 1992. I'm 20, but it was fun when people ask my age, and I reply with five. I was born in Australia, a moved to LA. I already miss my best friend, Chelsea. And that's pretty much it.

All I dreamt about that night was me meeting Joey; the moment kept on replaying in my mind. I should say hi tomorrow; it would be kind. I wake up at 2 am and stagger over to my suitcase and look for food. There is none. Great. I then remember that there are about 50 20packs of chewing gum in my handbag. I have a strange an unhealthy obsession with gum, so I always make sure I have plenty with me. There was 70 of them, but I had already chewed through 400 strips of chewing gum. That's normal, right? I open up a new pack of watermelon flavoured gum; I slide out one piece. I chew it for about half an hour while re-checking Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram, hoping that the continuous scrolling with eventually bore me and put me to sleep. After that 30 minutes, I put the gum in the bin, turn my phone back of and finally fall asleep. This time I have an epic dream where Snorlax, Jigglypuff, Wigglytuff, Clefairy, Clefable, Charmander, Ivysaur and Rapidash have this awesome battle. I'm such a weird person.

The next time I wake up its 9 am. I get up, get dressed, put my makeup on, grab my handbag and go out since I have no food, I go to Yogurt Land for breakfast, healthy, I know. I get my yoghurt and sit down to eat it. Next thing I know, Joey and some other girl walk in.

"Katie!" Joey screamed.

"Hi, Joey!" I chirp. Joey and the girl grab their yoghurt and come to join me.

"Hi Katie, hope you had a good first night."

"Yeah I did, I got a bit hungry all I had to eat was 50 packs of chewing gum I bought."

"That's a lot! Shoot gurl. Oh, sorry this is Meghan, by the way." Meghan gives me a friendly smile, and I smile back.

"Hi, Meghan."

"So, Meghan and I were gonna go to the beach with Luke, Ingrid and Jimmy, who are some of our other friends. Wanna come?" Joey asks.

"Is it gonna be the whole day?" I ask.

"Yeah." He replies.

"Well, I'll go, but I have to leave early to go buy some food," I say.

"Ok, meet you outside our apartments in 20?"

"Yep, see ya then." Joey is so kind to me. I can't wait to meet the other guys. I walk up to my apartment and grab a beach bag. I shove a towel and sunscreen in it, along with my book, water, phone money and camera. I put my bikini on underneath my coral lacy dress. I put on a pair of white flip-flops. I take off my make up and re-apply waterproof stuff. I still have five minutes until I meet back up with Joey and Meghan, so I grab out my vlogging camera and press record.

"Hi guys, it's Katie, and I'm about to go to the beach with Joey, Meghan, Luke, Ingrid and Jimmy. I met Joey last night and Meghan this morning, and I haven't met Luke, Ingrid or Jimmy yet, but if they're anything like Joey and Meghan, I'm sure I'll love them." I pick up my bag and open the door and walk out into the hall. "Joey is a Youtuber too; I'm not sure about the others though, oh, here's Joey and Meghan." I turn the camera to Joey and Meghan and they both wave and say hi. "I'll be back guys!" I say and stop recording.

"You're a Youtuber?" Meghan asks.

"Yeah!" I happily reply.

"So am I!" Cool. At least these guys won't think I'm a nutcase who talks to a camera all the time; they'll think I'm an average person who talks to their camera all the time.