There's a Goodbye for a Hello (Book One in Safe and Sound)

Chapter 2 - Athlone

     We woke up on the last few hours of the flight. I looked over and he was smirking like a madman.
"What..." I grumbled sleepily. I felt for Sam in my hoodie but didn't feel him so I started to freak out. Then I felt something soft like Sam hit me I looked over and snatched my Sam plush. I snarled at Braydon for doing such a crime, he chuckled and helped back onto my seat. I grabbed my pillow as he reached for it and yawned. I snuggled back up in my hoodie and blanket that I'm guessing Braydon put on me and looked out the window with Sam.

     It was a beautiful shade of green and blue, I knew we were almost there. As I heard, Ireland WAS beautiful. Then I heard a familiar toned voice behind me and I flipped around. It wasn't Jack but almost like one of Jacks... Brothers? I waved my hand at him and he looked up at me.
"Yes?" He looked up at us. I took a deep breath and asked.
"Are you Sean McLoughlin's brother?" I asked. He just stared at me and then spoke up
"Yes? Why do you know him?" I basically flipped out at that point in my head.
"Because I basically came here to meet him..." He gave me a weird look.

     "You from Canada?" He asked.
"Yes we both are" I responded nudging Braydon and he turned around with me.
"Then why do you want to meet my brother all the way from Canada to Athlone?"
"Well..." I started "You're brother... Sean... Is well how do I put thi-" I was cut off by Braydon "Famous." He finished.
"Famous?" Jack's brother asked us
"How?" I looked at him with a shocked look.
"You're brother is a YouTuber by the name Jacksepticeye!" I said, Braydon chiming in half way
"YouTuber? Really?" He said, shocked.
"Yeeeee he's frooking awesome!" I said failing an Irish accent, the 3 of laughed and then the attendee cut us off.

     "We will be landing shortly, please sit down and collect all your items." She said over the intercom then she repeated it in Irish and French. I got my carry on bag and put everything in it but shoved Sam in my hood. I made sure I had my PC bag on and everything in my carry on. I was bouncing with excitement. We were finally here! In Athlone!

(Time skip getting off the plane and landing)

     We rushed through getting our suitcases and airport. I took in all the surroundings, it was fairly hi tech for what you think when you think Ireland, I didn't mind though. Someone came up to me, a girl probably around 8 years younger than me and said "You like Jack too?" Her voice squeaky and cheerful, she gestured at my hoodie and Sam.
"Yes" I replied "We both do" giving Braydon a squeeze.

      "Whoa, your.. accent! You're not from here are you?" She suddenly asked.
I bent down so I was eye to eye with her and said "We came all the way from Canada just to get a chance at meeting Jack in his hometown."
"R-really?" She stuttered "H-how did you know Jack lived here in Westmeath?"
"Newspaper." I simply said. Then she just suddenly ran off.

     Then something caught my eye infront of me, something way to familiar... I saw an apartment building infront of us. It was grey-bricked much like the other buildings around it. I looked up and someone walked by one of the windows. I could just make out a few details through the half-closed blinds, they were wearing a bright orange sweater, jeans and from what I could calculate he was around 5 foot 11. I screeched and looked over at Braydon.
I pointed up at the window "I think that's Jack's apartment!" he looked up with me.

      "Maybe..." he said as the figure walked by again, the person looked through the window and if I couldn't tell from a mile away, it was Jack. I waved like some insane person as he walked away.
"Yep" Braydon paused "That's Jack' apartment so we might as well get a hotel around here."

       I looked around for a hotel and didn't have too much luck. We walked for a bit and found a fairly good hotel near the street we found Jack's apartment on. I double checked I had Sam and I did. I gave my little Sam a small squeeze between my head and shoulder.

(Time skip to in the hotel)

      "Our room is number 128" Braydon said as he came over to me with his suitcase and handed me the keys. I got up and grabbed my 2 suitcases and 2 bags and headed to the elevator.
"Should be floor 3..." I mumbled and pressed '3' on the keypad of the elevator. It dinged and started moving. Then, it dinged again and the doors opened, a familiar face accompanied the freedom from the elevator.

      "Cole!" I practically yelled giving him a hug. He hugged me back and grabbed my suitcases.
"Why are YOU here?" Braydon asked.
"Because" Cole started "I think the 3 of us think alike, I came here to meet Jack and sight-see aswell!" We walked off to our room and Cole got into his room. I looked at the number, it was room 127, the one right infront of ours. The 3 of us scree'd and went into a big group hug.

(Time skip setting up everything)

      I flopped down on my bed and squeezed my Sam. So soft, I knew I had 1-2 weeks tops here to finish my goal. 'There's a goodbye for a hello' I thought again, I had those words bouncing around in my head like bouncy balls.

       "Goodbye to Canada and a hello to Ireland" I accidentally said outloud. I squeezed my Sam plush for like the 10th time in the last hour. It was SO soft so I couldn't help myself then I had another flashback from grade 6 when I fixed a laptop by shaking it.

{Flashback start}

       It was the middle of science class and Mac and Robert just finished their presentation. Braydon walked over to me with one of the old laptops and showed me a black screen with white text on it.
"Not reading the hard drive again?" I jokingly said
"Yep, same old thing" Braydon responded and held out a mouse in his hand.

       "Here's the kill switch." He handed the laptop to me and I knew what he meant by 'kill switch' the old laptop I was holding had a broken USB port, the chip in it had been ripped out somehow so, if you plugged anything into that one port the laptop, it would crash completely.

       I looked at it and searched on my laptop 'dell d830 hard disk drive not found' and a forum popped up saying that they had the same problem, they would turn on the laptop and it would start making a clicking noise then 2 beeps. It said people would shake the laptop vigorously and it would start working again.
So I did and said "Don't judge how I fix laptops!" I laughed and shaked harder.
"Time for the huge reveal" Braydon said as I opened the laptop and turned it on, no clicking noises.

       It loaded up the 'DELL' screen and acted normal still, so we kept waiting. It POST'd normally so we were grinning like mad and soon enough, Windows 7 loaded up. I wanted to hiss at the sight of the evil OS but I didn't we laughed and put it away.

{Flashback end}

     I laughed and checked the time '11pm' normally, I should be tired as heck but I wasn't as tired because I trained before we came.