Long Distance [An Oli White Fic]

First Day

Dedicated to my bestie Brianna for helping me with the fine details and such things! Thanks girl!! <3

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The day had finally arrived! A group of us were flying out to London over Christmas break and for my birthday, just us girls. I was turning 21 and my girlfriends had basically forced me to do something crazy and possibly stupid. So we packed up our bags, got a last minute flight to New York and then a connecting flight to London.

"This is so exciting! I've never been out of the country before!" My best friend Reagan was bouncing up and down while we slowly made our way through customs. This was a first for all of us, we all grew up in tiny towns around the Seattle area and we never had the chance or money to travel. But then college came and we all met and decided we needed to travel together. It had been in the back of our minds ever since we were little and we finally gathered enough money for us to go during the holiday break.
"If you keep jumping around they won't let us in." I joked. Reagan and I were roommies, had been since the first day of freshman year, we were juniors now, soon to be seniors. These girls were my friends from the moment I walked into Intro to Psychology.
"Aren't you excited?! We've finally be able to do this!"
"Of course I am! Were gonna do all sorts of touristy things and go sight seeing and, oh I can't wait!"
"Here you go miss." The guy checking our passports returned them and we hurried through the rest of the airport. As soon as we stepped outside, a wave of freezing air hit us like a semi. Shivering, the 6 of us flagged down a van type taxi and piled in to head to the flat we were staying in. We had planned on just a hotel but we decided we wanted to spend at least a week here so a room at a hotel would have been expensive and cramped.

"This is beautiful!" Anna, another one of us 6 girls, was over the moon. It was pretty. The flat as they call it, was just like an apartment. It had two floors, a kitchen, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a big spacious living room, and a dinning room with a long table. Two rooms were downstairs and one upstairs with a bathroom on each.
"Emmy and I get the upstairs bedroom!" Rose called out from the bedroom, already unpacking her things. The other four of us looked at each other and bolted down the hardwood stairs.
Reagan made it to one room first down a small hallway.
"Ooo, Evie and I get this one!" That's me, Evie, my actual name is Evelyn but Evie fits my personality.
I followed her into the room and was shocked, it was huge! Well as big as you can get in a small apartment in a big city. It must have been the master cause connected to it was the on suite bathroom, with a soaker tub! I've always wanted one!
"No fair! Reagan made it down the stairs first." Nat whined.
"Well that is how you race. Plus it was all chance, we didn't know it would be the master but I guess we're just lucky."
"It's alright, this room is plenty big for us, we don't take up much space." That was Anna, always playing peacekeeper.
"Well you don't, but Nat does." Natalie laughed and nodded her head.
"Oh well."
So we all set out to unpack and explore the hidden treasures, but there wasn't anything real special. There were extra blankets and pillows and even an air mattress, some utensils in the kitchen for cooking like pots and pans, forks and the like. In the living room, a huge wrap around couch sat in front of a big flat screen tv. Inside the tv stand were some movies, but overall it was mostly our stuff taking over the place.

"So, since it's around 9, do we want to order pizza and watch a movie?" I asked them. They had sprawled out on the couch, limbs all intertwined, playing on their phones.

"There's Bridesmaids in there." Rose piped up. We would watch Bridesmaids whenever we needed a pick-me-up or someone was down.

"Ooo, yeah!" A chorus of yes's and woohoo's answered.

"Ok, Emmy and Rose go grab every blanket and pillow you can find, Nat and Anna find some popcorn and Evie and I will go try to locate a pizza place. We wont be long." The girls scrambled off the couch, Nat fell on the floor in the process and we could still hear the laughter as Reagan and I walked out into the cold.

"One large pepperoni, one large cheese and 3 2 liter sodas please." Turns out a pizza joint was just around the corner. Unfortunate for them.

"What kind of soda would you like?" The guy working the counter asked. I looked at Reagan but I knew our usuals.

"A Mountain Dew, and Orange, and a Dr. Pepper."

"That'll be 22.93 pounds." I paid, having switched all our money to euros when we arrived. Then we sat at one of the tables in a corner and just talked. It was normal girl talk, college, how excited we were to be there, if we would meet any cute guys. You know, normal stuff. It didn't take long however for our food to be ready and then we were off.

The rest of that night was kind of a blur. We ate, after not having eaten a whole lot all day we were kinda hungry, and then we all passed out watching our movie. It didn't take much to be honest, once we threw aside the pizza boxes and settled in, 3 on the floor and 3 on the couch, I decided on the couch.

And then I dreamt. Dreamt that a handsome prince came and took me away to live in a palace and we danced at a ball, and then screaming? Why was someone screaming? The shouted "Wake up! Wake up!" at me.

"Evie! Get up! Come one, you're gonna waste the whole day! Get your ass in gear!"I woke up to Reagan jumping on m, yelling in my ear.

"Okay! Okay! I'm up! Jesus...What do you want? It's like 8 am.."

"We have a surprise for you." They all grinned and I couldn't tell if it was because they were happy or if it was because I was about to be pranked. I glared at them skeptically. "Oh come on Eve, it's a good surprise, promise." Reagan held an envelope in her hand and eagerly tossed it to me. Inside was a pile of tickets.

"No way! You guys got me VIP passes to meet Joe, Caspar, and Oli?!"

"Yeah! We wanted to make sure your birthday is the best! Plus, you cant go to London and not meet your idols."

"Oh, you guys! Thank you sooo much!" I hugged all of them in turn.

"Now go get ready. We're leaving soon for a day of pampering!" Indeed, it was my birthday and it was going to be a great day.

So I got ready in a cute but comfy outfit. It consisted of black skinnys, a long sleeve light blue button down, a marroon scarf and tan ankle boot heels. I was perfect for walking around London. Then I did my makeup and tied my hair into a messy top knot and I was ready to go.