YouTube Neighbors

Chapter 14

                  

I wake up again in my plain room with my plain white walls and an undecorated room.

I look at my phone, not ready to get out of bed yet. I furrow my eyebrows in confusion, I haven't had so many notifications in my life. People commenting on my Instagram, mentioning me in tweets, even my face books has countless notifications.

I get out of bed and head to Kyara's room where she is sleeping on the floor. She's still asleep of course so I tip toe in and grab her phone. It's also been rampaged with notifications. I nudge Kyara awake.

"Hey look at this" I say showing her both of the phones.

"What the hell?" Kyara says just as confused as I am. I open my phone to look what people are saying and why this is happening when I hear a frantic knocking at our door.

"This day keeps on getting weirder and weirder" I say to Kyara and get up to open the door. I skip down the stair nearly tripping over as the knocker knocks again. I open the door to see a wide eyed Dan.

"Dan, what's up?" I say confused.

"Have you seen anything?" Dan asks anxiously.

"I've only seen that I have heaps of notifications in my phone if that's what you mean" I say clueless.

"Yeah those, get Kyara off her phone now" Dan says. I run up the stairs worried to see Dan in such urgency.

"Kyara get off your phone" I say when I'm in her door frame.

"Too late" she says putting her phone down, visibly upset.

"What happened" I say and sit on the bed.

"Joe posted a photo" she says.

"Which one?" I ask already knowing it was from last night.

"The one in the London eye" She says.

The one where Dan and I got a bit too cosy and Kyara and Joe as well I'm guessing. Dan comes up in the door frame seeing already how the scene unfolded.

"Are you okay Kyara?" Dan says in a low voice.

"I don't know" Kyara says. I hug Kyara.

"It'll be alright" I say holding her tightly.

"Let's just forget about it for now" She says trying to reassure me she's alright. We all go down for breakfast and Kyara starts chopping up some fruit for her muesli.

"Would you like anything?" I ask Dan.

"No I'll be fine. Do you guys want my number though? Just in case I'm not home. For moral support" Dan rambles.

"Yeah sure" I say giving him my phone to type the digits in and then Kyara's. I text him a 'Thanks for the moral support' on my phone so he gets my number. Kyara texts him something as well.

"I'll see you guys soon" Dan says waving. I follow Dan to the door.

"Thanks for the warning, even if it was a bit late for Kyara" I smile at him.

"I think everyone forgets how people react when we post certain things even Joe, it'll probably die down soon though" Dan says smiling sadly.

"I'll text you if anything goes wrong and I'm sure that Joe will clear things up" I smile. We say our goodbyes and I head back into the kitchen were Kyara slowly chews her granola.

"How bad was it?" I ask sadly.

"There were so many of them and they were all so hateful on everyone's accounts. Mine, Joe's, Dan's, yours and even Caspar and Ollie, it just happened so fast. They were being so mean, saying things like 'kill yourself', why would people say that?" She says and I shake my head in disbelief. I start to grab myself some breakfast.

"Is Joe still coming over?" I ask.

"Yeah, he feels terrible" She says.

"That happiness was short lived" I laugh.

"Yeah" Kyara says laughing to. I get my phone and turn of the notifications to all of my social media sites for now.

"You should turn off all of the notifications for your social media stuff" I suggest to Kyara.

"Yeah I already have" Kyara says.

"I'm just going to have a quick shower and get dressed okay?" I say.

"Yeah I will too, I feel grotty from last night" She says walking to her shower. We both get dressed and have a shower.

"Let's set up your bed so you actually have somewhere to sleep" I say.

"Yeah that would be good" Kyara says. We start to set up the bed.

"These instructions do not get any easier" Kyara says squinting at the sheet.

"No they do not" I say.

Laying out all the pieces of wood. We manage to set up the bed after trying to figure out what the instructions were saying after a long period of time we managed to make a bed that wouldn't fall apart.

"Now at least we have the basics of furniture set up" I say.

"We don't even have a couch" Kyara laughs.

"You know what I mean" I say rolling my eyebrows. I hear knocking on the door and Kyara jumps up.

"I'm guessing by that reaction that's your boyfriend" I say teasing.

"He is not my boyfriend" Kyara says walking to get the door.

"Well I'm not the only person to think that" I shout after her.

"Whatever" she shouts. I hear her open the door and greet Joe.

I go down stairs waiting around the corner to see what their talking about.

"I'm so sorry about everything and everyone. I was just having fun and I didn't think about what could unfold because of it and it was just such a good photo" Joe says sadly it may even sound like a plea.

"It's fine. It's not your fault that people act like this. You shouldn't have to watch everything you post just because of some assumptions and mean people" Kyara says.

'How much have you seen of it?" Joe asks.

"Only some nasty Instagram comments but I'll get over them" Kyara answers.

"Has Ella seen anything?" Joe asks.

"No, Dan came over to stop us from looking and Ella was the one who answered the door so she had no damage done. At least not yet" Kyara says. I step around the corner. And come down a few stairs.

"Hey Joe" I smile.

"Hey Ella, have you heard you two are practically internet famous" Joe says.

"Who says we weren't before" I say flipping my hair dramatically. Joe and Kyara laugh.

"I'm sorry I didn't recognise you, can I get a picture" Joe said doing and impersonation of a fan which was us not too long ago.

"No, you'll just have to wait" I say.