Hidden ~ A joe sugg fanfiction

Chapter 20

Ashleys POV
The drive home was awkward. We didn't say a word to eachother, which was weird. I'm not used to it being this way with Joe.

We exited the car and strolled towards my house. I had decided that I'm going to spend the rest of the morning with my friends before heading off to the signing at vidcon.
As we entered the house everyone turned our way. Probably expecting us to walk in hand in hand or something. Instead we went separate ways without saying a word to eachother to get ready for the day ahead.

After I had changed into a fresh pair of clothes and took a quick shower, I headed downstairs to leave. Jenn followed behind me. Troye and Connor also followed us out as we waved to everyone and told them where we were going and what time we would be back. I just need some time with my closest friends before walking back into the house which only brings me stress now.

After a 20 minute car ride to our favourite cafe which mostly consisted of us singing along to high school musical songs, we finally arrived. I parked right outside. My parallel parking is on point, I must say.

We each exited and walked through the wooden, glass panelled door, clasping our phones. I walked in behind Jenn, Connor and troye. Sandra the owner greeted us with the same warm smile that I've become so used to. We're here most days so she knows exactly what to get us and she often can't help but join in on the conversation when she delivers us the steaming hot cups of coffee. Sandra is a couple years older than us, but she still loves the whole YouTube scene and often offers to help us film.

The four of us sat in our usual spot. A small table that sits in the corner next to the large front window. It's our favourite spot. I love watching people go by. Each minding their own business. A life of their own. It's here that Connor often gets inspiration for his artsy videos. I love them. And he knows it. I chuckle at the thought.

I glance at my phone. 11:45 am. It's been an eventful morning.
We begin to talk about our schedules for the day. Me, Jenn and Connor have a meet up at the same time, but not together unfortunately. Our fans know us as the four best friends so it's a little disappointing that we won't be together but at least I'll most likely be with one of my best friends from the British crew which I'm super excited about. They have to pair us up because there's so many fans here this year. It's surreal. Troye is doing a performance on the main stage at 2:00pm; an hour or so after our meet ups so he might pop by and surprise the fans.

5 minutes go by and the sound of Sandra's vans itching across the line floor cause us all to look up in excitement. She puts the cups of coffee down in front of us and pulls a chair next to Jenn and Connor.

"Sandra thanks so much for the coffee, you know I love it" Connor says with his cute grin.

"What can I say? I'm master coffee maker" she jokes and it causes us all to laugh.
"Any ways" she continues. "What have you guys got planned for today? You guys got that vidcon thing?"

"Yep it's gonna be a long day" troye chuckles.

"I bet it will be, but at least you can still hang out with these three lunatics" she laughs.

This is what I've missed while I was in England. My time in London was rather short lived. Joe and Caspar were constantly at meetings. Caspar called me a mole as I basically lived in my pyjamas most of the time. After all I was really just there for Troye but I loved staying with jaspar. Joe never stopped apologising for not hanging out with me often. I told him it was fine but he felt bad so he would force me to stay up past 3am to watch scary movies with him. It was his way of spending as much time with me as he could. Of course he didn't realise that he was going to be spending his time in la at my house at that point.

Everyone else was stressing about vidcon. Troye had a couple of shows in the uk so I went to all of them of course. But then he had shows in Paris and Madrid so I hung out with Oli most of the time. I guess you could say that me and Oli have grown considerably closer in the last few weeks but I haven't seen him all day and I feel bad. I mentally remind myself to text him and take him to in n out since I know how much he loves it.

"Hey Ashley, how's you and Joe?" Jenn winks at me.
"Ummmm... Great?"
They all laugh at my response.

"Did anything happen today?" Troye asks straight up.

"No, some stupid security guard kicked us off the mountain. Apparently we were trespassing" I rolled my eyes.

"So you like him?" Connor asks.
"You know the answer to that" I state as if it was obvious and at that moment, Joe and the rest of the British crew stroll in.