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Chapter Thirty-One

I wake up to the noise of an iPhone camera.
"Shit", I hear Dan mumble.
"Not this time, Howell", I say and turn to him: "What time is it?"
"3 pm here.", he replies, "should we start getting ready?"
"Yea."

Dan and I are both dressed and showered at 5 pm.
I come out of the bathroom when I finish getting ready.
"Wow that shirt looks amazing on you.", he says while I stand in front of the mirror.
"Thank you. I actually don't even remember where I got- Oh.", I start my sentence but soon realize that I was wearing Dan's shirt I stormed out in on New Year's Day since I can see him in the reflection, laughing.
Dan comes over and hugs me from behind.
"I'm sorry, I forgot. I can wash it and give it back to you.", I start again but get interrupted by him: "No, no. I was just joking. It looks way better on you, keep it."
I turn around to now give a proper hug: "I promise that I'll wear it with pride."

***

Dan takes me to this little Italian place, not to far from our hotel.
After we sit down, I ask: "What's everyone else doing anyway?"
"Literally sleeping."
"Sounds, good.", I say while I yawn.

"That was goood", Dan says, holding his stomach after the meal.
"It made me even more tired.", I answer and yawn, yet again.
"Wanna go back? We could go to times square if you'd like?"
"Ohmygod, yes please."

Dan calls the waiter and pays for both of our meals while also leaving a generous tip.
"I really could have paid, you've done enough for me already.", I say and get out my wallet to give him money. But before I can even properly reach in, Dan grabs it from me: "Promise me not to try and pay me back or I'll keep this...", he waves my wallet, "... the whole time we're here."
Before I can say anything in response he says again: "Promise?". So I sigh and nod.

***

Dan and I leave the restaurant and make our way to times square.
"Fuck", Dan mumbles besides me.
"What?"
"I have to do a liveshow tonight. I totally forgot."
"Oh that's fine, we can come here another day."
"You su-", Dan begins but quickly gets interrupted by two young girls who come up to him: "Oh my god, are you Dan?", the older one asks.
"Um- yes that's me! How are you?", he responds.
"Oh my god, I'm so exited! Can we take a picture?"
"Oh yea sure!", he says and takes a picture with them.
I'm just awkwardly standing besides and watching them take the pictures.
After they finish, they younger one turns to me: "Are you his girlfriend?"
"Oh- um, no I'm not, just a friend.", I definitely didn't expect such a straight forward question.
Dan just laughs it off and comes back to me after they say goodbye: "Well that was a bit awkward, wasn't it?"
"Eh, yea, I'd call it that."

We arrive back at our hotel at around 8 pm, just in time for his live stream.

"Heellloo from America! How are you guys?", he shouts with a horrific New York accent."Yes, Gabby, I know my accent is horrible.", he laughs and takes a sip of his water. "'Where's Phil?', well Phil and I are actually two seperate people so I have no Idea where he is. No, Melia, we don't share a room.", he says, ignoring the questions about me and who he is sharing it with.
"Well, I haven't actually seen much of new york because we fell asleep, then went out to dinner and came back directly to our room- um- yea. Oh no, not Phil and I, I was with a friend.", he says and looks over to me. "'Who's in the room with you?', Kat asks. You guys are literally stalkers.
I'm with my friend. No, sh- they won't come on here.
Alright, alright guys. Let's get back to the *important* stuff. There will be a new video in 30 minutes, it's a support group one."

He finishes the broadcast about 30 minutes later and comes over to me.
"Wow Howell. Great job at covering up.", I say sarcastically.
"I'm sowy, I literally had no idea what to say.", he plants himself next to me.
"I know, don't worry."
"They kept asking about you though, d'you think you'll ever come on my channel?"
"Well I debuted today, didn't I?"
"Oh shit, I forgot about that. They're probably going mad.", he says and pulls out his phone, "Yep, spamming my twitter, some are even suspecting that it's you."
"Are they- like, mean?"
"Not at all, they um, say that they want to meet you because you're apparently funny. I strongly disagree."
"Love you too, and I don't think I would mind, if they're nice."
He gasps: "You being serious?! Yeees mate, you're coming on my channel!"

***

DAN'S P.O.V:

Ok, not everyone is being super nice, but the majority of people are.

There are also a lot of speculations regarding who actually was in the video.

So I tweet: "yes that's Y/N in the video, she's not that funny tbh, but who wants a video with her?"

Right when I post that I feel a poke in my back. "Thanks, appreciate that."

"You're welcome", I turn over to her, "what should we film though? The girlfriend tag?", I suggest, jokingly.
"Oh yea definitely.", she responds and sighs.
"What?"
"Can you- like- stop being flirty, you know what we said."
"I know... Just joking. ", I say and my smile drops.
"Come here", she says and forms my mouth to a smile.
I grab her waist and pull her in for a hug.