It was a few days later and Zoe and I were still in London. Almost everyone had gone home but we wanted to stay at a hotel near the hospital so we could go and visit Dan whenever we wanted to. He would have to stay at the hospital for two weeks to allow for his leg to heal. They had almost had to amputate it but Dan was so strongly against it they were able to keep it on. The downside was he had to stay at the hospital for absoutely ages.
Phil was at the hospital from the second it opened to the second it closed. It made me sad, but him being there made Dan happy which I guess made all of us happy.
When Zoe and I had first got our hotel room we were surprised to see that there were two twin beds instead of a queen like we had requested. Of course I was the one who had to go down and tell them and that was fixed within minutes. It made me laugh that we were sharing a hotel room and a bed when not less than a year ago when we stayed at hotels we didn't even stay on the same floor.
This morning when I woke up I was freezing and quickly got up to walk over and pull on my jumper. Zoe was sleeping soundly in the bed and I didn't bother waking her up. Then I remembered that it was the first of December. Vlogmas.
I smiled when I remembered. This was something that Zoe had been waiting to do for ages. Tanya and Jim had done it last year but Zoe had only just started vlogging back then and didn't want to take on so much, so she decided not to. This year though she was all fire.
I walked over to my bag which was leaned up against the window. I pulled out my small vlogging camera as well as my phone. I had a text from Phil.
P- 'Dan is leaving the hospital now. Can we come to your hotel for a bit? What's the address?'
The text was from only a few minutes ago so I quickly sent him back a text telling him where the hotel was and what our room number was. I then set my phone down on the windowsill and turned on the vlogging camera.
It took a few minutes to boot up because I hadn't used it in ages. I was disappointed to see that it had such a low charge. I wouldn't be able to vlog much today before having to plug it in. Oh well, I would vlog a bit of the morning and then just set it down for a bit.
I faced the camera towards me and pressed record. I was talking to the camera for a little bit when I had the brilliant idea to wake up Zoe on camera. She would be so happy that I had remembered that it was Vlogmas.
I walked over to her with the camera still on record and shook her softly.
"Zoe, wake up," I said softly at first. She didn't budge so I started to nudge her a little bit more. "Zoe, I'm vlogging," I said a little bit more loudly. "Little one?" I asked worried that she wasn't waking up. At the sound of 'little one' though her eyes perked up. And let me tell you it was so adorable I could barely stand it.
"Hmm?" she said confused rubbing her eyes and looking at the camera. "Alfie, don't!" she moaned in her morning voice; she pulled her pillow out from under her head and held it up to the camera so it wasn't showing her face. I just laughed before turning the camera off. I set it carefully on the dresser and smiled at her.
She was still holding up the pillow so she couldn't see me.
"Are you still filming?" she asked without moving the pillow at all.
"No."
"Are you sure?" she asked moving the pillow down a little bit so only her eyes were showing. They moved from my face to the camera and back to me again. "Good, don't film me in the morning, I look ugly!" she moaned tossing the pillow aside.
"Sorry little one, but it's Vlogmas!" I said cheerily.
Zoe just smiled at me and stood up walking to the bathroom. I guess she was going to look more presentable so she could started vlogging. I could see the excitement in her face. Right as the door to the bathroom clicked my phone went off. I picked it up and read the text from Phil.
They were on there way.
I sent back a text telling them I was excited to see them and that we would be vlogging it for Vlogmas. Phil sent another text back saying how excited he was as well. I just smiled, life was more fun if you got excited over things.
I leaned back in the chair was sitting in and closed my eyes. I had woken up early, which was unusual for me. I was ususally the last one up. I was about to fall asleep when the bathroom door opened. I looked up to see Zoe. Hair and makeup done. She had even managed to get dressed. I didn't remember seeing her take clothes into the bathroom.
"How do I look?" she asked walking over to her bag and pulling out her vlogging camera.
"Gorgeous," I said with a smile as she turned the camera on.
Happy Boxing Day!!!! ^_^ xxx
