Come With Me: World Tour // Lady Gaga

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"Okay, so your suggesting that I go down into the crowd and the first person I see I ask to go out shopping with me." I say. After hurtfully rejected by my old best friend I was a bit upset for a few days. So Steff decided that to cheer me up I had to go out and make a new friend. How would I do this. Well Steff wanted me to go out into the crowd of fans waiting outside of the hotel and pick one out to go shopping with me.

"Yes exactly." She replies.

"But I don't even want to go shopping." I protest.

"Well what do you want to do then."

"I don't know." I whinge

"So shopping it is. Off you go." She follows me out of the building as I go down to the fans eagerly waiting outside in hopes of seeing Gaga.

Steff doesn't come outside with me but watches from the lobby as I go out.

Everyone starts cheering as I go out suspecting Gaga will soon follow.

I stubbornly pick a random teenager from the crown and go up to them. It's a girl with long hair with blue highlights. She is a little bit shorter than me but she looks a little bit older than me. She is still taller than Steff without heels. They start to have a mini heart attack as I approach them.

"OhMyGoshILoveYouSoMuch. YouAreSoAmazingAndPretty. PleaseWillYouBeMyBestfriend." I don't know how long I can be around someone who thinks of me like this. I am just a regular person. Not some sort of idol like Steff is. She's the one that puts all of the effort. But I want to do what Steff said.

"I guess we could try." I say.

She looks at me shocked for a couple of seconds. "What do you mean."

"Would you like to come shopping with me." I say with a smile. It feels good to make someone happy. Even if they are happy for the wrong reason.

She has a mini melt down. "Are you serious." She cries, "You actually want to go shopping with me."

"I'm absolutely serious." I say. "So is that a yes."

"Oh my gosh. YES YES YES." She screams. People start gathering around to see what's happening.

I give Steff a thumbs up to tell her I found someone that will come. She started to leave the building. We took the girl out into the car we were going to the shops in. Steff sat in the back with us while a chauffer drove us.

"So what's your name?" Steff asks her.

"Niera." She says. "I know your names."

Wow way to be creepy. I don't know why I'm so upset about this but I think it's because I hate being treated like I'm famous. It just feels so wrong. It also reminds me of the way Steff and I have absolutely no privacy. But I think it's really just the way I'm not treated like a normal person. I now really understand what Steff meant when she said pretty much the same thing. I just want to be treated like the person I am, not the person everyone thinks I am.

We arrive at a shopping centre.

"Okay, you crazy kids go off on your own. Just ring me when your finished and I will come and pick you up."

I go off shopping with Niera. We aren't able to have a proper conversation because the whole time she is just talking about how much she loves me and how much she loves Gaga and how much she knows about the two of us. Which is honestly just really creepy and definitely does not make me want to be friends with her. I feel like she thinks that by showing me her vast knowledge on my personal life I will want to be friends with her more. But honestly the more she knows the more I want to get away.

Steff eventually meets up with us and we go off back home.

"So Alice, would you like Niera to come over for a sleepover." Steff asks while we're all in the car.

Niera starts to get really exited. She starts going on about how awesome it is, how exited she is, how much this means to her and how it's a complete dream come true.

So I feel so so bad to say what I'm about to say.

"Actually Steff aren't we going to have dinner with Cynthia." I say.

"Alice Cynthia is over in New York." Steff says looking at me confused.

I nudge her. "I can't believe you forgot she was coming over today." I say.

"Oh right." She says in an understanding voice. "I did forget."

"I can't believe I'm going to meet your mum as well." Niera says looking at Steff.

"Um actually Niera, we haven't seen her in a really long time and I think it would be best if we spent some time with her alone." She says.

I feel really bad as I watch her face drop. "Oh I understand." She says.

"Don't worry. I'm sure you will see each other soon." Steff says as she pulls into Niera's drive way.

She takes her in before returning back to the car with me.

"So it looks like that didn't go so well." Steff asks.

"It was horrible." I say, "I hated it so much."

"Maybe I shouldn't have forced you to make friends with a fan. But you know Alice. Sometimes I don't want to go out and see all of the fans and let them take photos with me and talk to them. Sometimes I just really want to be alone for a while. But I still do it anyway because I know that those 5 seconds of my time mean more than the world to that person. And if I can't give up 5 seconds of my time to make someone happy what kind of person am I."

"I know I know." I said, "I tried, but I was just so sick of the way she treated me like I was some sort of idol or something. I just wanted to have a normal conversation but all she could talk about was how much she loved me and you and how much she knows about us. It just felt so wrong. I just wanted to be treated like a normal person." I say.

"I know, I know, believe it or not I know exactly how you feel. The problem is that to that person you are an idol. You shared with her and the world your life story. And that is one of the greatest gifts you can give someone. So yeah unfortunately she sees you as an idol."

"I just don't get it." I say, "I don't deserve to be seen as an idol. I didn't do anything. I'm not like you or Ghandi or Obama. I didn't do anything. I shouldn't be seen as an idol or someone you want to follow." I say.

"I shouldn't have forced you to make friends with a fan. I'm sorry." Steff says.

"No it's okay. You were right. I should hang out with more people my own age. But next time I just want to do it with someone who doesn't know who I am. I want to be Alice Germanotta. Not Lady Gaga's daughter."

L/G

Do you have any idea about what Alice's next friend will be like.

P.s shoutout to mamiwrites for kinda getting when we met Cara right.