YouTube Neighbors

Chapter 21

I wake up with a sudden jolt as the bed shakes with the sudden weight on it.

"AMANDA'S COMING TODAY!!!" Kyara screeches.

"Not for the next freaking hours, I can sleep in" I moan and roll over covering my head with my pillow.

"Oh don't be such Debbie downer and lets set up the TV" Kyara says bouncing on the bed.

"Why set up the TV now? And aren't I meant to be the morning person? You usually don't get up before 9:00 am" I roll over to look at her.

"Well Amanda's arrival has got me a little more excited than usual I hardly slept for god's sake" Kyara says talking me.

"Ugh fine I'm getting up, what even is the time anyway" I say rolling out of bed onto the carpet.

"7:00am" Kyara says looking at her phone. I hold my hand out for Kyara to come over and pull me up.

"We should get surround sound" Kyara says out of the blue.

"Why? And where did that come from?" I question thumping down the stairs.

"So we can experience Teen Wolf at the fullest" Kyara says.

"I'm willing to turn that offer down if it's $1000" I say.

"Well it's only £500" Kyara says winking.

"Ugh same thing" I say. We grab the TV box and drag it into the living room

"Fuck this is heavier than it looks" Kyara says.

"Fucking tell me about it" I agree. We sit on the blow up mattress with a huff.

Kyara stabs the top of the box with a knife and drags it across opening it. We carefully lift the TV out of the box and then grab what seems like a thousand other cords that comes with it.

"Oh look here's the instructions" Kyara says unfolding them. Our eyes go wide as the instructions go from her shoulders to the bottom of her knees.

"Fuck me sideways" I say my mouth dropping open.

"I'd prefer not" Kyara says and starts to try and figure out the instructions. A frustrating 3 hours goes by and we eventually figure out the mostly Japanese instructions. I lie on the couch with a huff.

"This better be the best TV ever, it took long enough to set up" I say.

Kyara picks up the remote and presses the on button a few times with the TV staying blank.

"WHY WON'TTHIS FUCKING TV WORK" Kyara yells.

"Does it have batteries in it?" I ask.

"Oh, yeah, no" Kyara realises.

"I'll be back, I'll just see if Dan and Phil have some" Kyara says.

"Kyara we can't just ask them for everything because I doubt they'll want to be friends with us or neighbours with us if we ask for stuff everyday" I call to her.

"It's just some batteries, I'll just be a second" Kyara says waving me off.

I scroll through my phone checking my snapchat etc., until Kyara comes back five minutes later carrying the two batteries that we need.

"They were fine with it and even asked if I we needed anymore help" Kyara smiles at me.

"I just feel a bit weird about it okay, I don't want to look too clingy and weird in the first like, week" I say.

"Well they're fine with it and we've already been weird and clingy so task failed" Kyara says opening the remote and slotting the batteries in.

"Oh by the way I also invited them to pick up Amanda at the airport, she'll be so surprised she doesn't even know we met them yet!" Kyara says clapping her hands excitedly.

"You might as well ask them to live with us!" I say.

"Good idea, I should also ask Joe, Casper and Ollie to come" Kyara smiles at me again and turns the TV on which finally lights up the TV logo coming on the screen.

"I was joking!" I say.

"Too bad I wasn't, the text is sent and now it's only 13 hours until blobby comes!" Kyara claps once again.

I fill with excitement as I think of Amanda coming in a few hours and how surprised she will be if everyone came.

Kyara and I watch X-Factor re-runs for an hour and a half, making snarky comments and choosing the contestants we love and hate based on exaggerated back stories, style and of course their voice.

"Hey do you want to bake some cupcakes?" I ask Kyara.

"Yeah they could be a nice welcome to the UK present, I must warn you though, I don't cook that kind of thing" Kyara says.

"Well I'll be there to help, what kind of cupcake do you want to cook?" I ask.

"I don't know what ever you think we could cook" Kyara says.

"Let's cook red velvet cupcakes" I say starting to google the recipe.

"I don't know, aren't they hard to make?" Kyara asks.

"Nah taste.com even says the difficulty is easy" I say scrolling through to read the recipe.

"We even got baking stuff the other day we just need to get some things from the store like bicarb soda and cream cheese for the icing" I say.

"Okay hopefully we don't mess them up then" Kyara says,

"Nah it'll be fine, you have an experienced baker here" I say gesturing to myself.

"Says the person who forgot to put eggs into their cake" Kyara says.

"Hey that was only one time" I defend.

"Well let's not repeat history" Kyara says.

We walk to a corner shop that's close by and get the rest of the things we need for the cakes and walk back. I hear Kyara's phone buzz as I unlock the door.

"Hey were going to have dinner at the airport with everyone before Amanda gets off her flight" Kyara says as she types back a text on her phone.

"It's like you guys have this secret group chat or something" I say to her as we enter the flat.

"That's a good idea" Kyara says.

"We'll make it later, we have to do baking now" I say as I toss the plastic bag of stuff on the kitchen bench.

"Fine, what's the first step" Kyara says as she washes her hands.

"Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees" I say, reading the instructions from my phone.

We clumsily make our way through the recipe with only some misunderstandings. But we eventually get them in the oven and make the icing and clean the dirty dishes up in the time the cupcakes are in the oven (I know responsible right), and ice them after they cool down.

"We better get ready everyone's going to be here in about an hour" Kyara says as I finish icing the last cupcake.

"Okay let me put them on a pretty plate and then I'll have a shower" I say.

"Okay I'll leave you to it" Kyara says and leaves to have her own shower.

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