In real life

Okay.

When I woke up I was alone. I was lying on a bed in a room with cream-colored walls and a nice little window looking out over a cosy neighbourhood. I had no idea were I was.

I slowly sat up in the bed and looked around. My head was throbbing and my throat felt sore and dry. My gaze eventually fell on something that could solve at least one of my problems: water. A little scream of excitement escaped my lips and I grabbed the water bottle standing on the bedside table. A few seconds later I had emptied the bottle and I sighed. It felt wonderful.

After the water was gone I realized that there were other things standing on the bedside table: a toast and a cup of tea. They were both cold but that didn't bother me, I had just realized that I was starving and the temperature of the food I was being served wasn't going to stop me from eating it.

I had just finished my meal (which had tasted like heaven to me) when I heard voices outside my door. Suddenly I remembered that I actually had no clue of who's house I was in and that frightened me a little. I curled up in the bed and hid behind the covers as I listened to the voices.

''You should go check on her, she might be awake by now'', someone said. It was a male voice. ''Me? Why not you? You are much better with people than I am, I'm just awkward'', another voice said. It was quite similar to the first one but I could still hear the difference between the two. ''No, you're not. Anyway, I need to go. I promised Louis that I was going to pick him up at the airport and I can't just back out now. You'll have to check on her'', the first one said and started to walk away. ''See you later little brother!'' he called and set of down a set of stairs. "Hey, I'm the oldest!'' the second guy called back, but he didn't get an answer. I heard him sigh. He stood outside my door in silence for a while before he opened it and stepped inside.

I couldn't believe what I saw. The guy who was standing in the doorway was someone I was quite familiar with. He had green eyes, brown hair styled in a nice quiff and wore a plain navy blue T- shirt and a pair of jeans. The times I had seen him on my laptop screen were countless. It was a guy I had fangirled over many times, and who I had never expected to walk through that door. The guy was none other than Finn Harries.

As soon as he saw me sitting up in the bed his eyes went wide.  ''Oh, hey. You're awake'', he said and blushed. "Yeah", I stuttered, "seems like it." I smiled and tried my best not to blush. Keep yourself together, I thought. He´s just a normal person. Act cool.

We both just stared at each other for a while before he blushed again and said: "Oh, I´m sorry, I haven´t even introduced myself. I´m Finn."  "I know", I blurted and immediately wanted to slap myself in the face. Why did I have to say that?

Finn looked at me in confusion. "You know?" he asked. "Yeah, I watch you and your brother´s videos on YouTube. I´m Taylor", I said and felt my cheeks grow warm. Finn smiled at me. "Cool", he said. "Then I suppose you have figured out that it was me and Jack who picked you up at the airport. You´ll get to meet him later, right now he´s at the airport. He´s picking up Louis. Do you know FunForLouis?" I nodded. Another person I was subscribed to on YouTube. "Cool", Finn said again. Then we went into another awkward silence.

After a couple of silent seconds I felt like I couldn´t wait any longer, I needed to get some answers to my questions. "So", I said, "were am I exactly?" Finns eyes went wide. "God I´m so sorry!" he exclaimed. "I forgot that I haven´t told you anything! Right now you are in Jack´s and my house, or our parent´s house anyway. We brought you here after we picked you up at the airport. At first the plan was to bring you to Zoe´s place but after you blacked out we thought it was best to get you to a safe place as fast as possible, and our house is much closer to the airport than Zoe´s. Hope you don´t mind us bringing you here."