20 years- why dont we

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This is different to what I normally write. It was 4am and you know when it just reaches a point at night when u just randomly start thinking of really deep things? Yhea that's what happened so I wrote this. Yes I cried. I mention the Las Vegas shooting. Yes it does get deep.

Oh and you have a daughter in this. her name is Anna, she's 14 and your 32

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I stood in the kitchen, washing the dishes when suddenly my beautiful daughter Anna spoke up from her position on the couch while watching tv

"Hey Mum?" She asked getting up off the couch and walking over to me and talking a seat at the table across from me

"Yes?" I asked looking up at her

"Today marks twenty years since the Las Vegas shooting from two thousand seventeen" she said casually

I immediately stopped what I was doing and froze, memories from that day flooding back

"Really? I remember that day all to well" I replied continuing with washing the dishes again

"Yhea really. And what do you mean you remember that day all to well?" she asked curiosity filling her eyes and voice

I stopped what I was doing once again and washed my hands before walking over to Anna and pulling her over to the couch so I talk to her

"Umm where should I start? Oh I know. Ok so when I was around twelve I became obsessed with a youtuber called Logan paul who you know as one of the most successful actors. But for about 4 years he vlogged and I watched him everyday. One day in early two thousand seventeen I was watching Logans vlog like I did everyday and Logan introduced five boys. I immediately fell in love with them and later became very, very obsessed with them. That's the back story so now getting into the shooting. Those five boys were the why don't we boys; a boy band consisting of Daniel Seavey, Jack Avery, Corbyn Besson, Zach Herron and Jonah Marais. They had just gotten off their 2 month tour around America and Canada and were now on a interview tour where basically you just fly to heaps of different places to do interviews. I was going through my Instagram like anything twelve year old would and I was looking through peoples Instagram stories when I read something that said 'hashtag pray for Vegas' for about 3 seconds I didn't think much of it because it's America literally anything could have happened but after not even 5 seconds later I quickly remembered that the why don't we boys were in Vegas. I went straight onto google typed in 'Las Vegas' and everything came up. It was all the same. 'Mass shooting at country music festival' I didn't know where the boys were, what they were doing or if they were even close to it but I had a feeling they were somehow involved in it. I texted all best friends in one huge group chat (they all loved why don't we as well) and told them what was happening. All of immediately checked every social media they had. When I was looking for something one of them had tweeted, Daniels dad had tweeted something that caught my eye. Basically it said that the boys were right next to where the shooting was and were currently on lock down. By the time I finished reading it my entire body started shaking and I was extremely close to crying. I screenshoted it and sent it to my friends. We were all panicking, some of us even crying. So for the next 6 hours after that I was worried sick and couldn't bare to see their faces even if they were smiling because I would cry. I was checking the boys, their friends, family, crew that was with them, anyone who was close to them. I was checking their social medias literally every ten minuets, I'm not even joking. After a very long, painful, stressful, worrying and sad 7 hours they finally tweeted that they had just gotten out of lockdown and they were safe and heading back to California. I was extremely relieved and happy to not be constantly crying because I couldn't help but think of the worst. It definitely was and still is the most anxious, worrying, stressful and painful I've ever felt. It was so sad for me because I wouldn't be able to live without them. They made me happy when I thought I would never smile again and even saved my life more times then it should've happened" I trailed off looking at the floor not wanting Anna to see me crying.

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