Viral Summer

1 | spiders, deep waters and plane booting

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Spiders, deep waters and getting kicked off a plane. These were the three worst fears of Ava Avan. Fears that she had no plans of conquering what so ever. Avoiding her problems was more of her forte.

"Ladies I'm so sorry but you seem to be seated in these gentlemen's seats", the flight attendant said, motioning to the group of middle-aged men behind her.

"Oh shit", Ava breathed. She could already see it, her and her friends getting dragged out by huge security guards as everyone else filmed. Then someone would post the video to Facebook, her dad would see it and that would be it. She would never be allowed outside again until she was 30.

Okay, maybe she was being a little dramatic. But she was prepared for a long, relaxing flight, not confrontation. Ava could barely ask for extra ketchup at McDonald's without pissing her pants, let alone deal with confrontation.

Someone who could deal with confrontation though, was Ava's best friend, Scarlet, who did not miss a beat.

"Yeah, I don't think so", Scarlet averred, reaching into her purse to pull out their flight tickets, "We're definitely in the correct seats.

The attendant took the tickets from her hands and glazed over them, furrowing her eyebrows, "You're right. Just give me a minute and I'll sort this all out."

Both parties gave her approving nods before she left into the staff's quarter.

So far, the 'fun summer cheer camp' with her four best friends wasn't going too well. First, they almost left the bag containing all their debit cards in the uber on the way to the airport, now they have the chance of being kicked off the plane. All this and they hadn't even stepped foot in LA yet.

"What's going on?" Madeline said peeping her head through the middle of the seats.

"Jetstar is a piece of shit," Scarlet said, gaining an even more confused look from Madeline.

"What she's trying to say, is that the flight might be overbooked", Ava explained.

"Oh my god that's so crazy", Brie says from the seat behind her, "You were literally just talking about your fear of getting booted off a plane, too."

On the hour-long Uber ride to the airport, Ava was so anxious over the possibility of her third worst fear happening that she had to take calming pills.

"Mmhmm", Ava muttered, wanting to be anywhere than her current situation, "I think I jinxed us."

Ava felt a cold hand squeeze her shoulder, "Don't overthink it too much, babe", Madeline said, "What are the chances?"

High, apparently.

Because the flight was overbooked, and they were asked to leave the airplane (as the men had booked their tickets a few days before them). Scarlet made sure to leave some interesting parting words to the flight attendant as they left, though. To sum it up quickly, the world record for the number of fucks said in a minute was probably broken.

To make matters even shittier, the flights next few flights were so full that they had to split into two groups; Ava and Kacey on one flight and the remaining girls on the other. Though on the slightly bright side, they were all upgraded to first-class and Ava could tick one of her three fears off the list.

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"Do you smell that Ava?" Kacey asked as they were loading their carry-on luggage into the overhead carriages.

Ava took a sniff of her atmosphere, without detecting a stand out smell, "No? What is it?"

"Soap", Kacey plopped down into her lush leather seat, "what an upgrade. I could really cry right now."

Ava let out a laugh, her anxiousness from the previous flight encounter now long gone. As she began to follow suit in seat plopping, something, or rather someone, in her peripheral vision made her take a second glance.

Holy shit.

In the seat exactly behind and one to the right of her's was Connor Francis. The YouTuber, Connor Francis. The Connor Francis that Ava had become obsessed with over the past few months.

As if she was some sort of ninja, Ava swooped down into her seat, pulling Kacey's arm to get closer to her.

"Ow! What the fuck, Ava?" Kacey grimaced, rubbing her arm.

Through her teeth, Ava half-muttered, half-whispered "Connor Francis is behind us right now."

"Huh?"

"Connor Francis. Behind us."

"What?"

"Connor. Francis."

"Sis, speak up I can't hear you at all."

"Fuck's sake" Ava exasperated, grabbing her phone and opening up the notes app.

Ava quickly typed out 'Connor! Francis! Is sitting behind us!!!'

Kacey turned her head to see, peeping from in between the seats. She then took Ava's phone into her hands and wrote back 'Who is that lmao'.

Ava greeted Kacey with a face of either disappointment or disgust, maybe both.

'He's the YouTuber I've been talking about for months, bitch'

'Hoe you talk about a lot of a fucking celebrities'

"I'm gonna tell Brie, she'd care, unlike someone." Ava stuck her tongue out at Kacey, texting her other friend in all caps.

Brie responded in less than three seconds, 'OMFGGGG NO WAY TAKE A PIC'.

"You look like a shitty paparazzi", Kacey munched on her first-class cashew nuts as she watched Ava test out 'discreet' camera angles.

Oblivious to what was happening in the seat one in front and one to the left of him, Connor Francis was seemingly asleep. Seated next to him, was his publicist and best friend, Jonah Seo, who was drifting in and out of sleep in the midst of writing up yet another copyright strike claim to YouTube.

"And you look like a fucking hibernating squirrel", Ava retaliated, seeing how Kacey shoved five cashews in her mouth at once. To which, Kacey responded with flicking the bird.

With one hand jammed between the middle of two seats and awkwardly angled to capture Connor's face, Ava simultaneously pressed the buttons on her phone and took a picture.

A picture, that was taken with flash on.

The bright light lit right in Connor Francis's face, with the flash sound deafening to anyone in a one-metre radius.

Upon seeing her friend do this, Kacey let out a loud, mouth gaping laugh, spitting chewed up cashews everywhere. Ava would have kicked Kacey for getting nut infested spit on her new Adidas tights, if it wasn't for something else.

That something being the fact that Connor Francis was actually not asleep and was now making direct eye contact with her. If looks could kill, Ava have died right there. Unfortunately for her, that wasn't the case.

And maybe, Ava just developed a new third worst fear. 

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YEET smashed this out in 2 hours at Starbucks what up