Not Just A Fan

Not Just A Fan - Chapter 5

“So, Julia, I heard one of those boys in that band you like is looking for some fan. Do you know anything about that?” My mom asked me twirling spaghetti on her fork.

“I saw a few tweets. I didn’t click on the picture or anything. I just know it’s some fan.” I tried to act normal about it.
“I thought you’d be very interested since it was that Harry kid you’re always talking about.” I gave a nervous laughed and looked back at my dinner that I had barely touched. Eating was something I was never good with. I looked at Mia who was giving me an evil look from across the table. This girl. I can’t even. How are we related.

“Taylor. Eat your pasta. I’m not giving you more later.” I looked at my little sister twisting around in her seat. She could never sit still. 

“Mom.” Oh no. Mia shut up. “Have you seen the picture of the mystery girl?” Mia would ask that.

“No I haven’t someone mentioned it to me at work. She mentioned the girl was actually at the meet and greet you went to, Julia.” My mom looked at me with a smile.

“Wow what a coincidence!” I said as if I knew nothing.

“Have you heard the story of what happened.” Mia asked. Oh my god I’m going to kill her. I looked at my other siblings, they all knew what was going on except Jake, Trey, and Taylor but none of them even seemed interested.

“No. Could you tell me?” My mom asked sounding interested.

“Well-” Mia started but I cut her off.

“Nothing mom. The story is stupid. You don’t want to know.” I said hoping Mia would stop because my mom wasn’t interested.

“Let your sister finish.” My mom said sternly. I closed my eyes and leaned back in my chair. Even my father was listening now.

“Well, as I was saying, this girl at the meet and greet was talking to Harry and put her camera down and left it there by accident and he’s been trying to find her since. It’s been all over the news and twitter is going insane over it.” I didn’t know what to do now. I just sat there silently looking down at my food that I still didn’t eat.

“That’s funny. Julia, didn’t you leave your camera there?” I looked up at my mom and nodded then immediately looked back at my food.

“Want to see the picture?” Mia said pulling it up on her phone. This girl isn’t my sister anymore. She handed the phone to my mom. Here we go.

“Oh...she...she looks like...Julia. SHE IS JULIA!!!” My mother looked at me. “You didn’t know anything about this?” My mother asked shocked.

“No I knew it all. I knew I was her. I’m just not interested in being found. You know how I feel about fangirls.”

“Well, the lady I work with told me that he had in fact found you and contacted you.” She paused. “What’s going on?”

“I’ll explain.” I volunteered. My siblings were shutting up at this point because I was ready to hit them. “Mia was jokingly writing an email to him and i went to move her hand but it accidentally got sent. The he followed me and messaged me on twitter and then I was ignoring it but Tyler messaged him back because I gave him my phone without thinking and now everyone knows and the whole world knows and I don’t want to be found.” The words poured out of my mouth.

“Why don’t you want to be found?” My dad said. The first thing he said in this whole conversation.

“Dad, the fans are crazy. They’ll stalk me and send death threats, and hate me, and I don’t want to deal with that.” I explained.

“Well it looks like you’ve already been found.” My dad said. “There’s no where to hide now.” He was right. I looked down at my food again that I still hadn’t eaten.

“Can I be excused?” I asked nervously.

“Yes. Are you going to bed?” My mom asked.

“Yeah probably. I’ll see you in the morning. Good night.” Great way to end summer. Not.