This Crazy Life

Chapter 16

Gracie's POV:

Taylor and I head back to our room to take a break before the event. We're both dressed and ready to go, despite the events of this morning, I. Am. Psyched. This is my first Magcon event and it's going to be great. Mahogany agreed to tell the rest of the guys what happened, but I made her promise not to mention the mystery boy. 

I can't stop thinking about their car. They say that when we met was the first time they left the hotel, but obviously they are, or one of them is, lying. 

Taylor and I lay on the bed with his arms around me. I told him I wanted to forget the whole thing, so we just sit there in silence for a while. Then my phone rings. "Hello?"

"Hey Gracie." It's Nash.

"Oh hey, Nash."

"I'm really sorry about what happened to your friend on Friday. We didn't know."

"It's fine. She's with her grandma getting help, and I think she'll come out of this."

"She definitely will. We were all planning on going to get some breakfast before the event you and Taylor want to come?"

"Sure thing, see you in a few." 

"Later."

I tell Taylor our plans and we head over to Nash's room. I'm greeted with silence at first, then everyone comes up to hug me and we all end up laughing our heads off in a pile on the floor. We decide to eat downstairs at the hotel restaurant, because the fans are all outside just waiting for one of us to show our face. I order pancakes and apple juice. It's delicious.

After breakfast Bart joins us and we all head over to the tunnel that connects the hotel to the Convention Center, where the event is. Cameron and Hayes stick their heads out the door. The fans scream and scream, I laugh and cover my ears. 

The event is amazing. We all do our thing up on stage, a backstage worker hands me some cinnamon and two spoons. The fans have been requesting I do this in person. "CINNAMON! CINNAMON!" They chant. I grab Taylor and we each put the cinnamon on our spoons.

"1, 2, 3!" Jacob counts for us and we stick it in our mouths. I hold it in for about ten seconds and spit it out, jumping up and down like an idiot. Taylor falls over and makes noises like a dying whale. "Holy cock it burns!" He screams. The fans, as well as all the other boys, are vining us and cracking up. We run backstage to get some water.

As the main event draws to a close, each of us go to the back room for a meet and greet session. We each have a line where fans can take pictures with us, we talk to them for a little bit, then move on to the next fan. Pretty much all the guys whose girlfriends dragged them to Magon are in my line. 

I had no idea so many people watched my video, I am absolutely blown away. I take picture after picture, meeting fan after fan. 

"Hi, how are you?" 

"Nice to meet you would you like a picture?"

"Thanks for coming out."

I love this. I love meeting my fans, they mean so much for me. The meet and greet session has about five minutes left. The other guys' lines are dying down, so is mine. I look up at my next fan and drop the pen I'm holding.

It's Luke, my crazy ex-boyfriend. Blake and Ben are standing right behind him.