Internet Friends // Matthew Espinosa

Chapter 3

I wake up and check my phone. 8:40. I should probably go so I can get a good spot in line.

I change into a white top, black skirt, elite socks, black Converse, slipped on my wristbands, wrote the members' names on my wrist and straightened my long, brown hair.

I had a text from Matt.

'aye u coming?'

I texted back.

'on my way ill be there in two minutes.'

When I got to Matt's room, there were like 9 girls talking to a security guard.

"You Nicole?" the guard asked.

"Yeah."

"Knock on the door, they'll let you on in." he steps aside talking to the girls.

I am about to knock on the door and I hear laughing in the room.

"You think she'd like me?" Hayes asks.

"Hayes, she's 17. " A voice says. "And Matt likes her."

On the inside, I'm feeling two things.

• MATT LIKES ME?!

• THAT WAS GILINKSY.

I knock.

"Shit she's here!" Nash yells "MATT PUt A SHIRT ON."

"Shut up Nash." Matt opens the door. The group of girls scream. "Hey, Nicooooole. He's kidding by the way, I have a shirt on."

"Why am I here again?" I laugh.

"Oh yeah." Matt pulled me in by the wrist."

"Hey Nicole." Nash and Hayes sat.

"Yo." I say.

"Well, um, I think you know who they are, so guys this is Nicole."

I start to cry fangirl tears.

"Awwww." they all embrace me.

I take a deep breath and wiggle my way out of the hug. "I have to go, I'll see you later."

"Nice meeting you." Johnson says.

"You, too." I walk out.

"HOW WAS IT?!" the girls are still outside the doors.

I run to hail a taxi cab.

I get into a cab with another girl who had a Cameron Dallas shirt and had the names of the boys on her shoes.

"I'm Alima." She says.

"Nicole."

"You mean the Nicole that Matt was spamming on tumblr. on Wednesday?" she laughs. "Sorry, I'm dedicated."

"Yeah, I am, too. And yes, I'm that Nicole."

"You his girlfriend?"

"Hell, no." I laugh again.

The driver pulled up to the venue and we stepped out.

The line was already extending out the door.

"Guess we're stuck here." Alina said. "Oh my shit oh my shit oh my shit it's fucking Shawn."

"Oh my shit my shit." I remember how someone was missing this morning. "WITH A GIRL."

"What? Who?" she yells in Shawn's u. "WHO IS SHE??"

"Guys, whoa chill." Shawn says to all of us. "This is Autumn. She's a friend!"

Autumn.

"Is her last name Payne?" I yell.

"Yup."Autumn says. "Nicole?"

I run up to her and hug her. "Oh my god my god my god."

"I'm so speechless." she hugged me tighter. "Oh, Shawn, this is my best internet friend, Nicole."

"Are you Matt's friend Nicole?" Shawn asks.

I nod and the line starts moving. Shawn runs in and Autmn came with me and Alina.

"Why are you with Shawn?" Alina immediately asked.

"Ok." she takes a breath. "My car had just got towed and I really needed to get here and Shawn's driver saw me and laughed. But, Shawn got out and told me to get in his car. So I did."

I laugh. "Matt and I first met on tumblr. and sat next to each other on the plane."

"And I have never talked to any of the boys." Alina sighed.

"I can get you in." I said.

We were at the front now.

"Really?" Alina, Autmn, and I put our tickets in.

"Yeah."

We hang out until the doors for the meet and greet line open.

"Line is so long after like 2 minutes." I say.

We wait and eat popcorn.

When we get to the front, I go through Matt's line first.

"Hey, Nicooooole."

"Yo. This is Alina and-" I get cut off.

"Autumn, Shawn's little," he does air quote's."friend."

"As I was saying, Alina-" I point behind me, Alina's crying.

"CODE INDIGO, BOYS!" They all get up, stopping the lines and hug Alina, me and Autumn.

We all scream. "Oh my god!'' Alina sobs.

"I-We-um-," Gilinsky says to Alina. "We love you, Alina?" He kisses her head.

They get out of the hug and we all scatter.

*SKIP TO END OF MAGCON*

We were walking to hail a taxicab when I hear footsteps and turn around.

Matt is running up to me-us?- full speed.

"Hey, hey slow down!" I run in front of him.

But he doesn't stop running. And next thing I know Matt's on top of me.

"You okay?" he asks. He's blushing.

"Yeah." I laugh. "Can you not blush? It makes me want to blush."

"Sorry." He gets up. "I was going to ask you out, but it didn't go so smoothe."

"Well," I dust myself off. "If you're still going to ask me out?"

"Right. Do you wanna go on a date with me?" He puts his keys back around his neck.

"I'll think about it." I sarcastically say. He makes a sad face. "No, I'm kidding."

He laughs.

"When?"I ask.

"I was thinking, like, now?" He grabs my wrist and runs to a cab and a group of fans follows. "Please, don't follow guys. Can I hang out with my friend for a few hours? Thanks!"

I turn around. I see Autumn and Shawn being all flirty. Jack G. and Alina are sitting next to each other, not making eye contact, just on their phones.

"Just a sec, Matt." I run through the girls and whisper in Shawn's ear,"If you wanna come with us, you can ask Autumn."

"Jack!" I yell.

"Whaaaat?" He looks up.

I run and whisper in his ear,

"Just ask Alina."

"Fine." He mutters back.

Matt and I get in a cab.

"Where are we headed?" The driver asked.

Matt whispers something I can't hear in the driver's ear.

"Got it."

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