It's Not an Existential Crisis

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

*****ARIELLA's POV*****

I dropped my black colored pencil and stepped back. Thank god I finally finished this project that should have been done a long time ago. I looked at the portrait and I had to admit it, it looked amazing.

"Artie!" I yelled from my room.

"What?!" She yelled from downstairs. She must have been playing a video game or something.

"Come look! It's complete!" My voice echoed through my apartment. Sorry neighbors!!!

"One sec." I heard her say.

While waiting I looked in my hanging mirror on the wall. Ew my hair looked gross. I snatched up a hair tie and put my light brown hair into a messy bun. My curls didn't want to stay the the tie's grasp, but oh well. I had to deal with it.

Artie came into the room with a big smile. She leaned over my shoulder and peered down at the drawing.

"Holy crap! That looks just like a photo. I feel like you secretly took a picture of Dan Howell and glued it on to this poster paper." She chuckled.

"I wish, that would have taken less time." I smiled.

"So," she plopped onto my bed, "Are you going to post that on twitter?"

"Eh, I don't know." I shrugged and began putting my art supplies away.

"Come on, that thing took you like a month to complete. You should post it. Besides, Dan may see it."

"Oh please, I doubt that." I scoffed.

"Well, if you aren't going to post it, then I will." She got up and grabbed my phone like a four year old child.

"Hold on there Blondie, you don't know my password." I tried to grab it but she stood up and held her hand up high. Ugh if only I was 3 inches taller.

"Of course I do! Best friends always know."

"So then what is it?" I stepped back while crossing my arms.

"Um- 1234?" She looked at me with hopeful eyes.

"Oops sorry wrong guess." I smiled. She will never get it. She then tried two more time and I heard the unexpected noise of it actually unlocking.

"What?! How- I just changed it." I moaned in defeat.

"I just hit the numbers with your initials with Dan's."

Damn, she figured it out.

"Girl, you are obsessed." She laughed.

"It's your fault! You are the one who got me into him in the first place so I blame you but yet thank you."

"No prob." She flipped her blonde hair around ridiculously. Oh the perks of living with your crazy best friend. She clicked on twitter and then handed me the phone.

"Well I'm going to go finish my game while you post. After I'm done, I'm going to go get In-n-Out." She leaned against the doorway, "Do you want anything?"

"Just a chocolate shake and a fry." My favorite things ever together!

"Ok see ya later you artsy talented friend." She ran back down the stairs.

I lined my camera over my drawing and made sure the lighting was perfect. I hit the camera button and started tweeting.

"So this is my drawing of the talented YouTuber @danisnotonfire, this took me three weeks. Artie made me post >.< Enjoy! #danhowell #danisnotonfire"

I hit the tweet button and off it went. Ugh I should really take a shower.

*****DAN'S POV*****

I heard Phil squeal downstairs. He must of dropped something, as usual. I got out of bed and looked in the mirror. Ew, hobbit hair. I slowly walked down the stairs and saw Phil picking up tons of cereal pieces that were scattered across the floor.

"Aw c'mon, please don't tell me that was my cereal." I cringed.

"Sorry Dan, it was an accident." Phil continued to pick them up.

"This is literally the third time I have told you to stay away from my cereal Phil." I laughed and helped him.

"But yours is so much better!" He chuckled.

Once all the pieces were picked up, Phil went to play video games and I went into my normal computer position. I guess I should check twitter.

So many random questions and notifications. Sometimes I just get overwhelmed because I feel obligated to answer them all. I answered some questions, scrolled past the PHAN edits, and liked a couple of funny quotes. I refreshed and got a whole other wave of tweets. The top looked like just a photo but I clicked on it anyway. I read the caption and realized it wasn't what I thought it was.

"Holy crap! Phil! Come look at this."

He paused his game and plopped down next to me.

"Woah! Who drew that?"

"Someone with the username @Theawkwardbutterfly"

"Well whoever that girl is, she is amazing at art." Phil stated and walked back to his game chair.

"Yeah, she is." I admired the pic one more time, "Should I follow her?"

"If you want, but what if she is one of those stalker fans who won't stop messaging you?" Phil gave me his 'warning' look.

"Then I will block her or somthing, I don't know."

"Well, while you make up your mind, do you want to go get some coffee?"

"Ummm sure." I grabbed my coat and slipped on my shoes. I didn't feel like getting dressed today. We walked and waited for the lift. Everyone kept tagging me in @theawkward butterfly's picture. I decided to retweet it so that people would know I saw it. I quoted it and said "Woah, this is brilliant. Thank you so much!" I clicked on the girl's profile. Her profile pic was a butterfly that she probably drew and all her pics were just photography of nature or drawings. Even though she didn't have that many exciting things, I decided to follow her. I tapped the follow button, locked my phone, and put it in my jacket pocket.

The lift finally came while Phil and I got on.

"So did you follow the possible stalker fan?" He joked.

"Yep."

"Now, we wait and see if my prediction comes true." He chuckled and hit the lobby button.

A/N: Hi guys! So I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Sorry if this seemed like eh because I have never written anything else other than Once Upon a Time stuff so I hope you have liked it. Oh and also, the I don't know if the username "@theawkwardbutterfly" is real or not so don't follow it on twitter if it is. I know some authors actually make an account if they use a username, but I don't feel like it. Haha So I will try to update whenever I can but I have AP classes and another book that I'm working on plus extracurricular activities so please hang in with me. Thank you so much for choosing this book to read!!!!!