It's Not an Existential Crisis

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

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

I came out of the bathroom while braiding my hair. I heard Artie flipping out downstairs.

"Are you ok down there?" I finished off my hair.

"Ariella, come look at your phone." She was practically hyperventilating.

I quickly came down the stairs and looked at her on the couch. She was stretching her arm out to hand me my iPhone. I saw a notification on my screen:

Dan Howell mentioned you in a tweet

"Oh my god!" I exclaimed.

"What did he say?!?" Artie jumped up and down.

"He said that 'it is brilliant'" I did a really bad English accent.

"That's so cool! He actually noticed you." She had huge smile, but not as big as mine. I plopped down on to the couch and laid my head on Artie's leg. She continued her game as I admired Dan's tweet. Wow, that was nice of him. I saw a little number one pop up by my notification again. I clicked it and it took forever to load. Ugh, stupid wifi. Once it loaded, I couldn't believe my eyes. I sat up quickly and practically dropped my phone.

"What's wrong?" Artie looked concerned. I couldn't make any words come out of my mouth.

"Just say it!" she pushed me playfully.

"He followed me." I smiled. We started to flip out like typical fangirls.

"Ok, ok, we have to act mature here," We settled down, "Is it sad that we are 23 and 25 years old and we are flipping out because a YouTuber followed me?"

"No, we have every right to flip out." She poked me in the stomach.

"Cut it out." I laughed, "Hey wait, it's 9:00. Don't you have work?"

She looked at me with huge eyes.

"Crap! I forgot! Ugh I swear I can't get fired!" She ran upstairs. She really loves her job working at Disneyland. She isn't a character or anything, but a technician in the shows they have there. It's really cool to see her have fun at one of the happiest places on earth.

My phone buzzed again.

iMessage - Austin

Eh, I will just ignore that for right now.

After 5 minutes, Artie came down the stairs. Her blonde hair was pulled back into a neat ponytail.

"Bye A." She said while she grabbed her keys.

"Bye, tell Mickey I say hi!" I chuckled as I turned on the TV.

"Will do." She winked and left.

I flipped through the boring channels, nothing good was on! Ugh, I hate it when that happens. I went over to my desk and flipped open my laptop. I opened up 2 tabs, twitter and tumblr.

I scrolled through tumblr, occasionally chuckling at some pics. Then in that instant, something came to me.

I'm following Dan on twitter...

He is following me...

I can message him!

Why didn't I think about it before? but yet again, I don't want to seem creepy. Ugh I don't know what to do. I would ask Artie, but she is gone so instead I used a coin.

"Ok coin, if you are tails I will message him."

I took a deep breath and flipped the coin. Being the clumsy person I am, I dropped the coin and it rolled across the room.

"Oh jeez." I ran after it. I found it under the coffee table. I slid it out and removed my hand. It was tails. holy cramp, am I really doing this?!?

I sat down and clicked on Dan's profile. I hit the message button but hesitated to type. Why am I freaking out? He probably isn't going to answer this anyway.

I began typing.

Hey Dan, thank you so much for noticing my pic AND following me. It really means a lot. I hope you are having a wonderful day!

I clicked send. I did it! Wow, I am really dramatic.

I heard my phone buzz for a longer time. I was getting a call.

I got up and slid the unlock button. It was Austin.

"Hi babe"

"Hey cupcake." He said.

"What's up?" I asked.

"Wanna get some In-n-out and go to the beach or something?" he asked.

The last time I went to the beach with him, Austin just flirted with these chicks the whole time. I was so mad.

"Um, how about we go to the movies? Perhaps see 'If I Stay'?" I asked hoping we can go there so we don't have to talk too much. We always have little arguments here and there.

"Oh ok, that's fine. Hey, is everything okay?"

"Yeah, everything is fine. I gotta go, so just text me what time you want to see it, and I will see you there." I smiled.

"Ok, I love you so much." He said.

"I love you too." Even if I'm a little flustered with him, I still feel giddy when I remember I have a boyfriend. It's a complicated relationship. I love him, but at times I can't deal with him. Ugh, I don't know.

Anyway, I went upstairs to get ready. I put on some faded jeans with a black v- neck. Simple, but with a little but of bling from my charm bracelet that Austin gave me from our 2 year anniversary.

He texted me to meet him in half an hour. That gives me time to go get a pumpkin spice latte!!!

A/N: Hey so that was just a filler chapter, sorry about that. Hang in there, it will get better. Hopefully ahaha. Well now you know about our new character Austin! woohoo lol Love you guys!