The Carson Chronicles-A First for Everything

Chapter 5

'SOCIAL MEDIA'

Ever since I met Carson, I knew of his large social media presents. But I never realized how big it really was until we had people running up to us in the streets and asking for selfies or even autographs from Carson. We had tried to keep any rumors about us away from his social media following because that would literally tell everyone in the world. However, there was one little problem with Carson hiding in the closet from his fans, girls. They came at him all angles begging him to date them or even follow them on Instagram and look at the DMs they had sent them some of which were nudes sent to him. I had never wanted to tell anyone about us more than these little girls, but I knew that I couldn't it was killing me. There is literally nothing we could do but live on and just deal with it.

I was lying on my bed scrolling through Instagram and listening to music when I got a notification, I checked it and saw that I had been tagged in a post from Carson, it was a selfie we took a few weeks back in the park he had put a filter on it and made it look better, then posted to his public account. Carson had never posted a picture of the two of us before I had only been in the background of insta stories or on his private Instagram. The caption he had put was "Best day with the best guy" which was an obvious hint to the fact that we were together but unless you knew that then it meant nothing except that we are friends. After 10 minutes the post already had half a thousand comments, so I decided to read through them to see what people were saying about me. You got your typical fangirls saying it was their birthday and asking for a shout out, the jealous young adult complaining about Carson's success and you get the fan accounts spamming Heart eyed emoji's constantly, however, I really wasn't interested in them if I was I would be here for hours reading them, I wanted the in-depth and detailed comments about me!

Whilst scrolling through, I saw a comment that caught my attention, it was from a girl who I recognized as she had just started following me, the comment "That other guy is pretty smoking hot" I looked on her profile and saw that her name was Beth, noticed that she was from Spokane. I liked her comment and started following her. I Knew I was meant to stay loyal to Carson, but she was fit just scrolling through her wall for the first time in a long time. I had felt this way about a girl, it all felt strange. Within minutes of following her she had sent me a DM, I Checked it.

"OMG! I can't believe you followed me!"

"Ha-ha hey"

"HEY! Thank you so much for following me! I've never had someone famous follow me before."

"Me, famous? Ahahah you have more followers than me you are the famous one here..."

"But you know Carson! You are in good company and your hot, so they work well together."

"Oi, stop it you have more followers and I think I know why you're looking just perfect"

"Thx babe, do you have Snapchat?"

"NP, yeah hang on I'll send you it"

"...

"I'll add you, now cya later"

"Cya"

I closed Instagram and put my phone to the side I looked over at the clock on my wall, it was already 7pm. The last time I checked, it was only 5pm! Where had the time gone? Have I honestly got a crush on a girl from Instagram? I can not believe I could do that to Carson but if I managed to make it work, I could be friends with Beth she seemed nice enough.

I woke up it was Saturday, which meant no school! I turned over in my bed to try to get comfy to try to go back to sleep. But I heard my phone vibrate on my bedside table, so I stuck my arm out and tried to find it without opening my eyes because it was just too early to be awake on a Saturday morning. Once I had hopelessly rummaged about on the table for my phone without any success, I decide to open my eyes and instantly I see my phone "Fuck Sake!" I mutter to myself and I grab it to unlock it. I See that Beth had sent me a message.

"Hey, what you up to at lunchtime today?"

"Morning I am going to the mall with Carson later probably about Lunch Why?"

"Well, I was hoping we could maybe meet up and go grab a bite to eat"

"You could come with me and Carson!"

"Really!!! Would he be alright with that?"

"Of Course, he will be fine"

I decided to text Carson to ask him to make sure he was okay with Beth joining us today because it might be a bit strange if I turn up with some random girl.

"Hey XXX"

"Hey what's up u still down for later?"

"Aye Of course!

"I love it when you say aye... It's so British"

"sry can't help it"

"btw can my friend come with us later. She's pretty cool"

"Sure, why not who is it?"

"It's a girl that followed me on insta called Beth we were talking last night, and I said we should meet up at some point"

"Ok, as long as she's not weird"

"Nah she's sound"

I finally got up out of bed and went downstairs to go get breakfast, I was greeted by the massive smiling face of my sister who was watching cartoons on the TV "what are you smirking at?" I grunted at her, she turned away and I walked to the kitchen to grab some cereal. After I grabbed my cereal, I ran back up to my room to eat it, I sat at my desk in front of my laptop.