I groaned as Noen unwrapped his arms from me, the heat immediately escaping from me. It was around 7am and I was freezing in my black leggings, blue checkered vans, and Noen Eubanks hoodie. I had just about enough energy this morning after my alarm went off to do my makeup, and throw my hair up in a messy bun, all an hour ago. Now, Noen, Chase and I stood in the freezing LA airport, waiting for the rest of the gang to arrive. Noen had just told me he needed to use the restroom, which had made me cold in the absence of his body heat, when his arms were safely, secured around me.
"Wow, you're blowing up on Tiktok." Chase announced in his sleepy, deep voice, Noens seat separating us. I yawn, moving the arm rest to switch seats and look over Chases shoulder. He was scrolling through my account, pointing to the views, which were hitting the 800 thousands to 1 million, and then scrolling and pointing to my followers. "500k, Congrats, girly." Chase smiles, as I pull out my phone, instantly pulling up tiktok. I saw the multiple notifications for comments, mentions, likes, and followers at the bottom of the screen. Checking my recent post with the influencers from Vidcon, I saw all my new friends had commented and featured me on their own profiles.
"This is incredible, like truly, oh my god, Chase." I stand, my ADHD wanting to play. I made a small laughing noise, while feeling like nothing could bring me down. "Make a tiktok with me." I exclaim, choosing a sound. We make a slowmo to the sound 'Wrong' (girl my mood changed when you walked through the door. Before you came it was tears on the floor, girl you're so perfect, I think that its working. I gave you my love, now I really want yours) making our signature scrunch faces towards the end, Chases arm around me. I captioned it with the plane emoji and the for you page hashtags. In the comments I wrote a small paragraph thanking everyone who followed me and that I loved them.
"Wait for my comments." Chase laughed, smirking and typing. Immediately, comments, likes, and shares flowed into my notification bar. Already I see Chase's comments pop up. 'First' and 'The duo they never knew they needed' with the heart eyes emoji, followed by 'But the only duo they do need' I smile looking over at him as he double taps the video. I scroll through the comments, seeing Sterling's comment 'Those should be my arms around you, see you in a min bbg!' I giggle liking her comment before my smile drops at the negative comments already. 'You're not that pretty' and 'You just want clout' and not to forget, 'Your flirting with everyone' with the rolling eyes emoji. I had a personal favorite also, 'You have Noens sweatshirt on but your flirting with Chase? Shade...' I shake my head, scrolling back to the top, seeing the new comments.
Zarbruh: My invite must have gotten lost in the mail...
imgriffinjohnson: See you soon Boston
nessaabarrett: You earned every follower baby!
and then I see Jaden's comment, heat rushing my cheeks. 'Okay, Date me already' with the sweating red face emoji. I gulp and finally see Noen's comment appear. 'Yeah, leave me out while I'm in the bathroom.' I laugh and respond with 'Love you' which immediately goes insane. I hear approaching voices to which Chase and I both turn and look, seeing the others approach.
"Theres the boy!" Payton says, hugging Chase. Yewsif and Noen are talking behind him and Jaden and Griff smile, hugging Noen and Chase. For a second, Jaden and I meet eyes, that was of course, before Sterling and Cynthia engulphed me in a hug, giggles arising from all of us.
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I felt some serious jetlag stepping off the plane, only a few days before had me and Noen come from Miami, east to west flight, and now we went back to the east, which caused time to move forward again, in Boston.
"Bus should be out front to take us all to the hotel where the rest of the gang, who got the second flight, will meet up." Griff mumbles, staring at the email on his phone. I yawn, nodding and nearly missing my suitcase handle, tripping into Noen next to me.
"Jeez, you could use some sleep." Noen chuckles and he and Chase stabilize me. I cringe at my action, followed my Noen's arm being interlocked with mine.
"Don't worry, I need some sleep too. Like a good, long nap." Payton yawns, grabbing Noen's bag he had to drop, holding me. Griff grabbed mine as well.
"Yeah, I'm sure everyone could agree on that." Yewsif adds. "Anthony and Milo are picking up Brooke, Chris, Chaser, Jackson, Mycheal, and Keith. They are driving to the hotel in separate cars but Milo and Anthony are picking up food, before we get there." He said patting his shaped curls. Blinking my eyes to keep awake, still holding onto Noen, I think of warm food in my stomach and grin, getting an odd expression from Cynthia, to which we both laugh.
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"You're staying with me and Griff." Jaden exclaimed, as he hugged Anthony. I smiled at his excitement, still looking around for Milo to come down the hall. To my disappointment, almost everyone had cleared the hall and Milo was not there.
"Someone order postmates?" Instantaneity, I turned around and Taco Bell, accompanied by Milo was in front of me. Soon Noen walked up behind him and hugged him, making my smile widen. Milos smile widens as well, eventually allowing his gap to show.
"Thank you so much, Milo." I giggle, taking the bag before hugging him and interlocking arms with both the boys.
Everyone laughed and made jokes, just living our best lives as influencers on a Summer Tour, building bonds that will never break, or so we thought, and having the most fun we could. We were all so young and free that we couldn't think of anything but having love and laugh to spread. Everything we dreamed of was sitting in the very room we were in, and though we had multiple rooms for people to stay in, we all ended up cuddling in the same room, falling asleep to a Disney movie compilation. My head rested on Noen's lap, my legs spread across Sterling, Chase, and Milo. The sounds of soft snoring echoing in the room. Body heat keeping us all warm and comfortable, accompanied by fuzzy blankets. We could wish for nothing more. Just a bunch of Teenagers, and Griffen, being Teenagers, and a 21 year old.
