LivingLovingStargazing - O2L, Andrea Russett, Jenn McAllister AND MORE

Chapter 3: Wild

[11/09/13 - 12:25pm - LAX gate 14]

~Alaska's POV~

        Screaming was the first thing I heard as I walked through the tunnel to the airport. I had made sure I got off the plane last so that nobody would be troubled by the meet and greet. 

        I pulled out my phone and tweeted "@alaskaisstargazing: the LA crowd is WILD!" as I walked farther away from the plane and closer to the airport, black cashmere coat unbuttoned and one of the blue backpack straps hanging off my left shoulder. Then I took out my small blue Sony vlogging camera and started to record myself.

        "Hey y'all!" I exclaimed. "So sorry I didn't vlog earlier! Anyway, I'm just arriving at gate 14 of LAX, and schist, you guys sound hella excited!" I pointed to a turn in the tunnel. "All the LA fans are right 'round the corner... I'm soo pumped to finally be in LA!"

        The screams only got louder as I rounded the corner and faced my stargazers. About 250 of them were crowded around the area. I made sure to move my camera around so it would catch all the people here. I smiled at everyone and quickly turned off my vlogging device and tucked it back into my backpack. 

        Suddenly, a loud voice voomed into the speakers, startling a few fans, but not myself. Everyone diverted their attention to a couple security guards.

        Basically, the guards told people to get in line and I would meet them and talk to them one-on-one. Once the crowd was settled down and had organized themselves in an orderly fashion, I smiled graciously at them. It looked hard to have to maintain a couple hundred fans.

        I put my backpack down on the floor beside my feet and set my coat down on top of it. Then, the meet and greet began.

[11/09/13 - 1:31pm - LAX gate 14]

~Andrea (Russett)'s POV~

        I was honestly so pumped to finally be able to meet Alaska! I might've been a bigger YouTuber than her by a bit more than half a million subs, but I was still a huge fan! She seemed like a very fun girl, and I couldn't wait to collab with her, whether it'd be a beauty/fashion video, comedy video or maybe even a music or cooking video.

        O2L, Jenn and I had decided to let the fans line up first, because it was probably a once-in-a-lifetime thing for them. For us YouTubers on the other hand,  we could collab with her and would [hopefully] be able to spend more time with her later on.

        We were getting closer and closer to the center of attention herself. Her long raven black hair was slightly wavy and all pushed over one shoulder. She had on a Brazilian soccer jersey, black leggings and knee high faux suede boots. The only makeup you could see on her face was her light layer of black mascara. Even without makeup, I thought she looked quite pretty, and it made me feel a bit insecure.

        I was wearing a black crop top with "whatever" written in a very cool white font, high waisted black skinnies and black Converses. On my face was foundation, concealer, eyeliner, mascara, silver eyeshadow, blush, a smidge of bronzer and lip gloss... It made me feel like a try-hard compared to her.

        We had done rock paper scissors to determine the order in which we met her. The order was Kian, Sam, me, Connor, Jc, Jenn, Ricky and then Trevor last. The boys seemed to get quite nervous as we advanced closer and closer to Alaska. They would run their hands through their hair and/or rub their necks. Jenn and I fidgeted ever-so-slightly as well. I played with the "A" pendant hanging from my neck while Jenn kept adjusting her black beanie. 

        Finally, Alaska was done meeting the fans.

        "Hey O2L and Jenndrea!" she exclaimed cheerfully to us. "No need to line up." Alaska smiled warmly and gave each of us bro hugs.

        "Uhm,  we're here to welcome you to LA!" said Kian enthusiastically. 

        I chimed in, "yeah! Wanna come to the O2L house with us to chill later? After you set up your apartment, I mean."

        Alaska replied, "of course! Let's just exchange numbers and then you can text me the address later?"

        We all exchanged numbers and parted ways. I jumped into Ricky's car with Kian, Jc and Ricky, while Sam, Connor, Jenn and Trevor were left to depart in Connor's vehicle. 

        "Soo..." I said, slipping into shotgun. "What'd you guys think of Alaska?"

        Kian listed, "she's cute, funny, nice, genuine, down to earth, pretty, um... yeah that's about it."

        The rest of the boys in the car agreed, and we sat in silence for a couple minutes.

        Suddenly, Jc cried out "TACO BELL!" and pointed just down the road to a little hut of heaven. "You guys up for some tacos? Haven't had some in forever!"

        I laughed. "Jc... You boarded to the Taco Bell by the Jenndrea apartment yesterday in the middle of Home Alone!" Less than 24 hours ago, the whole squad had watched movies at our apartment because it was rather close to the airport, but Jc decided enough was enough and penny boarded to Taco Bell because he was hungry.

        "SO?!" he shouted. "TACOS FOR THE WIN!"

        "Tacos do sound kinda great right now..." said Ricky, stopping at the red light just by the Taco Bell. "ALL IN FAVOR OF GOING TO TACO BELL FOR FOOD?!?" he hollered.

        "YASSS!" we all shouted, waving our hands around wildly.

        "I'll text the rest of the squad and tell them we had to make an emergency stop!" Kian volunteered, laughing as we turned and approached heaven.

[A/N: Thanks for reading! A bit of an uneventful chapter, sorry. Thanks for 195+ reads everyone! Hoping you're enjoying the story so far, but I promise it will get better as the plot progresses!

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