The Ship Sails

The first of many

Zoe's POV:

The car was taking me home and I knew Alfie lived close but I didn't not want to see him we had gotten on so great in Florida and talking to him on the plane was wonderful. Plus I really wanted to collab with him and hang out with Jack and Finn some more like we had planned. It was as if Alfie felt the same way because he had texted me just then:

"Hey any collab ideas yet little one?"

"Not yet Alf can't you give me some time? :)"

"No I can't because I have the most perfect idea!"

I couldn't help but smile but then I felt like a fool because I knew he couldn't see it.

"Alright go on then, what is it?"

"The make up tag."

"Alfie if I'm letting you put make up on me I need to be able to put make up on you."

"Alright fine. We can finish this conversation on skype. Ttyl little one."

I couldn't stop smiling the whole drive home. I had to admit the idea was a good one and I was also excited to be able to skype Alfie.

-Three Hours Later-

I was still sat by my phone and computer I had gotten home ages ago but Alfie still hadn't rung me on skype. I had started to get worried. I was about to text him when Marcus had texted me,

"Hey Zoe, Alfie is sat passed out on the couch I think he's jetlagged he'll give you a ring tomorrow okay?'

I was called Marcus didn't call me so he couldn't here my dissappointment and sadness,

"Ya that's fine thanks for letting me know Marcus"

And with that I decided just to switch my phone off. I was in a pretty foul mood. I stayed up to talk to Alfie and he had gone and fallen asleep! I was so annoyed I normally would've been sleeping but I pushed away the jetlag. Now I was sat scrolling through tumblr and I decided to check my tag, I was scrolling through. There were some really nice pictures of me and fans that I of course reblogged. Suddenly I stumbled upon a picture. Someone screeshotted the conversation I had with Alfie and posted a picture of us in Florida. All I was doing was hugging Alfie and Marcus and we had all posted it on our instagrams. The blog captioned it #zalfie. I was worried and angry all of a sudden. I didn't even understand my feelings for Alfie and here someone is labelng us something that we weren't. I was also worried that if Alfie saw it he would be angry or offended being associated with me in such a way. I buried that thought deep in my head, until I saw how many notes were on it. Almost a million. But the thing that shocked me the most is that almost everyone supported it. I couldn't believe it. Tyler had then texted me.

"Gurl I so knew it!"

I decided to play the fool.

"Knew what?"

"Oh come on! You and Alfie are together. Zalfie is a thing."

"Tyler it really isn't I guess you saw the tumblr post."

"Oh that's a real shame, and yea I did but y'all are meant to be I'm calling it now. You will be with him, mark my words."

"Okay Tyler I'll hopefully see you soon."

"Haha ya you're probably jetlagged I'll leave you be, Dubai!!!"

I couldn't stop chuckling Tyler truly knew how to make a girl laugh. 

I sat up Alfie was next to me I reached for him but coldn't touch him, he was laughing. Why was he laughing? I looked around and every Youtuber was there laughing at me. I was all alone. I felt my breathing speed up and I knew what was coming.I tried calming myself down but it was impossible, I felt myself falling and then...

I woke up.

Sweaty and disgusting but I was awake. It was noon. It was then that I remembered I had turned my phone off I sat up and turned it on.

Notifcations:

(6) missed skype calls from: Alfie

The most recent one was an hour ago. Crap. I never went to sleep without setting an alarm but of course being the idiot that I am I had turned my phone off.  I decided to call Alfie back. This time it was him who didn't answer I was about to ring him again I thought maybe he was mad at me when I got a text.

'Hey little one sorry I went out with Marcus and my friend Chai. You weren't answering, I hope everything's alright, I'll skype you when I get back to my flat ya?'

'Oh ya sorry Alf I had turned my phone off before I fell asleep and only just got up. I'll speak to you then.'

I decided to busy myself while I was waiting, I was rather impatient so it was going to be hard. I then realized Tanya had DM'd me on twitter.

'Hey Zo, Jim and I were wondering if you wanted to come round some time? We could film collabs x'

'Ya Tan!! It sounds like a blast, I'll come round soon.'

'Is next week good?'

'Ya sounds like a plan'

'Alright Zo see you then!!'

I was so happy I had more plans then I have ever before! Youtube really was a tight knit community and I was happy to not feel so lonely. It was then that Louise skype called me.

"CHUMMY!!!" Louise practically screamed.

"Haha hey chummy how's Darcy?"

"She's wonderful I love her so much and Matt is so good with her. Now enough about me how was the trip to Florida?"

I began to relive the events of the past week with Louise she told me she wished she came and so did I. I missed my chummy she didn't live as close to me as I woud've liked but we had made plans to meet up so I could meet Darcy and she could meet Alfie. Louise had to go eventually to feed Darcy and be a mother. It was only a few moments later that I got the call from Alfie. My insides grew warm and I knew this was going to be a good call.