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Chapter 5: Welcome to LA

Your POV:
I awoke to the sound of that same annoying alarm I heard yesterday. (YC/N) was already awake and getting dressed. 

"Come on, (Y/N) get up, we gotta get going soon. I don't wanna get stuck in traffic. Get your lazy ass up. We'll grab some coffee on the way. You can go back to sleep in the car."  (YC/N) came over and jarred me to get out of bed. Not exactly what I want to do, but I pull back the blanket off myself and climb out of bed. I notice (YC/N) must have been up for a while as the few things I had out of my suitcase from last night are once again packed away, and she pulled out an outfit for me to wear, which was layed across the chair by the window. 

"Oh, you got my out clothes...?" I giggle and question "What, you didn't like what I've been wearing that last few days?" She just chuckles and explains "Well, we're gonna be in LA in a matter of hours. We wanna look like we fit in, don't we? Besides, Arin's gonna be with his friends I'm sure there'll be at least 1 complete cutie pie with him. We need to find you a man on this vacation." I just huffed and rolled my eyes. I picked up my clothes and started getting dressed, but the fact that she's still so persistent about finding me a guy, really irritates me. "I already told you. I don't wanna find a guy out here. If I find a cool guy out here, and end up making a connection, Then It'll just really hurt to go back home to Washington." 

In a matter of minutes I'm sitting in this dreadful car, once again- suitcases already in the trunk and (YC/N) is still in the registration office checking out. 'Well, if I'm gonna be stuck in this car for the next 8 hours with her, I better just let it go. She's just looking out for me after all, she wants me to be happy.' I watch as (YC/N) walks out of the motel, and hops into the car.
"Let's go girl. dun dun dun dun dun dun." I just giggle at her quoting a Shania Twain song. We spent the next 5 hours on the road. and decided it was time to pull over for a bathroom break. We take a left into a parking lot of something called 'On the Run' I don't know if it's a coffee shop, a dinner or what, but as long as it has a toilet I really don't care. We make a quick stop and before I know it we're back on the road again. She tosses me the phone. "Now that we're in the relative area, do me a favor, call Arin and let him know we'll be there in a little over an hour so long as we don't hit any traffic and ask him if we're still meeting him at the address he gave me last night. I'd do it myself but I'm driving." 

I unlock her phone and go through contacts.  "Hi is this Arin? Hi, I'm (Y/N), I'm (YC/N) cousin. She's driving at the moment but she asked me to call and let you know we'll be there probably a little sooner then expected, and we wanted to make sure we're still meeting you at the same place. Uh-huh, Uh-huh ... okay sounds good. See you soon then."I hang up the phone, and my face lights up. 'I don't know what I was expecting, but he sounds like a really chill guy, well that's good.' I open (YC/N) purse which was sitting in between us and put her phone away. "Yeah, he said there's an accident near by so one of the streets he told you to take last night is closed. However he said just turn onto Hillside st, take a right at the end and take it around instead of taking Solar Dr and turning left. To answer your question, yes we're still going to the same place, just making a small detour." 

"Hey, can I turn off the radio, I wanna put on my song and practice singing for my audition."  I say as I pull out my phone. "Well, I'd rather hear the radio then listen to you squealing, but okay go for it. Haha, I'm just kidding babe, of course you can." I go through my phone and find the instrumental version of my song and click play. The music starts. "Please give me your honest option. (YC/N)"

"I don't need  me a basketball player, all I need is somebody that's down for me...
and he don't have to have money, his love is just like honey, it's so sweet to me.
He can have everything in this world, but would sacrifice it all for me...
And I made up my mind, I'm in love this time and it, feels so real.
And I, know that he won't break my heart.
And I, know that we won't ever part.
It's time, time for us to settle down.
And I, wanna be with him forev..."   (Song on the side)
"I'm gonna stop you right there. You're a good singer with a beautiful voice, anyone with ears will say that, but my problem is as a listener, I don't feel like there's passion behind your song choice. If you want to stand a chance at getting into Julliard, you either need to change your song or really, truly give it your all. Make me believe you're a girl who is hopelessly in love, MAKE ME FEEL IT!" I just giggle and smile. "Well, I did say I wanted your honest opinion" I just sighed and put my phone away. 'Maybe singing while I'm nervous isn't such a good idea anyway.'

"Hey! This is it, Hillside st." I look around, I can't believe where the time went .We're here already. 'I guess we were just having so much fun talking and being silly that time complete flew.'' "Okay, so he said take a right here...." The car takes a turn into a parking lot of a condo. We travel to the underground parking where we park the car in visitors.
"Ooof." I lug the suitcases outta the truck while 'Miss Priss' is fixing her make up. "Thanks for  the help" I yell from the back of the car. "Calm your tits, woman. I'm coming." She picks up her luggage, as I pick up mine. She starts heading towards a door and I follow her. She seems to know where to go from here. We go through the door and come to a bit of a hallway, with just one door at the end. We roll our suitcases down the hall and through the door. It's the lobby of the condo building, with a set of 3 elevators just off to the left. I look up at the elevator to watch as the doors open and a older gentleman gets off the elevator and we get in. "Arin lives on the 7th floor, so..." she pressed the button with the #7 on it. 

In a matter of 30 seconds, we get off on floor #7, I follow her to a door that reads '707,' Stupid me, I set down my suitcase and knock on the door. "No you idiot, haha he said just come in, that's a reason why I asked you to call him so he knows we'll be there soon and to unlock the door." She just keeps laughing at my stupidity, and walks in. I follow behind her into this beautiful 2 floor condo. We set out luggage at the door, and start walking down the hallway. There's an open door frame off to the right, so we walk in. There's 5 people sitting around a table, dressed in oldin day attire(well for the most part) and they appear to be playing a board game. Also I couldn't help but notice there was a camera, with someone standing behind it. It seemed as though they were recording themselves playing. I found this rather curious but, kinda cool at the same time." 

I leaned up against the wall, and slid down it so I can have a seat. (YC/N) was standing next to me flailing her arms in the air. Finally one of the men sitting at the table acknowledged her standing there, gave her a nod and a smile. From that, it seemed whenever the camera wasn't pointed at someone they would also look our way and give us a wave or a smile. They all seemed rather friendly. There was 4 guys and 1 girl at this table, and they seemed to be talking about someone possibly being a 'traitor' and others being rather quick to 'point fingers' I didn't exactly understand what was going on but, well those questions will probably be answered when they're done doing their thing. 

After about 40 minutes of just sitting there, listening to them laugh, joke and play their game they all stood up from the table, and the guy behind the camera took it off the tripod and started putting it into a case. Two of the guys that were sitting at the table immediately took off and stated they had another place to be, but waved us goodbye and left the room. 
"Ahh there she is." One of the guys that was sitting at the table said, as the group of people started walking towards us. (YC/N) and this guy hugged, and then he extended his hand to me. "Nice to meet you, I'm Arin. I take it you're (Y/N)...?" I stood up and took his hand. "Nice to meet you as well, beautiful place, Arin." He just smiled and chuckled. "Well thank you, here, let me introduce you to everyone.. well everyone who's still here."

"This is Suszy, she's one of the gamegrumps." a very pretty girl with blonde and black hair gave us both a hug and a sweet smile. "Nice to meet you girls, hopefully the drive down here wasn't all that terrible." We just giggled and shrugged. "Nah it wasn't to bad." (YC/N) stated... "and this handsome man here, well around here we call him Mr.lplier." the group started laughing, but I wasn't quite sure why that was so funny so I just let out a 'hehe' and left it at that. "Nice to meet you, Mr.lplier?" 

The group goes into an uproar of laughter, and I get a little red faced. I'm not sure what I did, but hopefully they're laughing because I said something funny and not my stupidity, as that felt pretty stupid to say. "Oh, I'm sorry, haha I'm Mark." He extends his hand to me and (YC/N.) "Welcome to LA."