chapter one

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I felt my hands loosen their grip on my iPhone 6, hearing a thump on the carpeted ground below me. I tried my hardest to breathe, but the disbelief of what had just occurred has my mind all clouded up.

What just happened?

The fear of this moment not being real also crept its way into my brain. As my eyes slowly started to burn due to the lack of blinking, I realized that I should probably maintain my body. I need to be alive in order to reread that notification.

I let out a shaky breath while kneeling down by my phone. Taking it in my hand, I pressed the home button to make the lock screen show. Before letting the phone scan me, I removed my thumb from the home button.

I breathed in, reading the text over and over again, my smile growing wider each time. Without wasting anymore time, I squealed while unlocking my phone and opening Twitter. The notification icon had a bubble with the number 2 on it. After I pressed on it, I quickly screen shotted what I saw before me so I could think back to this moment later on.

@scotthoying is now following you!

The adrenaline was still rushing through my veins as I continued my shaky breathes. In an instant, I clicked on my messages and into my 'glow like a pro' group chat with all of my closest friends. This'll be some news to share, alright.

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Mitch: PEOPLE!! 

Carissa: what

Kirstie: yeah?

Mitch: HELPM E

Kirstie: you alright mitchie ?

Carissa: WAIT WHAT HAPPENED

Mitch: SCTOT FOLWOED ME

Kirstie: What? NO WAY

Carissa: WAIT MITCH OH MY GOD YOU'RE JOKING

Mitch: IM NOT JOKING HELP ME WHAT DO I DO 

Kirstie: WAIT HOW

Mitch: IDK 

Carissa: OMG MITCH CONGRATS WOW

Mitch: THANK YOU SO MUCH CARISSA!!

Kirstie: OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD.

Mitch: I DoN'T KNOW WHY IM STILL SHAKING?!?

Kirstie: MITCHIE IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU! HES LIKE.... YOUR IDOL. I CANT EVEN IMAGINE HOW YOU'RE FEELING RIGHT NOW.

Carissa: Me neither! Hey- can we not type in caps anymore? lol it makes my head hurt. But MITCH- how did you even get him to notice you in the first place?! You're SO lucky!!

Mitch: Kirstie! Thank you!! Carissa! Yeah.. The capital letters are kind of annoying. I'm overwhelmed! I don't have any idea how he found my account.... I only tweet him 24/7.

Carissa: This is no time for jokes! Have you tagged him in any of your artwork lately? Or did you make a cover recently? You're such a good singer. Scott himself must be in awe of your talent!

Mitch: Okay that's really sweet of you but you know that I would never post any of my sketches. Those are for my eyes only. When have I ever posted one of my drawings? And I'm not that great of a singer. Scott is much, much more incredibly talented than I am. I'm sure he was just going through his feed and saw my post ?

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