A/N: Okay! We're back to the normal Chapter-by-Chapter POV change. Now we're in Matt's! The little dashy thingys just symbolize a time skip.
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Matt stood outside, in the cold, with Jayce. "Its cold! Can we go inside yet?"
"Oh, man up. It's not that cold. And no, not yet."
He sighed. "Fine."
He was waiting at the airport with Jayce, in the chilly morning air, waiting for a flight to California.
No, Matt wasn't going to California to surprise Lizzy. Sadly. He really wanted to. He missed her life crazy. But with his strict filming schedule, there was no way he could make it. But Jayce could.
Due to recent developments, Jayce would have the time to visit Lizzy after all. Originally, she had thought she wouldn't, because of a line-up of auditions and post-show things she had to deal with. Instead of just telling Lizzy, Jayce had decided to surprise her, with the help of a mutual friend named Jackie. Jackie and Jayce. Matt figured that would get confusing. Maybe that's why Lizzy always called her Jay. Hm.
"Jayce, Lizzy always refers to you as 'Jay'. Does anybody else call you that? Should I?"
"Oh, its a family thing. My Dad's name is Johnathan Christopher Herondale, and he's gone by 'Jace' for most of his life. That's where my name comes from. And my uncle Jem started calling me Jay since I was a month old. 'Jace' and 'Jayce' sound too similar. It got confusing. So him and my Aunt Tessa called me Jay, and it stuck. And there's so many names that end with 'ee' in my group of friends. Lizz-y, Jack-ie, Cec-e. Jay is just so much easier. I really don't mind what you call me. I don't dislike my full name, like Lizzy does. You can call me either one." She explained.
"Ah. Alright. That makes sense." He replied.
"Alright. Let's head on inside now."
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After Jayce left, Matt went back to his hotel room and heated up some water to make another cuppa.
"Well that's wonderful." He muttered under his breath. There were no more tea bags. What would he do now?? How could he stay in a hotel room with no tea bags??? Bloody Americans.
He wondered if the front desk would give him more tea bags if he asked, or if he would have to go buy his own. Oh! Maybe Karen has some. She doesn't drink tea much.
On a tea hunt, Matt left the room and crossed the hallway to Karen's room. It was then that he realized that he didn't exactly know what room Karen was in. Sighing, he pulled out his phone and dialed her number.
"Yes Matt? Did you get lost?" She answered on the third ring.
"No! Well, sort of. But anyways! Are you in your hotel room?"
"Yes. . ." She replied, the tone in her voice making it obvious she was more than a little bit worried about the state of his mental abilities.
"Do you have tea bags??"
"No, they only gave me two."
Matt sighed. "Okay then." He hung up.
"Arthur!"
He knew which room was Arthur's, the one directly to the left of his. He knocked on the door.
No answer. He knocked again. No answer. Again. No answer.
Finally, he called him.
"Yes, Matt? Are you knocking on my door??"
"Yes! Do you have tea?"
"I'm right behind you, Matt. You don't have to shout."
Matt whirled around to Arthur's exasperated face. "Arthur!! Aha!! I need your help. Do you have tea?"
Arthur held up a plastic grocery bag. "I ran out, so I just went and bought more." He smiled, and Matt grinned back.
Arthur guestured for Matt to follow him into his hotel room, and he did.
Arthur made them both a cuppa, and sat down on the bed. Matt sat in a chair adjacent to him.
"So, how are you and that girl, um, Lizzy, doing?"
Matt ducked his head in minor embarrassment. "Really good. I miss her a lot. . ."
Arthur smiled. "Aww."
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Later that evening, Matt was laying on his stomach, in bed, reading, when his phone rang. He answered quickly, on the first ring, knowing who it was immediately, by the ring tone.
"Hello!"
"Hello, Matt!" Lizzy was a little bit hard to understand, from the cacophony of voices in the background, including a few echos of "hi!" "Hey!" And "hello!"
"Am I on speaker phone?"
"Yeah! I was just going to call you and ask if you were still okay with Skyping tonight, even though I'm with friends, and somebody," Matt wasn't sure who Lizzy was glaring at, but he knew her well enough to know that somebody was. "Decided that you needed to be on speaker phone."
Matt laughed brightly. "No worries. And yeah, I'm still up for Skype. Just let me grab my laptop. While I do so, who all am i speaking to?"
The girls all called out their names.
"Rhi!" Obviously the bravest.
"Cece."
"Jayce here!"
"Also Jackie."
"And I'm Cate. ." The final voice was quiet.
As they all called out their names, he leaned over the edge of the bed to grab the computer. His finger tip nearly touched it. He leaned a bit further. His fingers brushed the smooth surface, cool from unuse. He leaned a little bit further, and his clumsiness sent him tumbling off the bed.
Thump. "Aaaah!!"
"Are you alright, Matt?" He heard a chorus of giggling girls in the background.
He popped up so his head was above the edge of the bed, even though he knew that Lizzy couldn't see him. "Yeah! I'm fine!" He chambered back up onto the bed, laptop in hand, and sat down, legs folded. He fired it up and opened up Skype. "Ready?"
"Yeah! None of them believe that my boyfriend's name is actually Matt Smith." Lizzy hung up.
Matt clicked on her Skype name, LizzythePenguin (which he thought was totally adorable), and waited for her to answer. When she did, he got a video feed of six girls, it looked like four were sitting on the floor, and two were sitting on the bed above them. They were all talking and laughing, when almost all at once, four girls (all of them besides Jayce and Lizzy) went wide eyed, jaw dropped.
And Jayce and Lizzy cracked up. When their laughter began to die down, Matt spoke. "Hello, everyone! I'm Matt, Lizzy's boyfriend. Would you all mind introducing yourselves once more for me? I'd like to start putting names with faces. Even though I'm terrible with names."
Silence. Lizzy and Jayce grinned.
"Um, alright. Let's start with you, on the top, left side. My left, that is. Your right." He spoke to a girl with auburn hair and brown eyes, with a dusting of freckles across her nose and cheek bones. She wore a dress with a scene from the movie Peter Pan on the skirt. Cute.
"Me?" The girl stuttered out. She was obviously quite shy. "I'm Cate. . "
"Cate. Alright. Nice to meet you, Cate. Now. . ."
The girl next to Cate caught what he was hinting at. She had dark brown hair and eyes to match. She was also wearing a dress, though hers was much shorter than Cate's, and strapless, with black lace over top of the white fabric. "I'm Cece. . ."
She seemed purely amazed by his presence. Or, well, image. Whatever. Amazed in general. "Cece. Okay. Aannd. . "
The girl on the far left, on the bottom layer, spoke up. Blue eyes and red hair. She wore a blue button down top and white skirt. Was is not cold in California in the winter???? "I'm Jackie."
Aha. She was the mutual friend that helped Jayce surprise Lizzy.
The next girl, green eyed and clear skinned spoke up. She was on the far right, with Jayce next to Jackie, and then Lizzy, and then her. He noticed an engagement ring on her finger when she brushed her hair away from her face, which confused him a bit since her shirt said "Who needs a boyfriend?" He decided to just go with it. "I'm Rhi!" She seemed very bubbly and confident.
"Rhi. Alright. Hello everyone!" He wiggled his fingers in an awkward wave.
"Wait!" Lizzy spoke up. "This is Jay." Matt figured that Lizzy took Jay's lack of introduction for stunned silence. Did she not know they knew eachother?
"Oh, I know Jayce."
Lizzy's brows furrowed in confusion. She opened and closed her mouth a few times, but nothing came out. Then she was finally able to make words, if not coherent sentances. "You--but how do you--I never said--how is that--just--" She took a breath. "What??"
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A/N: Oooh. What's gonna happen??
Jk lol. I know exactly what's going to happen.
Anyways!! How are you guys liking these chapters? All of them, as well as the Author's Notes, are prewritten. That time I didn't update for two and a half weeks? Yeah, after that, I preceded to write about four chapters in the span of three days. That's the major reason I decided to do two updates a week, and possibly the same days each week. Maybe. If so, I'll probably update Wednesdays and Sundays. Maybe. We'll see. But there should definitely be and least two chapters a week, maybe more. Depending on how far ahead I can get.
Welp,
~Kay