"Come on," I said to Jack as he struggled to get his bag from the overhead storage.
"I'm coming." He replied as he followed me towards the front of the plane. He wheeled his suitcase off and we said thank you to the air hostesses and pilots. We walked through the tunnel, and got to the luggage carousels, which is where me and Jack started laughing for a good 5 minutes until my suitcase turned up.
There was someone who tapped me on my shoulder, I quickly turned around and spotted a very tall woman, in her 30s.
"Hi, I just wanted to apologise." She said quietly.
"Wait, what for?" I replied laughing, extremely confused.
"For my son, he took a video of you on the plane. I've since got him to delete it, but I'm so sorry for the way he treated you." She said, very sincerely. She was obviously sorry for any damage her son had caused.
"Oh no, don't even worry about it. We get it all the time, I am just sorry I shouted like that. I really shouldn't have." I responded back, and she quickly replied then walked off once again.
I turned to Jack and laughed again. It was so obvious that we were completely drunk, but neither of us cared. We just tried to have a joke.
"Emily said she got us a taxi, so we just need to find it."
We walked around the airport looking for taxis for 10 minutes, and failed to find any.
"Oh god. Jack, I just realised, cars don't park in the airport, they aren't allowed. They park outside in the car park." I told him and we couldn't stop laughing at our stupidity.
"To the car park then." He replied, pointing out the building.
After about 3 minutes of walking, we finally found our taxi, it was a big huge van, that had more than enough room for me and Jack.
"You go to sleep Jack, try to sleep off at least some of the alcohol." I pleaded with him. After a few minutes of convincing, he fell straight asleep.
"Can you drive a really long way there? Just so it takes 30-45 minutes?" I asked the taxi driver.
"Sure, of course." He replied and I got back to looking at my phone. I finally put the data on and took it off airplane mode, when it started pinging a lot.
The main notification was a spam of messages from Mason and Jesse.
Mason
Olivia did you land?
When you land look on Twitter
It's all a mess on there
But you and Jack are trending
Have a look
OLIVIA
OLIVIA
Olivia
Yes I'm having a look now
I opened the Twitter app and saw my name trending. When I clicked on it, I was scared what I was going to find.
username
@Username
That Olivia Southgate was so rude to that little boy
username1
@Username
Didn't have to be like that. He only wanted a photo
There was thousands of them which are all so similar. I was getting hate for asking someone to leave us be. I thought it was ridiculous and tweeted something out myself.
Olivia Southgate ☑️
@livsouthy
I'm just going to put my side of this story, you can listen if you want to. The boy in the video shoved a camera in our face then said to me and Jack, "do something funny for a tik tok." This was before he cropped the video, so you could only see my reaction. Usually I'm not bothered by fans and I will happily take any photos as I want, however this one took it too far.
^Olivia Southgate ☑️
@livsouthy
As many of my subscribers know, I'm terrified of flying, so at this point, I was at my most vulnerable, I was very clearly drunk too, because Jack had been trying to calm my nerves with alcohol. In this situation, I shouldn't have gotten angry, his mum apologised to me, then I apologised to them both for shouting. However, I am not some puppet to perform for you, especially when I'm in a vulnerable state. I am not someone that you can follow around with a camera to get a viral tik tok, please treat me as a human. Thank you.
Once I had posted it, I got a load of support from friends and fans.
^Wedgeman Simon☑️
@miniminter
You go Southy, you are so strong.
^Jesse Lingard☑️
@jlingz
Inspirational.
^Lando Norris☑️
@landonorris
👏👏👏
^username
@username
I love you. Tell all the children trying to cancel you to fuck off.
I smiled to myself as I saw all the support I was getting from my friends, and even fans. I knew that I was going to get cancelled at some point, but I was so happy and relieved it wasn't now. I sat smiling for the last 10 minutes of the journey whilst trying to drink as much water as possible, just to sober up. I had downed 3 water bottles full, and was on to my 4th when the car pulled up to Rockliffe hall.
The door opened and I saw Emily stood in front of the car and a camera man behind.
"Hi love." She said as she came for a hug.
"Hey babe." I responded, wrapping my arms around her neck.
I let go then walked round to get my suitcase out the boot.
"You had a fun journey? I saw Twitter." She laughed.
"Obviously, it's 10 in the morning and we are drunk off our tits." I screamed laughing and Emily joined in.
"It's 9, actually, but don't worry. You haven't got England training to do. Jacks a bit late as well. He's the last one here."
"I know, imagine if I was a footballer, I would be shit. Did you know, that if I was a footballer, I would earn more money. And if I was a footballer, my job would be to kick a ball around." I replied, trying to be serious.
"You drunk, is just like Jack normally." She responded giggling.
"What? Nice hair!" I answered.
"Have no brain cells." She laughed then wheeled my suitcase for me. By this time, Jack had gotten out the car and was walking up the path to the hall with us.
I looked in awe at Rockliffe hall. It was such a beautiful day, and the hall was beautiful as well.
We walked up towards the doors, and opened them. I followed Emily towards the rest of the team. They were all gathered around a massive room, which was usually for parties.
"So, we've got a game in..." my dad stopped as he heard me come in. I walked through the entrance, then tripped over on my own two feet. I fell to the ground, then not realising, Jack also fell over my feet and onto the ground.
Most of the team were laughing, but my dad ran over. "Hi love, are you okay?" He asked.
"Yeah, don't worry. Just fine." I replied after getting myself back up. He quickly pulled me into a hug, squeezing me tight.
"You doing okay? You stink of vodka." He said as he stood back.
"Yeah, me and Jack got a plane here, so I'm going to go to my room, take a shower, sleep for a bit and just relax." I explained.
"Ahh, okay love. You might want to take Jack with you, he doesn't seem well enough to do anything."
"You're right daddio." Jack answered.
"Please never call me that ever again." My dad said, looking him straight in the eyes. We walked off and went to the room, which me and Jack were sharing.
The second I opened the door, I fell straight onto my bed and fell asleep.