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"ANNA COME HERE." I yelled at my sister.
"I'M COMING." I heard footsteps. I've been stressing about this all week and now it's the night before Magcon and I still don't have an outfit.
"What?" Anna said standing in the doorway. I just looked at her with a distressed plea.
"Anna please help me I need something to wear. I'm going to be meeting Jacob frickin' Whitesides I can't look like, well, me." I explained. She huffed and walked to my closet, looking through it. She pulled out my dark purple crop tank top, black skinny jeans, black and grey flannel, and grabbed my grey bandana.
"Wear this with your black vans. Those will look cute." She told me. I got up from my bed and hugged her tight. She chuckled and hugged back.
"Thank you so much Anna." I smiled. I let go of her and then shooed her out so I could get ready for a shower. I got out my black vans and put them next to my outfit.
"Oh I can't wait!" I squealed. I went to the bathroom and took a shower. I did everything necessary and laid down in bed. I got on twitter and tweeted.
@jacobsgirl_xo: can't wait to meet @JacobWhitesides tomorrow<3
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I woke up to the beautiful sound of Jacob Whitesides singing "You & I". I picked up my phone and went to twitter checking for notifications then exiting out of the app. I looked at the time.
8:17 am.
I knew if I didn't get up now I would never get up in time. So I begrudgingly got up and went down to the kitchen. There stood my mom making breakfast.
"When will the food be ready?" I asked suddenly very hungry.
"Good morning to you too," I gave her a hard glare, "it'll be about fifteen minutes." She finished. I groaned. I walked back up to my room and looked at the outfit in front of me. Anna really does know what she's doing. I started to panic. I walked, more like ran, to Anna's room to see if she was up.
"Anna what should I do with my hair? What make up? Oh god I'm screwed." I asked seeing she was up.
"Mariah calm down. Just do a bun. It'll keep the hair out of your face and off your shoulders so you won't get too hot. Do natural make up. You don't want to seem fake." She said.
"THANK YOU ANNA I LOVE YOU." I yelled running back to my room. I looked around then my stomach rumbled. I ran downstairs and sure enough the food was ready. I sat down after I got all the food I wanted and ate. After I ate I ran upstairs and checked the time.
9:02 am.
I decided to get dressed because it's a two hour drive to the hotel. I put on the shirt and jeans with my black vans. I tied the flannel around my waist and put my long dirty blonde hair into a bun, redoing it about four times until I was satisfied. I went over to my mirror and did my usual routine making my green eyes stand out in the natural make up. I put the bandana around my head and couldn't help but think of Taylor Caniff and smirk a bit. That boy. I made sure my phone was at one hundred percent and put my phone charger in my purse. I checked the time again.
9:57 am.
"MOM CAN WE LEAVE NOW I DON'T WANT TO BE LATE." I yelled running down the stairs. Anna and my mom were sitting downstairs.
"Give me around five minutes." My mom said.
"I can't wait." I giggled. Anna just laughed.
"Are you coming with?" I asked her seeing she was dressed.
"Yeah I want to go shopping." She told me. I rolled me eyes.
"Okay let's go." My mom said walking out and I jumped up, made sure I had everything I needed and ran out the door.
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"OMG I'm here. Oh god I can't wait I'm so excited." I was just rambling as Anna and my mom just laughed at me. Whatever. I looked around in awe. Nice hotel.
"Okay so I have three hours 'till I go in. I'm gonna go wait in line. You guys can leave. I can handle myself." I said practically pushing them out the door. I don't want my family here, that's embarrassing. I walked over to the line where it already was crowded with girls and got as far up as I could. Now I have three hours. Great.
I spent two hours on twitter and then the screaming started. I looked up. Holy crap. I was looking straight at Carter Reynolds and Hayes Grier. They were on the lowest balcony of the hotel and I was right under them. I opened my camera and took like a million pictures. I swear Hayes looked right at me at one point. Soon they all came out and I saw the love of my life.
Jacob Whitesides.
He walked out with Mahogany and the Jacks but all I saw was him. His gorgeous smile and the cute little crinkles he gets by his eyes when he laughs. I love him so much. I took so many pictures and was screaming until my throat hurt and the event hasn't even begun yet. I looked at the time.
2:56 pm.
Holy crap we get to go in four minutes. They had already all went into the room so we were just jittery waiting to go. They opened the door and started letting us in. OHMYGOD I am not prepared for this. Jacob Whitesides is in there, I need to calm down right now or he'll think I'm weird. My hands were so sweaty and the butterfly's in my stomach were going crazy. As we all got in a big line formed and there he was. Standing meeting all these girls. I wish that was me every time. I was moving up and soon there was one girl in front of me.
"Okay. You can do this. He's just another human being. A beautiful, perfect, famous human being." I said to myself. Well that pep talk didn't really help. Oh no, it's my turn. Crap.
"Hi Jacob." I breathed. My eyes watered. Oh crap not now, Jacob will think I'm weird.
"Hey what's your name beautiful?" He asked. Crap.
"Mariah." I said.
"What kind of pose you want? Wait I got it." He said like a little kid who just thought of the best idea ever. He put me in front of him and wrapped his arms around my waist, lacing his fingers together. We smiled and then we stayed like that for the second picture but right before the flash went off he kissed my cheek. Holy crap he kissed my cheek. That's when the tears came.
"Hey baby girl what's wrong? Don't cry please." He turned me around and looked at me. He hugged me tight as I wrapped my arms around him and buried my head in his shoulder. We pulled away and I wiped my eyes.
"I'm just so glad I get to meet you. I absolutely love you and you've made my life just by being here today." My words just tumbled out, me not being able to control what I was saying anymore. He hugged me again and then signed the shirt everyone was getting.
"I will find you after the meet and greet, Mariah." He said in my ear as I was being moved along by security. I smiled at him and he smiled back. Yeah right. He probably has already forgotten about me. He won't come find me. I walked around and then got pushed up to the front of the crowd forming in front of the stage. I had to push on the gate towards the end of the meet and greet or else I'd be crushed by everyone else against the gate. The announcer started calling everyone out. I waited for Jacob.
"Here's Jacob Whitesides." He yelled. I screamed and was having an internal fight on if pictures of Jacob were more important than keeping my hip bones from being ground into a fine powder. I took out my phone and got about three pictures before I put my phone back because my stomach was against the top of the gate and it hurt so bad. I know I had a look of pain on my face. It was Jaocb's time to sing and I was thinking whether or not I should do that again when I saw a security guard coming down from the side of the stage.
OMG what is he doing?
He stopped in front of me.
"C'mon they pointed at you." He said smiling and chuckling a bit. I walked down to the side of the gates and saw that they chose about seven other girls along with me. We went up on stage and Jacob walked over to me and very subtly winked at me.
I'm frickin' dead. It's over. I'm just dead.
We danced and I swear to god he was singing to me. I took a chance and mouthed to him, "are you singing to me?"
He nodded his head. He walked over and stood in front of me. He looked straight into my eyes with those warm chocolate brown eyes.
"You and I.
We don't wanna be like them, we can make it till the end.
No nothing can come between you and I."
He sang right to me. He sang the whole song to me.
"You and I.
Ohhh, you and I." He ended the song. He smiled at me.
"Told you I'd find you after the meet and greet." He said hugging me from the side. He slipped something in my bag, I could tell the way he slumped a bit and leaned. I went back to the crowd and looked at it.
His number. His frickin' number. I put it in my phone and the rest of the event went by in a blur. People were dispersing and I was walking to the exit. I called my mom and she said they'd be on their way in about twenty minutes and they were about thirty minutes away when they don't get lost so I had a good hour until they got here. I sat down on the ground outside of the ballroom and plugged my phone in considering it was at seventeen percent and a plug was right there. I looked around and gasped. There he was standing looking around at everyone below. I waved at him and he looked in my direction and his face lit up. He ran away from the ledge.
Oh.
Then all the sudden I heard footsteps pounding down the stairs. I looked over and saw Jacob running down the stairs. I got up with a huge smile on my face. He ran over to me and gave me a giant hug.
We talked for an hour straight. He's even better than I thought he would be in person. I got a text.
From: Anna
We're here. Come outside now we're right in front.
"My mom is here." I stood up and unplugged my phone and he stood up with me. He handed me his phone.
"Put your number in." He told me. I blushed and put my name as "Mariah from Magcon<3". We hugged again and he pulled away a bit. We looked at each other for a bit. He leaned in and kissed my cheek.
"I don't want your mom to get mad but I don't want you to go." He said disappointed. Holy crap he doesn't want me to leave, his kissed my cheek, he likes being around me. What the fudge?
"I'll text you all the time, I'll FaceTime you, I'll call you. I'll tweet, DM, everything. We won't lose touch. I promise." He said holding out his pinky like a child. I wrapped my pinky around his giggling.
"Okay Jacob. I really gotta go now." I hugged him one more time mumbling bye. I waved as I walked out the door.
We can just say, he never broke that promise.