I stood outside of Kings Cross station, waiting for my best friend to come and pick me up. Since our mums had been best friends when they were pregnant with us, the Geordie YouTuber Will Lenney and I had been best friends since birth. We had been inseparable for years, making it excruciating when he had moved down to London to pursue his YouTube career. That still didn't stop us from being inseparable, though, and it still didn't make my crush on him any easier to deal with. Regardless, the distance still got to both of us, and so I had said yes immediately when Will had invited me down to see him and his friends for a week. I couldn't wait to see him again. Suddenly, I spotted a car driving up the pick-up road for the station.

"He fuckin' didn't." I scoffed as the metallic purple car that had the words "Belle Delphine" on the side of it drove towards me before stopping right in front of me. I rolled my eyes but couldn't help but smile as Will immediately climbed out.

"Y/N!" he laughed, throwing his arms up in the air as he ran around the car and engulfed me into a hug. I was hesitant to return it given that he'd be driving me to his building in that monstrosity of a car, but I gave in quickly as I wrapped my arms around my best friend and closed my eyes as I rested my head against his chest.

"Did I or did I not tell ya to not pick me up in that ugly-as-fuck car?" I chuckled. He pulled away slightly and looked at the car.

"Aye, ya did, but I don't think that it's that bad, ya know." He shrugged.

"You only think that because you got it for free, from your sugar mam." I teased.

"Oy, lass, she's not my sugar mam, I get enough of that shite from the boys." He nodded as he pointed a finger at me, but his quiet giggle and smile deceived his serious gesture.

"Aye, so you should, lad, you'd get banned from Newcastle if you drove this home." I continued to mock as he took my suitcases and put them into the boot.

"I know, that's exactly why I'm either scrapping it or selling it before I move back home, if I ever do." He nodded, making me smile and shake my head as we got into the car.

"Are you sure?" I gulped as Will rolled my suitcases down the hall and towards his flat.

"Of course, man! I want my lot to meet you." He reassured, talking about the video that he wanted me to be in.

"You sure? I won't get hate or anything?" I questioned.

"Course you won't, lass. I've mentioned you in my videos so much that my viewers are desperate to meet ya, and I'm desperate for them to meet you." He smiled. I chuckled and shook my head as Will opened the door to his flat and let me in. My eyes widened as I looked around the spacious and modern London apartment. Sure, I had seen snippets of it over Facetime with Will or in his videos, but I'd never seen it like this.

"Fuck me, lad, this place is massive!" I exclaimed.

"Aye, it's not too bad. Kind of expensive but I can afford it with my fifty thousand a week." He teased, making me smirk and shake my head.

"Where is she?! Where's the famous Y/N?!" I looked towards the hallway as I heard a female voice.

"Gee incoming, brace yaself." Will chuckled, making me smile as a petite, blue-haired woman appeared. Her eyes brightened as she saw me.

"You must be Y/N! Oh, I've heard so much about you!" she squealed as she hugged me tightly. I looked at Will, making him smile and wink as I hugged the girl back.

"I've heard so much about you too, it's lovely to meet you." I smiled.

"Wait until you meet the boys, Will has banged on about you so much that we've all been so excited to meet you." She admitted. Will's eyes widened.

"Gee?!" he exclaimed.

"Aw, is little William embarrassed that he got exposed for always talking about me?" I fake-cooed, jokingly squeezing his cheeks as he rolled his eyes and hooked his arm around my waist.

"Aye, keep going, see where that gets you." He nodded, making me chuckle.

I sat in front of Will's rolling camera, shaking my head and trying not to laugh at what was about to happen. Suddenly, his bedroom door flew open and the boy jumped into the room.

"Right, hello!" he said his usual thing, making me laugh as he ran towards the desk.

"Welcome to another main channel video, which is a rarity now, I know. Now, I have an extremely special guest with me tonight. I've talked about her, I've been best mates with her since birth, it feels amazing to finally introduce youse to my best mate from home, Y/N!" he cheered as he extended his arms to gesture to me.

"Hey, everyone." I chuckled and waved at the camera.

"Okay, so, you're a bit weird in the sense that I'm the only Eboy that you watch, and you only watch me because I'm ya best mate. You've never seen George's videos, James' videos or Alex's videos, you've not even watched any of the Eboys videos." He stated as he shook his head and gestured with his hands.

"That's correct. You're the only one who's funny enough to watch." I teased.

"Her words, not mine." Will nodded as he looked into the camera, making me laugh.

"So, before you meet the lads, I'm going to have you react to one of their videos each that I've selected as one that I think presents them well, or presents their humour, or how they genuinely are." He explained.

"Is that not a perfect recipe for me developing unfair biases towards them before I meet them?" I chuckled.

"Yes." He nodded, making me laugh as he looked into the camera.

"Okay, I understand." I giggled.

"So, first we have George." Will mumbled as he clicked on a video, it opening up with gameplay. My eyebrows furrowed.

"When is he going to show his face?" I asked. Will tried not to smile as he looked into the camera.

"Actually, lass, he has yet to show his face on a video." He nodded. My eyes widened and I looked at him.

"What? How the fuck's he managed to do that, like?" I scoffed, making Will smirk and shake his head.

"It's so fuckin' obvious that you don't watch much YouTube, like. I'll get him to put on his disguise when we go up to meet them lot later." He chuckled.

"Right. Apart from that, I like him. He makes funny comments." I shrugged.

"Alright, I think that we're done with him. James' turn." Will mumbled, mainly to himself as he got up another video.

"Hello, everyone, and welcome to another video." The video started to play.

"Aye, I've spotted the Tory, where did he go to private school then?" I scoffed, making Will burst out laughing as he clapped and looked into the camera.

"See, James? Me lass who has never seen your videos before and has yet to meet ya also thinks that you're a privately educated Tory." He nodded as laughs still spilt from his lips. But all I could think about was the fact that Will had just called me his lass. I wish, I thought as I laughed along.

"What do ya think of the video? We're not here purely to judge James off of his fuckin' posh accent." He chuckled.

"To be fair to him, every accent is posh to a Geordie." I shrugged.

"That's also true." Will nodded.

"I like his video too, but he seems a lot more serious than George, and I'm not sure how I feel about that." I shook my head.

"So, you're saying that you prefer more blatant humour over more subtle quips." Will summarised as he looked at me. I bit my lip and thought.

"Yeah." I nodded.

"Right, fair enough. Last one, this is the nonce that is Alex." Will introduced, making me laugh as he clicked onto one of Alex's most recent videos.

"Shit, he's kind of cute, like." I chuckled. Will's eyes widened slightly and he looked at me.

"You what?" he scoffed. I shrugged and looked at him, not taking notice of the slight twinkle of jealousy in his eyes.

"You don't think that he's cute?" I chuckled. Will opened his mouth to speak but then paused, his eyebrows furrowed as he looked into the camera.

"I mean...objectively, sure, he's a handsome enough lad, but considering that I'm straight, no, I can't say that I find him cute, and I'm slightly surprised that you do, to be honest." He spoke.

"Why are you surprised that I do?" I chuckled.

"Y/N, I've seen the guys that you tend to go for, like, Alex isn't a guy you'd usually go for." He shrugged. I returned it and looked at him. He scoffed and shook his head, clenching his jaw as he looked back at the camera.

"Right then, let's move on." He nodded, my eyebrows furrowing as he suddenly seemed pissed off. I just couldn't work out why.

I sat in George and Alex's living room, talking and mingling with Will's friends and my new friends.

"So, what's your most embarrassing memory of Will?" James smiled.

"Ooh, we don't need to talk about that, like." Will chuckled nervously, shaking his head as he put his arm around me.

"Yes, yes we do." George nodded. Will groaned and leant his head back as I smirked at him.

"So, one time when we were eighteen, we were out shopping, and I had to get new bras, so we went into Ann Summers for me to try on bras. But only one of us ended up trying on bras, and it wasn't me." I admitted. Everyone's eyes widened, laughs erupting from their lips as Will squeezed his eyes shut and nodded

"You're a fucking idiot, mate!" James laughed.

"Aye, so I've been told. Mainly by this one." Will chuckled as he gently nudged my shoulder.

"You love me really." I teased.

"Aye, I do." He nodded, looking at me with a gentle smile on his lips. I returned it and bit my lip. Suddenly, Will's smile dipped slightly and he looked down, making my smile dip too.

"Erm, I need to go talk to Alex about something. I'll be back in a minute, yeah?" he asked. I nodded as I studied his face, something telling me that there was an issue. I just didn't know what the issue was. Will returned the nod and gave me another small smile before standing up and heading down the hallway, making me sigh and contemplate what was wrong with my best mate and crush.

Will's P.O.V

"You love me really." Y/N teased.

"Aye, I do." Will nodded, looking at the girl with a gentle smile on his lips. She returned it and bit the lip that Will wanted nothing more than to kiss and make his. And yet, he couldn't. Even Y/N had admitted that she had a crush on Alex by calling him cute, and not him, which even he had to admit hurt. After all, he'd practically been in love with the stunning lass for as long as he could remember. But the filming of the video had confirmed that she didn't feel that way, and what kind of best mate would Will be if he stood in the way of her chasing the guy that she really wanted? It would break him, but he had to. His smile dipped slightly and he looked down, making Y/N's smile dip in turn.

"Erm, I need to go talk to Alex about something. I'll be back in a minute, yeah?" he asked. Y/N nodded and studied Will's face, and he could just tell that she knew something was off. He just hoped to god that she didn't know what. She nodded, making Will return it and give her a small smile before standing up and heading towards Alex's bedroom, where he was editing a video before going out to join the others in Y/N's welcoming party.

"Lad? You busy?" Will asked as he gently knocked his fist against Alex's slightly ajar bedroom door.

"I can spare a minute." Alex smiled at his friend. Will forced himself to return the smile as he walked in, gently shutting the door behind him before sitting on the end of Alex's bed. He looked down at his hands, trying to find the courage to force himself to give away the girl that he loved.

"So, um, what do you think of Y/N, like?" he asked quietly, his gaze glued to his hands.

"Yeah, she's lovely. I can see why you wanted us to meet her so badly. I mean, she's a bit hard to understand at times, but I guess that that just comes with the territory of having a Geordie accent." Alex teased.

"Yeah." Will chuckled forcibly before looking back up at Alex, whose attention was still predominantly on his video.

"So, um, for the video where I introduce her to my YouTube channel, I had her look at one video from each of youse." Will spoke.

"Oh, yeah?" Alex mumbled.

"Aye, um...she said that you were cute." Will admitted, finally forcing the words out. He looked up timidly as Alex finally looked at him and raised his eyebrows.

"She did?" Alex asked. Will nodded, the timid look still on his face.

"And, um, you know that I'm a good mate, so, er, I figured that I'd see for her if you were interested in chatting, or whatever." He nodded, every word tasting so sickly and bitter in the boy's mouth. Alex nodded, obviously thinking about the proposition as he turned his chair to fully face Will.

"Yeah, I'd be interested, I think. I mean, she's lovely and even you've got to admit that she's a stunner." Alex chuckled. Will clenched his jaw as he looked back down.

"Aye, she is. So, um, you want her number, like?" he asked.

"Yeah, go on." Alex nodded as he handed Will his phone. Every single moment was a stab to the Geordie boy's heart as he got up Y/N's number in his phone before starting to type it into Alex's.

"There. Done." He spoke, handing Alex's phone back to him.

"Cheers, mate, I appreciate that. Look at you, being such a good matchmaker." He chuckled. Will clenched his jaw, forcing himself to smile at Alex as he stood up.

"Aye, that's me." He mumbled as he turned to leave.

"Oh, one more thing." Will spoke as he turned to look back at Alex. The boy raised his eyebrows and hinted for Will to continue. He sighed and clenched his jaw.

"Don't hurt her. I know that giving you her number is very different to youse actively going out, but I love her. And I will hurt you if you hurt her, that's a promise, lad." Will nodded.

"I'm not going to hurt her, Will. She'll be fine." Alex reassured. Will sighed and nodded again, forcing a final fake smile onto his lips as he left the room, leaving his heart there too.