Mask Off ~ Memeulous X Reader

*Chapter Five

"Who's that?" You ask once George sat back down.

"Oh it was no one." He answers, clearly eager to move on from the topic.

You think back to the voice you heard on the phone: Babe? If she was nothing then who where you? You'd flirted over text and you thought it had meant something but clearly he had loads of girls who he could be filming with right now, you were just the one with the most clout.

She didn't sound like no one, you want to say but you bit your tongue, not wanting to ruin a potential friendship or even relationship with George.

"Anyway..." George says, breaking the awkward silence. "I think we've got enough to stretch a video to ten minutes, I can just film an outro later," he continues.

"Cool." You giggle awkwardly. Why did I giggle? You cringe internally. "I should get going then I guess" 

"You could stay for a bit, some of my friends are coming over and I'm sure they'd love to meet you."

"Aww, you want me to meet your friends"

"Thank God you've finally stopped being awkward"

You gasp, pretending to be offended "I was not the one being awkward!"

"Whatever you say."

"It's not whatever I say, it's a fact."

"Okay sure," George says sarcastically.

"I know you're winding me up and it won't work."

"It already has"

"You're so annoying." You laugh.

Suddenly a loud knock sounds throughout the house.

"Oh they must be here, come on I'll introduce you." He says, getting up from his chair, you follow suit and the two of you start walking towards the door. "Oh shit I almost forgot," George says, stopping. You look at him, confused. George reaches up to his face and starts taking his hat off, followed by his sunglasses and mask. You couldn't help but stare. You'd watched him for so long and to finally see his face was weird.

"No need to stare." He says, laughing at your shocked expression.

He's surprisingly good looking, with piercing deep blue eyes, reddish brown hair and a strong jawline. "Sorry I just forgot you had a face." He simply laughs in response before looking at you, the two of you stood in silence except this time it isn't awkward. Another knock rings through the house and the two of you immediately move through the apartment to the front door. 

George starts to opens the door and you stand nervously behind him. He turns to you before opening the door and notices your nervousness, he leans towards you, looking into your eyes and squeezes your hand, butterflies shoot into your stomach. "Don't worry they'll love you". He then moves his body away from you to open the door but you couldn't help but wish he would've kept his hand on yours.

"Alex did you lose your key again?" George says, snapping you out of your trance. "This is Y/N by the way," George said and you looked past him to see two guys who you recognised to be James Marriott and the Internet Sensation himself, Alex Elmslie. 

You all quickly say hello to each other and migrate to the living room.

You quickly become comfortable with the boys and find yourself having a great time with them. That was until George got a phone call.

"Oh let me guess, it's Meli again?" James says looking fed up and you see Alex rolling his eyes.

"I'll just be a second." George glares at James and Alex, his cheerful attitude from earlier gone. Yours was gone too, you'd been having so much fun that you had forgotten about the earlier phone call with Meli. Why was she calling him again? 

"So you guys know Meli? She called earlier." You ask.

"Unfortunately we do," James replies.

"Don't worry about her," Alex reassures you "she's..." He trails off.

"A psycho." James finishes.

"I was gonna try and put it nicely." Alex laughs.

"What is she to George though?" You pry even though you know you're not being subtle at all.

"It's complicated," James says as if he's trying to pick his words carefully.

"Jealous, are we?" Alex asks, laughing at you.

Before you can defend yourself you hear another knock on the door.

"I'll go get that." Says Alex, getting up and leaving the living room.

"Honestly Y/N don't worry about Meli, if her and George were ever going to happen it would've already." James says gently. You nod in response.

"Did I hear someone say Meli?" A girls voice says. Suddenly a red head girl pops into the room with Alex in tow. 

"Umm yeah," James laughs awkwardly.

"Hi I'm Emily," she says smiling, holding her hand out to you. "You must be Y/N, I've heard a lot about you." You shake her hand and smile in return. She then sits on the sofa next to you.

"So you were talking about Meli? Don't her and George make the cutest the couple?" She asks innocently.

Couple?!