#icon-dancecomplex

"Stephanie! Get your ass over here" I yelled from the other side of the store. She put back the shirt she was looking at and walked over to me. 

"Steph you're gonna get lost if you keep walking away from us" I laughed holding up a shirt to get a better look at it. 

"Do these jeans make my butt look big?" Maggie asked walking out of the changing room and looking at herself in the mirror. 

"Yes" A voice said from behind us, we all quickly turned around to see who it is. My eyes grew wide and my knees went weak causing me to fall to the floor. 

"Carlie, are you okay?" Maggie asked laughing and stretching out a hand to help me up from the floor. 

"Yeah, I'm fine" I laughed grabbing her hand. "I just lost my balance" I said dusting off my butt. 

"Y-Y-You're Madison A-Alamia" Maggie stuttered, we all looked at him and he smiled. 

"I'm guessing you're fans?" He asked leaning against one of the counters piled with clothes on top. 

"Just a little, I mean we're not like those obsessive fans, we're pretty cool" I said crossing my arms over my chest. 

"Coming from the one who fell when you saw him" Maggie whispered to me while she walked by. 

"Anyways I'm Carlie, that's Maggie and that's Stephanie" I smiled introducing all of us to him. 

"Hey, well I'm Madison but you already know that" he laughed not taking his eyes off of Maggie. I looked back and forth from Maggie to Madison both of them just staring deeply into each others eyes. 

"I wanna go to Forever 21, so Maggie when you're done paying for the clothes you want meet us there! Bye Madison!" Stephanie smiled before grabbing my hand and basically dragging me out of Aeropostale. 

"What was that for?" I asked as she dragged me around the mall trying to find Forever 21. 

"Did you see the way they were looking at each other? He's clearly into Maggie, so I thought i'd let them be alone" she smiled 

"Are you okay?" I asked once I noticed she had stopped walking. 

"If that's Vinny I'm going to cry" Stephanie said pointing over to a boy who was clearly Vinny Castronovo. She started pacing back and forth gaining strange looks from people passing by. 

"Steph calm down" I said grabbing her by the shoulders to stop her from pacing.

"Carlie, that's Vinny Castronovo!" she practically yelled, I quickly turned around once he looked over at us after hearing his name come from our direction. 

"Shit I think he saw us! Let's just walk into H&M and walk back out in five minutes!"  I said walking over to H&M with Stephanie trailing behind me. 

Stephanie's POV

"He's so beautiful!" I sighed looking through a pile of clothing neatly placed on a counter by the entrance. 

"No way! Keep calm but he's about to walk in" Carlie said just as he walked through the entrance with his sister Bianca. He quickly glanced in our direction and then looked back at me, I looked down at the t-shirt in my hands and tried not to smile. 

"He can't see you anymore" Carlie said, I looked up to see him following Bianca to the other side of the store. 

"He looked at me! I almost fainted" I squealed putting my hand over my chest and feeling my heart beat a million times per minute. 

"I know, I know but we have to go to Forever 21 Maggie's probably already there!" Carlie said walking out of the store. 

I turned around one last time to look at Vinny and almost dropped to the floor when I noticed him looking back at me. I quickly looked away and walked out of the store following Carlie to Forever 21. 

---

I clicked the link Maggie had recently sent me and it redirected me to our usual tinychat, Carlieufeel I typed in as my username. 

"Carlie!" Maggie shouted as I started broadcasting. I smiled and looked at the chat box and read what they were previously talking about. 

"Carlie you okay?" Sam wrote in the chat box, I faked a smile and nodded my head. 

I wasn't okay and they knew that, they all knew, I've been depressed for the past few months, all because of Nick Mara. I went to an open class a few months ago at ICON and I met Nick, ever since that day i've been a mess, I miss him so much it hurts. 

"I'm fine, just going through Post Nick Depression" I laughed at how silly it sounded. 

"I feel you, still going through PVD" Stephanie wrote again. Stephanie understand. 

Stephanie met Vinny last summer and she's still going through Post Vinny Depression, I felt really bad for her when it happened. I knew how much he meant to her and the days after she met him were torture for her, she'd go to bed crying and sometimes she'd miss our tinychats. 

"Let's change the topic, did your mom say anything yet?" Ashley asked, her voice filling my headphones.

"Oh" I said lowering my voice down to a whisper. "SHE SAID YES!" I yelled jumping up and down on my bed. 

Maggie and Dodie started screaming while Sam, Stephanie and Ashley typed a bunch of letters into the chat box to show their excitement. My mom had finally agreed that they can come and stay with us in New Jersey for the summer.

"She told me this morning, you can come next week!" I smiled calming myself down from all of the excitement. 

"I'M GOING TO NEW JERSEY! WHAT IF I SEE VINNY AGAIN! ASDFGHJKL!!! WE HAVE TO GO TO ICON" Stephanie's comment appeared in the chat box. 

"MAGISON WILL HAPPEN!" Dodie screamed squeezing the rubber yellow chicken in her hands causing an inhumanly noise to come out of it. 

I looked over at Maggie to see her drop her laptop and a piercing scream escape her mouth, I quickly pulled out my headphones, all the screaming was giving me a headache. 

"I'm gonna meet Mikey!" Sam and Ashley both typed in at the same time, suddenly it all got awkward, my smile turned into a firm line and I stared at the chat box waiting for someone to say something. 

"Who cares about Mikey, i'm seeing Vinny again!" Stephanie wrote breaking the tension and causing us all to laugh. 

I looked over at Maggie's camera to see her crying. "Maggie don't cry!" I laughed covering my face with my hands. 

"There's more!" I said grabbing everyone's attention. "You all need to be here by Thursday because we're going to open class at ICON!" I smiled. 

"Don't do this to me Carlie, I can't handle all of this at once!" Dodie screamed falling on her bed, I laughed as her sister Daphne jumped onto her. 

"Why are you so excited?" Daphne asked sitting on her stomach. 

"Get off me you demon child!" Dodie yelled throwing Daphne off of her. "This is so unfair, I get a boyfriend and now I'm going to New Jersey where the ICONic Boyz are! Fuck my life" Dodie said overly dramatic. 

"Sucks" we all commented at the same time. She leaned in closer to see the comments and glared at us through the webcam. 

"My mom needs me" I explained hearing my mom call my name from downstairs. "I'll be back tonight and we'll talk more about it. Stay sassy" I laughed before closing the tab and getting up to go see what my mom needed. 

---