Dreams Do Come True

Chapter 2

Elloura's POV

While Lily was thinking about it, I was already ready to get told that the trip wouldn't be able to happen as I knew that we were not as rich as Sam and Colby and that it wouldn't be easy to get the large sum of money that we would need for this trip. I was also thinking that it would be great as we already know loads about the Crescent hotel and we wouldn't need to worry about getting as much research as we would normally, but then again U.S.A. has much more famous places so it would be easier to find the research because in England there aren't that many famous haunted places that are open to the public. That's why I would love to go to America for longer than just 3 days so that we could go to other haunted places to get more footage for multiple videos while we are there because the chances of us going back to America are quite slim as it is quite expensive and it would take us ages to get back the money we are spending for this trip as well as get enough money for our next trip to America it would take about 2 years as we both don't have the... best paying jobs and we are still in uni and still have classes, it is very tiring.

Somehow Lily said that we would be able to do it after having talked to our team and our manager they said that if we raised enough money from videos and from extra fundraising that we could possibly get enough money for this trip, but we would have to get roughly £3,800 ($4,880) which would hopefully not take that long to get together- which it didn't. Lily had told me to try to find a website to help us raise money for this trip– I found one called GoFundMe. We had told our fans about this trip which we have planned and are saving money for, and they all said that they would happily donate £10 ($13) each but we told them that that wasn't necessary. But somehow, they still found us and that is how we got about £1,500 ($1925).

For the past few days, we have been working our hardest to gain money for this trip as it was so expensive, we have gathered about £3,500 ($4,490). I was expecting it to be a lot but the hotel for 6 nights and for a work trip was £1,254 ($1,610), the flight in economy was £1,716 ($2,200) and the taxi/extra things like food etc, was an extra £750 ($970)! I get that we saved a lot and we gained even more money especially for this trip but it was still so expensive I found it kinda funny and the fact that we joked around about spending this much money was quite concerning as we can't afford to keep spending this much money on trips for videos even though we do love our fans- the 100,000 of them that we have, compared to the huge, what like, 8.5 mil or something around there of fans that Sam and colby have but hopefully one day we can get there too, or even meet them that would be so cool!

We booked the flight and hotel for 6 nights. We cleared our schedule for a week just for this trip which hopefully will be one, if not the best trip that we have and will go on for a video. We decided to let our manager know when we would be gone, I forgot that she helped us plan this so she already knew when we were going, so that she can let anyone know that we wont be able to go to any last minute meetings or see people during that week. We decided on going next week so that we can be back for an important meeting when we get back, the day after we get back in fact (luckily it is later in the afternoon so hopefully we will have recovered from our jet lag by then...).

I have been to the USA a few times before as most, well the whole of my mums side of my family live there so I sometime visit them. The last time I went to America was in 2016, 6 years ago, but I have never been to Arkansas, so this will still be a fun trip for me as it will be somewhere new to explore.

In roughly 14 months I am going to be going to New York to celebrate my birthday early because my birthday is in September but I will have to go back to school and start classes again. Yes I know I am kinda old to still be in uni but I am going for a 9 year medical degree and I started at 19 so I have about 4 years left on this degree, that is why we don't post much is because we are both still in school and work jobs to have a living to pay rent and keep us fed.

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"LILYYYYYYYY!!!!" I scream through our apartment and our neighbours could probably hear me, whoops...

"YEAHHHHH, WHATTTT!!" She screamed back, I love how we match each others energy

"When are we leaving?" I ask her as I walk into our office/filming room where she is probably editing a video

"Umm... Like 2 days. We finally have enough money well we will have to use £300 of our savings but the rest of the money we have raised and from our not so great pay checks, but hey, its something, right?"

"Fair point, I am excited to go. When are you going to start packing"

"Probably when I am done with this bit of the vid which will be...5 minutes." She says concentrating and clicking her mouse and dragging things places

"Ok. So I will be chilling on the sofa if you need me..." I say starting to walk off

I plop down onto the couch and the Lily screams "ELLOURA DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE YOUR PACKING TILL LAST MINUTE!!" She walking into the living room and stands in front of me ready to give me then same lecture I get EVERY time we go on a trip "You always and I mean ALWAYS forget something whether it be something important or not and you almost ALWAYS make us late when you do."

"Ok mum!!" I say in a jokey matter because she always acts like a mum making sure everyone is ok and has everything they need, she never lets us be late anywhere and is always ready way before we need to go so that she isn't rushed. "Just because I'm not packing now doesn't mean that I wont pack later today and no that doesn't mean ' I just can be bothered to do it today so I will do it tomorrow but I will say that same thing tomorrow and end up packing last minute before we need to eave early in the morning' because I know that is what you think I am saying but I PROMISE I will pack after we eat because I am STARVINGGG!!" I say exaggerating the word 'starving'

"Ok fine, only because I want to eat first too." She said walking to our front door "who's driving?"

"Oo me I dibs driving anyways I am a better driver then you and you always admit it so HA IN YOUR FACE" I say walking over to her and grabbing my keys and putting my shoes on with her in suit.

We walk out to my car and I get in the drivers seat Lily in the passengers. I drive us to KFC with Lily playing music the whole drive as we both jam along to out favourite song 'we love our friends' and 'skin'. Once we get our food I drive us back home and park up. We get out and I lock my car as we walk to the stair to our floor. We get to our door and get inside. I put the food on the small island in the kitchen and have our Alexa play music quietly in the background as we sit at the island, eat and chat about our plans for the trip.

When we were done eating we threw away our rubbish and cleaned our dishes, then, like I said would, we both went to pack, Lily finished before me and can into my room to help me pack which made life much easier. Once my suit case was packed, I grabbed all of our filming gear and ghost equipment to organise and pack in our carry-ons. We decided that we would pack our backpacks tomorrow so that we can charge everything we will need tonight and then pack them and the chargers and other things like that. Lily made sure that we had flashlights, just in case we would need but I doubt that we would, spare batteries and candles and a lighter for a séance and 2 night vision cameras extra, camera batteries and sd cards.

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A/n
Welcome back to my book i know it has been a while but i had writers block and couldn't think of what to write so i hope that this is good and i will see you in the next chapter.
Thank you for the support
-please also so support to my friend who is writing this book with me Alice_the_Geek