Hi, my name is Emily, and this is my girlfriend
Monica.
Before we get into the surprise of the century,
I thought I'd give you a little bit of context.
Monica and I met when we were 14 and we were
best friends for the next 4 years.
Until the summer after high school, when feelings
came out of nowhere and suddenly I found myself
falling in love with my best friend... who
was just about to move to a college 653 miles
away.
Over the course of the following year, SO
MANY THINGS happened.
It was a wild ride.
We didn't want to risk our friendship, and
we didn't know what to do, but ultimately,
feelings just kept growing on both ends and
on February 27th, 2016 she asked me to be
her girlfriend.
Aww... gross.
Thus, the start of a long-distance relationship.
One in which we only get to see each other
around 2 to 3 trips a year.
A 10-hour drive isn't exactly something we
can do frequently on a college student budget,
not to mention that I don't have a driver's
license, and have never flown before.
I know she's always wished I would surprise
her, but there's never been a feasible way
for me to do so.
After almost 2 years together, it can get
a little frustrating.
This year has been particularly difficult,
and our visits until we graduate are going
to be limited to less than a week together
at a time.
Since the summer, we've only had 72 total
hours together, and we wouldn't be seeing
each other for a couple more months.
Or... so she thought.
Michaela texted me randomly, and it was like,
out of the blue...
On November 29th, I got a text from Monica's
roommate asking if I was willing to learn
how to fly.
Her LGBT club at school was going to throw
a gay prom-- the Gayla, if you will-- at the
end of January and her friends wanted to surprise
her.
Naturally, I was in.
When I think about the actual trip, I'm actually
really excited for it.
I made a packing list already.
And we've got like 16 days, so we've got time.
I'm excited, and I'm excited to surprise her.
I figured out with Sam, it looks like for
the trip, um, Sam's gonna pick me up from
the airport and I'm gonna be staying with
Sam for the night.
This morning, I got my flight finalized.
So, tomorrow I'll be flying for the first
time ever.
I'm gonna go surprise my girlfriend at a gay
prom that her friends are throwing, and she
has no idea I'm coming.
And that's really exciting.
So the prom is Saturday night, but I'm flying
out-- tomorrow is Friday.
I'm flying out early, early in the morning
and I'm gonna be in my girlfriend's college
town by noon.
And I'm gonna be staying with a mutual friend
that we have, um, overnight, and surprise
her at the dance on Saturday.
So, that's exciting, this is the first time
I've ever surprised her, so it's really exciting.
I don't know if I've ever been in your vlog.
Oh my gosh, hi, Vlog!
This is Sam!
I'm not sure I've ever been in your vlog.
I've daily vlogged for over 800 days straight,
so this is what I do at the end of every single
day.
I knew that part!
So hi, Vlog, how are you today?
And so Monica, if you're watching this in
the future, hi, how are you?
It me.
Sucks to be you!
It us!
I'm just enjoying-- I can't wait until you
see this.
I'm just enjoying the fact that you're gonna
be so pissed off that I was here for over
24 hours and you had no idea.
I arrived over an hour early to get ready.
The plan was simple: I was going to hide in
a back room, and Monica's roommate was going
to tell her that she needed to talk to her
about something, and bring her in.
It's kind of funny, actually.
Monica had had a really hard week and had
been texting me all day about not wanting
to go to the dance, and wishing I was actually
going to be there.
She had absolutely no idea what was waiting
for her at the end of the hall.
*gasp* Are you kidding me?
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Oh my God, you're here, what the hell!?
Wait!
What the hell!??
Hi!
How are you?
It me.
What?
Who?
Who are you??
Don't cry, tiny smol!
I'm gonna cry.
Don't cry!
How are you here??
Oh, ya know.
I did a thing.
How are you here?
Hi!
How are you?
Hi!
Don't cry!
Don't cry!
Be a happy smol!
I AM happy!!
These are happy tears!
Happy tears.
You're so pretty, holy heck!
Hi.
You have a little spot on your nose-- You're
gonna catch my germs.
I don't care.
Hi.
I can't believe you.
I'm shaking.
Hi.
I can't believe you.
I can't believe you.
I have technically not lied to you at all
the past couple days.
Like, she legitimately was flying on Friday,
and got here and Sammi picked her up from
the airport.
Wait, she flew?
You flew!?
Okay, I'm-- WAIT, YOU FLEW!?!??!?
I'm scared of public busses, so like, let's
just go big or go home, right?
How!??
I got on a plane and went ZOOM and then I
got here!
No, how did your parents let you do this??
Oh.
I figured it out, it's all good, we're here,
hi!
I love you so much.
I love you too.
This is when you give Kyler an even bigger
hug, because he's the one that helped with
all the-- You have very nice friends.
Kyler?
Kyler like messaged me after we started talking
about the dance, going, "So, Monica has a
girlfriend, right?"
And I'm like, "Yeah."
"Can we get her here for a surprise?"
So literally since I said, "Hey, Monica, I
want to go to the dance!" it was planned.
When are you flying back?
Monday morning.
Aww...
It's okay, I need to.
I need to have my tonsils removed.
But that's okay!
You are screwing up my plan for homework.
Why do you think whenever you were like "I
need to do homework," I was just like "No,
do your homework."
Fucking-- Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much.
Everybody's so pretty!
I told you Troye Sivan soon, you never know
when he's gonna drop a song.
I hate you!
Fucking Troye Sivan soon.
Look how cute we are!
You still have a lil black speck on your nose!
Let me get it.
I actually tried, and I did wings and everything.
I know.
I was like, "I'm gonna make this night good!"
Yeah!
I told you, have fun!
You having fun?
Okay, anyways, the food is ready, I don't
wanna, like, force you to go in there, but...
I haven't had dinner yet, so yes.
Please tell me that you've been vlogging,
like, the entirety of, like, the everything.
Are you kidding?
Who do you think I am?
Yeah.
I need to see everything!
Did you text her saying that, cause like,
fucking Em: "SURPRISE, BITCH."
What?
Hi, how are you, it me.
It us!
Oh, I look like a bug in that.
I just like, I was aggravated cause you were
like "Are you getting here?
Are you coming?"
And I was like, "Bitch I'm in the parking
lot!
I'm coming!"
We were waiting on you to text.
No, I was in the car.
I was already driving by then, so.
I was just like, I don't know if she's actually
coming to this or not, and I need time so
she has time to hit record on things.
I'm telling everyone "Thank you," so.
I don't know how long to record the vlog.
The vlog's gonna say "Never stop recording."
Whatever the vlog wants to vlog, I don't.
Whatever the vlog wants, the vlog gets.
It's scary.
She keeps taking pictures of it.
It's really scary, I keep taking pictures
and sending them to the other Michaela, and
being like, "help."
Hi.
I'll go to the other room and let you guys
have your moment.
Okay.
Thank you.
Don't worry, I'll record it!
I hate you.
I know, it's fun, right?
I didn't suspect anything.
Yeah, well good, cause that was the goal.
Honestly...
I was gonna have you on Skype during a slow
song.
That was kinda my idea.
Well now we get to have a real prom together.
I hate you.
Yeah, I know.
I'm good at lying to you when I want to.
Look at her!
This is my girlfriend.
She's very tired.
What did we do today??
You surprised me.
I did!
And I cried.
Uh-huh!
Quite a lot.
Yeah.
And then... surprise!
And we surprised her.
As you can see from the clip, she was like,
"Who are you?"
So that's real cute.
I get to do that with my best friend...
What??
Pretty cool.
It's really cool.
So that was our day.
So anyway, she's super tired, and we gotta
wake up super early, so we're gonna go but
we love you and we'll see you tomorrow!
Bye!
Bye.
