F A N   R E P O R T

   ok, so first me and my friend chanda find out about Lost being filmed here, and dom being in the same island as us. of course we were dying by then. i mean, we were breathing the same frickin air as him!!! lol. whats more, we see the plane wreckage that they used in the pilot everytime we go either to and from school and to chanda's house. we went there a few times, but all we saw was the plane, a few trucks and workers, and some trailers. but no such luck, we didnt see dom anywhere :(

   that day was like any other day. everything was crappy at school. after our classes, we took the city bus downtown (which was late as usual) and chanda was starving to death. that night, (thursday, april 22nd, 2004--earth day! TREES!) my friends chanda, victoria and i had to go to this college fair at the convention center downtown by Ala Moana Center, (the biggest open mall in the world) Its located in the Waikiki area, where everything is. our friend josh was visiting hawaii from germany then, and we decided that since we were downtown where his hotel was, we might as well meet up that night and go out to ultrazone or something. we had some time before the college fair started so we went to his hotel....got up into the floor he said he was in, but once we were in the hallway we realized that we've totally forgotten his room number! and he didnt have a cell phone on him...so it was either we go back and not meet up with him anymore, or we knock on random doors and look for him. hehehe. embarrassing, yes i know. we weren't sure where to begin, so we knocked on the last door at the end of the hall. no one there. we knocked on the one across from it,no one there either. i wanted to give up already--we were never gonna find josh that way! then the next door after that had loud music playing from inside. it seemed like the kind of thing josh would be doing in his hotel room, (blast his music for everyone to hear.) then chanda's like "should we knock on it?" and i said "whatever, ok." coz i mean, what have we got to lose? so she knocks....music turns off....we hear footsteps....someone looked through the peephole twice....i remember thinking "wonder what kinda dorky tourist is gonna answer the door and be pissed off at us?" and then finally the door sloooowwly opens...(well it was in slow motion in my mind)...a faint scent that smelt so good came out of the room....and who do i see standing there with a "how may i help you?" expression on his face, staring me eye to eye? DOM MONAGHAN. he was wearing his trl shirt!!! i couldnt believe it. i stared at him with my mouth gaping like a fish and i was speechless for like 6seconds and he was just looking at us when i blurted out "OH MY GOD ARE YOU DOMINIC MONAGHAN?!?!?!?!" when i said this, his eyes grow a bit larger and he scratches his head and he said "yeah..." and i was speechless, again, for about an eternity. (dont ask me what chanda and victoria were doing this whole time, i was completely unaware of anything else. my guess is that they're standing there astounded like me) then something clicked in my head and i remembered:

me: oh yeah, we were just looking for our friend josh...we didnt know his room number. we're sorry.
dom: josh? you're looking for josh? hold on a bit. (goes back inside the room for a second and grabs the phone....) whats his surname?
us: uhm..we dont know, we're not sure. (our minds have gone blank at this point. i mean, dom monaghan opens the door on you when you totally dont expect it! who cares about josh's last name?!)
chanda: feliz, call kira.
me: (calls our friend kira, while staring at dom the whole time.)
dom: (leaning on the wall with phone on his ear) are you guys done with school?
us: yeah....few hours ago...
dom: so what are you guys doing tonight? (he looks at chanda and victoria...they werent sure if he was asking us, or if he was talking to josh on the phone...then he turns to me)
me: (suddenly gets that he WAS talking to us) oh, we're going to this college fair thingy--
dom: (cuts me off coz someone answered the phone on the other line) hello? may i speak to josh holloway please? josh? what room number are you in, there's 3 girls lookin for you...
me, chanda, victoria: (looks at each other like 'what the hell is going on, who is he calling?!' and i subconsciously hung up on kira...)
dom: he's in room *** (you'll never know...classified info! muahahaha :D)
us: oh, thank you...
me: (couldnt resist blurting out) um can we have your autograph?! and a picture taken with you please?!
dom: yeah, sure (or something like that...he goes back in and puts the phone down...) hold on lemme get my key (chanda puts her foot thru the door to keep it open...then hecomes out, slides his room key in the keyhole, closes his door, and goes out into the hallway.) ok lets do this! (he walks towards chanda)
me: im so sorry for interrupting anything like this...did we disturb you?
dom: nah i was just packing...coz im leaving tomorrow (he puts his arm around chanda and fixes his hair a bit)
me and vicks: (takes pictures) smile!
dom: puts arm around me (OMG)
me: (smiles really really big)
dom: did you go to school today? do you go to school anywhere near here?
me: yup, on the other side of the island. (big smile still intact) *flash!* three times
dom: (puts arm around vickz) *flash!* three times
us: thank you!!!
vickz: (takes some folder papers from out of her bag and looks thru it, then hands one to dom) oh wait, that's my homework!
dom: oh you wouldnt want to write on that!
vickz: oh yeah...(hands him a blank sheet instead)
dom: (takes the sharpie and signs this really crumpled sheet of folder paper up against the wall ) whats your name?
chanda: chanda. c-h-a-n-d-a.
dom: (writes "chanda, be good. dom monaghan" then he turns to me. he looked at chanda's fingernails that looked EXACTLY like his!)
me: ooh can you sign my bag instead? it lasts longer...chanda, can i borrow your silver sharpie? (i hold my bag up to dom and he goes "whats ur name?") feliz. f-e-l-i-z...
dom: (tries to write but the sharpie doesnt work.) this pen SUCKS!
us: haha...
vickz: oh i think i have another one....(hands silver sharpie to dom)
dom: (writes "feliz, be good. dom monaghan")
me: (SQUEEEEEE!!!!)
dom: (signs victoria's crumpled folder paper up against the wall.then he turns around.)
me: (trying desperately to think of something, anything i wanted to say to him.)
chanda: (whispers to me) what should we ask him??
me: (remembers what pat [mithril] told us:) there's this Lost website, by the way....there's a lotta stuff on it...um..what was in it again chanda? (looks at chanda)
chanda: uuhh....(we were both still blanking out and numb with shock, you see.)
dom: yeah i've heard about that...my producers told me...they said there were some photos and news...
me: (thinks OH DUH!!! hello!? feliz u frickin go there everyday what is wrong with you?!?!?! but i smile stupidly instead.) yeah... (everything becomes hazy around this part....for some reason....and then...)
us: oh thank you soo much!! we're so sorry for disturbing you, we're gonna go find josh now...
dom: yeah/your welcome/alright/take care (i forgot what he said, so take ur pick) we wave to each other...
chanda: have a good flight!
dom: smiles
me:(looks back again and again while he slides his key in and goes back inside)

   i have no idea how we got thru the elevator ride into the lobby into the outside and out into the street. once it started to sink in, we realized how stupid we've been for completely forgetting to ask him about "Half Fling" which he sang with Elijah Wood, and a bunch of other questions we swore we'd ask him once we meet him.

   we had to go to the college fair right after this, but we couldnt even think of our futures and colleges, so we gave up. we remembered about josh, lol, and we went back to the hotel to the room dom told us, but no one was opening the door. i bet it was the wrong josh, anyways....i think the josh he referred us to was another actor from Lost! we decided to just go home and meet up with our friend some other time.

   and thats the details of our unexpected 'hallway encounter' with dom!

--feliz (co-written with chanda and victoria)

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