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So Colby and I parted ways and now I'm just quickly grabbing all my essentials, camera and computer, clothes, and am shoving it all into my backpack and tote bag.

Easy.

I then tweet out with the hashtag #AskAshandColbs for my followers to tweet us questions. About two minutes later, Colby re-tweets it for his followers.

I then text Colby to see if he's ready to go and suddenly, I hear a knock on my door. I put my backpack on and grab my tote and open the door.

"Yes," He says.

"Yes, what?" I ask, confuzzled.

He rolls his eyes, and holds up his phone with the text I just sent. "Yes, I'm ready to go!"

"Ohhh," I laugh, "Okay, let's move."

We ride down the elevator, talking about what we're going to do once we get to Cambria.

"So, let's check into the nearest hotel first," Colby suggests.

"Yeah, and we can finish editing and posting the video there," I add.

"Oh, hey, so it's about one o'clock now. That means we'll be there around five," He concludes.

"Yeah and so we have around two hours to edit and post at the hotel, and if we finish early we can go see Sam and Ellie before, or by seven."

"Right. Did you see I re-tweeted your tweet?" We step out the elevator and head to his car. We get in. Since we both only brought very minimal luggage, we didn't have to waste time with putting items in the trunk.

"Yeah, I am already predicting the types of comments coming out," I say, pulling out my phone as he starts the car and drives out.

He smiles, "Oh, can you get my phone from my front left pocket of my jeans. I got Cambria's hospital's directions already up on google."

My eyes widen. Okay, Ash, don't make this awkward.

"Uh, okay," I murmur, reaching over. I try my best to reach over, but I'm pretty short and my limbs can't really extend that far.

"C'mon, Neil, reach farther," Colby smirks.

"You ignorant fuck," I mumble.

Suddenly, he turns left, and my head literally slams down on his lap.

More directly on his dick area.

"Oh, my god. You annoying motherfucker," I spit with bitterness. I snatch his phone finally and sit back in my seat.

He tries not to burst into a fit of laughter, but I could tell that is killing him.

"That was too funny," He finally chuckles.

"You naughty, deceiving pervert!" I accuse.

"No comment," He grins.

"Whatever."

"We're friends now, I like to mess with my friends," He smirks.

Ha, friends with benefits.

NO.

SORRY.

But I'm shocked.

My rival,

just called us, friends.

What the fuck, I never thought this day would come.

Like, ever.

"Okay..." I whisper, biting my lip.

He then changes the subject, "So, want to get your video started or what?"

"Right, yeah," I reply, pulling my camera out from my tote bag.

"Okay, let's check them tweets," I say to myself.

"Get some good ones, nothing too personal... like if we're single or if we're dating. I don't want my fans to know if I'm dating Ellie or not. They're not ready," He states.

It's not that they, his fans, aren't ready; he's not ready. But of course I'm not going to say that at this very moment.

"Kay," I mumble.

I scroll through some tweets, and about eighty percent of them were, "are you guys dating?" ,"do you like each other?" ,"are you guys single?" ,"who do you like better, sam or colby ?"

All generic, and all I couldn't or didn't want to answer.

I sigh, "Ready to start this?"

He nods, "Hell yeah."

I push record.

"Yo, what's up Neil Nation!" I introduce and zooming into my face, "I know it's cheesy still, but just go with it," and zoom out, "I'm here with Sir Cole Robert Brock to answer your questions!"

Colby looks at the camera for a second and smiles wide, "CAR EDITION!" He screams.

I giggle, "I tweeted out with the hashtag #AskAshandColbs for you to send us questions! So, let's get this started."

I put the camera on the dashboard of his car and scroll through tweets.

"Yo, Colb, here's a good one for you," I smirk.

Colby looks at me with a puzzled expression, "Why just me?"

I laugh, "Because all the girls out there would love to know this about you."

"Okay... hit me."

"What is your dating range? Asked by cloudycolby," I smirk.

He makes the funny face when he doesn't know, "Umm... well, cloudycolby, they have to be within a decade of mine. I don't mind really too much of how old or young. A person is a person, and that's all that matters. Age is just a number. Personality, now that is what is important."

I felt my cheeks heat up, "Damn, that was actually really sweet."

He pretends to flip his non-existent long hair, "I know."

I look at him weirdly, and he just laughs. "Okay... next one."

"Would we have a prank war? This was asked by Nush0703" I ask.

"Hmm, don't know. Who would it be with?" Colby questions.

"Dude, if we were to have a prank war, it would so be with you, me, Sam, Elton, Corey, Devyn, Aaron, and Ellie. Imagine that," I state.

"Aye, that would so happen one day, good suggestion, Nush," He grins.

"Yep, next one." I scroll through more tweets. I smirk, "What would we do if we were to ever have something happen to each other? Like injury wise? Asked by alohaa_ayanna."

Colby frowns, "Ash, I wouldn't want to think about that, especially since we're going to see a very special person right now..."

I frown also, "But, c'mon just answer it."

"You answer it first."

"Uh... I don't know what I'd do," I sputter.

"What do you mean, you don't know what you'd do! If I was just smacked by a bus and was unconscious, you would just stand there and stare? Like, call 911 at least," Colby jokes.

I roll my eyes, "Okay, well I'd be smart in that situation but like, if I heard you had like a coma, I'd be really upset for you. I'm not going to lie, you mean a lot to me," I say but whisper to the camera, "Even though I hate him with a burning passion. Thanks Ayanna!"

"Hey! I heard that," He barges. "But seriously, how sad would you be? Crying, in pieces, on your knees, for your lost love?"

I scoff, "Right, sure."

He gives himself a high-five. "Next question!"

"You didn't answer, hoe."

He nods slowly, "Okay, I'd be the same. I'd cry, and stuff. I'd be really worried for you and your health."

"That's it?" I say, surprised.

"Well, I mean, depending on the situation, I'll react differently."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'DEPENDING ON THE SITUATION?' COLBY I WAS INJURED!" I shout in his face.

He puts a hand in the air, "Well, if you like, broke a toe or got a paper cut, what am I suppose to do? Sob because all you needed was a band-aid?"

I laugh, "Fine, nice save there." I find another comment, "Oh here's a good one, would you rather make out with sam or kill Corey? Asked by xxjulesxx," I laugh.

Colby begins to laugh too, "Uhhh, kiss Sam if it means to save Corey. I'd not want to murder Corey, what the hell."

"Yeah, same. We like Mr. Scherer too much to kill him, guys, sorry," I joke.

"OH, I have a question for you, Ash! Asked by me," Colby smirks. "Would you rather date Sam or me?"

I blush, "Uh neither."

"You have to choose. If your life depended on reproducing with one of us because you're the only girl in the world and everyone else DIED, which male would you choose? Sam or I?"

"Colby, I'm cutting this out of the video. I can't fucking answer that!" I exclaim.

"Why? And why not?" He interrogates.

"Colby, I don't wanna talk about it. It's drama that you shouldn't be involved in," I deadpan.

"No, tell me," He demands.

"Colbs, no."

Colby's eyes go wide but squint at the sudden idea in his head, "Oh, fuck don't tell me Sam likes you!"

I look at him, and bite my lip.

"He does! Shit, that exclaims so fucking much..." Colby trails, feeling the realization that must've hit him.

"Look, I wasn't suppose to say anythin-"

"Do you like him too?" He abruptly asks.

"No. Not like that, that is," I murmur.

He sighs out of relief.

I roll my eyes, "Next question, try to be as cheery as before."

"Fine," He grins as wide as the moon.

"Would you rob a bank if it was to save your family? Asked by its_yo_girl_melanie," I chuckle.

"Well, fuck yeah, family is the most important thing in the world!" Colby exclaims, "Wouldn't you?"

"Yeah, of course! Easy questions guys!" I say into the camera with a big smile.

"NEXT QUESTIOOON!" Colby screeches.

I look through more tweets and I stumble across a random fidget spinner, and the person asks Colby to name it. This made me burst out laughing.

"HAHA! Colby, look at this fidget spinner," I shove the picture in his face, but far enough so he could still see the road, "This person, Mallory is asking you to name it for her."

Colby thinks about it, "Hmm... what would I name Mallory's fidget spinner..." He takes a long second to ponder. "I GOT IT! Darreth."

"The fuck, why would you name it, Darreth?"

"Darreth sounds like the type of person who would spin for dayz," He laughs.

"That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

"You got anything better?" He challenges.

"ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN DARRETH."

"I like it, no matter what the haters say," He shrugs, "Oh! Wanna hear a good pickup line?"

"No."

"Aye, girl, I like your fidget spinner. I have one too, maybe I could fidget spin a way to your heart?"

"That was utter trash."

"THAT WAS GOOD!" He yells, proudly.

I wave him off, "Next question. Yanna asks if I have any embarrassing stories of Colby? Or just Ash, would you tell a funny story about Colby from high school?"

Colby slaps himself.

I smirk, "I got so many good ones."

"No... that's all about me, I get to tell at least one about you!" Colby whines.

"Fine, but I'm going first," I say. "So, there was this one time during Sophomore year, that I will never forget. This is called, the garbage bin story."

Colby scrunches his nose and cringes by the title. "Oh, that was so embarrassing! Ugh, the thought of it makes my skin want to shrivel up and fall off."

I look at him with disgust but he just smiles, "Anyway... Colby and I during our free periods would try to 'out teacher's pet' each other. So we would go recycling for the school, ya know, collect paper and put it in bins outside. So one day, Colby was really determined to go catch up with this girl he liked, so he tried to speed up our recycling process up. Though, he was a total messy train wreck."

"Thanks so much, Ash. I totally want all those people out there knowing about what I did to meet up with my Sophomore crush," He sarcastically says.

I hush him, "SHHH! Okay, so he dumps all the bottles into the trash can, not the recycling can. So, because we would get in trouble for that, I made Colby hop into the humongous garbage dump and collect all the bottles he put in there and put it back in the recycling can. It's a garbage bin full or scraps and uneaten, rotten, cafeteria food. Disgusting, I know. So as I'm standing out, getting all the bottles that Colby is dumpster diving for, his crush walks by outside. Colby was suppose to meet up with her, but she walked over to me and asked me where he was since she knew he and I were scheduled for recycling duty every Wednesday."

"OH NOOO," Colby groans in agitation.

"SHUT UP," I say, covering Colby's mouth, "So I told her where he was. I pointed inside the garbage bin and told him to come out. And so he quickly gathered the last of the bottles, hopped out, and smelled like meatloaf monday and taco tuesday hurled on him. It was DISGUSTING, but HILARIOUS!" I laugh, "And don't get me started on the girl, she took one look at him as he said hi, and she plugged her nose and ran off."

Colby smacks his cheek, "Ugh! She didn't talk to me for like four months."

"It was amazing, guys."

"Well, ya piece of garbage, my turn," He chuckles evilly.

"Hit me. I have no shame, Brock," I confidently say.

"Oh no, you have shame. Lots of it," He laughs, "I call this, the Falls into pool, loses top, story."

I cover my eyes, "NO NO NO NO!" I scream.

"Thought you could forget about this one? So Miss Perfect here, isn't really perfect. So there we were, all in Freshmen Year, at our class end of the year party. We went to this nice camp place, and it had a pool. So, Ashlyn was talking with her crush, by the pool. She was wearing a bikini, he was wearing normal clothes. Ash was trying to woo him and stuff and he then was about to ask her out and go play ping pong inside or something but as she was about to say yes, she steps back-"

"I am SO cutting this out," I sulk, hitting my head on the side of the window.

"No, you are not. Anyway, she slips on some water and falls into the pool, grabs her crush for some sort of reason, and they both splash into the pool. Now, somehow her bikini straps broke and she lost her top! It just floated up to the surface, and I've never laughed so hard," Colby chuckles.

I smack his arm, "It was tragic. This is horrific."

"SHUSH ASH! So then, I see Ashlyn frantically trying to run away, and the dude, just getting super annoyed. He didn't look it, but you could tell on his face that he didn't want to be rude. So he got up, and left. Keep in mind, bikini top-less Ash was in a public pool. Funniest shit ever," Colby finishes, laughing again.

"No it was not!" I grumble.

"I still don't understand why you PULLED him along with you!" He chuckles.

I had to stop myself from falling, somehow!" I exasperate.

"So you grabbed him?"

I bang my fist on the window, "I'm an idiot, I know!"

"I know too," He teases.

"Sometimes, I wish you were dead," I conclude.

He continues laughing but dead stops, "HAHA. So do I."

I burst out laughing, "Where's BigNik? I knew you was doin' dis for his vlog! Nik come out now!"

"I hid him in the trunk because he fits perfectly, it's like a mansion in there for him," Colby jokes.

I giggle, "Okay, no more Nik jokes. Sorry Nik, we love you!"

"Sometimes," Colby adds. I look at him like 'really', he looks back at me and then into the camera, "Cut that out."

I roll my eyes, "Okay, that's it for today's video, hope you enjoyed! Follow me below for all my social media accounts so you never miss when I post! And shout out to Colby from Sam and Colby. All his social media accounts will be linked in the description!" Colby smiles and gives a peace sign.

"Anything you'd like to add Colby?" I ask, pointing the camera at him.

He says, "Uhhh, don't put bottles in the garbage and make sure your bikinis are very durable!"

I turn the lens to focus back onto me, "Right, yeah, see you later Neil Nation!"

I shut my camera off.

Time to edit.

"That was such a high quality video, because I was in it. You're welcome," Colby chuckles.

"Right, believe what you want," I scoff. "I'm going to edit, and it'll take me at most an hour and a half, so we can probably see Sam maybe earlier than six at my rate."

"Alright, get grinding on that vid," Colby encourages.

"Will do, don't talk to me, or else," I threaten.

I plug in my earbuds and started to get cracking.

I just made my first video with my rival, er, my friend.

In a car.

I didn't want to tell Colby how many comments were just filled with us being shipped or asking if we were dating or whatever.

That was the majority, and I hope Ellie doesn't read any of those tweets.

I hope Colby doesn't either.

We're just friends now.

It's a step up from being rivals.

And damn, I hate liking my rival.

But if we're friends,

I hate liking my friend.

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THANK YOU SO SO SO SO MUCH FOR 20K+ READS AND SO CLOSE TO 21K!!!! WHAT THE FUCK, I thought never in a million years that this book would be this successful. For an amateur and pretty inexperienced asian kid, who knew so many people actually enjoy reading my shit??

So, mini story here. I went to the carnival with my lovely friends, including my bf, and it was lots of fun. But I couldn't help to think that my bf was acting all strange and shit today.  Ugh, life be complicated. However, my emotions are something I use to my advantage, and that's how I create and get inspired to write great chapters for ya'll:) like 39, I had lots of feels that day haha. And the ferris wheel reference in 39 or 40? i dont remember which but that is based off experience that I needed to let out. Ahhh, writing is my life. Ya'll use your emotions to your advantage, because it makes great stories and in the end, will make you feel better:)

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