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My best friend and I are complete opposites. We have a fair amount in common, sure, but I feel like we are more different than we are the same. The whole "opposites attract" thing kinda makes sense to me now.

I am a very simple person. I prefer to stay indoors, I dress fairly plain when I'm not performing, I stay out of trouble (mostly) and I like doing simple things, like art and music and sword combat. Not saying that there aren't more complicated things about me, but I as a person am very simple. Doesn't take much to please me. In the same sense it doesn't take much to piss me off either. I'm a living thing, I believe in forgiveness and I've been through some stuff. All very basic things. My best friend however has a flare for the dramatic. First off, he's famous. I am most certainly not famous. He likes exotic, he likes to go out and do things, and he most definitely does not stay out of trouble. And since we are close friends, you can imagine the things I get dragged into.

I'm not complaining. I love my friend. He helps me see things differently. We believe in each other, we support each other, it's very sweet. Probably the best friendship I've ever invested in. That, and we've had similar experiences, so we know how to help each other in sticky situations. And I find myself in one of those a lot, especially recently.

Did anyone know Val had a kid? As a mother myself and seeing as how annoying kids can get, not to mention older kids who talk all the time and have limitless amounts of attitude, I personally did not see that coming. Not in the slightest. We all know how Val is. But, low and behold, Val has a son, like I do, and that kid is his pride and joy. The difference there is that Jake is adopted, and he's seven, so he still has the unconditional love and faith of a little kid, and Averie, whom I met recently, is 18. He's only a year younger than I myself. So he's the annoying kind of kid with an attitude all the time for no apparent reason. And also has a liking for the dramatic. Oh how fun.

Part of me being a simple person is that I don't particularly like meeting new people. Granted I have anxiety so yes, that makes sense. People outside of what I'm familiar with is outside my comfort zone obviously, so I tend to avoid situations where I may have to interact with strangers. Sometimes it's unavoidable though, and I find myself in places like this:

I was walking my dog, Bizgit. I'd been in my room, like usual and decided it would be okay to take a break. I needed some air and Bizgit could benefit from a walk, so it was a win- win. We were just gonna walk a couple blocks and then head back to the hotel. Yeah that didn't happen. My friend finds us, and at first I don't notice that there's someone behind him a ways off in the distance. In fact, I'm being so unobservant that I didn't notice until the person said something. Apparently neither did my friend, who I will now name for the sake of this story because there's not a way around it.

"Angel!" the person, a guy, shouted in a singsong voice, which I hate more than all hell, "I found you!"

I was mildly startled and so was he, but I was even more shocked when this guy looks at me and then back at Angel and says "Who's the chick?"

A figment of your imagination, is what I wanted to say, but I didn't say anything in that moment because I'm socially awkward and wouldn't have been able to deliver quality sarcasm. So I kept my mouth shut. Angel knows by now that I will stay silent when I'm uneasy, so he told this kid who I was.

"That's my best friend," he said, "Alaska. Al, this is Val's son, Averie."

"Oo, Alaska's a pretty name," Averie said. He was all smiley and seemingly friendly, so I decided it was alright to be friendly back. So I smiled warmly and told him he could call me Al, since everyone does.

Suddenly, Angel starts looking for his phone. After a few seconds he's like "Crap, I left my phone at the studio. Ave, would you go get it for me?" to which Averie said "Sure, but can we at least walk there together? I don't wanna go by myself."

"What, are you afraid of your dad or something?"

"No, I just don't want to go by myself."

I knew Angel wasn't going to want to and this might end in unpleasant name calling, which I most definitely wasn't in the mood for. So I spoke up and said "I'll walk there with you if you want."

He got all happy about it for some reason, which was odd but not something I gave serious thought to at the time. We walk to the studio and I tell him that I'm going to wait outside for him to get back.

"You're not coming in?" he asks. He sounds like this is a little hard to believe for him.

"No, I'd rather not," I said.

This is how I know Averie is Val's kid. Despite my saying no, Averie grabs my wrist anyway and pulls me inside. I expected him to let go when we got in there and he didn't, so I started squirming as Val handed Averie Angel's phone. Of course, since I'm over here like "Please help he won't let go", Val is over here laughing at my confusion and the fact that I am very flustered at this point. Averie is completely oblivious, and I'm glaring at Val like " Get your little barbarian off of me". Yeah, that had absolutely no effect whatsoever. Averie continued to keep hold of my wrist as we were leaving the building and didn't fricking let go until Angel told him that he was gonna tell Averie's secret to his dad. I don't know the secret, but it got him to let go of me. And that's how I met Averie.

He's a good kid, much better than his dad by a long shot. The only thing that confuses me is why the heck he likes me of all people. I'm awkward and moody and I bite. But hey, he can like whatever the frick he wants, even if it's someone as uninteresting as me, Angel is shipping us like crazy. Which is annoying, but I'll deal with it.

And that's a wrap my friends, stay tuned for the next round of stories including my very odd life experience. I'm Alaska Wayde and this is Unimpressed Studios, stay cool my lovelies!

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