Milkshake Hearts

Chapter 106: Instagram Live

They have a comfortable series of shoot weeks in the lead up to Easter, this year placed particularly early on the first week of April. Neither Shayne nor Courtney are doing anything in particular for the holiday – Courtney knows her Mum is doing something over in Utah and a couple of her older siblings are going, but it's very much religiously focused and as she's grown, it isn't something she's kept in a particularly strong place in her life (and, for his part, Shayne is openly non-religious).

So, for them, Smosh's Easter Break is simply a lazy 4-day weekend at home. Shayne vows to read an entire book over the weekend – plus do a little garden maintenance on their small backyard, given it's got a little out of control over the last few weeks of extensive work and Spring weather – while Courtney decides she probably should sort out and clean out her makeup collection, given she hadn't got a chance to do that properly in their rushed move.

"Hey hey dude, I'm gonna go live on Instagram for a while doing the makeup sorting out stuff, just so you know if you come upstairs or anything," Courtney tells him, poking him in the back of the shoulder slightly from beside where he's sitting in the living room reading.

"All good. I mean... it wouldn't exactly be a problem if I showed up in the back of one of them, right? Everyone knows we live together," Shayne muses, in response, Courtney shrugging.

"True."

She leaves him be, then, wandering upstairs and leaning her phone up against the back of her dressing table in their walk-in-closet as she sits down in front of the table and pulls out the drawers to get a sense of where all the makeup actually is.

"Hey guys," she comments, when she flicks onto Instagram and hits the tab to go live, waiting a few quiet seconds as she pull makeup out onto the desk surface and waits for the audience to fill up a little, "how you guys all going today? I'm just having a quiet day at home, thought I'd jump on here and see how everyone's going while I do a bit of makeup cleaning up. Didn't get around to cleaning it all out before we moved so I figure now I've got the time..."

She falls into comfortable silence, for a few moments, eyes occasionally glancing towards chat to see what questions are coming through. There's a whole lot of waving emojis and hellos from certain countries, but she seeks out the actual questions. She laughs out loud when she sees a particular question.

"No, me moving does not mean Shayne and I broke up at all. We moved because we bought a house together, needed somewhere a bit bigger than our old apartment so we can have family over and things," she explains, with a laugh, "as a general rule, just assume Shayne and I are probably not ever going to break up. That's kinda why I got this ring."

She holds her ring up in front of the camera to emphasise her point, before shifting to talk through what she's doing with her makeup and why. Most of the questions she chooses to answer sit on the same makeup topic – preferences between different products, what brushes she uses for what when she's going through cleaning them all a little and sorting them into new sections of her drawers, and whether she actually abides by makeup use-by dates (sometimes, but not always) – but she lets the occasional more general one sneak in.

"For everyone asking where Shayne is... downstairs reading, because he's a total nerd," she tells them, after a while, as she shuffles through her foundations and sets aside a couple that she hasn't touched in years because they aren't the right colour, "and yeah, okay, you guys seem to want more house talk? We love this place, got plenty of space and things, nice and open downstairs too – and yeah, where I am now is a whole like separate closet thing off our bedroom, I love it. Got my whole makeup setup thing here."

"Someone says... Okay but why is no one asking about that Smosh Games video from today- what video was up today? Didn't check the schedule this morning," she reads out one particular comment, leaning forward a little to read chat as she watches the replies come in, quickly realising exactly which video it is, laughing as it becomes clear it is their recently filmed spicy chocolate Mario Party. "Oh, that one. Yeah... We had a little fun with that one. Look, we still don't like being super all over each other on camera, but we've been making jokes about doing something like that on Games for a long time, and we thought it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. No one else on set knew we were going to get touchy except the director."