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"TALIA!"

both talia and karl turned around to find that the source of the yell was chandler. he quickly wrapped his arms around the girl, giving her a tight hug.

"hey chan," she said, with a bit more of a calm demeanor, which was the attitude she always brought when hanging out with the mr. beast team. they always joked that she was the "parent" of the group, but the cool parent.

the three of them all went inside of the warehouse that jimmy had rented out for this video. she was always so grateful for the opportunity to see the behind the scenes of how he made his videos. for this video, he had yet to tell anyone what the idea was.

"they're here!" jimmy shouted once he saw the group enter.

talia went and gave both jimmy and chris a hug, and introduced herself to nolan, who she had never physically met before.

"what's the video?" and just as karl asked, jimmy motioned to his camera men to begin filming.

"today, i brought 5 of my friends to a random warehouse and they have no idea what's happening."

"it's true!" karl pitched in.

the group all walked over to a large set that included a wall with three doors. jimmy instructed nolan and chris to stand in front of the first door, talia and karl to stand in front of the last, while him and chandler stood in front of the middle door.

"karl, how long have you and talia been friends?" jimmy interviewed.

"about 7 years?" karl raised an eyebrow at talia, who nodded in agreement.

"chris, how good of friends are you and nolan?"

"i can't stand him." chris joked, playing on the idea that the two didn't get along.

"well i hope everyone can put up with each other, because starting right now, you will be trapped with your partner in these rooms for 24 hours!"

they were only about an hour into the challenge, and talia knew they had it in the bag. the rules were explained that the teams were allowed to give up if they got so annoyed with each other, but they would have to do some embarrassing consequence.

hour 6 is where things started getting a bit iffy.

trapped in a room that couldn't of been larger than 6 ft by 6 ft, karl was laid on his back with his legs propped on the wall.

"tal?"

"mhm?"

"tallllllll."

"yes, karl?"

"tallllllll-eeeeeeeee-uhhhhhhhh."

"what on earth do you want?"

"i'm bored."

while they had no way of knowing the time exactly, mostly because it had been a while since they had gotten an hour update, they assumed is was getting pretty late when they could hear some of the production crew going home for a night.

"bet you wish you were at the beach instead right now." karl was sat behind talia, attempting to braid her hair. despite having no hair ties or any knowledge of how to braid, he was determined to make it work.

"strangely, i'm having a really good time." she was trying her best to stay awake, occasionally failing and letting her head nod down and her eyes close.

"i wish you would film with us more often. the guys really like when you do. the fans too. we always get really good feedback when you join videos." karl grabbed her hand, bring it to her head so she could feel the braid he finished, but it was so messy she couldn't exactly tell where the braid started or stopped.

"i love being in videos. i totally would, but-"

"but he doesn't like you being in them."

"karl," she quickly turned to face him, glancing up at the cameras and pointing at the microphone clipped on her shirt.

"its okay. i'm the one who processes the footage. i'll just cut the audio before it gets sent to editing."

"he just gets a bit jealous," talia relaxed, feeling safe admitting it. "i'm normally the only girl in the videos so he feels a bit weird about it. that's all."

karl just nodded. he didn't have a response. well, he did. just not one for this time. not one that he had the confidence to say yet.

its not because he's jealous. it's because he doesn't like me.

karl was everyone's friend in high school. while he had his set friend group, almost everyone would call him a friend. except for maxwell. karl always told himself that the reason maxwell didn't like him was because everyone instantly liked him. it could be your first conversation with karl and you would think you'd known him for years. maxwell didn't hit it off with him like that.

karl noticed the way that he carried himself. when he would laugh and make fun of others, when he was blatantly disrespectful to teachers, and worse, when he would cheat on his girlfriends. he had a bad reputation when it came to his lack of faithfulness in relationships, and karl never understood why he continued to draw girls in.

when talia first told karl she had begun talking with maxwell, who she quickly started calling max, he couldn't help but fall out in laughter. he genuinely thought it was a joke. she went on and on about "he's really different now" and "i think you two would really get along", and she knew he never believed her when all he would do is nod in response.

despite his multiple warnings and cautions, talia proceeded in the relationship. the day she told karl that max was her boyfriend was one of the worst days of his life. karl prided himself on being able to hold himself together well, but all it took was sapnap saying in a call "you good, man?" for him to absolutely fall apart.

he knew he couldn't do anything about it, so in the meantime, he waited.