Two-sided

Chapter 16: rushed talks and new arrivals

As I pulled my purse over my shoulder I made my way to the dining room.

I heard mumbling. "huh?" I whispered and rushed to the side of the entrance. I tried to concentrate on what they were saying.

"Honestly what kind of a name is Nally?" It was his Mother. "Please mom don't get me started on her wardrobe." it was hailey. "well, at least I put on clothes..." I said to myself.

"Honestly Ethan what about Hannah? She's a nice girl." said his father "Dad, Hannah is older than me and she hates me!" He said. "pish posh, what about... Ah! Annie? You know the brunette with blue eyes?" Said his mother.

"Mom, Nally has brown hair and blue eyes." Ethan laughed "are you sure? Cause her ends were blue and purple. What does she think she is? An ocean?" Laughed Jeanette.

"It wasn't even that funny..." I rolled my eyes and continued to listen. "But Ethan her shirt... what is a be-Ah?" Asked his father

"It's bae dad... like 'bay' it's just a new word meaning like someone special." Ethan justified. "this new lingo is honestly useless." mumbled his mother.

"Ethan, I don't know if she really is that sweet girl from the videos." said Jeanette.

They all began to talk bad about me until I heard something slam down. Ethan had hit his hand on the table.

"Okay that is enough! Nally is that girl from the videos, she's intelligent, Kind, helpful, witty, funny, and so many more things!" He yelled.

"This is why I don't being a lot of people home with me! Because all you do is judge them off the bat! Look if you were to give Nally a chance, and stop being so defensive you'll see she's got a beautiful heart and an amazing soul." I smiled.

"Or you can continue to be shallow and I leave an never see any of you again." I quietly gasped and it was silent. "Fine, we can try to surpass what we think..." said hailey.

"Thank you." Ethan said. I took that as my cue to walk in. "hi, sorry. I misplaced my purse rather well." I laughed.

I leaned down and gave Ethan a kiss on the cheek and took my seat. We were served a salad. "So Nally, Ethan tells us you're a 'YouTuber' I believe that is what the kids call it." said Ethan's father.

I heard Jeanette scoff. "Yes I'm a YouTuber." I replied.
"I hear YouTubers are funny, tell us a funny story why dontcha?" Hailey said almost challenging me.

"Well... This one time I was filming a video with my friends ally and Ryan and we were doing a skit. Well it required us to be amateur ninjas and we had different props like old boards, broken phones we found, and an old tv." I heard Ethan laugh.

"Well Ally took the old boards and broke them, Ryan took the old phones and I being a genius I kicked the tv and my foot got stuck." Ethan and I laughed so did Jeanette.

"Everyone thinks it was special effects when in reality I got three scars and stitches in my foot. The funny part was I was in so much pain I laughed all through it, to the hospital and during the stitching. I laughed so hard that my friends laughed, the doctors laughed and the nurses."

By now everyone was laughing except for Ethan's mother. "Come on mom you gotta admit that was pretty funny if not cool." Ethan said wiping a tear.

Everyone quieted down. "fascinating." she said gritting her teeth. I clears my throat "well that was is an adjusted kind if humor... not many people like that one." I said lowering my head.

The rest of the time was spent talking politics, clothing and celebrities I never heard of.

Then came... society... Remember I hadn't spoken since that story I told "what about you Nally?" Asked Ethan. "Huh?" I lifted my head.

"How to you feel about the judging system." I gulped. "Well I um..." I looked around and saw Ethan's Mothers eyes piercing my very being!

"I feel like we tend to be more attentive of the outside of people." I said "yes but the way you dress reflects of who you are, that gives us a gateway to the person." said Ethan's mother Patricia.

"Yes, but we never know that someone dressed in classy clothes is really a cruel, judgmental, awful human being!" I stated. "Is just we judge too much on fake eyelashes or sculpted abs on how amazing a person is." I looked to Ethan.

"I'm not exactly the most good looking human being on the internet. But I feel like my viewed decided to judge me on my comedy and who I am, than of how I look or the size of my chest. I feel as though we worry more about our reputation than our character. Rather than helping someone in need, we're scared of the bad things people will say if we do." the whole table was quiet.

"Master Ethan, and Madam Nally, there was a call from an Andrea russet saying 'it is getting late. If my best friend isn't back at the hotel I'm calling the cops.' shall I send a response?" My eyes grew wide and I grabbed Ethan's arm and pulled him over to his car.

"Oh god Andrea!" I said as Ethan quickly scrambled for the keys in his pockets.

"Oh come one she couldn't possibly call them?" Ethan said nervously "You dot know Andrea! She'll do it." we got in and drove away.

"Why didn't she text me?" I said pulling out my phone. "oh... I didn't take it off airplane mode since my flight..." I said embarrassingly.

Once I took it off I saw a billion things from instagram, twitter, YouTuber and 27 texts from Andrea! And 30 from Youtubeboy97... I can't believe I forgot about him!

I replied to Andrea and read the texts from YouTubeboy97... he didn't seem mad at all... Hmm...

We got to the hotel and Andrea was sitting on the hood of the car. "Andrea I'm here!" I said waving my arm.

"Oh thank god!" She jumped off and hugged me "I was getting worried." she said "Jc and Kian are back home filming a video." she said.

"Oh cool." I smiled. We were about to get in the car when I went back to Ethan and said "Thanks for an awesome night. Here's my number, call me when you get to your room. Maybe we can meet up again soon." I said giving him the piece of paper with my number.

"Sounds good." he smiled, I laughed and I looked into his eyes. I leaned in and kissed him. He kissed me back and I pressed myself closer and he squeezed my hips.

I pulled away hoping Andrea didn't see. As I was about to run to the car Ethan grabbed my shoulder "hey what was that?" he asked. "I said I was in girlfriend mode until I got home. I'm not home yet." I smiled and left. I waved from the car and he waved back in shock, but with a smile.

I smiled and stared out the window. "You know Jc isn't gonna like that." I turned to Andrea. "huh?" I said sitting up "I saw y'all's kiss, Jc couldn't stop worrying about you all day. He really likes you."

Now I feel guilty. "It wasn't what it looked like! We made a deal and that was part of it. No feelings attached I promise..." I bit my lip.

"Really? Then you must be an amazing actress cause you don't kiss like that without feelings attached." I threw my hands to my face and groaned.

"Please! Please don't tell Jc..." I said "I won't. But he'll find out..." she stated. We pulled up to my apartment. "Do you want me to stay with you a while or you good?" Asked Andrea.

"Nah I'm good. I'm just tired I think I'll go to bed, I'll text you." Andrea nodded and drove away. I made my way up the stairs and opened the door.

"Ryan! You'll never believe what I--" once I turned away from the door I saw a bright green, blue eyes and long brown haired girl standing next to Ryan. "ALLY!" I yelled.

We hugged each other. "I thought you were coming in Friday!" I squeezed her "well I finished all my meetings and tests so I got to come out early."

I couldn't stop smiling and I pulled Ryan in and hugged them both. "Well let's start catching up shall we?" We all laughed and fell on the couch.