Milkshake Hearts

Chapter 153: Leave

They'd tried to get the Monday off shooting, but given they were still in a packed shooting schedule – and Shayne was unavailable for Smosh Tuesday and Wednesday for Goldbergs shooting – all they'd managed was the Friday afternoon. Rob and Dianne had offered to look after Rosie for both Monday and Tuesday, but at Rosie's own insistence (and some insistence from their coworkers), she instead joins them in the office for the shoot day.

"Dad said you got a new office now," she comments, as she slides into the back seat of Shayne's car carrying a small backpack of things to occupy herself if she gets sick of being behind the cameras during their shoots.

"Yeah, Smosh used to share an office with some other people but now we have our own so we have more space and things," Courtney answers, "we've been really busy because we couldn't film anything for a couple weeks while everything was moved, but that's okay. Do you remember our coworkers?"

"I remember Damien! He danced with Nathan at your wedding too... and Kimmy is the tall one right?"

"Yeah, they'll both be there today, plus a few other people you might not have met before, but we'll introduce you," Shayne confirms.

Part of Courtney is worried that all the people and movement and action will be too much for her, but in contrast to the previous times she'd been at their offices and just wanted to cling to Courtney and stay quiet, Rosie is bright and open and happily accepts hugs from Kimmy, Olivia, Noah and Saige as she greets them (and high fives from Damien and Keith).

She greets all their crew, too, and after the cast all hang around in the green room for a little while and she bounces between conversations with most of the people in the room, she happily stands quietly with Kiana and Garret behind the cameras as they start shooting the first of their sketches for the day.

It's when Kimmy is kneeling at their fast food counter set, Olivia and Noah behind it and constantly breaking as they try to get through one particular scene, that Rosie – still beside Kiana, although now with Shayne standing on her other side – twists her face in concern, for a moment, before reaching up and gently tapping Kiana's forearm to get her attention.

"Hey Rosie, what's up?" she asks, glancing towards her with a kind smile.

"Kimmy is trying to be like my age, right?" she asks, her voice a little hesitant and nervous, but Kiana shifts a little more to face her.

"Yeah, she is, do you think she's doing some stuff wrong to be your age?" she prompts, Rosie nodding slowly in response.

"I don't know about filming these and maybe it's on purpose to be funny but she could say some stuff different and one of my friends from school loves donuts and she's even more excited than that," Rosie explains, a little rambled and a little mumbled.

"Hey, those are good points, and you definitely know what it's like being a kid now more than we do!" Kiana tells her, encouraging, "Olivia keeps laughing and that's why we have to keep stopping, but do you want to tell Kimmy what you think?"

She does, after a moment of hesitation, follow Kiana onto the set and give Kimmy her note about the right words for a kid to use and being even more enthusiastic about the donuts than she had been as the kid rushing into a donut shop. Kimmy laughs, but she thanks her for the advice, and Shayne grins when Rosie bounces happily on her feet during the next take when Kimmy seems to have done as she suggested.

The afternoon of their shoot days always drags a little more than the mornings. Courtney is almost glad for Rosie's presence when she, too, starts to get a little tired and restless, and it allows Courtney to slip away from filming – Shayne, too, although he's shooting more scenes today than she is given he's about to be unavailable for a couple of days – and sit on the couches in the green room with Rosie as she pulls a colouring book and some markers out of her backpack to entertain herself.