Girlfriend For 24 Hours

The Intro

I was over at Sam's house for his Friday pizza night. It was currently 10pm and Sam was filming a video for his channel, and everyone had left besides our closer friend group.

I was the newest member of this group, since I had just moved to LA about a year ago. I had moved out to pursue my career in multimedia, and I somehow got lucky enough to get to do a photoshoot for Sam and Colby's clothing line. I have done all of their clothing shoots since.

When I first met the boys they were super nice and chill, and I was a little shy at first because they were both pretty attractive. I have done shoots for a lot of people, but this was my first big shoot in LA and they just happened to be very famous youtubers that were also very attractive.

They made me feel comfortable very fast though, and we seemed to all have similar humor. I made Colby laugh a lot over funny things I said, and Sam would joke right along with me.

I told them it was awesome to work with them and we went on our ways, and I didn't think much of it. I edited their pictures and sent them to their manager and clothing company and a week later they were posted with their new merch.

I got an email saying I'd get my check in the mail in a week. Along with my emails I had a requested email from Colby Brock, one of the boys from the shoot. It read:
"Hey Cassidy, I just wanted to say I really liked how you edited the photos of us for our website, and was wondering if you'd want to do a personal shoot for me? I looked at your photography account on Instagram and I really like the style of work you do! If you are interested you can call or text me at 1488*******. Thanks again!"

I smiled and remembered Colby was the one I had found the most attractive. Not gonna lie after the shoot I looked up some of their videos and actually liked their content. I also found out Sam had a girlfriend and Colby was single...

After becoming friends with them I realized he's not really into dating, we might have more in common than what I first thought..

I ended up texting him that night.
"Hey Colby, it's Cassidy from the XPLR shoot! I got your email and I'd love to do a shoot with you. Let me know when will work for you and we can work something out!"

We texted back and forth that night and planned to meet the following Friday, and we talked about what kind of shoot he was thinking. I told him I loved shooting HDR if he was interested in trying that, and I sent him my Instagram so he could see some other kinds of stuff I do. He ended up following me and liking some of the stuff.

We met up on Friday at my little studio I was renting and told him to wear something grungy, and we did a couple studio shots for the hdr photo. He then offered to drive us to the place I wanted to go to shoot the background.

We learned a lot about each other while we waited in LA traffic, and we seemed to get along really well. I really couldn't get over how attractive and nice he was. He wasn't like some of the people I had met there.

We pulled up to an old brick building that was falling apart and he waited for me to take some shots and asked me about how HDR worked. And he told me that photo was gonna be sick.

We then walked around the block to shoot some normal ones, and he had brought a couple different shirts to change into. When he first changed I could help but stare at his nice body. I noticed the heart key hole tattoo on his chest, and I complimented it.

I was with him for probably three hours and we connected in that time, at least I thought so in the moment. You could say I had a little crush on him. He was cute and nice and he seemed to enjoy talking to me, so why not?

After the shoot was done and we were back at my studio he asked if I wanted to go to dinner with him and his friends. I was intimidated at first, assuming his friends were a bunch of youtubers that may judge me, but I was wrong.

I met Kevin, Mike, and Kat, Sam's girlfriend. Sam said it was nice to see me again and everyone was very welcoming. Me and Kat clicked right away, and by the end of the night Kevin and I were buddies. Kevin said he'd hit me up sometime for photos and so did Kat.
Colby ended up walking me out to wait for my Uber back home, and he thanked me for the pictures again.

A couple weeks passed and I sent Colby his photos, which he said were awesome. He posted the HDR photo right away and set it as his profile picture. When he tagged me I ended up getting about 3,000 more followers. I even got some other semi famous youtubers/artists dming me and emailing me asking for pictures. It was nuts.

After that I didn't hear from Colby for about a week, and then randomly one night I got a text from him inviting me to Sam's Friday pizza night. I got butterflies thinking that he thought of me.

I did tell him I was new to LA and that I didn't really have friends there, so he was probably being nice. But he obviously thought of me on a friendship level if he was inviting me to his friends party.

After that Friday I quickly became part of the friend group. I was being invited every Friday to pizza night, where I met a bunch of awesome people. All their friends were so nice. Me Kevin and Kat would go out to eat for lunch sometimes, and I did a shoot for Kat too.

Usually on Fridays id go hang out with Colby at his place after pizza night since him and I stayed up the latest. I started showing up in some of their videos since a lot of them made videos, and I started gaining followers.

A lot of people started questioning if I was dating one of them, mostly Colby. I did still have that crush on him, but after being around them a lot I learned that Colby was a loner and didn't really date people, and I respected that. I wasn't gonna let my feelings ruin a good friendship we had going.

I did notice I was kind of the only girl he'd actually start conversations with when we were at a party, but I think it's cause I was never trying to flirt and I kind of acted like one of the guys.

That's a lie, I would sort of flirt sometimes, but it would only be if i thought he was initiating it. But in some videos I've been in one of our friends mention that we'd be good together and we've both just denied it. In my head I wouldn't mind dating him, or just getting to know him on an intimate level... I can't deny that I've thought about him in that way.

I found him very attractive, you could say he was my type. And his personality attracted me to him even more. But like I said, I kept those feelings to myself. I was just glad I had made a bunch of awesome friends in the most unexpected way.