Subtle things...

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Sam's POV:

I woke up with the same thoughts from last night lingering in my head, Colby still next to me with a hand in my hair all though now it is still. His quiet snores hang in the air around us, it's not unusual for us to sleep in the same bed so it was normal for me to wake up and just wait for Colby to wake up. I've always woken up before him, I have a clock in my head constantly. I carefully reach over him and grab my phone off the charger, I go straight to YouTube to look at the comments on the video we uploaded last night. The moment I open the comments I was bombarded with solby comments and a bunch of hate and skeptics. The solby ones were screaming about the clip of us in the car and the skeptics were saying my reaction to the drummer boy was fake, we didn't add the clip of Colby and I just sitting in that room for 10 minutes hugging. We didn't add too many actual reactions to what happened that night so I can see why people were a bit suspicious.

"Should we post the full video unedited?" Colby whispers in my ear making me dump a bit. I took into consideration the repercussions of posting the full video and I think it was worth showing people the truth about the paranormal.

"Are you okay with putting out all of our emotions on the internet? We have a lot of footage of just us sitting there together not saying anything," I ask as I turn over to face him more.

"Yes, I want them to see how distraught you were so they know you were affected in a bad way due to seeing that. I don't care about people talking about our feelings because that's not what matters, what matters is you and proving the paranormal," he finishes and runs a hand through his hair. He looks at the time and puts his head into the pillow and groans loudly, he's not a morning person.

"If we post it again we have to make an intro," I tell him and he groans louder. "I can do it if you want?"

He turns and looks at me, "no I want to be a part of this," he sits up and stretches hearing a ripple of cracks in his back. We both laugh at the sound and then get out of bed. We get ready for the day and then set up the camera to start the new video.

"Hey guy it's Sam and Colby here," I start in a pretty monotone voice, this doesn't feel like our others videos.

"We read all of your comments on the other video and we one want to thank you all for the support and two we would like to address all the skeptics out there. We both understand that in your eyes the video may look fabricated due to editing and deleting footage but today we are here to give you the whole video raw." Colby tells the camera as I prepare what I'm going to say.

"What happened to me last night has changed everything for me, I go to haunted places with so many people and a lot of them have seen things that no one else has and I was skeptical about the visions they saw. Last night, what I saw scarred me, it was a rough night trying to get the thought out of my head. I'm not a great actor as you have seen from some of our previous videos so when you see the unedited version you will know that I full-heartedly reacted only to what I saw and heard, this has changed my worldview entirely. Just a disclaimer, Colby and I love each other and we have some very personal moments in this video, our well-being was the number one priority so I would just like to say, you can make edits or whatever but these moments are special to us and our friendship. We are vulnerable in these clips so we are posting this with confidence in you as a fan and the whole fandom in general, we are putting our emotions out on the internet and there will always be backlash but we are putting our faith in you guys to do the right thing," I finish my speech and look at Colby, he immediately pulls me into a hug. I was a bit shocked but hugged back, he has never been so emotional in a video before.

He pulled away and said, "if people look at us differently because of the fact that we care about each other then that's on them for not letting us be human, and if you don't see us any differently I want to thank you so much because in today's society so many people believe men should not show their emotions to others. Sam and I have never hid anything from each other and we really show how much we care for each other in these clips so I want to thank you for taking the time to think of us as human beings."

We turn off the camera and put the intro together with the unedited video and post it, Immediately getting views. We sit for a little, anxiety hovering in the air. I can already see all the edits of Colby and me just hugging forever, the fans go crazy for solby and I don't get it. I have a girlfriend and I love her, why do people see Colby and me as anything more than friends? It confuses me but I love seeing the fans excited for something so we give them little clips here and there, never a full video so this will be very interesting.

"I'm scared," Colby coughs under his breath, he doesn't look up from his hands which he has been fidgeting with for the past couple of minutes.

"Me too. I really want them to see that I truly saw something but with all the other things in the video I'm scared our fans will look at us differently, I see them as a family so I don't want to lose any of them. Does that sound conceded?" I ask feeling like I sound like I only care about the number of people that follow us. He looks up at me and laughs, I get a bit confused.

"Sam, you are the one person on this earth that could never do or say anything conceded, you're too good," he laughed. "I know how much you care for them, it's their decision if they want to leave the family but we will just have to continue because there's no going back now. I'm glad they got to see that side of us and our friendship, they put labels on us and I feel like this video shows totally opposite sides of us that no one ever sees,"

My head is starting to spin with all the thoughts coming and going. Will Katrina be mad? She knows how close Colby and I are and she thinks solby is funny and cute but she's never seen our moments of silence together and the intimacy we have.

"Do you think kat will see us differently?" I ask praying for the answer I want.

"I don't know, that's up to her. She knows us and she loves both of us, she will do what she sees fit," he said leaving an open-ended answer that could have so many different outcomes.

"I want to look," I say grabbing my phone but Colby pulls it away from me.

"It's not a good idea, not yet at least. Give them some time, it's a long video," he tells me, he's completely right but I want to see how they look at us now. Why am I so worried?