𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 (𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞)

𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑

"okay, where do we even start?" lia asked, the last few sips of her iced tea gone.

charlie flipped through each script he had and looked at number three. "we have quite a few scenes by ourselves in episode one while ranboo is doing his own thing."

"oh, no way. i haven't even had a chance to look. i've been so focused on other things with the production." she admitted, spice girls faintly in the background. "i mean, i'm up for it."

lia flicked through and read some of the scenes from episode three.

RANBOO finds STREAMERS each talking to blank monitors. After trying to gain attention from each, he finds CHARLIE speaking to a live audience.

going a few scenes down, lia found where she gets introduced.

CHARLIE spots a figure hiding in one of the rooms. Walking up, LIA flinches at the steps.

CHARLIE
RANBOO, I THINK SOMEONE'S HERE

LIA
CHARLIE?

"you find me in a room?" "yeah. i guess rehearsals will decide where i'll find you."

"i wonder how i die." she mumbled, flicking to the near end of the script. reading the notes, she cringes, "oh my god." "what's up?"

"check out how i die. and how you die."

charlie read through and pulled a little bit of a shocked face, "wow..."

"yeah, too bad you die first." "that was actually so funny that i forgot to laugh." charlie jokingly deadpanned.

...

lia smiled, looking down at the couch she was sitting on. "i have an idea. we've been doing this for what-"

"a few hours now?" charlie finished her questioning with a question himself. 

"let's do something fun. we'll be around each other so fucking much that i- can i actually call ran?"

"sure." charlie smiled, walking to the bathroom.

lia went though her contacts, finding ranboo's.

"hello?" "i have a quick question for you, man. i don't mean to disturb you and sneeg."

"no problem, ask away." ranboo welcomed.

lia didn't know how to put it, "was putting charlie and i together for all our scenes intentional?"

there was silence.

"yep." he popped the p and then hung up.

lia looked at the device as she watch charlie walk back into the room. "apparently us together throughout each episode is intentional." "really?" she nodded.

"anyway, back to what i was saying earlier, we need something to secure our goopy bond." charlie smiled at her words and lia continued, "let's do something fun together. i could always vlog it for my channel."

"you have a youtube channel?" "of course. ran helped me set it up. then we collabed on his streams a lot and that how i amassed most of my subscribers." "that's super cool." charlie admitted.

"is it?" lia asked.

charlie nodded, "yeah. what's the plan?"

"carnival." lia said, showing him the pictures. "you in?"

"of course. let's go." "can we stop at mine so i can get changed?" "sure."

...

the two young adults made it to where their destination was and lia was bouncing up and down, metaphorically.

she loved carnivals. she loved them a bit too much.

"you know, i used to work at a carnival." lia casually admitted, pulling on her band tee. charlie looked down, the moody lights lighting her face to a perfect amber.

charlie simply blushed, "is that so?" he almost trailed.

"oh yeah, worked one of the game stands; the one where you had the shoot the clown with water." charlie nodded.

"damn. then you must know some secrets to winning."

lia just laughed.

"you act like i'm the game master around here. i wish i was. that would be, like, one of the best things ever." "i'm still in hope that secretly, you are the game master."

the two went back and forth and lia rolled her eyes as she aced the water clown game, the one where you shoot water into its mouth. charlie filmed her and he was nothing short of amazed.

"and that is an easy win from the only game i can win." lia laughed.

"i think you did really well." "why thank you, mr 'cicle'. that's very kind."

lia looked to the camera lens and laughed as she pulled a face and put on her slimey demon voice.

charlie watched with awe as she snatched the camera so charlie could do a game. "what tickles your fancy, charlie?" she filmed him, who was just looking down at her.

"you know that game, where you have to throw the ball in the bucket. no clue what it's called but i was always okay with that one." lia smiled into the camera, leading charlie over.

finn speaks
i wanted to write more for this one but i just need to push an update to one of my books :)