Sam and Colby: The Amusement Park

• Chapter Three •

"Okay, let's start from the beginning I guess," Andi spoke, looking up at Colby. "So you know how in high school we kinda suspected that I was a medium because I can hear spirits?"

"Yeah," Colby nodded his head. He knew very well what she was talking about because he was the one she had come to to help her figure out what was going on. "And your parents fucking hated hearing that you could because they were so against anything spiritual."

"Yeah," She nodded slowly. "Well as silly as this sounds, I kept a diary where I wrote down most if not all of the things that I heard. One day my mom came in to put one of my jackets away and "just so happened to find it"."

"Oh shit," Colby said, raising his eyebrows. He knew how pissed Andi's parents would get when she talked about the spirit world. There were many times throughout high school where they would get into huge fights and Andi would end up crashing on either his, Sam's, or Jake's couches for days and sometimes even weeks on end.

"Yeah, oh shit is right. The morning of you and Sam's graduation I had gotten up early to get ready. My dad came storming into my room while I was doing my makeup and threw the book at me. The last entry I had made talked about how I thought I was hearing my grandmother's spirit talking to me. He was more than pissed off about that. He started yelling that it was a sin and that I was messing with the devil. He said that it was you, Sam, and Jake's fault and that you guys were devil worshippers. They said that you were bad influences and that they were going to put an end to it."

Colby's brows pushed together in anger and confusion. Andi turned to look out the window, her skin turning a paler color than usual.

"They took me and my brother's phones away and told us that we were moving. And that's what we did. They had packed up all of the belongings in the middle of the night and so all that was left was for us to box up our stuff. It only took about an hour, but I tried to push it out longer, hoping that for some reason one of you guys would show up to check in on me. They dragged us out of that house and moved all the way to Utah without saying a word to anybody."

"After we moved I thought that maybe they would give us our phones back and that I could find some way to let you guys know what happened. Well, I was wrong. They barred both of us from any technology and homeschooled us to keep me from "finding the devil in other places". I finished homeschooling early and moved out on my eighteenth birthday. It was really hard because I had no way to talk to my brother, but I needed to get out of that house."

One of the McDonald's workers brought their food to the table and set down the drinks along with it. They thanked him and momentarily opened up the meals.

"Wow, that's some crazy shit," Colby said in disbelief, still trying to process everything that she had said. "But that was only a year. Why didn't you reach out to us after you moved out?"

Andi lightly sighed and sipped her drink. "Well, when I first moved out I told myself that I needed to get my life in order before I came running back into your guys'. So I took a few months to get on my feet. I got a job at Hot Topic and moved into an apartment in Las Vegas. I got really focused on my job and kind of forgot about anything else for a while. One day I was at work and saw that a shipment of your merch got sent in to put up for display in the store. I decided to look you guys up on YouTube and found the Sam and Colby channel. You guys had a hefty amount of followers by that time. Not that I was surprised though, that had always been your thing."

"I watched a few of the videos and saw how happy you guys all looked. At that point, I was a little too embarrassed to try and reach out. You guys were well-known and were hanging out with all of these other bigger YouTubers, and I was just a hot mess from the past. I thought I would drag you guys down. I saw how happy the three of you seemed and I got a bit... I don't know. Mad, or jealous, or a mix of both I guess. I saw how fast you guys had moved on with your lives and convinced myself that you were glad that I had left."