The Yogscast Guarantee

Chapter 2 Salt and Dad Talk

Sjin and Hannah both had questions after I told them for second time but I went back to the office and all three were sat in silence yet again. 'What you doing?' I asked walking over to Smith's desk and standing behind him. 'Editing.' he said, he hadn't said more than a word to me since this whole thing happened. 'Can we go out for lunch? Just us?' I asked him and he looked at me, 'please.' I whispered, 'Ok give me a minute.' he said and I smiled before gathering my stuff.

Smith and I walked into town without holding hands like we normally did and we didn't say much to each other. 'Where you want to eat?' Smith asked as we made it to the centre. 'I don't mind.' I told him and he sighed, 'let's go to the cafe.' I said and he looked at me, 'you sure?' he asked and I nodded.

We walked to the quieter part of the town and to where the cafe was. We arrived to where the exact place that the cafe was. There in the place of the cafe was a boarded up little building, 'when did this happen?' I asked and Smith shrugged his shoulders, 'we haven't been here for a month or so.' he said, I walked up to one of the half boarded broken windows and looked through, I could see our booth at the back and remembered the last time we were all there together. 'Looks like crap in there.' I said turning back to Smith, he was just staring at me. 'You alright?' I asked him, 'do you love me?' he asked and I looked at him slightly horrified at the fact that he would question it. 'Of course I do, Alex I love you more than you could fathom.' I told him. He walked up to the cafe and sat with his back against its walls. 'What about him? Do you love him?' he asked and I looked at him shaking my head, 'no, no of course not.' I said and I sat down next to him, 'If you don't how did this happen again Abbey?' he asked, I sighed, 'I don't know, if I am honest I don't know how it happened, I shouldn't have gone to see mum without you. This wouldn't of happened, it's all my fault.' I told him. we didn't say anything to each other, 'I am sorry.' He said I looked at him, 'why you did nothing wrong.' I told him, 'yeah I did, I shouldn't have lost it like I did, I promised you I wouldn't get mad.' I nodded, 'it was scary.' I mumbled, 'i know and I regret it.' I looked at him, 'you see where I am going?' he asked and I shook my head. 'When I lose my temper, it's scary for you. When you did this it scared me.' he said. 'But we are ok right?' I asked him and he picked up my hand with his and held it. 'There isn't anything about this that is ok.' He said, 'but it's just another bump in the road, a very, very bumpy road.' he said and I chuckled and he did too.

Smith and I came back to the office with subs for Trott and Ross as well as ourselves. We walked in and Ross looked at us momentarily before back at the screen keeping his head down. 'We got lunch, Trott heads up.' I said before throwing him his sub and Smith walked over to Ross and handed him his. 'Thanks.' Ross said shyly. 'Right then what's the plan for the rest of the day then lads?' I asked sitting on the sofa next to Smith unwrapping my sub, 'Well we have a good couple of hours of editing time then...' Trott was explaining, 'What is going on?' Ross asked out of the blue. 'You two left as miserable as all hell and come back acting like nothing has happened.' He said, 'We talked it out.' Smith said, 'oh you talked it out, I am so glad you are all good now. Everything is fine in the world now Abbey and Alex have talked.' Ross stood up and left the room. I sighed an instantly lost my appetite. 'What the fuck?' Smith said, 'He hasn't spoken to Kim and it's all very difficult for him too.' I said, 'you want to go talk to him?' Smith asked me, 'would you mind?' I asked and Smith sighed, 'you're the only one he will talk to.' I kissed Smith on his cheek before going to find Ross.

Ross was sat on the step of the entrance to the building, 'I don't recommend sleeping here if that's what you're doing' I sat down next to him and he didn't say anything. 'I know this is hard for you.' I said looking at the floor, 'how? How are you two just back to normal like that?' he said clicking his fingers. 'We talked about it, we aren't 100% I think we just can't stand being mad at eachother. Smith is still hurt by the whole situation and I hate the fact that I let it happen again. And this will probably linger with us all and pop up now and again if tensions are high. But for now I think Smith and I are just emotionally exhausted.' I looked at him and he sighed, 'Kim won't talk to me still. I can't go through all of this again' he said, 'you want me to talk to her?' I asked him, 'i don't know if that's a good idea. She was pretty mad at you too.' I remember quite vividly that she was mad at me. 'She will be fine, just give her time to process it and she will come around, just keep talking to her don't distance yourself too much. She might think the worst if you do that.' I told him as the rain started and I pulled my hood up. 'What's the worst?' he asked and I looked at him, 'she might think you actually like me or something.' I told him, 'oh... yeah.' he sighed, 'come on, let's go inside.' I said leaning on his shoulder to help me up.

We recorded some free roam GTA updates then we had a GTA group recording that got particularly salty. It was a gone in 60 seconds challenge (but it was the third one so it was gone in 63 seconds, I know the naming system is complicated.) We were all on one team, Smith, Ross, Trott and myself. Turps, sips, sjin and lewis were on another and duncan, rythian, zoey and Simon were on the last. The most salty part came when Smith had finally managed to land a jet on the pier that we were collecting our vehicles on and Sips drove in front of him and flipped Smith into the ferris wheel. I had only heard Smith shout as loud as he did a few times and then there was a loud crash. I didn't hesitate to get up and see if he was alright. When I got to his desk he was clutching his hand, 'you alright?' I asked as he hunched over holding his hand. 'I might have hit the desk.' he said inhaling sharply, 'let me have a look.' I said and he held out his hand and I looked at it, 'i don't think you broke it, it's just probably going to bruise and hurt like a bitch for a little while.' I told him before returning to my desk.

We finished our recording for the day around half six and we started packing up ready to go home. I was going to the toilet and I noticed Kim was sat in her office without her recording light on. I took a fairly deep breath and knocked on her door, 'yeah?' she said and I opened it and poked my head in, 'hey.' I said and she looked at me, 'we are heading home, you coming?' I asked her. 'we just pretending things are alright now?' she asked packing up her bag I let out a little sigh. 'What do you want me to say? I have apologised more times than I can count, we both regret it and it meant nothing.' I told her and she just looked at me, got up and walked towards me. 'Can you promise that it won't happen again?' she asked me, 'it won't happen again.' I told her and she walked past me.

Kim did come home with us and Smith, Katie and I made dinner and Ross and Kim were talking I the living room and Trott was sat at the table. 'All I am saying is captain america will thrash Iron man without breaking a sweat.' Trott said, he and I were having a debate about the civil war film that is coming out. 'Iron man would win no problem but it's not just them is it they have like teams and Iron Man's team is far better than Captain America, Iron Man has vision. He has one of the infinity stones, you don't get much better than that.' I debted, 'alright nerds calm down dinner is ready.' Smith said carrying the dish of chicken I to the dining room. 'I think I am more of a geek than a nerd.' I said carrying through vegetables in another dish, 'whatever you want honey.' Smith said patting me on my head. 'I will go and get Kim and Ross.' I said heading to the living room.

They were both sat on the sofa I think just talking, 'hey, dinner's ready.' I said standing in the doorway. 'Ok we will be there in a minute.' Kim said shortly, 'yeah just give us a second.' Ross said and I went back into the dining room. 'Well that was awkward.' I said sitting down next to Smith. 'What do you expect.' Smith mumbled, 'you want to say something?' I asked him as not to let Trott and Katie hear across the table. 'No sorry.' he whispered back and he put his arm around me as we waited for Kim and Ross. 'What were they doing' Trott asked and I shrugged my shoulders and Ross walked into the room. 'Sorry to keep you waiting you should have started without us.' Ross said and Kim followed him in and sat down next to him.

Dinner was very tasty the conversation did somehow make it sour in some places but it was quickly changed to something else promptly. Normally whatever popped into Trotts head first, such as Ross and Kim were bickering and Trott started talking about some american politics. Smith and I tidied up and when we went through to the living room Ross and Kim were in the sitting room with the partition up and they were talking. 'They still going?' Smith asked and Trott nodded, 'it's quieter now mind, she was shouting for a whole.' Trott told us. 'Well I am going to play Dota.' Smith said and he headed upstairs.

I made a big mug of tea for Smith and me a normal sized mug for me and took it upstairs on a tray with some biscuits too. I sat at my desk and placed the tray down in between us and he looked at it then me and smiled. 'How's it going?' I asked him, 'good we are winning by a bit.' he said, 'what, no I was talking to Abbey.' he said talking to whoever he was playing with. 'Power up your computer and load up TS and we will put you in the call too.' Smith said and I did so. Turns out he was playing with Zylus, Pryion, Lewis and Sips but Zylus wasn't talking. 'Ok I am in. What we talking about then?' I asked, 'just Dad talk.' Pryion said, 'oh are you and Sips sharing experiences?' I asked watching Smith's screen, 'yeah and we are passing on our wisdom.'