If you forget | Zariel/Meston

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It's nine months after the party in Miami and I'm no longer on my own.

Zach, Nick, Brennen, Weston, Loren, Mario and I started a YouTube channel called 'Our Journey.' I love them so much, all six of them have become my closest friends, apart from Ari.

It was the first night of playlist live, and the show was over. We were all sitting around a table at our restaurant, exchanging ideas for themes of videos while waiting for our food.

Mario,Weston and Brennen were working together on their God knows what crazy themes, and Loren, Zach and I were working on ours. So far, Loren was the only one coming up with ideas, and I was writing them down. She had some fun story times, joke DIY's, collab Q/A's, reaction videos, how-to's, and a bunch of challenges.

I looked beside me, and Zach was staring at me. "Zach, you got anything?" I asked him, giggling nonchalantly, as if I wasn't thrilled that he actually found me worth staring at.

"I–uh, no." He laughed, and made a gulping noise, like he always does.

I remember meeting Zach like it was yesterday. I remember the Zariel broadcast. I'm happy people ship us on my part, but I don't know about Zach. I like him a lot.

He's cute and he's sweet and he's funny.. He makes me laugh all the time. Then again, I do laugh at everything. But there's something special to it when it's Zach. He makes me happy. I get a weird–but good– feeling in my stomach every time he's around.

I shook the thought of butterflies Zach gave me from my head and noticed Loren waving her hand in front of my face, because I must've been staring at something in the distance. "Helloooo?! Earth to Ariel!"

"O-oh! Sorry I was just–I uh,–" Weston was snapchatting a video of me and laughing. Brennen was doing the same.

Mario had a hand covering his mouth, laughing, looking at Weston's screen. "Oh my gosh, Weston!! Y-you're so mean!" Mario said, in between laughs.

I heard Nick whispering to Zach, from the right side of me. "Probably thinking about you, am I right?" He tried to be quiet about it, but he wasn't.

Zach was blushing wildly. "Shut up, man..it's not happening," he punched Nick in his arm.

"Let's just get back to the themes, please," I sort of demanded. I scooted a little closer to Zach, so I could whisper in his ear. "I'm sorry about–that," I apologized.

He turned and looked at me confused, then lowered his head and whispered in my ear. "Don't be sorry. They're idiots. Loren's getting suspicious. I think we should probably act like we have an idea."

In fact, he was indeed right. "Guys?? Any ideas??" Loren questioned.

"Yep. We could do a guys Vs. girls," Zach said, resting an elbow on my shoulder.

"Zach, that's actually a really good idea!!" Loren squealed.

"It was all hers," he lied, and nodded his head in my direction.

"Go Ariel!!" She clapped her hands excitedly. "Write it down! I feel like that's our best one yet!!"

Our food came after that, and I put the notebook of ideas away.

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After dinner, we all parted ways and walked up to our hotel rooms. I slid my card in the slot beside the door and flung it open, then slammed it shut. I sighed and flopped onto my bed. I need to get Zach out of my head. I know he doesn't like me like that.

After wallowing in my own sorrow for a bit, I got on my phone and noticed I had a text from Mario.

"Whatever you do, don't look at Weston's snapchat story. I mean, if you don't wanna hate him for the rest of playlist.😂"