Forget Her (Shyan)

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"babe, can you grab my jacket before we go out?"
Shane twists around back to Sara's bedroom to grab her jean jacket. He fast walks towards her and hands her the jacket.
"Thank you,"
Shane nods and grabs his car keys and they make their way out of Sara's apartment. They pile their way into the car and Shane starts it, some 80s rock softly humming from the radio.
"You excited?" Sara chirps.
Shane shrugs. "just an average day of work, I guess."
"Going to numerous places around the country is not average for some people, yknow."
Shane looks to Sara and gives her a small smile. She takes his hand and traces the lines.
"What do you and Ryan do when you aren't filming?"
"Not much, just explore the city and or place we are investigating. Talk to locals...and just stay at the hotel basically."
Sara nods and Shane slows on the road then takes a right turn into Tim Hortons.
The line was average and they were okay with that.
"I don't have any cash.." Sara says guiltily.
Shane waves his hand. "it's fine I got this."
Sara smiles and pulls out her phone, texting to a group chat with her friends.
Shane pulls out his own phone and checks a message from Ryan.

Ryan- you need to be here earlier today. We have some new equipment to try out. Sorry I didn't text earlier.

Shane groans and swerves out of the line and makes his way to the exit. No time for ice caps and pretzel bagels.
"What's going on-"
"Ryan didn't tell me we had new equipment till like 15 minutes ago. So off to work we go."
Sara nods understandingly and continues with her group.
Today was the day they'd be going to Ryan's most hated place Queen Mary.
He's already had an experience there, and was just, estatic to go back.
This was obviously Shane's idea to go back to the boat.
Shane eventually reaches the BuzzFeed parking lot and puts the car in park after finding his spot.
"Thanks for driving me to work babe," Sara says, giving Shane a peck on the cheek.
"No problem," he responds and pulls the keys out of the ignition and watched his girlfriend exit the car.
He sighs and goes to a separate building across the lot and sees Ryan standing outside speaking with someone who was showing Ryan a bunch of equipment.
"That's a lot of stuff!" Shane says with fake surprise.
Ryan's head snaps up and gives a smirk.
"Just some newer cameras, and some ghost equipment." Ryan chimes.
"Ghost equipment?"
Ryan nods and hands Shane a camera, the lense facing him.
"Damn, these lenses!" Shane exclaims.
"I know! They're fucking awesome."
They exchange a small laugh.
"I got a new toy," Ryan mentions and pics of a odd looking camera, the lense looking like an over-sized scanner.
"What's that?" Shane asks.
Ryan turns it on and the screen glows and suddenly reads the world in color, of blue and orange and yellows. It was a thermal camera.
"Gonna catch some ghost by their temperature!" Ryan exclaims and looks Shane in the eye with joy.
Shane nods. "right. Because ghosts have body heat?"
Ryan rolls his eyes and turns off the thermal imaging camera, then puts it in a thick duffle bag. "you ready to head off to see the Queen Mary?"
"Are you, mister 'i had an experience'?" Shane retorts playfully.
Ryan again, rolls his eyes and gives Shane a nudge.
"Fuck off man, I really did!"
Shane smiles and just grabs the duffle bag for Ryan and makes his way to the van.
"SOUTHERN CALI HERE WE COME!" shane shouts with glee and ryan sighs and follows him.

***

The drive to the queen mary felt like forever, but eventually they got there, and they took their way to their hotel before they got to the boat. They wouldnt go for a couple more days. Ryan still had to work on his script for the buzzfeed unsolved video. they made their way to their room and plopped onto their beds. Shane empties his backpack and starts putting some clothes in a drawer next to him, and Ryan did the same, then after pulled out his laptop.
Shane lay on the bed and play on his phone, and occasionally looks over to Ryan and sees him to be stress, or unfocused. Ryan wasnt like this.
"Buddy whats wrong?" shane asked, sitting up.
Ryan sighed and looked at him. "just confused.." he admits after a minute or two.
"Wanna go out? like, for a drink. Maybe itll take some edge off and you can rant to me with drunken confidence." Shane says with a small smirk, trying to lighten the mood.