How My World Changed Forever...Again

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Annie's POV
     I eventually wake up to Mom trying to drag me out of bed.  I go on my phone and text Brooke to see what they've been doing.  Hayley is beside me, still asleep, with her arms thrown above my head. I go to shower since we're filming videos today.  The shower is where my thoughts get deep and scary.  I start thinking about what my parents could've been talking about last night.  They seem absolutely fine with each other;  they slept together and kissed this morning.  So what could've possibly happened?  Are they getting a divorce and just covering it up for our sake. Why is divorce the only thing that comes to my mind?
     When I get out, Hayley is sitting in bed eating pancakes. Mom says, "Annie, there's a parfait and cinnamon roll in the fridge for you.  Hayley, you need to hurry up so I can straighten your hair."
Brooke never texted me back. That's weird.
     I log onto Instagram while I eat. I am busy looking through there comments people left on my pictures with the Ballingers.  I see all kinds of people saying thins like, "Some friends," and tagging Matt and Rebecca. I say, "Mom, look at this," showing her my phone.  She looks through the comments and I watch her face turn more and more confused.  She says, "I don't know Annie.  Billy, What the heck does this mean?"
     My dad comes over and takes my phone. He's confused too and says, "I don't know for sure, but I might have an idea.  Annie, it's just drama. Let it go."
     I try to do just that, but I can't stop thinking about it. Whatever.
Next thing I know I'm being whisked in front of a camera with a whole bunch of other daily vloggers, just having learned my lines and being expected to say them right the first time. Luckily, I'm used to this. I'm standing in front of a red backdrop with The Ballinger Family, RomanAtwoodVlogs, Daily Bumps, and Cute Girls Hairstyles. Hayley is beside me and my parents our just behind us. When it's my turn I say, "One of my favorite things about vlogging is that I literally have every day of my life to watch back if I wanted to. I can find old memories when I'm missing the past."
I know why they wanted me to say that sentence. Because of Caleb.
We film a few more short clips and at that point, Hayley and I are done. Mom and Dad have to film a quick thing with the rest of the parents so we go sit down in a corner of the room.

Colleen's POV
Peruse, I'm rushing to finish my hair five minutes before I have to be down stairs. Rachel is slipping her shoes on and then waits on me. When I'm finally done, we walk out the door. She says, "Colleen?"
"Yeah?"
"You seemed really stressed and worked up last night. Have you been okay?" Rachel asks me.
That's weird. She hasn't had to ask me that question in months. Now I feel self conscious and think that I look upset or something.
She's right. "No, and yes, I was really stressed and worked up. All those pictures and promo we were doing last night, and how we were supposed to post it all and everything. I did, you did nothing happened. The LeBlancs did, and Annie's Instagram blows up. I found her on Instagram this morning to like follow her and stuff, cause she's so freaking adorable. I was going through the pictures we had taken together, naturally. So many comments, and I am not kidding you, said, "Wow! Some friends you got there..." and then tagged..Rebecca Zamolo! Wtf! So of course, the natural thing to do is scroll way back on her feed, and yes, they are, were, I'm not really sure, friends with Matt and Rebecca. Then I scrolled even further back. I found a picture of them out at dinner for Billy's birthday. You know who else was with them in that picture!?" My eyes get that tingling feeling when you're about to cry, so I stop. Rachel knows what I'm going to say.
She takes my hand and says, "That's rough. I'm sorry. You haven't cried about this in months, so this must be really hard."
"I'm more worried about Annie, or more like Katie or Billy, figuring it out. I feel bad if I ruined their friendship. Like, it isn't my place to judge who the LeBlancs want to be friends with. Never mind, I can't talk about this anymore. We need to hurry."
Respecting my wishes, Rachel let's it go. By the time we get to the convention center, Chris and Jess are gone. We're in a different category of creator for this.
The shoot takes only about an hour so we're in and out very quickly.
     Rachel and I go back upstairs to our room and just a few minutes after we're done, Katie calls me. I answer my phone, put it on speaker so Rachel can hear, and say, "Hey!"
     She says, "Hi Colleen!  Hey I really hate to do this on such short notice, but Billy and I, uh, we have to go somewhere tomorrow morning and we were wondering if a collab could work for tomorrow morning with you and Rachel?"
     I look at Rachel and she nods.  I say, "Yeah, that's fine with our schedules.  We were supposed to check out of our room around 9:30 though..."
     "Oh, that's fine.  We're actually staying in this hotel another night so you guys can just come over here.  Is 10 AM okay?"
     "Yeah, that's perfect."
     "Thanks Colleen!  Bye."
     "Bye, bye!"
     Katie hangs up the phone and I look at Rachel and say, "What did I just do!?"
     "Well, you agreed to babysit/do a collab for millions of people to see with girls that are potentially friends with your ex and some other b*tches."
     I fake slap Rachel's arm and say, "Rachel! We aren't judging who people want to be friends with no matter how horrible they are!"
We both laugh. "But seriously," she says, "What in the world are we gonna film?"
"Rachel, I don't freaking know! How many videos do you think we're filming?"
"That's what I was wondering."
"I'm going to text Katie."
I send Katie a text that says, "How many videos do you want to film tomorrow? And what kind of things were you thinking as far as content goes?"
She responds pretty quickly and says, "Annie mentioned wanting to do blindfolded makeup on her sister and she thought that would be good to do as like a competition. Hayley couldn't care less if you film for her channel. I don't need anything for Bratayley. And then whatever you guys want is fine. Annie can sing, she play ukulele, they both like arts and crafts. I should tell you, Hayley gets tired and bored with filming after a few videos. Annie could film all day."
Rachel reads what she says and I say, "Can I do your makeup while blindfolded for Annie channel?"
"Sure. Story of my life. Colleen! You should sing with Annie! I think she like, wrote songs. You should, like, do what you did with Grace Vanderwaal." Rachel says, and then smiles mischievously.
"What Rach...?"
"I know what we can do on my channel if we have extra time, Annoying Things Older Sisters Do. That way Hayley can feel special in a a video too."
"Oh, fine! As long as Annie's okay with it. "
I text Katie back, saying, "Rachel is cool with me doing her makeup blindfolded so that'll be fine for Annie's channel. It's up to Hayley what and if she wants to film; we're good with anything. If Annie wants to and Hayley is done for the day, we can sing on my channel, or if she really wants to, I can have Miranda react to her songs on the Miranda channel which, I should warn you, would probably come off as very offensive. Rachel said that if we have time, she would film a video called "Annoying Things Older Sisters Do". That way Hayley can kinda be the star of that one with her. Unless you don't want your children bringing up things they hate about each other. Rachel has done several of "Annoying Family Member" videos before and it's all in good fun. So yeah, just let me know. Thanks Katie."
     After a few minutes, Katie texts me back. She says, "Okay, Annie said she is definitely doing blindfolded makeup.  She also said she would sing with you or even let "Miranda" react to her songs.  Hayley was beyond excited about "Annoying Things Older Sisters Do."  Annie is good with it too.  Hayley isn't really giving me a definite answer about a video.  I can't get anything out of her so she might want to film something, she might not.  I wouldn't count on her wanting to film so you really don't have to worry about that.  Thanks so much, again. So you and Rachel will be over at 10 right?"
     I text back, "That sounds great.  We'll see you then!"
     After we get everything sorted out with Katie, Rachel says, "I'm hungry. You wanna go get something to eat?"
     "Chris asked me earlier if we wanted to go out with them.  You wanna?"
     "Sure."
     We end up going to a dinner.  We have a pretty good time with the kids, and Chris and Jess of course.
After dinner, Rachel and I go straight back to the hotel. We pack up all of our crap so we can sleep as late as possible. I literally swiped everything from our shower and sink counter except our toothbrushes and toothpaste into a gallon ziplock and I am not kidding at all; shampoo, conditioner, soap, razors, shaving cream, everything. Rachel shoves all of our clothes into our bags except clothes for the morning. She leaves out maroon shorts and a black tank top for her and black shorts with a coral tank top for me. We lay down in a bed together because the other bed is covered with all of our stuff and I don't wanna move it.
I'm on my phone before falling asleep and find myself looking through the comments on Annie's Instagram picture again. They're hating her for things that she isn't even aware went down. She has no control over what happened and quite frankly doesn't even know what happened. It doesn't involve her! I feel tears of frustration, regret, and guilt build up behind my eyes. I look over and my sisters already asleep. I'm all alone with these thoughts in my head. How can people be so rude to a little girl?