7. Catfish

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Morgan picked up the camera to start filming their next segment. "Oooh so this is what it feels like to be Andrew in a Shane video... Maybe the next step for me is for my brother and his boyfriend to set me up on a date???"

Ryland and Shane looked at each other before ignoring her. "Anyways..."

"Hey!!!" Morgan exclaimed.

"Ok, so after you trick her I-mean get her to agree to go on a date with you... in front of us.. what do we do next, kids???" Shane asked, turning to look at Andrew, Garrett, and Ryland.

"Uhhh further get to know her via text?" Andrew answered.

"No."

Garrett took his turn, "Buy your date a mini kitchen set and cook them a mini dinner so they fall in love with you!"

"No!"

"Stalk them on Google!" Ryland responded and Shane high-fived him.

"Yes! That's what we're gonna do!" Shane plopped himself on the couch in between Andrew and Ryland. "Andrew, get your laptop!"

"It's right there..." Andrew said, pointing at his MacBook on the coffee table. He had been editing this morning so he had laid it there when they started filming. "You know, Shane, I don't think I feel comf-"

"Oh! Perfect!" Shane replied and grabbed and put it on his lap. He opened the laptop and it opened to Andrew's desktop. "No password, huh? Risky..."

"I could never..." Garrett said in response to that.

"Yeah well Andrew isn't a nasty animal like you," Shane retorted as he opened up Chrome and began typing Alexis's full name. As opposed as Andrew was to 'invading' Lexie's privacy, he was genuinely curious to know more about her. Is she real? Is he being catfished?

"Oooh Facebook," Ryland said, leaning over and clicking on the link.

Shane snorted when an old lady's profile came up. "I do not think that is the Alexis we are looking for. Unless you're into cougars, Andrew." Shane hit the back button and looked through the links and images with no luck. "This girl is no where to be found... Andrew I think you're being catfished."

Andrew's heart sunk. There was no way... Just as he was about to lose hope, Garrett said, "Wait do the thing they do in Catfish! Like the reverse image search thing!"

"We love a smart man," Ryland replied. They pulled up one of her Tinder pictures and reverse-searched it.

"We're like a budget version of Nev and Max," Garrett joked. 

"Jackpot," Shane said as he clicked on the Instagram that popped up.

Andrew watched the screen intensely as it loaded up. Morgan zoomed in on his face. "Andrew remember to breathe," she joked. He looked up at her and let out a small laugh.

"If I'm being catfished I'm gonna be depressed," he admitted.

"Oh sweetie," Shane said, putting a hand to his chest. "We won't let anyone hurt our Andrew baby."

"Yeah but you kinda let Megan hurt him," Morgan replied.

"Morgan no! We have to cut that out," Ryland scolded.

Andrew just shook his head, but immediately forgot about the comment when the page loaded up and there before them was the Instagram profile of the beautiful girl he had matched with on Tinder.

"She goes by Lexie... Maybe that's why we couldn't find her?" Shane asked, looking over at Andrew.

"Oh yeah I should have mentioned that. She did ask me to call her Lexie instead of Alexis," Andrew replied, feeling stupid for not mentioning that earlier.

"Oooohh," Ryland teased. As they scrolled through her feed, they were all pretty shook at how good she looked. "Sexy Lexieeee."

"Oh my god," Shane rolled his eyes as he clicked on a picture of the girl in Santa Monica in a tiny two piece bikini. They all knew how Shane felt about people who showed off their bodies. "Welp, I'll just drag this here for later, right Andrew?" He saved the picture to Andrew's desktop and Andrew's face turned a bright red.

 "Welp, I'll just drag this here for later, right Andrew?" He saved the picture to Andrew's desktop and Andrew's face turned a bright red

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"Shane! No!" Ryland scolded.

Garrett squealed, completely excited that this pretty girl had shown an interest in Andrew. Shane and he had a good feeling about this girl. Andrew still seemed pretty reserved about the whole situation, but Garrett hoped that the red head would give this whole thing a fair shot.

"I'm kidding," Shane tried to emphasize. "I'll delete it right now."

Shane began to right click the image and hit delete, when Andrew stopped him. "Eh, I mean you can just leave it there."

Everyone's jaws dropped then they started howling with laughter. Andrew soon joined after, letting himself go. He hoped that things would turn out alright. But if not, at least he'd have made some good memories with his best friends.

"Okay, I hate to be devil's advocate..." Morgan started. "But since she is kind of an IG model, do you think she had agreed to this for the exposure and clout?"

Everyone paused to think about it. Andrew was the one who decided to answer, "I mean there's no way to tell for sure if she is in it for something real between us or if she is just looking for a way to gain more followers. She seems pretty cool about everything so far, but I guess only time will tell."

"Yeah I agree," Ryland responded. "I'm sure everyone would be in it for a couple followers, but we have to trust our gut about this girl and hope for the best. We need to find out of this is the girl you're really talking to though, Andrew." 

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