The Switch / Shourtney

Chapter Twenty-Six: Carnival Hearts

May 10th, 2018

"We're at a Carnival!" We yelled at the camera.

We were at an LA carnival filming a squad vlog for the smoshpit. I loved doing field trip videos. It was the first one we had done in a while, and it was a great way to get out of the office and just have a good time with my friends. Damien had come with us and Olivia invited Sam along too. It was a chance to just be silly and do crazy stuff together, and it made a good video for the fans when they could see us really having fun.

We started off the day walking through the park, checking out all the rides and commenting on them before deciding to hit the funhouse first stumbling through the shifting floor panels. Gripping the rail with one hand and the vlog camera in my other, I pointed it at Courtney who was in the midst of tripping behind me.

"You're drunk, you're so drunk," I slurred, doing my best trashed white girl impression.

"No you're drunk," She slurred right back, lunging for the camera which I pulled away from her quickly with a burst of laughter. Courtney hastily regained her balance, and hit my arm, making me laugh more.

"Common, keep it moving dude," she grinned pushing me forward through the funhouse.

The attraction was of course filled with trippy mirrors and Damien, Noah, Courtney, and I all cracked each other up, making funny expressions in the warped glass. "AH, sweet air!" Damien exclaimed when we had all finally made it back outside through the rotating exit.

We collectively decided that we couldn't push off eating the carnival food any longer and headed back towards the rest of the crew who were all at the food area. The walk wasn't too long but that didn't stop u from complaining about it. We finally got the food area and I looked around for something to do as we waited for the rest of our friends to join us.

"You should go hoedown right there," Courtney said nudging me and pointing at the large square dancing space about 50 feet ahead of us.

"If you do it, I'll give you 20 bucks" I grinned.

"If I hoedown right now?"

"If you do the hoedown right now."

She smirked at me and backed away pointing towards me as she did with a, you-just-watch expression on her face. She did a hoedown-like dance in the middle of the empty square, and bounced back over to us with a satisfied smirk on her face.

"Nailed it," She sang, "Now hand it over pretty boy." She said to me, hand stretched out expectantly for the money.

"Will you take an IOU?" I joked, motioning to my empty pockets. Because we were filming, I had left my wallet in the car.

"Fine, but I'm holding you to it," She said.

We finally met up with the rest of the crew, Keith, Olivia, and Sam, and proceeded to eat entirely too much food. Olivia immediately zeroed in on the churro stand and got a couple to feed her unhealthy addiction. I stole one from her as she was about to eat and took a bite. Her face was priceless and I gave it back to her quickly, churros weren't really my thing but I had to do it for the joke. She got me back soon after by stealing my funnel cake.

"Eat it all, you better commit" I called after her as she shielded my stolen funnel cake with her body.

"Oh, I will commit" She replied determinedly, but after a couple minutes she ended up bringing it back to the table. She, Courtney and I shared it, and it was a good thing too, because having only eaten 1/3rd of the desert, I was feeling very stuffed and couldn't bring myself to eat anything else. Courtney, Damien, and I decided to leave the food area to go on some rides.