Love, Colby

Chapter 2

      Since I moved here, grocery shopping is nice- I can buy whatever I want, and no one can tell me otherwise.

      I'm almost back at the door to the apartment building when a guy backs into me.

      "Oh no, I'm sorry," he says immediately.

      "No, you're good-" I look up at his face- "wait... You look kind of familiar." He is blonde and hanging out with two more guys, one with bleached hair, and the other with dark brown and blue hair, and a short brunette girl.

      "Uh, I'm Sam Golbach, I make YouTube videos with Colby over here." He points his thumb at the blue-haired guy.

      "Yeah, and we used to do Vine too." Colby adds.

      That's what it is. "Oh yeah! I remember a few of your guys' Vines."

      "Cool! It's always fun to meet people who know us. This is Jake and Tara," Sam gestures at the other two people. He turns back to me. "What's your name?"

      "I'm Lily. I have a YouTube channel too, it's called Lily Raine."

      "We'll check it out! Ours is called Sam and Colby," Sam says.

      "Jake Webber," Jake chimes in.

      "Tarayummy," Tara adds.

      "I'll be sure to subscribe to all of them once I get home," I promise.

      Sam smiles, then asks, "do you live in this building? Colby, Jake, and I do."

      "Yeah, I do! Maybe I'll see you around," I say eagerly. These guys seem really fun. But now I have to go put these heavy bags down before my arms fall off.

      "Bye!" Tara says as I walk in the door.

      The door closes behind me, and they return to whatever they were doing out there.

• • •

       I step in the elevator and a tall pink-haired girl follows me in. I'm not that short, I'm 5'6", but next to her I sure feel short.

"I love your hair," I tell her. I've always wanted to dye my hair a fun color.

"Aw, thanks!" She replies. "Got anything good in those?" She asks, eyeing my grocery bags.

      "You know it." I laugh. "I'm Lily Laurent, nice to meet you."

      "My name's Jordyn Dawson. Oh, you live on the fifth floor too?" She notices the button that I pushed in the elevator.

"Yeah, I moved in a couple days ago. What number are you?"

"516. You?"

"515."

"Oh, we're right next to eachother! Awesome!" She looks genuinely excited. "Anyways, I'm having a party tonight with some of the people our age that live here if you wanna come?" The elevator door opens and we both step out.

"Sure, why not," I say as we arrive at our apartments, "I'll be there!"

"See you there. It starts at 9." She smiles and opens her door. I open mine, and then I go set my groceries on the beautiful white counter in my kitchen.

      I take my phone out of my back pocket and open YouTube. Thankfully, I remembered all three of the channel names from before. I subscribe to all of them and watch a few of their videos. They're really good! I have to stop myself from watching too many of Sam and Colby's exploring videos, so I have time to go and edit my vlog before I go to the party.