"Laney." Ryland shook me awake from my nap. I was actually pretty comfortable in the chair, even though I was in the middle of the courtyard.
"Yeah?" I stretched my arms out and tried to lay back down.
"Do you wanna come help me making a cooking video?" I nodded and stood up, I grabbed my shirt and the blanket.
I followed Ryland inside, his camera was set up and he had his vlog camera in his hand. He started the cameras as I threw the blanket back on the couch.
"Hey guys so today me and Laney are going to be making dinner." He tried to put the camera towards me, but I jumped out of frame quickly.
"Hold on let me put a shirt on." I would walk around the house in a sports bra all day but I draw the line at being in a YouTube video with just a sports bra.
"She took a nap outside." Dad explained for me.
"Yeah, Lane what were you doing." He put the camera on me once I had a shirt on.
"Well, I told dad I was going to take a nap and he was all like 'take a nap outside get vitamins' and he was joking but then I actually wanted to do it. So I just kinda by the pool on a chair and took a nap. But I took my shirt off because it was hot out and I had a sports bra on underneath." I explained for myself, "What are we making?"
"So," Ryland focused his attention back to the video. "We are making ravioli. So pretty much we have these noodles and then we're gonna put like cheese and stuff on them."
I gave him a confused look, but I went and got a pot to boil water in. I filled the pot with boiling water then put it on the stove. "So do these go in there?" I asked, holding up the noodles.
"Yeah, I think so." Ryland was trying to figure out what cheese we should use.
"I say just mix all the cheeses." Dad suggested and Ryland considered it.
"Okay, yeah we'll do that." Ryland mixed a combination of all the cheese we had an put it in a bowl. "So now we need to layer the pan thing with the sauce and the first layer of cheese."
"Wait don't we need to put some stuff in the noodles?" I asked and Dad laughed.
"Why are you laughing at her." Ryland joked, "She's right. So we're gonna put the first layer of noodles and then cover those in the sauce and cheese, then put the next layer of noodles. Then you're gonna take a fork and like close the edges."
"Laney, you're such a good cook." Dad told me.
"I try." I answered sarcastically. "No help of you."
"I'm helping!" He laughed.
"Yeah, Shane what are you even doing?" Ryland asked.
"I don't cook I don't know what's happening?" Dad answered as he scrolled on his phone.
"What did you you two eat before I moved it?" Ryland asked in a joking yet serious tone.
Dad and I shrugged at the same time.
"Microwave food." I said the same time dad said,
"Taco Bell." I agreed with his answer. "No we made like easy stuff. Like we made like oven pizzas where we just had fun making it then let it sit"
"That's fair enough I guess." Ryland slid the finished pan of pasta in the oven to let the cheese melt. "Shane do you want wine?" Ryland pulled out two wine glasses from the cabinet and then grabbed a bottle of red wine from the counter.
"I don't." Dad shook his head.
"Can I have some?" I asked and Ryland gave me a look, then looked at Shane.
"Dad? What do you think?" Ryland asked him.
"What?" Dad said. "Oh, yeah she can have a little. I'm a good parent I swear." He said to the camera.
"You might not like it." Ryland warned. "And before all the youtube parents come at Shane, she's literally having this much and she's home. She's not going anywhere." He held up the glass to show the drink that barely covered the bottom of the cup.
I took a small sip of it, it was really bitter. "I don't like it."
Dad laughed at me and I stuck my tongue out at him.
"Here." Ryland took the glass from me and finished it, sticking it in the sink when he was done. "Ok, I'm gonna get this out, Shane can you put plates on the table?"
Dad set the table as Ryland put down dinner in the middle. I grabbed something else to drink, a Coke from the fridge. Then I went to sit.
"Ok, taste test." Ryland said, taking the first bite. "It's pretty good." Dad and I agreed with him after we had taken bites.
After dinner, we settled on the couch, Ryland and I with bowls of icecrean in our hands as we decided what to watch.
"Votes for Jeffrees new video?" Dad asked and everyone raised their hands. "Cool." He pressed play on the video, and we sat together and watched it.
I left for a second to put my icecream bowl in the sink, and when I came back Ryland was half asleep. I took my place back on the couch. Shane was in the middle and me and Ryland on either side of him.
I watched the video cuddled into my dads side, as I usually was when we were watching something, and I eventually fell asleep again.
