Milkshake Hearts

Chapter 15: What I Think It Is?

"Hey, Sarah," Courtney pulls her aside early the next morning, when the office is mostly empty, everyone off preparing for their run of sketch shoots all day. There's a couple of school scenes, and their school set is one of the most extensive to set up, plus they need more extras than usual.

"Yeah?" Sarah prompts.

"Can I schedule a meeting for tomorrow morning sometime, you and Ian, Shayne and I?" she requests, and Sarah raises an eyebrow.

"Is this about what I think it is?" She queries.

"If you think it's Shayne and I going public, then yes. It's- we just decided last night, and we're not in a rush, but we want to set something in motion," Courtney explains, quietly, "but keep it quiet, we want to be clear on what we're going to do before we tell everyone."

"Of course, of course. I'll check my calendar and send you all an email with a time," she confirms, Courtney nodding before she rushes off to join her castmates in wardrobe.

Neither Courtney nor Shayne check their emails until they're back at Courtney's – their – place later in the evening, but when they do, they have a meeting request from Sarah for 10am the next morning – bright and early, given they're rarely in the office before then.

"I think I'm gonna get up early and do a stress-prevention gym sesh tomorrow morning if we're going to be out of here relatively early for that, you wanna come?" he asks, over their dinner – he cooked an omelette, and Courtney would never complain about breakfast for dinner – and she nods in confirmation.

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"Wait, what is this meeting? I'm right in thinking there was no information whatsoever about what it is and it's totally not on me I didn't prepare, yeah?" Ian asks, when he wanders into one of the more private meeting rooms a little further away from the main office at a few minutes to ten, Sarah, Shayne and Courtney already in there talking.

"You're good, Ian," Shayne laughs, "for once."

"Hey, are you ever prepared?" he shoots back.

"Usually he is, actually," Sarah answers, grinning, before they all settle into the chairs around the table.

"No, but really, why are we here?" Ian pushes, glancing around the table to see Sarah's assorted stack of documents and very little from the other two.

"You're not very observant, are you?" Courtney jokes, "it's a meeting with you, Sarah, and the two of us. What do you think it's about?"

"Ohhhhh," he answers, finally, although he doesn't continue.

"We've decided we want to go public, and I guess we kind of assumed we'd do that through Smosh in some way or another," Shayne explains, Ian nodding.

"I had a very brief chat to Courtney yesterday when she asked for this meeting, I understand we're not rushing into anything, but we want to get some idea about how we're going to do it, yeah?" Sarah prompts, the others nodding.

"Within reason, and I know you two will stay well within reason anyway, I'd be happy to sign off on whatever you two pick – it really needs to be up to you to decide how much you want to reveal and when. I do think we need to establish a kind of... well-known policy amongst both Smosh and Mythical of what about your relationship is going public and what isn't, though, so everyone here is on the same page and we don't have any accidental messes? I'm in no way wanting to dictate what you can and can't say, but I just want to give you two as much control over it all as possible," Ian explains.

"Yeah, Shayne and I have a vague idea of what we're happy to have exist on camera and all that, but before it actually happens we might work out something firmer in that regard, I guess?" Courtney asks, glancing over to him for confirmation, Shayne nodding before slightly shifting the topic.