in which the butlers make a decision that changes everything.

After Emmi disappears, we thought life would be unbearable. After Emmi was found, we thought life would be perfect. That's never the case.

Divorce. Failure. Hate. The Butler family lives by those three words. With Shay and Colette's marriage hanging by a thread, their YouTube career falling apart, and with five young kids, everything crumbles to pieces. The kids are thrown in the middle of constant arguments with their parents, they grow farther apart by the day, and they are all at their wits end. Especially Avia.

I miss him, my brother, we would play Legos and he would help me when my car went under the sofa and the way he would give me lots of his superheroes to play with, but when it was all gone, it was a mess, life wasn't right anymore.

Previously called "TextTard" The year is 2023. Avia Butler is now 19. And boy has life been crazy. Shay still vlogs, Colette had two more kids, and Avia finally got a phone. When she begins to receive a series of strange texts from an unknown number, her world is flipped upside down. Who is the mysterious number, and will Avia's life ever return to normal? This story is written as interactions through Avia's phone

Finally, the Butler family will learn the horrors endured by ten year old Emmi when she was kidnapped for three months. Everyday, Emmi woke up in the clutches of terror, never being able to change her fate. Until December 1, 2017. The day Emmi reunited with her family after weeks of horror. Finally, we here the other side of the story. Written in Emmi's point of view, we finally understand the full version of what happened on August 19, 2017, the day the Butlers had to say Goodbye, Emmi.

Fast forward two years in the life of the Youtube famous Shaytards. They still vlog, and they are sill growing closer. Emmi just turned 10. Things couldn't be better for the Butlers, but then their world came crashing down. Emmi Butler vanished. Kidnapped? Runaway? They don't know. Shay and Colette search desperately for answers while still trying to continue their passion for vlogging. Will the once happy family ever return to normal? Author's Note: EXPECT SPELLING OR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS, I USUALLY DO NOT REVISE IT!! No mature/explicit content

I wish I could say it was perfect. I wish I could erase our fate. But nothing can be perfect. Something has to be demolished. Everyone has secrets. But at some point, those secrets become the world's discovery. Nothing can stay hidden forever. No secret can be demolished. Especially mine. Brock Butler is 12 years old when he discovers the devastating secret about his family. Brock Vincent Butler is not a real person. He was stripped of a childhood when his identity, his entire life, was stolen. Twisted into someone else. Someone named Brock Butler. Brock is a lie. His entire life is a cover up for a secret that no one could have ever expected. Who is Brock Butler? The identity behind the mask of Brock was lost. The real boy behind the lie was demolished 12 years ago when his life, became the life of Brock. No matter how hard you try to cover up a secret, it unravels. And when it does, someone gets demolished.