"We would stay and chat for a bit but Marcus here has something of upmost importance to do, so catch y'all later bye" I quickly dismiss them and grab Clay by the hand, dragging him to the front door

"Marcus?" he says almost laughing

"Believe me, you don't wanna know" I say.

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"Just as a heads up, my mom and sister are inside" Clay says opening the front door

"I thought you lived alone" I thought he did, well at least that's what I got from the last time I was here

"I do, they are just dropping off some food" he clarifies

"I miss my parents" I blurt "Well, mostly my mom, my dad is a pain" I say and Clay just nods

"I stayed here in Florida so thankfully I constantly see her" Clay says

Wow thank you, so comforting Clay.

Once we step inside I hear someone call out for Clay, he grabs my hand and guides me through his house. Even though I've already been here, I barely remember it, and if I was left alone to wonder, I'd definitely get lost.

"Mom, I'm here" Clay says walking through the kitchen door

"Hi sweetie, thought you went out to buy stuff but you don't seem so have any-" she stops once she sees me "Who do we have here, aren't you going to introduce her?" she says

To say I'm terrified is an understatement, I am literally shitting my pants. Older people really do scare me, like they look at you and just based on what they see, they decide whether they like you or not.

My mom always does this. She gets vibes from people and straight away tells me if they are good or not. Most of the time she is right and what she deduces ends up happening, but still, that's scary.

"I was about to actually" Clay begins "Mom, this is Charlotte, my uhm, friend" he then looks at me "Char, this is my mom Sarah"

"Hi Miss, it's a pleasure" I say putting my hand out

"Oh nonsense, call me Sarah" she says putting my hand down and embracing me.

"Where's Anna?" Clay asks

"Oh she couldn't come, she had some school stuff, but you could always stop by" Sarah says, letting go of me

"Anna is my little sister" Clay says looking at me

Sarah takes a look at our intertwined hands and smiles

"I will leave now and let you guys alone so that you can do your..." she stops "things" she says with a suggestive tone

"Jesus mom it's not like that" Clay says frustrated and I giggle

"I don't know that" she says putting her hands up

"Well, stop she's with Adam" Clay says kind of angry, or sad? I give him a confused look but he doesn't seem to notice me

"Adam?" she says looking at me with an unimpressed look on her face.

I stand still, not knowing what to say or do, so I just nod.

"She came here because we are filming something with George and Nick" Clay clarifies

"Oh she knows?" Sarah asks impressed

"Yes, George and Sap like her" he says, and I feel an odd sense of pride, his friends like me.

"Right" Sarah says looking between us once again "I have a key so I'll just let myself out, hope to see you again Charlotte" she says walking away

"Bye Sarah" I shout, followed by a 'bye mom' from Clay.

"I am so sorry for that, she always does this, she oversteps but" Clay begins to ramble

"Clay" I say

"No, I really love her but I hate when she is" he continues but I stop him by grabbing his shoulders, his attention is now directed towards me

"Clay, it's fine, she is lovely and my mom is exactly like that, or even worse" I say.

She really is, if she saw Clay going into my house to just hang out, she would've made way more intrusive questions.

"You'll find out when you meet her" I say

"When I meet her?" Clay smirks

"Oh" I say getting clearly flustered

He stands in front of me, not saying anything. He is clearly doing this on purpose

"George and Sapnap are probably waiting, let's go" he says not acknowledging what just happened.

We make our way through his giant house until we reach his studio, where we were last time we hung out.

Just like last time, he pulls out another chair and puts it beside his so I can sit beside him and see what he does.

As he turns on his computer he turns to look at me "It's not just Sapnap and George, our friend Karl is also going to be with us"

I hope he's nice.

"What are you guys gonna record?" I ask

"So basically George has to beat Minecraft but if we make him laugh three times he loses" Clay explains

Once the computer is already on, Clay opens discord and starts a call with his friends.

I remembered how last time I couldn't always hear what they were talking about since the headset could only be worn by one person.

This time, however, Clay has the regular apple earphones, so each of us gets one and we can both hear.

Once inside the call there's a lot of people talking at the same time. There's Sapnap and George, whose voices I easily recognize, then there's a foreign voice, that must be Karl.

"You are so gross Sapnap" George shouts

"Why" Sapnap says, also shouting

"Well maybe because you farted into the mic"

Karl says giggling

"Uhhh guys?" Clay says interrupting them

"Hey Dream" Karl happily says

"What took you so long" George questions

"Yeah Dream, what took you so long? Were you finally confessing your undying love for Charlotte?" Sapnap jokes

I turn to look at Clay to see his cheeks turn slightly red, but he doesn't look back at me

"Hey Karl" Clay says, ignoring what Nick had just said

"What's up" Karl answers

"Have you met Charlotte before?" he asks

"Nope" he answers

Clay looks at me and signals me to answer. I hadn't realized I stayed silent this entire time

"Uhhhh hi" I say

After that George bursts out laughing

"Oh fuck" Sapnap says

"I don't understand what's happening, but hello Charlotte good evening, I'm Karl" Karl says

"Hi Karl" I answer

"Oh let me fill you in" Sapnap says

"Nick" Clay warns him

"Oh no Sapnap, Clay pulled the first name card, don't say anything stupid" George taunts him

"Then why don't you tell him who Charlotte is" Sapnap answers

"Or I could do it myself?" I say

"Yeah that'd be better" Clay says

"No, let me, it will be fun I promise" Nick says

"Ok, if you want to" I say and Clay looks at me as if questioning if that's what I really want

"Yeah it's fine Clay, don't worry" I tell him

"Awwwwe when she calls him Clay" George says

"Why? Are you jealous?" I answer

"Dreamnotfound moment" Karl butts in, and they all laugh. I might be missing the joke here

"Going back" Nick says "Dream rescued our friend Charlotte here at a party, and we talked with like the entire night"

"But Dream then decided to ghost her and we couldn't contact her for like a month. However, it looks like Clay grew some balls and apologized" George says finishing the story for Sapnap

"Dick move Dream" Karl says

"That's what I said" I tell Karl and they all laugh

"Hey" Clay says defending himself

"Speaking of that, Charlotte you should open a discord account" Sapnap says

"Yeah so that if Dream fucks up again we can still contact you" Karl says

"Don't worry, I wont" Clay says "She's with Adam" he adds

What's with him always mentioning I'm with fucking Adam, it's not like I'm married to the guy

"Could you stop saying that, I'm my own person" I whisper

"Right sorry" Clay says

"Ew, why Adam" George says

"Why does everyone say the same thing when he gets mentioned" I ask "Did I miss something or"

"No, we just don't like him" Sapnap says

"Why" I say

"We just don't" Sapnap replies

"You must have a reason" I push

"Yeah, that he's Adam, that's our reason" George says

I look at Clay and he raises his shoulders, giving me an 'i don't know' look. He is clearly playing dumb. There's got to be something they aren't telling me.

"Guys, we should probably start recording now, I really want to stream later" Karl says

"I agree with Karl" Clay says

"Start the recording server then" George says

"I'm already on it" Dream replies

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