''Smile!" I yell. I press the shutter button and think of all the little parts of the photo being securely stored and saved on July's phone. I didn't know if that's how memory works but oh well. I opened the picture and saw the happiness shine out. I never had that in any pictures of me before.

I watched July as she hit send. Not long after, a notification pops up on my phone. I have been mentioned in a post. Of course I have! I was there when she sent it! I am still glad that I took the picture. I wouldn't have wanted to be in it. Especially after what happened next.

"OMG! You posted this a few seconds ago and it already has like five thousand likes! " Sam squealed. "6 likes" I corrected her"and two of them were us." I took my own phone out then I put it away. The battery had drained quicker than I'd thought it would. Then, unable to resist the addiction of technology, I brought out my phone again and liked the image!

"Summer time" I read " but then it looks like your name is summer?"
July laughed and said "And your name is gingerbread? Or is it proud?!" I had started to regret the choice in usernames but I hadn't had much of a say.  I looked at July's profile pic.
"I didn't realise you had a cat! "
"Oh yeah" called Sam as she popped her head up by mine, "I can't believe we forgot about Maggie!"
She turned to me and whispered "We named her after the baby in the Simpsons! No one quite knows why we decided on that though!" I thought for a moment.
"You say that like you both look after her. "
Sam smiled and replied "We practically did. She was pretty much shared until people started calling us  gay."

I stared. No one ever said things like that so casually. A few boys found it a laughing matter to call people that with no evidence. I opened my mouth to speak but said nothing, afraid what would come out. Luckily the silence was broken but it was not a lucky question.
"Hey Gill, who's ' Cocoa eyes Khalia'?" July looked at me.
"Khalia Aaarya? " I muttered.
"What? "
"Oh nothing. I-I have no idea who your talking about"
"Okay. . ."
It was clear July didn't believe me as she opened her profile and showed me the profile pic. "She seems to think she knows you. "
I gasped. She knew me. But that was then. "No, she definitely doesn't know me" It's not technically a lie. I must have simply forgotten to say 'anymore' at the end...

I knew it would be weird when Khalia was gone so I was desperate to spend time with her. I felt bad for taking her away from her friends but she assured me they shouldn't be her friend of they weren't going to be mine. I was surprised she would fully focus on me and felt bad the whole time.
When she is gone, she will leave us all behind but no one else seems to be going on holiday for four years. At least, I hope she said four.

I have not seen Khalia since we were in year 3. I was only 7 since my birthday is right near the end of August. I want to say that I hope she has no new friends but I can't wish that on her. She must have some.
I hope that she still remembers me after 10 years. I select her profile after saying goodbye to July and Sam I eagerly take in every aspect of the profile.

She looks different but the same to how I remember her. I am about to scroll down when I realise my finger  hit the follow button accidentally.  She will probably already have got the notification so I can't see what I can't see what I could do that would would be of any use from now on. 

Most of the pictures are of places or sports equipment. She was always active. I remember her fidgeting in class and exploding out the door at the first moment she could. But the most recent four are strange.

There is a bed which is newly made, a picture that almost looks like she is leaning on a car door, a random milkshake with some kind of effect on it and her with another girl. I have no clue who took the photo but I select it and they seem to be posing in front of something. It has a caption that says: Shopping w/ @RockyWriter after leaving the Rockies and it's followed by happy faces and mountains and shopping bags. The caption for the milkshake says that she is treating herself after the last day somewhere. The caption for the bed says she'll be staying there for a week. The only caption for the picture of her is a crying face, a car and a map of the world.

I quickly flick through the earlier posts and see that many of them are about places she has already been to that are obviously nearby. A significant number include the tag @RockyWriter.  I wonder who Rocky Writer is. Maybe she is not really called Rocky like July is not really called Summer. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to change your name; I sometimes wonder what else you need to do to change your life.

*You have two new notifications. Cocoa.Eyes.Khalia is now following you
Cocoa.Eyes.Khalia mentioned you in a post
"Childhood memories @GingerbreadAndProud

A/N
This will just be quick since I don't really know what to say but I hope you like this chapter: it was originally written as a sneak peak for my friends and I had so much fun with the editing (though it's pretty terrible still); would you like more multimedia chapters?