(A/N: Things are about hot and spicy 😏)

•Next Day, 12 p.m.; Kevin's Household•

~Maddie's POV~

I trudged my feet along the white carpet as I made my way grumpily out of my bedroom.

Day 2 out of 4 of this vacation and it's definitely not going to plan.

I'd been shut down by my mother for dad just coming here for a family dinner, Kevin and I haven't even a full conversation and all I'd felt this trip is regret.

As I made my way downstairs, I noticed how dead silent the house was.

There was no chatter in the kitchen between Kyleigh and mom nor yelling coming from Mitch and Connor playing video games in the living room. Not even the loud grunts of Marley as she missed her shot on the basketball hoop in the backyard.

"Hello?" I called out.

"Good morning Maddie" Kevin answered, appearing from the corridor that lead into the kitchen and standing at the bottom of the staircase.

"Good morning. Where's everyone?" I asked curiously as I stood on the last step; Kevin and I face to face.

"Your mother decided to bring along your siblings while she did some errands. She would have brought you but she didn't want to wake you up" Kevin explained.

"Okay" I replied blankly before brushing past him and down the corridor.

"Hey, I was just thinking, why don't we go out to the neighbour's tennis court and play a few games?" Kevin suggested following after me into the kitchen.

I turned around and leaned on the island.

"And they wouldn't mind?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

He shrugged. "Mrs. Jones wouldn't mind at all."

"Sure I guess. I don't really know how to play tennis though."

"I can teach you then" Kevin suggested, his eyes glistening with excitement.

Does he want to bond? Is that why my mom decided to "not wake me up"?

"That would be great" I agreed politely.

"Awesome. I'll go change into my tennis outfit" Kevin announced, turning his back on me before making his way out of the kitchen.

"Wait! What do I wear?" I yelled after him.

"Anything easy to move in!" he called back.

Great, now I have to go searching for my "tennis outfit."

•30 Minutes Later•

After changing into the most athletic clothing I had packed for this trip, (A/N: Outfit in media) Kevin and I made our way towards the neighbours; Mrs. Jones house.

"She's not home right now but she gave me the key to play tennis. She's such a kind lady" Kevin gushed as he pulled the shiny gold key out of the back pocket of his white shorts.

Inserting the key into the lock, Kevin twisted the key causing the door to crack open.

We stepped inside the house, me following behind Kevin towards the back door.

I didn't bother to look around the house. Probably isn't very different than Kevin's household.

Going through a large glass door which lead out to the backyard, we stepped  onto a large area of bright green grass; a tennis net in the middle of the field with rackets and fresh tennis balls on racks leaning on the wall of the house.

Kevin grabbed a racket for himself and me. "Let's get started."

•2 Hours Later•

I clasped onto the ground, the thin grass strips brushing against my thighs.

"I'm exhausted" I breathed, wiping beads of sweat off my forehead.

For the last two hours, Kevin has been teaching me the tips and tricks to playing tennis properly and man is it a workout.

We had played 5 games in total and I'd only won once. Marley would have been so much better at this since she was on the tennis team in high school.

"Come on! One more round!" Kevin encouraged.

I let out a laugh. "That's only one more round that you bet me at."

Kevin let out a chortle. "I see your point on that one," he agreed panting, "why don't we head back and eat some ice cream?"

I nodded, getting up from the grass to help put away the equipment.

After Kevin and I had put everything away, we locked up Mrs. Jones house and made our way back home.

"Thank you for playing with me today. It means a lot" Kevin thanked sincerely as we walked on the tan sidewalk.

"Your welcome. It was really fun playing with such a professional" I giggled.

"I wouldn't say I'm much of a professional. Maybe a professional in Wii tennis but not so much in real life" he joked causing me to break out in a smile.

"Maybe you can teach me your tips and tricks in Wii tennis as well" I suggested.

"I'd be glad to" Kevin smiled as we walked up the driveway.

Kevin unlocked the front door to a still quiet and empty house.

"Looks like your mom isn't back yet" Kevin stated evidently as I stepped inside.

"We continue to have the place to ourselves" I sighed.

She's sooo doing this on propose. But I kinda don't mind. Kevin's actually fun.

We walked down the corridor and into the kitchen where Kevin headed straight to the fridge and grabbed out a tub of rainbow sorbet.

"Sorbet is my favourite" I commented.

"Really? It's my favourite as well. I find it's better than ice cream" Kevin confessed, grabbing two bowls from a high cabinet.

Kevin scooped sorbet into the bowls before sliding me a bowl with a spoon.

I wrapped my hands around the bowl as I took my first bite, multiple cool fruity flavours dancing on my tongue.

"This is so good" I moaned.

"Glad you like it" Kevin commented with his mouth full.

The conversation died down as we eagerly ate our sorbet.

"So, what's your collage or university major?" Kevin asked, breaking the silence.

I shifted uncomfortably. Telling people I'm a YouTuber is always so awkward.

"Actually, I'm not in collage or university" I replied.

Kevin raised a eyebrow. "So what do you do for a living?"

"YouTube."

Kevin's confused expression grew. "You do YouTube? How can your job be YouTube?"

"That was exactly what my mom and dad said when I told them" I sighed looking down at my bowl.

To be honest, my parents weren't happy at first to hear that another one of their kids were doing YouTube as their job.

My parents had such high expectations for me. I was getting really good grades throughout my whole high school and elementary education. They wanted me to follow in my sisters footsteps and get scholarships to go to the highest university. But I loved doing YouTube and entertaining people.

It was tough for a while but as time grew on and I got more popular, they faced the fact that they had two kids with the love of recording videos and posting them online for the whole internet to see.

"I'm sorry" Kevin apologized quickly.

"There's nothing to be sorry about," I protested quickly, looking up into his eyes. "I'm a YouTuber."

"YouTubers post exciting videos and we make a living off of both the amount of subscribers on our channels and the views we get from videos" I continued, licking the sorbet off my spoon.

"And do you get a lot of views and subscribers?" Kevin asked, looking intrigued.

"Yeah, I have 3 million subscribers and get about 1 million views per video" I shrugged casually.

Kevin's eyes widened. "Wow, that's a lot. What do you even do on your channel?"

"I mostly do vlogs and tags but I also play video games like Minecraft and Five Nights At Freddy's. I like to consider myself a vlogmer. A vlogger and gaming YouTuber" I described.

Kevin looked at me both bewildered and impressed.

"That's amazing" he breathed before taking a spoonful of the sorbet.

I reached into my back pocket of my shorts and pulled out my phone, the iPhone glowing with a bunch of capitalized texts for Ally from two hours ago.

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Ally Stally - 1:34
MADDIE

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Ally Stally - 1:34
MADDIE GET ON TWITTER RIGHT NOW

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Ally Stally - 1:35
LOOK WHAT YOUR FANS ARE TWEETING @ U

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Ally Stally - 1:35
MADDIE 😩

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Maddie - 3:12
yo, what's going on?

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Ally Stally - 3:12
MADDIE. ITS LACHLAN

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Wait, what happened? Is he okay?

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Maddie - 3:13
ALLY, what happened to him? 😳

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Ally Stally - 3:13
theres a video of him you need 2 c

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Maddie - 3:14
a video of what?

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Ally Stally - 3:14
😞

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Ally Stally - 3:15
the video of him cheating on u 😕

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