"What's up?!" Ian said as he entered the Smosh games office.
"Hey" he heard some of his friends respond, all except for David. This wasn't new to Ian, in fact, David hasn't said much since he got divorced a few months ago, it didn't seem like he was taking it well at all, he would barely talk in videos and when he did his comments were always negative, no amount of cheering up made a difference, the crew learned to accept this and give him space, hoping it will pass.
"So, what Game will we do a Game Bang in today?" Ian asked, hoping it was with the Kinect so David will get some exercise instead of being a lazy ass. But his hopes were let down when Anthony replied "Apparently, Mari wants us to play a Minecraft competition minigame thingy." Anthony is not a big fan of Minecraft so it was easy to hear the disapproval in his voice.
"Hey!" Mari replied "It will be really fun! You'll see!"
"I doubt it…" Ian could hear Anthony mumble, luckily to him Mari didn't hear that.
"Now that Ian's here can we finally start, its been ages since I got here!" Joven said with a hint of annoyance, he always preferred things to start on time.
"Calm down, were starting soon" Matt said back at him.
Ian hated this, ever since David has been depressed the crew doesn't get along together as well, its as if David was the core of their chemistry and now that he feels ruined the whole crew is ruined, they fight and yell and just don't get along as well as they used to, it definitely didn't help David's mood, Ian could tell it made him feel worse and just added to is emotional weight. How come he is the only one that cares, the only one that is trying to lift the mood, the only one that tries to talk to David and solve his issues, now, he just feels lonely since everybody is stuck in their own world, and only talk during filming. Apparently he was thinking so much about this he didn't notice he lost and had to do the punishment with David, who obviously wasn't trying.
Later that week he and Anthony were filming mail time, they had received tons of letters, drawings, old food, action figures, and some sort of indie video game called 'Dead Asleep' , which they tossed in the pile of gifts they had received.
"Bye, BITCH!" Ian yelled at the camera like always, will it ever get old he asked himself, he figured not, it's sort of his thing.
"Well, now that this is done we must start cleaning" Anthony said as he turned off the camera. The letters left a mess of paper, boxes and a bunch of other crap on the floor, its actually pretty tiring to do so, and pretty depressing to think they have like, 10 more crates of mail in the garage they never opened.
They started chatting about life and Nintendo, Smosh, and stuff in general.
"I think David is having a hard time" Ian mentioned.
"Yeah, its pretty obvious he's depressed, I mean, he was married and so happy and suddenly its all gone, I'd have the same reaction if I were him" Anthony agreed.
"But the thing is we're not helping, I mean, when was the last time we all got together as a group and did something, its just like we are drifting apart and it definitely is making it harder for him." Ian exclaimed.
Anthony agreed "How bout we all come over to mine and Kalel's place and hang out, just like the old times, loosen up a bit and make the tension go away?"
"That's a good idea, I'll text everyone to come on Sunday" Ian said.
"Perfect!"