March 2009.


The camera light blinked red. She fixed her hair and shuffled around until she was comfortable. "Hello, and welcome to Ask iJ, the show where you ask me questions, and I answer them!" She then made a mental note to herself to add the intro here when she edited the video. Halfway through the Dailybooth questions, she heard a familiar chime ringtone from the other side of her apartment. She sighed audiably, and ran to the kitchen counter where her iPhone was placed. She smiled when she caught sight of the caller ID. It read 'Link Neal'.

"Hi!"

"Hey Justine! How are you?"

"Good thanks, just recording an episode of Ask iJ." Justine answered in her usual, bubbly voice.

"Oh, sorry, did i interupt?" Link asked, instantly feeling guilty.

"No no no!" Justine insisted. "I can just cut it out in editing."

"Ok. So anyway, I need to ask you a favour.."

"Oh dear!" Justine joked.

"It's nothing bad, don't worry! Rhett and I are filming a video tomorrow and we need some extras, can you come along?"

Obviously, Justine agreed.

"Sure!"

"Great! Also, can you swim?"

Justine paused for a few seconds, wondering what Rhett and Link's crazy minds had thought of.

"Yeah.."

Link smirked. "Ok, good!"

"So I'll see you tomorrow then!" Justine replied.

"Yeah, thanks again J!"

"No problem, see ya!"

"Bye!"

Justine hung up and placed her iPhone down. She then walked back to her living room and sat in front of the camera to continue.

"And that's it for Ask iJ! If you want to leave me a question, remember, I take them from Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and Dailybooth." Justine pointed at nothing, and reminded herself to add the annotations later.

"Thanks for watching, bye!" She leaned forward to turn her camera off, then checked the footage to see if she needed to rerecord anything.

"11pm already?" Justine thought to herself, before concluding that she should get some sleep as she had to drive to the filming early the next morning. She went to the bathroom, took off her makeup, changed into her pyjamas, then slipped into bed.

Justine awoke the next morning to a text from her friend Olga.

"Hiya! R u in R+L's new video? I need a buddy! xx"

"Hi! Yeah, bit scared though, don't know what I'm doing! :P xx"

"Me neither! Do u want me 2 pick u up? I hav 2 drive past ur apartment anyway! :) xx"

"That would be great! Thx Olga! :) xx"

"No prob! See u at 10! ;) xx"

After her texting session with Olga, Justine decided to check a few tweets. She replied to a handful, then, reluctantly, got out of bed. After having a shower, washing and drying her hair, applying her makeup and eating breakfast, Justine was ready at 9:20. She decided to edit the Ask iJ she shot the night before.

As expected, Olga arrived at 10, and so they began their drive, laughing together.

"Are you ready, honey?" he called up the stairs.

"Almost. Oh, can you feed the dogs?" Tanya shouted down.

As if on cue, Gypsy and Griffin stumbled into the kitchen. Toby laughed and petted them both.

"You better be good while me and Mummy are gone!" he said to the dogs, as if they could understand him. Tanya walked down the stairs, and into the kitchen, letting Toby know she was ready to go.

"So what is this video about anyway?" Tanya inquired.

"I don't know, I just got a call from Rhett last night asking if I was free, and if I could swim." Toby explained, as they both walked out of the door.

"Which you can't." Tanya added.

"How hard can it be?" Toby smirked, as he opened the car door for his girlfriend.

"Stupid traffic!" Olga exclaimed, as her car came to a stand-still.

Justine chuckled, "Hey! Do you mind if I film a quick vlog?"

Olga nodded, "Go ahead!"

As if by second nature, Justine pulled out her camera and pushed the record button. She talked to her camera as if it was a completely natural occurance, which to her, it was. She told her audience about where she was going, and what she was doing, as well as joking around with Olga, giggling together.

"This traffic is ridiculous!" Tanya complained, as she attempted to look at what the cause was. She looked over at Toby who was engrossed by his phone, reading and replying to comments on his last LazyVlog. She rolled her eyes, and returned her focus to the road.

Finally, Toby and Tanya arrived at their destination. Suprisingly, despite all the traffic, they were one of the first people there. On arriving, they walked to the garden hand in hand. Toby greeted everyone, and introduced them to Tanya. Within minutes, Toby was the life of the party, cracking jokes and telling stories, causing laughter all around.

"Come on! We're late!" Justine shouted, as she scurryed to the door.

"Wait! Justine!" Olga called out from behind, struggling to get out of her car. Rhett opened the door and smiled at the girls.

"Don't worry, you guys aren't that late, the traffic delayed everyone." Rhett said, as if reading their minds. He let the women pass, and led them into the living room. Justine heard roars of laughter coming from the garden, so she decided to go and see what all the commotion was about. She tried to slip into the huddle, listening into the story being told. In the centre of the huddle, was the man entertaining everybody. The man was very handsome, and this did not go unnoticed by Justine. After a few minutes of mingling, Rhett and Link came to the garden, carrying in the equipment, which consisted of two waterproof cameras, one yellow and one blue. They both smirked as they watched the looks of confusion by the extras. Link then played the song they were going to be making a video for. Laughter filled the air as the song continued to play. Rhett then explained the concept of the video, which caused most of the female extras to shy away from the idea. Tanya stroked Toby's arm to get his attention.

"Hmm?" Toby replied, trying to concentrate on what Rhett was saying.

"I think I might sit this one out, is that ok?"

"Yeah, sure, whatever." Toby said, still not giving his full attention to Tanya. She realised that she wasn't getting anywhere with him, and backed away, walking into the living room. Olga and Justine whispered to eachother then turned to face Rhett.

"We'll do it!" they both exclaimed excitedly, earning an applause from many of the male YouTubers for their courage.


If you didn't know the video I was referencing, here it is :) .com/watch?v=2UjsB7QlG3I

Thanks for reading!