Melanie didn't recover from Ian's present. She broke up with him shortly after, and then moved out. Neither of the boys had heard from her since. Ian was pretty heartbroken.

"Come on dude, cheer up. If we don't finish filming today, we're not going to get a new video up by Friday."

"Do you really think I want to film right now?" Ian looked up at Anthony with a desperate look on his face. "I was going to propose to her with that ring, then buy the real one. I had no idea she'd take it so harshly. In that moment, I felt so stupid. Like I didn't even know Melanie!"

"Well…" Anthony started. "We still need to upload something!"

Ian didn't reply, but the look on his face told Anthony that he was lost in his own thoughts.

"Fine, I'll post the video that we were going to use last month." Anthony left Ian alone for the rest of the day.

4 months later, around Easter, Ian, Anthony, and Kalel were out for coffee. Kalel was in a horrible mood.

"She was one of my best friends in middle school. Then she decides to ignore me for 5 years. What a great friend, right? But then she has the nerve to call me and ask me to BAIL HER OUT OF JAIL. I'm like, 'You're kidding, right?' I told her to go and ask one of the friends that she chose to hang out with over me for 5 years!" Kalel thought that Ian and Anthony were listening intently, but they were in their own world.

"So I was thinking, maybe for Food Battle 2012*, we BOTH could choose a pink frosted sprinkled donut. What do you think?" Ian suggested.

"We can't do that! All of my foods are sticks, remember?" Anthony replied.

"Oh, yeah."

"Dumb*ss."

"Shut up!"

"Did you guys hear any of that?!" Kalel said loudly.

"I'm sorry, what?" Ian said half heartedly.

"I can't believe you. Anthony, can you tell him the story? I'm really mad right now." Kalel fumed.

"Huh? What story?" Anthony said quietly, sensing her mood.

"That's it; I'm leaving." Kalel stood up quickly and left the coffee shop.

"Kalel, wait! Sh*t." Anthony sat back down next to Ian. "What am I gonna do?"

"Well, we could actually order some coffee…" Ian said jokingly.

"Dude!"

"Sorry. Look, Kalel's cool. She'll forget about it."

But Ian was wrong.

*Food Battle 2012 had not come out yet at the time I wrote this story.