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july 28th, 2017
the video
                          
GABRIELLE MILLER hummed sweetly as she waited for her son to finish eating his cereal, cleaning up around him whilst he happily chomped on his coco pops. His hair was sticking up in various places and his eyes were puffy as he had only woken up 10 minutes ago and decided he wanted to rudely wake his mum up at the same time.
                          
"Mummy can we get a puppy?" ARCHIE MINTER questions his parent who just looked down at him with a tilted head. 
                          
"What's made you want one of those munchkin?" Elle responds, standing behind him to run her hands through his hair and smooth it down. He goes silent for a moment as his mother sorts his hair out, giggling when she tickled his sides abruptly.
                          
"Well Isaac at school walked in with his mummy yesterday and they got a puppy, and he was really cute. I already asked daddy if we could get one but he told me to ask you." Archie continues, finishing off his bowl of cereal before jumping down from the kitchen counter to go wash his bowl.
                          
"Well, Isaac must have been a really good boy for his mummy and daddy. If you get 10 gold stars by the end of Summer we'll get one, sound good?" Elle kneels down, hands on either side of his face as he nods.
                          
"Good, now go get ready whilst I clean up." Elle presses a kiss to his nose before letting go of him, her son running to his room to get dressed.
                          
Elle finished cleaning the kitchen in the meantime, disappearing to her own room to get herself ready for the day of filming ahead of her. It was Archie's first time being in one of her videos, he'd been in plenty of Simon's and a few Sidemen videos here and there, but never Elle's.
                          
It's not that she didn't want him on her channel, she loved her son more than life itself, she just didn't want to one day upload a video with him and come across hate-fuelled comments that would upset her. Archie was her whole life and had been for nearly 8 years, she was going to protect him from social media until he was old enough to protect himself.
                          
"Mummy, did you find my Lightning McQueen jumper?" Archie walks into her room to see her sitting at her vanity doing her makeup. Her eyes wander away from the mirror in front of her too look at the dirty-blonde haired boy in the doorway, dressed in a pair of black jeans and his favourite spotty socks, holding a plain red jumper in his hand as opposed to his Cars themed one.
                          
"You grew out of it, silly." Elle reminds him, getting up and walking with him to his room to help finish getting him dressed.  Once she had gotten him changed, she properly did his hair and made sure his shoes were on before letting him play with his toys in her room whilst she finished getting ready herself.
                          
"Daddy's here!" Archie shouts with delight, sitting on the bay window seat staring at his red range rover. Minutes later SIMON MINTER walked in with a grin on his face, scooping Archie up into his arms for a cuddle whilst Elle finished her makeup.
                          
"Y'alright Gibby?" Simon asks as Archie disappears to pack his overnight bag.
                          
"He woke me up at the crack of dawn so expect the same tomorrow. You'll be alright with him all weekend won't you?" Elle smiles nervously, moving her hair behind her shoulder as she stands up.
                          
"I'll be fine, question is, will you be okay?" Simon laughs.
                          
"I'm sure after a few glasses of wine I'll be alright, don't worry about me. Just make sure he doesn't overdose on Ice Cream and come home at 3 am puking his guts up, capiche?" Elle raises an eyebrow at her childhood best friend, watching him roll his eyes.