Y/N's POV:
I drive Damien and Shayne to the office and for some reason they are both sitting in the back seat, goofing off. Shayne is screaming and Damien is laughing like a maniac.
"Don't make me turn this car around!" I shout so they can hear me over Shayne's screams.
"Sorry, Moooooom." Shayne says sarcastically.
"You know one of you could've ridden in the front seat." I say.
"No!" Damien crosses his arms.
"Oh my gosh..." I sigh and shake my head.
I pull into the parking lot and park the car. We all get out and walk into the office. The boys wave as we go our separate directions, I know they have a full day of filming today. I sit down at my desk and get straight to work editing the latest sketch they filmed which is 'Every Daycare Ever'. The first thing I do is make all of the scene separators where it's just the title screen and someone says something. I copy and paste the title screen a bunch of times and then take all of the audio files and attach them to the title screens. After I'm finished that I start dealing with the actual scenes, formatting them, cutting them, switching camera angles, adding music, etc.
After about an hour and a half, Olivia and Damien walk up to my desk. I take off my headphones and spin around in my chair to face them, "Hey guys, what's up?"
"Not much. We just finished shooting a challenge video thing for Smosh Pit." Damien replies.
"Cool, what challenge was it?" I ask.
"Another LEGO building contest." Olivia says, "We're shooting a sketch in a few minutes once everything is set up."
I nod and Ian and Matt Raub walk very quickly up to my desk. Damien and Olivia step aside slightly.
"Y/N!" Ian says.
"Ian!" I laugh.
"Okay enough chit chat, Ryan Todd is in a meeting and we were wondering if you'd like to direct the sketch?" Matt Raub says.
"Really?" My eyes go wide.
"Yeah, I mean you have experience. We have producers but no director, what do you say?" Ian asks.
"Sure, I'd love to! Just let me export my files I've edited to Mike..." I turn back to my computer and save and export the video files to Mike and he gives a thumbs up.
"Okay, let's shoot this crap!" I smile and follow the four of them out of the office area and into another room where the film equipment is set up.
"Here is the script, it's called 'Christmas in July'." Matt Raub says handing me a script, "We'll give you a few minutes to look it over and talk to the writers and then we'll begin."
"Awesome thanks!" I smile and go to find Monica to talk about what the intentions of this video are.
After a quick meeting with Monica, I understand the script and what it's supposed to look like so I head into the room where everything is set up again and sit down in the director's chair.
I feel an arm sing around my shoulders and I look up to see Shayne smirking, "What are you doing in the big leagues?" He says.
"I happen to be in charge of you today. I'm the director." I smile.
"Hey, that's great! Please don't torture me." Shayne pouts.
"Be a good actor and I won't have to." I smile and pat his hand which is on my shoulder.
"Alright is everybody ready?" I shout and everyone nods, "Great! Let's start with scene one featuring Noah, Keith, and Shayne!"
Shayne shoots me a quick smile before heading to in front of the camera.
"Let's just do a dry run first and see what you guys do with it, okay?" I say and they all nod, "Action!"
Keith and Noah start an improv conversation and Shayne busts in wearing a Santa hat.
"Why are you wearing that?" Keith asks.
"I think it sucks that the best holiday is only celebrated once a year, so let's have another season of giving in July!" Shayne says.
"Dude... no." Keith says.
"Here! Put these on!" Shayne pulls out two Santa hats but drops one of them, "Whoops."
"Cut!" I yell and walk over to the boys, "I like the way it's going. Shayne when you walk in I want you to act like you're really cool."
"I am really cool." Shayne smiles.
"Right..." I say, "I mean, kinda saunter in, bite your lip or something, and try to really draw attention to that fact that you think you're so cool for wearing a Santa hat in July."
Shayne nods and I turn to Keith and Noah, "You two, really great. Shayne is going throw the hats at you and you're both going to catch them. Noah once you catch yours I want you to immediately drop it and then say your line. We'll cut there and the girls will come in. Okay?"
"Got it!"
"Yep!"
I sit back down in my chair behind the camera a couple of people adjust a few things on set and fix Shayne's hair and hat a little.
"Action!" I yell.
Shayne walks in biting his lip and smirking, Keith and Noah look at him and they say their lines as they did before. Shayne throws the hats at them and Keith catches his and just kinda looks at it while Noah drops his.
"Um, I'm Jewish." Noah says.
"Right and I'm American now put on your hats!" Shayne says excitedly.
"Cut! That was great! Take a minute while we prep for the next shot." I say.
I flip through the script a little and Shayne comes over and leans on my armrest, "So you're like, a professional, bigshot director, huh?"
I laugh, "I wouldn't call myself a professional, or a bigshot, but you can."
"I just mean you really know what you're doing even though you were just given the script." He says.
"I have some experience." I smirk.
Matt Raub comes up and pulls Shayne back by his shirt, "No flirting with our director. Get ready for the next shot."
"Oh, I wasn't-"
"Now." Matt Raub laughs.
Shayne turns on his heel and walks back to in front of the camera. "Ready whenever you are, Y/N." Matt Raub says.
"Okay... Ready everyone? Girls?" I ask and Courtney and Olivia give me a thumbs up, "Action!" I yell.
Courtney and Olivia walk in, look at Shayne who turns around excitedly when he notices them and they try to walk out but Shayne pulls them back in.
"Here!" Shayne says, giving them each an elf hat, "And I got you all gifts!"
They all look at each other and shrug and nod. Shayne pulls four pencils out of his pocket and hands them each one.
"There. It's the season of giving!" Shayne smiles.
"I really don't think it is..." Courtney says and they all take off their hats.
Shayne stomps his foot and picks up all the hats, "I'm telling Ian on you guys." And he marches out of the room. As he's going he starts laughing and Keith is obviously holding back laughter.
"Cut! Okay, let's try that again. Courtney and Olivia, good job with your reactions they were on point. Shayne when you stomp your foot maybe move your arms a little in a huff okay?" I say.
"Anything for you, Y/N/N." Shayne says sarcastically and smiles.
We shoot the scene two more times before I'm happy with it and move onto the scene where Shayne tries to convince Ian that the rest of the squad are grinches and need to be more open to the season of giving in July.
We move the equipment into the hallway for this scene. Most of it is just going to be improvised with an outline of what to say.
I walk up to Ian and Shayne to give them the gist of it.
"Hey guys, okay so, you can improv for most of this but you need to be able to get each of these points across. Ian, you're just going to be on your phone or looking at something on the wall or whatever when Shayne runs up to you." I explain.
"I helped write this script, Y/N. I got this." Ian smirks.
"Uh, right, okay... Shayne you good on this?" I ask.
"Don't worry about me, I'm a mature and professional actor." Shayne says, popping his collar.
"Says the guy who was screaming in my car this morning." I laugh and Shayne shoots me a look, "Okay! Everyone ready? Let's do this!"
I sit down in my chair, "Action!"
Ian starts hitting the wall lightly and running his hand up and down it, Shayne runs up to him.
"Ian! I have an issu- oh hey nice wall." Shayne says and Ian starts laughing.
"Cut!" I laugh, "Let's go again."
They do it a couple of times with different intros and eventually, we get a really good take.
The rest of the scenes take about another three hours to film. The sketch ends with everyone giving pencils back and forth as gifts to please Shayne. It's funny, I swear.
As we're wrapping up filming Ryan Todd comes back from his meeting or whatever and sees me in the director's chair.
"You guys replaced me already?!" He shouts.
"That's showbiz hun!" I smile.
"You replaced me with the new chick?!" He shouts again, clearly joking.
"Feel threatened, feel very threatened." I say.
"You can't replace me! No one can replace me! Especially not the new chick!" He says, trying not to laugh.
"Hey buddy, this is my new chick, and she has a name. It's... Y/N, that's it!" Shayne says wrapping his arms around me.
"Fine! Then I'm taking Sarah!" Ryan Todd says, grabbing Sarah's arm.
"I don't care, no one wants Sarah. Sorry, Sarah." Shayne laughs.
"Hey!" Sarah says.
Cameras have been recording this whole ordeal and I know it's going to be included in the bloopers.
"Uh... cut?" I laugh.
"Yeah, that's it, babe! Hear that Ryan? She said cut!" Shayne shouts. I'm kinda taken back by Shayne calling me babe but I decide not to question it, after all, this is just a bit they're doing.
"You win this time Y/N, but I'll be taking my director chair back, just you wait and see!" Ryan Todd shouts and we all look over to see Matt Raub and the rest of the squad laughing their heads off. Damien walks in and looks between Shayne and me, and Ryan Todd and Sarah.
"I'm not gonna ask." Damien says.
"Probably for the best." Ian laughs.
We all help pack up the film equipment and I went back to my desk to do some more editing until it's time to go home. Mike has almost finished with the 'Every Daycare Ever' video so I move on to format it so it's suitable for Facebook (aka make it square and choose a scene to put first) while he works on the end card for YouTube.
As I'm working on a couple of thumbnails Ian comes up behind me and puts both his hands on my shoulders and leans down so his head is next to mine, "Really great job today Y/N. We'll definitely be having you directing more or being an assistant director, but with more heads up."
I laugh, "Thanks, Ian. While you're here what do you think of this thumbnail for 'Every Daycare Ever'?"
Ian looks at my screen, "Looks perfect." He smiles and walks away. I smile to myself and turn back to my computer.
At the end of the day, Damien and Shayne approach my desk. I see them coming so I save and close out my work. Damien spins my chair around and grabs my stuff for me.
"What are you- ah!" Shayne picks me and puts me over his shoulder, carrying me out of the office while Damien carries my stuff, neither of them saying a word, "Shayne! Put me down! I think I can walk on my own, thanks."
Shayne says nothing but continues carrying me through the office, I know exactly where we're going, to the squad room.
"Damien! Tell Shayne to put me down!" I say, hitting Shayne's lower back.
"I'm sorry miss, but I can do nothing of the sort. I believe you agreed to this when you signed the roommate contract." Damien says.
"What? There was no roommate contract." I laugh.
"Well, maybe we should create one." Damien says, "Anyway, as our roommate, and the petite female kind, we can easily pick you up and it's a right of passage."
"If I were a strong man you wouldn't be doing this." I say.
"Correct, it would be impossible if you were strong man. But you aren't, you are small woman, and therefore it's quite easy and very possible." Damien shrugs.
I sigh and stop fighting it. I allow myself to become like a ragdoll over Shayne's shoulder and I feel his grip on my legs tighten as to not let me fall now that I'm not supporting myself.
I'm carried into the squad room and the rest of the squad looks up and laughs. Shayne practically throws me onto a beanbag and I execute a soft landing.
"Bravo! What a show!" Courtney laughs.
"Alright alright, are you two ready to go? And can I walk this time?" I ask Damien and Shayne.
"Yeah, we're ready." Damien says. I hold out my hand and Damien gives me my bag, "Thank you."
I drive us through the streets of LA as the sun is setting. Despite being such a busy city, it's actually quite nice at sunset. The boys must notice it too because we're all just staring ahead, not saying a word, in comfortable silence.