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Everyone loves Angela's bits. Her whacky characters, her 9/11 gags, not wearing her glasses. But her most popular bit is leaning in to kiss Chanse, it never fails to get a laugh from her cast mates when Chanse quickly leans away with his signature "ew-uh". One shoot day Angela realizes it's been a while since she did the lean on so she plans to it in multiple videos to stretch it out for weeks of content. First shoot of the day is Uno Dare on Games, everything is going normal (for an Uno game) when Trevor dares Angela to do something wild or draw 5 cards. Angela sees this as the perfect opportunity and gets so excited she pre-laughs a little, as planned she turns to Chanse closes her eyes and leans in with her lips pursed.
No laugh. No clap. Not even an ew-uh. Angela is confused why this didn't kill so she opens her eyes. Her gaze is met by Chanse's big brown eyes gazing at her barely inches away. Chanse didn't lean away this time, in fact now assessing the situation Angela believes Chanse actually leaned in himself. There's a sudden air of awkwardness in the room as Angela sheepishly returns to her original position and Chanse looks perplexed, Courtney and Amanda share a look but don't know what to say as Trevor tries to ease the unexpected tension, "damn Ang I said something wild but I don't think anyone was expecting that". "Certainly not me" she barely hears Chanse mutter to himself before the game continues.
After the game wraps there's a bit of downtime until the next shoot and Tommy is filming tiktoks, before they get to work with socials Angela pulls Chanse aside for a second, "Hey just wanted to apologize for that weird kiss thing during the game, Trevor said do something wild and I thought it would be funny to do my leaning in bit Y'know, I guess I leaned in a little too quickly for you to get away huh?" She feels like she's trying to convince herself as much as Chanse that it was an accident despite feeling pretty sure Chanse leaned in on purpose.
"Yeah it was a little awkward but don't worry about it Angela, I know you fixate on these things but we're best friends and also actors kiss each other all the time." Chanse also feels unconvinced by his own words, neither one of them really wants to acknowledge it but both feel like they needed to clear the air. Angela continues, "yeah but like we specifically have never kissed each other before even for sketches, you're the only person on our sketch team that I haven't kissed, I've even kissed Josh and Patrick while they were at Smosh and it was never that awkward. I don't know man, something just felt off about it Y'know? It felt like kissing my brother on the mouth." "Ew-uh Angela why would you say that? Look this is only going to be more awkward if we keep talking about it," Chanse reasons, "let's just put it behind us and do these stupid tiktoks." "Hey these tiktoks aren't stupid," Peter chimes in, "we're doing Secret Life of Plants 3 and Impressions Of Moustaches." "I swear to God Peter the energy better not be dogshit this time", Tommy gets Chanse and Angela into position and starts rolling.
Partway through If Animals Could Judge You Chanse seems distracted, while Angela is improvising her catty squirrel he kisses her on the lips again. Once again there is a few beats of unbroken eye contact before Angela quickly leaves the room, Chanse curses himself as Tommy and Peter share a Jim look to Tommy's camera.
After lunch is TNTL shoot, Angela is completely off her game after the weirdness of the day. She hasn't been able to make a single person laugh so far with her hastily thrown together bits, even Shayne referred to her as the new Olivia. Worse still is that's its now Chanse's turn in the hit seat Angela was up first. She knows she isn't going to be able to make him laugh on this day so she decides to go a different way, she decides to use her time to just sing to him his favorite Carly Rae Jepsen song Run Away With Me. At first everything seems fine and Chanse is enjoying her rendition but as it goes on she starts putting strange emphasis on the rephrain "run away with me" and looking at Chanse with her big puppy dog eyes. As soon as time is called on the bit Angela lunges at Chanse and plants a huge kiss on him, he spits his water right into Angela's face and open mouth out of shock but it doesn't deter her and she maintains the kiss.
10 seconds go by before Angela breaks contact, she looks in Chanse's beautiful eyes with tears forming in her own, "What are we?" she barely manages to get the words out before taking off straight for the Crying Bathroom. "Angela wait, come back" Chanse calls out to her before pursuing his upset friend.
Chanse gets to the Crying Bathroom and can her Angela sobbing inside, he knocks on the door and asks her to come out. "Leave me alone", she cries, "this whole day has been such a confusing mindfuck and I've already embarrassed myself enough like a fucking idiot." Chanse tries to get through to her, "Ang please open the door, trust me this is as confusing for me as it is for you. We need to get it all out in the open and figure out all this craziness." There's a pause before Chanse hears the door unlock and Angela tentatively steps out, no longer actively sobbing but still choked up.
"I don't know what this even is Chanse, that kiss this morning was just supposed to be a joke but then you leaned in too and it's stirred up feelings I never had about you before, like am I actually attracted to you now or something? How would that even work with you being gay? This is such a fucking mess dude".
Chanse is taken aback by this sudden earnest confession but he is the one who said to get it all out in the open, "Angela I'm not going to lie to you right now I've been feeling the same way, you've always felt like a little sister even though you're 2 years older than me but now there's definitely some kind of attraction beyond that in play now and it is pretty weird, that first kiss really must've sparked something in both of us we didn't even know was in there." Angela wipes her eyes, "how are we supposed to get passed this Chanse? Do we date, do we fuck, do we just pretend like today never happened and bury these new feelings deep down?" Chanse pulls her in for a hug, "I really don't know Ang, I don't know if it's better to never mention it again or like get naked in front of each other or whatever."
There's another pause before Angela chimes "so let's get naked then". This surprises Chanse again, "Angela I wasn't saying let's literally get naked", "well why not? You said it yourself we need to get it all out in the open right, why not do it as literally as possible? Be fully exposed and vulnerable, I mean whatever this is is already super fucking awkward and upsetting so how much worse would it be to see each other naked right now?" "Right now Angela??" Chanse really can't believe this sudden turn of events, he came to the Crying Bathroom to comfort his crying best friend and now there's talk of getting naked together at work.
Angela takes Chanse's hand and guides him back into the Crying Bathroom and locks the door. Chanse can feel this is actually happening but wants to make sure Angela is as comfortable as is possible in this bizarre situation. "Angela are you absolutely sure about this? Doing this might just make things even worse." Angela again wipes her eyes, "Chanse I honestly don't think I can feel any worse than I already fucking do, let's just do it and see how we feel OK? If it's weird we can always just put our clothes back on and pretend it never happened."
As Angela is saying this she is already starting to take off her t shirt and undo her jeans, Chanse comes to terms with the fact that this is definitely happening and begins undressing too, trying not to ogle at Angela as she strips. "That's a really cute bra Angela," Chanse kind of stutters out trying to make her feel a little better, "Thank you, Erin bought it for me, the panties don't match and I feel fucking disgusting." "You're not disgusting you look great."
In no time both Chanse and Angela are standing in their underwear and observing each other, Chanse checks one last time with Angela, "Angela is this really what you want to do right now? It's not too late to just get dressed and leave". Angela nods, "I really think we need this Chanse, if it's awkward we'll let it be awkward for a little bit and if something else happens then something else happens." Angela reaches back and undoes her bra strap, the point of no return is upon them, and drops her cute bra to the floor revealing her supple breasts before slowly lowering her non-matching panties to stand fully nude in front of Chanse. In contrast Chanse quickly removes his boxers as if ripping off a bandaid so now he too is as naked as the day he was born.
There's a brief silence, neither one of them sure how to proceed now that they're both naked, Chanse hasn't seen a naked woman since high school and Angela hasn't been this intimate with a man in 2 years. Eventually Chanse breaks the silence, "so what do we do now? How are you feeling after doing this?" Angela thinks for a second, "I mean it's definitely pretty weird looking at your dick and balls right now, but I'm getting less upset about the whole situation. BTW I honestly thought you'd be way bigger" "ANGELA it's cold in this bathroom, you should know that with your glass cutter nipples. Seriously though you're alright?" Angela giggles for the first time since her pre-laughs this morning, "I'm fine, thank you for doing this with me, I love you so much as a friend and whatever else this might turn into," she says with a smile before pulling him in for a long soft kiss, the first of the day that doesn't give either one the ick. Chanse respectfully turns his pelvis slightly so as not to prod Angela with his dong.
After the kiss Chanse looks deep into Angela's big doe eyes and smiles, "whatever happens next I'm by your side every step, we'll figure this out together." They share a hug before gathering their clothes to return to set.