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$29.99, that’s what angela spent every month on icloud, why? because she refuses to delete anything, not even the screen shots.
also 250 bucks on a couple of hard drives, because one can never be safe and one must have at least 3 copies of everything important, and amanda’s photos sleeping with spork were too important to ever lose.
this was probably the most unexpected thing about her that maybe only her brother and amanda knew, oh and spencer too - she asked him for help to burn some photos and videos on blu-ray cds.
honestly that was how this idea started, angela had just finished organizing the videos into years/vacations and who was in them when she knew right there that this was her treasure and this was too important to just stay put in digital folders, so she printed photos, arranged photo albums, she burnt blu-rays and made home movies.
angela found so much joy in remembering anecdotes that she even printed the photos she had with her friends (thank god for the gallery face-folders) in hopes of having a friendship-photoalbum-slumber parties and get together with her different group of friends and make their own photo albums.
as for amanda, angela probably had a full floor to ceiling, wall to wall shelf full of photos, videos and memorabilia full of amanda, and amanda had that too for angela, as if amanda wouldn’t also spend 30 dollars just to have more space for ang in her phone.
this one shot though, isn’t about angela’s hobby of preserving everything, no, this is for her directorial and editor debut.
amanda didn’t know what they were going to watch at the dynasty typewriter theatre, she knew it was a private screening of one of angela’s projects as a producer, but nothing more. she was excited tho! and more so to be going with ang, shayne, court, tomey and chanse, arasha and spencer.
it was a non-recording week for smosh so they all got out early, shayne, court, spence and amanda went for a smoothie and then to the theatre where they met with ang, chanse, tomey and arasha.
they got inside the theatre part and it was all dark already, people were already seated.
“are we late ang? has it started yet?”
“no babe, wwe just got in time”
no pre-screening speech? that was weird but hey the intro credits were rolling.
- a black screen with white text ‘spork films present’
- a selfie shot of angela smiling in bed, with amanda on her chest and spork in between them.
- a shot of amanda on a bed, with the sun barely entering through the blinds.
‘my manda’ - in a handwritten font, wait, in angela’s handwriting.
- a shot of amanda brushing her teeth in a bathroom and rolling her eyes when she sees angela recording
- a shot of amanda walking spork “babe look at your son!” amanda says and angela pans over to spork who is sitting on his butt
amanda knew where this was going, and as it rarely happens she was at lost for words
“babe what is this?” - she asked, whispering , turning onto angela.
what she saw was the love of her life, with eyes so glassy they might break into waterfalls, her mouth quivering trying to respond, then she saw courtney full on crying and shayne with red eyes having already dried his tears.
“dude the movie just started stop it you guys” angela says earning a laugh from all the room.
amanda doesn’t hear her mother’s laugh, nor her father’s reaction to the next shot.
- amanda dressed as abraham lincoln looking at the camera “come on baby let’s go to the theatre!”
after a few funny/smosh/impro/theatre shots, a couple of letter boxes appear from the sides and the texture of the videos change into a old tape camera vibe.
- a slight shaky shot of amanda at the top of a mountain “we should hike more ang!”
- amanda making a silly face at the camera
- amanda on a roller coaster screaming
- angela chasing amanda with a pie on her hand
- a shot of amanda and angela dancing at a company party.
- a zoom-in into amanda and angela holding hands on the streets from behind.
- a video of angela passed out on amanda’s shoulders at shayne and courtney’s sofa, amanda makes a ‘ssshhhh’ gesture while pointing at angela.
- on top of the shots there's some screenshots of angela’s messages to some of her friends
- “istg i’m going to marry her shayne”
- “dude how am i so lucky?”
- “brb i’m going to tiffany’s”
- some voice memos angela sent her friends
- “i think this smosh audition went pretty well! i can’t wait to work there!”
- “okay so chanse, amanda? portuguese goddess amanda! just invited us to go for drinks with her and tomey, we should go right?”
- “so… can you remind me how it was the last time i fell in love with a friend? mariah?”
- “chanse, i think amanda and i just went on a date?”
- “court, court, court what were amanda’s favourite flowers? i remember she told us but i cannot remember!!”
- “okay, hi, so. oh my god. so chanse, i’m on my way home, i swear i’m not drunk, i’m okay, you don’t need to pick me up, but oh my god, chanse, we kissed. amanda and i kissed, i dropped her home, walked her to the door and it happened, oh my god.”
- “shayne, its saturday morning, i know you’ve probably been up for like 5 hours but do you want to go for pancakes? i might need an advice or too on how to handle the friends to lovers thing.” “bring court”
- some voice memos that amanda sent angela
- hey so, you just premiered a new musical, you are now with the cast backstage celebrating, i’m outside waiting for you and the rest to finish getting ready and go have a celebration dinner and i just don’t want to forget this night. angela you are such an amazing artist, you are so talented, so funny, so good. you are amazing, and i am so lucky to get to watch you shine from front row.
i now i already tell you all this but i don’t know, i just can’t believe i am this lucky, to love you and for you to love me back. my girl, my ang.
see you now.
- and some voice snippets the editors of smosh had saved in a “amangela being suckers for each other when they think no one is hearing but they literally have a mic”
- “you are so pretty”
- “what do you want for dinner?”
- “spencer, i swear, i’m going to marry that woman”
- “court look at our partners, they are such good podcasters”
- “sorry i spaced out” “you were staring at angela amanda” “and???”
- “ian i might need a raise, i need a bigger ring”
as more candid shots were shown, a voice over started to play
“ i believed in love, as i am lucky to have witnessed it many times in my friends and family,
i believed in love, but for so long i didn’t think that loved believed in me.
at least not the love i was so familiar with.
until one day i booked, i booked big.
i booked a date, at an impro show, it wasn’t originally a date, it wasn’t gonna be just her and me,
but fate or love made it so.
and that night change my life and every perception i had of it.
i believed in love as i believed in stories, in writing, and this will be my best script ever,
the one we get to write together everyday we wake up next to each other.
you. you make me laugh like no other, and you make me feel safe enough to cry like no other.
you make the world make sense for me.
you. my manda, my darling shining knight with a princess dress.
my girl, my woman. the love of my life.
not my better half, but my better whole.
i cannot, will not imagine my life, my story, the movie of i without you.
i refuse to. ”
- a shot of angela looking into camera
- a shot of angela’s hand
- a fade to black.
a spotlight shines to amanda’s table, amanda looks for angela to her side but finds her on one knee in front of her.
“will you marry me?”
and amanda nodded, stood up and nodded very hard.
“yes, yes YES OH MY GOD ANG, baby”
angela put the ring on her finger, stood up and kissed her.
amanda wrapped her arms around her, and held on for a long hug.
she knew love, but not like this, she’s been loved, but never like this. this love was her home, this love is where she belonged, in the embrace of her angela.
she let go of the hug, cupped angela’s face and stared at her eyes, not believing this was true, not believing that a director wouldn’t scream cut and this would only be a romcom film.
she kissed her, as if the world was going to end right there, but instead the world was just getting started for them.
angela couldn’t believe it either, and she was the one who spent three months organizing this proposal.
the crowd erupted into cheers and applause and then amanda became aware, again, of who was around her.
it didn’t click until then, that they were supposedly going to watch a real shortfilm, and the room was full of people.
it didn’t click until she saw her parents come to her with a huge bouquet of flowers, her favourite flowers.
“what? what are you doing here you guys?”
amanda started looking around, her family, her smosh friends, her impro friends, her college friends, her besties from high school. also ang’s friends from starkid, aoaoao and other projects were there.
amanda hadn’t let go of angela waist, as if not touching her would wake her up for this dream.
they spent the afternoon greeting their friends, catching up with them, taking photos and laughing
“OH MY GOD COURT YOU DIDN’T HAVE COUPONS FOR THE NAIL SALON YESTERDAY RIGHT? YOU TRICKED ME!!!”
“guilty as charged!!!”
“oh my GOD AND MOM! YOU KNEW! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU DIDN’T TELL ME!”
“mandy how would i tell you!!”
after the engagement party/dinner at the theatre was over, amanda and angela walked home, paid their dogsitter and snuggled with spork in their sofa.
“you made me a movie, ang”
“i made you the first movie, this is a franchise”
“i love you. so much.”
“love you too babe”
“you know i’m going to propose too right?”