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The camera is shaking as Isagi records Nagi pulling up to a drive-thru from the backseat. He’s laughing quietly with Reo, who’s in the passenger’s seat, as they watch Nagi lower his window to talk to the speaker.
“Dude, there’s no freaking way” Isagi laughs as he records the interaction.
“Welcome to Wendy’s, how can I help you?” A bored, muffled voice speaks through the speaker.
“Yo, it’s Nagi.” The camera is shaking a little as Isagi tries to hold back his laughter.
“Hey Nagi! How many people did you bring?” The voice responds, noticeably more animated.
“We’re three in total”
“Alright! What drinks did you guys want?”
“Get me the tangerine one.” Reo whispers to Nagi.
“I want a Coke!” The camera picks up Isagi’s voice from the back. Nagi nods, acknowledging their requests before he repeats it to the speaker. He orders a sprite for himself.
“You guys can pull up to the front,” is heard from the speaker, and Nagi drives toward the last window.
When they get there, the worker greets Nagi like an old friend, and hands him a cup holder with three large cups, all filled to the brim with their drinks, and an extra cup filled with ice. He also hands Nagi a huge brown bag filled with food.
Isagi pans the camera back and forth from showing the food in Reo’s lap by the front, and the pick up window where the food is being handed.
The worker tells Nagi to quickly drive off, and Nagi obeys after thanking the guy for all the food they were given.
“Isagi, make some space so we can put some of these bags in the back with you.” Reo tells him, and the camera captures them driving off, before cutting to a different angle.
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This time, the camera is resting on the dashboard of their parked car, now fully capturing all three of them with the huge amounts of food they just received.
“Alright guys, today, we are doing a Wendy’s mukbang, courtesy of Nagi’s old coworker. Shout out to his coworker! Woooo!” Isagi says excitedly as he introduces their video.
“Also, we’re going to be doing this mukbang in Nagi’s car since the dorms don’t have a working elevator and we are not walking up six flights of stairs with all these bags,” he continues.
“Wait. Are we going to be ranking it, or we’re just eating it?”
“A mukbang is just eating the food.” Nagi answers Reo’s question while he hands Isagi his drink.
“He put as much lemonade as physically possible in this cup, my god” Reo starts slurping the tangerine lemonade that erupted onto his lid from how much it was filled.
Nagi starts looking through all the bags, trying to examine all the contents of what they were given.
“What did your friend give us? I have a lot of nuggets and fries with me back here.” Isagi asks while also examining some of the bags in the back seat.
“This bag is just napkins and shit. Reo, I think you’re holding the burgers.”
Reo stops sipping his drink, placing it in the cup holder to look through the bags he had on his lap. Nagi was right, and Reo started passing out a burger to everyone in the car.
Isagi and Nagi immediately start tearing into the food while Reo addresses the camera.
“Okay guys, for context on why we have the entire Wendy’s menu in our car right now.” Reo motions to the mess of bags around them.
“We were on our way home from Target, and then Isagi was, like, suggesting we stop for food. And I’m not even kidding, like maybe thirty seconds later, Nagi gets a text from a friend at his old job, And this guy is like ‘hey, I’m going to quit already, do you want some free food before I head out for good-“
“My hero” Isagi interrupts.
“-and we said yes, because it’s free food, obviously” Reo finishes explaining.
“I wasn’t expecting him to give us this much food, though,” Nagi adds. He then takes the last bite of his burger, before turning to Isagi and gesturing at him to hand over some nuggets.
“Why did he quit by the way, did he tell you?” Reo asks, shoving some fries into his mouth.
Nagi hums in confirmation, currently focused on opening a nugget sauce packet. Once he gets it open, he pulls out his phone from where he was keeping it in the driver's door.
“He was texting me about it, but I was driving so I didn’t get to see everything. From what I did see, though, it looked like the general manager was being a bitch.”
“Oh no, was it the same manager you had beef with, too?” Reo asks, and Isagi scoots forward to be closer to the conversation.
Nagi is scrolling on his phone, trying to catch up on the messages his friend sent. “Yeah, Hiori was telling me that they had a lot of cars in the drive-thru, and it was just him, Sydney, and, like, a sandwich maker on shift. Then he was saying that there were like three families waiting for their order to be taken by the front register, but they were flooded with orders already.”
“Honestly, I would’ve quit, too. That sounds like straight hell.” Isagi adds. He then makes grabby hands at Nagi to let him know he needs napkins.
Nagi hands some to him, then continues the story. “It gets worse. Sydney is fucking ass at her job, so she fucked up two drive-thru orders like she always does, and then she blows up on Hiori because apparently, he’s supposed to be the one making sure everything was bagged currently, even though she was in charge of bagging.”
“Were customers complaining?” Isagi asks.
“I don’t know. Probably? Hiori mentioned that a bunch of people ended up just walking out or pulling out of the drive-thru.”
“Hiori is better than me, because I woulda shown Sydney an HR incident.” Isagi pulls out some more chicken nuggets and offers them to Reo, who accepts.
“Yeah, he got into a fight with her because the people whose order she messed up came in to complain, and she tried putting the blame on him but he wouldn’t let her.”
Reo does little clapping motions, careful not to dirty Nagi’s car with the food he was still holding.
“And then, yeah, they had a bunch of food left over because they prepared some of the orders ahead of time before some cars pulled out of the line, and he was like ‘come get some’.” Nagi ends the story by motioning to all the food around them.
“Lowkey, even though we’re absolutely tearing up this food right now, I don’t think Wendy's is that good to be lining up for their food, no offense.” Isagi claims.
“Yeah, I got sick of the food after like three days of working there.” Nagi adds.
“This is the first time I’ve had Wendy’s actually. I don’t hate it, though, it tastes like every other fast food place.”
Nagi pauses his chewing to look at Reo in confusion.
“No it’s not.” Nagi corrects Reo.
“What do you mean ‘No, it’s not’” Reo says with air quotes. “When have I ever had Wendy’s before?”
“Reo, I literally used to bring back food from my job to the dorm at least twice per week”
“Okay? That doesn’t mean I ate it.” Reo argues back.
“Then who did? That food wouldn’t last more than a night in our fridge. I thought you were the one eating it, so I never brought it up.” Nagi rebuts.
“Nagi, I wasn’t even your roommate when you were working! How would I be the one eating your food at night when I was sleeping peacefully in my apartment?”
They both look at each other in silence before Nagi continues.
“Wait, wait, Reo, if you weren’t the one eating my food, then who was it? You’re the only person I’ve given a key to,” Nagi stops slouching to sit up nervously, placing a hand on Reo’s arm.
Reo sits up too, and there’s a long beat of silence as they both try to come up with reasonable explanations for Nagi’s food disappearing.
Isagi doesn’t seem to notice the silence as he shuffles through the food bags by him.
“Oh shit! They gave us the Takis fries!”
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There is a cut in the video, and at this new point they are all eating some topped fries with a fork as Reo readjusts the camera’s position with one arm.
“Reo, you need to push it further back. Nagi is barely in frame.”
He follows Isagi’s advice, and once everything is properly set up, he sits back down on the seat and continues to eat.
He asks Nagi mid-bite, “These are good. What are they called?”
Nagi leans toward Reo, trying to get a closer look at his food.
“You got the baconator fries. I got the cheese fries, I think. Did we all get different ones?”
Nagi looks at what Isagi is eating, “Yeah, Hiori gave us one of each. Isagi is fucking up the chili cheese fries.”
“Dude, I’m not even tearing these up that bad compared to you. You’ve had, like, 30 nuggets at least.” Isagi tries defending himself while Reo is snickering at him.
”I’m getting kind of full, I’m not gonna lie.” Reo says as he shifts in his seat trying to get comfortable from the ache in his stomach.
“Give me your fries.” Nagi grabs them from Reo’s hold.
“Greedy, gluttonous, big as hell. All words I would use to describe you, right now.” Isagi says as he rests his back on the seat, clearly full as well.
Nagi ignores him, continuing to eat the food.
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There’s another small jump in the video. They’re currently quiet, and Nagi seems close to sleeping.
Isagi breaks the silence to bring up a point of discussion so abruptly, it wakes Nagi up.
“Reo, why Nagi? No offense to you, Man, you know I love you.” Isagi places a hand on Nagi’s shoulder as a sign of good grace, but it doesn’t work.
He gets offended anyways because Isagi managed to somehow question the integrity of his relationship and criticize his character with a single statement.
Nagi whips his head fast to look at Isagi, and while the camera doesn’t catch the expression he gives his friend, it is obvious that the look is unpleasant as Isagi bows his head down in shame.
Reo starts laughing, on the other hand, and he tilts his head up to think of a response.
“You know what, my dad asked me the same thing when I came out to him. Because I told him that Sei was my boyfriend to rip the band aid off, and he was more upset over the fact that I was dating Sei than me liking boys.”
Nagi pouts at his response. He wanted Reo to defend his honor.
“But you know what, there is no one in my life that makes me happier than Sei. He’s just so authentically himself, and when you’re in my position, being surrounded by people putting on facades and fronts constantly, I needed someone who was genuine.” Reo turns his head to Nagi, placing a small kiss on his cheek, which brightens his boyfriend’s mood.
“Is the real answer because he’s 6 '3-Ow! ” Isagi exclaims after Nagi gives him a smack on his forehead.
Reo laughs loudly at this, and Nagi goes back to slouching in his seat as if nothing happened.
The smack does nothing to discourage Isagi from asking questions, and he proceeds with his interrogation of his gay best friends.
“How about you, Nagi? How did you find out you were gay?”
Reo shifts his body to look at his boyfriend, interested in the answer since he didn’t know himself.
Nagi pours some ice from the extra cup into his drink while he thinks of an answer.
“I was never interested in girls growing up, or anyone really, until I saw Reo. I didn’t even think about my sexuality beyond the fact that I needed Reo to be with me forever or else I’d explode.”
“Awwwwwwww! You're so cute, Sei” Reo pinches Nagi’s cheeks, pleased with his answer.
Isagi fakes gags and rolls his eyes. “Whatever. Reo’s totally out of your league by the way.” He says bitterly.
“I know,” Nagi agrees, and that just makes Reo even more giggly.
Isagi fakes gags even louder to ruin their cute atmosphere, and it clearly works since Nagi looks at him annoyed.
“I’ll give it to you guys, you have been really good about your PDA today.” Isagi makes small clapping noises and Reo joins in. “Usually, you guys are so over each other that it makes everybody within your vicinity want to throw up, but you guys really toned it down for me today. Good job.”
Reo high fives Isagi and whoops jokingly. Nagi looks unamused.
“We only toned it down because Reo didn’t want to make you feel like a third wheel.”
“And that’s why Reo is my favorite and not you.”
Nagi springs out of his seat to attack Isagi, and there's a scream cut off before the video jumps again.
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“This is so off topic but whenever I order or, like, buy something with you guys, I always feel like I’m your child.”
Nagi and Reo both turn to look at Isagi confused.
“Not even in a weird way, it’s just that you guys are giants, and I literally look like a child next to you guys. And it’s worse when Reo pays for everything ‘cus then I just feel like that Twitter dog with the propeller hat.”
Reo snickers a little after hearing his explanation. The corner of Nagi’s mouth twitches a little as he fights back a smile.
“You guys are laughing but somebody is living this life right now.”
“Shut up, dude.” Reo says, still laughing.
Nagi seems to come to a realization quietly, and looks back at Isagi. “Yo, why were you asking us all those gay questions earlier?”
“Oh, I was just curious, nothing else.”
“Really? So it’s not because you are questioning your sexuality, and you wanted advice from the two homos closest to you?” Reo presses further.
“Well, it’s just that, I don’t even know if I’m questioning or if I’m just over complicating my own thoughts.”
“Do you like a guy?”
“Maybe? Maybe not? I don’t know yet, that’s why I asked you.”
Nagi squits his eyes a little as he tries to read Isagi's body language.
There’s some silence between them before Nagi breaks it.
“Is it Ba-“
“Well that’s all the time we have for today guys!” Isagi interrupts Nagi while he simultaneously muffles his voice with his hand.
Reo is dying of laughter by this point. Isagi and Nagi are fighting now, and the video finally ends with a black card that has the text:
I’m the one who has been stealing Nagi’s food btw
-Isagi :p