AUGUST HAD kindly asked Josh to take her to the closets Best Buy and all she had picked up was camera she could record things on.

He didn't ask any questions and could barely get his goodbye out when she rushed out of the car and into her apartment.

She ran upstairs into her room and locked the door behind her. She unboxed the camera and the SD card that came with it and hit record.

"Hi," She sighed, "I'm August Gomez and the first song I had ever written was with my friend Olivia Rodrigo called All I Want for our show High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and today is day one where I finally take advantage of what I have here and make something of my own."

She didn't know what she doing if she was being honest. She had woken up that day with a ton of energy and wanted to do something while she felt like she was in one of the best moods ever.

"Growing up my dad told me I couldn't be sad because I had it good in life and because he said that I never ever cried in front of him or anyone for years." She said, pulling a notebook and a pen from her bag, "I didn't cry in front of my best friend, Angelina Reed until I was 12, but I don't want to talk about the sad things right now. I wanna remember kindergarten."

August had only written one song in her life and that was All I Want with Olivia but she remembered this story she had written when she was in the 3rd grade or so about her, Angel, and their friend, space man.

"Angel has been the only person that I can always count on. She was my kindergarten pal... that's what she refers to us as but when I was writing this story I thought saying kindergarten pals wasn't enough so I changed it to Kindergarten Kids and it was really about Angel and I and a space man." She explained, "The space man was happy and could do what he wanted and Angel and I thought he was so confident. In reality, I was the space man in disguise."

August went on and on as she wrote down any and everything that had to do with her and her best friend when they were in kindergarten.

"I think, if the time ever comes, that I want people to hear my song, Kindergarten Kids." She smiled, "Olivia and I have this pact of some sorts and I want to be able to look back on this stuff and see what's changed. I don't know if anyone but myself will hear this song, but it will hold a special place in my heart."

AUGUST HELD the camera in her hands as she knocked on Angel's bedroom door.

She heard a very muttered "come in" and walked inside. She saw Angel laying in bed with a script in her hands and Gus decided to jump (quite literally) in bed with her.

"Wanna say hi?" August smiled.

Angelina softly smiled and turned seeing Gus with a camera in her hands.

"Hi! What's this for?"

"Memories."

Angelina grabbed the camera from Gus' hands and sat down at her desk with it, propping it up against the books she had piled up.

August followed behind, standing next to a sitting Angel.

"Hi future, Gus." Angel smiled, wrapping her arm around Gus' torso, "I think that this acting thing is gonna take off for you and I'm so glad to be by your side while your doing it."

August smiled as she grabbed the camera and turned it off.

"You missed breakfast this morning." Angel said, "Where were you?"

"I asked Josh to take me to the store." She answered, laying down on Angelina's bed.

"You've been hanging out with him a lot off set."

"Well... he's my potential love interest. I've gotta be close to him."

"Stop making excuses." Angelina smiled, "You like him."

August propped herself up with her elbows and looked over at Angel.

She continued, "Admit it. You were with him all day last week and with him this morning."

"Can't I just be friends with him?"

"Oh, of course, but when have you ever hung out with a guy like this?" Angel paused and joined August on the bed, "Did you hang out with guys when I was in L.A.?"

Both August and Angelina were born and raised in Texas and they hadn't really met anybody that caught their eyes, but whenever Angelina's show started to air people were either asking her out constantly or wondering what the fame was like.

"No."

"See! Oh! Josh is like your first real real crush, you know." Angelina smiled, "Oh, Gus this is exciting!"

Angel wrapped her arms around August causing the both of them to fall back onto the mattress.

"I don't have a real real crush on Josh. We're just two people who just so happen to be friends who work together."

"Oh, come on. You're telling me if Josh asked you to hang out right now you'd say no?"

"Yes."

By faith of some sorts, August's phone buzzed from her back pocket.

She pulled it out and read the message that came across her screen and laid her phone down on her chest.

"Are you gonna go?" Angel asked with a smile.

"It's not Josh."

"Who is it?"

"It's... none of your concern."

August honestly forgot she'd ask Josh to drive her around Salt Lake today and she had only done it because she wanted to understand the pending relationship that Ricky and Shiloh could possibly have.

"You've always been a bad lair, Gus." Angelina laughed.

JOSH HAD found a private spot for him and August as they sat in the hood of his car.

August sat crisscross with her hand resting on her cheek. She had been reading over her script for the episode where Shiloh realizes her feelings for Ricky.

"I just don't understand." August sighed, "How did Ricky and Shiloh go from confessing their feelings to the club to arguing a couple hours later?"

Josh sat in silence trying to come up with an answer she wanted.

Shiloh and Ricky were very different than Nini and Ricky and anyone who read the script would know that, but with this new information that they were filming all three endings depending on who had the best chemistry with Ricky put the two girls in a headspace of understanding who Shiloh and Nini really were.

Josh watched August read her lines back and forth to herself. He grabbed the script from her hands and hopped of the hood of his car.

"I really don't need any Love Club advise right now." He read, "Ricky turns and is faced with Shiloh."

"What are you doing?"

"You want to understand Shiloh and Ricky's relationship?" August only nodded and he continued, "Then you have to put yourself in her shoes. You asked how did Ricky and Shiloh go from confessing to arguing, you have to put yourself in Shiloh's shoes."

August sighed and brushed her hair behind her ears, "Okay. How would I do that?"

"Do you know what improvisation is?"

She nodded, "Okay, so right now you're Shiloh and I'm Ricky. There's no Joshua Bassett and no August Gomez. It's Ricky and Shiloh." He said, "Take it back to homecoming. That's what we're filming the next two days right?"

"Yeah."

"So, this is the scene where Ricky, me, finds you, Shiloh, in the club room alone."

"We already have lines for that scene. Why would we improv it?"

"You wanna know Shiloh?" Josh asked, "You'll have to put your mind in Shiloh's. Just think about what Shiloh might say to Ricky if this was real life. No script. Keep in mind that Shiloh is sad and angry and frustrated and her emotions all over the place. You'll decide how this will go. I'll start."

Josh turned around causing the girl to laugh and faced her once again.

"Homecoming was boring anyways." Josh spoke in his character, joining August back on the hood of his car, "Why are you in here by yourself?"

"It's nothing. It's stupid."

"Can't be stupid if you were alone."

August didn't say anything and Josh jumped off the hood of his car once more.

"Or... we don't have to talk at all. We can just dance."

"There's no music."

"We can dance without it."

He held his hand out for her to grab and she only stared at it for a moment. She noticed how he wasn't going to put it down until she grabbed it.

She grabbed his hand and pulled her away from the car.

"That wasn't too hard now was it?"

August stayed silent.

Josh had pretty brown eyes and she thought that he had a nice nose.

She didn't know if it was weird or not to find someone you just met to be as cute as he was but maybe Jenna had been on to something.

"August?"

"I'm... I'm sorry. Um," She had blanked. Her mind ran in a thousand different directions and she finally landed on something to change the topic, "can I tell you something? Not even Angelina knows."

"Yeah, sure."

August sighed and Josh lead the both of them back to his car.

Once inside August began spilling her guts out.

She had been invited to her hometown homecoming for the first time by this guy that everyone wanted to be with it seemed.

She hated homecoming because her date (didn't stand her up) ditched her for the pretty popular girl who said wasn't going to prom.

"So, he stood you up?" Josh asked.

"I mean, not really." August sighed, "He picked me up and we took photos then he saw the pretty, popular girl who decided to show up last minute. I was embarrassed because I had been so excited about someone asking me to go somewhere... like a date."

Josh watched as August played with the frayed part of her shoelace.

"I guess it just hurts a lot more than what I thought."

Homecoming for August was terrible but Josh knew that he could do something to make her day on set even better than the Homecoming she had.

- lucy has something to say!!

(i didn't know how to end this 😐)

SHE WON OLIVIA RODRIGO 3x GRAMMY WINNER

okay enough about her me time

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josh has a cute nose idc idc

i was gonna have shiloh and jenna be best friends instead of shiloh and evie

that's why jenna's is above evie in act one :) but y'all don't care so NEXT

i love august and angelina :)

i swear this first act was gonna be ten chapters and then i realized i couldn't develop the relationship between august or anyone if i did that so :)

i live on the east coast so i really have to stay up at 3 am to watch the new episodes 😭

bye :))))