Q&A

"Okay, let's finish this shit," Sydney muttered as she sat back down on her bed after turning on her camera. She'd borrowed the equipment from Axl once she'd arrived back in Georgia for the holidays, the two of them deciding to still spend Christmas together and let Kevin and Allison be with their newborn. Spending this time of year together felt too much like family too quickly, they were trying to be tentative and slow with this. There would be other times, calmer times.

So, she sat now, next to her boyfriend in a room she hadn't slept in for a couple months. She found it odd, how it still felt like home and yet the noun had now arranged itself to fit a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles. Sydney tried not to dwell on it as she began to make due on a promise she had failed to keep nearly a year ago. "So... Boyfriend tag. Right? Is that still what we're doing?" She questioned, eyebrows creasing her forehead as they met.

"I mean, I guess? We got fan questions too, so we could do that? ...Doing an actual Q&A's a little weird." Chandler muttered, making his girlfriend hold back a laugh. "Let's do it, I guess?"

"Into the rabbit hole, we go," Sydney muttered, chuckling as she opened up and started scrolling through her Twitter app. It took her a couple seconds to reach a random question, giggling as she found one. "Oh boy. 'What did you think of Chandler's mullet'." As the boy in question began to laugh, subconsciously running his hand through his now short hair and down the back of his neck. "I... Laughed at first? You seemed so done when you told me, I couldn't do anything but laugh."

"She kept trying to touch it and see it, I hated it." He muttered to himself, rolling his eyes and chuckling at his girlfriend's attempt at hiding her giggles. "You seemed pretty relieved when I chopped it off, honestly." Sydney nodded slowly, a smile spreading across her face.

"Oh yeah, I was the first person to tell him to chop it off. Even before the mullet," As he began blushing just a little, Sydney found herself grinning more and more. "That damn photoshoot," She muttered under her breath, managing to keep her laughter in. Chandler, not so much, chuckling as he mentioned her insistence on bringing up said pictures. "I'm sorry, okay, you just looked good. Sue me."

Despite the badly covered up redness of his cheeks, the boy responded smoothly. "I'll get my lawyers ready." But after a random grumble about something having to do with haircuts and a couple scrolls down his Twitter, he landed on a question. "What were your first impressions of each other?"

"I was intimidated." Sydney laughed, making him frown. At his confusion, the girl elaborated. "My brother spent a good two years reading the comics. When I auditioned, he spent a good month telling me about the story and it was just Carl this, Carl that. I was fucking intimidated as hell, I thought you'd be some cool, Oscar award winning actor or whatever," He began to laugh as Sydney chuckled to herself. "But then, I actually met you for our chemistry read. And you were nice to me and looked sorta nervous, but we bounced off each other well. So, that really calmed me down. And, here we are, now." She finished explaining, finally looking up to meet her boyfriend's eyes, the nostalgia coating his gaze and smile making her chest twist a little.

It took Chandler a while to answer. "I was nervous because I thought you were pretty," He remarked simply. The girl beside him chuckled, letting her head rest on his shoulder. "I'm serious, I got really nervous. I'd never really had a crush on anyone before but you were just so pretty. And then the way you got into character, and your seriousness, and your professionalism. I was terrified." Sydney emitted a sound placed somewhere between a laugh and a coo, fingers intertwining with his.

They spent a moment there, in the silence and nostalgia, enveloped in a soft memory that had been hidden away nearly a decade later. When brought back up, Sydney's voice was small. "What's better? Acting together or making music together? Holy shit, that's a really difficult question... Acting, for me." Chandler quirked an eyebrow. "I got to kiss you all the time, that was my job. If I kiss you while we're trying to make a song, the song doesn't really end up finished."

He rolled his eyes jokingly at her logic but smiled to himself. "I'm the opposite... Not that I don't wanna kiss you," He reassured her. "Just... It feels more like us. Like, actually us. I don't know, I just like it more."

They zoomed through questions quickly from then on, most of them random moments on set- "I think he spilled coffee on me thirty five different times"; "Syd somehow perfected the art of leaning against me and falling asleep standing up when we were fourteen"; "I always barged into Chandler's trailer, I spent more time there than in my own, so I started bringing snacks every week to make up for it"- But, eventually, Sydney landed on something that made her smile widen.

"What was your first kiss like," It was supposed to be a question, but it left her lips like a statement as her boyfriend groaned loudly, letting his head rest against his girlfriend's shoulder as Sydney answered for him, a tentative smirk on her face. "Awkward. It was my first kiss- not his. He was in a very serious middle school relationship-" He cut her off softly, muttering for her to shut up, her giggling. "But yeah, he was in a totally committed, eighth-grade relationship that I totally wasn't jealous of. But he was my first kiss, for season three."

"They never got to see that, right?" She shook her head. "Yeah, they had us film two variations- the 'almost kiss' that ended up airing, and a scene where I, like, kissed her in the chastest, most awkward, pre-teen way. It was fucking awkward."

"Oh, you think it was awkward for you? I had my first kiss in front of a bunch of cameramen and producers, with a guy I had a crush on, who was dating someone else. I think that's a little more awkward." Sydney's eyebrows were raised but her tone indicated her lightheartedness as Chandler sighed in faux exasperation.

"The first real kiss was lowkey worse? Because we actually had to, like, makeout in front of all these people." He mused, making her inwardly cringe.

"The second kiss in that episode was worse because they had us laying down- Basically, if you don't remember, Beth tells Rick she heard us yelling, and he goes to check on us, and it's supposed to parallel the previous season, because this time he doesn't interrupt us. But filming that was just worse, because we were laying down on that uncomfortable, thin ass mattress, and there's just this shot of us. My back was facing the camera and he was half on top of me, and we were supposed to turn a little so they'd see we were making out or something. So, we just had to keep kissing till they got the shot, and it was just so fucking weird." Sydney narrowed her eyes at the memory, remember the nervousness of having to kiss a boy she'd convinced herself she'd let go of. It hurt her to think of the way she'd ran from him, how it had cost her a whole other two years of heartbreak, and the both of them a couple failed relationships.

"Oh god, I forgot about that. I didn't hate that one that much, honestly. It took a while to get used to, kissing you on camera, but the first one was worse for me." Chandler muttered, running his hand up his hair.

Eventually, they moved to easier to answer questions, shorter answers to try to wrap a long video up. "Thoughts on Chandler's hair? It's weird!"

"Well, thanks." He grumbled back, making the girl pull him toward her, laughing.

"No, no, no! I mean like... It's just different. But I like it," She ran her fingers through the now short back of his brown locks, him taking a moment to appreciate the feeling and the compliment before speaking up.

"If she starts touching my hair, she won't stop, so, moving on." Although, it only took a couple moments for his eyes to widen as they fell upon another question. "I- Uh, I shouldn't read this," He muttered softly.

At the sudden tint of his cheeks, Sydney frowned. "What is it," She questioned, peering over his shoulder to look at his phone screen, reading aloud. "Who top- Y'all are some nasty motherfuckers," She cut herself off as Chandler struggled not to laugh too hard. "What the fuck, guys," Sydney half feigned disgust, hiding her slightly crimson cheeks with a toss of her hair. "Anyway, on that note, I think we should finish this mess." As the boy beside her nodded eagerly, she concluded the video quickly. "Thanks for watching and thanks for your questions! Uh, subscribe to Axl or whatever, and like this to show him I'm better than him. Oh, and happy holidays, guys."

"Happy holidays, bye!" Chandler waved softly at the camera, throwing his body back on the bed they sat on as the blonde reached over to turn the camera off.

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a christmas double update as promised. and yes daiIyparker and carlsgrime i included the damn who tops question just for y'all, but no i'm not giving you a real answer whOOPS

but yeah it's 4 am so i'm sorry for any typos i just wanted to get this out. hope your xmas eve was great (if you celebrate it!) i'm gonna go fucking sleep now