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describe what you would call the most perfect meal.

“not taking calorie count into consideration if i could choose a last meal i’d start off with miso soup then coconut shrimp appetizer, a simple but well seasoned medium rare steak - fillet mignon, mashed garlic potatos, shells and cheese, a burrito with everything, fried matcha ice cream and a brownie for dessert. ooh and a fortune cookie” 

Hearing his softer words, the Latina’s features immediately faltered, realizing how joking about something she hadn’t even told him about yet probably wasn’t the best way to go, and she had to keep herself from moving forward to place a comforting hand to his cheek. It was something she would have and had done to Teo on several occasions, but with Ale…something about the intimacy in the small gesture scared her shitless. He had a thing for Gianna. She had to remind herself that. “Right, yeah uh…we…talked. About shit. It’s kind of a long story, and I guess I just…didn’t know where to start.” She kept her gaze on her lap, too guilty to meet his eyes since that wasn’t the only reason she had kept it from him until now; she knew how he felt about Mateo.

“hey no, this is good paqi.” he assured with a smile “i mean you needed the closure, and you would’ve told me eventually.” he bumped their shoulders, trying to keep her from feeling guilty and partially to convince himself. “so... you think he’ll be in a lot of your videos now?” he asked awkwardly not really sure what he wanted to hear. ale had to continuously remind himself there was something redeemable about the guy or else paqi and gia wouldn’t like him so much, but it was just hard to see from where he stood.

“Well I…don’t need a hand model,” She chuckled out, shaking her head at her friend. “but I do need to use a whole roll of film to take visually compelling shots using light, line, shadow and shape,” The girl numbered off, counting with her fingers and speaking as though she had been rehearsing these words over and over again. “I had a classmate that was willing to help me out but ended up canceling last minute so the struggle is very real and I need to have this done as quick as possible.”

“hmm bummer.” he chuckled with her “hey maybe we could kill two birds with one stone, i was thinking of starting an instagram for my truck. i can take the food pics myself but maybe you could get some artsy ones of me and the truck.” ale suggested casually “it’s parked in the ally, so there’s lots of shadows” he offered with raised brows.

“Oh yeah, you caught me, this isn’t actually a video, I’m just tryna train you. Like a dog.” She replied monotonously, resting part of her face on her palm, making a face at the camera like they were on the Office. Paqi was able to quickly pick up on Alejandro’s mood change, lightly bumping his shoulder with her’s, not realizing until now that she hadn’t really told him about the better terms she and Mateo were now in, making her mentally curse herself. “Hey, I was kidding. You know that, right?”

ale could only offer a halfhearted chuckle at her joke, fiddling with the wrapper in his hand. when she tried to brush it off he cleared his throat trying to clear the judgement from his voice because they didn’t do that to each other.  “either something happened with you two that i don’t know about or your humor’s darker than i remember” he commented his voice not projecting to the camera anymore.

@alerivas​

“Ale, no!” The girl whined out, softly glaring up at her taller friend as he kept eating some of the candy laid out in front of them, slapping his hand away from getting another one. “You have to earn them!” As she said it though, she found it hard to hold back a laugh. Despite her growing annoyance, however, Paquita knew she would probably end up keeping it in anyway once she got to the editing bit, sure that her viewers would love their bickering, no matter how much her patience was thinning. “Maybe I should have asked Teo to be my guest.”

“Ale yes!” he whined back opening the candy he successfully grabbed. “if you’re trying to train me i think cheetos would work better” he chuckled. ale’s brows raised at her comment, he didn’t know she was on speaking terms with mateo, let alone friendly. maybe she was just saying it for the camera but he couldn’t be so sure “i mean it’s your channel” he shrugged plopping the candy in his mouth a small sinking feeling in his gut forming.