Wow, it’s been a year and lots of things have happened. As a person I’ve changed a lot. I never liked hugs or spent so much money on something I didn’t need. Up until now I’ve lived my life without meaning or purpose. I never did anything for anyone if it was inconvenient to me or I just didn’t feel like it. I’d really only do things if I was paid to. I was pretty selfish and closed of and old me would say that it was in the name of not being hurt by other, but I think that’s a stupid excuse. I was a piece of garbage and I knew that back then but at the same time I didn’t know how bad I was. This year has picked me up and flipped me on my head and I’ve been completely forced out of the bubble I’ve been living and who do I have to thank for that? Well, a lot of people.
Warning, this will probably be long.
Honestly, it’s nice to be part of drama and not just reporting it which is something I thought I’d never say. I’ve always been more of a spectator, nothing happened to me I just witnessed everyone go about their days. I’ve lived that way for a long time despite Cal and Quinn’s efforts to include me and make life less dull and mundane. It’s really not their fault either. I chose that for myself, it was what I was used to and it made me feel comfortable despite also making me feel empty and bitter.
This is specifically to Callum, Quinn, Kent, and Francis (ig) I’m sorry. I didn’t appreciate the friendships I already had before this year, I realize that now. Truly, the times we spent together, though few, they mean a lot to me. Those few moments made life a little more bearable so thanks for still being friends with someone like me. I’ve probably pushed you away more times than I’ve been a good friend yet I still have your love, support, and time and I don’t deserve that. You guys are great and amazing and I’ll stop wasting your time and start making the moments we have together worth it. We’ve had fun this year so lets do it again.
To another person I wanna mention, Carol. At the start, when I witnessed you and Everett get married then divorce, I never thought I would get so involved as I did. It was a ride and a really fun one. Seeing you get with Lucas was sweet. I’m happy for you and it’s nice to see happy you are. I’ll admit your spontaneous nature has rubbed off on me a bit, I see life just a little bit different in a good way thanks to you. I honestly never expected anything to come from our friendship. At first I thought of it as just a shallow business friendship (but that’s mostly because I didn’t believe you actually wanted to be friends with me back then. It was nothing from you that made me think that way) I don’t believe that anymore of course, you have quickly become one of the best friends I’ve ever had and your support. I’m undeserving of it but it means a lot to me.
Everett, thanks. I don’t really know what to say about you or too you but just thanks. You’re a pretty nice guy to be around sometimes.
Shiloh! Thanks for listening and supporting me even though 9 out of 10 times I didn’t even tell you what was troubling me but you knew anyway. Your advice, though sometimes useless, was very valuable to me and we’ve had a couple fun times together. You’re more like an employer than a friend but still, I hope we can continue working together.
Kam, you’re a great guy. I’d never have talked to you under normal circumstances but I’m sure glad I did. I hope you get what you want for Christmas.
Alrighty, here’s the part I’m not exactly able to deal with, Ben! Wow, I- I don’t know how to put this into understandable English or even a language but I guess I’ll just start with the basics. I’d completely given up on trying to find someone a long time ago. If someone came along and I liked them I’d just shrug it off, I mean, even if they felt the same way I do they’d be better off with someone else. You- I’m- Never would’ve thought I’d end up with someone as fun and bright as you. I don’t even have words for just how much you mean to me and how happy you just existing makes me. I’m a mess, I don’t sleep, sometimes I get too caught up in school or work to even think about others, I’m paranoid, and I keep a lot of things to myself. There is so much about myself that I haven’t told you yet and you’ve been nothing but open and forgiving and I don’t- I don’t deserve that.
I honestly don’t deserve anything I cherish right now, I’ve done literally nothing to earn them, you guys, everything else! I’ve just been wasting my life worrying about pointless things and shutting myself off from everything in a pitiful attempt to fit in a mold I could never fit. Now that I realize what I have I’m so scared I’ll suddenly lose it all because maybe one day you’ll all- just disappear, but that’s not something I want to think about. I’d rather just think about the present.
So, I have changed a person. Is it the good kind of change? Yeah, I think so. I’m no longer worried about things that don’t really matter, I’m more focused on the things that matter now. I might not deserve your love, your friendship, your support, but I want to return everything you’ve given me. You’ve made my life so much more meaningful and if I can make yours even the littlest bit brighter I’m going to try.
So thank you 2020, you weren’t all that bad and hello 2021, I hope that you’re even better.
[What happened the day the DTI boys swapped personalities]
((I had 5 hours to do whatever so I did this. Warning it’s kinda longish))
So, Quinn was behind the idea of swaping personalities yesterday and was supported by Callum so it became a thing (this is how anything starts)
They all drew names.
Kierce got Francis.
Francis got Quinn.
Quinn got Kierce.
Callum got Kent.
Kent got Callum.
The rules to the game were simple:
- They had to dress up as the person they got
- They had to stay in character at all times
- Everyone contributes $50 for the prize money
- The last person to get eliminated gets the prize money
- if there are two or more people standing the eliminated have to vote for who did the best and the winner gets the prize money
Mission 1: Dress the part.
Kierce:
- Wore what he normal did around people
- stole an eyepatch from Francis' collection
- styled his hair to cover one of his eyes
- Money spent: $0
Francis:
- wore a ball cap
- a bright yellow T-Shirt that said, "spreading happy :)"
- blue jeans with splashes of different colors of paint
- tied his hair back and got rid of the eyepatch
- everyone liked that (but mostly Callum)
Quinn:
- avoided formal clothes at all costs
- raided Kierce's closet
- wore a million accessories
- shirt with obscure design on it
- black jeans
- yoiked Kierce's favorite jacket
- Kierce did not like that
Callum:
- sportswear
- looked good
- none were surprised
- posted so many pictures of himself
- his fans liked that
Kent:
- Callum had to help him
- $80 black dress shirt
- $50 white designer pants
- $65 grey Oxford boots
- $70 ring
- Total: $265.46
- Callum paid for all of it (:>)
- Kent looked really good tho so it was all worth it
"They're group of good-looking men but something very wrong with all them." - Kierce's grandma 2016
The Tumblr stuff happened while they were waiting for everyone to get ready and start the day. Kierce will never say "Idiot baka, ever again.
So earlier on everyone picked out an activity they all liked doing. So Callum picked first.
Mission 2: Have a fashion show in Callum’s room.
Kierce:
- said it was stupid
- didn't do it
- was a judge
- 0's for everyone
- took pictures of everyone
- and laughed bitterly
- enjoyed watching Francis suffer
Francis:
- hated every minute of it
- wanted to die
- was stuck as the dj
- fought the urge to play Last Resort
- fought the urge to yell at Kent's stupidity
Quinn:
- was a judge too
- used big words
- that he didn't know the meaning to
- it was very adorable
- "Sir your score is a 5+4."
- beams with pride at his cleverness.
Callum:
- lived and yet died
- had to wear simple or mismatched outfits
- oh the horror
- still looked good
Kent:
- wanted to try wearing high heels
- failed
- he tripped so badly
- and so many times
- but he really wanted to master walking in high heels
- Kent pls stop you can't
Next thing!
Mission 3: Play at the park with kids. Quinn picked it after bungee jumping was shot down by Francis (who is afraid of heights.)
Kierce:
- said it was stupid
- did it anyway
- Kei loves kids so dang much
- he had so much fun telling them stories and helping the small ones on the monkey bars
- said the kids made him do it
- frowned on the outside
- smiled on the inside
- a tiny girl hugged him and he nearly hugged her back
- he just patted her of the head awkwardly
Francis:
- played on the merry-go-round
- he spun it so fast and the kids loved him for it
- he was smiling and laughing with all of them
- fell off once and just laughed it off
- everyone recorded it
- Francis should act his age more often
- he snuck his camera out every couple of minutes to take pictures of everyone
- he mostly took pictures of Callum
Quinn:
- told kids to stay in school and never do drugs
- kept randomly saying things like, "1+1=2"
- "Hey kid. Do you want some smarties? It's $20 a piece"
- the kids found it funny
- Kierce did not
- pretended to take a nap on the bench
Callum:
- played basketball with some boys
- used to play basketball and hadn't done it in forever
- everyone appreciated that
- "How are you so tall mister?" "I have no idea I just," waves hands around, "grew one day."
- his Kent impression was dead on
- Kent went :O "I did that too!"
Kent:
- played basketball with Callum and kids
- he forgot he was Callum and couldn't help it
- he was eliminated
- but everyone expected that
- Kent will and can only be Kent
Next!!!!
Mission 4: Play volleyball. Twas Kent’s idea so they went to the gym that the volleyball club use. The club members were there as usual and they played too.
Kierce:
- Said it was stupid
- Did it anyway
- Had fun
- Got hit in the face with the ball many times
Francis:
- He was not a fan
- He did jump around tho
- and smiled no matter how fake it was
- so he was safe
- showed amazing team spirit
- Lysander dropped by because he heard there was drama going on within the jock circle
- happiness levels went up by millions
- and smiled brighter than the sun
- Ly was so confused but he liked seeing his bf happy as did everyone
(Side note: Francis is not single.)
Quinn:
- You could tell he wanted to jump around and just be an energy ball
- because that's what he did
- he was eliminated
- but he just shrugged it off and laughed
- had too much fun missing the ball every time he tried to spike it
Callum:
- CEO of getting hit in the face.
- usually he'd just dodge them
- but he was Kent now
- he couldn't afford to break character
- His nails suffered and he was in pain but he pushed through
- had fun?
- got hit in the stomach once
- nearly died
Kent:
- just an normal day with the bois
- kept forgetting that most of the boys has never played volleyball before
- he was the one behind all the times Callum and Kierce got hit in the face
Mission 5: Read books. Kierce's activity was originally doing a job one of the teachers had hired him to do, which was clean out one of the storage rooms. No one but Kierce liked that. So he had to pick again.
Kierce:
- complained about such a stupid activity
- read, "How to be British 101," and, "The Tea for Me Might Be the Tea for You”
- enjoyed it
Francis:
- enjoyed the peace and quiet
- until he realized he was suppose to be disturbing it
- looked over at Kierce
- who looked back at him with a smug smile and then went back to his book
- the urge to strangle was strong with this one
- in the end he just bounced around looking at books
- talked loudly about whatever
- got kicked out of the library
- danced all the way out
- wanted to die
Quinn:
- knew he was eliminated but was having too much fun to stop
- randomly shushed people
- found a math book
- it was big so he assume it was complicated
- it was and he understood nothing but he felt smart
- "Quinn what are you reading?" "Advanced Engineering Mathematics; the 7th edition."
- when he got tired of it he found a book with math puns
- math puns for the rest of the day
Callum:
- avoided the fashion magazines
- wouldn't even go anywhere near it
- instead he just walked around all bored like
- bounced a ball off the wall
- accidentally hit himself in the face with the ball
- blacked out for a minute
- when he finally came to
- Kent: "Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there."
- Callum: "Damn you Stormcloaks. Skyrim was fine until you came along. Empire was nice and lazy. If they hadn't been looking for you, I could've stolen that horse and been half way to Hammerfell. You there. You and me - we shouldn't be here. It's these Stormcloaks the Empire wants."
- Quinn: "We're all brothers and sisters in binds now, thief."
- Kierce: "Shut up back there!"
- Francis recorded the whole thing
Kent:
- was bored
- kept pulling books off the shelves and putting them back where they didn't belong
- danced out with Francis
The last mission: Go to Francis' favorite tea shop.
Kierce:
- first thing he did was order Francis' favorite tea
- "Hmm, this doesn't taste as good as it usually does."
- got assaulted by napkins
Francis:
- assaulted Kierce with napkins
- tried to run away
- Kierce threw a fork at him
- he died from shock
- eliminated
- ordered his favorite tea
- proceeded to go on a rant about how stupid the day has been
- chewed out Kent for being stupid and told him to never try wearing high heels beacuse he'll only hurt himself
- told Quinn that offering candy to kids was a bad idea even if it is a joke because adults can take it the wrong way and that his math puns were the worst
- told Callum that he should play basketball more often
- glared at Kierce
Quinn:
- makes a math pun
- but it's not just any math pun
- it's the worst math pun
- had countless hot chocolates because Callum was paying
- tried to make Francis and Kierce apologize to each other
- Francis: "No, I'm not apologizing. He said something stupid and deserved everything he got."
- Kierce: "I'm not apologizing to someone as stupid as him that's just stupid."
- Quinn: :(
- Kent: "Could you two get along FOR FIVE MINUTES!"
Callum:
- smiled at all the workers and told them they were all doing a great job
- gave them all a $50 tip for their hard work
- they were so busy dying they didn't notice Kierce and Francis fighting
- the DTI boys avoided getting kicked out again
- sadly that wasn't a very Kent thing to do
- he did got eliminated
- ordered an latte
- there was a fancy heart in it
- Cal took a picture
- then he asked for the cafe worker who did it to thank them
- "Thank you, you’re really talented with latte art. Next time I visit will you teach me how to do that?"
Kent:
- he had a great time
- had a smoothie or two
- laughed at Quinn's bad math puns when no one else did
To end the day the five friends went to a karaoke and had a great time singing and talking about the events of the day. Francis showed off the pictures he took that day and promised that he'd print copies of the best ones and give them to everyone. Kierce won $250 which is always a good way to end the day. Callum swore to never play volleyball and posted on Instagram about the day. Quinn has a great time and learned many things, like how many math puns there are, something that is always very important to know. Kent was just happy to spend time with his friends and play volleyball. It was a wonderful day.
