#naleyedits

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Any time we made out in the rain was really fun. Who gets to do that all the time? I mean, also it was like really cold, like pelting us in the face. But it kind of made it more fun, I guess. -Bethany 

[anastasia-my-darlings]

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

What I love about it too, the initial clues that this is a jump ahead, frankly, are just that they put extensions in all of our hair. -Sophia

That's what I was going to say. The hair extensions. -Bethany 

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Speaking of water, Joy, how cold was the pumped-in rainwater for your notebook backyard dance kiss session? -Rob

Nice transition, Rob. That was pretty cold, as I recall. -Bethany

It was November. That's a rough time of year to be outside getting wet in Wilmington. -Sophia

Dude, you guys sold it. It was fun and beautiful, but also I can't ever watch anything without thinking of what it was actually like knowing. I was like, oh, these guys were going through it. Because I know you were getting notes like, have more fun with the dancing and you're just like...-Rob

Be more playful. -Sophia

I'm dying of hypothermia right now. You have fun. -Rob

 It was so fun. Actually, if you give me 60 seconds, I have a little surprise. Hold on. -Bethany 

See this? This is why you got to watch on the YouTubes. For Sophia's cool haircut and whatever Joy is about to bring back from the closet. -Rob 

It's the outfit. -Rob. 

Oh my God, Joy, it's the dress. -Sophia 

I guessed it. -Rob

It's the dress. -Bethany 

Get out of town. Rob was right. -Sophia. 

I have the dress and the locket. -Bethany 

Oh, stop. Oh my God, cute. -Sophia 

That was a Beyonce speed wardrobe change, Joy. Hair still Farrah Fawcett perfect. -Rob 

I'm a theater kid, don't mess with me, man. -Bethany 

Oh my gosh. Wow. -Rob 

This is it. It's got the little stringies hanging out of it. I found it. This is the dress. And it was soaking wet, and I'm so glad I kept it and brought it home. -Bethany 

Oh, I'm so glad you did too. -Sophia 

And do I have anything in this locket? I feel like now I meant to put something in, but yeah, I have it still, and I don't think I've actually worn it except, sorry, excuse me, since that day. Yeah. This was the dress. So it's wool and it's kind of itchy. I'm allergic to wool, but they were like..-Bethany

So we have an Epipen for this bit you're doing. -Rob

I'm okay, it's old enough now. I feel like it's been washed. No, it's still a little bit itchy, but it's okay. They said, I was trying to find something else, and they said, look, it's November and it's gonna be water, and you know what that's like here. So you're probably better off in something that's gonna be like thick, a thick fabric. So this is what we picked. Yeah, I think in a weird way, it kept me warm because when wool gets wet, it's not like, I don't know, it doesn't do the same thing as cotton, so it kind of still insulated me. -Bethany 

Wow, what a great saver. -Sophia 

It was a great, great scene. That was so fun, such a fun time with James. Sentimental, knowing that it was the last time we were gonna have like a big Nathan and Haley romantic moment, which we'd been having with each other for 10 years. And even though there was nothing ever romantic between the two of us off camera, there's still like, when you know that you're not gonna be spending that kind of intimate time with someone anymore. It's just, it's a friendship. It's like, there's just something that you know is gonna change. And yeah, it was, it was really sweet. -Bethany 

I have to say, weird as it may sound, I think I felt that because for some reason, like, listen, we've all seen each other kiss on camera so many times that it's like whatever. But I watched that kiss and I was like, this is a passionate kiss. I watched the way you were holding his head and the way your guys' body language wasn and I was like, ooh, I got a little hot under the collar. -Rob

It's funny. It's almost like a brotherly, like, which obviously you, I wouldn't kiss my brother that way. But like, because there's a friendship, it's like, it's almost like the kissing is not romantic and you're just, it was care. It was just care. -Bethany

Well, it read as crazy, sexy, cool, but I'm glad it was platonic caring. -Rob

And maybe it's because I know you both so well, but I was like, oh my God, there's something, there was like an extra little squeeze or something to it that was so sweet to watch. -Sophia 

I mean, that was in my heart. I can't speak for James, but I definitely felt that. -Bethany 

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

But really fun to watch James for me in particular because he's..With where he's grown, how he grew on the show as an actor, as a human, and as a character. Watching all that play out. He was sort of the secret star of the episode for me. Just to see, to see that journey even. -Bethany 

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[livelovecaliforniadreams]

 And I love to see that right. Where it's like, oh yeah, they married, they married their best friend. Like you had that funny comment where you're like, you, he's working and you're just like, Hey, if I wasn't pregnant, we could have sex in the backseat. I was like, I, I love, I love that. That is such, I, I like, I still like, I still dig my partner banter, you know what I mean? -Rob 

And the yeah, you're throwing it back at each other and, and to be that many years into a relationship and still love to crack jokes. It's fun to see. -Sophia

I just even loved watching him go, well guess I got a tire of change. There was no like, ho hum about it. There was no complaining. It was just like, all right, life, here we go. Let's get after it. Like what a relief. Just even in the context of a relationship that there's no, there's no drama around it. It's just like, yeah, this is just what we do. I appreciated seeing that. And for Nathan, like his character just keeps showing up as the, the great, the this great sort of redemption story out of a really tempestuous household that he grew up in and so much struggle that he worked through as a teenager. And I just really love watching his character development. -Bethany