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quitting to work on my YouTube channel full-time. My web series. It got picked up by a company that produces Internet shows.”
    “Whoa. Congrats. So, you act?”
    “And write and produce and edit and get licenses to film in places and hold castings, and pretty much everything…me and my best friend, Samira. With the company, Hillington Media - Digital, stepping in, it gives us a huge break to just focus on the writing and producing and acting part. I do all the writing, but Samira gives a lot of input on the female character she plays.”
    “That’s really cool. What’s it about?”
    “Well, Samira and I have known each other since we were fourteen, and we both went to Leeward University. We were part of the first group of co-ed roommates when the school changed its roommate gender policy after our freshman year. It made the news. We were always getting media requests for interviews, and I got an idea about doing a Q&A on YouTube. It got five thousand hits in a day or two. So we started doing it weekly, focusing on different topics, like how to handle it when we wanted to have dates over. Or have people sleep over…”
    “I’ve never lived with a guy. Was it weird? Did it change your relationship to something more than platonic?”
    “She got herself a boyfriend early on—Patrick, the guy she’s married to now—and I dated a few girls over the four years. I don’t think we ever got a chance to even think of each other that way, which is cool. But then I wrote a short story about two childhood best friends, Chuck and Sami, whose relationship starts to change when they room together in college. My creative writing professor loved it and helped me turn it into a full-length manuscript. Two years ago, Samira and I were hanging out and talking about college and she brought it up. She said a lot of people were making their own web shows about all kinds of shit, and we could do it. Our parents gave us a loan, I eventually wrote the pilot, and we turned my channel into a fictional series, How to Fuck up a Friendship . ”
    “ Oh, so that’s why stories are your favorite part.” Snail pace traffic finally gave me a chance to really look over at her, and she was holding a smile. Maybe it was just something she did a lot. But I liked that she was talking to me while she was doing it.
    “Yeah, and our characters are us —I pulled a lot of details from our real lives—but I get to weave these really cool backgrounds in that don’t exist, too. It’s like being in a parallel universe. Sometimes fiction is the only chance you ever get to do what you couldn’t.”
    “ How to Fuck up a Friendship,” she said with a giggle and tapped away on her cellphone. “‘When their university announced a co-ed dorm room pilot program, Chuck and Sami were the first to sign up. Now that they’re living together, it’s the ideal situation for the lifelong best friends. So, what could possibly go wrong? Oh, just everything .’ Whoa, the new season starts soon. Quick recap, please.”
    “Let’s see…Chuck has always secretly been in love with Sami, since they were kids. He had very idealistic notions of her growing up . He could never work up the nerve to ask her out. As an adult, he still idealizes her, but he has a lot of grownup cynicism mixed in now. He doesn’t think he’s good enough for her.
    “Everything’s fine for a while, until she brings home a guy one night, and Chuck hears them having sex through the door. He crashes in another friend’s room, and he can’t sleep. Next morning, he starts sabotaging her relationship with the guy. He does so much damage—he loses himself in destroying Sami’s relationship—and he puts it above everything else. Chuck feels horrible eventually, though. He decides to move out, but Sami comes home after the breakup one night and climbs into bed with him. And it ended with a cliffhanger about whether they slept together or not. Season finale is pushing one hundred thousand