Alone

Today was an awesome day for Piper. She had planned tons of fun challenges for the week. She had also created a youtube channel with Emily, her bestie. As the day went on, she realized that no one showed up and this made her frustrated, and no one was answering her calls.

"Ok, very funny," she said. "This is getting annoying!"

She called her friends again in the evening, but still, no one had responded. Not even Lev. She then started to get upset.

"Ok, seriously, why is no one showing up? Or responding to my calls? I really like…. She then stomps on the floor in frustration and her mom hears this. She goes upstairs to see what was wrong.

"Hey Piper, what's wrong?" she asked.

"Why is no one showing up? Like it's almost sunset." Piper said.

"I have no idea?" Tiffany said. "This isn't normal."

"I mean, Piper started. "I had a lot of fun things to do today but no one is here so I can do those fun things. It's like they are ignoring me. I mean, my own boyfriend didn't even answer my calls or my texts. I feel so left out right now."

"It's ok," Tiffany said hugging her. "You still have me."

Thanks, your the best," Piper replied. You are not just my mom, you’re my best friend!

Tiffany loved this. "I love you!"

"I love you more," Piper said.

So the challenges that Piper planned for the day, her mom participated in all of them. Along with the Rock Squad who were worried about her squad friends. After the challenges, Gabi and Nikol wanted to talk to Piper in her room to discuss what was going on?

"So Piper, what's going on?" Gabi asked.

"I don't know," Piper said. "Everyone seems to be like ignoring me or something. Like seriously, why are they doing this? I mean, even Lev isn't even responding!

"That ain't good," Nikol said.

"No, it is not," Piper replied.

"Well, at least you still have us though, Nikol said. "We love collaborating with you. It's like a crossover between 2 worlds. Well, 2 squads aren't really 2 worlds, but you get the point."

"I do and thank you so much for the collabs recently!" Piper said.

"Remember Piper," Gabi said. "We're not just 2 squads collaborating, we're also your friends. If you ever need someone to talk to, we will be there. We love you Piper and I'm sorry that your other friends did what they did. How would they feel if you did that to them?"

"Thank y'all for being awesome and caring," Piper said. "And your right, what they're doing doesn't make any sense at all."

From that day forward,  the Rock Squad and other friends outside the squad were temporally taking over as Piper's squad members. Usually, the members rotate throughout the week. Mondays and Wednesdays were Gabi, Anna-Kate, Keilehni, and Skye. Tuesdays and Thursdays were Jordyn, Salish, Gavin, Sebastian, and Brooke. On Fridays, and the weekends were by choice. Lyon had also come in on random days to help out. Piper no longer thought about what her real squad had done and was having too much fun to even worry about them.

"Thank you all for making days better by coming here and making content with me," Piper said to the whole group on a Saturday.

"No problem," Lyon replied. "This is great!"

"This is teamwork at its best," Skye also replied. "I love making twin videos!"

"This is the biggest collab we've ever done," Keilehni said. "It does feel like we are in 2 different universes because of the 2 different groups.

"Ha, there's no need to call 2 different groups," Piper laughed. "Since my real squad still hasn't shown up for the past like week."

Pretty soon, fans have noticed the sudden change in Piper's content as well and the followers of Piper's squad have not been uploading any video at all. The tea pages exploded and Will was being bombarded with texts by worried fans. So a Sunday, Will drove to Piper's house to ask what was going on. When he opened the door, he was surprised to see a full crowd.

"Hello!" Will said as he entered the house. "Oh my goodness what do we have here?" Will said. "Why wasn't I at the party? But Piper, I need to talk to you."

Piper already knew why he was here so she walked up to Will so he could start the interview.

"So Piper, what's going on with the squad? There are no posts from any of the members and I have been getting texts like crazy saying, Will can you ask Piper what happened?"

"So basically," Piper started. "My squad has decided to not show up at all and it's been like forever. When I tried to call them, text them, whatever, I don't get a response. So the Rock Squad decided to team up with me to be a temporary group until mine decides to show up. Which I hope they do, especially my love bear! I miss him so much.

"Oh man, that's not good," Will said worriedly. "Well, at least you still got other friends that helped you though!"

The Rock Squad gave a thumbs up at the comment.

"The Rock Squad is amazing guys!" Will said as he panned the camera to them. "Subscribe to them because they rock!"

"Thanks, Will!" Gabi said. "Just like I said to her a while back, were not just 2 different groups collaborating, were her friends too!

"And also," Piper said. "Most importantly, my Mom is also my friend, my best friend!"

"That's so amazing," Will said as he moved the camera to Piper and then her mom. "I hope everything gets back to normal soon. While I'm thinking about it though, you Piper should do a music video with the whole Rock Squad. That will be cool!"

"Oh my gosh yes!" Anna-Kate said excitedly. "Put it in the comments guys. Should we make a music video with Piper?"

"Also, Jenzten and Elliana are out because they had become king and queen at a place called Rockstone."

"I think that got that name from you," Will said, "Rockstone, Rockelle, yep, definitely a place that got its name from you, because you are amazing!"

Piper laughed at this.

"To confirm, that location is at Rockelle County here in LA," Lyon said, "It existed ever since 2020 and has a huge population. I think about 40,000 people out of 109,000 of the whole county itself live there.

"Wow," Piper exclaimed. "Lots of fans I suppose."

"Yeah, it is," Will said. "Visited there a couple of times. Most of them recognized me. It was so cool!

Then there was a knock at the door, Will saw that it was Peggy and he opened it.

"Hey everyone," she said. "Hey Piper, can I talk to you for a second?"

"Sure, what's wrong," Piper replied.

"So, I hate to be the barrier of bad news but, the reason why your squad hadn't shown up or responded to media was that they went on some sort of strike.

"What? What did I do?"

"They said something like 'Piper rented a new Kia.' but Lev wanted it."

"What?" Piper asked very confused. "What does that even mean? I don't  even rent a Kia."

"Well, I'll give you a hint." Peggy smiled. "Get all the first letters of the sentence without the Lev part."

"Ok, um Piper, P, rented, r, a, new, n, Kia, k. P-r-a-n-k. No! No no no! Are you serious?"

"Surprise!" Piper's squad shouted. We got you so good!

Lev then hugs Piper. "I missed you so much! I'm so sorry!"

"I literally missed you more," Piper cried with a high-toned voice.

"You got pranked sucka!" Stephen said which Hunter heard.

"Hey, that's my line," he said laughing.

"Well anyway you got pranked Piper," Stephen finished while Piper had a grin on her face.

"I understand that we might’ve taken this a little too far. You wouldn't believe how we did it though," Emily said.

"Yea, please tell us," Piper said. She was very interested and even bought a chair over to sit on.

"Well..."