Chapter 5

## Choosing Change

> They think I'm a fucking joke!
> -Beglin making fun of Chris in the November 7th call.
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Chapter 5 begins when Chris returned to the friend group after Dan and Freeze started to surround him in The Lair discord server by Dakota (Wendigo). Chris had to come back because Dan kept crying about how he's a changed man and how they miss him.

On his return on November 7, 2020, from the reprehensible wrongs, Aiden was a disaster: he had pretty much left full-time for an e-girl named "Harley" better known as Shiba. The woman had pretty much stolen his heart being the suicidal and valueless person she was. Freeze and Dan were still gay for each other; more than ever though.

After months of Aiden simping, Harley had broken to him that they were never dating as he thought and that she was really lesbian. The months of November and December had brought Chris, Dan, and Luke to unanimously vote to exile out Aiden from the friend group on January 12, 2021. The vote had taken place in about ten minutes; in this time, Aiden had confessed that he had wronged the boys and that he was dearly sorry for clouding his emotions with attraction and love. He even offered to go into one of her Twitch streams and tell her to kill herself in chat. However, this deed would be ignored whether or not it was done. It was done, they attested their names to the documents and Aiden was banished.

After Aiden was removed from the friend group, the Council decided to begin a Minecraft server which would fail to begin two weeks in. At the same time, they would also try to get more people into the Council but they hated every candidate. Not they, just Dan, so it turned into they.

One day, Dan decided to talk to Aiden again because he's retarded and Dan, Chris, and Aiden talked for about an hour just watching Antonio Dubzz. They were also told that he has a new "girlfriend" with numerous more problems than Harley; it seems as if girls with mental issues are the only ones Aiden can attract. He had also stated that he's been fucking her as well because it was "love at first sight." Aiden still doesn't understand women, blah blah blah.

Only a month later of talking to Aiden, Chris and Freeze would talk to Aiden behind Dan's back because Chris fucking hates Dan. And then Dan would invite Aiden to a private group chat via an invite code and thus the "safehouse" Discord server would be created. The server's original purpose was to assure that Aiden wouldn't be able to join chats but it broke into him being able to join calls and the server actually becoming successful. At the same time, Dan and Chris would track down Dakota and the Dakota would return for a brief period of a month until the day he became frustrated and angry because Chris would mention an innuendo that the two considered an inside joke *(You had to be there)*. Garrison would also be introduced into the Minecraft server and sometimes the Discord server calls. In August 2021, Dan, Chris, and Freeze would host the first official E4 which was a complete disaster because there was no emphasis on practice before the show and the volunteer's list would shit itself because they weren't committed at all. The Council just uses Aiden to get another person to play with, Dakota would leave at his own discretion, and Garrison would stick around on the server but not join calls frequently.

After a few months, the Safehouse server would see a decrease in enrollment, the Minecraft server would fall apart after the expansion of numerous cities and Chris wanting to begin a survival world with some friends from school, and Dan would get a job and hang out with his real life friends; he also got intoxicated for the first time but it was very light. Antonio Dubzz would slowly drift away but is still an active project. The Escondido project would stop momentarily. Dan and Chris started to move away from online friends Some highlights of Chapter 5 in late 2021 would be: Dan getting high and drunk for the first times, getting a job, and getting a vehicle ticket. Both Chris and Dan would progress into newer chapters of life; and Freeze would stay the same fatass he is.

The Safehouse would be deleted in late December 2021 after many reports to Discord. Chris would create the Safehouse II which would fall to The Community - a server owned by Freeze and Co-owned by Dan. The Safehouse II's popularity would decrease and Freeze and Dan would get the idea to start their own server. Dakota would stop talking to Chris after he started to become an asshole after Christmas and everyone left call because they didn't want to be near his stingy ass. While he doesn't talk to Chris, he does still talk to Freeze and Dan.

The Escondido project would also fail after no spark was lit to begin it officially and the server would remain dormant. However, by the end of Chapter 5, Chris would want to start up a new server.

In January 2022, the friend group started to not talk as frequently as they used to. Dan had to quit his job because his mom found out that he was smoking; but that's okay because Dan was going to quit because they didn't pay well anyways. He also banged a chick by the end of the month. Chris would not talk to the others as much as he used to as he started hanging out with his real life friends more often. He also has became good friends with Ben who tells him everything but Chris refuses to talk about. Allen's participation would also skyrocket as he keeps using Dan as his rolemodel. He's not a bad guy to talk to but he can be really fucking annoying sometimes. Nolan would also become a mainstream participant in the friend group whilst not being an official member yet however.

Chapter 5 would come to an end on February 5, 2022, as Chris petitioned for Freeze and Dan to begin Chapter 6 two days prior. As of recently, Chapter 5 is the longest chapter in the Freeze and Spice Lore calculating at 454 days.