The center of attention - but more than you expected

Back at the rave, to your dismay, Ash isn't much for actual dancing.

Sheepishly, Ash refuses your offer when you ask her to join you. "That's more you and Rose's thing," she says, throwing down her skateboard and circling around you while pulling off a wheelie. "Go ask her!"

You've never seen Jane pull off a trick so smooth before, adjusting her slightest course with slight shifts in her legs and balance. Is Ash even better at skateboarding now? But how can that be, when the only things you didn't change were her percentages on athleticism and skating?

Unless your and Rose's initial remix idea was totally off base... which, now that you think about, is more likely than not. It's not like you remixed Rose exactly the same, either.

Naturally, Ash's boarding draws attention from party goers. People pull up phones, snap pictures, take video. The attention seems to energize your new girlfriend, who immediately switches to more dazzling tricks. She stands the board upright and perches on the top till it tilts over. She pulls off a couple quick consecutive kickflips, one left, one right. She stomps the board, popping it into the air and grabbing it, before miming it so it 'rolls' gracefully across her shoulders from fingertip to fingertip.

The performance is so impressive, you naturally sideline yourself with the rest of the spectators just so you can watch without missing anything.

"Dude, that's fucking Jane Ashlyn McGregor," hisses a man beside you, elbowing his friend.

"No way. I thought Ashcatch lived in LA?"

A girl butts in. "Haven't you watched her early videos? She skates at our skatepark. I used to go to the same high school with her."

"Yeah right. She does videos all over the place, man..."

Curious, you pop out your phone and google Jane Ash McGregor. Jane McGregor was Jane's name before, the Ash part is new, but...

The first result is a YouTube channel - Ashcatch. Your eyes bug out at the subscriber count - it's over 3 million. Scrolling through the videos, Ash appears in all the thumbnails, pulling off a weird mix of skateboarding tricks and parkour in odd locations.

Intimidated by the growing crowd around Jane - rather, Ash, you back away and search out Rose.

“She’s famous,” you say, panicking when you find her by the hydration stations on the edge of the party.

Quizzically, Rose turns to see what you're talking about. "Huh?"

You show Rose Ash’s YouTube channel. Curious, Rose plays a video showing the famous LA spillway.

Ash, clad in pads, spandex shorts, and a denim vest, grins at the camera - she sports a nose ring and, from what you can tells, wears the prim vest as a top, nothing beneath it. "Full send," she says. Then she jumps down a steep ramp with her board. She shoots up the other side, and at last moment, latches onto a higher grip and hauls herself out of the spillway.

“Let’s gooooo!” comes a cry. The camera whips around, revealing Rose’s excited face as she jumps up and down in celebration.

“What the hell? That’s me!” says Rose, eyes wide.

Your jaw drops.

The stunt replays immediately, this time from a drone’s perspective. There, clearly, is Ash, but also two other figures with her on the edge of the spillway - one being Rose, and the other, piloting the drone…

“And that’s you!” Rose exclaims, jabbing her finger into the video so hard she pauses it unintentionally.

“How did this happen?” you ask, your head spinning. “We didn’t put Streamer, or Celebrity or anything like that in her!”

“Dude, the whole is greater than sum of it’s parts!” exclaims Rose. “Think about it! How else would you have remixed me?”

“You’re not famous!”

“None of the parts by themselves, but think about it!” says Rose. “20% Athlete, 20% Skater, 10% Model, 10% Gamer? Each bit's just a note by itself, but when you play them all together, it’s a chord. Adding up all that that, together in Jane, with us as her friends? It equaled 60% Content Creator!”

You clap your hand to your forehead, stunned. "I was just trying to make her my girlfriend!”

“She still is!” reassures Rose. “Don't you see? This is a great trade, Chase! You get a girlfriend, Jane gets to be a professional skater, and we both get free, awesome jobs as her YouTube production crew! Everybody wins!”

It’s a reductionist argument, but, looking over your shoulder at Ash, surrounded by spectators and posing for wild pictures with exuberant fans, she does look happy.