No, no. Shut up. Oh my God.
Hey. How's it going.
Nev. Vance.
Good to meet you.
I'm Kamie. Hey nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too.
Wow.
Let's let her come out when she's ready.
Well thank for showing up.
Not a problem. I said I'd make it happen.
You did.
We're happy you're here.
Yeah. I got so many questions.
But I wanted Rachael to hear everything.
So whenever you're ready. We're waiting.
Should I walk her over?
Yeah maybe.
I'm so stuck right now. I can't even think.
It's time to boss up, let's get it together.
You owe it to yourself. You want to know. You can do it.
Oh my God. I feel sick to my stomach.
Well if you throw up I'll catch it for you.
Oh my God.
Alright. Why don't you say hello.
Rachael. Rachael.
Vance. Oh my god.
What's going on. This is real.
He's here. He came a long way. It's been a long time.
Wow.
She's a little shook right now.
Alright well why don't we discuss
the elephant in the room.
She sort of told us that y'all kind of stopped talking
and she won't hear from you for a while.
And then you'll pop back up.
Is that because you were in some sort of detention center or ...
No, not at all.
We found what looks to be an arrest record.
Maybe if you could just shed a little bit of light
on what's been going with you.
Just to give her some clarity so she knows.
That arrest is just what it is.
It only happened one time and it was all dismissed.
So you did not serve time? No.
Haven't been in jail or anything.
I went to jail, they held me over night.
Oh well okay but that's-
But the next morning they released me.
Right, right.
There were a few listed from different years.
In North Carolina, mostly and once in Florida.
No, it wasn't me.
So you've never been arrested in Florida?
Never been arrested once. Nah.
Only thing I ever got in Florida was a speeding ticket.
Okay so maybe those other things
were just those speeding tickets you mentioned.
Good to clear all this up.
So, obviously you live in North Carolina.
Yes.
And what is it that you mostly do in terms of work or school?
I mean I kinda just been living life, bouncing around.
My parents weren't there for me, I kinda just been struggling.
I don't go to school but work I just kinda do
like cash jobs you know, whatever comes my way.
Little gigs off of maybe CraigsList or what not.
It hasn't been easy for me.
At the moment you have a place with friends or ?
I'm actually staying with a friend as of right now.
Okay, you're not hiding some secret life?
You don't have a girlfriend or a wife?
Kids?
Nope.
Everything you've told her this whole time has been true?
Yep.
Either your phones have been broken
or you haven't had a place or you've been in between work.
Or you just haven't had money to come visit, that's all legit?
That's all legit.
But ... I mean the phones were never really an issue
because I've offered.
You did on the funds but still what about the ID.
It's not that easy.
But I mean you need to have an ID.
I don't have a lot of things.
What about the times I tried to come out there?
Did you come?
You can't blame me for something that you didn't do.
It's not as easy for me just to pack up and just come.
I have to plan out child care.
But you spoke that ...
He's saying that he felt like you sort of would bring it up
but never really follow through.
It never went past, oh yeah well I can come there.
And then it was never really talked about again.
Okay so that day when I wrote you and you literally read it
and did not say anything back to me.
Why could you just up and send my sister
Sam a message like it was nothing.
You're talking about the time he texted
Sam but didn't get back to you right away.
Which is fine. I wasn't jealous.
It was more of, you weren't talking to me,
you weren't responding to me.
You were leaving my messages unread but you were writing her.
Is that just one day?
It's been a couple times.
I don't know.
Time out. This sort of sounds like a bunch of stupid petty ...
Okay look, let's get back to the strange
but still I think lovely reality that you guys have been talking
for a really long time, since you were kids.
You've had your life, he's had his.
They've been very complicated in their own ways.
But now you're here finally.
Let's not let little sort of details totally ruin this.
This is the moment you both have been waiting for,
for over a decade.
It's not that I'm not happy to see him.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know how I'm feeling right now, it's just a lot.
He's here.
Right.
There's no big crazy messed up secret.
This is the guy you've been talking to for a long time.
And he came here to see you.
It doesn't have to all be happy butterflies and rainbows
but can there be a little bit of relief?
I feel like maybe we need to just like ...
Hug it out?
Just stand in front of him. And look at him.
He's here, he wants to look at you, you want to look at him.
Just look at each other and acknowledge
that like wow, here we are. I mean ...
Come on.
I mean I don't even want a handshake.
Give me a hug.
Yeah, there we go.
It's about time.
Oh, I love love so much.
I'm real. You're real.
Doesn't that feel nice?
This is great. I would love to just let you guys talk
without our awkward supervision.
We could even just sit right here on a bench.
You guys have a lot to talk about.
Get to know each other in real life.
IRL as they say online.
IRL.
Okay well, let's sit down. We're gonna go hang in the car.
Holler if you need us.
Yeah, we'll just be right over there.
This is crazy.
On the phone it's different because I can just talk to you.
It's very different, very different.
It don't seem real does it?
No.
Whew.
I mean.
Wow. It was weird.
Is it usually that awkward?
No. Obviously she's very nervous.
She was going through a lot of emotions.
Yeah, and I think he is too.
And I can see he was shaking, he was trembling a little bit.
He was definitely nervous.
Yeah.
That's okay, they'll recover from that I think.
I feel like I just dropped my daughter off at her first date
and now I'm just trying to see what goes down.