Caylen Jc - Kian and JC: Dont Try This at Home!

TO THE ONES

WE LOVE

KIAN LAWLEY

DEDICATED TO

THE ONES WHO

PUT UP WITH US

FOR SO LONG

JC CAYLEN

CONTENTS

OKAY, SO YOU PICKED UP THIS BOOK,

which means you want to know more about it. Or us. Or whatever. So welcome to Kian and Jc: Dont Try This at Home!, the greatest book ever written.

Lets start at the top here. Were going to take you step by step through it all, through our lives, growing up, meeting each other, getting in with O2L, O2L breaking up, launching our own YouTube channel, going on tour, being in movies, and pretty much making a living just by being our nutty, stupid selves. So, you may want to know why we called our book Dont Try This at Home! Thats easy. Its because what we do is dangerous. Weve shot each other with paintball guns, electrocuted ourselves, and waxed our eyebrows off. Were professionally trained idiots. We can handle an ice bath challenge and not freeze our balls off. You might not be so lucky. So theres that and, uh, would you really want to read a book called, Kian and Jc Talk about a Bunch of Stuff That Happened to Us in Our Lives and How We Got to Where We Are Today? Right? We didnt think so. Also, theres no way all that would fit on the front of the book.

So, youre probably wondering why we wrote this book. We wondered why we should write a book too. So we sat down and tried to come up with a list of reasons why:

1. READING IS FUNDAMENTAL, YO! GOTTA READ SOMETHING, RIGHT?

2. WE HAVE SOME GOOD STORIES.

3. BECAUSE WE WANTED TO.

Yeah, so its not the biggest list weve ever put together, but it got us to write this book, so...

Now you may be asking, who did we write this book for? Whos going to be reading it? Thats the cool thing: Its a big party here, and everyones invited. Moms, dads, kids, teachers, postal-delivery guyseveryone. As long as you can read, this book is for youand even if you cant... weve got lots of pictures!

Okay, so how should you read this book? First of all, from the top of the page to the bottom. If you go the other way, itll seem weird. But other than that, however you want to read it. If youre going to join the party, you need to be open-minded. Our book isnt like a regular book. Its a lot more real than most of the books you read, and its a lot more fun. Oh, and you dont have to read it in order. You can start from the back. You can read every other chapter. You can even just look at the pictures. Its all cool. Its your book now. You can even cross out our names and put yours in there.

So, thats about it. Go ahead and dive in, and by the time youre done, we hope youll feel happy, get inspired, and know just a little more about usor hey,

MAYBE YOULL JUST THINK WERE A COUPLE OF DUMB-ASSES .

I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA,

which is a town on the coast halfway between LA and San Diego. Its a pretty chill place: really sunny.

The earliest thing I can remember about my life was my first day of kindergarten. Man, I was so excited. My mom was like, Okay, Kian, youre going to school! and I said, Whats school? (I had no idea what school was because I never went to preschool.)

So she walked me into my class, and I saw a bunch of kids and I was smiling and all like, Oooh, new friends! A playground! This is gonna be awesome! And then I turn around and found my mom had just... left. Suddenly I got all upset. Why was my mom leaving me?! I started crying. A lot. Thats when I met my friend Colin. He was my only friend in kindergarten. He made me stop crying.

I have a great family: two sisters (one younger and one older) and two older brothers, and I always got along with them really well. Okay, well, I did argue with my sisters a lotits the thing you do with family, but I always looked up to my brothers.

And Ive always been really, really close to my parents. My mom has always been my rock. Ever since the beginning, shes been there for me and my family. Shes the one who taught me how to blow a bubble and how to snap my fingers. Ha-ha. She also loves to cook, so there would always be a home-cooked meal that she preparedbut Id never eat any of it because Im a really picky eater. My mom would also always help me with my homework, since I was never really good in school. I have so many memories of us sitting at the table, spending countless hourseven staying up all nighttrying to get my homework done.

My dad hardly ever helped with my homework. But we would do other stuff together. My dad and I would go out deep-sea fishing together a lot. Fishing is one of those sports that can be kind of boring for long stretches of time. Youre basically out in the middle of the water and just sort of bobbing around. Hours can go by and nothing happens. But the waiting is also kind of the fun of it. Not only does it give you a cool excuse just to hang, but when the big one finally bites... man, it feels awesome. And whenever I went out with my dad, he would always end up catching something biglike tuna or sharks.

I remember this one day in particular when we were out on the water, bobbing around, and all of a sudden my dads fishing line starts pulling like crazy! My dad calls me over and lets me reel in what he caught: an eighty-pound shark! That thing was huge! He had this big collection of jaws and teeth from all the sharks hed ever caughtten or twenty of them, hung all over the walls of his garageand I thought it was so cool that I finally had my own set of shark jaws too.

The funny thing is, I hate eating fish. I mean, I really hate eating fish. Except for smoked shark and those gummy Swedish Fish. Those are the only fish Ill eat.

As far back as I can remember, I was always trying to be funny. I remember when I was around five or six and my sister would have these birthday parties, Id always be making her friends laugh by making faces, tripping myself, falling down... stupid stuff like that. I thought there might be a less painful way of making people laugh. Thats when I started learning how to tell jokes.