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(T/W) swearing
(A/n) y/n - your name, y/n/n - your nickname, y/u/n - your username, h/c - hair colour, h/l - hair length
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The silence was interrupted as you were aggressively tapping on your keyboard, and swearing quietly under your nose. Nothing else came out of your mouth while you were focusing on your computer screen.
You press the left mouse button once, and it was enough to make you jump in your own chair and laugh with happiness. Changing total silence into loud celebration.
"I did it guys! I can't believe, we got him! We shot him with a freaking bow and it only took one shot! I CAN'T BELIEVE!" you screamed with joy and relief. Then something crossed you mind and you quickly added louder apologies while turning you head to the wall on your left.
You could hear your neighbour mumming something, and you just rolled your eyes not even trying to understand what he said. It didn't matter at this moment, the only thing that did matter though, is that you won a duel with one of the best players!
"That was so stressful, oh my god... At some point I could almost hear my heartbeat.. never again! It was a lot of fun tho." You continued your speech and pressed slash button on your keyboard to then write: ,,gg, wonderful game! Thanks for the opportunity! :)" on game chat.
By slowly moving mouse you looked around your character in the game, and starred at colourful fireworks just above your head.
It was wonderful view, view of a perfect victory.
You almost forgot about still-going stream of yours, you paused the game and speedily started to read the chat while trying to catch up with the donations. Luckily for you, your audience on twitch wasn't the biggest, only about 25 thousand people were on the stream so you had a chance to read all of the donations and shortly reply to them.
You still were in shock for the next couple of minutes, but as you were answering chats questions you began to feel tired as the stress slowly flew out. Yawning, you decided to end the stream here and get some rest. You said your goodbyes and clicked on the OBS to end the livestream. You sat in silence and closed unnecessary apps and programs. As you made sure your livestream was saved on Twitch, a proud smile appeared on your face when you noticed that you gain about three and a half thousands followers.
You added a new tab in the browser and went to Twitter. You nimbly moved your fingers across the keyboard and typed a new tweet.
I just noticed that we hit a 50k followers on today's stream, HOLY!! That's the best ending I could get, even better then winning in a duel! Thank you much 💓
Without hesitation you pressed blue button, and sent the news to your fans. You felt your cheeks stiff as you were smiling so much. With the best mood you could ask for, you closed the browser, and turned off the computer as you sat up from your chair and took off your headset. While stretching out, you left your record room and went to your bedroom.
Proud of your day, you changed into your favourite pyjamas and lied down in bed. After covering yourself with sheets, you tapped cupboard trying to locate you phone. After few times of failing, you just looked up and took what you wanted. As you pressed the button the screen lit up. You rubbed your eyes, and saw a lot of mentions on Twitter. The amount of notification you got didn't even moved you anymore, you were so used to seeing thousands of them everyday on the only social media you were using, especially after writing something. For now on, you were too tired to go through all of them so you just ignored mentions for now, telling yourself that you'll read at least most of them tomorrow. You turned off your phone, and set it aside, then you closed your eyes and thought about this wonderful and accomplishing day.
It was a good day, with even better ending.
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About 9am an alarm went off around the room. It started quietly and then began to slowly volume up. It was ringing for couple of minutes, and then it automatically turned off. The sun was rising and light leaked from the gap of your partly obstructed blinds. Sunshine was hitting your sheets for long enough for you too start feeling the heat. This was one of the nights were your sleep was unbreakable, no sound could woke you up, so for your luck, the heat started to annoy you. You blinked your eyes a couple of times, starring at the white ceiling as you were trying to adapt to the light. You kicked your quilt trying to get rid of unpleasant warmness. Lazily rubbing you eyes as you sat up, you reached out for your phone to check the time. The screen showed you it was 10:21am. 10:21? You thought to yourself not understanding what it means.
,,SHIT!" you cursed rapidly and got up from your bed instantly.
You ran to the closet, and picked first clothes you found. Quickly changing you threw pyjamas on your unmade bed, and headed out to the bathroom. You glanced at your reflection and tried to brush you h/l, h/c hair. After that you brushed your teeth, and put on the fastest and at least acceptable make up. You were ready to leave the bathroom, and hopefully your apartment. Returning to the bedroom, you grabbed your phone and put it in the back pocket of your high waisted jeans. Swiftly looking around the house, you've found your keys and took it. You left your house, and closed the door on lock. You checked the time again, it was 10:53am. I still got a chance, you said to yourself.
After you've done that, you pressed the button of the elevator, getting annoyed about how long it takes for it to get on the 4th floor. When it eventually arrived, you got in and took a ride to the underground. You had your car over there. Sometimes you've regretted and mumbled to your friends about the fact that you had to pay extra only for one parking space, but now you were really glad you did that. You couldn't imagine how long would it take for you to get out of the building and then go to the nearest free parking just to get into your car.
About two minutes later, you already were in your car and drove to your friends house. You remember the promise you have made to your friend, that you'll come to her house every second Sunday to spill some tea and just hang out together. Lately she was pretty busy. It was normal for her to overwork since she worked in a health care but last few weeks really hit her hard with a pile of work to do, especially with this worldwide situation. You had hope that somehow you could make your friend relax, and have some good time that she deserved.
A polite smile came across your face as you were thinking about going to her house, and spending some quality time. You didn't notice when you arrived, you were on your autopilot the whole time you were driving, but there's nothing to complain about, since the time passed faster.
You knocked on the door a couple of times and waited for a bit. You could hear some steps and turning the metal lock. As the door open you saw your friend. She was a brunette with a short haircut that suited her perfectly. Circular glasses or her nose were slightly tiled probably for leaning her head down, but smile appeared on her lips when she saw who was standing right in front of her door.
"Y/N!" she said happily and went forward to put you in embrace.
"Hi Stella!" You giggled from reaction that you caused. You both let go of each other.
"It's so good to see you! Come in!" Stella moved a bit so you could go through the door. You smiled to her thankfully, and went in. She closed the door as you were taking off you shoes, and putting them next to the wall.
"I haven't seen you in ages!" She continued, and put her hands on her sides. The look that she gave you made you roll your eyes, and wave your hand.
"You exaggerate Stella," you laughed "But anyways, are you ready to relax and listen to the best news I specialty collected, and remembered for you?" you said with granny's accent. You knew that Stella's grandmother used to have a book with all the juicy dramas that then she could pass to her granddaughter.
Stella laughed loudly because of your response, and punched you lightly in the shoulder. "Hell yeah I am! I've been waiting for this for whole two weeks!" she spoke trying to make her words sound as much unbelievable as she could. "y/n, let's take a seat in my sofa and... Watch some stupid drama while talking about drama.. What do you think about my proposition, dear?" She put her hand out, without thinking you grabbed it, and with lips moved by amusement you agreed. "I think, this is the best idea that came to your mind for ages."
She rolled her eyes at you when your statements got to her. You just shrugged your shoulders and smiled silly. You both went to her living room, which like very other room in her house was wonderfully decorated. You always adored the aesthetics Stella choses, minimalistic but cosy. It was a nice change from everyday looking at your as well minimalistic but not so much cosy apartment. You both sat down on the dark grey couch and turned on the TV. While Stella was surfing through the channels, trying to find some of the worst dramas, you were proudly telling her about yesterday won duo.
You knew she gladly would listen to any kind of story you had, especially the ones from your streams. After all, she was the one who managed to push you into streaming as you were always talking how much you would love to do that. Thanks to her you got the confidence that you needed to start.
As soon as you finished your story, she started clapping.
"I see that someone started to beat some asses in games finally. " she laughed and you joined in.
"You have to start somewhere." You added giggling. "also.. STELLA!" You grabbed her arms and shook her, which made her jump a bit from that unexpected attack. "I have 50k followers on twitch!"
You saw as her expression instantly changed from shocked to excited.
"Oh shit! Are you serious?!" Stella asked looking just right at your face, which screamed joy.
"YES! I am! This is wonderful, isn't it?" You asked your friend, and got fast nodding as a response:
"Of course! I'm so proud!" Stella stated truthfully, and hugged you for a bit.
It was a wonderful feeling, having a friend who would be as much happy as you from your success. You hugged her back and grinned broadly. Stella let you go, and straightened her back on the couch.
"So, tell me.. How have you been? I know you had a lot of work because of virus, but I hope you somehow managed to get through it all, and rest somehow." You didn't try to hide the concern in your own voice, you were really worried about your friend. She blinked at you, looked on the side and started to say:
"You know how it is.." she paused for a bit trying to find the right words."It isn't easy, there's a lot work, and by that I mean there's A LOT, A LOT of work."
"I can only imagine.." you said with a gentle smile.
"Fortunately this week was better then previous one. I still had hands full but I had a chance to sleep more then three hours, and that's somewhat of improvement. However THAT week, the previous one, was a total disaster! People complaining all around me, angry for no rational reason. Like sorry ma'am but I can't break the rules and accept patients that think it's first come first serve! You don't even know how much I wanted to tell this to this lady... Ugh!" she sighed, and her voice was fulfilled with irritation. You knew, she was only warming up and will continue. Few seconds later it happened, Stella was talking with even more anger in her own voice. "I swear to God that next time, someone will take it out on me, I will scream! Like, oh my gosh! What do I even have to do with all this mess? Im not guilty! It's not my fault that they are misinformed. And of course all of them have problem to me, because I am the reason why they haven't knew about earlier registration... Pathetic."
You chuckled at Stella's sudden rage. Her cheeks were red from this whole anger she had to bottle up, luckily she finally could let it out. You completely understood why she was mad, it was none of her fault, and she shouldn't be harassed by all of those people. To be fair, you thought that she would loose her patience, and proclaim at the lady she was talking about. But she didn't, and that deeply inside surprised you.
"It is really upsetting, but look, you don't have to deal with those idiots anymore. You can rest now and calm your mind. Even if it's for two days, it's something, am I right?" you tried your best to comfort her, gently putting your hand on her shoulder and looking at her with compassion. Stella looked up at you and met your sight, she sighed and nodded. "You're right." Those were the words you needed to hear, now you were sure she did relax a bit.
"Thanks, y/n" she added quickly when you looked at the TV and reached out for the remote control.
"With pleasure Stella." you answered with a soft, and proud smile.
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You spent a nice time for the rest of the noon, joking, fooling around and of course as you planned, spilling the tea over drama while watching drama, obviously. Tradition must be preserved. When both of you got hungry you decided to order the classic, and favourite pizza of yours. Stella opened a bottle of wine so she could enjoy herself even more, you would gladly join her, but you knew you had to drive back to your apartment. So you were just keeping her company, and from time to time commenting the plot of wonderful program you were watching. You had such a good time, that you didn't even noticed when hands of the clock moved from 12am to 6pm. It was still a beginning of September so it wasn't dark at all, which probably made it more harder to noticed how many hours have passed already. You didn't want to leave, but knew that you had to. You told your friend that sadly it was your time to go, she stared at clock and then stood up, picking empty pizza box. You went to the hall to put on your shoes, meanwhile Stella threw away cardboard box to a paper container that she had under the sink. She came to you and you both said your goodbyes. She waved to you from the door as you were walking to your car. You waved her back with a smile and jumped into your vehicle.
The drive was calm, you were listening to one of your favourite songs while crossing the streets of your town. You leaned against the backrest, and sang along, of course you had all the lyrics memorized in your head. All of the sudden you felt your phone buzzing, you jumped because it pulled you out of your moment. You took out the phone from your packet when you were waiting for the light to turn green. It was your online friend that called, needless to say that you didn't pick up, since you were behind the wheel. You put your phone on the passenger seat and continued to drive.
Few minutes passed, and you've already parked your car in the underground. Leaving and closing the car with a key, you headed out to the elevator while dialling a phone number of your friend. When the elevator arrived, you got in, pressed the button with engraved four. As soon as you left the elevator, you clicked the number and called your friend.
"Hi Floris, sorry I didn't answer earlier, I was driving. What's up? " your voice was filled with curiosity, he never called you without a reason. Meantime you were trying to pick over the key for your doors.
"Hey y/n, uh.. well. You should check out Twitter." He stated with surprised voice.
"Um.. okay?" you responded not quite sure. The first thing that came across your mind was that maybe some drama happened around you? Maybe you said something wrong? Shivers went through you spine at the very thought. You got more stressed out just after hearing the sound of hanging the call. You quickly turned the key, and went to your apartment. When you closed the door you instantly clicked on Twitter app, went to the notifications and noticed that you had a lot of mentions in the comment under Keemstar's tweet. You pressed on the one of many notification, scrolled up, and saw:
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