Hardcore Life (Ph1LzA fanfic)

Surprise

Amelia

I woke up early the next morning, stretching and very easily dodging Phil's out stretched arm as he tried to grab me and make me return to the bed. I wanted to have an calm early morning stream before joining others in whatever games we would be playing tonight, so I made a quick breakfast and nearly burned my throat as I downed a cup of hot coffee. I sat down at my desk and started up my stream, letting music play on my Starting Soon screen while I made sure everything was neatly placed.

Once I was satisfied with all of my small changes, I switched over to my Just Chatting scene, a smile on my face. I did my normal introduction to my streams, hearing Phil moving around but the silence settling once more.

"I think I'm just going to be doing some practice for Minecraft Championships for this stream. I believe I'll be doing a stream later today as well, but I'll be doing games other than Minecraft. Teams have been announced already, and I'm kind of intimidated by my teammates. I'm on the Green Guardians. Michaelmcchill backed out last minute because of family affairs, and Scott sent me a message to see if I'd take his place." I twirled a pen in my hand. "I think I mostly need to practice Parkour Warrior. I've seen that they only make the course harder every time, so I at least want to go through the entire course maybe twice, and then I'll practice a few of the other games if I have time to."

I set the pen down, changing the scene to Minecraft, where I was already logged onto the practice server for Minecraft Championships. I stretched my arms and popped my fingers, and I did my best to not get angry every time I fell. The door to the office opened after about an hour, Phil peeking in for a few seconds before closing the door once more. I was looking at my phone when a text to speech message played, and I looked up as the message end and realized what the person had said.

"Okay, that's a Weird Champ moment." I put my phone down. "No more of that."

I continued practicing Parkour Warrior, reaching the end of the course for the first time an hour and a half after starting. I took a deep breath as I went back to the start of the course, and another text to speech message started playing.

Hello! I'm the guy you met in the arcade yesterday!

The message sent a shiver down my spine, but I forced myself to smile. "Hi! Glad to know you could make it to the stream!"

I could hear Phil's loud curse from outside of the office, and his quickened pace as he moved through the house only stressed me out more as another message started playing.

It wasn't very nice of you to have Phil get the security to make me leave, you know? I wasn't even doing anything wrong! I was only following you because I thought-

Phil burst through the door of the office halfway through the message and immediately stood beside me to press the button that skipped it.

"No." Phil stated angrily. "Weird Champ."

Phil hovered in the office behind me, shifting things around as I continued to practice. I took a deep breath as another text to speech message played from the same username.

It wasn't nice to skip my message, Phil. It's not your stream. You don't have the right.

I froze at the same time Phil stopped moving behind me, my stream most likely playing on his phone. I had to frantically stop Phil from banning the person as he stormed over to my setup.

"Phil, stop! Just let it go!" I begged.

"That man is an absolute creep." Phil growled.

"I know! Relax!"