Short stories

The Livestream

“What’s up guys? Icey here. As you all know, Mitch, Jerome, Adam, Ty, and I are going to be doing a livestream tonight at seven pm western time. Nine central and ten eastern. If you want to watch, I will be streaming at twitch.tv/IceyGamerGirl and Mitch will be streaming it on his account. So, it’s either Mitch or me for you to watch. The stream will look the same though. Again, times are seven pm western, nine central, and ten eastern. I will be tweeting it out when it gets close to starting and so is Mitch I believe. I know for a fact the other three are tweeting it but I don’t quite know about Mitch.” I said and then said my outro and stopped the recording. I started the upload and went upstairs. “Alright, Icers will know soon. Mitch, are you tweeting it?” I asked as I walked into the living room. He nodded. “Good, I wasn’t sure if you were going to or not. By the way, who’s all making videos to tell them?” I asked. “I am for sure and I know Ty is too.” Adam told me as I sat down in my chair. “Jerome is but I dunno if I’m going to or not.” Mitch looked up from his phone and I nodded. “Ok, so we’re all tweeting it and everyone but Mitch is making a vid. Sweet.” I looked at the clock. It said four o’clock and I mentally shrugged. We had time but I knew we all hadn’t eaten yet and we still had to set up the stuff for the stream. “How much time do we have before we have to start setting up?” Adam asked as he glanced at the clock. “Probably an hour or two but we all haven’t eaten anything and I don’t know where Jerome or Ty is.” I told him and I saw Mitch blush from where he was sitting on the couch. “Jerome is heading to McDonald’s to get us something to eat and Ty is somewhere.” He said and I turned to Adam. “Ty’s in his room making the vid.” Adam said as he typed something into his phone. “Done with the tweet. I’m going to make the vid. See you in a bit.” He said and he left the room. “I tweeted it out and Jerome did the vid before he left. He still has yet to tweet it though.” Mitch told me and I nodded. “I tweeted it out before I started the vid so I’m done with all that.” He nodded and I leaned my head back. I closed my eyes and heard the front door open along with Jerome yelling that he’s back. I opened my eyes to see Mitch basically running out of the room to the front door. I grinned and stood up. I went to, what we called ‘The room hall’, and yelled down that food was here. Ty and Adam yelled back saying they’ll be out there in a bit. I went to the kitchen and saw the McDonald’s bags on the counter and Mitch and Jerome were nowhere to be seen. I grinned again and looked through the bags. I grabbed five plates and divided the burgers and fries. I grabbed my plate and yelled to the guys that food was ready. I heard running and the four ‘men’ ran into the kitchen. They grabbed their plates and sat down at the table. I sat next to Ty who had Adam on the other side of him. Mitch and Jerome sat on the other side of the table. We quickly ate and then headed to my stream room. I grabbed my special mic and plugged it into my computer. I saw Adam putting up the cameras and Mitch was setting up the Twitch stuff for his account. Jerome was on his phone typing something, probably typing the tweet. I set up the mic and put it on my homemade bookshelf so it could pick up everything. I saw Ty setting up the mic for the other computer where my stream was going to be. Adam walked over and set a hand on my shoulder. I turned to him and he nodded. “Go set up your stream and I’ll get this mic and the cameras.” He said and I nodded. I went over by Ty and sat in my chair to set up my stream. I went from YouTube to Twitch and started setting the stream up. I glanced at the time and saw it was six thirty. “Thirty minutes left.” I said as I got my recording software up to record the stream. (I will actually do that later on and post them on YouTube so anyone who missed my streams will be able to see them) “Ice? Where do you plug this in on your computer?” Ty asked and I stood up to show him. “Since my computer is special, you have to plug the mic in right here.” I pointed it out and he plugged it in. “Why do you have to plug it in back there?” I shrugged and went back to setting up my stream. “Mitch, time?” I asked with a grin. “Uh, half past not happening.” He said and I heard someone smack him. I turned to see Jerome standing next to him with Mitch laughing his head off. “It’s six forty-five.” Jerome told me and I nodded. I finished my setup and saw Adam finish the last camera. “Done!” Mitch said as he sat in my old office chair. (One of the ones that spin you in circles to get dizzy) “Alright let’s get this thing going!” Ty exclaimed and Adam grinned. “Wait, I have an idea.” We all turned to him and he glanced at Jerome. Jerome grinned and nodded. “Since it is April Fool’s day-…” Adam started but Jerome interrupted him. “Adam and I thought we could trick the fans into thinking Merome and Skylox are real.” Adam nodded and I grinned. “That would be perfect. What point in time should we do that?” Ty asked. “Maybe at the end or near the end?” Jerome asked and I agreed along with Ty, Adam, and Mitch. I glanced at the clock again and it said ‘6:57’. “Should we start three minutes early?” I asked and Mitch nodded. He hit the ‘Stream Start’ button and so did I, but I also hit the record button. “Hello, everybody! Hold on, what should we name the stream?” I asked and Adam grinned. “Skylox and Merome stream with guest Ice.” I smiled and nodded. “Alright. Welcome everybody to the Skylox and Merome stream with me as a guest, even though it’s my house. Anyway, we will be doing something every time we go up a hundred bucks in donation. Adam, what’s the first one?” I spun in my chair to him. “First one is ten push-ups each person for a hundred dollars. Mitch, second one?” Adam turned to Mitch. “Second one is Ice singing a song for two hundred dollars. Jerome, third.” I grinned at the camera and then turned to Jerome. “Third is Adam singing for three hundred dollars. Ty, fourth?” Ty sighed. “Fourth is Mitch and Jerome singing a love song to each other for four hundred dollars. Back to Ice!” I looked at the list. “Fifth is Adam doing the ghost pepper challenge because I dared him to do it and he hasn’t yet so he’s doing it on stream.” Adam groaned. “What’s our main goal and where is the money going?” Mitch asked as he grabbed a bag of chips from my stash. “The goal is to get five hundred bucks or more and if we get more, then we’ll ask chat for suggestions. The money you guys donate to me is going to ToysForTots because I love it and I see it everywhere. Mitch, what about you?” I asked as I grabbed the bag from him. “My donation money is going to the research of a cure for cancer because I got in contact with them and I asked if I could donate money to them and they said yes.” He tried to grab the chips but I kept them away from him. “Mine. Also we, as in these four, have a surprise for you all at the end of the stream so good luck trying to figure it out.” I grinned as Jerome shook his head. “You weren’t supposed to tell them!” Adam gasped in fake hurt. Ty laughed and so did Mitch. My grin widened a bit as I looked at the chat. I saw one person ask if it was related to Skylox and Merome. “I just saw someone ask if it had something to do with Skylox and Merome. I will tell you right now, it does.” Jerome grinned. “That’s a big hint as to what we’re doing.” He said and I shrugged. Mitch suddenly laughed and pointed at someone in chat. “Look! Someone guessed it!” I looked and saw a person by the name of hornet4. He said ‘Is Sky going to kiss Ty and Jerome kiss Mitch?’ and I gasped. ‘I remember hornet4 from the nexus v2 launch stream. Scubit and Smelle!’ I thought to myself as I read the following lines. “Hornet4? That name seems familiar.” Mitch said and Jerome glanced at him. “He’s from the nexus v2 launch stream a few years ago. I remember waiting for the stream to come on and it was him, bellereller, and two others I can’t remember, but they made their own ships. It was Scubit and Smelle. The before stream chat was hilarious.” I explained and Mitch smiled. “Yeah, that’s where that name was from.” Jerome said. Suddenly, a ding came from my computer. I rolled over there and looked at my donation box. I gasped and they came over to see what it was. Hornet donated fifty bucks and as soon as the guys saw it and gasped, the other computer went off. I rolled over there and saw Bellereller donated fifty bucks as well. I groaned. “Guys, we have to do the push-ups. We have one hundo.” Adam grinned and we all got on the ground and did ten push-ups. Mitch, Ty, and I did it the girly way while Adam and Jerome did it the true way. I grinned when we were done and then two more dings came from both computers at the same time. I got up and looked at the donation box of my computer. Another fifty from someone and a five from someone else. “Fifty-five over here.” I said and Mitch got up to check the other one. “Fifty from here. Two twenty-five dollar donations from two different people.” He said and I sat in my chair. “That’s two hundo and five bucks. What was the second one?” I turned the chair to face Mitch as he looked at the paper. “You singing a song. Then third is Adam singing.” By that time, we were all done with push-ups and they looked at me. I quickly thought of a song and nodded. “Alright, I know what song I’m doing and no, Adam, it’s not the Five Nights theme. It’s different from that.” He stopped grinning and looked at me, curious as to what I was going to sing. I rolled over to Mitch and got my phone out. “You can’t use music or lyrics.” Ty reminded me and I nodded. “I’m not going to. I’m calling someone so I can sing them the song since it is for them anyways.” I said with a grin. They were all curious and apparently confused as to who I was talking about. I hit one on speed-dial and it called Eva. I wanted to sing this song to her for so long and I wanted to do it with people watching, streaming was the best idea I had. She picked up after two rings. “Hey, Ice. Whatcha want?” I took a deep breath through my nose and told her what I was doing after I put her on speaker. “I’m going to sing a song for you.” I could imagine her raising an eyebrow at me. “Oh really? Alright, go ahead.” My grin slowly fell to a soft smile.