"just friends"

the call

"if wilbur soot was streaming and you were streaming i'd watch you. and tbh that's saying something bc he's my favorite streamer like ever" Mya typed into Mac's stream chat one friday evening.

Mya had a long day. she had taken care of the dog and her brother all day, cleaned the house, finished up her online lifeguard training, and been around their mentally draining family for about 3 1/2 hours.

once the family left she finally was able to be alone in her room again and she saw her friend Mac streaming on twitch.

myakwah: HI MACCCCCC IM FINALLY HERE

stream lag is very annoying mya thought to herself

"hi mya!!!!" Mac finally

a few minutes of talking through the lagging stream mya had an idea

myakwah: mac do you have discord? if you do i'll add you and we can call and it'll be easier to talk

please say yes please say yes please say yes oh god i wanna talk to you so bad

"yeah actually i do have discord! i'll send it in chat"

oh thank goodness

lilmacstaken: lilmacstaken#****

oh no oh no oh no oh no i'm gonna call her but what do i say how do i act will she like my voice what if i'm too loud or-

hundreds of similar thoughts rush through mya's head as she moves the mouse to call her...friend?

"hiiiiii" mya says, trying to stay calm while sounding as confident as they can

"hi mya!! you scared me when you just called like that" mac laughs

oh no i scared her what do i do-

mya starts to panic but is cut off by the realization she should say something

"aw i'm sorry i didn't mean to scare you" mya apologizes while nervously laughing a little

"you sound different than i was expecting you to-"

"heh?" mya says, imitating one of their favorite streamers: technoblade "what were you expecting me to sound like?"

"i don't really know what i was expecting but it's not this" mac says

"oh well ok then" mya chuckles

the two chat for a bit while mac continues streaming.

"i'm kinda tired but i wanna keep talking to you so i'm going to switch the call to my phone while i put my computer away" mya states, hoping her idea to keep talking to mac actually works.

mac agrees and mya puts her computer away and lays down in bed. she covers up in her blankets and quickly throws them off again.

"oh goodness it's wayyyyy to hot in here to have the covers on" mya says looking at her thermometer.

80°F is way too hot to sleep in a room

"hey mac, imagine if you got really big on twitch like the people from the DSMP you and me would be like Dream and George and people would write fanfics about us and we'd secretly read them and even write them too" mya rambled tiredly.

"oh that would be so cool! and you could have a bunch of followers on twitch and just not stream at all" mac adds while laughing.

"yeahhhhhhhh" mya says while yawning.

"you should go to sleep, mya you don't have to stay up and talk to me. what time is it there?" mac asks.

"it's 12:30 here but i wanna stay up and talk to youuuuu i'm having fun" mya says while yawning again.

"this kinda sounds like when wilbur called niki to get her to sleep- hey hey mya..."

"whaaaatttttt"

"go to sleep mya"

"noooo"

this cycle of trying to get mya to sleep and her blatantly refusing to do so went on for about an hour when mac finally made an offer.

"if i get off and go to sleep, you have to go to sleep too"

"hmmmmmm ok i guess" mya said into her pillow, barely coherently.

"goodnight mya"

"goodnight mac"

mac left the call and mya suddenly felt empty. she didn't quite know why though. maybe it was just the fact that having company at night made them feel just a little less lonely.

my cheeks hurt mya thought to herself

they checked their phone and saw that the two had been on the phone talking for 2 hours.

well no wonder my cheeks hurt we were talking for a long time and laughing most of the time

she wants to tell mac that was the first time in a whole week mya had felt like a real person. she wanted to admit that she spends so much time in her head that nothing really feels real anymore. but she can't. not yet. the time for that will come later...hopefully anyway. 

mya heads to the bathroom to go one more time before they let themself fall into the sleep they've been feeling nagging at them for hours. as she gets back in bead shes filled with thoughts she feels she shouldn't have. they're just friends...right?