goodbye ~ jschlatt

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FEB 16TH, 2021 - AUSTIN, TEXAS

I was currently driving to my friend Matthew's house for his birthday. He was having friends over for his birthday, all his streamer friends and I would just be there, only really knowing Maya and Matthew.

Matthew was calling me, and I answered through my car.

"Hey Hailey! When are you getting here? Everyone's here." Matthew says.

"Oh shit, my bad. I'll be there in a few minutes." I said apologetically.

"Nah, your good, chat hasn't met you and they wanna see you." He says, typing on his keyboard.

"I'll see you in a few, Matt. I'm about to pull up." I say, parking my car in front of his house.

"Okay, see you." Matthew says, hanging up the call.

I hop out of the car with his dream N64 box in hand, and open the door because... it's always open.

I walk downstairs to see about 20 people standing or sitting around. One of the faces looks strangely familiar. Matthew, or 'Mizkif' turns around and gives me a big hug, along with Maya.

"I got this for you, Miz. Hope you like it!" I chuckle and hand him the wrapped up box.

He opens it very messily and gasps when he sees the gift. He hugs me again, wrapping his arms tightly around me. "Thank you thank you thank youuu!!!" He yells, showing chat and his friends what I had gave him. Everyone yells, in chat and in real life.

"Guys, this is Hailey, she's Maya's best friend but officially mine too." Everyone laughs and the familiar guys speaks.

"Hey wait, is your last name Lester?" He asks. I cautiously nod. He gives a big smile and walks up to whisper in my ear. He leans down.

"It's me, Jonathan from Sidney. Don't say my real name on stream, just call me Schlatt." He pulls away and I gasp and hug him, him hugging tightly back.

"Wait wait what's going on?" One of Mizkif's friends asks.

"Yeah , explain Schlatt and Hailey...." Miz goes, cocking an eyebrow. Schlatt pulls away and says, "Well, Hailey and I were best friends when we were little, before I moved to Brooklyn."

Mizkif cheers and his friends follow along. Schlatt and I go to sit next to eachother on Miz's couch.

After a while of chatting and hanging out, Miz suggests an idea.

"Let's play 21 questions, but only ask Hailey and Hailey only answers." Everyone agrees and we start asking questions.

"Do you drink?" I say, "Yeah, I do." Everyone cheers to that and goes on.

"Are you a virgin?" I chuckle, "No sir." Some people gasp. "What?!" I laugh.

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After a couple hours of doing stupid shit, playing games, and drinking we decide to end the stream at 3 in the morning. I wasn't much of a lightweight so I was a bit drunk but nothing much. Miz offered to let me stay at his house for the night considering he had an extra room.

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THE NEXT MORNING - FEB 17, 2021 - AUSTIN, TEXAS

Waking up was a nightmare. The splitting headache I had was not making it any better. I turn to my side seeing a bottle of water and advil, and I happily take it.

I stumble into the kitchen to see everyone up and chatting. Maya walked over to me and fixed my hair a little bit. "Thanks." I murmur. She hums and leads me over to the plate of pancakes set out on the counter. I take three and sit down at the dining room table with Simply and Schlatt.

"Hey guys." I say in a raspy voice.

"Hey, looks like you had a rough night." Simply and Schlatt laugh.

"Fuck you both, my whole body is sore for some reason and I look like I just walked out of World War II." I say, shoving pancakes into my mouth. The boys laugh.

Schlatt reaches for a syrupy pancake from my plate. "Aye!" I swat at his hand.

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Miz wanted to do an IRL stream, so here Miz, Simply, Esfand, Trainwrecks, Schlatt and I are, aimlessly walking around Target, messing up clothing racks and playing tag through the aisles. Train almost killed a couple children but it's okay.

After buying several pop-it's, sweaters, children's toys, and wiffle ball bats and balls, we finally leave Target. Our next stop was the mall, so we head there.

Esfand sees those animal-zoomy things and suggests we go on them. After we play bumper cars with the little vehicles, we run off to actual stores, and end up in the Apple store with 5 MacBooks, an iPad, and AirPods. We all chip in to pay because it's over 1,500 bucks.

We walk into Showcase and I pick up about 25 Squishmallows, pop-its, and fidget toys.

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We eventually stroll out of the mall, more bags on our arms than I could count.

Miz ends the stream and we all head back to our own houses.