Emo Bands But They're Ga(y)mers

Chapter 8

Mikey sat in his game room. He wore some grey sweats and a black hoodie. Mikey was a confusing string bean, he had two completely different aesthetics but he somehow made it work. He loved soft and creamy colors but he also loved dark colors such as black and red.same goes for his clothing, he could either dress super feminine one day or just "normal"

He started his first stream on twitch and began setting up "Hello chat! Woah! There's a whole lot of you here! Ok I was not expecting this many people on my first stream!" He smiled as he watched the viewer count go up. Then he started reading chat and doing a quick Q&A while his game loaded "Who made my banners? Oh! That was Gee! He begged me to let him make everything instead of paying some rando to do it for me I mean I still payed him but he'll probably just spend it on dinner later so I don't mind. Fit check? Uhhh sure!" He stood up and zoomed out the camera. He stood out in a star pose "it's not much but I honestly care a whole lot about being comfy, see, im wearing unicorn slippers" he sat back down and zoomed the camera back in.

"Rays supposed to join me later on this stream so be ready for his appearance, ummm this is my character I dunno if many of you saw it on Gee or ray's stream but-" he moved the game screen to third person and made his character dance. "I made it when I was younger". It had sunglasses, blonde hair, a red and yellow jacket and some black jeans. "Pretty sick if you ask me, Once again Gerard helped me, geez he helps me a lot I'm now just realizing. I wasn't a big fan of this game but he and Ray begged me to play with them and I recently decided to start playing on my own, that's when Ray asked if I wanted to join his smp." Mikey ended up in a cave, Ray gave him enchanted netherite armor and tools so he was pretty secure.

"How did you meet Ray?" Mikey smiled "I was a baby, like probably two. Get your snack kids this might be a long story. Lemme grab something really quick that goes with the story!" He quickly ran to his room to grab his teddy bear. He smiled and hugged it before running back to his seat. "Ok so lemme kinda star at the beginning. So my mom had recently gotten a new job, I was like a year old Gee was five. My mom fit in very well at the new place, quickly found a group of friends. And in that group was rays mom" he was gonna mention Frankie's parents too but decided against it just in case something about their relationship slipped out.

"So they would go out for coffee every morning before work and apparently mama toro had a son the same age as Gerard. So one day they decided to do a play date for them. Gerard was one of those little kids who got mad when things didn't go his way and Ray being the kindhearted little sprout he was, always wanted to make sure he played with Gerard and me. But Gerard always wanted the playtime for himself. I never knew what was going on and I don't remember much of Ray till my two year old birthday party. Gee was mad about Ray not playing wth him but Ray wanted to spend more time with me since it was my birthday. It was time to open presents and i think the last one was from him and his parents. Inside the box was this teddy." He smiled and held up the little old bear

"I was just talking to him the other night and he was shocked to see that I still carried it around with me" chat exploded with awws and hearts. Mikey smiled and hugged the bear softly while telling the story he was strip mining most of the stuff was cobble stone but he was getting pretty good stuff too. After answering a few more questions he started heading back to his house, he placed some colorful wool around the cave entrance so he would remember where it was.

Ray joined Mikey's discord call not long after he got to his house "hey mikeyyyyyy" he whispered lowly into his mic. Mikey smiled and laughed "Ray you're such a dork"Ray smiled "I heard you told your birthday party story. Mikey smiled "I did, I even showed them Mr. Snuggles" he held the bear up proudly.

Ray smiled "so what are you doing now?" Mikey smiled "putting things in chest, I'm about to go plant some trees in the forest" "wait for me" rays character logged onto the server and ran to Mikey's house. Mikey smiled "I cleared a bunches trees and got lots of seeds so I decided to put these back" "sounds like a deal" Mikey tossed half of the seeds to Ray and the two ran off into the forest to plant some more trees.