Half a World Away // Vinnie Hacker

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vinniehacker I'd appreciate it if you guys could keep my friends outside of social media off social media but dw I still love you guys, you're the reason I'm here after all

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Vinnie's tweet was nice, maybe not effective towards me specifically but hopefully towards some of his friends in the future. We had a talk about this sudden "fame". I doubt you could even call it that, I didn't do anything to earn it so to me it doesn't count. We talked about all the things that come with this style of living so that if something big did come out of it I'd have at least been prewarned. We talked about the hate and all that, which I am already receiving, and also the good stuff that comes out of it.

A few of Vinnie's friends, who are slowly becoming my friends, have asked me to be in their youtube videos purely because I'm Australian and apparently that gets a lot of views and I was hesitant before because I didn't want to gain followers, but it couldn't hurt now that I've already got them. I'm currently at just over 800k which is highly surprising and Vinnie said it'll probably start to level out or possibly even drop in the next few days, which I'm actually looking forward to. He also said I could turn my account to private so that no more people follow me but I didn't see the point. Even if my account was private, it didn't stop people from screenshotting stuff and reposting it or whatever so, no point.

I'm currently on the way to the Hype House to film a few videos for Bryce, Thomas and Alex. I'm just glad that their videos are all only a few minutes long so that these segments won't be long and I could be out of there in less than an hour. I sound like I really don't want to be there but the truth is I sort of don't. I couldn't help but go through the hundreds of DMs I've been getting only to find truckloads of messages calling me a clout chaser, fake friend and so many other rude things using way too many derogatory terms for my liking and I just sort of wanted to go home and cry. I've not been one to let peoples words affect me, especially if they don't even know me, but it's a bit hard when I have hundreds and hundreds of DMs saying similar things, comments on posts saying similar things too. I have no idea how the people in this house deal with all of this, It's been a day and it's already too much for me.

The Uber pulled up to the house and I got out of the car. I felt a tear slide down my cheek, signifying I was on the verge of a breakdown but I couldn't show anyone here that. I wiped the tear from my cheek and fanned my eyes to dry the tears. I looked up and saw Vinnie sitting in a ninja costume on one of the pillars and I was immediately confused and embarrassed. Confused as to why Vinnie was in a ninja costume on the pillar but also embarrassed he saw me trying to stop myself from crying. He hopped down off of the pillar, took off his mask and walked over to me. "Are you ok?" he asked looking genuinely concerned. No, I'm drowning in hate comments from people I've never met in my life but think they know everything about me. I thought to myself. "Yeah, I'm fine," I said, looking away from him.

"No, you're not," Vinnie said, using his hand to turn my face to look at him. You don't understand how much I wanted to just give him a hug and cry and vent to him but if I even gave him a hug I knew I'd break down and I didn't want to do that right before filming. I'm not the emotional type usually but the stress of moving halfway across the world to a foreign city, mixed with not seeing my family and friends every day and all the stuff happening on social media is just a lot to deal with. "Can we talk about this later, please? I don't really want to be an emotional mess before I do Thomas and everyone else's videos" I let out a dry chuckle at the end, signifying that I was dead serious. Vinnie gave me a small smile before putting his arms out to give me a hug. I dodged his hug and I saw a little bit of hurt flash in his eyes. "I'll give you one later, I'll break down if I hug you," I laughed, earning i small laugh back from Vinnie.

Vinnie and I walked up to and inside the house only to be met with Kouvr chasing Michael around with a taser and Mia chasing Calvin around with a broom. "Should I ask?" I asked. "No," everyone shouted back in unison. Vinnie and I walked further into the house, making it in the kitchen without being hit or tasered accidentally and found Bryce and Thomas sitting at the table. "Aren't you gonna video that for your vlog?" I asked Thomas. "They've been at it for an hour, I've got enough footage," he said nonchalantly. Why am I not surprised?

"Madi, can we film quickly now? I have a party to go to" Bryce asked. "Yeah, but it's 2 pm, how do you have a party to go to?" I ask, sort of bewildered at the fact that he has a party to go to already. "Beer Olympics part three or four or something, I don't know," he replied.

"Do you play goon of fortune?" I asked. It was one of the very few drinking games I knew of but I was pretty good at it. "I've never even heard of that, how do you play?" Bryce said. It's probably an Australian thing now that I think about it, it sounds very bogan. "You basically put a bag of wine onto a clothesline and everyone stands around and whoever it lands on has to chug as much of the bag as they can in ten seconds. There are different ways to play but that's how I play," I said. The game was fun and ended up with just about everyone drunk or tipsy. "That sounds fun, can you text me the instructions? 'Cause there is no way I'm going to remember that"

After an exchange of numbers and sending instructions to Bryce, we finally sat down and started recording. It was pretty much the same video with all three people but that was ok. I kept making fun of Bryce when he was swearing because Americans sound funny when they swear. Out of all the English speaking countries, they probably swear the worst. Their accents just aren't built for it I guess.

They all asked pretty much the same questions because I'm guessing, pretty much everyone asks the same questions in their videos; what do you call a bottle shop? Bottle-o, what do you call a gas station? Servo or petrol station, what do you call flip flops? thongs, you get the idea. Then Thomas kept making fun of the fact that we shorten so many words like arvo, avo, devo, G'day (which you pretty much only catch 50-year-old men using), bikkie, brekie, barbie... you get the gist. 

Now, it was time to talk to Vinnie. I was glad this had come but I was also sort of nervous. I'm talking to a guy about something he deals with on the daily and what happens if he thinks I'm overreacting? what if he doesn't see it as a big deal and he thinks I'm being a baby about it? 

a/n

Hope you guys are enjoying the story so far, comments are much appreciated because they help me understand what your thinking about the book.

School started today so I'll be writing a lot more now because I'd rather write than do school work lmao

Have a good day everyone!

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