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Chapter 4

Tommy was exhausted from picking up the pace after spending time with Grace. He was still surprised that her siblings didn't even recognize him if they watched his streams. But it was also worth it to learn that Grace basically called Bad emo without even knowing who he was. The photo shoot was dragging into the night and he had to hurry so he could make it to Karl's Jackbox stream.

But just as it was wrapping up, he was approached by both his parents and the manager. Leading into a long lecture about punctuality. And those lasted for usually an hour and a half. But by the time he could leave and head back to his apartment, Karl had started his stream and was trying to stall for as long as he could so Tommy could join.

Once home, he booted up his PC and hopped into the call, being greeted by everyone. And funnily enough, Bad was joining the game today.

"Sorry I'm late guys. I was taking a stroll in the park and lost track of time. I even heard someone call BadBoyHalo emo because they were going off of his name." Tommy added.

Laughter filled the call and Bad was trying to ask why. Tommy had a tiny grin thinking back to the conversation with Grace. Because he never thought that she didn't watch streamers but her siblings do. It was still a surprise that the twins didn't recognize him when they were watching his video.

Even after the stream ended, Tommy knew that having a friend who wasn't aware of his content or of his modeling would be difficult. Especially when fans usually recognize him out in public.

He loves meeting fans, but if he was going to be friends with Grace, he'd have to make sure fans don't interrupt their fun together. That and he wasn't sure if Grace liked showing her face online. Since there were those fans that would snap a picture of someone and post about it, he wanted to avoid any suspicions that could hurt their friendship.

The next few days were spent between streaming, modeling, and recording videos for his channel. But occasionally, he'd get a message from Grace where she'd just ask if he could point out any details that were missing from whatever project she was working on. And he'd try his best, especially with the facetime calls since he was busy editing or brainstorming ideas.

And during one of their calls, Grace mentions Minecraft.

"The twins were so hellbent on me learning about the Minecraft community to the point of me making an account to learn how to play. I have been forced to join them on their worlds as they made references to those streamers they watch. I'm not much of a gamer, but I can see potential with Minecraft." She stated.

"Minecraft is one of the best games. I've been playing for years now and it never gets old when you can play with other people. My other friends and I play together quite often." He grinned. An eye roll from Grace made Tommy chuckle.

"If you play it so much, why don't we play sometime? You and I could have a world together and you could show me what you know about the game. Since all my siblings do is steal from my chests and attempt trapping my house so I explode. Niyah even salutes as she says 'It was never meant to be' every time an explosion occurs to my house. And she's the one that caused it!"

Tommy bursts into laughter when she had finished her rant with an exasperated breath. Coughs eventually joined in the laugh because it was hilarious that of all things to experience for the first time in Minecraft, it's to be blown up by your own siblings and they continue to quote Wilbur after L'Manburg was exploded.

"Tom, breathe before you have lung failure. There are people who would miss you if you died from laughter." She spoke up.

Tommy nods and tries his best to slow his laughing to light chuckles. Grace on the other hand was still multitasking with whatever she was doing. And then the sound of Clay sounded from her end, surprising Tommy.

"Grace, Mom wants you to come downstairs to talk." He states. "What for? I'm talking to Tom from the park right now." She answered.

"I'm just 'Tom from the park' now? Wow." Tommy jokes sarcastically. Grace chuckles in response. "Only to Clay. He asked for your name and I said Tom from the park. And now he refers to you as that."

"Mom just told me to come get you. She didn't say why though." Clay attempted again. Tommy frowned when the girl sighed. "Alright then. I'll talk to you another time. Bye Tom." She states as she hangs up.

Tommy then decides to open up Minecraft and play for a couple of hours, hoping to get something set up for when Grace plays with him. And how she'll see his nametag as TommyInnit. All he had to hope for was the positives.