☆nothing's guaranteed ☆ ~ tommyinnit x oc

chapter 1

"FUCK YEAH!" I screamed and pumped my fist in the air as in game fireworks burst all around us. My chat was going wild, flooded with messages of congratulations. To my left my friend Rowan's avatar jumped in circles, whooping loudly. To my right Corey stood still, ever dignified, even in the face of winning. "Stop that, both of you!" Corey scolded, but I could hear the smile in his voice.

We had just won the latest challenge on my new server, Split Life. Split Life was an smp designed like a competition. There were twenty players, divided into two teams of ten, and every session you were split up into three teams of three, and the last member became a wild card, who could either help or hurt your chances of winning. You had to constantly make new alliances and bonds, as you knew that each week your allies and you from last week would be split. Hence the name.

The challenge today had been a parkor coarse, and lucky for me I had two people who were very good at parkor on my team. The first group of three that reached the topm with all your members, won. Every time you won a challenge, a point went to your overall team of ten. At the end of the smp, we would round up all of our points and pick a winner for overall.

"Oh don't get your knickers in a knot," I told Casey as Rowan snickered, "You don't want the loser teams thinking we don't care about beating their asses, do you?" Corey sighed and, I could practically hear him rolling his eyes. Rowan and I giggled together before leaping off of the top of the mulit-coloured tower and into the water below. "HA GET FUCKED!" I heard Rowan scream as we got closer to where all the other players stood in a group. I feigned a gasp at the crude words, as if I hadn't said something very similar a few moments ago. "Rowan!" I exclaimed. "I thought you were the most PG of all of us, but I suppose I was wrong!"

My chat was freaking out at Rowan's swearing. On YouTube, Rowan created the most child friendly content of all of us, and while it wasn't too uncommon to hear them swear off stream, they rarely did it on stream, causing chat to go nuts whenever it did happen.
(A/N: Rowan uses they/them pronouns:)

My comment on Rowan's language made many of the group members bust into laughter, and I heard Kallie, another teammate of ours, wheezing in the back ground of it all. I grinned. Kallie's laugh was truly infectious. "WE FUCKING WON GUYS!" I yelled, bounding towards our team. A round of cheers went up around our team, though the other team remained silent, save for a few grumbling. "You guys did so good!!" Kallie said walking over to us. "Thanks Kallie!" Rowan said walking over to stand beside her. "Um... want to switch into a private vc?" Kallie asked nervously. "Oh! Sure!" Rowan said quickly. I smiled. I had definitely been sensing some romantic tension between those two recently, and I was super happy for them.

As they switched calls I started talking to some of the other players on our team, laughing and celebrating our win with them when a voice cut through the air, calling my name. I turned to see none other than my rival and arch nemesis. Red. "What the hell do you want Red?" I asked her, trying my best to sound cross and annoyed with her. "I saw that. I know you cheated." I glanced at her bewildered. "What the fuck are you talking, about I never cheated?" She walked towards me, pressing her avatars forehead against mine, and whispered in a low voice. "I know what you did, Mina. And I will prove it, even if it's the last thing I do." Before she turned on her heel and stalked off. I tried not to laugh at her receding figure, knowing I needed to stay in character.

"What was that about?" Corey asked me as I walked back towards my team. "No clue." I said trying to make my voice sound as even as possible while I watched her disappear into the setting sun on the horizon.

after a few more minutes of chatting and spending time with my teammates I said goodbye and logged off to do my outro. "So! That ends another competition here on the Split Life Server! I Hope you all enjoyed this session, and wanted to remind you to support the other amazing content creators that work with me on this Server, and to thank you so much for your continued support!" I almost teared up at the sight of my chat and all the lovely messages popping in.

It hadn't been so long ago that I had been a small streamer, who only got a couple hundred viewers each stream, and I knew them all by name. I still occasionally checked in with a few members of my original chat, but we didn't talk as much one on one as we had when I had a smaller chat.

"I love you all so much and wanted to remind you to drink some water, eat some food, get some rest, and take care of yourself. Each and every single one of you deserves so much love and I hope you have an absolutely wonderful day. I love you guys, goodbye!!"

I ended the stream and sat at my chair a moment before I did anything. I was sweating, as my room always got hot when I was streaming, and now it didn't help that spring was just beginning and it was warming up outside, but not warm enough to warrant air conditioning, according to my parents. I was glad that at least as a faceless streamer, no one was looking at me while I sweated away.

Just as I was to shutting my computer down I got a text message. It was from Red, my best friend. I smiled at seeing the notification and clicked on the message.

leftonred

Oh my god my chat ATE that
shit up!!
                               I KNOW RIGHT? MY CHAT IS CONVINCED WE HATE EACH OTER LMAOOO!!

LOL
I'm leaving my house soon btw🤭

         YAY!! I'm so excited to see all you guys!🥹

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FUCKING
LONG IVE WANTED TO HAVE THIS PARTY FOR OH MY ASKIENDNJDN!!!?

                                     See you soon pookie 😋

Please never say that again.

                                                      LMAOOOOOO
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I smiled down at my phone before shoving it in my pocket. I skipped down the stairs from my room almost tripping on the last step and falling flat of my face. My older sister giggled from where she sat on one of the stools in the kitchen and I put my hand up before she could say anything. "Don't you say anything."
"I wouldn't dream of it." Lin said as I grabbed a plate and started scooping myself some eggs our parents had made for breakfast a few hours ago. We had started streaming earlier than normal today, around 10am, so we could finish at about 1pm to have time to set up for the party.

I sat down at the kitchen table and just started absentmindedly picking at my eggs when an incoming call on my phone startled me. I looked at the caller ID before I picked up. It was Corey. I wondered what he wanted. I pressed accept and raised the phone to my ear, missing the first words Corey said. "What did you say?" I asked, my mouth full of eggs. He took a deep breath before continuing, which made me pause. What was this about? "Mina, we have a problem."

Word count: 1301 words
A/N this chapter is much longer than I intended it to be lol but I really wanted to explain the concept of Split Life, introduce a few main characters, and (ofc) leave you all on a cliff hanger🥰
also, I was wondering, if I made a list of all the people in Split Life, alone with their @'s (THEY ARE NOT REAL PEOPLE IF YOU'RE WONDERING THEY ARE PURELY FICTIONAL AND ACTUALLY BASED ON MY FRIENDS IRL.) if you guys would actually read it/ find it useful?  ANYWAYS LOVE YALL PLS TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES AND HAVE AN AMZING DAY