A/N: This chapter is a parallel to last week's chapter but in your point of view rather that Damiens.
The weekend was fairly stressful other than hanging out with Damien on Friday. I was going to read my Hanako Kun manga but when I had tried I realized I had taken the wrong bag home and I had Damien's JoJo's books. Alex and I were both sitting on the couch on our respective phones, me more anxiously than them. "Dude, oh my god." Alex broke the silence. "Did you and Damien go to Starbucks Friday?"
"Um, yeah, why?" They're question made me even more anxious.
"I don't know how to say this, you just have to see." They handed me their phone. It was open to Twitter. It was the girl who got Damien's autograph at Starbucks. Her tweet just said, 'look what I got!!!' With a picture of the card. She had atted him too. I went to the comments and unfortunately, she had mentioned me.
Eww what the hell?
Not even anyone of note? He doesn't even work at smosh…
Nah, he'd never date a normie
No. Just no. No one even knows who it is!
I guessed we shouldn't have joked about that. Some people are so sick. I felt myself starting to cry. I put Alex's phone back on the couch and excused myself to my room. I layed in my bed and hid under my covers as I sobbed. Why would anyone say anything like that? We hung out once! One fan saw us! I can't believe this…
I woke up to my alarm screaming and blaring in my ear. Sure, it's only eight thirty, but being stressed made my weekend feel so much longer and not in a good way. I shoved my glasses onto my face in my exhaustion and sluggishly trekked to my bathroom to get ready for the day. Since it's Monday I figured I should wake up and get ready just in case I got a call from the smosh office. I just put on some jeans and a hoodie so whether or not I left my place I'd still be good. I headed to the kitchen to get something to eat and get some coffee. "Mornin' Y/N." Alex greeted me as they made breakfast. I held my finger up to shush them, not even looking up at them. I went straight to the fridge, grabbed a cup from the neighboring cabinet, put some ice in the bottom, filled it almost to the top with the bottle of cold brew, and topped it with a bit of creamer. I took a long drink then finally responded to Alex.
"Sup, what'cha making?"
"Just some fried eggs right now. You want one?"
"Yeah, that'd be great." I put a couple pieces of bread in the toaster for Alex and I. I was going to make myself some avocado toast. Yeah I know, I'm basic. I sliced up an Avocado as well as a gorgeous heirloom tomato as I waited for my toast and egg to be done. As I was grabbing plates for Alex and I the toaster beeped. I put one on my plate and the other on theirs. I placed the avocado slices on my toast so they covered the whole thing, put the tomato on, then Alex topped it with one of the fried eggs, and I sprinkled a bit of salt and pepper on top. Alex put their egg just on their plate as well as the rest of the tomato I had cut up. We both walked over to the table and sat down to eat our respective breakfast. Right as I was putting my dishes in the sink, my phone rang. I hastily answered it. "F/N speaking."
"Hi, this is Selina Garcia calling in regards to your interview and audition to smosh. We at the office would like you to know that you will in fact be our newest cast member! We'll be emailing you later today with some more information on your upcoming schedule. Is the email address on your resume still valid?"
"Yes! Yes, that's great, thank you so much!" Alex looked at me excitedly, a massive smile on their face.
"Amazing, would you be alright starting tomorrow?"
"Yeah, that works for me."
"Great. Well Y/N, we'll be seeing you tomorrow."
"Yes, thank you again."
"Mhm, bye bye."
"Bye."
"So?!" Alex said expectantly.
"I got the job!!"
"OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD! YES! THAT'S AWESOME!" They jumped around in their excitement. "When do you start?!?!!"
"Tomorrow!" Alex screamed in response to that. We were now both jumping around excitedly.
"Y/N, this is incredible! I don't even know how to describe it!"
"I know! How do you think I feel?!" We both laughed. After we had calmed ourselves down I had got to thinking. Where was my desk going to be at smosh? Would I be alone? Would I be near people I didn't know? That scared me. Then Damien crossed my mind for a moment and I got to thinking: once I start at smosh, I'm going to want to be near someone I'm familiar with to make starting there more comfortable. At least until I get to know some other people. I decided to call Damien to ask about it. Couldn't hurt right?
“Hey Y/N, what's up?” He answered very quickly.
“Not too much at the moment, BUT, I got the call this morning! I'm so excited to work at smosh!” I figured I'd do a bit of small talk before asking.
“So am I! Shayne and I knew you would so it's no shock but it's still so great to have it set in stone now!” I silently smiled.
“Yeah! I did have, um, a little bit of a question though. Well not really a question, just something I wanted to talk about?”
“Yeah, what's up?”
“Well, you see, I was uh, I was just wondering if there was some way my desk could be near yours? Just till I get to know everyone and everything. I think it would make me more comfortable since we already know each other? If not, that's ok. Maybe I could be near shane? I just kind of want some sense of familiarity till I know more people at least.” I stammered, not knowing how to put it.
“Well I'm one step ahead of you there!”
“What do you mean?” I laughed in some weird combination of confusion, awkwardness, and nervousness. I'm very lost as to what he's talking about.
“I just got done talking to Selina, our office manager, about that actually. Your desk is going to be across from mine.”
“Oh! Oh that's great! You read my mind!” I paused to let out a belly laugh. “That's perfect, thank you Damien.” How? How did he do that?!
“Yeah dog, no problem. Do you know when you're starting?"
"Yeah, I'll be there tomorrow! I'm kinda nervous but really excited too!"
"Yeah for sure, totally get that. I can help you out, show you the ropes and all."
"Yesss, thank you so much Damien! You're the best!!"
"It's no sweat bro. Well, I got to go. I'll see you tomorrow though!"
"Mhm! Bye!"
"Bye bye." Once I got off the phone with Damien I went to check my schedule for my first day tomorrow. I put together a checklist for what I needed for what I would need to make it less stressful on myself. I let my excitement take over. I can't wait to start working at smosh. Tomorrow will be great.
A/N:
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Hope you enjoyed this chapter! It was really fun to write this and the previous with all the parallels so you might see more like this in the future.
XO-T. Elliot
