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"Hey y/n!" A cheery voice called out.

"Hmm?" I turned around to find one of my friends coming towards me.

"What's up?"

I smiled as she pulled the chair beside me and sat down.

"Wanna stream with me tonight!?" She exclaimed, holding my hands together with a sparkle in her eyes.

This is Kim Ryujin, a friend of mine.

She's well known to be a famous kwitch streamer, reaching out to 100,000 subscribers in just 2 weeks.

Ryujin was reasonably pretty cute herself and has a very cheery and friendly vibe within her. It was no surprise that she could skyrocket as an influencer in her first try.

But these few days, she's been trying to get me to join her in streaming.

"I'm not interested, though!"

I turned my head away as she pouted and turned my head towards her.

"Pleaase? Just this once!" She pleaded.

I bit my lip as I stared at her, sighing in defeat. She jumped and applauded.

"Hello everyone!" Ryujin exclaimed as she started her live

"As I mentioned before on my old streams, my friend y/n will be joining us tonight!"

She clasped her hands together and pulled me beside her as I awkwardly wave at the camera, seeing the chat go wild.

Somehow, I managed to get myself to join her in her stream tonight.

Right after classes, she directly headed over towards me and led the way to her place.

Looks like someone's really excited.

Before we started, ryujin's mother made us dinner and made sure I was welcomed openly to their home.

I sat down there, watching the screen awkwardly while reading the comments. Ryujin commented on someone's question from the chat.

"Eh, which school do we go to? J High, of course!" She beamed.

Ryujin did her thing as I said a few words here and there to make things less awkward than it already was.

"How much do you actually gain from this?" I whispered beside her.

"Hmm... it actually depends, though, " she hummed.

"Ah! Thank you, gangnm34"

She smiled as a text popped out of the screen. Seemingly, this user just sent her 5 won.

I raised a brow in amusement and continued to watch ryujin do her thing and read the chats.

"Oh y/n? Yeah, she's single, " she winked at me.

"And I am planning to keep it that way, honey."

I raised a finger in defence as ryujin chuckled and whispered something to the viewers, which I could clearly hear. Making me deadpan to her.

"She's a feisty one, guys!"

She exaggerated, making me roll my eyes at her jokingly.

And from that moment on, the chat kept asking questions about me. And me. And me.

Ryujin? Yeah, she answered every single question the chat asked about me without any hesitation.

From then onwards, I didn't know my whole life could change like that, based from one to how many times I've joined Ryujin on her stream.

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"Like I tell you guys!"

I harshly whispered.

They just laughed at me and brushed it off like it was nothing.

"Of course you'd feel like that, I felt the same thing, but nothing happened,"

Ryujin exclaimed and tried to calm me down, I frowned at her.

"How would you be so sure?" I raised a brow at her.

One of my friends patted my back and tried to reassure me.

"Come on, you're probably just paranoid or something,

She said with ease as I shook my head at them. My guts tell me the opposite.

But the other side of my head tells me that they're also probably right, this wasn't the first time I acted paranoid.

I sighed and just listened to them, agreeing that I might just be paranoid from the whole new perspective of life.

As soon as the bell rang, we headed back to our classrooms. Though I still can't shake off the feeling I'd been experiencing lately.

My head is all up in the sky, not paying attention to my surroundings. I accidentally bumped into something hard - ah no, someone.

"Ah- I'm so so sorry!"

I quickly bowed as they did the same and apologised aswell.

I look up to see the architecture students looking right down at me. Apparently, I had just bumped into Euntae Lee, more preferably known as Vasco.

Their big build and tall figures made me gulp, making me realise how small I look compared to them.

"Are you alright?" Vasco asked.

"Mhm, yeah, I am.. I'm so so sorry again, "

I nodded slightly as I went to my friend group afterwards.

"What was that girl?"

One of my friends asked as they noticed the incident.

I shook it off and told them that I had just accidentally bumped into them.

As soon as we sat down, Ryujin once again asked if I could join her stream tonight.

I tiredly smiled and nodded as she hugged me quickly, then went back to her seat.

I didn't want to make her sad. After all, I promised that I'll support her on this. I don't want to break that.

School ended quickly, packing up our things as I followed Ryujin out of school and towards her place.

Now that I'm here exposed to the world, I finally get the eery feeling of someone watching me.

Every single time.

I felt like someone's eyes were fixated to me, and only me, I looked around to see people minding their own business and nothing suspicious.

'I'm probably just paranoid like they said..' I said to myself, shaking off the feeling.

Even though I tried to hide the weird sensation my guts is telling me, I always find myself looking around the surroundings from now and then.

"Are you alright y/n?" Ryujin asked, concerned.

"Oh yeah, I am, no worries!"

I forced a smile as Ryujin relaxed a bit as we continued to head to her place.

'Fck this..'

I cursed to myself when I felt someone's eyes burning into my body, turning my head backwards but seeing no one.