Go The Distance (A Markiplier fanfiction)

Seven

Days turned into weeks, and soon I marked it as over a month since I had begun talking to Mark.

"Do you realise it's been over a month since we've started talking? It's gone so quick!" I mentioned to him when we Skyped again.

"And I haven't regretted a single moment," He smiled, and I bit my lip and blushed. "You're so cute when you do that." I blushed a deeper shade of scarlet and he laughed.

"How's the working out going?" I asked, curious as he hadn't mentioned it for a while.

"Is that a hint that you want to see?" He winked, and I practically melted inside, like I did every time he looked at me. I shuffled in my seat and buried my head in my knees, embarassed to say yes.

He shook his head on a smile and rolled his shirt sleeve up, flexing. "You want me to flex my biiiiiig muscles?" He laughed and I stuck my tongue out. "Do you think it's going well?" He pouted and raised his eyebrow.

"You doofus! Yeah, it is going veeery well, from what I can see," I giggled, covering my mouth with my hands – I couldn't help acting like an excited little girl when he talked to me. "I don't think I'm ready for the abs, though..."

At this, he started to lift his shirt a little until I practically screamed at him to stop. "What?" He laughed and tugged his shirt back down.

"I said no! I can't handle that much beautiful please." He chuckled and checked his watch. "Time to go?"

"Hey, don't pin this on me! Isn't it like 3am there?" He smiled and I stuck my tongue out again.

"Well, yeah, but...I have this week off so shush!!"

"You should still get to bed! All these late nights aren't doing you any good, you know!" He laughed and smiled fondly as he watched me giggle.

"Oh, go do some work!" I taunted and he winked. "Bye!"

He pouted. "I don't want to go, but I suppose I should do something. Buh-bye!" He went to hug the camera, as he always did, and ended up knocking it off again. Hearing laughter and a final goodbye, I hung up and sighed.

*

My days usually seemed to consist nowadays of Skyping Mark, scrolling through Twitter and hanging with Charlotte, which didn't bother me in the slightest.

Scrolling through Twitter that morning with Charlotte, I started to feel a little uncomfortable about the things that were spreading among Charlotte's followers.

"It's not like they're saying anything bad..." She said, as she scrolled through her timeline.

I shrugged and read more tweets, which tended to be along the lines of Mark talking to a girl. Granted, nothing bad was being said, but I'd witnessed things like this too much to know where it was going; I don't think I'd tell Mark though, unless he found it for himself.

"I'm just nervous about what they're going to say next," I said quietly, wringing my hands. "This could take a turn for the worst."

Charlotte put her arm around me and pulled me to her for a hug. "Listen, I've been in this community for a while now, and I am not even lying when I say they're the nicest people I've ever talked to online. They'll be absolutely fine!" I shrugged and she hugged me properly.

After she had left, I continued to nervously scroll through the tweets. Like I was trying to find something even remotely negative, I found a conversation between three girls who were 'jealous but happy for him'; I doubted this.

Reading through the conversation, I didn't feel entirely comfortable about the way they were proclaiming the fact that they weren't that jealous. It shouldn't have made me feel this way, because I would act exactly the same way, but having as big an issue with self-confidence as I did, I started to feel hated.