You're Family Now

Part 14

Mitchs pov-

My jaw practically hit the floor from shock. What are the chances of this happening? What are the one in a three million chances that my sister turn out to be the biggest minecraft youtuber, and an idol of mine? What. The. Hell.

The crowd cheered as everyone pounced out of their chairs onto Gem, all except for me. I was still trying to process this.

"Mitch? You okay, BenjaBro?" Gem asks, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Um. How- Wha- When? I don't understand." I stutter and she giggles along with everyone else.

"Well my dearest brother, that is a long story, do we have time?" She asks the manager behind the stage and I hear a faint 'yes'.

"Alright children, take your seats, this'll take a moment or ten." Everyone takes their seats but our group sits infront of Gem like children at story time.

"So I guess I should start at the beginning. My parents were killed in an accident so I was sent to an orphanage given that my living relatives that knew of the death didn't want me. I was seven or eight a the time and in my freshman year of highschool with... Tyler Oakley. I have one of those freaky brains that I remember almost everything so I was able to goto highschool when I was supposed to be in third grade, cool right? Anyway, I went through highschool with Tyler until my junior year since he graduated a year before me and I will go further into those depths in a video. Senior year comes around and I'm like 'Oh, shiz, what am I going to do now? School is almost finished and I can't stay at the orphanage doing chores all day so I go out to the library after school, just flipping through books cause I'm a nerdy pleb and stumble upon books that teach guitar so I check out all seven of them reading each front to back.

I had been saving every penny I had gotten since I was 5 so I had near three-hundred dollars which is enough to by a cheap old guitar front a thrift shop and some new strings. By the time I had finished learning how to actually play fluently Senior year had come and gone so I decided to head down to the pier everyday and play guitar for money so I could get a better guitar. I remember walking into a starbucks and seeing someone watching Minecraft videos on their phone and it intrigued me. I went to the library and found some more videos, ones made by Adam, Quentin, Brandon (Or bashur), and Gizzy and thought 'Hey I wanna do this' but in order for me to do this I had to get way money than I was making so I went on a job hunt, at the age of nine.

Labor laws stated that you can't employ anyone under the age of fourteen so I found a loop hole. I went to a best buy around the corner from the pier and talked to the manager. I figured out how to convince him to pay me in tech equipment and work space and I would technically volunteer which was LEGAL and that's how it worked out. I made my videos in the back of the building on the second level storage space, working my hardest to put out videos, pay off my equipment and keep everything secret. My voice would be a dead give away if anyone ever met me in person so I went around to different tech shops, libraries and tech engineers until I stumbled upon a guy named Timothy who made building mics into a game." She stopped and quickly took a sip of her water before continuing. "I said 'look, if you make me something that you can't reverse the voice and is sleek I will come by and clean your shop and house for three months.' He made it four and even though it was a hard bargin I agreed. Now everything was falling into place.

By the age of fifteen I had nearly eleven million subs, no money from YouTube as I had made it a deal that everything I earn be kept safe until I have told who I am. My job at best buy was finally legal and official so I started getting paid but not enough for me to come here so I restarted singing at the pier which is where these guys found me and TADA! I'm the big benjas sister."

She looked all around the room for a few seconds before we all got up and pounced on her in a hug and the audience cheered.

Her giggle echoed through the theatre through the mic and our cheers got interrupted by Anthony coming over to tell us to head to the panel. We all obeyed an headed off stage after Gem said goodbye to the crowd.

"So YOU'RE the one Preston has had an obsession with and a crush on." Rob teases and we all laugh except Preston who merely hides his face so we can't see him blush.

"Yeah, yeah, fudge off guys." He protests and we only laugh more.

"Okay how about this. Preston? Say I was JewelG6 if she was someone else what would you have done?" Gem asks.

"Umm..." He blushes and scratches
on the back of his neck. He doesn't answer, just looks away from embarrassment.

"I heard that one time he said he would have her take a selfie with him of her kissing his cheek while she looks at the camera." Alesa teases then thinks for a minute. "To be honest I thought that would be kinda cute."

Without another word Gem just slips her phone out if her pocket and walks over to Preston. We all stood walking and stare.

"Preston look at the camera." Is all she says before she kisses his cheek and takes a selfie of it. After taking a couple of pictures she pulls away leaving Preston smiling and a soft pink lip gloss mark on his face.

"There." She smirks then walks away to the panel leaving all of us stunned.