Now I'm just stalling (MatPat fanfic)

chapter 3

When we entered the drive way I was hunched over tapping my foot nervously. I was about to screw up meeting my brother, who was MatPat. just like I screwed up meeting Stephanie, just like I screwed up meeting Jason. in fact, after screwing up meeting MatPat they'd probably have invited Ronnie over to dinner to celebrate Mat being reunited with his long lost sister. Then at that dinner, I would screw up meeting Ronnie. after that I would promptly puke on him and faint.

I was in hell and waiting was agony. "Hey," Jason said. "we're here Mary." then again maybe waiting wasn't too bad. maybe I could just sit here in this car and eventually die. Then, at least, I would never have to know the pain of screwing up meeting my brother that was MatPat. I could just sit here and wait for my body to exhaust it's resources of carbohydrates to feed off of.

"Mary?" Jason asked from outside the car window. "are you coming?"

"Yup, totally coming, comin' right now, immediately now." I said "I'm also not nervous. no, not nervous or stalling. definitely not stalling." for Jason's sake I wanted to get up, but my legs had no intention of moving.

"Sorry but, we're kinda in a hurry." He said, Steph looking anxious beside him. I realized I was probably keeping them from something important. Then I remembered it was Tuesday. They had a live stream to get to and it was almost 4 o'clock. No wonder they were anxious. There was no way I was gonna delay a live stream. I got up and tugged my bag to the door.

Steph smiled weakly and came to unlock the door. We walked through a few rooms and ended up in a GTlive setup, complete with matpat staring me in the face. He was even sipping a diet coke. It was perfect.

Aside from the fact that I was internally writhing.

"Hey Steph," he said warily. "who's this?"

"Oh, you know," Steph said nervously, as if she was building up to a joke that she knew he would hate. "your sister."

"My- you brought her here?" He said, starting to get upset. "Jason! Why would you- poop on a stick." Then he sat down, utterly defeated.

"Matthew, her parents wanted us to look after her for awhile." Steph said trying to calm him down. "what where we gonna do?"

"I don't know, maybe tell me, first of all!" He was acting like he'd been playing a rage game. "also, you could've said no! or asked what I thought, I just-" he curled into a ball. I guess he was having an even worse time than me.

Stephanie started to say "Mat it's-"

"Let's just start the live stream." He interrupted her.

"Um... ok." Steph said sitting down and rubbing his back.

"You sure you don't wanna take a breather? I don't think you have to strictly adhere to when you say it'll start. I mean, streams are late all the time." I said only realizing the words were coming out of my mouth half way through.

Jason said, "you know she's right, mat. you can-"

"I'm fine Jason," Matthew said while pointing and looking somewhat constipated. "lets do this."

Jason looked back at him a bit concerned. He then turned to look at me.

"I'm fine here," I said. "Don't need to worry about me."

"Ok, syncing the stream," Jason said hesitantly. "We're live," He pointed to Mat and Steph on the couch.

"Hey guys, and welcome to GTLive!" Mat said, and when he did I realized he seemed noticeably off kilter. the tempo was off and... I dunno it just seemed weird.

Stephanie said, "we're not late! But we almost were. Jason and I had to do some stuff before the stream and we cut it a bit close. But we made it, we're here!" She was moving her hands for emphasis.