How Could This Be Real?

36. She's Just A Kid...

A few days later, I got an interesting email. I wasn't sure who it was from at first, but they asked if I wanted to collab with them. We setup a time to talk on Xbox and when I saw what his gamertag was, I couldn't help smiling.

"Hello?"

"Hey," I answered.

"It's nice to meet you. I'm Arran, aka Tycer."

"I know. Which would you prefer?"

"Most people call me Tycer. What about you? Do you want me to call you Elsie or your real name?"

"Either is fine."

"Well, what is your real name?"

I raised an eyebrow, "You saying you don't remember?"

There was a pause. "Sorry?"

"We met at Minecon!"

He thought for a minute but still said, "I guess I don't recall that."

I sighed, pretending to be disappointed. "Yeah, I didn't really expect you to."

"Maybe if you tell me it'll come back?"

I smirked, "It's Angel."

After a few moments he said, "Wait, you're the girl that I played Hunger Games with? And introduced me to Squid?"

"That would be me."

He laughed, "Wow, imagine that! How have you been?"

"Oh, fantastic! But anyways, you were here to talk to collabs, no?"

"Yeah, I just can't get over that though. Did Squid convince you to start?"

"Well he bought all of my recording equipment, so I guess you could say that."

"Woah, seriously?"

"Mhmm."

"That's crazy. Okay, anyways, sorry about that, back to the matter at hand. I see that you've been getting loads of attention recently. Is there any specific reason for the sudden spike, or are you just lucky?"

"Squid posted a video generically talking about me and once people found my channel, it was all over the comments. I literally jumped 20,000 subs in one night because of that and it hasn't really slowed."

"Ah, I should've guessed."

I bit my lip nervously, "Does that, change your opinion of me?"

"What do you mean?"

"That I got here because of him and not really on my own?"

"Nah, we all rep each other sometimes and that's kind of what I'm hoping we can do here."

I leaned back in my chair, "Do tell."

"So you know about our charity series we do, yeah? Area 31 and 32?"

"Of course. That's how I found your channel."

"Well, we're starting Area 33 soon and... I'd love it if you could join."

"Wait, for real?"

"Yeah, I think you're perfect for it."

He wants me to join?! "Have you talked to the others about this?"

"I said I'd look for new people, I haven't told them about you specifically."

"Don't you think you should ask them first?"

"I'm sure they'd love to have you on board, they all know who you are."

"They do?"

"Yeah, everyone's talking about you. They think you're the next big thing."