One Wish.

Chapter 1: Settling Down

Key:
[YN] - Your Name
[YSN] - Your Surname
[EC] - Eye Colour
[HC] - Hair Colour
[HL] - Hair Length
[SC] - Skin Colour
For the sake of the story, the reader is going to be twenty-two.
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You had just finished your university degree and you thought it was time to now get your own place. You had since been to your parents' house and packed up all of your things into moving boxes.

You had parked in the driveway of your new home. It was a two story, two bed home and you had spent the past few weeks decorating it and fitting the necessities such as shelves, cabinets and hanging pictures as well as fitting the furniture. All that was left was to unpack. You hauled the last few boxes out of the boot of your car and shuffled them over to the front door.

Once inside, you stacked the boxes in the necessary rooms with the others and moved to sit on your sofa with a large sigh. Just when you had started to relax your phone began to buzz beside you.

"Hello?" You picked up after much hesitation, you knew who it was, "Ah, hello! Am I speaking to Miss [YSN]?" The voice asked to which you simply hummed in response, signalling that the man over the phone was correct.

"I'm glad I could get hold of you! We have been trying to contact you all day, you see, you are still overdue on your credit card bill." The man spoke in a cheerful tone which contradicted the words he was saying. You grimaced.

"Yes I am aware, I've been getting your many, many voicemails but I have been extremely busy, I did say to the woman earlier that I would be paying the bill at the end of the month." This company had been haggling you for money for the past week and you'd told them multiple times that they'd have to wait till the end of the month since that was when you got paid. Did they listen? Of course not.

"Yes well that's all well and good but we will have to freeze your account until you pay." You couldn't help it, you hung up the phone and set it on the side harshly. This was all too much.

Day after day, you had been getting phone calls from various credit card companies and your bills were still piling up, now currently sitting in a sprawled pile across your coffee table. You were neck deep in debt and you hadn't even been on your own for very long. It was beginning to weigh on you and your heart sank at the thought of potentially losing your house.

Your job was simple and you enjoyed it but you simply didn't get paid enough and now you were suffering.

Pushing all thoughts aside you turned on your laptop and went onto YouTube. Whenever you felt the weight of the world, you'd turn to YouTube or more specifically; Markiplier. Though you two had never met, he seemed to understand you, if that made any sense. He made you feel better and put your mind at ease.

You changed into your pyjamas and put your [HL] [HC] hair up into a ponytail, relaxing now into a more comfortable position on the couch and loading the video. Your face instantly brightened up when you saw his face, his voice was like honey and you felt yourself becoming content at the sound of it. Your problems were melting away and you seemed to not care. All that mattered was him.

"I wish you were here, Mark." You whispered to yourself after some time, sighing softly. You closed your laptop and set it on the side before trudging upstairs now feeling the weight come baring back down upon you.

You shifted passed the piles of boxes in your room and climbed into bed, pulling the sheets up to your shoulders, "Everything would be better if you were here..." You curled up into a foetus position beneath the covers and closed your eyes.

It was going to be a struggle but you had to get through this. You were too proud and stubborn to ask your relatives for money, you'd only be greeted with an array of 'I told you so's and you didn't want to be proved wrong. After all, they told you that you wouldn't be able to support yourself but you'd show them. You'd prove them wrong... Somehow. It would just take a while for things to even out is all.

You soon drifted off to sleep, your mind still occupied by the looming debt but somehow, that man with the charming smile and contagious laugh slipped into your thoughts and you found yourself dreaming; dreaming that Mark was there and soon your mind was at ease and you could sleep peacefully.