Stephew Oneshots.

My GTLive

This is written in the perspective of someone watching the GTLive streams. It's taken from my own personal experiences. I thought I'd focus on more how Matthew, Stephanie, Jason and Chris have impacted our lives rather than about their relationship.

I opened up my laptop and pressed the power button, waiting for the old machine to kick into gear. It was coming up to midnight, my favourite time of day. I had been awake for sixteen hours now, none of them were enjoyable. I sighed, the joys of being a student. Glancing to my left, I saw the piles work that sat on my desk. Even though I had been working non-stop since 8 am this morning, I still hadn't managed to finish all my homework - with some teachers handing out even more as if we had nothing else to do with our lives. My classmates whined whenever we were assigned a new essay but I just accepted it, it wasn't like they weren't going to write it anyways.

Glaring at the internet connection symbol in the corner of my screen, I opened up my browser and loaded up YouTube. Scrolling through my subscription feed, I made note of several videos that I wanted to watch if I got time. On the other side of my screen, I opened up Twitter and said hello to several of my friends - we were all preparing for the live stream. Grabbing the stream link from someone in the GTLive twitter tag, I loaded it up and stared at the countdown timer for a moment. Was this my life? I was blessed in my life, I knew that. I had a loving family, great friends and dozens of opportunities to experience that others may not have access to. Yet I felt empty...

The countdown ticked down as my mind raced. GTLive had become such an important part of my life that it was hard to imagine life without it. Sure, Matthew and Stephanie went abroad and took time off from time to time but even they itched to be back on the live stream. Through the stream, I had met such amazing people in the community - Twitter friends that made me smile whenever they appeared on my timeline. I responded to a few direct messages and scrolled through the GTLive tag whilst I waited for the stream to start. Of course, they were late but that didn't surprise me. They were always late and the live stream was always worth the wait.

I sighed as I waited for the stream to begin - chuckling at some of the extravagant theories that the chat was coming up with to explain their tardiness. Glancing at the time, I rubbed the tiredness from my eyes and took another sip of my coffee. The stream had been keeping me going all day, helping me through double maths and various awkward conversations with friends about the bags under my eyes. Exams were looming and the amount of work I hadn't completed made me feel... down. I knew the stream would cheer me up, it always did. I just had to make it to midnight. I had succeeded and survived another day.

When the familiar opening stream music played, I smiled and turned up my headphone volume - wanting to hear the Patrick's banter but also slightly terrified that Matthew might scream again and burst my eardrums. The stream loaded in and Stephanie began explaining how to engage with the stream, leading to very sarcastic comments from some of my Twitter buddies - who were already engaging with the stream. The usual banter ensued as they mocked Chris's fabulous artwork and blamed Jason for whatever mishap had befallen them during the day as if he had control over the universe.

A smile was permanently fixed on my face as I watched the stream, the next hour and a half of my life flashing by much faster than I wanted it to. During that hour and a half, I laughed so hard that my stomach hurt, tears streaming out of my eyes. I squealed with excitement when Stephanie and Matthew came onto Twitter and read out some of my friend's tweets - so excited that they had been noticed and loving the Patrick's reactions. The smile on my face slipped away as the stream drew to a close, the now silent stream reminding me of all the things I needed to do. Yet my mind was still filled the goofy moments from the live stream, which overshadowed the demons I had yet to face. Maybe tomorrow.

A/N

Hey guys. It's been a while. I firstly wanted to say, thank you so much for the support on these shorts whilst I've been away - we hit over 2,000 reads and that's phenomenal! I love every single one of you that have read these stories, shared them and supported me :)

Secondly, I took a week out to finish coursework but it dragged on a lot longer than I expected it to (my teacher decided to make our final draft a first draft, so we had to redo our stuff and hand it in again). I'm back now though!

Finally, I've started a new romance story on my original story account - DreamsInShadows. It is about two insomniacs and their journey to deal with their issues and to eventually find love (not where'd you expect they'd find it ;) )

You can find that here:

https://www.wattpad.com/411208790-lost-sleep-lost-hope-chapter-1-dawn

So, please suggest new one shots for the future! I'd love to repay you all for your support.

Much love,

Caitlin.