Grasers New Neighbor

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7:00 am comes too soon after last night. Bradley didn't leave until 11 after I forced him to leave. I take a shower and put on my uniform, brush my hair and put some makeup on. Ouch, shit, I slam into someone on my way out. "Watch where you're going dip shit." I grumble turning around. "You watch were you're going! You're coming out of that room like a bat out of hell, slow down and enjoy things!" the guy says. I glare at him and walk away. The nerve of some people, just running into other people, what a way to make a first impression. Even if he is cute, he's on my shit list now.

I really hate people.

My phone goes off its Skype; oh it's only Jon though so I ignore it. That's my big secret, I have a YouTube channel and I make all types of gaming videos from Gary's mod, CS:GO, but my favorite thing to record by far is Minecraft. No one who knows me in real life knows about any of it, not even my family knows about it. I don't get much from it but I get enough to live pretty well when I want to. I don't ever show my face and I even use a voice changer in most of my videos so if someone who knows me hears it they won't be able to tell who I am. Jon is the guy who helps run some server called Mineplex; he probably wants to do an adventure map with me or something. I might stream it tonight if he lets me.

Okay Haley, get back to work, stop spacing out.

I get done with work and go to get on the bus to go home. There's that guy, why is he taking a picture of his feet, should I sit with him, crap he sees me. I show my bus pass and realize that the only seat left is the one beside him. Well shit, here goes nothing. "Hi, sorry I ran into you this morning. That probably gave you the wrong impression of me, my name's Zach, yours?" breathe boy I don't bite. I laugh out of nervousness, "yeah I'm not the best person to run into in the mornings. I probably seemed like a bitch, I'm really sorry about that. I'm Haley, it's nice to meet you."

We get off the bus and I go to the main building to pay this month's rent, Earl the gem of the building is the landlord. "Earl are you here I have the money. I know that's all you want in life." I'm going to get kicked out if I keep at him at this pace. Earl comes around the corner with that signature frown "it's about time, I went over there earlier to collect it but I guess you were out." I roll my eyes, "you should know when I work by now." Gosh he smells bad, you know in cartoons to depict when someone is really nasty they have smell lines coming from them and little flies buzzing around, imagine him like that. The sooner I get out of there the better, I feel like I need a shower from just being in the same room as him. Oh well, time to check Skype to see what Jon wanted.

'Hey hay, there's a secret project that's being hosted by Mineplex and we wanted some smaller youtubers and bigger youtubers to collab so they get better exposure. Message me back if you're interested. We'll film it this Saturday at say about 2 pm if that works for you.' That's what I love about Jon, he's always trying to find ways to expand other people's channels, I quickly message him back telling him I was up for it if there was still room for me. Within two minutes I get a message back 'yeah there's room but I'll have to get you the Team Speak passcode and username and stuff because that's how we'll do everything. To get everyone used to each other we're going to be doing a few mini games before hand so we're all in our best recording moods.' I send back '<3 thanks for looking out for me Jon, this is why I love you!! Hey can you send me everyone's link so I can look them up beforehand?' He sends me back the links to their channels, the tomorrow night that we're doing the getting to know everyone time, and the Team Speak stuff. I go and download team speak then walk away from my computer.

I look at the clock and remember my "date" shit I have to put on something other than my uniform. Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit. I don't want to do this. Maybe I could call him and say I'm sick and just pray he doesn't reschedule. No, don't be a baby; you can do this just go on Pandora listen to some music while you get ready. "Rock star" by A Great Big World comes on and I automatically get in a better mood. I sing along and while I'm straitening my hair I hear a knock on my door. I open the door and see Zach, "hey Zach what's up?" I say sing song like. He pushes his hair back off his face, "yeah hey, can I come in?" he says and walks in. "Why does the landlord hate me? I haven't lived here a day and he already is walking by and glaring at me..." Earl. Good 'ole Earl. I walk back into my bathroom to finish getting ready and he follows me in. "Don't worry about Earl, he's always acting like a bitch, I think it's because he smells like low tide and it has turned his brain into mush." Zach smiles and laughs "so it's not just me?" I glance at him through the mirror and he looks away avoiding eye contact "nah my dude, he hates everyone. Unless you're bumping him, you bump him the rent gets bumped down." I wink and he blushes. "Is that who you're getting ready for?" He looks me up and down then looks away. I turn around quickly and point my straightener at him "Oh hell no, he is repulsive and nasty and my rent is the same as ever. We hate each other I'm honestly surprised I'm still allowed to live here." He laughs, throwing his head back and clapping. I laugh at his seal laugh and finish my hair and makeup. "Honest opinion, how do I look? Does this outfit say 'I kinda tried but I don't really want to be on this date?' don't lie to me" I laugh then put on my gray sweater over a black t-shirt tucked into my jean shorts with my dark blue toms. "You look nice, if you don't mind me asking where are you going? I just moved to this area and I was looking for places to go, you know, with people I meet and stuff."

Right as I was about to answer I hear a knock on the door, crap Brad. Zach looks confused "sorry that's Brad, the guy I'm going out to dinner with." I go to open the door and Zach walks out the door with my carton of milk, "thanks for letting me borrow this I'll go buy you some to replace this in the morning bye, have a fun time tonight!" That jerk just stole my food. I smile at Bradley "hey you ready?" He watches Zach walk down the stairs "who the hell was that?" "That was my new neighbor; he couldn't find milk at the store today so I just let him borrow mine. Why?" I lock my door and turn around "Haley, if you're dating that guy I don't want to go out with you. If that's some type of get back at me then you're a bitch." I cross my arms and look at him "you just continue to amaze me. Do you honestly think I would be dating a person I literally JUST met this morning?" He gets really close to me "LISTEN I'M SORRY I CHEATED ON YOU, I WAS TRYING TO BE NICE AND TAKE YOU ON THIS BECAUSE YOUR FRIEND TOLD ME YOU WERE LONLEY. This was a pity date that I didn't even want to go on. Fuck you, fuck this date, just go live with your cat for the rest of your life."

I run in my house and slam the door crying. I hate people.

I sit with my back against the door for about an hour, finally when I'm too tired to cry any more I get up and walk into my kitchen. Weird, something is hanging on my refrigerator. 'Hey if you need anything call me -Zach' then his phone number. I text him 'sorry if you heard any of that I didn't know it would turn into that.' I know what will make me feel better, recording some videos for my channel. I'll see if anyone on that Team Speak channel wants to record some mini games with me. I log on and introduce myself "Hey guys don't ban me" I laugh "I'm hay567, I'm a friend of Jon's he gave me this for a video we're all doing this weekend." The people on are Etho, TheCampingRusher, defek7 (Jon) and Parker_Games. I only know Etho but I didn't know Jon was friends with him. Hmmmm, he wasn't on the list of people so maybe he'll record something with me.

"Oh hey hay, this is Graser, H, Parker, and Brayden. Guys this is hay she's the one we were actually just talking about. Graser she's on that island with you and H, the faceless crew. Oh Graser is Etho by the way, he's a big fan boy so that's his Team Speak name. We just ignore it." We laugh and talk about our channels for a little bit and then H says he is about to live stream. "I don't want to intrude your thing so I'll just go record some mcsg or something." I say and pull up Minecraft. "Wait, record some Mineplex mini games with us, H can just stream and not record." Graser says. Well maybe they'll help me grow my channel. "Okay sounds good, I'm sure my viewers will enjoy that more than just me talking about random stuff by myself. Um I just have to warn you if I mute myself it's because the people that live around me are sometimes loud and stuff." That's always the awkward part of recording with other people. "Yeah Graser does the same thing it's okay." Parker says.

H starts the stream by himself to prepare the viewers, and probably himself, for all of us. Jon pokes me a message 'hey try not to cuss in H's stream'. I laugh to myself 'Jon...I just cuss SO much. That might be a problem.' I get pulled into H's stream "Hey guys I want to introduce you guys to another H, this is hay567, look her up on YouTube and twitter and stuff she does some pretty cool stuff and she might be recording parts of the stream. Now it's time to add everyone else." I laugh he's so good with his fans and the Twitch chat is so spammy "Hey guys props to you if you already know who I am, H I may have tweeted out that I was crashing this live stream. Hope you don't mind..." "NO! Leave. We apparently don't welcome new people into our group. You can't sit with us!" I pout "but....H... sweatpants are all that fits me right now."

We stream and I film a bunch of good clips that I'll have to edit tonight to get ready for tomorrow. Jon said what we're doing will take a long time to record.

H ends the stream an hour later and we say our goodbyes. Before I edit I decide to go get a snack from the store down the street. I check my phone I have a message from Zach 'hey call me when you feel like it.' I call him it takes awhile but he answers "hey, sorry if I woke you up meet me outside, I'm going to get a late night snack." He agrees then a few moments later we are outside together.