Behind the Curtain

Chapter 2

i hope everyone's enjoying! :D i formatted the conversations a little bit different this time, i'm still exploring what my favorite style to write and format these stories is. what do you think? let me know and enjoy!

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I walk into our living room and fall over onto the couch. Not leaving the house enough makes one trip feel like a seven hour marathon. I rub my eyes and see Tom hovering over me. "Yo. You wanna film now?" he asks. "Sure, just lemme write down a few sentences to say during it." I say, getting out my phone and opening the 'notes' app.
Tom nods and does the same, sitting next to me. Whats a random sentence that would be funny? Hmm... I look around the room for inspiration. After writing down two or three, it dons on me that I can ask twitter.

I quickly save the current sentences and press the home button, opening up twitter. "Quick! Say the first sentence that comes to your head!" I tweet, not wanting to say directly that it was for the whisper challenge. People started to reply almost immediately, and I took screenshots of some of my favorites.

"Ok, I'm ready." I say, standing up.

"Okay." Tom says, getting up as well.

"Oh! Who's channel should we post it on?" I ask.

Tom shrugs. "I'll go ask Eric."

I nod and sit back on the couch, playing flappy bird on my phone. "...last video uploaded?" I hear Eric's voice wafting from the hallway. I turn off my phone and stand up, walking over to them.

"What?" I ask.

"I was just asking who has uploaded the oldest video." Eric said.

"Well, I only uploaded a video five days ago." Tom said.

"I uploaded two days ago." said Eric.

"One and a half weeks ago..." I say sheepishly.

"Alright, I think you should do the honor of uploading it." Tom says, doing a little bow to me.

"But that also means you have to edit it." Eric adds in. I frown but nod.

"So wait, how would it work with three of us?" Eric asks.

"I say something to Tom, Tom says it to you then you say it out loud." I say. "Right. um, don't hurt me but, how do you play again?" I roll my eyes.

"One person wears headphones and plays music so they can't hear anything, then the other person says something to them, and they have to read their lips." Tom said.

"Right! got it." Eric says.

"I'll go set up the lights 'n stuff," I say, running to Eric's room to get the equipment.

One of the good things about having three youtubers living in the Madelyne house it that you can share the recording equipment. But this can also be annoying too. I grab the tripod and lug it into my room, the expensive camera still perched on top of it. I haul into the microphone and the lights, plugging it all in.

"Ready!" I shout.

After about a minute of waiting for them to come, I walk into the living room to see them playing Mario Kart. I know that you should never interrupt a nerd and their game, so I sit down and wait for this round to be over. after a few seconds of observing, I used my sherlock skills to find out that Tom was on top and Eric on the bottom. dammit you dirty mind! Thats not what I mean. Tom (playing as King Boo) just passed Eric (playing as Luigi).

"Haha! Hope you like the taste of banana peel!" He shouted triumphantly, dropping a banana on the road.

"fudge! FUDGE!" Eric shouted as Tom crossed the finish line.

"IN YOUR FACE!" Tom said, jumping up.

I smiled at Toms enthusiasm. "Alright, alright. I got the stuff set up in my room." I said, still grinning. Eric still looked quite embarrassed as he stood up, being followed by Tom. We sat on my bed and I pressed record.

"Whats up guys, it's Madelyn!..."

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After a few hours of laughing and whispering, I finally stopped recording. Tom fell backwards onto my bed and let out an over dramatic groan.

"That was exhausting!" he said.

"But really fun!" said Eric.

I yawned and took the chip out of the camera and plugged it into my mac to edit.

"This is going to take forever to edit!" I moan.

"Suck it up," Eric says, mocking my voice from this morning. I stick my young out at him and start to import the raw footage into Final Cut Pro. Eric gets up and walks to his room, most likely to browse tumblr. Tom continues to lie on my bed, staring at the ceiling. I opened tumblr as I waited for it to import. I saw a picture of my face morphed with Dean Winchester from supernatural and scoffed. The caption was 'Madelyn X Dean 5EVER!' I could tell that the poster was being sarcastic (I hope), so I didn't take it too seriously. I liked the post and continued scrolling.

After about a minute of scrolling, the Final cut pro icon started bouncing up and down in my dock, signaling that it was finished importing. I minimized safari and opened it, briefly scrolling through the footage. I glanced over to Tom and saw him playing something on his phone.

I looked down and saw my reflection in my screen, and saw that I was blushing and grinning...