Smiles || Ivan Martinez

Heartwarming

••••Ivan's POV••••
It's another day in LA. Being a public figure, as a part of a quite popular group of influencers Team 10. Yet just another day of life-time torture.

By the way, let me tell you some bits of my story before all this'll.

I was one of the shyest kid back in Spain. No, im not that famous kid with dozens 'girlfriends' everywhere. No, im not that smart geek with non stop A on my papers. And no, im not that rich kid who lived in a mansion with a bunker filled with dollars.

Unlike Emilio, im more like the passive brother.

When our dad left us and the rest of the family, our mother almost took her own life. But im glad to say that she survived those dark phases.

But i can tell that Emilio was the most broken one. No wonder bcs he's the closest to our father. He cried almost every night. Even his friends also told me he stopped playing soccer and the team kicked him out just bcs he played progressively worse and he slowly drifted away from everyone. He lost his appetite and got sick many many many times. He would also blankly stare at a random corner every minute. It's like he lost his entire self within a few months.

I've had enough of people bashing our names, calling us names that we don't deserve just because we're no longer living in our comfort zone.

We never told anybody about our family, we just let them speculate and leave.

Aside from how ppl treat us differently after we were economically unstable,
I genuinely felt bad for Emilio. But I can't do anything to help. We have nobody but ourselves at that time.

I, the shyest one of course don't have that much friend like my brother have.

But i have only one person that i can trust since the beginning of the day. And it's Ruben.

I was sceptical of what he taught me to do. Yes, YouTube.

Of course, youtube wasn't as big as how it is now. But i was quite surprised at how I actually genuinely enjoy making video.

That goes for a few years until Jake reached out to us and helped us becoming who we really are this day.

Not only that my lifestyle changed. My mindset, my maturity, my....

Everything changed.

I don't know if i love or i hate who i am now.

I don't get use to this before. But then I slowly felt powerful with everything that i have. And I don't want the fame control me. Being a cocky famous figure have never been my dream.

I want to use everything that i got to help others. So there will be nothing can ever stop reminding me to be down to earth and care for others.