Views [skephalo story] (slow updates)

Prolouge

Third-person PoV-

The cold winter air filled the room of Zak's apartment, he sat up bundled in blankets while scrolling through Twitter. He had stopped and looked around at fan art and random posts made by his friends, he stopped after a while and placed his phone on his side dresser. He laid down on his bed and looked up at the ceiling, he was bored out of his mind. However, he still had a video to record with Darryl and Vincent, but he had to wait for a6d to text him due to the time difference between the two. He simply hated the idea of having to wait for his French friend, it annoyed him. After all, Zak isn't known for his patients. But he eventually heard a light notification buzz from his phone, he immediately grabbed it and looked at his messages. It wasn't from Vincent, it was from his friend Darryl. He clicked on the small message and began to read.

Bold= Darryl italics= Zak

"Zak, has Vincent texted you yet?"
"nope"
"I'm getting impatient"
"I'm sure he'll text you soon. You know he has a different schedule than us"
" I know, it just makes me concerned. I wish we all lived together, it would make things so much better."
"that isn't a bad idea, Zak what if we all moved together?"
"really? Are you serious?"
"yeah! It would be fun! We would need to ask Vincent first though."
"nice, well I'm gonna go take a nap. Still waiting for Vincent to text me back."
"ok, talk to you later"

Zak closed the tab on his phone and gently placed it to the side, he laid down on his bed closing his eyes hoping to get some rest. A little while later, a loud ringtone came from his side. He sat up quickly, startled by the noise, he grabbed the phone and accepted the call. "mm..hello?" Zak grumbled still tired even after the nap, "SKEPPY!" Zak jumped "w-what!?" he shouted back. Turns out that Vincent had been calling Zak for over an hour, "why didn't you answer my calls!" Vincent groaned "we are an hour late for the stream!". Zak took a moment to process what Vincent said before snapping back into reality. "OH! ok, I'll get on TeamSpeak, tell Bad to get on aswell" zak grumbled again before standing up off his bed, he turned on his monitor and entered the TeamSpeak call. "hey skeppy!" Zak heard Darryl speak in his normal cheerful tone, "Hey, so are we gonna do Bedwars today?" Zak rubbed his eye with his fist in an attempt to wake up. "yes, we are doing Bedwars and donation requests." Vincent sighed, Zak laughed "vincent, just start the stream." Darryl spoke up ignoring skeppys behavior. Zak started his stream which immediately flooded with viewers in the chat spamming memes, he smiled "everything is normal, I'll wait for you guys in the Bedwars lobby". After a while of playing a few rounds, Darryl brought up the idea of moving together. "so, Zak and I thought that we could all move in together, and we wanted to know if you want to join, Vincent?.", Vincent stayed silent for a second, leaving only the sounds of donations going off, "eh, sure. It's easier than staying up until 6 am" Vincent laughed. Both Darryl and Zak chuckled "we can talk about it later," Darryl remarked as he destroyed Zak's bed during the last round, "what!? No fair I was distracted! Baaaddd" zak whined, still waiting for the round to end while Vincent and Darryl both laughed at Zak's misery. An hour later, they all end the stream and began talking about moving. "ok, so if we where to all move we should think of how we would move, right?" Zak put his hand to his face, "so schedules? We can just do the same thing we did for Vidcon" Vincent had been writing down things he would take with him for the first month. "so like, rent an Airbnb for a day right?" Zak questioned "or just get a hotel, cheaper" Darryl chimed in, "no, they usually only have two beds." Vincent replied. Zak smiled "so Airbnb?", "guess so" Vincent chuckled still writing down a list. They all gave ideas while Zak looked for houses they could rent or buy, not long after Zak found a decently priced house, "we can all pay part of a mortgage" Darryl yawned ready to sleep. "ok, sounds good. We all decided we would move in about a week right?" Vincent asked getting ready to leave the call, both Zak and Darryl responded with a silent yes. With that, they all left the call.

-time skip-

Today was the day, the day Zak got to move into the house they all rented. Darryl had arrived with Vincent early to get a head start on unpacking, Zak knocked on the door holding a few of his boxes. Darryl answered the door, but was covered in pieces of shredded foam. "oh- what did you do-" Zak questioned placing his boxes down on a counter, "go look in the living room" Darryl chuckled. Zak walked out of the empty hall and into the beautifully decorated living room, everything you would need for the average living space, and a few extra decors here and there. "whoa! This is amazing! And you with id this in under an hour?" Zak looked around the living room with awe. "yeah, and we set up a Christmas tree!" Vincent smiled while sweeping up foam pieces, zak looked at the white tree covered in fake snow. "so this is why you were covered in foamy stuff" he chuckled looking at Darryl and Vincent, "pretty much, your rooms on the end of the corridor" Vincent finished cleaning up and started helping Zak with his boxes while Darryl set up wall decor. Zak set up his video equipment and let Vincent unpack his smaller items, once Zak's room was finished they all decided to do a simple skywars stream. "BAD! NO!" Zak screamed into his mic while Darryl pushed him off the island, "skeppy, I can hear you all the way from my room" Darryl sighed. "I'm not that loud!" Zak remarked, "yes you are!" Darryl snapped back, Vincent silently listened to the two friends argue. "you are both very loud" Vincent shut the two up, "yeah yeah, we're lucky we haven't heard you get mad yet" zak was attempting to piss the Frenchie off. "skeppy, I swear to god!" Vincent screamed, "ok, I won't do anything! Geez..." Zak laughed. "guys can we end the stream now? I'm tired" Both Zak and Vincent agreed with Darryl and end the stream early, but Darryl got up first and walked over to Zak's room. Darryl knocked on the door earning a "come in!", Darryl opened the door slightly "uh Zak... We may have an issue.." Zak turned to the worried-looking Darryl. "what do you mean?" zak motioned for Darryl to sit next to him, "well, are channels are dying. And it's causing us to lose revenue" Darryl pulled up his status showing Zak what he meant. "any ideas? We have bills coming in a few weeks.." Darryl put his phone away, "mmm-no?... Ok yes, but you won't like it." Zak nervously tugged at the collar of his hoodie. "we can pretend to date- skephalo is the most popular thing on our channels-" Zak nervously scratched the back of his neck, Darryl went red "w-wait we can't do that! It's lying!" he covered his face. " it's my only idea ok!" zak sunk into his chair, Darryl sighed "fine.. But only online-" Darryl was obviously nervous about the situation, he didn't think of zak in that kind of way. Both Zak and Darryl left for bed in silence, the two of them to nervous to say anything.

To be continued
The chapters won't always be this long, this is just a quick "explaining the plot" situation uwu.