Watch This Space

Chapter One

"Come on Khun, pleeeease?"

"Why should I Shibisu? Is this really what you called me over for?"

"It'll be fun! I promise! It will be far more fun than sitting in your room playing on your own."

Raising an eyebrow, Khun just looked at Shibisu who nervously chuckled in return. Shibisu had invited him to play games at his apartment, it seemed he had a hidden objective.

"Just this once, please! I promised that I would have a friend join me on this stream....."

"Well, you shouldn't have promised before asking me. You only have yourself to blame."

Scratching his head, Shibisu wracked his brain trying to figure how he could convince Khun to join him.

"You like playing games and you're good at them, now we have graduated Uni why don't you try streaming. Who knows, you might be able to make a living off it, wouldn't you much rather make a living by playing games all the time instead of boring office work?"

Khun sighed.

"It's not like I have to work Isu. You know I sold that app I designed a few years ago and I'm pretty much set for life."

Shibisu and Khun were recent University graduates. They had both studied computing and software develpment, though Khun had an obvious knack for it as well as the business sense to be able to make money from it. Having graduated from University, the two young men were now trying to decide what to do as their next career step.

Both friends were keen gamers and, a fews year back, Shibisu had ventured into streaming his gameplay live and then uploading videos to YT. He had managed to build a small community over the years and had started to make a small income from his hobby, but now that he had graduated, he decided to dedicate his time to his hobby and see if he could earn a living from it.

Khun was just as into gaming as Shibisu, he was actually quite skilled at it though this didn't surprise Shibisu as Khun was usually good at everything he did. He knew about Shibisu's streaming though it had never appealed to him. The idea of having strangers watching him through a camera was embarrassing.

However, he did think Shibisu had a point.

"Damn, I really needed you Khun. Can't you at least give it a go? Just this once and I promise I won't ask you again."

Trying one final time, Shibisu got down on his knees and begged, causing Khun to sigh again.

"Just this once. I'll try it out and see if I like it or not. But only once."

Shibisu froze in shock, even with all of his begging he never expected Khun to give in to his pleas.

"You will not regret this Khun! I promise! Thank you, thank you, thank you! The viewers are going to love you!"

Reeling off his thanks, Shibisu dragged Khun through to his gaming set up. He pulled up another chair to his desk and gave him instructions on what the plan for the stream was.

"Okay, so we're going to play the game we usually play - a team deathmatch - so two teams of six and it will be the first team to 100 points. Instant respawn and on hardcore mode. You can play on my spare laptop and I'll set up the stream so it shows both our gameplay and camera's on the same stream. Heheh, this is going to be so much fun!"

Excitedly Shibisu started messing around with the pieces of technology, readying his stream.

"I've already told the guys how good you are at this, oh I mean my viewers when I say the guys, they're basically my online friends. I also told them you are ridiculously pretty and they didn't believe me, haha I'm looking forward to proving them wrong! Ah, this screen here in the middle will be of the stream so we can see what the viewers are seeing and their chat messages, you don't need to worry about that though, I'll let you know if you need to respond to them. You'll be sitting close enough that we can share this mic."