Watch This Space

Chapter Five

The bright morning sun shone through the curtains stirring Khun from his deep sleep. Rolling over to lie on his back, he stretched as he scrunched his eyes closed before opening them, wincing against the light. Yawning, he reached over for his phone. He smiled when he remembered the message he had received from Bam just before he fell asleep. Not trusting himself to reply in his half asleep state, he had thrown his phone aside deciding to reply when he awoke.

Knowing that he had fallen asleep far too late, he dreaded looking at the time. Khun was surprised when his phone lit up showing that it was only 10am in the morning. Unlocking his phone, he wondered if it was too early to respond to Bams message and if he should wait longer so as not to wake him up. Checking his notifications first, Khun was surprised to see a 'going live' message for Viole, he had followed the streamers channels whilst doing his research. His curiosity made him click the link to see if he happened to be live at that moment in time and he wasn't disappointed.

Bams stream opened up and Khun smiled when he saw his face in the corner of the screen. He was tempted to join in the stream chat but there were so many messages, his would most likely be lost amongst the torrent. As he watched the stream he saw a number of names appearing over the top of the stream, indicating who the latest subscribers and followers were, it was then that something clicked in his head and he remembered a recent stream of his own where someone called Viole had subbed to him with all of his viewers going mad about it. Putting two and two together, he realised that it was highly likely to be Bam that had subscribed. He glanced at the subscribe button on the screen.

He subbed to me, it would only be polite to do the same right?

Without a second thought he clicked the button and watched as his username popped up on the screen, just as it did Bam glanced at the stream before doing a double take and a huge grin took over his features.

"Hey! It's A.A, I didn't know you were here, thanks for the sub and welcome to the stream!"

Khun smiled as he was noticed and called out by the streamer, he decided to try his luck and post a message in the chat.

- Hey Viole, what the hell are you doing up so early!?

He was referring to the fact that Bam had only managed to get home from the event at 4am.

Bams eyes kept glancing at the chat, distracting him from the game he was playing.

"Haha, yeah funny story... I haven't actually been to sleep yet! These guys won't let me go!"

He gestured to signal that his viewers wanted him to keep streaming as loads of messages popped up in the chat wondering what the two were talking about. Bam yawned and Khun noticed just how tired he looked. As he thought this, Bam cursed as his avatar was killed in game. Leaning back in his chair, he switched the stream screen to 'Just Chatting' mode so there was only his camera and the stream chat on view.

"Urgh, I keep dying so I'll take a break and talk to you guys. As you all keep asking in chat, I met A.A at a YT event last night, he's a really cool streamer you should all check him out! In fact....."

He leant forward and started typing away before leaning back in his chair and rubbing his eyes. Khun noticed as a link to his channel popped up on the screen and in chat.

"Here's a link to his channel, go check him out. We'll be doing a co-stream at some point this week so we'll let you know the details soon! I think I need to go to sleep..."

The chat went crazy again with hype for the upcoming co-stream and also viewers begging Viole to continue his stream.

"Uuuurgh, fine... I'll keep playing...."

Easily persuaded, Viole sat back at his desk and changed the screen back so the viewers could see his game play. Khun watched as played, concerned as the boys gameplay was not up to its usual standard.

He really needs to sleep....

Khun felt that Viole needed to ignore his viewers desires for a bit, he looked as if he was running about empty and wanted to tell him as much. He toyed with the idea of messaging him directly so that the message wouldn't get lost in the swarm that was his chat box. He minimised Violes stream and quickly tapped out the message on his phone before enlarging the stream again.

'You should really stop streaming and get some sleep, you look exhausted'

His attention back on the stream, all he had to do now was wait for Bam to notice. It didn't take long for the tired Viole to get taken out the game, he picked up his phone to check the message that had come through whilst the game was taking him back to the starting screen. A smile crept up on his face as he tapped out a reply and Khun keenly waited for his response as Bam spoke on stream and jumped into a new game.

"Aaaw, looks like someone is worried about me.

'Haha and what are you going to do if I refuse?'

Amused and with a slight embarrassed blush, Khun thought about what he could say, he didn't know Bam too well yet and so didn't have much that he could use as a weapon. Only one thing came to mind but Khun thought it would make him sound full of himself, he didn't have any better idea's though so he typed out the message and hurriedly pressed send before he could change his mind. Again, it didn't take long for Viole to once again get killed in his exhausted state.

'If you don't stop your stream now and get that ass to bed then I won't co-stream with you ever!'

Bam looked at his phone to read the new message as soon as he was kicked from the game. He leant back in his chair and laughed out loud as he read the text. He then looked to the camera with an apologetic smile.

"Sorry guys, it looks like I'm ending the stream there for now. I have received a vicious threat telling me to get my ass to bed and I don't want to suffer the consequences. I will see you guys next time, later!"

After saying his goodbyes to his many viewers, Viole switched the screen to 'The Stream is Offline' which allowed the chat to continue. With what he had said, the chat were all going crazy trying to figure out just who had sent the message.

-Whaaat!?

-What was the threat!?

-I bet it was Rachel!

-Yeah, his girlfriend probably told him off for playing too many games

-Oh but that's kind of sweet!

-Yeah whoever sent the message must care about him

-I wish someone would care like that for me LMAO

Khun shortly closed the stream window, smiling to himself in his victory. He also thought that Bam was a ridiculously cute idiot and tapped out one last message to send to him before climbing out of bed and continuing with his own day.

'Sweet dreams, idiot'