IndividualityNotFound

~ Chapter 2 ~

After a few hours of streaming and answering questions - mainly about George - I announce that I'm ending the stream. I sigh as the stream ends, relieved.

"What's wrong?" Niki asks, she sounds concerned. "Was it the questions again?"

"Yeah.." I reply, defeated.

"I'm sure one day you'll get even more popular than him! Then people will be calling him 'TeaIsFound's brother,'" she giggled at her joke. So did I, but I knew that would never happen.

After a few more minutes of talking, Niki left the call as it was getting pretty late. I said goodbye, turned off my PC, and laid down in bed to scroll through Twitter.

I heard a quiet knock on my door a few minutes after I sat down.

"What?" I hissed, although it happened frequently, I still got upset because of the questions I received. It wasn't George's fault, I knew that. He can't control his fans, I just wished they'd stay in his chat and not mine.

"You okay? You sound upset." he asked, he did seem genuinely concerned. This happened a lot, George knew it got on my nerves when that stuff happened, but he didn't know how bad it was getting. He had always been decently popular, but once he got on the DreamSMP and more and more members were added, his fame grew. He gained tons of stans and such from the people on TikTok.

"I'm fine." I replied with a bit more attitude than I wanted to. "Just mad that people only see me as GeorgeNotFound's little sister."

He stays silent at the comment. I wasn't surprised, we didn't talk about serious topics much. Now that I thought about it, we only really talked on stream. With me taking online courses and my streaming, we didn't have the time to talk to each other.

"Hey Tea," he never used my nickname, something was up. "I know we don't talk as much as we should, but I'm here if anything happens and you need to talk to someone about it. Dream and Sap are too."

He had been standing on the other side of the door for a while, he hadn't opened it yet. I didn't understand why, I heard what sounded like a small sniff coming from outside. I may be living in his shadow, but he's still my brother.

I peel the blankets off of me and slowly make my way to the door in the very dimly lit room. I open it slowly and look up to see my brother, who seldom showed sadness in front of others, with a tear rolling down his cheek.

I wasn't quite sure what to do, but I knew I had to do something. I took a step forward and wrapped my arms around him. He welcomed the hug, and put his arms around me. It got awkward after about three seconds, so I let my arms fall back down to my side.

"I'm okay, don't worry. I'll try to talk to you more if anything comes up." I tried to sound as sincere as possible without breaking down, he already seemed to be having a rough night. I didn't want to make it worse. "You seem upset too, did something happen on stream?"

He didn't answer, I just saw another tear roll down his face. Something was wrong, and he knew that I could tell.

"It's nothing," he blurted between small sniffs. "Night." With that he walked off and closed my door. What on Earth had just happened?

*****

I didn't get much sleep that night, but when I woke up I immediately went to Discord and opened my DMs with a very specific person.

TeaIsFound
Hey Dream
We need to talk.

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