AshesLikeSnoww
The koi fish was dead.
Dawson poked it with a nearby chopstick and sighed. It wasn't that this life was all that bad, really, more so that it wasn't really his.
He didn't control anything.
He wanted to control something.
And that was when he found it.
Something called 'YouTube'
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For internet-famous Dawson 'Sonny' Phan, YouTube is his life.
But something about the joy of it is slipping away from him- even as he moves to LA, YouTuber Capitol of the world, for inspiration.
He's not happy, even if he seems so on his many vlogs and videos.
And, as if that weren't enough, when his mother is diagnosed with late-stage cancer, he must return to his nowhere town to care for her and her rundown Chinese Buffet.
It seems that life as Dawson knows it is over.
Until, that is, he meets Maxine Jerrald, a fan of his channel and a journalist for the town's local magazine.
Maxine is in a different place: happy with who she is, where she is, and what she does.
And as it turns out, she's exactly what Sonny needs, right then.
If only they would get along for long enough to find that out.
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A morbidly funny tale of finding yourself, finding all the right others in all the wrong places, and growing up, Phan Fiction will make you laugh, cry, and everything in between!