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“Hey!” she yelps, spinning around. “What the heck was that for?”
“Aren’t you supposed to start your stream?”
She blinks at me. “Stream?”
“Um, your channel? Have I completely lost you to Boy Land?”
“Oh.” She sweeps my pillow off the floor and glances out the window. “I forgot all about it.” She shrugs as she turns around and heads to where she set up on my desk. “The guys have gone into their house, anyway.”
She sits down and adjusts the microphone, then puts on her headphones. After reminding her fans on social media about the live stream, she checks a few more things and is ready to go.
“Good afternoon, FireBirds! How’s everyone doing on this fine Sunday afternoon? It’s the last day of summer here. I can’t believe school starts tomorrow. How am I doing? I’m great. Don’t you love it when a hot neighbor moves in right next door to you? It’s like the gods of love are offering you a present.” She laughs as she reads some of the comments. “I know, right? It’s like I’ve finally done something good this month and am getting a major reward. And I’m telling you, the guys that moved in? Total hotties. I can just melt into a puddle right here. But enough about that. You’re here to watch me kick some gaming butt. So sit back and enjoy, and let’s blow up some zombies!”
She loads her favorite first-person shooter and starts to take down the bad guys, talking smack and yelling at her screen like she always does. I’ve learned to tune her out when I’m in the middle of doing work, but usually I enjoy watching her. She’s so entertaining and hilarious, which might be one of the reasons why she’s accumulated so many subscribers. And the fact that she slays at video games.
But right now, I need to get this audition down. I’ll be really bummed if I don’t get Belle.
“Gotchya!” Phoenix throws her hands up and does a little dance in her seat. “Who’s amazing? Who’s amazing? We are! We are!” She sits forward to read her comments. “Yeah, you can send me a request to join my team, but please don’t bombard me all at once. Last time, you crashed my game.” She laughs. Her eyes rove over the comments. “Nah, it’s okay if you’re not the greatest player. My FireBirds are awesome no matter what.” A grin captures her lips. “Yeah, of course my bestie is here. You guys know I stream at her place because my house is a total nightmare. Katie, they want you to join the stream.”
I wave my hand, muttering the lyrics under my breath.
“Katie, the chat is exploding with your name.”
I shake my head and continue to mutter.
“Sorry, guys. My girl’s preparing for her audition tomorrow. Our school’s putting on a production ofBeauty and the Beastthe musical. Poor Katie’s been sitting there for hours memorizing the song when she knows the thing like the back of her hand. She wants it so badly.” She leans forward to read the comments. “Totally! Katie, they’re wishing you lots of luck and say you’ll knock it out of the park. Katie was born to play Belle. I mean, just look at her hair. If that doesn’t say Belle, I don’t know what does.”
“I’d be wearing a wig,” I remind her. “But tell everyone thanks.”
“Katie’s super grateful to all of you!” Phoenix says. “So much that she’ll come over right now and thank you personally.”
“Phoenix,” I groan.
She motions for me to get my butt over there.
“But I look like crap,” I whine.
She rolls her eyes. “You’d look good even if you wore a skunk on your head. Now get your little butt over here before everyone murders me for not including you in the stream.”
With a sigh, I pull a chair over and drop down next to Phoenix. She’s got over a thousand viewers right now. Super intimidating. You’d think I’d be used to it…but nope.
Throwing her arm over my shoulder, she grins at the camera. “And here is the future Belle now!”
The comments fly by so fast it’s hard to read them all. But I catch glimpses here and there.
Hi, Katie!
Katie, finally! Why aren’t you in Phoenix’s streams more often?
I love seeing the two of you together. You’re hilarious!
Ugh, Katie’s so pretty. I’m so jealous. But I love you so much!
Break a leg, Katie! You’ll do awesome tomorrow.
Wow, you were totally made to play Belle! You definitely look like her.
Yay, Katie’s in the stream again finally! Can you sing some show tunes? I miss hearing your amazing voice.
