Chapter 36

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Wednesday.

12:08 PM

It's been 5 days and I only streamed for the weekends and stopped on the weekdays, when I had school.

I didn't do much, apart from going to the gym to make up for the days I did not do anything.

Something that I noticed as I ran is that I'm not getting as tired anymore and quickly from just running. In the first week, I was practically dying after running for 30 minutes, but I'm going to guess due to the great body passive my body is just getting that much better from working out.

It should be impossible for progress to be made this quick but, well what can I say.

Monday, I texted my gym buddy and we went to the gym together. She's been going to the gym for quite some time and she's already accustomed to the workouts she does so she practically cruised through them while I struggled doing double the normal amount of workout that I do.

I doubled the workout because I've noticed that I'm improving by leaps and bounds, and I'm aiming to get a little bigger than my really skinny figure. And no, I'm not going to get buff and be packing muscles, I'll just be fit and probably aim for a toned swimmer's body.

I don't think being huge will be too good for the modeling industry.

Though I doubled the workout, I was able to complete the exercises without as many side effects as on Monday.

Maybe great body progressively gets better the more time you have it?

I'll get a little more fit and after I'm the size I'd like, I'm going to stop increasing the amount of workout and just do the same routines.

That day, since we were gym buddies I told her to hype me up jokingly and by the end, we were laughing our butts off trying to hype each other up.

Fun times.

I get out of my thoughts after I feel someone slap my shoulder.

"Hey, Charlie."

"Sup bro."

"You're here early," Arlo says.

Reed kicked his foot and joined the conversation.

"We're on time, you're just always late, Arlo."

"Even Ronan gets to class earlier than you." Lizbeth turned around from her seat.

I check the clock. Two minutes until class.

"After this class, it's Lunch right?"

"Yup."

"Today's Wednesday right? It's been a week since we've tasted your cooking Charlie."

I laugh.

"Please enjoy this week's lunch."

Everyone pumped their fists and celebrated.

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This time, I made a simple and very cheesy meat lasagna of 4 layers.

Seeing how they're frantically eating and asking for more, I want to believe they are enjoying the extra cheese.

[Deduction has gotten 1 point!]

I think?

Well, lasagna can never go wrong. Literally, it will not taste bad unless you mess up big time. Since everyone liked last week's pasta, I was pretty sure they'd also enjoy lasagna which is also a type of pasta.

I hope Charlotte's also enjoying her extra big portion I put in her lunchbox.

I'm not expecting her to finish it all, but she can share with her friends.

Natsumi taps me and I turned around to see her big puppy eyes staring up at mine.

"May I have some more please?" She just finished her first portion while the rest were probably on their second.

"Someone with manners, it seems." I spooned a piece into her plate and watched her nibble on the edges with a bright look in her eyes.

"Hah, Ronan loses his manners when it comes to food."

"Just look at him stuff his face." We all laughed as he looked up from his plate to glare at us.

I drift into my thoughts and blankly stare at Callie.

As I'm staring at her, my thoughts begin drifting away into the system.

[Title:

Hot topic, Trending!

Stats:

Luck: 1

Intelligence: 14

Charm: 11 (10 + 1)

Total Achievement Points: 2532 ( 1801 + 731) {2697 / 3000}]

Coolio!

Just a few more achievement points and the egg will open.

I've earned 731 achievement points since Saturday to which I'm very jovial about. I think I can spend some achievement points to get something I like from the shop.

I've got 1,197 leftover achievement points after the stat boost.

Hmm. I'll look into the shop later, maybe I'm going to be forced to buy something and if I had already bought something, I won't have enough to immediately get the stat point.

Well, I'm feeling a little impatient right now. I want to open the achievement egg and see what type of benefits I get and what the 2nd point of luck will do.

Hmm, what can I do?

Oh! I've completely forgotten about John!

I'm such a stupid idiot. How is my intelligence at 14 points? It should be less than 0! In the negatives!

Getting back home, I'll call up John and I think I'll probably get an achievement if I get the job.

Unfortunately, there's no list of achievements that I can look through.

Huh, well I should probably start getting prepared to model. Honestly, I don't know much about modeling except the fact I have to be able to know how to look at the camera correctly and pose quickly and efficiently.

It's also more or less like acting in the way that I have to portray the emotions that the clothes want to give.

Good thing I bought manipulation expression. I would've struggled so horribly because my body wouldn't be used to doing so many expressions at once at all.

Well, I'm getting ahead of myself. It still isn't a guarantee that I'll be getting into the company and even then who knows if I'll even be doing anything or just be used as a reserve.

Anyway, my main source of achievement points so far has been the viral piano videos and the stream highlights.

Both piano videos together have now accumulated over 7 million views which is absolutely mind-boggling and crazy.

It's easier for songs to get many views because people just always keep coming back, and you don't even need to understand a language to understand or feel the emotions.

7 million views in five days is very shocking, but at the same time more or less acceptable.

The stream videos have gotten heat because people realized I'm actually the guy in the piano video and people are commenting on it in both the stream highlights and the piano videos.

It's feeding both videos because people that watch the piano video will probably watch the stream highlights to see, and the people that watch the stream highlights will probably go to the pian video because they either recognize me or want to see what all the hype is about in the comments.

It was also more or less advertised while we were streaming because everyone watched the cafe piano video with their stream.

I thank them in my heart because they probably watched the video to support me.

My streaming channel is now at 23,000 followers, a huge boom from the thousands I had the other day and still going up.

It might be at around 25,000 by the time I get home, or probably even more.

My Instagram has now gotten more than 10,000 followers even with zero posts.

I disabled the privacy because it honestly is a pain in the butt to accept every single person individually. I did not think I'd get so many followers so quickly.

I wonder how Instagram private meme accounts do it to be able to accept millions of followers without getting carpal tunnel syndrome.

People didn't believe me at first but then I communicated with the people who recorded the video and they pinned my comments.

Also, my profile picture is literally the same person in the video so that alleviates the skepticism of some people.

What'll be my first post, though?

Dunno, maybe I'll think about it later.

I don't have to rush since followers will still be coming from the videos and it's not like people are going to unfollow me just because I haven��t uploaded anything. They followed for a reason.

Since I'm still trending in pages though, it'd be good to get more exposure to other side of things.

That's where John comes in and I probably become a model and start uploading pictures on Instagram or something.

Maybe I'll also get an invitation by a late-night show host or be interviewed.

Who knows?

I feel something poking my cheek.

I slightly shake my head as I get out of my thoughts.

My friends are just waving their hands comically in front of my face while laughing their noses off.

Dangit.

"Haha, Charlie are you still here?"

I smile at them a little awkwardly. Dangit.

Callie called me out, "Haha dude, you were just staring at me for 2 entire minutes and then I realized you probably were in another world again or something."

"Dude, we literally waved at you for like 30 seconds straight," Elijah said and they began laughing even harder.

"Natsumi you shouldn't have poked him to see how long we could last just waving at his eyes," Macy said.

"I agree," Reed agreed, duh, with Macy and the others also voiced their agreement while laughing.

Natsumi ignored them and poked my cheek again.

I look at her big hazel eyes showing absolutely no expression staring back into mine, contrary to the kind atmosphere she always radiated.

She then tapped my nose once and ruffled my hair as a mother would to her child while I just stared at her with a little confusion.

She just stared into my eyes and the others also closed in and began ruffling my hair violently.

"Ah, get your hands off of me Alex." I dodge out of his hands.

"Oh, but when it's Natsumi…" Abel and Lizbeth said at the same time.

"Ah, that's because you guys are ruffling my hair too violently. Chill! my hair is about to fall off."

"We're just thanking you for the lasagna by patting your head," Elle explained.

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[Author Note: I hope all of you enjoyed!

Just a little light fluffy chapter in preparation for more advancement.

If you're feeling impatient for the few chapters with not much progression, that will probably end after this or next chapter!

Once again, thank you all for reading!]