Chapter 35

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After a while of talking with my friends through a call, I feel my stomach growling and aching petulantly.

Alright.

[Charlie: "I'll probably be back later, guys. Don't miss me too much."]

[Ronan: "NOOOOOOOOO!"]

[Arlo: "WHERE IS MY TEACHER GOING?!"]

I laughed while they complained and muted myself and clicked on the turn off the camera button.

I stretch my arms out and take a good whiff of the fresh oxygen.

After opening the window to let some air ventilate the room, I open the door and walk outside in my pajamas.

My parents immediately look at me, probably used to not hearing much from my room. It's only been a week since I've been interacting much at all within the house.

They get out of their daze and quickly greet good morning to me.

I go up to them and give them each a hug with a smile. Ah, even I'm cringing a little but family closeness shouldn't be too bad, right?

I pat my dad's back and smile at my mom and they just stare back with radiance.

"Have you ate breakfast yet?"

"Yes, we've cooked breakfast for you and your sister." My mom answered.

"Yup, just some breakfast ramen."

"Ah, my favorite."

[Ding!]

[Lying has improved by 10 points.]

Ah, I've been eating breakfast ramen probably every single morning for years straight. It's not my fault it just tastes so bland now.

I hope they at least added some condiments on this and salted the noodles.

My parents in the past life could cook well, but what they cooked wasn't very flavored and just a simple recipe that didn't add much to taste.

I think if I reach into my memories, my parents here at least know a little bit more about cooking. Not to roast my parents from Earth.

It's a little blurry now, though. It's getting a little weird to clearly see really old memories from both sides of my lives. My earth self is definitely the dominant one, though.

At least it smells pretty nice, I think as my stomach rumbles slightly.

"Has Charlotte ate yet?"

"Your sister's still asleep." They smiled at me.

"I'll go wake her up," I say and move on my slippers and pajamas to perform a WWE move on her while she sleeps.

Actually, considering it again, I'll just wake her up normally. The big WWE moves come later, I can't just use my best moves at the start.

On my slippers, I open the door handle and kick open the door.

I look inside and the lights are off and the windows are closed by the curtains.

To the bed, I see the blanket covering the entirety of the surface area of the bed and see her outline through the blanket.

I walk over and move the top part of the blanket out to uncover her face.

Her hair is all over the place and I can't help but poke her cheek.

Immediately, a frown adorns her cutesy face and I take my finger back.

I palm the pillow right next to her head very lightly and she begins stirring.

Well, fortunately, it's the same process as my life back on Earth.

Still with her eyes closed, she slowly raises her body and stretches out her arms.

She wraps them around my neck and begins wringing me in a professional WWE headlock.

I grasp at her little hands as I struggle to breathe and begin coughing as she strengthens her hold.

Woman!

I'm not your teddy bear!

"Charlotte."

I tap her arm.

That's right I'm tapping out against a 14-year-old girl. Whaddya want me to do? Give a still sleeping person a knocker sandwich?

Her eyes flutter open and look around and find my own eyes. She stares right into them for a few seconds and begins releasing her chokehold.

"Good morning Charlie." She wipes the discharge from her eyes and stretches her arms out again.

I watch out, a little wary about her powerful chokehold and she just hugs my back.

Right as I relax, she moves her arms up back to my neck.

Not today, sucker. I push my chin down and she struggles to put me in the headlock.

"Alright, enough fooling around Charlotte."

She gives a cheeky smile and bangs her head on my back.

Goodness, gracious.

"Okay, okay get up you rascal."

She releases the hug and yawns while stretching her arms.

I tap her nose.

"Mom and Dad already made breakfast, do you want to eat now?"

She pats her belly, "Yeah, sure."

"Wash your teeth first."

"Yeah. What time is it?"

I check the clock. 11:32 AM already.

"11:32. You have eyes too."

She just rubs them and enters the bathroom.

I get up and leave to the living room.

Sitting on the couch, I open up the system.

[Total Achievement Points: 1801(1680+121)]

I gained 121 points just overnight which is great. The piano videos are going pretty viral and some people clipped a few of the highlights I did.

Stream highlight channels are probably already featuring me in their videos. I played with really big streamers, after all, and the attention will probably be focusing on them.

I open my phone back up and see messages from my friends asking me for help. They're very easy questions too, which leads me to believe they just want me to come back quickly.

[Deduction has gained 1 point.]

I still don't know if it gives me points when I deduce things correctly or just randomly assume things.

Damn, I should've asked Natsumi if she was copying and pasting the messages.

I leave the application and leave them still on delivered and head to YouTube.

I'll respond to them after I eat breakfast or something. They're just asking me easy questions to rush me.

Scrolling in the recommended videos, I unsurprisingly don't see the trending piano video or any piano videos at all.

I head to the trending section and see the cafe video after scrolling a little bit. It's currently sitting at 1.5 million views, and the video was recorded yesterday Friday.

Okay, no wonder I got so many achievement points.

I click on it and the camera person recorded it pretty nicely. There wasn't much shaking and the audio wasn't covered or anything. No dumb intros or channel promotion either, just the complete video of one of my performances that Friday.

I scroll to the comments section as the audio of the video still goes on.

[Kaz Piano Videos: Wow! Absolutely brilliant!]

[ppcat1: woah didnt expect to see u comment]

[potxz___: hey kaz pls transcribe this performance its so good]

Cool, a pretty big piano YouTuber commented. It seems he's pretty well known too.

Well seeing as how a comment is asking him to transcribe the piece, I'm going to assume he could very well do that. Now, how will I go on about this? Since he's a pretty big name he'd probably ask me first to keep his reputation from staining or risk having me call him out.

Best time to do my social media right now.

I head to the application store and install Instagram.

Waiting a few seconds for the download to finish, I drink a quick cup of water.

The username Charlie will obviously be taken by someone, maybe my Valorant username, Charliye? Oh! My friends call me Char.

Hmm, but if I'll be modeling on Instagram it'd be better to have a username people will recognize me with, instead of a nickname.

I tap on the application after it's finished downloading and click Create an Account.

I type in my e-mail, a password, and try Charliye for the username.

I click the Signup button but an error appears. Ah, unfortunate.

{Your username is taken. Please choose another one.}

Shoot.

I remove the Y from Charliye. It's going to be taken but let's just try.

I tap the Signup button again.

{Account created successfully!}

What?

Wait, did I misspell Charlie or add numbers or something?

I click on the dashboard and go to my profile.

The default gray profile picture appears and right next to it says [Charlie]

What?

I sneeze randomly after feeling a chill up my back.

Did I scam someone out of their Instagram name transfer?

Haha, wait what?

Did someone accidentally delete their account name or something? Haha, this is hilarious.

If I hadn't typed in Charliye first and gotten the error, I probably wouldn't have been able to get the account name. Haha, what? This is so dumb.

Okay well, whatever. Whoever deleted their account accidentally or was trying to sell it messed up big time.

Immediately, I receive a request for someone to follow and send me a message.

I feel incredibly bad, but I'm sorry you messed up.

I ignore the message and head to the account settings.

First, I'll probably make a profile picture or something.

I click Use Camera and take a picture of myself while showing a V sign and a smile.

Looks good.

I click select and my profile picture is now finalized.

I head to my profile and there is my username @Charlie, and my great instant profile picture I just took.

Coolio.

I head to YouTube once again and since Pangaea Charlie had already made an account I didn't have to do anything.

[Charlie Y: Hello. I'm the pianist and composer of these songs. Please follow me on Instagram, @Charlie if you want to see more. Thank you very much]

Instantly, I get a few replies.

[lolt11: fake fake fake]

[xae123: lol ur a loser dud i bet ur a 419 yr old guy that cant even play the piano]

[bedsheetsbedbed: bruh if u were real how would the username u take be @Charlie

[doorknobx_: who knwos bro maybe hes real i searched up the account name and the profile picture actually looks the same as the guy in the video]

[xae123: i just did too im so sorry charlie

[lolt11: omg im so sorry i followed u im so sorry]

[keybuildval: lol instant karma]

[pianistcompost: pls send sheet music its sooo god]

Well, that was quick.

My comment is now getting a few likes and I want to think it'll be at the top of the comment thread and I'll get the followers quick.

Since there's no other way to listen to the song apart from the video, people will come back and see the comment as well.

Great.

The person who recorded the video will probably pin me as well, I want to believe.

I head back into Instagram and see 7 follower requests, 8 with the guy that wants this account name back.

Now, should I leave my account on public, or private?

Maybe public on weekends and private for the weekdays? I mean, that way I can get some exposure but at the same time force people to follow my account?

Well, my account is still new so I'll just leave it on private and force people to follow the account hehe.

Right as I look up, I see Charlotte coming out of her room.

"Breakfast?"

She smiles at me and hops to the kitchen.

"You waited for me?"

"Yup."

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