Chapter 61

"Ree-" I almost slipped out his real name in excitement, "Redde! Congratulations dude!"

Having won another game, I was in Freeplay waiting in queue for another game.

I muted myself quickly from the call.

"Welcome everyone to our stream! I hope everyone's enjoying as much as I am."

'Birdboxer has donated 5 dollars'

["hit a trick shot and i'll gift 10 subs"]

Gifting 10 subs meant he would gift five-dollar subscriptions to the channel to ten random viewers.

Obviously, this meant even chat went crazy and wanted me to hit an insane shot.

I smiled at the camera devilishly like Felix successfully for the first time.

"Challenge accepted."

[Modeling has gained 82.5 points. (16.5 * 5)]

The high number of points gave rise to even more excitement.

That bewitching expression I just did successfully was due to the mood set by the joy and hype of the viewers exhilarated my quickly beating heart.

Having the heart-thumping excitement running through my blood, and the music influencing my emotions I finally emitted the provocative expression perfectly.

My facial muscles tweaked and became even more tantalizing.

[Modeling has gained 110 points. (22 * 5)]

[Chat:

Charlxiesimp: SEMOENJ FREKNA SCREENHSOT TAHT RIGHT NOW

Samantttta: LITRLY ONLY WATCHING FOR CHARLIE I DONT CARE ABOUT NO CAR GAME

Thot_police: WEVE GOT CONFIRMED SUSPECTS ON THE LOOSE! CODE RED CODE RED!

Caatttkatia: "WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE FELIX FNHJSKNHJJDNS"

Doorboxmirrorbed: I DONT FRICKN CARE HES NOW MY HUSBAND I STAN I STAN I STAN

Applegirl: MR CHARLIE HOW DO U LIKE UR EGGS IN THE MRONING]

The magnetizing expression became even more tantalizing than the one Felix had in the image Blake showed me and gave me a remarkable number of points.

I unmuted myself from the call.

"Redde you ready?"

The noise of a game starting alerted us and the 'Joining' loading screen appeared.

Since we were in a low rank, our ranks were rising quickly and he was now a Gold II. I still had not completed my Unranked games but we had just now been playing against Platinum players so we can assume I am now a Plat player.

Reed's voice was also excited and passionate and spoke with an inflamed voice.

[Redde: "Let's get it, dude."]

People weren't watching just for our gameplay anymore, they were watching because of the exciting atmosphere in both the chat and us.

Reed would start the kickoff this time.

I went to the side to collect boost and filled my maximum capacity.

He speeded towards the ball, and in his excitement, his car moved a little to the side and completely missed the ball.

[Redde: "Ah, dangit! My finger twitched."]

I chuckled, "No worries."

[Modeling has gained 16.5 points.]

This stream is literally a walking skill leveler.

The opponent hit the ball straight to the net, and I quickly hit it towards the corner of our field.

The ball rolled up and I drove up the wall to hit it down.

The opponent failed to block my hit and flung themselves towards the wall.

The ball fell on the floor and I boosted to land faster and caught the ball.

"Watch this Redde."

The ball floated freely on the nose of my car, a skill in the game known as 'dribbling' and I headed towards the opponent's net.

[Redde: "Oh, do it to them, Charlie."]

I jumped up and carried the ball on top of my car to the air.

What I will be going for now is called an 'air-dribble bump'

This consists of dribbling the ball in the air and finally flying towards the opponent to either demolish their car or hit them out to prevent them from saving the ball.

The ball heading towards their net, I pressed down on the boost button and flew speedily towards the incoming defender about to save the shot.

Hitting the opponent's car, their car exploded and the ball cleanly went through their net— scoring the first goal of the game.

[Redde: "OH MY GOD CHARLIE DO IT TO THEM, DUDE! What even did you do? How did you kill him mid-air?!?!?!?!"]

Reed yelled very passionately.

I too was about to yell 'LETS GOOOO' but I remembered I had to maintain composure and twinkled a ferocious grin.

"It's called an air-dribble bump. Does that count as a trickshot?"

[Gaming has gained 5 points.]

[Chat:

ballchaserr: OMG WTF

Gamezone: WHAT THE FUUUUUUU

heinousferdinand: BIRDBOXER BETTER GIVE THOSE 10 GIFTED SUBS RIGHT NOWWWWW]

Since the game hadn't been released for that long, air-dribble bumps hadn't been seen at all due to its difficulty except for some lucky scenarios.

Of course, what I did wasn't too insane as all I had to do was go straight since the opponent was directly in front of me.

'Birdboxer has gifted 10 subscriptions!'

["yup that counts"]

"Thank you very much, Birdboxer."

I checked the live count and it had risen dramatically once again. It was now at 60,000 concurrent viewers.

The staggering number made my blood pump faster.

[Redde: "CHARLIE?! Ladies and Gentlemen, we're almost at 130,000 live viewers! Welcome everyone to the stream!"]

He was near his high of 150,000 viewers. Of course, though it's not as much as others like bzoomster and Bread with 300,000 at the same time or blacklily with 257,000, or even Yvette with 320,000 at one point.

Of course, that's due to their years of streaming and different events and special occasions they've organized as long time streamers and internet celebrities.

"Dang I'm also at 60,000 right now dude."

[Redde: "Congratulations man!"]

His happiness was palpable and contagious to everyone. I felt joy and excitement blooming from inside me.

"Thank you dude", the next kickoff was starting, "Redde, you got this?"

[Redde: "Yuh."]

As the games progressed, I gave him tips and suggestions which gained points for my 'Teaching' skill continuously.

Since the thousands of viewers were also part of the 'teaching lecture' my teaching skill accumulated massive amounts of points and leveled up extendedly.

Reed began playing exceedingly well for his rank due to his videogame talents— and I want to believe due to my teaching skill.

Our games became even easier though we were facing harder opponents each time.

If we keep playing this well, reaching high plat or even diamond would not be impossible within a few days. Ranking high in this still relatively medium-sized player base was not hard.

After today's stream, Rocket League will most likely see a surge in players due to the exposure.

We ended with an unstoppable win streak and paused the grinding to rest our eyes and fingers from the long session.

Changing the stream to 'Just Chatting' I zoomed my face into the stream and grinned at the camera.

'Gregdaman0 has donated 1 dollar'

["papi charlie papi charlie papi charlie papi charlie papi charlie papi charlie papi charlie papi charlie"]

I'm going to have to do something about the donations. The tremendous amount of viewers have been spamming 1 dollar donations with weird messages.

Though I'm grateful for the donations, it's drowning out the other donations people make wanting to give me a genuine message.

[Redde: "I still can't believe you hit Platinum II just on your placement games."]

"I mean, you are in Platinum too already."

I shrugged.

[Redde: "Yeah, true. Thanks for the carry bro."]

"No problem man. It seems I carry you in any game we play."

[Redde: "Say that again when I once again save you from getting murdered first round in Among Us."]

"...you're the one that's killed me the most…"

[Redde: "Tsk, tsk. That's your fault for trusting me."]

"Yeah, yeah okay bodyguard. Just name me a game and I'll carry you every single time."

[Redde: "Yeah, let's go bowling and see how it goes."]

"Dude, I got ten out of ten strikes. I'm a walking dime bag."

[Redde: "You got lucky every single time. It's completely illogical to strike ten no-lookers."]

"Haters gonna hate bro."

[Chat:

Samantttta: BRO I FOKN SHIP THEM

Jamie_thatcher: CHARLIE X REDDE = CHADDE

fuzeKJ: CHADDE

Caattkattia: CHADDE]

I ignored the comments and the silence radiating from Reed also told me he was getting the same message from his chat.

I shifted uncomfortably in my seat.

"So uh… Chadde, huh."

[Redde: "Pffft— dude you're getting the same spammers?"]

"Heh. Yea."

'Bigmanhusso has subscribed for 1 month.'

["check reddes profile right now"]

Immediately, my brain connected the dots. There's no way he's at 200,000 live viewers right now, is he?

"Thank you bigmanhusso. I'll check right now."

I swiped to his profile with the camera still zoomed on my face and what the audience saw was a wide-open mouth.

Fortunately, the charm cloud inside my brain directed my facial muscles to still look good else I'd look like a wide-mouthed gaping chump.

I read the digits out loud,

"Two hundred… seventy-eight?"

[Redde: "Huh?"]

I contemplated the reason why this could happen.

Not very long ago, he was at 130,000 viewers. What happened for him to be at 278,000?

"Ree-" I almost slipped out his name again, "Redde, viewer count check?"

[Redde: "Oh, I'm at…" his voice seemed very casual.

"I'm at… uh… two hundred seventy-eight thousand viewers."]

"Mmm. Yeah. Two hundred seventy-eight thousand viewers."

We had silence for a few seconds.

[Redde: "Charlie, I'm heading to your house. Be right back."]

"Huh?"

Silence...

['Redde has raided your stream with 278,869 viewers!']

Ah. Hello?

Facing the voluminous number of viewers suddenly at my stream I blinked once. Twice. Thrice.

"Ah. Welcome, Redde's viewers to the stream… I'm sure Redde will be back soon?"

The last time I checked, I was at 60,000. The sum of 60,000 and 278,000 is 338,000, so why am I at 369,000?

"Welcome, welcome everybody to my stream… We're three hundred sixty-nine people…"

I stared at the digits vacantly.

[Chat:

cryos: lol wats up charlie chadde

Diamondchaos: omfg wait hes going to charlies house?

formulaofspeed: bruh hello charlie

SMOIN: omg charlie im begging u pls show reddes face]

Suddenly, after the viewer that went by 'SMOIN' suggested me to show Reed's face, the chat began to be spammed by thousands of people agreeing to the idea vehemently.

My number of viewers began to spike dramatically once again with new common additions to the chat:

'Redde face reveal? Where?'

Haha… Reed. Where are you?

'Nikan has donated 10 dollars.'

["bro im begging please show his face"]

"Thank you for the 10 dollars… we'll see what happens."

And there were more donations continuously asking for Reed's face reveal.

I did not know his face was that wanted in the gaming community…

"Ah… hello. We're… four hundred thousand people now? Welcome…"

My charm cloud was working overtime to prevent me from looking like a fool right now.

I conversed with chat for a while in a vacant state while we waited for Reed to arrive at my home.

Hearing a voice in my mind I hadn't heard in a long time, my daze ended.

[The System recommends the host to keep doing his best!]

Ah. What am I?

I'm an idiot sandwich that's what I am. I have 400,000 people in the stream right now, I should be getting used to this.

I coughed and presented a natural smile which ended up feeling even better than normal.

[Modeling has gained 115.5 points (23.1 * 5)]

"About Redde's face, I'm not too sure what will happen. It's not under my jurisdiction. Let's hope for the best, though."

I cheekily winked like a mischievous child.

[Modeling has gained 16.5 points.]

[Chat:

Caatttkatia: <DMJIEDJREDFNSJNDNFE

Samantttta: MKSADIWAKS<D WTFFFFFF

Thot_police: Its over....

Samantttta: GHWIAJSDUWA

Caatttkatia: OMGMDSN SDJAWNAJSD

Doorboxmirrorbed: bru dont tell me i missed something good

LastEli: my condolences for u door

Pandasoul: at this point i think theres more females than males watching

veratala: im flalling in lov char char xxxxxxxxx]

At this point, I didn't know what to think of my viewers.

The only people I knew of from Earth with this many female thirsters were CORPSE, Sykkuno, and I don't know who else.

The feeling is definitely uncomfortable though.

Even worse, I'm going to have to get used to this sort of attention by the career-path I'm taking…

'blacklily has raided your stream with 87,308 viewers!'

Ah... more?

[Author Note:

Enjoying? I hope so!!

Haven't been reading comments in a while because I've been busy with some things but it's the weekend and I now can. I'm excited to read them because I always get a huge laugh and smile out of them.

What are your thoughts on the chapter? Please comment down below.

Song recommendations:

literally anything by Lost Sky:

Lost Sky - Dreams pt. II

Lost Sky - Vision