Crush

Hey there, how ya doing?

Gaia

Crush! Been a while, how are you?

Crush

Kinda under the weather

That’s why you haven’t really heard from me

Gaia

Oh, hope you’ll feel better soon <3

To be honest ... I didn’t actually notice. I hadn’t really given myself enough time to think about him at all. But yeah, he hadn’t visited any of my streams lately and he hadn’t been online much either.

And I’m still lying about myself!

When he didn’t show up to that DnD meeting I was relieved. At least for that moment. Now I guess, I’ll just have to keep going.

Shit.

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Crush

I’ve watched the recording of your last stream, where you “battled” ValGal!

How do you keep getting the attention of these high-ranking V-Tubers lmao

Gaia-chan

Oh, you know, be me, flex a muscle, sprinkle a bit of bullshit on top ...

Yeah, I have no idea.

Crush

You ever thought of doing one of those 1v1 streams?

Where you and another streamer try to play the same game at the same time and try to finish it first?

Gaia-chan

Oh, those are cool!

Don’t have any friends for doing that though ...

Crush

Well, you got Big-Tuber-San, now Val ..

Also you got me ...

Crap, crap, crap!

Oh man, I’d loooooove to do that, but ...

What do I say now?

Deflect!!!

Gaia-chan

Yeah, it was such a shame, you didn’t come to the meeting, few days ago :c

Missed youuu

Crush

Yeah, sorry bout that

All hell broke loose really

There was a huge outbreak where I live, so I had to go into hiding

so to speak

Gaia-chan

lololol

You ok though?

Crush

Yep, thankfully I was really, really, really lucky

Still in Quarantine though

But at least I got my vaccine early

Or something ...

Gaia-chan

Shame, I was looking forward to meeting you in person finally

No lies there!

Crush

So sorry to have disappointed you

But we still have time!

It’s gonna happen sooner or later

At this rate it’s likely to be later, but ...

I am so close to telling him. The words are on my tongue, threatening to burst out. Luckily text as a medium did not allow for my spontaneous bouts to be of any effect. My voice merely grazed the top of my screen. No matter how many words I typed on my keyboard, the strength to push the final button simply wasn’t there.

Gaia-chan

Good night <3

That had to suffice ... for the moment.