I got home around 3:30 PM on Friday afternoon. I had planned on recording a video for YouTube. I had recently gotten into singing and have been told by multiple people, including my voice instructor, Lrya, that I have a voice of an angel. So, ever since then I have been practicing by singing covers for YouTube. My channel, StellarMage, was something I had originally made tutorials on. I had gotten relatively famous in a short amount of time and my father was yet to find out about my YouTube Escapades.
It wasn't until recently that I had start doing covers and tutorials along with people asking me to read their poems, which I always did, because I love literature. If my father had found out I was on the internet. He would disown me. After all, he was a rich business man. I was just his daughter and anything bad that I did reflected badly on him in the media and socially. We were after all, a well-known family. The Heartfilia's.
I turned to my computer and smiled, "So, glad I don't have a camera. No one can see my messy hair after a long day at school." I chuckled and then sighed, "Well, that's not completely true. My laptop has a camera, but I don't use that for recording." I smirked, realizing I was talking to myself. I didn't even go to an actual school. I was home schooled. I didn't have any friends and I didn't have a mother to stop my father from his ways.
I pulled out sheet music that I had brought home from choir and did some vocal warm ups, glad my father was off on a business trip and I could do what I wanted. Then I stood in front of my hanging microphone, making a cover for Carrie Underwood's "See You Again". I didn't know why, but country was the easiest thing for me to sing. It was probably because I always found a deeper meaning in the words that no one would ever catch.
"Sometimes, I feel my heart is breaking, but I stay strong and I hold on 'cause I know. I will see you again, oh. This is not where it ends. I will carry you with me." I sung the words, but somehow my voice cracked in the middle of singing the song and it had sounded like I was crying. I didn't have enough time to edit the sound to fix it, but maybe people will just think I choked. After I finished recording I listened over it on my editing software and then put the acoustics underneath my singing. It sounded perfect.
I typed the lyrics in for the video and a little "StellarMage Sings: See You Again" as a title. I also put a small credits page and at the end a little announcement for a Q&A video I'd be doing next Friday along with my Tumblr page so they could send in questions. Along with all the hate that I got in the comments. I turned away from my little recording studio and moved to my bed to get on my laptop. I went on Tumblr to check out my dash before I got to my homework and my favorite YouTuber ever who went by the channel name, FlamingDragon, was online. He showed his face all the time and he was super good at playing guitar and I kind of envied him. The weird thing was he always played the songs that I sung. I didn't know if he did it intentionally to get recognition from me or if it was me going just a little paranoid because this boy was amazing good looking.
He had pink, spiky hair, an amazing fang-toothed smile, these dark onyx eyes that I swore looked into my soul every time he looked into the camera. He was tanned, muscular, and funny. He tried his best on songs even if he did miss a chord or two, but that's why I liked him. He didn't seem to care what people thought about him. He had just posted a selfie of him with his guitar saying, "Just got back from school about to make my daily cover video." I starred at it and then wondered who he was going to cover today. I never communicated with him because I was too nervous to. He was like my music god.
I decided to get my mind off of it. I made a post with the link to my YouTube video, "Just posted my daily song cover. Hope you enjoy it. :)" I pressed the button to post and then got to a reading that one of my followers, ScriptedBooks, on Tumblr had suggested for me. After reading this I would get to my homework, "Whoa, ScriptedBooks we need to collab on something sometime!" I said into the mic after I finished reading it, "I really enjoyed this." I chuckled into the mic and then waved and said, "I guess I should probably give a spoken reminder to send in questions to my Tumblr if you want them to be answer next Friday. Well, like always. Goodbye, shooting stars. See you in the next one." I said, knowing the smile was on my voice. I ended the recording and put a soft naturistic soundtrack under my voice in my editing program and then uploaded it to YouTube.
With that I got to my homework. Yes, home schooled and getting homework. My father wasn't a very nice man. He always made sure I had something to do though. I guess that was always nice.
Natsu POV:
I got home at 4 PM today. School was a pain and it didn't help that my friend had tried to keep me when he knew I had a schedule that I needed to keep up with. I told him I'd call him after I made my video. I threw my backpack on my bed and then smirked. I turned on my computer and looked up the channel of my favorite YouTuber, StellarMage. She always sounded so cute. Sadly, everyone knew her, so there was no way she could ever notice me. I saw she posted her daily cover and decided to watch it. I like to do covers on the songs she covered because it made me feel just a little bit closer to her, "See You Again, huh? She really likes her country." I mumbled.
I took out my phone and took a selfie with my guitar, "I might as well tell everyone my daily video is coming out soon." I gave my famous fang-toothed smile towards my phone and snapped a picture. I went to Tumblr and noticed that she wasn't online yet which means she was working because she was never on when I got back from school. I posted the picture with the caption, "Just got back from school about to make my daily cover video." I pressed the post button and then set up my recording studio.
I pressed the record button and played the song she had sung. What I wouldn't do to meet her and learn about her. She had been my YouTube crush forever. I fell in love with her voice. It was like the sunshine. I would never tell anyone else this, but she was my obsession. I finished playing the song and then looked up at the camera with a smile on his face, "Hope you enjoyed! See you tomorrow, fireflies." I said before waving and ending the recording.
Then I made a post to say that my video was out, but by that time I was watching StellarMage's second video where she read a girl's writing. However, I didn't care about the writing. I just wanted to hear her voice. It was pleasant to listen to after a long day at school. Then, I heard something I didn't expect to hear, "A Q&A?" I questioned blankly at my screen, "I could ask her the question, but I can't." I hesitated as I clicked the link to her Tumblr, "I mean, I have until Friday, right? It's not like hell will break lose with a single question." I tried to pump myself up, but nothing came. I turned away from my computer and went to do my homework instead.
Lucy POV:
Homework was a pain. My father wouldn't be home for a while and I was being driven out of my mind. I went back to YouTube to see if he posted his video yet. My face rested on my hands as I watched the video. He was so cute and nice. He was always thanking his subscribers. I mean, I did that too, but I just feel like he's talking directly at me when he talks. Almost like I can just reach out and touch him. Sadly, I couldn't and neither could he.
I finished up my homework just in time for one of the house staff to call me to dinner. My thoughts were only on him though. I couldn't turn my thoughts to something else and it made me want to write. I felt inspired and nothing was going to change that. It was like looking at all the answers to life. I hoped he sends in a question for my video on Friday, or what I was going to now officially call Friendly Friday. I was planning on doing something for my shooting star every Friday. They are important to me and make me feel like I'm part of something with their kind words.
Everything was going to change in about a week. People were going to find out stuff about me that no one knew. My mother, my father, me being home schooled, and all the juicy details of my life. It was kind of exciting. It was hard to think about letting this information out, but everything was when you were a little terrified of the outside world. I ate without a smile. I spent most of my time alone, so it was hard to always be happy, but I had to put up the facade for YouTube. No one should ever know about my family, or me. I was that small piece of gold that was forgotten, that one star that had burned out at the age of eight.
I decided after dinner I would see if I had any questions in my ask yet and to my surprise there were hundreds of them. I sighed and got to work, sorting out which one's I should answer. I had turned Anon on, so in case people were scared of me knowing who they were they could rest peacefully. Some of the questions were really inappropriate, so they were deleted. The ones that were good I wrote down and started thinking of answers. One question by an anon caught my eye because it was the only one. "Hey, StellarMage. What do you think of online relationships and would you ever try to be in one? One more question. Have you ever thought of collaborating with someone? If so, who?" I had to think for a while for this one. I wrote it down. This was going to be a long week.
Natsu POV:
After doing my homework I went on Tumblr to think of a question to ask my one and only YouTube crush. I hadn't seen her face, but I fell in love with her face. I wanted her to hear her laugh again. I pulled up her account to ask a question to her. I smiled and wrote, "Hey, StellarMage. What do you think of online relationships and would you ever try to be in one? One more question. Have you ever thought of collaborating with someone? If so, who?" I pressed the ask anonymously button and then panicked. There was no way I just asked her that. She would think I was the biggest idiot of all time if she found out who sent that my entire social standing would be destroyed.
Then again, I could just be going paranoid. She was too nice sounding to call someone an idiot. I just hoped she would see how much I wanted to be her favorite, but didn't have the strength to ask her who her favorite was. A piece of me hoped she answered the collab question with my name. If she did I had the right to message her to start up a collab and if it worked out maybe we could do covers with each other all the time. Then that would also mean meeting in person and that made me a little nervous. Maybe it would be best to not change the way things are. It was all up to her at this point. I would have to wait a week to see if she would answer my question and that was the most anxiety inducing thing that could possibly happen to me.
I just got around to doing some editing on this. I probably should've done that a long time ago, but you know sometimes you just gotta deal with it, right? Besides, college and other things are getting in the way of my writing, so bare with me. Another chapter will be coming out soon and I apologize for the crappy introduction to this fic. I wrote this on a whim when I had gotten no sleep one day and I have a bunch of fic ideas running around in my head. Anyways, enjoy! :3
~StellarLucy
