Why do I always start new stories I am never destined to finish? But enjoy this while it lasts. This isn't a bromance though, so sorry. ahhhem

And don't judge me, because you came here. Please don't leave sarcastic or rude reviews. And I know about the real life rules and stuff, but who can resist these guys? ~(:|)

Could you blame me for being excited today? YouTube finally asked me to come to their convention. It only took YEARS...

Anyway, Felix said he would come pick me up so he could talk me through conventions and whatnot. The only downside was that I couldn't really meet any of my fans in person, but sitting backstage with a microphone would suffice well enough.

I grabbed my headset as I heard the doorbell ring. I picked up my backpack, heavy from a laptop and modem, and hauled ass to the front door, whipping it open and grinning.

"Hey Ryan!" Pewds said, eying my over-packed bag and overly-excited expression.

"Are you excited or what?" He laughed.

"Can you tell?" I said.

"No, it's hardly obvious. Ready to go?"

"Of course," I replied, locking the door and following Felix to his car.

Fifteen minutes later I was dropped off behind the convention center and I snuck through the back entrance to avoid being seen by people. Not as if they'd mob me, really. They wouldn't know if it was me or not.

I found my way to a room with a table and some couches, so I started to set up base there.

While I was doing that, a nice lady with a red YouTube shirt came up to me and said, "Sorry to bother you, but are you Ryan?"

"That I am," I replied, and she smiled at my voice.

"Huge fan!" she chirped, before adding, "I was told you needed someone to set up your table for you, so I came to help."

"Oh, yes," I said, turning to my stuffed bag and pulling out a small monitor with a webcam attached to it.

"I need you to plug this into a socket, and once that's turned on, I should be able to set up the messaging system. And once that's set up, I have these," I added, handing her a stack of flyers I'd signed. She took everything and went out a different door to where I assumed the convention was.

"Thank you!" I called after her.

I opened my laptop and got the feed for the convention room within a few minutes. I could vaguely see Pewds' table near the other side of the hall, sure it looked much grander than mine.

"Test, test?" Said the nice lady who set up my monitor. "Cryaotic, can you hear me?"

I shoved my headphone in the jack, adjusted the mic a little bit and replied, "Yeah, I can hear you. Can you hear me?"

She walked around in front of the camera and smiled. "I never properly introduced myself! My name is Sadie. I'm assigned to take care of your booth, since you can't really do that."

"Oh, well, thank you very much, Sadie," I said.

She laughed and assured me it was no problem. "So, let me show you what else we did," she continued, turning the webcam around. "We make a banner with your username for every Youtuber, so yours says ChaoticMonki. Then we have a couple logos. I'm afraid it isn't as fancy as some of the other stations, but they bring BOXES and BOXES of stuff..."

It was simple, but I liked it. It had some symbols for the games I'd played, and, of course, the Sup Guy.

"Sadie, I love it! I'm not a particularly fancy person."

"Oh, well, I'm so glad you like it!" she said, fixing the camera to face front again. "I'll be at your table to help out if you need it, but you can do everything else, basically."

I scanned the room, searching for other YouTubers whose names I might've recognized. People were starting to trickle in, and I saw a lot of fans wearing PewDiePie shirts. Not many tables were open yet. I concluded I didn't know anyone here except for Pewds. Russ and Ken weren't coming, and Pewds was busy, so I supposed it was just me for now.

I watched as fans went to other tables, but no one seemed to be coming to mine for now. I attempted to entertain myself by watching some of the other Youtubers. It wasn't very entertaining.

Just then, the door to the right burst open, causing me to jump. I did a double take when I realized it was Toby Turner, flanked by some guy I didn't recognize wearing a Tobuscus shirt, same as him. Figures, from what I'd seen of his videos.

"-and I'll need you to edit and upload that later." Toby was finishing saying to the guy, who nodded in response.

"Oh, hey!" Toby said, when he saw me.

"Hey," I replied. Toby must have figured I was just observing the convention or something of that sort, because he continued towards the door Sadie had exited out of earlier. But the other guy was just staring at me.

"Um...hi?" I said to him. I wasn't sure why he was staring at me like that. Then his face broke into a grin, and he gestured at me.

"Sorry, what? Am I supposed to do something?" I had no idea what this guy wanted. He was moving his hands in circles.

By now, Toby had stopped walking and was staring at us both, so I started to feel really awkward. The guy ran up to him and did something with his hands. Sign language? I had no idea. After a moment of observing the man, Toby smiled too.

"So, you're Cryaotic?"

"Uh, yeah, that would be me," I mumbled.

"That's so neat! Steven is your biggest fan," Toby said, gesturing to the guy with him.

"Wait... Steven? He's..."

Toby laughed. "Yep. He's camera shy, though."

"Whoa," I gaped. Then remembered my manners. I stood up and shook their hands. "It's Ryan, by the way. Really nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you to. So, um, hey, we should talk after the convention," Toby added. "We're late already as it is, so Steven'll probably come hang out in here once we're set up, if you're fine with that. He has some editing to do."

"That sounds fine," I replied. "I don't really know what this room is for, anyway."

"Alright," grinned Toby. "Nice to meet you." They walked out the door, and I sat back in front of my monitor, still in a bit of awe.

And the day kept getting better as I heard a girl shout, "Omigod, it's Cry!"

If you can't tell, this is sort of an introduction to the characters. If you haven't heard of one of these guys, go check them out, because they're REALLY funny.

Oh, and I think my explanation for Steven is most logical. It would explain a lot, right? XD Let me dream.

Last thing- the rating is just for the messed-up-idness to follow in later chapters. Not love messed-up type stuff, but I can promise you it's going to get pretty creepy at some point. mad!virus stuff.

I'll post another longer chapter soon. Stay awesome, bros. Bahhhayyyeeee!