"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!"
I startled out of my sleep, shocked from the loud outburst that came from a room adjacent to my own.
"We finally did it! The turmoil, the pain, the misery has all lead up to this moment where I finally can say I, Markiplier the great, has defeated this wretched game once and for all!"
I quickly realized the outburst that awoke me was just Mark playing a game. At least I won't have to deal with him having mental breakdowns about it anymore. We even had to buy him a new chair after he threw the other one in a fit of rage.
I sighed and rolled off the bed chuckling to myself, and checked the clock on my bedside table. 3:30, time to get up and get ready for that collab Mark wanted to do.
Within a few minutes I was properly clothed and ready to get in front of the camera.
"I hear you've reigned victorious?" I asked as I stepped into his room.
"Yes! I can finally be done with that stupid game! Wait? How did you know?" He ended with confusion.
"The same way as the entire neighbourhood knows, you woke me up from my beauty sleep."
He look genuinely sorry as he said,
"Oops, sorry. I'll never get used to your weird sleeping schedule."
"Oh come on, it's not that hard to figure out. or do you really have a mental age of seven?"I joked
"Rude," he feigned anger, then turned more serious. "Twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, one day I'll get it."
"Well you haven't gotten it in the year we've been living together, so I'm starting to lose faith."
"I know… Sorry"
"Hey, it's fine." I tried to cheer him up, "I needed to get up anyways and get ready for the video. What are we doing anyways?"
"I figured maybe a Q and A together could be a nice change of pace, and the subs have been requesting one for a bit."
A short bit later, we were sitting with a camera staring into our faces and a red blinking light indicating we were recording.
"Hello everybody, my name is Markiplier and today we will be doing a Q and A with the one, the only, River!" Mark did his normal intro with an upbeat tone and animated gestures. "Say hi!"
"Hey!"
"So this morning I asked you all on Twitter to send some questions for us, but there's the twist, we can pass a question if we eat two bean boozled jelly beans." He waved the box of disgusting candy across his face before continuing. "So now that we know the rules, let's get started!"
He pulled out his phone and read the first question. "Okay, we're starting easy. What is one thing you like about eachother?"
"That is far from easy!" I stated sarcastically.
Mark quipped back by saying "Yeah, what is this? A couples question?"
I sighed "If I have to pick something, I guess it would be how he always finds a way to make me laugh, no matter how sad I am." I giggled, "I can already see the hoard of shippers."
There was a moments of silence before...
"It's your turn now!" I said with fake annoyance."
"Fine, I guess... I just love how much you love me," he ended with a grin.
"Are you serious!? Somebody kill me now, his ego is growing."
He laughed, "being serious though, I love how you always motivate me to do the things I want to do." His brown eyes staring at me with appreciation.
"Aw! Thanks!"
He returned to his phone, "How did you two meet? Well that's easy, we went to college together. She came on my second year and we met during a class when we were assigned to be each others partners, and I guess she saw something in me that just made her want to stay." He ended smiling with another egotistical joke.
"Yeah, it was his xbox, I didn't have money at the time to buy one, so I pretended to be his friend to play it." I defended myself.
"Wow, this entire time, our friendship has been built on lies. I can't believe you would do such a thing!"
He gave me a playful push and turned back to his phone. "Do you believe in mythical creatures, werewolves, vampires, that kind of stuff?"
I paused, wondering if I should lie and say no to keep suspicions off, say yes and hope nobody thinks much of it, or take a bean.
"Well, I'm thinking this container doesn't even have the plastic off yet, so I'm gonna take some of those." I picked up the box and started breaking the seal.
"You know just because I'm such a good friend, I'll do it with you." We both picked up a barf or peach and a rotten egg or buttered popcorn.
"Cheers!" We touched together our peach or barf and tossed them into our months. I had done the bean boozled challenge plenty of times, but the fear and anticipation that comes right before biting never lessens. I sunk my teeth into the candy, clenched my eyes shut, and silently praying for peach and an explosion of sweetness entered my mouth.
"Yes! Victory is sweet!" I turned to look at Mark who was currently joining in the same victory celebration I was. We raised a hand and slapped them together for a high five.
"We've survived the first round, but will we the next?" Mark said ominously.
"The thing I hate about this one is it's a lose, lose."
"And the worse lose is the most disgusting one of the set!" Mark added as the stared at the jelly bean in his hand.
"Um.. I might have to disagree, rotten fish is the worst, but we might as well get this over with… 3… 2… 1… EAT!" Again, we tossed the candy into our mouths and bit down. The taste of pure disgustingness permitted through my mouth as I gagged on the taste, trying to get it down.
I quickly grabbed the water on the table and tried swallowing it pill style, it did finally go down, but not before a few attempts. After I had a few breaths to try and calm down, I looked at Mark whose face was twisted in disgust.
"Rotten Egg?"
"Na, buttered popcorn, but boy is it bad."
"Yes, I'm sure it's ten times worse than having an egg that's been sitting out for 5 days!"
I gulped down some more water to try and get that fowl taste out of my mouth as Mark grabbed his phone for the next question.
Later that evening we had some quality time together playing board games mostly Codenames, my favourite game. If you've never played it before, basically there's a whole bunch of random words on the table and one person has to try and find a word that connects multiple words, for example water could be a clue for ocean and sink. The other person on the team tries to guess what words the clue belongs to.
"This is perfect," Mark chuckled slightly and grinned mischievously at me. "Vampire, three"
The number in each clue tells the guesser how many words apply to the clue.
I rolled my eyes at him and scanned the cards, looking for solutions. Blood was an obvious one so I guessed it right away, getting it right. There was also mirror in the top right.
I looked back up "Mirror?" I guessed touching the card. He smiled and placed a marker meaning I got it right.
"Ugh, it's so stupid, why did people come up with a stupid rumor that vampires reflections don't work, it's totally wrong and doesn't make any sense!"
"Who knows, humans are weird. But at least if somebody believed that, then less suspicion would be put on you since your reflection is perfectly intact.
"That's true," My eyes retired to the cards looking for my final word. Both teeth and mythical were on the board and either could work. I scanned his eyes looking for some kind of clue as to which one he was thinking of.
"Theeeeeth?" I stretched out the word, second guessing myself.
"Yes!" Mark high fives me and then returned to scanning the cards, his brain working to connect more words.
Yay! That's the end. I know it hasn't gotten into any good parts yet, but I wanted to establish chapters, things get a little more exciting in the next chapter though.