Inside YouTube-Minx-Chapter 3

April 5, 2013

I woke up the next day on the floor, disoriented and not sure what was going on. I sat up lazily and glanced at my surroundings. I was on my couch, in my living room, and I had no idea how I'd gotten there. The last thing I remembered was dropping to the floor and crying myself to sleep; I must have made my way to the couch sometime in the night. I blinked again and again, frustrated because everything was blurry. Stupid glasses. I helplessly felt around me to see if I could find them anywhere, everything was blurry and my glasses were nowhere to be found. Suddenly my hand hit something. I picked up what looked to me like a black blurry object from my coffee table. I groped at it and realized that they were in fact my glasses. I sighed in relief as I put them on, the world was clear now.

I looked up at my clock; it was already ten in the morning. I was normally up around seven or eight. Then I realized, I literally slept for 18 hours. Good lord I must have been tired. Suddenly my heart stopped. It was ten and I normally uploaded around nine or even earlier. My fans must not know what's going on, they probably thought something was wrong with me. I forced myself to stand up, dizzy from too much sleep. I needed to do this; I needed to be my usual perky self. I walked to my desk and turned on my computer, sighing as I wondered what videos I would put out. Some co-op stuff would work nicely and might get my mind off of Liz.

Settled, I thought. I would need to call a few of my friends, hopefully they wouldn't ask me about Liz or anything. I panicked as I waited for my computer to turn on. Did I sound sad? Would they know? I needed to be normal perky snarky Minx. The computer turned on and I quickly signed onto Skype, seeing that Dlive and a few others were online. I smiled as I saw Dlive's name. He would help me. He always knew what to do when I was in a time of need. I called him and he answered immediately. "If it isn't my favorite British buddy, what's up Minx?"

As I tried to speak my voice cracked. Dlive quickly turned on his camera. "Minx, turn on your camera and tell me what's going on." I quickly complied and Dlive frowned when he saw my red face, and my eyes that glistened with the arrival of tears. Dlive stared at me. "Minx, I need you to speak and if you trust me, tell me what's wrong with you?" I nodded and spoke in a quiet voice. "I walked over to Liz's yesterday to surprise her and…and…" I burst into tears as Dlive sighed. "What happened Minx? It has to be something bad to make you burst into tears like this." I sniffled and delved into the story of the ordeal I went through yesterday. Dlive nodded and sighed when I finished. "I knew there had to be something wrong with her." I sat up, shocked. "What, did you not believe someone that amazing would like someone like me?" Dlive snapped up in shock as I bitterly accused him. "No, Minx. How could you think I would say that?! I meant that she always seemed a little off, like she was hiding something. I'm just regretful that her secret was something as big as this. You'll find a way to get through this, I know it."

I smiled at Dlive, he knew how to make me feel better. "I hope you're right Dlive, because right now I feel like I'm worthless, like I'm nothing." Dlive shook his head. "You can get through this Minx, you've gone through worse things and come out victorious, and you can do this." I smiled at Dlive and relaxed. "So, do you want to record something?" Dlive smirked. "I thought you would never ask. In fact. I have Chilled and Entoan on hold for a game of TTT, you in?" I smirked. "Done, add me to the call."

1 Hour Later

"It's Chilled! He just set off a bomb!" I was running, gun ready to shoot anyone who got in my way. We had been playing Trouble in Terrorist Town for about an hour now and I had just seen who I thought to be Chilled blow up a huge section of the map, which was very suspicious behavior for someone who pertained themselves as innocent. I heard Chilled laugh. "It's not me Minx. How could I destroy the one I love? Where fore art thou Minx?" I giggled. "Shut up Chilled, make another move towards me and I will blow you to smithereens." Suddenly I almost ran into a person who was setting off another bomb. "I found him, it's Chilled, and I found him!"

I heard Entoan laugh, in his raspy voice. "Honestly Minx, I would think you would be able to tell the difference between two of your friends." I gasped as Chilled yelled out. "Told you so! You were wrong!" I shook my head. "I'm never wrong, I was just assessing all of my options and I've decided that Entoan is the traitor. Chilled was just my diversion." Dlive laughed. "Sure, right. Nice tactics Minx." I feigned taking a bow. "Of course, anytime." As Entoan was laughing I quickly shot him, killing him instantly. Entoan yelled out. "No! Wait, was that your plan all along?" I smiled with glee. "Nope, it was just a good opportunity." We all laughed as Chilled sighed. "Dinners ready, I've got to go guys. I had fun, bye." Entoan coughed. "I need to go too. I have a meeting."

We said our goodbyes as they signed off and Dlive and I turned on our respective face cameras again. Dlive sat up and smiled. "Now Minx, I have something to talk to you about." I frowned in a confused manner. "And what would that be?" Dlive nervously smiled. "Well I, and a few other Youtubers, have gotten an email regarding something very awesome. I know for a fact that you got one. I said yes, and you should too. It might take your mind off of, you know." I was confused and excited. What was going on? I smiled at Dlive. "I'll think about it, I've got to go." Dlive winked. "Later." We signed off and I instantly opened my email. I looked around lazily as it loaded and my eyes landed on the photo of me and Liz on my desk. I narrowed my eyes. It was a lie, all a lie. I grabbed the photo and threw it, watching as it shattered against the wall. Good, I thought, shattered. Just like our relationship, broken and ripped apart at the seams.

My email popped up and I sifted through everything until I saw the video message from YouTube. Video message? What was this? I quickly opened it and almost jumped back as a woman with platinum blonde hair and an obviously whitened smile appeared. I clicked play and it started, I watched in awe. The woman spoke in a fake voice. "Hi Michelle, um… I mean Minx. I am Katherine Highland, one of the higher-ups here at YouTube. We see the need to really expand our growing business, and we've chosen you, and some others, to help. We've decided to create a reality show, Inside YouTube. We plan on putting ten YouTuber's in a house together and showing what really goes on behind the scenes. This is going to be a web show, not on television, so we, and you, will have a lot of creative control. Such as, if we film something you don't want in the show it will be gone, effective immediately. I know you don't show your face, but if it helps, we have Cryaotic signed on. If you choose to go you will be able to go about your daily lives, but get paid even more for doing so. There will be nothing staged, no added drama, we want this raw and uncut. If you are interested fill out the online contract and confirm immediately. Bye, hope to hear from you soon."

The feed ended and I looked at the screen, in shock. A reality show? They wanted me for a reality show? This could go one or two ways if I did this. One, this show could be great for me and bring positive publicity to my channel. Or it could backfire and everyone could boycott my channel. There was one tiny, no, one major issue. I didn't show my face, ever. But why would Cry agree to something like that? He also never showed his face. If he, a bigger YouTuber, and a friend, was confident about this then couldn't I?" I shook my head. No. I couldn't just drop everything to do this, I couldn't. But then again, I could. I was half and half on my decision, arguing inside my head. I needed to know what to do. I couldn't make this decision alone.

I grabbed my phone from my pocket and quickly rung Felix. After a few rings I heard a loud yell and fell out of my chair. Suddenly laughing came from the phone. "How's it going Minx? Did I scare you?" I sat up, dazed. "Are you serious? I just fell out of my chair." Felix laughed. I sighed. "Anyway Felix, I got an email about the YouTube reality show, and I suppose you did too?" Felix brightly answered. "Yeah, I did. Marzia and I are both going. So is Ken and his girlfriend. Are you going to be there also?" I sighed. "I don't know, I was actually calling for advice. I really don't know what to do. I don't know if I can handle viewers knowing what I look like." Felix sighed. "Minx, I've seen you before. I know you're not ugly and if I can deal with the fans, you can too. Come on, it will be fun. Come ooonnnn." He was very persistent. "I guess, I guess I will but the pressure will be on me. You really think I can handle it?" Felix assured me. "You can handle anything." I sighed. He won me over. "I guess I'll be there, bye Felix."

I turned off my phone and clicked back over to my email, staring at the paperwork. This was my decision, I thought. This is it. I quickly filled it out and hit send before I could question it. I sighed and sunk down in my chair, and then I heard a 'ping'. I sat up. Confused, and saw a response from YouTube. "Excellent," it read, "We'll send a plane for you tomorrow at noon, a car will be at your home to pick you up. Pack for Los Angeles. It's quite sunny." I panicked. Tomorrow?! I thought I would at least have some time. How could I be expected to be ready in time? I ran up to my room and grabbed my black suitcases from my closet. I quickly packed all of my clothes and trinkets. I quickly got all of my electronics and filming stuff together and pushed the suitcases to the wall, exhausted. This was it. Tomorrow would be the first day of the rest of my life. I looked at the clock and saw that it was about ten. I lay down, not bothering to change clothes, and drifted off to sleep thinking of the show, and surprisingly not about Liz.