I stared at the plain white wall in my bedroom, pretending I was some famous YouTuber with over a million subscribers. I was home alone again; my dad was probably out at some club. I half hoped he would drive home and crash. Grant was hanging out with Jonas and Preston, sleeping over with them overnight. He had invited Zach, but apparently Zach shook off the offer.
I had been watching Zach's previous YouTube videos, and they were good. One of his videos was titled "That's Just How Goode I Am," and it was super funny. It was a little Q&A, and he revealed a bunch of weird things about him, most of which I had learned about in twenty questions. No wonder he had 2.8 million subscribers. He started each one out the same way. "Hey guys, the hot and talented Zachary Goode here." And I couldn't help but notice that he also smirked in every video. But I still subscribed. No doubt he would see that I subscribed and make some cocky remark about it to me tomorrow.
"Hi! If this is your first time watching my videos, I'm Cammie Morgan. And today, I'm going to talk about perfection. Honestly, I don't think there is such thing as perfection. As in, no such thing as being perfect to everyone." I heard someone knock on the front door, and I stood up to go get it.
"Hey. Saw you talking to a wall. And I brought my camera. Want to make a video?" I nodded, and Zach set up his supplies in my room. He smirked a bit. "I'm not going to be in this video, because this seems like your first. I'll be in your tenth. Or second." I smiled a little. "Oh, and I'm going to post the video a little later." I was still a little mad at him that he wasn't letting me see the video until he had posted it. "And when I saw you talking to a wall and suspected you were going to be on YouTube soon, I recorded a short segment to tell my subscribers to subscribe to you, too." I laughed quietly. Somehow, he could predict my every move. He finished his set up and sent a quick thumbs up in my direction, he was recording.
"Hi! I'm Cammie Morgan, and I'm guessing most of you are here because of my friend, Zach Goode. He's right here, helping me with my first video." I stood up and dragged him so he was in front of the camera. "Here's proof. Anyways-" I let him go and sat back down in front of the camera. "I honestly have no idea how to start your very first YouTube video. But I'll try. I'm going to tell you about..." I looked at Zach.
"What do I talk about?" I asked. He shrugged. "Talk about school. Like, the top ten things kids need to do at the start of the school year." I nodded, and moved to the middle of my bed and threw my hands up. "School!" I fell backwards. "Yay," I said ever so sarcastically. I sat back up again and moved to the front of the bed. "Here are the top ten things you need to know and establish at the start of the school year." I went to the right side of the bed.
"One." I held up my index finger and shook it in front of the camera. "Find and make new friends. Yeah, yeah, super typical and overly obvious. But you need to make friends. The more you make, the more popular you get, the more social credits you get, et cetera." I held up two thumbs up. "So make some friends."
I moved to the left side of my bed now, and held up my index and middle finger. "Two! Find your way around the school. If you get lost, and your school is humongous like mine, then getting lost is absolutely horrible. So get to know your school grounds."
I switched my position on the bed for each number I did, and held up the number in proper ASL fashion.
"Ten! Be yourself. Relax. I don't know how much I can emphasize this. But wherever you are, be yourself. People will like you for who you are, don't change for them, or for anyone. If they don't like you, that's their problem, not yours." I smiled. "And that's my list of top ten! I'll make another video next week on Monday! Don't forget to subscribe, to my channel and the wonderful Zachary Goode's, and I'll put my social media links down below! See you next week!" I waved goodbye to the camera, and laughed when Zach turned it off.
"You were a natural!" He complimented, and I grinned. "Why, thank you. Can I borrow your materials every Monday?" He nodded. "We should totally make a collab channel. That'd be so cool." I nodded vigorously, and he smirked at my expression. "Come over. We can edit your video." I smiled and helped him carry his supplies next door to his room.
"Cut it here... Yeah, text there. Um... Ooh, Pupcat! I love Pupcat font!" Zach would laugh every now and then at how excited I got about little details; like the font. It wasn't long until the video was perfect, and at the part where I had asked people to subscribe to Zach and I, he put text over my face that said "Click Here to SUBSCRIBE" and linked it to my subscribe button. He added in a thumbnail with his face on it, with the same link. Zach also helped me to shape my channel to make it as-me-as-possible and was my first subscriber. I typed in the description and posted the video at the exact same time Zach did, and we watched each other's videos, his first. People were commenting on his video every few minutes, and at least half of all the comments were directed to me.
"OMIGOSH you guys r soooo cute together"
"Ship it!" Those two comments each had 42 likes and counting.
"Back off, Morgan, Goode is mine! Jk you guys are cute together but still..."
"woah, hmu cammie" Zach and I reddened when we read that comment. For him, I have no idea why.
"uber cute video! Plzplzplz be in more videos, cammie! 3 u need a ship name... ZAMMIE!" That comment was at the top of the feed, 100+ likes and 24 and counting replies.
I did agree with her, I thought the video was really good. I didn't look absolutely ugly, and if I were a complete stranger, I would've thought that Zach and Cammie were or were going to be a little more than friends. The way they teased each other, and what looked like flirting... Maybe it was. Maybe we were flirting with each other. The video had only 268 dislikes, had 12,950 likes already, and all I could do was gape at how popular Zach was. There were even a few commenters bragging at how they had already subscribed to my channel.
By the end of the day, I had 23,582 subscribers, all thanks to Zach.
Thank you, Zachary Goode, for that.
Thanks for reading, and RFRF!
