Chapter 3: I'm not Famous
TWs: Mentions of abuse and Bullying
Last night was an amazing night for Ranboo, he was happy that he had so much fun streaming with Wilbur and now he was blowing up. His name was number one trending on twitter for the entire night, he had over 20,000 subscribers on twitch, all in one stream, and he had over 100,000 followers.
As he opened his eyes on this Tuesday morning, ready for another day of teaching and possibly another live stream, he was immediately approached by Wilbur screaming out "Who's my famous friend!" and Ranboo replying with "I'm not famous"
"Oh come on don't be like that, you were amazing last night considering it was your first stream, plus you're going viral, even I haven't been number one trending for an entire night" Wilbur exclaimed, making the two of them breakfast before they had to go to the school.
"Yeah, but that doesn't make me famous, plus I don't want to be the centre of attention, I'm not good with that, I never have been to be honest" Ranboo replied, taking some pancakes as soon as they were done.
"So, does that mean that you're not going to do another stream because there is going to be at least 127,065 people upset at that?" questioned Wilbur, digging into his pancakes that were drenched in syrup whilst checking his phone to check Ranboo's twitch stats.
"Two things Wilbur, one, I never said that and two, I know you were behind that it was pretty obvious, no one gets that many viewers on their first stream without help"
"Awesome, so when are you going to do your next stream then?"
"I was thinking earlier that if I don't feel too tired, I could do one tonight as it was so much fun but I guess we will see, but for now I have to go to my actual job and so do you" answered Ranboo as he was packing his bag and getting on his shoes.
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"How much money do you think I made from that stream last night?" Ranboo suddenly asked as they were on their way to the school.
"Oh, probably a few grand or so" answered Wilbur, as he was driving.
"Wow, maybe I should just be a streamer instead," Ranboo joked but was it really a joke?
The truth was, since he had started teaching at the school, he hadn't been that happy, apart from when he was hanging out with the other teachers, playing Minecraft in the staff room or the students would thank him for something he did even though he hadn't earned it, but apart from that there really wasn't anything. He was constantly stressed and overwhelmed with the amount of work he had to do. Almost seeing a kid get killed on his first day certainly did not help with anything. Last night when he was streaming was the first time he had felt actually happy in a long time, nervous, yes but apart from that it was awesome.
He was quickly pulled out of his thoughts by Wilbur talking to him.
"Ranboo, mate, we're here" said Wilbur pulling into a parking spot in the teachers car park.
"Oh, okay" replied Ranboo, quickly leaving the car.
"What were you thinking about? You looked really out of it for a few minutes" Wilbur wondered, also exiting the car.
"It was nothing important" Ranboo answered, starting to walk towards the school to start another long day of teaching.
Wilbur quickly caught up to him, putting a hand on his shoulder and saying "If you need anything, just ask". Ranboo quickly nodding in response to him.
As they continued to walk towards the school they both realised that there were students not only randomly standing around, actually that was very normal, but both Wilbur and Ranboo could tell that all eyes were on them.
"What's happening, Will?" asked Ranboo, starting to feel unnerved by everyone looking at him.
"I think that it is called being famous, Mr Boo" answered Will, Ranboo letting out a big gulp.
They continued to walk towards the school, each second Ranboo getting more and more unnerved by all the eyes on him. If this was what being famous and popular was like, he certainly did not want it.
They walked and walked until Toby aka Tubbo approached the two of them with his young and innocent eyes.
"Hi, sir's I just wanted to congratulate you on a great stream last night, I hope you do more" the kid said to Will and Ranboo.
"Oh, well thank you, Toby and you know I will definetely do another stream, I was thinking about doing one tonight" Ranboo answered, Toby proceeding to happily walk away and back towards his friends Tommy and Freddie, who looked just as beaten as ever.
Ranboo quickly realised he was sadly staring at the kid, feeling pity for him, and quickly removed his gaze.
"Hey, don't feel bad about it, mate, there's nothing we can do about it, not now and maybe not ever" Wilbur said feeling bad for his mate who was clearly in a bad state of sorrow and pity.
"Yeah I know, I just cant but feel so helpless and wish that there was something we could do about it"
"I do to and so does Phil, George, Clay, Zak, Nick and all the other teachers and we are trying to help him and as soon as there is something we can do. We will capitalise on it"
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They were finally in the school and were now in the staff room, talking to some of the other teachers and members of staff.
"Oh here is the famous teacher" greeted George, as he entered the room with Clay just behind him.
"I'm not famous" Ranboo replied, walking over and giving George and Clay a quick hug, for some reason.
"I would say that about 500 kids, disagree with that" Wilbur butted into the conversation.
"Shut up, Will" Ranboo lightly commanded.
"Wait, what happened?" Clay asked, as he sat down on a couch that was in the staff room.
"As we were walking into the school earlier, all the kids were just staring at him. Tubbo even came up to us and started to congratulate Ranboo on his stream." Will said whilst Ranboo glared at him the entire time he was talking.
The four of them kept on talking to each other, over the course of time, Zak, Principal Phil and Nick all arrived and joined in on the conversation and all joking about Ranboo and his new found fame. That was until the bell rang and they all piled out to go to their first lesson.
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It was only the first lesson of the day and Ranboo was starting to get fed up.
"Okay, class how many times do I have to tell you not to ask me questions about the stream last night, I have already told you all that, I enjoyed it and that I am planning on doing more of them, so please can you guys only put your hands up if you have a question about the work" Ranboo shouted, getting more stern than usual, but he could not put up with it anymore.
He scanned the room of young teens and noticed a boy in the back of the class with his hand up, it was Freddie.
"Yes Freddie?" asked Ranboo, trying to put on as normal of a voice as possible, given how annoyed he was getting.
"Uhm, can I ask you one more question about streaming?" quietly asked Freddie and however much Ranboo wanted to just say no he couldn't.
"Sure, but this is the final question" replied Ranboo, standing up from the seat at his desk and going to the whiteboard to wipe off an equation.
"Do you plan on quitting your job as a teacher to start streaming full time?". Ranboo froze at the whiteboard, he was afraid that someone was going to ask this at some point because he didn't know how to answer it as he was thinking about it in the car earlier that same day.
"Oh okay" Ranboo quickly put down the eraser and sat down on top of his desk to be higher up so everyone could properly see him. "Well guys, if I was to be 100% truthful with you then I'd have to say that I don't know what I will do because no one really knows what the future holds for them and if streaming for me does really take off then I might but for now at least I am here and I am going to make sure I make these lessons as fun as possible for you whilst still learning of course"
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The rest of the day went well for Ranboo, no more of the students really bothered him about the whole streaming situation and the day for the most part felt less stressful. But to say it was perfect would be lying. The same people were bullying Freddie as it was the same for any other day of the week. Tommy and Tubbo were talking throughout the entire class time they had with Ranboo and I doubt it was much different for the other teachers. It was definitely starting to get better for Ranboo as a teacher.
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7:00pm.
The stream had started. It was only a few minutes in and he had over 50,000 viewers. There was definitely pressure there to make sure he did a good stream for all his viewers but Will was there to help him with it. The two of them, George, Nick, Clay, Zak and Phil along with two people called Karl and Darryl were all playing Minecraft together on an smp called the Dreamsmp that Ranboo was invited to.
Ranboo was the only one streaming so when everyone found out that the others were involved with the stream, his stream was filled with almost 200,000 viewers and he was petrified about it but also very excited.
He had decided that he would be a streamer who used facecam but always wore a mask and glasses just like what he does when teaching.
A couple of hours later he had ended the stream and everyone was still in discord just conversing about the stream.
"Well done to Ranboo on another successful stream and just to being the best teacher at the school" said Phil over discord, causing all the other teachers to in sync shout "Hey!".
"Thanks Phil but I think that I am now going to go to sleep, I am exhausted" Ranboo conveniently said whilst yawning.
"Alright mate, night" Phil replied, everyone also saying goodnight to Ranboo and he left the call to go and sleep.
He was happy.
The End of Chapter 3.