CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Jenna Unplugged

"Don't die," I say, releasing him from our hug and smiling.

"No promises," Mitch replies, grinning back.

"Bye, Mitch," I reply. He smiles in return and walks down the hall to the stairway. I shut my door and walk over to the window. I watch him drive away, thinking about the past two days.

After I told him another story (the story of when my friends pulled a no-pants prank in orchestra), we both passed out on the couch. I woke up an hour later and walked to my bed after fixing him so that he was lying down and had a blanket and everything.

I might have kissed his forehead a little bit. Maybe. That's not important.

Lizzie came back the next morning, but the rest of the day and the day after passed in a blur of recording, movie watching, and just general hanging out. I have to say, it was really, really nice. I didn't even mind that he finished off 65 percent of the cereal in our house.

Later today, after I pack, I'll be leaving to drive back to Wisconsin. It's a six hour drive, so I should probably drink a lot of coffee. I sit on the counter with a fresh cup, my second of the morning.

Here goes nothing.

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*MITCH'S POV*

I flop face-first on the hotel bed, exhausted after a long day of driving. I was on the road for… I don't even know how long. Right now, I'm in Almost-Pennsylvania, Ohio. I don't know the actual name of the town; I just know that I'm less than ten miles from the state line.

I decide to watch some of the old streams Lily mentioned. I'm too tired to really do anything but stay in bed. I shower and put on my pajamas, then climb into the warm blankets with my laptop. I search 'jenna unplugged' and a bunch of videos come up. I click on the one titled "Jenna Unplugged: Uncensored Adventure #1" by GracefulGaming. It's three hours long, so I untangle my headphones and settle in for a long night.

"Oh, I'm live. Hello, my bitches. Let's begin. I've had about three Mountain Dews in the past hour and it's three in the morning and I'm the only one in the house. LET'S DO THIS!" she says. Her facecam shows her wearing her glasses and an ancient-looking pair of headphones.

"SON OF A MOTHER SHIT BRICK –" she spits out a long string of swears as she dies for the millionth time while playing a rope swing in Happy Wheels. It's about an hour into the video, and at this point I'm not even fazed anymore when she curses out the segway guy.

"I SWEAR TO PEANUT BUTTER THAT I WILL SHOVE YOUR FREAKING SEGWAY SO FAR UP YOUR ASS IT WILL SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY FROM THE OTHER END, YOU UNHOLY SON OF A DIRT-TASTING MICROWAVE," she says forcefully.

She dies again.

"MOTHERFU—" There she goes again. I giggle at her pain as she dies again.

"That's it. I'm done. See you guys later. I'm out," she says. She pulls off her headphones and walks over to the door behind her. I notice a that her hair was a lot longer back then, and it had a blonde patch on one side that started about halfway down. I resolve to ask her about it later. She walks back over to the desk and takes another sip of her fifth Mountain Dew.

"Seriously though, I gotta pee super badly. I'm-a go whack a piss, see you guys in a minute." She walks away and out the door. 'Whack a piss?' What? I decide to start making a list of all the things I need to ask her about. So far I've got her hair and her phrases.

"NEVER FEAR, I'M BACK BITCHES," she says, plopping back down in her chair and putting her headphones on. She keeps trying the level, and finally beats it after only two more tries.

"YESSSSSSS! TAKE THAT YOU LIL BUTT BRICK! YOU SUCK I DON'T SO SCREW YOUR MOM!" she yells, throwing her arms in the air victoriously. She transitions that into whatever that one dance is called when you pretend you're holding a stick horizontally and bring it in a circle. Her headphones fall off, bringing her hair into her face.

"Now that I've exited rope swing HELL, let's play something else. Like… umm… ooh, I know! Let's play BOOKWORM ADVENTURES!" she exits out of Happy Wheels and brings up an ancient-looking game with a green worm and Scrabble-type tiles.

"New player… let's name him Jiggly Butter. Oh, shoot, too many characters. Um… let's change the spelling. Jigly Butr. Perfect. LEZZ GOOOOO!" And she begins. It's the type of game I would normally watch, but her commentary makes it at least bearable.

"KNOWLEDGE, MADDAFAKKA," she says, taking out a boss in one word. "GET SOME." The time melts away. Before I know it, I've watched almost the whole video.

"Holy shit it's almost six," she says in a voice that doesn't sound surprised at all. She yawns, making me yawn as well. She stretches back in her chair, exposing a few inches of pale stomach.

"I should sleep. I'm gonna sleep. Good night." The stream ends abruptly. I sit there for a second, then check the time. Too late to watch another, but I don't feel like sleeping. I decide to watch Ashley's videos. The sound of her voice calms me down, and I fall asleep listening to her.

When I wake up the next morning, my first thought is that I'm gonna see Ashley in just a few weeks. My second is about the amount of driving I have to do today. My third is about the nearest source of cereal.

After breakfast, packing, etc., I start out on the road again. I reach my parents' house about four hours later, where Connor tackles me as soon as I walk in the front door. The rest of my family is tamer in their greetings. I get my stuff put where it belongs and still have some time left before dinner. I get about an hour into "Jenna Unplugged: Uncensored Adventure #2" before Connor comes barreling in to tell me it's dinnertime.

It's weird how much her unplugged streams are like the bYd podcast I used to do. Guess it's just another thing we have in common.

A/N TIME! AWWWWW YEEEAH! : Hey guys! QD here with an update for you! Sorry that this one is shorter, but I needed to advance the plot a bit and wasn't sure how to get that done. Thank you guys so much for the 15k (67 away from 16k!) views! You guys are amazing and fabulous and I couldn't ask for better readers because there AREN'T ANY. If you follow my Merome story, I will hopefully have that updated by Friday June 6th. Next week is the six-month anniversary of this story (June 11th), so I will hopefully be able to make a special extra-extra long chapter. It's the day after school gets out for me, so I'll hopefully be able to typey-type mah little fingers off and get that up on time. That being said, here are the facts!

-If I ever do get a YouTube channel, uncensored streams would definitely be a thing. Sorry Mom.

-I live in Wisconsin, and the college that I'm planning to attend is about six hours from my hometown.

-I would definitely have kissed his forehead, because I'm just a maternal person. I try to "mother" everyone, but it's very questionable that I will have kids. Responsibility scares me.

-All weird phrases used are ones that I use. Yep.

-Two years ago, my hair was really long with a blonde chunk on one side. The blonde chunk is a story for another time. I cut off about thirteen inches of my hair right before starting school this year, and now I'm growing it out again.

-I do play Bookworm Adventures, and I love it. If I get a YouTube channel, I will absolutely record it.

-My friends did once pull a no-pants prank. If you want to know the story, just PM me and I'll tell you.

And the fictions:

-I would not be able to drink that many Mountain Dews in that amount of time, tired or not. My capacity for liquids is not so high.

-I probably would not be capable of streaming for 3 hours, nor would I have an empty house for that amount of time at 3 AM.

I think that about covers it! As always, thank you guys for reading, reviewing, etc. because you beautiful individuals make my day all the time. Much luv and internet hugs!

-Quiet Defiance

PS – I wrote a Mashley one-shot if y'all want to read it. To be perfectly honest, it's super lame, but I would appreciate a read anyway :3

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