The next morning I woke up to hate comments on my vlog.
'Oh well. They aren't that bad...well that one is...and that one...hmm yay' I sighed sadly as I read the comments then I took pictures of them and stood up from my bed. 'At least I can walk today.' I thought walking into the kitchen...ooh Mark got coffee yay!
That day I spent organizing the apartment and finishing putting cloths and books away. I through on jeans and a t-shirt along with a thin hoodie, and headed towards the door. Before I walked out the door I grabbed my phone wallet and keys. I closed the door and locked it. I headed next door to Marks I listened carefully at the door, I heard him talking and it sounded like a video so I decided to stop by later. I headed off to do my shopping.
About five hours later. At almost eight o'clock I walked back to my apartment. I opened the door and headed to sort what I had bought. I put away the cloths and the movies I got and the admittedly decently priced mic I sat at my computer. Then I grabbed the present I bought for Mark. I took off or scribbled on the price tags. Then I placed it into a bigger box and wrapped it in the random wrapping paper I got. I went over to my computer and checked the comments again.
'That's just...that's too far.' I thought as I read the newest comments holding back the sudden on-slaught of tears. I grabbed the present and walked to the door.
'He did say any time...and ten's not that late right?' I thought as I headed out the door again.
I walked next door and felt bad because I still heard talking like he was recording so I knocked softly, the tears slowly starting to fall. Mark opened the door right then.
"Hey, what's going on?" Mark asked concerned.
"I...I just..." I completely broke down then, and Mark just ushered me in.
I was lead over to a couch by the computer. Mark draped a blanket over me and walked towards the kitchen. He came back a couple minutes later holding a cup.
"I hope cocoa is ok, it's all I have." Mark said.
"Cocoa Is perfect I love cocoa." I said as I slowly got myself under control.
I gasped softly when I remembered.
"Here this Is for you, it's a thank you for yesterday." I said as I passed the wrapped present to him.
"You didn't have to get me anything! Oh! Here say hi." Mark said passing me headphones.
I put them on before I looked and saw who was on the computer. Im glad I put the headphones on first, I probably would have dropped them had I looked first as it is I jumped and almost fell off the couch. I resituated myself as I saw from the corner of my eye Mark open the box, his comment made me laugh.
"It's not a box in a box is it?" Mark asked.
"Kind of it's a box with one of those half box things in it." I said then turned back to the computer.
"Hi." I said with a wave.
"Hey!" He replied.
"HOLY SHIT IT'S A DALEK!" Mark yelled right then.
Me and Sean both cracked up laughing at that.
"Hahahaha it talks too!" I said with a small smile.
"So what happened last night for the present?" Sean asked with a smile.
"I fell and messed my ankle up. I can walk today! Yay! But anyways I fell outside his door so he actually spent a lot of yesterday helping me with a bunch of random things I had to do just moving in and all." I told Sean as I looked back at him.
"That's Mark for you, always awesome like that!" Sean said with a big nod.
"Haha yeah im starting to see that." I replied to him.
"So answer me this why do you look familiar?" Sean asked with a cute tilt to his head.
"I'm a YouTuber too...so maybe from there?" I said thoughtfully. Mark yelled out from where he was playing with his new Dalek.
"That's Kaley Sean! It's night owl!" he called and I ducked my head.
"HOLY CRAP! You live next to night owl! You lucky ass!" Sean yelled back.
"I'm really nothing special." I said with a small frown, thinking about the comments.
"YOU ARE AMAZING!" Sean yelled with a look that said he was going to keep saying it till I understood. Mark chose to join us right then.
"So what happened to make you upset?" he asked now with a concerned look again.
"Check the comments on my newest video." I said.
It took them both a couple seconds to get to it. Then a short minute before they both where reading the comments and angry.
"THOSE ASSHOLES!" Sean yelled.
"They obviously don't get that this isn't right. Don't listen to them, we know and you know that this, this shit isn't true." Mark said quietly seething
"It's just really hard...I mean yeah it's easy to say don't listen to them...and normally I wouldn't but...this...is just what all my comments are becoming...and it really hurts." I said quietly with a small frown.
"Don't frown. Yeah it does hurt but you have loyal fans I mean here read the last twenty comments." Mark said showing me the screen.
I smiled softly as I read the messages there. They were fantastic.
"I know there are the good ones out there...just the ones that hurt, hurt a lot. Especially when it's a daily struggle..." I said softly.
That night the three of us stayed up and talked most of the night. When I woke up it was to an unfamiliar site. That's when I remember that I had fallen asleep talking with Mark and Sean last night. I looked around and saw that I wasn't on the couch any more but in what appeared to be a guest room. I smelled what smelled like eggs coming from the kitchen. I got up and made the bed. Before I left the room I grabbed the throw blanket from the foot of the bed and tugged it around my shoulders. I walked out the door and fallowed my nose. I walked to the kitchen and paused I heard Mark talking to someone and I didn't want to walk in.
"No she's still sleeping." Mark was saying. I barely heard the reply but I knew the voice.
"Well last night was a whirl wind. So I don't blame her." Sean replied.
I stepped inside the door and made sure Sean saw me but Mark didn't. I motioned to Sean not to say anything. I stepped up behind Mark.
"Shhh I might wake up." I whispered then ducked quick as Mark spun around. I heard Sean brake into loud laughter over it.
I stood up slowly, after I made sure Mark wasn't going to swing the spatula around again.
"Was that needed?" Mark asked, panting softly.
"Maybe not but it was funny?" I said with a small laugh.
Mark just sighed, nodded and turned back to the stove. I walked over to the table and sat down to talk with Sean.
"Morning sleepy head!" he told me as soon as I sat.
"Morning!" I said in a false chipper voice.
"I didn't think It was possible to be that falsely chipper." Mark said as he put a plate in front of me.
"Aww thank you Mark!" I said happily, digging in.
"Haha im gonna go I have to get some videos ready for upload in a couple hours so I'll talk to you both later! Kaley grab my skype from Mark ok?" Sean said.
"Alright." I said with a smile and a wave.
"I'll talk to you later Sean." Mark said as he ended the skype call.
After breakfast we went and played some random games for fun. I ended up spending most of the day at his apartment.
"Oh crap! I should go, we both have to record things." I told him, as I stood up.
"Hahaha alright hey wait what's your skype?" Mark asked and I told him.
I headed back over to my apartment and sent a quick skype message to Sean. I made a quick dinner then settled on the couch with an alarm set for ten that night. I spent the rest of the time with the tv on and plotting out my budget and video I also made sure the mic connected and worked well with my computer. When ten o'clock hit I walked over to my computer with the ears and hat on.
I started all of my recording devices and then started my web cam.
"Hey guys! Im, Kaley the night-owl And welcome back to...Musings Of a Night Owl! Tonight's musings include hate, threats and other nasty things. Now this is very personal for me and I know it affects a lot of others. Alright so let's began! In the comments of my last video I know a lot of you will see them so its fine. But there's been a lot of hate. In fact some of the comments included such gems as 'you suck! Go kill yourself!' and the ever popular 'Drink drain-o!' that's not right its horrible honestly. And yes I am making this video a lot about it but it's to show you all that im not backing down from this. I try and help and do the right things by being extremely careful of what I post and I still get the hate. I don't expect it to disappear or go away completely but what I do ask is that you calmly and politely word your comments in the future. Im not the only one who gets the hate comments or hate filled words directed to them, and the honestly sick thing is, a lot of the time people don't understand that it really does hurt to have that said or to read something like that on something you worked hard to do. But no im not going to harp on hate comments no. let's move onto threats now I've been lucky to not have any threats aimed at me but I do know of a lot of people who have had them and it really is dangerous to threaten someone, because you don't know what can happen. Ok no, I can't im sorry guys. This no its done. This one is done I can't talk about this anymore. Just know anyone who posts a hate comment or threats on my channel will be banned in the future. My schedule will be vlogs every two to three days and musings of a night owl will be ever second day. So with that being said I hope to see you all soon! Many hugs and much love until next time!" I finished the video and soft edited it. Then I set it to upload.
I grabbed my tablet when I heard the ding. I accepted the skype call.
"People are evil." Where the first words out of the mouth of Sean.
"Yes, yes they are." Mark replied.
"Oh yippee what have they been saying to you two?" I asked gently.
"Are you moving? And they're just complaining about some of the comments from my last video it apparently started a comments war." Mark said.
"There making fun of my accent again is all." Sean said with a small frown.
I went to say something but Mark spoke first.
"Don't frown. And if they're talking about your accent then they don't know you." Mark said.
"I know it's just...annoying." Sean replied back.
"So wait are you moving?" Sean asked.
"Yes probably im on my tablet because my computer is uploading the newest musings of a night owl video and its slow as all hell. And just wait you two till it uploads...I laid the law down on my page." I said with a small smile.
"Good those asses might make fun of my accent but at least they've never been that bad on my page." Sean said.
"Good job, and yeah seriously what do they think they're doing?" Mark commented.
"Yup, hmm ok my computer just crashed excuse me just one second." I said as I sat my tablet down.
I walked over to the computer and hit it.
"COME ON YOU DAMN THING WORK!. Good boy turn on. SHIT FUCK DAMN GOD FUCKING BITCH! DAMN IT NOO! Grr I have the raw stuff thankfully...Grr screw it I'll re edit later, and saved again just in case." I yelled at my computer closing the lid of it. I could hear both Sean and Mark laughing hysterically.
"I CAN HEAR YOU BOTH!" I called as I walked back over.
"We know you can!" Sean said with a laugh.
"So what even happened?" Mark asked.
"My stupid computer crashed and I lost both the upload and the edited version, thankfully I have the raw footage still, though now I have to go back through it and completely re-edit. Darn thing." I said once I picked my tablet up.
They both cracked up at that.
"Don't be mean!" I said but even I couldn't hold a fake pout.
"I'm not! I just forget your using a crappy system." Mark said.
"Wait wait what?" Sean asked.
"Yeah, here meet my system the mic is literally the newest thing to be added and I think everything else is shitting out on me too." I said as I walked over to my filming area to show them the computer set up I have.
"That...is honestly horrible." Sean said with a straight face.
"I know I know, it's not like I know how to make a computer or even can afford it." I said with a small frown.
"Alright boys, my tablets dieing and my computer is fucked so im gonna end this and Mark this is me knocking if it's cool." I said after a little bit.
"Yeah no problem. My doors open." Mark replied.
I said good bye shut my tablet off then popped it on the charger slid my shoes on and headed next door. I grabbed my mail and Marks mail from our mailboxes in-between our doors and headed inside.
"Hey, Mark you got mail." I said like usual when I sat his stack in front of him.
"I have mail, it's like mid-night...why do I have mail?" Mark asked as he grabbed the stack.
"because neither one of us actually checked our mail today." I told him as I took the first letter off of my stack.
"So, what the hell is with people now?" Sean asked softly.
"I don't know they love to hate people, and each other." I replied as I threw the letters from my parents in the garbage.
"Huh, what the..." Mark said softly as he opened the one letter.
"Sorry Mark, if you really want I'll grab those before I leave." I said softly.
"Huh? The letters? They're fine." Mark said distractedly.
I sat what was left of my stack on the desk.
"Sean, what the hell man." I said with a completely straight face.
"What?" he asked really confused.
"I don't know. I just figured I should say something." I said with a smile.
"Your evil." Sean said.
"I know! But it's the nice kind of evil." I replied back.
"What the hell." Mark cut in still not looking at us.
"Mark, Mark what's up man!" Sean yelled to him.
"I don't even know." Mark said passing the letter to me.
I read it and my eyes got big.
"The fuck is this shit?" I asked looking at Mark.
"I have no clue. Like none, I think I'd remember that!" he said.
"What the hell is up?" Sean asked, sounding annoyed because he was ultimately being ignored for a piece of paper.
Mark took it and held it to the camera so Sean could read it.
"What the hell is that about?" Sean asked sounding just as confused as the both of us.
We both shook our heads and just stared at the letter.
"Mark?" I asked kind of quietly.
"Yeah?" he replied.
"Isn't this like impossible?" I asked my face screwed up.
"Very much so, yes." Mark replied.
Everything was quiet then for a minute until Mark grabbed the envelop it came from and opened a browser.
"Im going to search this person." He said.
Sean and I just nodded. We talked quietly for a while, before Mark made another noise.
"What's up?" I asked almost worried with the noise he made sounded choked.
When I looked over at what he was pointing at it showed a women maybe our age with brown hair.
"That's letter sender lady?" Sean asked, Mark had activated screen sharing mode so he could see.
"That's the last girlfriend I ever had." Mark replied.
"This idiot is trying to fuck your life up and you're telling us you dated this phsyco?" I asked softly.
"She wasn't crazy when I dated her! She was normal!." He told us both.
"Well then, in that case you haven't seen her in years and she's crazy, do you have a lawyer to handle this?" Sean asked.
"Uh no, I've never had to deal with this!" Mark said.
"I could give you my lawyers number she's good." I told him.
"Yes please, but why do you have a lawyer?" Mark asked and I could see Sean nodding along.
"I had some issues back in my home town is all, harassment and some attacks nothing major but I had to do some suing and I had some cases, I came so close to losing my account I was pissed but I did things legally, best part is she ended up moving out here to. Turns out I was like her best client." I told them the short version of what happened.
"Wait attacks?" Sean asked.
"Yeah, I would walk out in town for some air and this group of people would always just manage to find me and they would fight I'd stand there and take the hits. For the videos id cover any bruises or anything. They actually managed to break my one wrist the one time, so that's why in some of my videos you see me only waving around one hand. Yeah that's what. Also I used to have a nice, gorgeous, keeshond, had being the key word." I said looking down at the ground.
"What's a keeshond?" Mark asked.
I pulled my phone out and showed him the last picture on the phone.
"That's Minnie. I loved that dog." I told him with a small smile.
"THEY KILLED YOUR DOG?!" Sean yelled when I showed the phone to the camera.
"Yeah, decided the weird freaky girl who stayed inside all the time didn't need a dog." I said softly.
"That's bull." Mark said.
I nodded not able to talk for a minute.
"Minnie was a sweet dog...you two would have loved her." I said quietly.
We all sat silently for a little bit. I sniffled softly, clearing my throat.
"Here Mark I'll be right back." I said as I stood up grabbing my mail and walking out the door.
I went back to my apartment and dropped the mail into the basket on the side table by the door with the other mail, I reached over and grabbed my wallet pulling out a business card from inside. I closed my wallet and headed back out of the door, I stopped briefly outside the door to Marks to take a deep breath then I walked back in.
I slipped the card in-front of mark as I sat back down. That night happened much like the previous one, with much laughter and talking we got through the night, sad memories and weird letters mostly forgotten.