Chapter 68 - Working out the little cracks
"Cut!", I said, signaling Barry to stop recording. As soon as he pressed the right button to stop recording, he looked over the camera at me and my jelly boyfriend. "It's done!", he shouted. Everyone in the room cheered, including myself, glad the the hard parts were finally over for them. "It's about time our embarrassment stopped.", Matiro said, rolling his eyes. "Smokey, are you serious? We might actually be able to walk around like normal people!", Osmos said in response to him. "I'm sure that it's not all over quite yet, Smelly, so don't get too excited over it.", Matiro said."Now to go and put it up on the internet!", I said, walking over to the camera. "Say... Can... Can I go with you?", Giko asked me. "Oh, sure thing!", I replied. "I just want to know how the... 'internet' works.", she said. "Well, allow me to be your guide!", I said, picking up the tripod. "Follow me."
Meanwhile, Adyna was starting to feel a little odd about how they had been left completely alone for all this time. Ella noticed her discomfort, asking, M-Mom? Are you... okay? Adyna shook her head, before replying, "Oh, yes... I'm fine..." Matiro walked over to the couch, sitting down as he reached for the remote. "Let's see what's on TV!", he shouted. "Smokey... how the hell do you know how to use that thing?!", Osmos asked. "Yeah, Uncle Matiro, what's the deal with that?!", Barry asked. "Hey, you know what'd be great? If you two could shut up and watch some T.V. with me.", Matiro said to them. "Yeah! It'll be fun watching it with Dad!", Karito said to add onto her father's statement. "Whatever, I guess.", Osmos said, sitting down next to Matiro.
I placed the tripod onto my bed, screwing the camera off of it. My jelly boyfriend walked up behind me. "Say, Mark... What's it like to be free?", he asked me. I stopped for a second, looking up at him. "W... What?", I said in shock. "What is it like to walk around, having the only thing you have to worry about is how you behave and what clothes you wear?", he asked me. This caught me by complete surprise, so I stuggled to think about what I was going to say. "I... uh... I guess it's kind of... simple? To be honest, when you ask me big questions like that, I tend to get stuck on them, jelly!", I explained to him. "I know, I was just... saying.", my jelly boyfriend responded.
Eventually, Giko stumbled into the room, with Iremiya following her. "So, show me the big thing about this incredible piece of power!", Giko said with enthusiasm. I walked over to the computer chair, sitting down. "Alright, the first thing you have to think of about the internet, is how you use it in the first place. We have this machine here, we call a computer.", I said, pointing at the powered-off computer tower. "Whoooooa", Iremiya and Giko said in unison. "Can it tell the time?", Iremiya asked. "Oh, trust me, this thing is no laughing matter. It can do pretty much anything you tell it to do!", I replied. "Let's see it in action already!", Giko said with a burst of enthusiasm.
Adyna began to grow a little tired, perhaps by using most of her energy throughout the day. "Say, Ella... Is there somewhere I can lay down?", she asked Ella. Oh, sure, Mom! Mine and Barry's bedroom is right next to Mark's, Ella thought to her. "Th-Thank you...", Adyna said to her, walking to the guest bedroom. She opened the closed door to find Megalo sitting on the edge of the bed, still holding my childhood picture. "Megalo... what's wrong?", Adyna asked. Still staring down at the picture, Megalo answered, "I... I feel good whenever I look at this picture..." Adyna sat down next to him, telling him, "I know what that is like... You don't really know why you feel better whenever you stare at that picture, don't you?" Megalo sniffled, saying, "I... don't know..."
"Alright, are you two ready?", I asked Giko and Iremiya. "Just do it already!", Iremiya told me. "Here goes nothing!", I said as I pressed the power button, turning on the computer. The loading screen came up, surprising both of them. "How... how is that picture up on there?", Giko asked. I took the camera, taking out it's SD card, and plugged it into the computer. "Hey, what's that?", Iremiya asked, pointing at the SD card. "That's what the camera uses to put the movies on.", I replied. "The computer can also see these movies, so that allows us to place it onto the internet!" The login screen came up, and I put in my password. "My god... it's... it's beautiful, Remi!", she said to her brother. "It's... amazing!", he said in excitement.
Meanwhile, Matiro was just getting around to turning the T.V. on, when he noticed Karito, Ella, and Barry just sort of... standing around. "Come on, you guys, grab a chair, enjoy yourselves for a bit!", he said to them. "Oh, okay, Dad!", Karito said, sitting down next to her father. "Ella, let's grab the chairs from the kitchen.", Barry said. Oh.. Okay!, Ella thought back. She focused on one of the kitchen chairs, moving it from the table over next to the couch, facing the T.V. Screen. Barry walked over and grabbed the other chair, bringing it to the other side of the couch, next to his dad. "Say... You seem really.. nice to my kids all of a sudden.", Osmos said to Matiro. "Eh, they've had a long day, and I think they're tired of me being an idiot. Although, I've heard that they havne't gotten tired of you yet though...", Matiro said back. "They better not!", Osmos jokingly said, looking back and forth at Barry and Ella as they sat down in their respective chairs.
"Megalo... It's okay..", Adyna said, trying to calm down Megalo. "Soon, people will love being around you all the time.", she reassured him. "Even... Even him?!", Megalo asked, pointing again at the T.V. screen inside the childhood picture. "Yes, I'm sure that he would love to meet you!", Adyna said to him. Megalo began to tear up, with teardrops falling onto the bedsheets. Adyna hugged him, allowing him to cry into her shoulder. "It will all be okay, Megalo...", she whispered into his ear. "It's... it's not that, I don't think. I don't really know who I am.. I couldn't talk to Boss like that about myself... It hurts to do that...", he said. "Do you know what hurts when you think of those memories?", Adyna said to him. "I... I don't know... It just... just hurts...", Megalo mumbled.
I opened up Google Chrome, only to be bombarded with Facebook notifications. "What's going on?!", Giko asked in a bit of panic. "Don't worry, don't worry!", I said to her. "That's just messages from other people on the internet that I know of." Remi said to me, "You know other people on the internet?!" I looked over my shoulder at him while booting up YouTube. "Remi, everyone uses the Internet on this world.", I said to him. Giko and Remi looked over at each other, blown away by the information. I clicked on the 'Upload' button, selected the video, and plugged in the title and description. Of course, the title would have to be something among the lines of clickbait, but this woul actually be true. "A world-changing announcement.", was the title. In the description, I wrote: "Some things change when you least expect it. The small ones in life can make the largest changes in life, and this will be the truest example of that." I turned my computer chair around. "Alright, the video is being processed now. It will be a while before it's completely online, since it's over a half-hour long", I told them.
"A half hour that will change everything we know about the world", I said.