(the kindergarteners)
(Ronan: why do you guys keep changing the name of the group chat)
(Reed: its a fitting name bro)
(Alex: its a good name)
(Callie: how about the kindergarteners and the girls?)
(Juniper: yes u guys r like children)
(Tori: Oh look charlies finally reading the messages)
(Elijah: its mr famous)
'Tori has liked Elijah's message'
'Callie has liked Elijah's message'
'Alex has liked Elijah's message'
'Reed has liked Elijah's message'
'Arlo has liked Elijah's message.
(Charlie: wtf i just turned my phone off for like 4 hours chill)
'Ronan has liked Elijah's message'
'Catherine has liked Elijah's message'
'Macy has liked Elijah's message'
'Elle has liked Elijah's message'
(Elle: More like 10 days)
'Elle has reacted to your message with a thumbs down'
'Natsumi has reacted to your message with a thumbs down'
'Owen has reacted to your message with a thumbs down'
(Arlo: smh)
(Alex: how does it feel to have met the felix)
(Lia: the fukn felix*)
(Charlie: who r u talking about?)
(Callie: brother wdym u dont know felix? U just talked to him and got on a car with him just a few hours ago wtf)
(Aya: did u get his autograph)
(Charlie: ohhh felix yah hes cool)
Let's mess with them a little more.
(Abel: Charlie how do you even know him tho)
(Elle: Yeah what the heck charlie)
(Charlie: dunno they were talking about knife agency something)
(Charlie: dunno what it is tho and they looked sketch so i declined)
(Macy: wat r u srs?)
(Lizbeth: Theyre a rlly big company that makes artists n stuff and Felix has rlly famous songs. Im surprised you dont know them)
(Macy: wait wait wait charlie got an offer and declined?)
'Juniper has sent 1 attachment: emergencymeeting.jpg'
Juniper pasted an Among Us emergency meeting picture and an incoming call came from the phone.
I accepted the call and everyone too joined the call.
[Catherine: "CHARLIE WHAT?!"]
[Abel: "Dude…"]
[Charlie: "I dunno man, they seemed pretty sketch. I mean who names the company Knife Agency? And it looked like they had a knife bro. They probably were going to stab me with it."]
[Macy: "Charlie what did they say?"
[Charlie: "I dunno, just said they'd make me really famous but I mean who does that? Y'know? Pretty sketchy."]
[Tori: "They're legit. They have really big actors and singers."]
I smiled trying to hold in my laughter while they freaked out.
[Arlo: "Hey hey, it's his decision if he wants to or not. Maybe he doesn't want to be famous and it's cool too."]
[Everyone: "Yeah true. Don't worry Charlie."]
My smile slightly turned into a softer expression.
[Charlie: "I was just trying to mess with you but thank you, guys. I did get recruited."
Oh, I wanted to joke with them and now they're coming with these heartwarming lines.
Small warmth came from my stomach.
Aw, I feel a little bad now.
[Natsumi: "Woo! It's okay Charlie! Just do what you love to do."]
[Ronan: "Yeah, just chase your dreams dude. Congratulations!"]
Everyone congratulated me.
Aw man, what's this cheesiness?
Agh, I can't handle the cheese.
[Charlie: "Thanks guys…"]
[Reed: "Of course man…"]
[Elle: "By chasing your dreams he probably means chasing Natsumi since she's your dreams, right? Hohoho~"]
I caught the joking petty tone she had, reminiscing the time I tackled her onto the grass just earlier today.
Ah, she's definitely doing this out of revenge.
Everyone laughed and I heard a few teases over the phone.
I looked at the phone unamusedly.
[Natsumi: "You don't have to dream, Charlie~"]
I coughed and began choking on my spit.
[Ronan: "Haha, that's 1 for Natsumi and 0 for Charlie."]
[Macy: "Since when was the playboy this easy to tease?"]
Hold on, hold on. Her pranks are getting a little too out of hand. Where did the Natsumi that blushed and hid in shame after every prank go?
[Charlie: "Let's chill. And sorry no, I did not get Felix's autograph by the way. I didn't know who he was."]
…
Jessica encouraged me to stream more to keep getting more exposure and just get my face out there. It'll probably help ease my nerves for the Winter Show.
I still can't believe I'm immediately going to be projected to thousands of people. A nice portion is also going to be made of elites and high-end fashionistas.
Though I think it's obvious not everyone will be interested in this, there's no doubt there'll be many people who will be.
I might mess up though, so I'm just going to have to grind the hell out of my modeling skill and maybe get a few charm points up.
I position myself towards the mirror and begin posing a little bit.
[The skill Modeling has gained 1.1 points.]
Every pose earns me a point. If I can manage to get quick at doing these poses I'm going to be leveling up in no time.
[Skill Modeling has gained 1.1 points.]
That lucky egg 10% skill point gain is going to be very useful.
Anyway.
Right now, I'd rather have more points invested into Intelligence but I think it will help my career if my first time showing up in a huge show I look the best I possibly can.
Stat points are getting a little harder to come across, so I'll have to think about this a little more.
Well, it's starting to get into that time of the week where there'll be many people watching. Let's get some followers.
…
[wipL: "Charlie, why are you chasing me around with an axe?"]
[Poodlefluff: "Pffft, Charlie get his head and it'll be 5 diamonds."]
[wipL: "I'll give you 10 diamonds to kill Poodle."]
[Charlie: "Okay, I'll complete this task first and then do your request."]
'Bobohead has slain wipL'
Okay, before you say anything I did not choose this name.
[Rykun: "Haha, is Charlie like the hitman of the town?"]
[wipL: "What the heck Charlie I thought we had a deal."]
[Charlie: "Yup, we do. I'm getting Poodle next. Put the 10 diamonds in the chest outside of my house."]
[Yvettel: "Charlie, I'll give you 10 diamonds if you come for me next."]
[Charlie: ???]
[Chat:
Dmajerfsnfgjrkfwsndj: lol just look at the visible confusion on his face
flowerpotgx: lmaooo]
[Redde: "What? You want to be murdered?"]
[Juliamn: "Seems like it."]
'Yvettellll has slain Bobohead'
…
I finished up my small barn house and fed my seven dogs with cooked steak. Sven #1, Sven #2, Sven #3, Sven #4, Sven #5, Sven #6 and Sven #7. I may or may not have stolen this very original idea of a name. I paused the game and took a sip of my mug to read the chat once again.
This community so far has been pretty friendly. No toxicity, apart from the occasional weird spam which is just strange not toxic.
I learned that making a playlist and letting viewers put songs in there makes the stream a little more interactive and the songs they've been recommending are honestly not bad.
Unsurprisingly, some of them were songs by Felix that sounded really nice. He projected himself to me a little goofily and clumsily, but from his songs, his tone radiates a completely different aura.
I was a little nervous about the caliber of music in this world, but it looks like it hasn't degraded so the songs from the past world should be able to blow up.
It'd be a nice flex to put my songs as background music for my streams. I wouldn't have to deal with getting banned from putting music on my streams.
[Chat:
charlxesimp: all simps unite all simps unite all simps unite all simps unite calling all simps calling all simps calling all simps
simppopo: shut up simp stop spamming the chat
charliyesxmp: all simps unite all simps unite all simps unite
thecraftman: charlie you should make a creeper farm and then get lots of gunpowder and sand and make tnt and blow the entire world up]
I raised my eyebrow at that last comment.
"Don't think I'll be blowing the world up but yeah thanks I'll make a farm."
I checked my follower count and saw the quickly increasing number now approaching the 80,000 mark.
It's been only a week and I've gained such a huge number of followers it's kind of getting crazy.
The numbers of viewers are a little disproportionate too.
I'm consistently getting 7,000 to 12,000 live viewers even with the comparatively small follower count.
I didn't get an achievement for 50,000 followers, so I'm guessing it'll come at 100,000.
Wonder how many achievement points I'll get this time.
System.
[Title: Trending, Hot Topic!
Silver Pearl
Stats:
Luck: * *
Intelligence: 15
Charm: 12
Achievement Points: 1336 → 1723]
Since Wednesday, I've gotten 387 achievement points.
Streaming honestly is just cheating. I get achievement points from streaming and from uploading the highlights, and then I'm also getting views from the piano videos. It was two but today since I performed a few songs in the cafe it'll be three videos now.
Surprisingly, there haven't been any lucky encounters. Not even getting with the agency, or meeting Felix, or getting planned in the Winter Fashion Show has been a lucky encounter.
Or maybe I just have infinite lucky encounters now?
Unlikely.
I really want to see if the lucky encounter will be any different or keep being the same.
I'm abruptly sent out of my thoughts by someone calling my name.
[blacklily: "Charlie, what do you think of my cat's name? Everyone says they don't like her name so you have to say you do."]
"Oh, yeah. Flower. I like her name."
[The skill Modeling has gained 5.5 points.]
I posed a little bit for the camera.
I've noticed that making a good expression in front of the camera to lots of people, rather than to myself in the mirror gives 5x more skill points.
I guess it is because I'm showing my face to thousands of people live and making expressions, which counts as modeling.
[bzoomster: "Oh god Charlie."]
[LoafOfBread: "I'm guessing Charlie was spacing out again and just answered randomly."]
Not far from the truth.
[blacklily: "Thanks Charlie!"]
[The skill Modeling has gained 5.5 points.]
I'm close to getting my first level up.
I think if I keep the pace like this I'm going to be fine for the Winter Fashion.
Even without the skill, my Charm stat would probably carry me and everything would be fine, but having this skill is an additional reassurance.
…
"So how do you say we did?"
"I think we did pretty good."
"Think we can exploit him now?"
"Why did you word it so weirdly?"
"I'm watching this new show and it's called Exploit and I really like using the word now."
"You're something else. If he heard what you're saying we'd both be fired for something so dumb."
"Let me have my own moment where I'm pretending to be the mysterious villain."
"No."
My boss treats me so horribly, I almost cried to myself in misery.
She's always saying I'm going to be fired and all but I'm definitely going to be fired now!
"John, I can tell from here you're thinking 'Oh I'm definitely going to be fired. I'm miserable and incompetent at my job.'"
Even the rookie I brought up hates me.
"John. You're one of our biggest assets, why would we ever fire you?"
Lies! These are all lies!
Jessica brought her hand to her face while reciting mantras to keep her patience.
"Moving on, I think he's a great guy. I can definitely see big things coming from him."
"I find it strange that he didn't think you were weird."
"You can't say anything John. He literally thought you were going to gut him."
I cried in misery.
"Well, what's next in the plan?"
"Hmm. He's going to be motivated for the Winter Fashion Show. We'll temper him a little bit and he should be in good condition."
"I still think it was such a huge move to put him in that grand scale fashion show. I think he'll give good results but we'll see how he does in the training."
"Yeah. By the way, why'd you make the training seem so scary? Even I got spooked out a little bit."
"Just preparing him for the worst. He'll thank me for warning him."
"Well, yeah."
"We need to get him some rapid set-ups with quick ads for some experience. Maybe that one drink ad with Crocodile we've been postponing for a while?"
"Yeah. He seems to fit the 'refreshing' role pretty well so it'll be easy. We'll move on to more difficult things later then."
"It's good he's exposing himself to the public by streaming though. He's been very successful too."
"My niece just asked me to send her a picture of Charlie."
"Hahaha. You have a following of millions and instead she asks for Charlie?"
"Hahaha."
"Sigh… She's a fan of that group of streamers."
[Author Note:
Hi everyone! It's been quite a long wait haha. I apologize very much.
School so far has been a kick in the ass. If I had not stopped writing for a while I might have gotten horrible grades and trashed by my family haha.
I apologize for my incompetence.
It's been quite a while so I had to re-read the entire thing and I can see why everyone complained in the start LOL. The writing was very botched and feels extremely rigid. I also think I wrote some situations horribly so I apologize very much.
I recommend re-reading the book to catch up once again and I hope you're enjoying it so far! :)
Do be prepared to cringe at chapter 1-10, though. They're horrible.
Once again, I apologize and I'll be trying to upload when I can. Thank you all for your supportive comments, they've been invaluable to me ;).
Song recommendations:
Ludovico Einaudi - Experience
Lund - Out of Time]
From the contact I had yesterday with the guys at Knife Agency, rumors began to circulate about the agency and me.
At school, I was asked many questions about it to whom I just remained as vague as I could as I still had no instructions from Jessica.
I don't know whether to hide it or not.
My friends were also questioned on this and they too thankfully remained quiet about it.
So far, the day hasn't been that great as being stopped to be questioned every break at school is not very fun.
The only reason it became such a hot topic was that people really liked Felix's music and him coming to the coffee shop right next to the school was something everybody was talking about and naturally I would be included in that conversation as I had contact with them.
These past few days in the weekend I tried a little more in my gym workouts and also grinded out my modeling skill. Since streaming gave me 5x as more skill points and Jessica encouraged me to stream, I found no difficulty doing it.
The results haven't been huge, but I can feel slight improvements.
There will come results with time; knowing that, I'm not impatient.
Shaking out of my thoughts, I began paying attention to the teacher once again. I can't wait to beat skids in national school competitions. That'll be until January though, and I have to focus on the Winter Fashion Show.
…
[Rykkun has sent you a post.]
It was a wholesome dog video that was being posted on every meme page on Instagram. No surprise there though, since meme pages on Instagram post the same things. Not trying to call anyone out.
I smiled looking at the dogs and liked the post.
(Charlie: great doggos)
(Rykun: i kno right)
(Charlie: do u have a dog?)
"Soo, you guys wanna go bowling someday?"
Oooh, I've never gone bowling before. That could be interesting.
Not tomorrow though, I'll be playing Tennis with my parents.
"Let's go bowling!" Ronan exclaimed.
Some had stars in their eyes and were already showing their excitement.
"When though?"
"You guys want to next Thursday?" Reed offered.
"Anytime is great for me. The bowling alley is not even that far away anyway."
Perks of being in the center of the city.
We'll see if I'm a good bowler, then.
…
I was conversing with one of the pianists that had commented under one of the posted videos, Kaz Piano.
He's a pretty fun guy and he makes piano covers of pop songs. He's pretty well known in the piano community and makes plays the piano for strangers on this website called Omegle. Interestingly, he gets a huge amount of views for these videos.
Maybe a video idea that I might use one of these days? Or maybe do a collab with him?
(KazPiano: I might do a crazy arrangement of Canon in D. Would that be good?)
(Charlie: Yeah man go ahead. Do you need the sheets?)
(KazPiano: Nawww. It's fine thanks. I'll make you proud.)
(Charlie: Alright. I'll await your great video)
My phone began buzzing as an incoming call came in.
The number was saved as John. There are no other Johns in my contacts so it was obvious who it was.
["Hello, hello. Charlie?"]
"Hello, hello. Good afternoon John."
["Hello, hello. How was school?"]
"It was okay, thank you. People are bombarding me about Felix though."
["Haha, that does happen. Rumors are circulating about you entering the agency, huh?"]
"Yea… Not very fun."
He chuckled into the phone.
["Well, to add fuel to the fire we'd like you to post something on your Instagram page."]
"Oh. What is it?"
["Do you have any good ideas to go with a knife?"]
"Haha okay, I get it. Uh, maybe a picture of me in the kitchen holding a knife?"
["We were thinking more you post your first ever model picture and in the caption, you'd have something related to a knife, but that also works."]
"I like your idea more. What images should I post? I haven't had a photoshoot yet."
["We'll think about the images later. These were just ideas we had and wanted to see if you'd agree with them. Anyway, are you ready for your introductory process?"]
"Yeah, I spent the weekend getting prepared for it."
["Okay, well that's great. We'll see you at 3:00, then."]
"Alright…"
The bell rang just in time. Do they have my schedule as well? Dang, that was pretty cool though.
...
I had to be at the headquarters by 3:00 so I had to drop off Charlotte at home before then.
She was not helping at all seeing as how she encouraged my friends to sit on my body.
I sighed and felt someone pulling my hair.
"Hey! Who's the rascal pulling the hairs?"
I heard a giggle on top of my head.
"Alright, alright. Enough playing around. I have to get to places."
They all got off and pouted at me.
"Truly the kindergarteners."
They smiled and we laughed.
"Will you be at the gym by 5:30 then?"
"Yeah, probably."
"Alright then, don't be late."
"What gym do you guys go to? I'll crash over there too."
I was about to answer but Natsumi covered my mouth with her hand.
"Hey hey, we're the gym buddies here."
I merely shrugged and after a minute more of fooling around Charlotte and I waved bye to them.
"I like your friends."
"Yeah, they're nice. Is Amelia really the same as Arlo?"
"A spitting image."
"No wonder he's such a sis-con."
"Sis-con?"
"Yeah, a guy who heavily dotes on his sister."
She squinted her eyes at me and nodded.
"Okay…"
She looked at me and we had another intense stare off which ultimately resulted in my victory.
…
After dropping her off at home, I took the quick metro to a station close to the headquarters of the Knife Agency and walked a few minutes to the Weath Knife Agency HQ.
In my backpack, I had fitness clothes, a hoodie, a water bottle, a notebook, and some other utilities.
I was told I'd have a heavy schedule full of brain cramming since we were approaching important dates and that I'd probably be very tired so naps were recommended.
That would be necessary if my brain wasn't constantly on steroids by the 15 points of intelligence.
School wasn't enough to dull out my brain and I doubt this would have much more effect than the usual 7 hours spent inside school.
I reached the gates and the guard acknowledged me and helped me open the door.
Good that he recognized me. I was planning on wearing a similar color scheme as the other day to be admitted more easily but I'm glad I didn't as the guards clearly don't need that.
I walked for a while until I noticed the familiar gates and noticed Jessica come out of them.
They're so on point with everything it's almost as if they're doing it on purpose.
"Good afternoon Charlie. Are you ready?"
"Good afternoon Jessica. I am," I showed my pearly whites.
She too smiled and I followed her into the building.
…
"I'm pretty busy so I won't be able to receive you every time so make sure to properly examine the headquarters map and schedule."
"Roger," I nodded at her firmly.
We arrived at the runway and walked behind the curtains and behind the dressing room into the empty room with mirrors and a wood floor.
"Well, don't be nervous but your teacher will come shortly. It'll be one-on-one classes as those will be most efficient. Again I ask, are you ready?"
She smiled.
"Yup."
We conversed a little more until Jessica received an alert on her phone and she cut our conversation short.
I saw the door handle move and a man with a sleek haircut came in.
His strong eyes lit in recognition at Jessica and he gave us his greetings. He looked around the room and scanned it.
"Charlie, huh?"
"Nice to meet you, I'm Charlie Yang. I'll be under your care."
"Nice to meet you too. I'm Blake and I'll be mentoring you for a while."
We both extended our hands for a powerful handshake.
"I'll be seeing myself out. Have fun guys," Jessica waved at us and closed the door quietly.
A different feeling was now etched into the room.
…
He exited the room and took a broom out of the dressing room.
"Let's clean this place up."
The mirrors and floor were practically spotless, but I nodded my head in agreement.
I took the broom and he watched me sweep the floor.
I felt him analyze my every move, position, and muscle contraction.
He then took out a camera and began filming me.
It felt a little weird but nonetheless, I continued sweeping the floor in an organized manner.
He nodded after I finished and stopped the recording. Then, he took out a towel from the dressing room which was already wet, and presented it to me.
I looked at his eyes and knowing what he meant, I received the towel.
This time, I crouched onto the floor and began wiping the floor with the wet towel.
Again, I felt his piercing stare analyze my every move.
His dark eyes and strong eyebrows scrutinized and followed my movement without pause.
Once again, he took out the camera and began filming me.
His skinny and tall frame stood in a relaxed posture while sporting an outfit similar to mine. A comfortable colored t-shirt with no design and comfortable pants, except I was just wearing shorts.
At last, I finished and he nodded while putting the camera
"Alright, you're not hopeless," He nodded at me in approval.
I nodded back at him. I still do not know whether he's the talkative type or the silent type.
He took out flashcards from his pocket and presented them to me.
"Choose one."
I took out the card that stuck out to me the most and read what was written on it. Even the handwriting seemed strong and sharp.
'Ducks' the flashcard read in bold black letters.
He peeked over, and I showed him the word on the surface of the paper. For the first time, I saw him smile.
…
"Ducks are birds that are mainly aquatic. Similar to chickens, the domesticated ones do not fly while the wild ones do fly. They are oviparous animals as the females lay eggs. There are many species with different characteristics…"
…
As I ended my three-minute impromptu speech on ducks, Blake nodded once again and ended his recording.
"Not bad."
Alright, that feels nice.
He continued, "Do you know why we are doing this?"
Noticing how he's been scrutinizing my every one action, I do have an inkling of what he may be doing.
"I may have a guess."
He looked at me intending for me to continue.
[Author Note:
Hehe, I think I'm getting better at writing?
Please enjoy!
It's my 2nd chapter in 2 months hehe so the feeling and vibe of the writing might be a little different as compared to before.
Song recommendation:
Lund - Broken *****
Kuzu Mellow - sunflower feelings ******]
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