"Done?" Ask Maggie confused.
"Yes, I created a command on my phone to publish the video in case I was not home at the time. It seems I was right."
"Well, aren't you smart."
"You know, that would ring better if it was not said with a voice that sarcastic."
"And running the risk of turning you into an insufferable prick? Not on my watch." She said in a righteous tone.
"You just enjoy bullying me, admit it." He said in a wrong tone.
The only answer he got was an ominous chuckle before she hanged up. He looked at his phone for a few seconds before he got a laugh too. Maggie was a handful but he knew he was lucky to have her given her amazing credential. She was a little snarky but that was not something that bothered him, especially when he knew that she appreciated him.
Putting the matter aside, he resumed his run. He decided to not look at his youtube or twitter for the next few hours and focus on his physical exercise. If people were to see him exercise on the beach, they would feel tired just looking at him. Lately, he was focusing on agility type of exercise since he saw a documentary on Parkour and Freerunning. After watching a few videos of people doing parkour, he got immediately hyped and started running around performing stunts and getting cursed by passersby which made him laugh. Doing it, he had a sense of liberty that was exhilarating.
Nathaniel did not tell anyone that he was starting parkour of course. He remembered how hard he had to convince his mothers when they learned that he was learning self-defense. He had to promise them that he would not engage in the military or become a cop before they finally agreed which will never happen. After they had almost lost him, all of them were extremely protective of him, even his grandfather was. The only difference was that he was hiding it better.
Returning home, he hoped in the heated pool where he started swimming to relax his muscles. Parkour was extremely hard and he would need to reinforce his joint to perform as well as he wanted. An hour later, after a very warm shower he was finally dressed. Once leaving the pool, he was walking in the house with a simple short when he realised that his grandmother was having tea with a few friends over.
Nathaniel did not want to get caught up in a conversation as he had a lot of things to do but he could not be impolite either. So he went to the living room, kissing his grandma cheek hello, he then performed a flourishing bow to the three other ladies in the room which made them giggled. Exiting the room, he could hear the lady whispering among themselves, the thing that made him laugh was when he heard someone saying 'If only I was forty years younger'.
Turning on his laptop, he finally logged onto his twitter account and literally froze upon seeing the number of notifications displayed on the screen. Thinking that it was a bug, he quickly actualised the page but nothing changed. His number of notifications on his account was blocked at '99+' on both his mentions and messages. It was not even what surprised him the most but the number of followers that was displayed on the screen. 281 458 people had followed his twitter account in the last three hours and the number of people just kept increasing. Just with a quick update on the page and his number increased with four thousand more, that was incredible. He congratulated himself to have disable the notification or his phone would have crashed under the flow of so many alerts.
His first and only post says: 'Hello, I'm Nathaniel and I'm from NY. This is my first song that I made with a friend, I hope you will like it!' followed by the link Youtube. It was not a very well made message but it had currently six thousands comments on it! That was crazy! Curious to how the situation escalated that quickly, he started sorting through the comments and followed until he had a clear picture of what had happened. The Lyndon Label twitter account had RT him, followed closely by the label of Taylor and finally Taylor herself.
She had even commented on his first tweet where she was pouting that he did not follow her which made him laugh. Rectifying his mistakes, he hastened to follow her back as well as following his label account and hers too. Looking more attentively at the comment and mention he was constantly getting, the question that was coming back were how old he was, if he was single and the most 'Are you Taylor boyfriend?' which made him smile bitterly. He understood the hype around a famous artist like Taylor but there were so many other topics much more important than that. Human nature could not resist the concept of gossip it seems.
Looking on the side of the screen he could see the words "Nathaniel Lyndon" and "Will to Love" were trending on twitter with more than one hundred thousand mention each. He knew that his song was good but he did not expect that it was going to resonate with so many people across the country and the world. He could read so many emotional messages of people deeply touched by his song that he was starting to feel emotional himself. So many emotions were raging inside of him that he could not do anything except breathe calmly through them.
Calming himself, he opened a new window to look at his Youtube account. His video was currently number 4 on the trending list with 3 millions vues already, his account having two hundred thousand subscribers already! They were staggering numbers! Looking at the description of his video, he remarked that something important was missing.
'Time to make my second tweet it seems.' He thought with humor.
'Hi guys! Thank you for your immense support, this is very motivating! Just wanted you to know that you can buy the song on Itunes or in store. All the money made from the sales will be donated to a foundation who help our retired veteran getting back to civilian life!' Nathaniel finally tweeted adding the tag of the foundation and the link to buy the song.
His choice of foundation was not an accident. The man in charge of it was a retired marine who opened it after he was forced to leave for an injury in combat that restricted his movement. Marc had served with this man in fact and he knew that he was an honorable man. That didn't stop Nathaniel to look into him before contacting them to make them aware of what he was going to do.
At first they hadn't even believed him and hung up on him which was quite funny. Nathaniel had to call them three more times and then video call them with Taylor to convince them that it was true. As a small entity with only him and his wife working on it based in Georgia, they would never have believed they would be targeted by something this big. When Nathaniel told the couple the projected money the song was supposed to gather, they all but broke down crying.
When they asked him how they came to know about them, Nathaniel simply smiled but otherwise stayed silent.