"There are two with me-" I didn't even have time to pass the call before I died on my back... Again. What was that? The fourth time? I had already lost count...
Knowing the number would only piss me off. Even more than I already was.
[You lost: 7x3]
It was too humiliating to lose like that...
"Congratulations, I have to say. You guys played and played really well... You played so much that it seemed like it was 1x4 instead of 4x4, it was so easy..."
Frustrated with the situation, I spoke my thoughts out loud on the call, but no one responded. They were supposed to hear me, they knew the guys were weak, but they still trembled because of the money involved in the match. It was too frustrating to play with these sons of bitches...
"Seriously, how do you guys manage to surprise so many people every match? Who knows, you have so much skill that I'm working hard" I left the call without thinking twice. I had no more patience for this shit.
But leaving that aside, I looked at the chat before saying:
"That's it, guys, I'm leaving..." I stopped for a moment when I saw the chat's reaction, not expecting that.
[Wow...]
[Joker: You've changed, huh, boss? 😮💨😮💨]
[Lívia: Joined the church, huh?]
[Who's that?🤔]
[Cris: Oh my gosh, the therapy is working 🙏🙏.]
Messages like these kept coming in, especially from the admins, apparently surprised by my behavior. After all, if it had been a while ago, I would have been cursing the entire family of those sons of bitches... And I would have broken another keyboard, and probably the monitor... Again.
A smile escaped me before I said:
"Huh, see? I've changed."
I then looked at the clock. It was already two in the morning, I think I can stay a little longer... But just remembering how much I lost yesterday, I changed my mind. It was heartbreaking... And I didn't want to do it again so soon, after all, even with the sponsorship, I still played with my own money.
If I was going to win, so be it.
"Oh, fuck it, no casino today," I said, much to the displeasure of the chat.
[Seriously?]
[King: Afraid of breaking the bank again, huh?]
[Oh, I waited until now and no casino? 🥹🥹 I wanted to see him get screwed again 🤡🤡...]
[Bia do Alex: No rage and no casino? What did you do to my favorite streamer, you impostor?]
Seeing those comments, many of which I immediately banned, I couldn't help but sigh in disbelief, throwing myself back into my chair. There were so many haters, especially the admins, again...
"You guys are such sons of bitches. Wishing harm on others like that..." Saying that, I ended the live stream without even saying goodbye to my audience, fuck them... And I'm the toxic one after that.
Grumbling a little, I looked at my bank account before turning off the computer. I was close and surely reaching 700 thousand.
In three more months, I would have my first million. That brought a smile to my face, as I took off my shirt and turned off the lights, going straight to bed, despite being a little hungry. After all, five hours of live-streaming wasn't for everyone.
It didn't take long for me to fall asleep...
Or that's what would have happened if there was no one in my bed. Sighing, I spoke to the person who looked exactly like me, if it weren't for her feminine body.
"What are you doing here?"
"Can't I?" The girl spoke without taking her eyes off her phone, but I could see her eyebrow raised, as if I was asking the obvious.
"You can. But at this time, Ariella? Go to your room right now." Even if I said that, I knew it was useless when I heard her answer... Again.
"No."
She really did appear at the most random moments possible, as if sharing the same face wasn't enough...
And I was too tired to insist either, so I ignored her before continuing, what I was going to do, without caring about her existence, just like I did every day.
And so I fell asleep next to her.
.
.
.
It was strange...
I feelt strange, looking at Alex's back, dimly lit by the light from his phone. He was changing... And I didn't know if it was for better or worse.
Distance.
And I didn't like it at all, it seemed like the distance between us had been increasing instead of decreasing. I had stopped understanding him more and more in the last few months.
The outbursts were no longer happening.
His room, once chaotic, was gone.
The impulsiveness from before was no longer there.
He had changed and would continue to change. Maybe he had just matured...
The thought made me sad and happy at the same time. I wanted to get closer and closer to my brother.
It was wrong, but...
Putting my hand on his firm back, I felt his warmth at the same time I had a random thought as I looked at his body...
The gym really did him good...
I watched for a while longer before falling asleep next to him, feeling his warmth...
But unfortunately I couldn't feel his warmth for long. I woke up in the middle of the night when I felt him pulling away from my embrace...
I was startled by his distance, so I called his name...
"Alex..." I expected him to answer, but I was completely ignored, or so I thought, until I got up and lit up the room with my cell phone's flashlight.
There he was, motionless, sitting against the headboard and staring straight ahead. I saw his playfulness, nervousness and... fear in his eyes!
For a moment, I thought it was just another one of his pranks. Maybe he hadn't changed that much, but I quickly changed my mind when he moved.
His muscles, previously tense, relaxed.
His gaze changed; there was no more fear, playfulness, or nervousness... Just pain.
A seemingly unbearable pain when he started to struggle on the bed, scaring me. Even more so when he fell to the floor and started hitting his head, mixing blood and sweat on the floor!
That scared me deeply, I tried to reach him and stop that madness, but something stopped me! I watched his suffering motionless, unable to do anything.
Not even my mouth moved.
I wanted to help him, to stop his suffering, but I was forced to watch until he lost consciousness. Making silence my only companion next to a mysterious blue screen glowing with interference that appeared right after I stood still.
And probably the cause of his suffering... No, that was the cause of his suffering. I was sure of it when I experienced the same thing he did, pain.
It was simply unbearable, when the screen that said: "Welcome: Starting synchronization" turned into a little ball the size of my fingernail and entered my forehead!
I struggled, I screamed in pain, but my voice didn't seem to come out, so I did the same as Alex, losing consciousness next to him!