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"I should probably go," I told Karl as a stood up and headed for the steps down from the play structure.

Karl frowned. "Awe you can't stay longer? I wanna spend more time with you!" I internally screamed at the fact he wanted to spend time with me.

"Well it's getting kinda late and I don't want to walk home in the dark," I replied.

"Oh I see. Wait... why don't you just come over to my house? We can walk there, hang out, and I could drive you home later." I considered this. It would be nice to have a ride home since I didn't feel comfortable walking in the dark. Also, I could hang out with Karl more.

"Sure why not! But don't you have to stream?" I asked him. He thought for a second.

"Well I was gonna do a karaoke stream with some people from the Smp. But actually... you could join! Everyone said they wanted more Y/N content so this could be awesome!" Karl was getting exited now. He started bouncing up and down and rambling on about how great it would be. His fans seemed really nice, so I agreed.

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We started walking back to Karl's house. Even thought it was dark, the warm, humid air engulfed us like a hug. Karl kept talking about things like video ideas, and working for Jimmy. He seemed really passionate about what he does and really enthusiastic to tell me about it. I encouraged him by nodding my head along to whatever he was saying even if I didn't understand half of it. To be honest, I was only kinda paying attention and more noticing how his fluffy brown hair bounced when he walked, or how his smile grew whenever I laughed at what he said.

Before I knew it, we turned up his street and arrived at his house. Time literally sped up while talking to him. He unlocked his door and let me inside. His house was pretty normal, just like anyone else's. He gave me a quick tour around, and I thought it was comical how he made a lot of money, yet his bed still didn't have a headboard and his pillows were flat like a pice of paper.

When we reached his streaming room, I admired his setup. He had a few posters decorating the back wall and a little trash can that had remnants of monster energy drink cans. I also spotted a cardboard cutout of Dreams blob.

"Is it okay if I start stream soon? I told the boys that I would start about now," said Karl.

"Yeah no problem. Do you want me to be on the cam, or off to the side or...?"

"You can stay off to the side when I start. I'll introduce you when you're ready, just give me a signal," he replied sitting down on his chair and typing. I saw him send out a tweet and open twitch. "Okay starting...now!"

I tucked myself off cam into a corner of the room as the viewers started rolling in. Karl greeted chat and gave them a fit check.

"Now chat, you probably saw my tweet about karaoke, but I have another surprise too." Karl placed his hands to his lips as chat started spamming things like "what??" Or trying to guess the surprise.

I realized that some people here wouldn't recognize me because I was only in one Mr.Beast video. Also, these were Dream Smp viewers, so probably only a fraction of them would know who I am.

Karl read off a few donos and thanked some people for gifting subs. He bounced on his chair a few times.  I struggled to contain my laughter as Karl looked at me. Chat noticed this and started spamming more questions.

Why did he look off screen?

Did y'all see that?

KARL WHOS THERE

I nodded to Karl, signaling that he could reveal me to his viewers. Karl stood up and backed up to the wall. "Chat chat chat calm down, I'll show you the surprise." He waved his hand at me and I popped into view of the screen.