A/N: FILLER.

Song attached: I have a dream. For all those who are losing theirs 💛

44. she slaughtered

Rae had no idea what she was supposed to do other than sleep. Because that's exactly what she did.

She passed out on the bean bag chair, mostly because she was sleepless and exhausted from last night and her brain had stopped working scenarios finally.

When she woke up from the nap, whicb was because Mika licked her face, it was past noon and early evening. Mika woofed liking her face as Rae smiled, pulling her baby closer and rubbed his fur. 'What time is it?'

'Past noon, babe.' Imane said, seated at the dining table all alone, her laptop in front of her. 'I thought you left early from the party? Didn't you sleep well last night?'

Rae stretched her arms, still seated on the bean bag as Janet walked out, smiling at the sleepyhead. 'Noon, Rae. Left you some food, if you're hungry?'

'Thanks Jan. But I'm going to pass. I'll just eat something lighter.' Rae said, forgotten what happened last night for a split second. 'Where's Alex?'

Imane who was working on her laptop, answered, 'He's out. They are getting something for me as my post birthday gift.' She shrugged, waving at the laptop, which Rae assumed was a video call. 'Wonder what it is.'

'I hope something really good.' Janet added, sitting on the sofa with her mobile in hand. 'We have two days more and we go back to LA.' She pouted and Rae smiled, but then she looked at Imane.

'They?'

'Yea. James and him.' Imane said, setting her face cam.

James.

Instantly Rae got the anxiety surging through her as she remembered last night. Especially the text James sent and the text Sykkuno had sent her.

She fucked up.

Rae got up instantly, tying her messy hair in a bun and washing her face. She had to speak to Imane and Janet about last night, or she'd explode. The kiss, the feelings, the beautiful mother fucking kiss.

And the fact that she possibly ruined her friendship with Sykkuno.

She quickly freshened up, but to her dismay, Janet had left for a small detour with Simon and few other friends. Her last aid was Imane who was on a video call with her Offline TV content house members.

Rae brewed herself a coffee quickly as she sat across from Imane who was speaking to the members, mostly Brodin, Yvonne, Scarra and Lily and another voice she didn't recognized at all.

Imane was one of the orginal founders of Offline TV content house and although she shifted away to another state, they didn't really wanted her out of it. And Imane herself didn't wanna leave the content house. They worked on a schedule for videos and of course online streaming content was easy anyway.

'Works for me!' Imane beamed at the video call, 'I think if he's board with it, it should be no problem.'

Rae was so preoccupied with her own thoughts, she missed out entirely on a conversation which would have highly interested her. She was just drinking coffee and blankly staring at a wall behind.

'Imane, how long?' Rae asked, softly as a whisper.

Imane winked, showing her a peace sign which was more like a two minutes signal. Rae sat back groaning, as Imane procceded to conclude the meeting.

'Oh my goodness, what is that you're talking since an hour now?' Rae walked over to her side, taking a seat next to Imane and glanced at the five mini screens.

All of them waved at Rae and she waved back, looking at the middle slot which held a brown skinned girl, her eyes were lightest shade of brown and bushy beautiful curly hair making her look even more prettier.

'Wow. Valkyrae?' The curly hair girl said, in awe. 'I've always been a fan. Wow. You're amazing.'

Rae chuckled, everyone else chuckling too, but Michael sniggered.

'Rae gets your attention? You literally met me with an eye roll?' He complained, Lily trying to push him off the frame. 'And she gets your attention? Sexist.'

'Mykul!' Lily said, muting herself.

'Imma ignore that.' The curly hair girl said again, with an eye roll.

Rae couldn't help but be in awe of her radiant personality. She had that intriguing aura about her that was all pleasant.

'That's Brownie.' Imane said, as Rae waved at her. 'She's gonna be a temp manager at the content house over this quarter. She's a huge Valkyrae fan.'

'I see.' Rae chuckled, looking at the cheerful girl. 'You stream? Brownie? Is that your gaming name?'

'Oh she used to.' Yvonne said, drinking her starbucks, 'But she stopped.'

'It's too much work.' Brownie rolled her eyes, waiving her hands, 'And take a toll on the streamers too.' She whispered, more like indicating it about Micheal. 'I know people who are crazy now.'

'True.' Rae agreed, rather instantly.

'Streaming is hard.' Brownie concluded.

'Says the one who's going to manage a content house full of streamers.' Scarra shrugged, and Brownie laughed, a hearty laughter resounding the room.

'Well, I'll be managing you'll. Help things be more easier, right?'

She was outgoing, Rae loved her confidence and her personality. It wasn't easy for a new comer to gell up so well with famous content creators as them.

'And guess what Rae?' Michael found the unmute button. 'This fucker doesn't curse.'

Imane and Rae gasped, eyeing Brownie, 'What? Really?'

'It's just. Too abusive.' She smiled sheepishly, shrugging.

'Toast is going to have a good time messing around with you.' Imane added, everyone agreeing instantly. 'Can't wait for you to join soon, Brownie.'

They soon ended the call, Imane looking at the impatient Rae who couldn't wait until she switched her laptop off.

'Brownie is chilled right?' Imane asked, facing Rae. 'I think she'll be a good manager at the house.'

'But you said she's a temp?' Rae asked, curiously.

'Yea. We're going to have a probation period for her. See how it's going. She and the new member will be undergoing probation. I think they'll be fine though.' Imane smiled, tilting her head. 'What did you wanted to say?'

Although Rae wanted to finally speak about last night, she couldn't contain her curiosity. 'Wait? New member?'

Imane sniggered, smirking a bit. 'Aah, Rae you missed out the conversation didn't you.' She looked at Rae with her eyebrows raised. 'I literally said his name ten times during the conversation.'

Rae furrowed her eyebrows. 'It's a he?' She asked, genuinely interested. 'Who?'

'Um, you know what. I would have told you if he hadn't told me that he himself wanted to confront you. So I'll let that go.' She ignored Rae's protests, and straightened up. 'But something is definitely up with you. You literally are caught up in some mess?'

Rae switched back to reality, letting the new Offline TV member thing slide. She had bigger problems to face right now.

'Imane, please help me.' She said, holding Imane's hands. 'I did something.'

Imane raised her brow, 'Good something, bad something?'

Very good, Rae's mind hummed but she gulped, ignoring it.

'I kissed James last night. Or he did... but we did... I mean we kissed... last night... several times... it was... I messed up... I kissed James.' She rambled, nervously, as she looked at Imane who was undergoing a series of emotions.

Imane's expressions changed from blank, to shocked, to surprised and finally an excited smile broke on her face.

'Say something, Imo?'

'Final-fucking-ly. I so fucking knew it.' She clasped her hands, 'Let's fucking go.' But she then looked at Rae's sad face and realization dawned on her too. 'Oh no, Sykkuno?'

'I broke the Bro Code. I slaughtered it. Tore it in pieces.' Rae cried, holding her head. 'What am I supposed to do now?'

The doorbell rang, they heard shuffling of keys and realized Alex and James were back.

'Well, we'll find out.'
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A/N

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Questions:

1. Who do you think is the new member of Offline TV house? And why the fuck am I emphasizing on them?

2. Also, how would Sykkuno react to the whole thing?

3. Are you'll expecting a good or a bad ending? I mean sad ending.