|| Echo's perspective ||
I looked around, taking it all in. All the people sitting in front of me with massive smiles on their faces, my best friends beside me answering questions about how we got here, and how lucky we are.
I was at twitchcon, participating in the DSMP reunion panel. I was in between Karl and Quackity, Jack was the very first person at the table, then George, Sapnap, Punz, Philza, Tina, Karl, me, Quackity, then Dream.
This is insane, I thought, absolutely insane.
I was brought back to reality when someone in a hotdog suit said my name, well my username. "Echo?" They asked in a quavering voice.
"What's up?" I smiled, trying to make it seem more comfortable.
"So-" "Not to interrupt, but I love your hotdog costume," Jack said from across the table. The whole place erupted in giggles. "Thank you!" The person in the suit laughed, shot finger guns at Jack, then turned back to me.
"So this can be for everyone, and not just for Echo, but I was wondering if the scenes in your lore, where you had to argue with your irl friends, were difficult to do."
We all sat in thought for a moment, then I grabbed the mic on the table.
"If I'm being honest with you, not really." I laughed, "I think it's really nerve-wracking before we start, like leading up to it, but I feel like when we're in the moment it just flows really well, if that makes sense." I finished.
A few people nodded and muttered their agreements, then we all looked over at Quackity, who was holding the microphone that they got for Dream because he was at the very end of the table and couldn't reach the mics, but for some reason they were passing it around.
Quackity started explaining his angsty scenes in lore, and then the rest of them gave their answers, Then a few more questions were asked and before I knew it we were done.
We walked down the stairs to the side of the stage and took pictures and selfies with fans. We all got a bunch of fan notes and gifts and we all met a bunch of cool, amazing people.
Then, what we were dreading, yet yearning for at the same time had come.. it was time for us to go back to the hotel. Luckily a lot of us were staying at the same hotel. In fact, all the og feral boys were staying at the hotel.
I joined the smp about a month after Karl and was one of the people who founded the feral boys. It was Me, Karl, Quackity, Dream, George, and Sapnap. The men, the myth, the legends. Even though I'm not a man. But we ignore that part.
It was the very last day of twitchcon. We were going to stay one more day in San Diego, just for all of us to hang out. We bought a hotel suite and a reservation for a really big breakfast restaurant for all of us to hang out before Karl, Quackity, and I's long drive back to LA and we all head back home. We'd already said our goodbyes to the rest of the smp so that's the reason only the six of us were planning to hang out the next day.
After a flood of fans who were also staying at the same hotel as us practically tackled all of us the moment they laid their greedy dnf shipping eyes on all of us, we were finally inside, away from all the chaos.
"That was," Dream let out a hefty sigh, "crazy." He laughed, "Twitchcon I mean."
"Yeah dude. It was fun though. It's always so cool meeting everybody." Karl said.
"Yeah, I'm bummed yet thrilled that it's the last day," I replied, "I think everyone's social battery has run out for tonight."
"So true," Karl added.
We finished our conversations and said our temporary goodbyes and we were all headed to the elevator.
"Hey Echo do you think you could stay down here with me so I can get a snack?" Sapnap asked.
"Yeah, no problem dude," I said, waving to the guys, who were tumbling onto the elevator.
Sapnap and I struck up a conversation about a question someone asked at the panel, which Minecraft block was the best, while we got our snacks.
"It's obviously hardened clay. That's actually the only option. Every other block is irrelevant." Sapnap said.
"For real. And of course Foolish said gold. That's such a foolish answer. literally." I retorted.
"He's a basic bitch, what can we say." He laughed back.
We walked up to the cash register with our snacks. Sap got some pineapple, which I made fun of him for because when he said snacks I was expecting chips or candy or something. I got Doritos and a snickers bar.
When we were done paying I went to go ask an employee for an extra blanket, because it was super freezing in my hotel room. Then we headed towards the elevator.
Sapnap was already devouring his pineapple.
"Bro, don't you wanna wait until we get to the hotel room?" I chortled, watching him eat the pineapple like there was no tomorrow.
"Don't you wanna wait until we get to the hotel room." He said in a high-pitched, mocking voice.
"That's not how I sound, you asshole." I joked nudging him to the side while we got inside the elevator. I reached out and tapped the button that said "5" because that was the floor we were both staying on. Our hotel rooms were only 2 doors away.
"Apart from the pineapple you're currently stuffing in you're face, what was the best part of your day?" I asked, tired of hearing the sounds of him sloppily eating.
"Probably just spending time with you guys. It's crazy how we finally got the whole smp together." Sapnap replied.
"I totally agree. It's genuinely insane how we got everyone together, I really didn't think it would ever happen. I think the moment it really kicked in was when Dream FaceTimed me. I feel like thats when it really sat in."
"Imagine not knowing what he looked like before this week, couldn't be me." He retorted, then shrugged his shoulders.
"Imagine being a fucking idiot," I let out a big laugh, then smiled back, "couldn't be me."
He deadpanned, then the elevator door opened.
"Finally, you were starting to make the elevator smell." Sapnap joked as he fake rushed out of the elevator.
I shot him a look of disdain then we both started laughing until a hotel janitor shushed us, which made it even harder to hold back our laughs.
We said our goodbyes at our hotel rooms.
"Alrighty, see you tomorrow Eden. Good night." Sapnap smiled.
"You too." I gave him a quick side hug, then made my way inside my hotel room. It was a pretty decent room, with a kitchen to the right, and a living room in front, right when you walk in, and when you go past the kitchen there was a door to the right, where the bedroom was. There was a king-size bed, and in front of it was a tv with a desk under it. There was also a dresser and a small closet with a sliding glass door.
I sighed, sat all my stuff down, got into my pajamas then slid into bed. It was a long ass tiring day, but it still sucks that I'm leaving tomorrow.
I ended up tossing and turning until 4 am, when I got a text.
A/n: ayyyyy!! Ellooo readers, how was the first chapter?! Hopefully up to your guys expectations! DO NOT worry, I'll be consistently updating this book, I will not abandon you 😭 lmao but I hope you all are doing snazzy! (1278 words)