Chapter 9 - Aftereffect

I am always the one who reaches the school after the bell already rings. The one who always arrives the last . The first class was always Science . My teacher , she always did not care about it. I never got in trouble. As nobody cared what i did, it was already a common thing for me to be late. So I never changed.

I sat down, as I did my usual school stuff, leaves counting. I was counting and the bell rang which indicated the break . I continued counting because who cared . Nobody.

As the bell rang again , Math classes began. Well, nothing changes for me , same old same old, leaves counting . That's Math I guess .

Anyways , whatever I did, my results never went down. I was found sleeping , dozing off in the class , but the teachers always said it was ok. First I found it very shocking that my results were never disappointing but through the years, it became normal so I ignored the reason behind it and as long as my results were fine , I did not care . Why should I make a mountain out of a mole hill.

Again, the bell rang . I took out my bento and started eating while counting leaves. While I was eating j heard my classmates talking stuff , it was about a streamer with a carnival mask in the Amusement Park yesterday which peeked my interest . Because it was about me, I sneakily started listening .

"Yo, did you guys watch the livestream yesterday in YouTube "

"Which one are you talking about "

"The one with the Carnival Mask on Amusement Park"

"No, why?"

"It was super funny and hilarious "

I was surprised when I heard this comment and thought back "when was I ever funny" . Unknowingly, my face showed a visible smile as I continued listening .

"You have missed big time"

"What happened exactly"

"Well, there was this Streamer , who went to Amusement Park opening yesterday , first he didn't pay for the entry fee , but you know how he got in, he got away through the back door while climbing walls. "

"Is that even allowed"

"I know right . But what he did next is even more hilarious, he looked to the prices in food store while his stomach was grumbling but move on and took out vegetable bento and ate "

"Seriously"

"But that's not it . He missed all the cam shots while he believed he looked cool while doing it"

"Then , he looked at himself and the sport section and moved on "

"While he sucked at car stalls , the almighty Swing couldn't scare him while everybody was puking their guts out"

"How is that even possible " "that's the Apollo 17 you are talking about"

"Well, you can always watch it in YouTube . I am not lying ." "Most shocking part is , he passed through the house of illusions without bumping in a single mirror"

"Impossible ! Are you sure you did not see a sage from mountains" "well, he was our age , to be fair "

Another few classmates of mine joined that group.

"Well, my favorite part was the horror House one."

The one who didn't watch my livestream asked "Can you please elaborate "

"The thing is the haunted house could not scare him. He went in and came out just like that, with a calm face ."

"You sure he wasn't high "

"Nah, we can tell the difference between sane and insane. He was totally real. And now, because of him , that haunted house had became a joke , even widespread in Kinder-gardens. It has gone bankrupt, because of one guy, Can you believe that"

"Well, he is the most trending and new Internet Celeb now "

I felt bad in the inside but I was proud of what I had accomplished. Now everybody was taking about me , well, about the carnival mask guy. I looked into the YouTube and saw that my video had already garnered above 4 Million views which was insane for a newcomer.

Everybody saw me grinning , which I still didn't notice and came to me asked if something happened and the reason behind my grin. Well, because of my happy mood , I politely.....ignored them again.

I kept on fantasizing about being a internet celebrity while the bell rang and the class began .Well, I ignored it too.

I was humming my way back home after school while I saw some children holding carnival mask in their hands and climbing over the wall, while some just looked emotionless at the sports balls . I was getting famous, well the other me .

When I reached home and googled about Internet Celebrities and a long list was given to my brotherly friend google whom I trusted the most .

All names were unknown to me but the last name caught my Eye.

It was "Me". It was my YouTube account name. I was just bored and didn't want to waste my energy thinking about a stupid name , so I just named myself Me. Simple and easy. Every time someone asks who is that guy . You could always respond with "it's me" . Because the photo next to my name was wearing a carnival mask , everybody could pretend to be me, oh sorry Me. Which was also not my intention to cause this effect , but it was popping all over the comment section like

"Playing this livestream before my friends"

Nobody :

Literally Nobody:

My friends : who that?

Me : it's me .

I didn't what was that supposed to mean, but whatever floats their boats , I guess.

Well, I kept on searching and found a horrible story about how a internet Celebrity was stalked by one of his/her fan until the Celebrity went to police report it , but the situation takes turn for the worse , where the fan is very infatuated with celebrity and expressed his feeling towards him/her, which was obviously declined and got stabbed by his/her own fan.

Well , this type of thing should never happen to me but still

"I will keep my identity as "Me" a secret "

Better safe than sorry. But you know what, I am famous , well the carnival masked guy is famous.