1. 24 hour YouTube Challenge Pt. 01


    Date: 2/12/2024, Categories: Interracial Love, Author: byFirsttimewriting 

    Authors note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, events and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

24-hour Challenge

Chapter One:

Enni Jalas stood in the hallway of her parents' home, pulling on her warm jacket. She still needed to put her boots on before joining her father in the driveway but before she did, she took a moment in front of the large rectangular mirror that hung in the hallway to check her hair and makeup.

Her shoulder length blonde hair, thick and wavy, was tied back in a ponytail to make it easier to wear a warm wool beanie, night blue in colour. Her own dark blue eyes flitted over her reflection, checking the state of her make up, her dark khaki fur trimmed winter coat, her night blue scarf and gloves, part of the same set as her hat.

She looked good, which is what she wanted. This next 24 hours was important to her, financially and for her future career, and how she looked had a part to play in that.

Enni was a YouTuber, or rather a social influencer as she preferred to see herself. She had begun her online presence when she was thirteen and in the five and a half years since, she had built up a decent number of subscribers, forty-one thousand three hundred and twenty-two to be precise. Fifty thousand though was the goal. At that point she would see her profile generating money. That was her goal, money ...
    ... towards her college education and an increased profile among international users and not just from the mostly Finnish subscribers who were the bulk of her followers. Enni had hopes of a media career, perhaps here in Finland, perhaps abroad. Either way, a highly successful YouTube channel would be of more use to her than her current moderately successful one.

Pleased with her appearance, Enni headed out into the cold of a January morning.

Her home was in the Helsinki suburbs, her parents' home to be precise. Her father was a mechanic, successful in his trade to the point that he didn't have to work at his garage every day, his employees carrying the bulk of the workload. This left him time to pursue his passion, restoring older cars. As Enni stepped from the front door and into the driveway, her father was giving a last check to his current automotive patient, a VW Camper Van circa 1969.

The mint green van sat solidly in the driveway, snow skirting its tires to a depth of three inches. Her father was currently kicking those same tires as his daughter joined them, sucking his front teeth as he did so.

"Everything okay Papa?" Elli slipped her arm through his, linking them and then stretching on her toes to kiss her fathers stubbled cheek.

"Tires, suspension, engine, I have no doubts in her." Her father pulled open the side door to reveal the inner rear of the van. The previous owner had used it as a work van for his plumbing business, stripping out the guts of the ...
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