1. 24 hour YouTube Challenge Pt. 02


    Date: 8/4/2024, Categories: Interracial Love, Author: byFirsttimewriting 

    ... asked.

"Yes... just thinking. Are you sure about this? It's not really you."

"That's kind of the point. Being me got me forty thousand subscribers. I need to grow if my channel is going to grow as well," Elli said reasonably.

"I guess. I mean, it's done and all. I can't say I am happy about the idea of you stripping down even partially in front of two American men you don't even know... but you did it already so my opinion hardly matters now does it?"

"Please don't be like that Ahti... it's no different to me wearing a bikini at a beach," Elli tried the same argument that Deke had used on her. The difference though was that she had wanted to be persuaded, Ahti didn't.

"Okay, I know how important this is to you. Thanks, I guess for giving me the heads up. I need to get back to the barracks room."

"Talk to you later..." Elli blew a kiss into the phone as was her habit but Ahti had already rung off.

She climbed back into the van, again her lack of a poker face meaning the two men knew something was up. To their credit, neither asked about it.

"Want me to upload the video for you?" was all Jay said.

"Please... and thank you," Elli replied. She ran fingers through her hair in a slow thoughtful sweeping gesture, her eyes closing briefly with a mixture of tiredness, regret and shame.

"Listen, I don't much feel like watching the sunrise. I am going to get a little sleep," Elli said, picking up her sleeping bag.

"That's okay, we'll keep it down, get ...
    ... some sack time as well when it's done," Deke replied.

Elli gave him a wane smile of thanks, she clambered over into the front of the campervan, tugging closed the felt curtain that separated it from the rear. Her mind was troubled as she fitfully twisted and turned on the seats, sleeping bag draped over her, trying to get comfortable enough to fall asleep.

For the longest time the sleep wouldn't come as her mind suddenly decided to rehash and reevaluate every decision she had made since she was thirteen years old. Elli knew that Ahti and even her father had little time or interest in social media as an entity. They didn't see the benefits and use of it. When her father would wander onto YouTube looking for a hint on some manual task he wasn't familiar with, Elli would always point out that she was providing the same service, her cooking videos, make up tips, even the strictly entertainment value of certain uploads. He would always give her the same smile, the same bland encouragement.

Ahti was cut from the same cloth, older in his outlook than his years demanded. Only her mother actively encouraged her, Ahti and her father merely offering support.

Maybe they were right? Maybe she was wasting her time with all this? Elli felt miserable and worse she felt that if Ahti was right, then her betrayal of him was all the worse as she'd have cheated on him for no good purpose.

The door to the van opened and closed, Deke and Jay stepping out to film the sunrise over the ...
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