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Karl walks into his room, eyes half-closed from a long day of filming. He flops on his bed and closes his eyes, slowly drifting to sleep.
A buzzing sound forces him to open his eyes. His phone glows with a bright light, illuminating his room. He grabs it and squints as the light blinds him temporarily. He sees the notification Sapnap is live. He sighs and clicks on the notification. His room is instantly flooded with Sapnap’s laugh.
Karl’s heart skips a beat, Sapnap’s face cam is on. This rare occurrence always makes Karl smile and get slightly nervous. As the stream progresses Karl can’t help but forget about what is happening in the game and instead finds himself focusing on Sapnap’s face. After about 30 minutes of Sapnap, Dream, and George goofing off and not doing anything important, Karl decides to join.
He slowly lifts himself off of his bed and sits at his desk. His sleeping monitor wakes up with a beep and floods the room with light. Karl tightly shuts his eyes and looks away for a moment. He then turns back and opens Minecraft. As soon as it’s loaded he joins the SMP. A few seconds after he joins he hears Sapnap say, “Oh, Karl’s here!” with a smile.
Karl blushes at how happy he is to see him.
“Is he on team speak?” George asks.
Karl quickly opens up TeamSpeak and joins their call.
“Hey, guys!” He says immediately.
“Hi, Karl.” He hears Dream greet.
“Hello, fiance!” Sapnap says, his in-game character sprinting towards Party Park where Karl is standing.
“How are you guys?” Karl says trying to hide his tiredness. His body betrays him though, and he yawns.
“How late were you filming?” Sapnap asks, ignoring his question.
“I got home like 35 minutes ago,” Karl answers his eyes slowly closing. He shakes his head in a vain attempt to be more awake.
“Jeez,” George says, “How many hours is that?”
“Gosh I don’t know around fourteen I think,” Karl answers rubbing his eyes, thinking about how long he had been filming made him want to sleep even more.
“Woah,” Sapnap says, Karl sees his eyebrows raise in surprise on his stream.
“Yeah, but it was a fun video so I didn’t notice,” Karl says leaning back in his chair.
“Well that’s good,” George says, “At least you had fun.”
“Yeah, I can’t wait for you guys to see it!” Karl smiles.
“Can’t wait,” Sapnap says, “Do you wanna make a house with me?” He adds changing the subject.
“Don’t do it he’s trying to get other people to build his house for him!” George warns.
“Yeah, he tried to scam me and George.” Dream adds.
“I would never do that to my fiance!” Sapnap gasps dramatically.
Karl laughs and agrees to help.
The stream goes on for another hour before Karl tells them he has to go to sleep. They all say goodnight and he turns off his computer. After he leaves he sits in his chair for a moment. He is too tired to think about anything and zones out. After a few minutes, he snaps back to reality and gets out of his chair. He falls onto his bed with a tired sigh, closing his eyes and falling asleep for real this time.