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Renjun leans away from the camera as he tries to stay in the center of the shot. When satisfied with the view on the camera's display preview, he flashes a smile.
"So hello everyone and welcome back! You probably already know what this video is going to be about, since well, you've already read the title, but let me just give you a quick review." A snicker can be heard off-cam which takes Renjun's attention away, letting out a snicker of his own.
"So there's actually a story behind this content that I'm making right now." Renjun cannot stop grinning from ear to ear, he kind of looks devious as if he was plotting some evil plan (he most likely probably is).
"I think this happened a week or so ago?" He tilts his head in question and finds someone behind the camera into which a voice can be heard saying, "What?" Renjun ignores the question and drives his attention back in front.
"I think it was a week or two ago." He confirms to himself and brings his hands together, the fingers intertwining. "Me and my roommates were watching this movie called— "
An oh can be heard somewhere in the room.
"To All The Boys I've Loved Before and we loved it! It was this lighthearted romantic comedy film and we enjoyed it a lot. Even when the movie ended we talked about it for like an hour,— " Renjun takes a sharp inhale, holds it in for a few seconds, and releases. He raises a finger in the air, the tips of his mouth slightly raising no matter how much Renjun tries to pull them down.
"Until one of us thought— I forgot who thought about it, I think it was Vernon? Yeah, it was Vernon. So Vernon thought," Renjun pauses, this cheeks puffing out in the screen. "What it would be like if it was done in the internet. You know, the sending of the letters. "
Oh my god and no way can be heard from people behind the screen. Renjun releases the grin he has been holding at the reactions. "Renjun what did you do?" One of the people remarks in such an amused but worried manner that Renjun finds it hard to keep the grin-turned-giggles to himself.
Renjun corrects his posture a few seconds after bending over to hold his stomach, trying his best to compose himself and reply to the man in front of him. "Just you wait and see." He says through his smiling lips.
Renjun continues.
"And that really bothered me for like a day, like I just couldn't stop thinking about it and— to be honest, I haven't found the answer to Vernon's question either."
Laughter erupts in the room.
"BUT!!" Renjun clarifies, an aha expression written on his face. "Along those hours of introspection, I had a brilliant idea. An idea that would make a wonderful masterpiece of a video." He says through his mischievous smile.
"What if,"
(God, why is he making it sound so suspense, one of his roommates— that's not Vernon by the way— remarks softly with a snicker into which Renjun silences them with a finger, but not before murmuring a "why did I do this to myself" under his own breath.)
A smile mix of embarrassment and pride sits on Renjun's face.
"What if I send a quiz to all my crushes before."
"RENJUN, WHAT!?"
"YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME."
Renjun can only laugh at his roommates' reactions as he tries covers his face from the camera with his hands.
"Please, this is already too embarrassing for me."
"Damn right, it is. I feel so embarrassed for you." One of them says.
Renjun removes the hand in his face as he holds it up towards his friends.
"Trust me, I want to stop doing this but I already embarrassed myself enough not to continue. I— "
Someone guffaws and it sends another chain of laughter to the rest of the room, Renjun struggles to speak in between.
"— have come this far already. I could not back out."
"So, anyways!" Renjun continues, composing himself once again. This has got to be the most difficult video he has to film.
"I'll go over through the form first." He reaches on his pocket, his hands going in his loose pants to fetch his phone out. Renjun immediately taps on the screen as he makes straight line motions on them.
"In the beginning of the form, I said how if they received this form then I used to have a crush on them before. I also said that this is for a Youtube video that I'm making and that this was sent to multiple people— " Renjun looks at the camera pointedly. "— just in case they think I only sent this to them."
"So in the form, I asked for their name, which they can keep themselves anonymous if they want to. I also asked if they knew where we met, if they knew I had a crush on them and if they knew then how did they know, and," Renjun cringes, he can physically feel the shivers upon his spine crawling before continuing. "if they have or had a crush on me."
Renjun releases an ugly sound in his mouth while the rest of the people in the room wheezes.
"Why did I even place that there." An embarrassed sob comes out of Renjun's mouth.
"But anyways! I sent this to 5 people and 4 of them responded already so, I guess it's good that we have a high response rate." Renjun laughs quite nervously.
"I haven't read any of the responses yet, so we'll go through this together."
Renjun faces the camera, ears quite red and eyes painting nervousness and excitement at the same time. His smile is quivering.
"I'm not ready, but let's go!"
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