My phone lit up at 2:17 a.m. like it had a personal grudge with my sleep.
New notification:
Angel Vesper is LIVE - Kai's Perfect Day #47
I stared at the screen, half-sleep, thumb hovering over the dismiss button. Angel Vesper? Some random streamer. I didn't follow any streamers. I barely had time for my life.
But the thumbnail...it was a close-up of my desk lamp. The one with the cracked base I kept meaning to fix.
Curiosity won from the bizarreness of it all. So, I tapped.
The stream loaded instantly, it was high-quality video, crystal clear and there she was. The star of the show.
Pink hair tied in loose twin tails, big doe eyes framed by long lashes, and the softest, sweetest smile I'd ever seen on a girl. She looked like the kind of girl who'd bake you cookies then cry if you did not eat the whole plate.
She was sitting in what looked like a pastel gaming setup, but the background feed behind her...that was my room. Like my actual room. My unmade bed, my half empty energy drink cans, and my laundry pile in the corner that I swore a thousand times I'd deal with tomorrow.
"Good evening, my darling," she sang in that bubble, ASMR soft voice. "Tonight our sweet Kai finally went to bed early. Look at him trying to be responsible."
My blood in my veins turned to ice suddenly because eI felt a sudden cold take over my body, raising my goosebumps.
The camera angle captured the view from inside my room, appearing high up near the ceiling, as if someone mounted it on the smoke detector I never checked.
She leaned closer to her own camera, her eyes sparkling with mischief and pure affection. "Isn't he adorable when he thinks he's alone?"
I sat up so fast from my sleeping position on my bed that my head spun. The chat on the right side of the screen was exploding.
Angelfan69: he's so cute when he's confused lol
PinkprincessLover: 10k likes if she can zoom in on his as again
VesperObssessed: Kia you dummy, she's been watching for weeks
I muted the stream, then unmuted, then muted again.
This had to be a prank, maybe a hidden camera of a deepfake or something. While I was still trying to figure out who from one of my friends could even think to play such a sick prank on me, Angel vesper tilted her head.
Still smiling that gentle smile, a too perfect smile, and whispered straight into the mic like she was talking only to me.