You were already half asleep when it started 9:42PM Lando had kissed your forehead hours ago, mumbling something about being “so dead” from media day and that he just wanted to knock out early. You even offered to sleep over, expecting an actual quiet night in.

So when you were stirred awake by yelling — like feral boy yelling — echoing from the office down the hall, your soul momentarily left your body.

The “im gamin” stream was live. And it was not quiet.

You blinked at your phone screen as it filled with Twitch notifs and Twitter going feral. Lando hadn’t streamed since Valentine’s Day. People were acting like he’d risen from the dead. You cracked your door open and leaned down the hallway.

“ARE YOU A MORON?! HE’S KILLED ME AND YOU DIDNT AVENGE MY DEATH!!” Lando screamed from his desk, cackling like he was in a war zone. You could hear Connor laughing and Oliver snorting like he’d just wheezed through a lung. The boys were deep in Escape from Tarkov, and apparently, deep into their chaos era.

You padded barefoot toward the office, hoodie sleeves dragging past your hands, completely in disbelief.

Lando was sitting on his stupid gamer chair, leaning way too close to his mic like it was a dinner date. “Oi, chat. You missed me? Be honest,” he grinned, and you could feel the Twitch girls melting. His hair was messy, his cheeks a little flushed from excitement, and he had that smirky little boyish energy like he knew exactly what he was doing.

And then— “Hold up. Did anyone else hear that?” Chat was already on it. A little shuffle in the background. Your literal yawn caught on stream.

You backed away fast, but it was too late.

The camera caught a blur of movement — your silhouette by the hallway — and then a full on cackle from Niccolo who definitely clocked it. “Lando got company,” Connor muttered into the mic. “Bro, she tired of you yelling.” And Lando? Smug. “Nah, I warned her” he said, without missing a beat.

You stood frozen behind the wall, trying to decide if you should enter like the mysterious girlie you were or crawl back to bed and pretend you didn’t exist. But then he called out, eyes still on his monitor

“Baby? You comin’ in or what? You already made your Twitch debut.”