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It was pure coincidence that for just a few minutes, Evan and Jonathan were the only two on Discord. What with Delirious's back to front sleep schedule and Evans busy life of music and YouTube, it was a sheer accident. But Jonathan was grateful for the timing as he got to hear the effort in the words Evan was sprouting and knew something was wrong.
With a frown Jonathan interrupted the frustrating pretence. "What's going on Vanoss you ok? And Don't say you're tired!"
"I AM tired." His friend protested to which Jonathan shook his head despite his friends incapability of seeing.
"Ok well why are you always tired?"
"I-"
Jonathan didn't want to hear the reason, he knew. "Bitch shut up. Its because you work too hard."
Evan didn't try any excuse in reply this time. Delirious wondered if the silence meant agreement.
"I'll tell you why it is," his tone softened with the friendly concern he wanted to convey.
He could all but hear Evans face in his hands from the mans drawn out 'why?'
"Because," Jonathan began. "You don't do anything just for you, that you enjoy." His conclusion was meet with more silence so he continued before he lost the rare spark of thought. "You've made everything into work. Games, music. When you got big gaming, you could still relax and tune out through your music and remixes but that's just more work now. Not that there's anything wrong with that." He quickly supplied knowing Rynx could be a touchy subject with Evan.
"But you haven't got a personal outlet now without it being apart of something bigger." He finished and waited for either a smart ass comment mocking him or even less likely; agreement. But again there was only silence.
"Evan?" He asked cautiously, eyes briefly darting to the check the call was still connected.
Finally a loud exhale came forth from the other end.
"Okay."
He sat up. "Okay? Is that it?!"
"Okay..." Evan continued, voice tinged with slight impatience. "You might be onto something. Good to know there's stuff going on in that head of yours apart from Fortnight."
Delirious let out one of his unique chuckles. "Hey! It's been known to happen owl boy!"
Evan gave the smallest huff of a laugh in return, at least it was something before silence sat between them once more. They listened to each other breathe, miles apart.
"Sooo what are ya gonna do?" Jonathan finally nudged his friend into action.
"I dunno," Evan admitted around a mouthful of food. "Find a new hobby I suppose."
Delirious's gafauffed at that, "Like you haven't already mastered everything in the world. Besides what about hockey, one of you're great loves remember?How long since you've been on the ice?"
Vanoss sighed as if he really was talking of a long lost lover. "Too long man, too long."
"Well..." Delirious let the thought hang and through Evans chewing of food he could almost hear the other man thinking.
"I'm an idiot." Evan finally concluded.
"You are," Jonathan agreed in all seriousness.
"I can't believe you just gave good advice though." The other said with a laugh to try and ease the tension.
"Hey!!!" He protested and smiled at hearing the Canadian truly laugh this time. "You might be an owl, but I'm still older and wiser then you."
"Yeah man," Evan replied and Jon relaxed hearing the pep return to his friends voice.
Both noticed Nogla and Brian joined discord. Quickly they sobered up from the deep conversation.
"Hey man, thanks." Evan quickly added in a casual tone as the others noisily arrived. "Means a lot."
Jonathan smiled, despite the rabble of the other guys own conversations in his ear he felt like him and Evan were the only two people talking. "Your welcome buddy."
"WHY IS HE W'LCOM," heralded the typical loud Irish introduction of Nogla. "What'd he do?!"
"Oh, just gave me some good advice Nogla. And since he's here, hopefully he'll be staying for some death run?"
Delirious was happy to move past the seriousness of the previous conversation and get to the usual carefree banter of their YouTubing careers.
"Count me in bitches! I'm gonna kill all o' you!" He shouted into the fray as Nogla tried to sell himself to Evan as the best 'advice giver'. Evan was once again laughing.