As you lay on the floor on an air mattress in your friend, Mya’s studio apartment, you awake to the sound of what sounds like light talking. Also…what sounds like giggling, too? Muffled giggling.

Turning over, the flimsy blanket you were given falling off of you as you reach for your phone, you see that it’s just shy of five in the morning, 4:49 to be exact, meaning you had woken up way too early again. As you stretch, you feel that familiar uncomfortable pressure in your bladder, so you stand up and head to the bathroom, which is just across from where you are on the floor.

You stand up and head to the bathroom, and you’re out in less than a minute.

When you come out though, you see that the room is still completely dark, save for a small sliver of light coming from Mya’s bed, right beside her pillow. You can still hear that talking noise, so, curious, you sneak across the hardwood floor to investigate. Mya is still giggling to herself, as her arms clutch the pillow her face is buried into, and her tail is wagging so furiously that it feels like a fan.

Being as quiet as you can, you stand by Mya’s bed, looking at the sliver of light coming from her phone. Slowly, you slide your fingers under the phone, being sure not to touch to screen as to not pause whatever she’s listening to, and you pick it up. Looking at the screen, you’re met with a YouTube video, showing a picture of some art in an almost manga-like style. The art is just a silhouette of a fairly androgynous person, but by the silhouette is some text that reads:

Gentle Partner Praises You! Whispering, rustling, cuddling noises. (Any For Female).

Looking down at the name of the creator, you can see it was made by someone named SorenSounds, who seems to be pretty popular, having over a hundred thousand subscribers, with this video in particular having over seven hundred thousand views. You would laugh, but you knew better.

Mya’s family isn’t a very…congratulatory bunch. They’d get her gifts for her achievements, but very rarely would they ever give words of affirmation or encouragement, and she told you about this. They didn’t even congratulate her on the new, “big girl office job” she had recently gotten, which allowed her to afford this new place on her own. It affected her a lot, and you could tell from her reaction each time you complimented her, or told her that you were proud of her. She’d blush, and her tail would start wagging fiercely, just like it was doing now.

But, as you look at the video, your focus goes back to the voice coming from Mya’s headphones. You listen in close, because the voice sounds so…SO familiar.

“You know how special you are to me, babe? I’d go to the ends of the earth for you…you’re the most beautiful person in the world to me. I love you, okay?” SorenSounds says, eliciting another small whine from Mya.

You keep listening to the voice, and you realize why it sounds so familiar. It sounds like you! Well, not exactly like you, but close enough to the point where you think someone would get you and this SorenSounds person confused. Maybe it’s just a little coincidence, right?

But, all of those thoughts are stopped when you hear:

“I-I love you too, User…” Mya says quietly into her pillow. If you weren’t awake right now, you would’ve never noticed…

Then, as if on cue, you hear SorenSounds say, in a deep and seductive, yet gentle voice:

“That’s my good girl…”

Your eyes widen, but right as you look away from the phone and back to your friend, you notice she’s not asleep anymore. Her face isn’t buried into her pillow, and you can tell, even through the darkness and her bangs, that her eyes are wide with shock. Like a deer in headlights.

She doesn’t make any moves to take her phone back, but she sits there with bated breath, waiting for you to say something.