[Hyde POV]
I went to school this morning, a bit late, but still made it in time before the first bell. But as I walked down the hallway, people were looking at me and gossiping way more than usual.
I ignored them and went to class. However, before I could enter, Kat stopped me by the door.
"Steven. Last night… I don't remember what happened after I fought with my ex-friends." She pretended.
"You don't remember? You told me I can still make out with your friends even if we date." I asked playfully.
"We did?" Kat acted shocked.
"Yeah. We agreed to have some fun." I told her. "It's not like we're getting married. And we're young."
Kat was stupefied by my words.
"I have booked an entire resort for all of us after the finals. It'll be just us there."
She hesitated slightly, biting her lower lips as she was intrigued.
"We can do whatever we want there. I'm not going to force you, but I'll promise you something. I won't mistreat you, even if we're just having some fun." I said casually.
She went silent for a bit before asking, "You're really rich, right?"
"Right now, yes." I replied casually.
"Good." She nodded and said, "Cause I need a man to take care of me."
"Great. I could do that" I smirked slightly.
"So I'll overlook it. Just don't tell me what you're doing with my friends, and we'll be fine."
I nodded, "Alright."
"I'll meet you on the roof during lunch. No one goes there at lunch." She said confidently and sashayed away.
She stopped, turned slightly and said, "Who knows. We could start having fun on the roof."
I smiled slightly and said, "Can't wait."
I already knew that would work on Kat and her group of friends. They were, in the 70s term, quite loose.
It was the 70s, and it was the time for sexual revolution. People were easier back here.
Then, I had to go into the classroom. I did the English exercise while chatting with my editor through the system.
{Editor: It's my best work ever. I really hope this one goes viral.}
He was done with editing the second version of the Mustang video.
We had been working together for three months now, so he had some attachment to the channel too.
Right now, the channel has around one hundred and fifty thousand subscribers. We build it around lessons on automotive repairs and fast flips on cars but with extra details.
Having a roster of 70s and 60s cars made the channel feel well thought off and attracted a lot of mature audiences.
I watched the edited version of the Mustang race documentary for Youtube. It was 45 minutes long, and it was highly entertaining. If my work in the 70s had silence, this one was full of reactions and attention grabbing scenes.
I had removed the more sensitive references like the Vietnam War and Megan's dead husband.
"Now that I can monetize the channel," I muttered. "Maybe I can use the money to build the second channel."
My email notification dinged as I was watching the video.
Apparently someone from Snap‑On had been watching the channel. It was a huge automotive tool company, and I couldn' t help but smile as I read the email.
{Email 1–
From: [email protected]
To: Steven Hyde
Subject: Sponsorship Opportunity – Automotive YouTube Content
Hello Steven,
Our marketing team has been following your automotive restoration content on YouTube. We particularly enjoyed your recent Mustang rebuild series.
We are interested in sponsoring an upcoming video with a short tool showcase segment featuring Snap-On products.
Our initial proposal:
$5,000 flat sponsorship 30-second integrated mention of Snap-On tools during the rebuild process Link to Snap-On product page in the video description
Please let us know if you are interested.
Best regards,
Mark Reynolds
Digital Marketing Manager
Snap-On Tools}
"Nice."
Five thousand dollars for one video. It wasn't bad. Since I was posting two videos a week, they were saying that they wanted to give me forty thousand dollars per month.
Not bad.
I sneered slightly, 'As if it'll work like that.'
At most, they'll sponsor around 2-3 videos per month.
But if the video actually went viral, it would be criminally underpriced. So I wrote back.
{Email 2
From: StevenRevItUp
Subject: Re: Sponsorship Opportunity
-Mark,
Thanks for reaching out.
I'm open to the sponsorship, but I'd prefer a performance-based structure rather than a flat fee.
Proposed terms:
$3,000 upfront integration fee $5,000 bonus if the video reaches 1M views $10,000 bonus at 5M views $20,000 bonus at 10M views
Additionally, I'd like an affiliate link in the description with a 10% commission on tool sales driven by the video.
The video features extensive engine rebuild and chassis work, so the integration will feel natural.
Let me know your thoughts.
-Steven Hyde-}
I expected them to push back. Instead, another email arrived ten minutes later.
{Email 3
From: [email protected]
To: Steven Hyde
Subject: Re: Sponsorship Opportunity
Steven,
Your proposal is reasonable and aligns with performance-driven digital campaigns we are testing this year.
We can agree to the following:
$3,000 upfront View bonuses as proposed Affiliate link with 8% commission
Please confirm and we will send the agreement.
Best,
Mark Reynolds
Snap-On Tools}
'Eight percent…Close enough.'
{Email 4
From: Steven Hyde
Subject: Re: Sponsorship Opportunity
Mark,
Deal.
Please send the contract and affiliate link details.
The video goes live today.
Steven Hyde}
I almost signed the contract before another email from Mark arrived.
He wanted to do a video call to prove I wasn't an AI character. Since he did it last minute, I guess someone else told him to do that.
So he called me via Instagram, and I picked it up with my Iphone during class. I wore an earbud and hid it from everyone else. Since I sat at the back of the class, no one realized it.
"Oh, I'm sorry. You're in class?" Mark, the feminine looking man asked with a whisper as he saw me.
"Yeah." I pointed the camera to show the teacher was teaching in front.
"I'm so sorry about this. This is fine. We just want to confirm you're not an AI. Your video sometimes makes it seem like you're really living in the 70s." Mark stammered.
I shrugged and whispered, "I am living in a small town. We are hit hard by the recession, so–"
"Hyde! What are you whispering over there?!" The teacher snapped at me.
I flinched and cut the call quickly. "Sorry Mark."
"It's– It's fine. I'm the one who's sorry–"
I cut the call before he could finish speaking and put the phone back into my system storage.
…
At noon, I went to the rooftop with Kat. We made out and she sat on top of me, rubbing her butt against my crotch. Jody and Tara were also there, sitting at the side.
As I took a break from kissing Kat, Jody grabbed my head and kissed me too, just jamming her tongue down my throat.
Then, Tara took over roughly while Kat and Jody kissed my neck.
"I thought you wanted to separate everything?" I asked Kat teasingly.
"Kissing's fine." She replied casually.
"Listen. If we're doing this, I want you to pick me up at my house, in a Corvette, at least once." Kat demanded. "And shave your sideburn too."
Everyone stopped what they were doing and waited for my answer.
"So you'll pay the contract penalty? The TV station will make me pay around 40 thousand dollars if I shave the sideburns."
Kat was taken aback and asked skeptically. "Really?"
"Yes." I smiled teasingly.
"Hmm… I guess you can keep it. It does seem rugged." She grumbled.
Jody giggled and said, "He looks really handsome. Like Elvis."
"I want to go to the Rush concert." Tara added suddenly. "It's next week, just after the finals."
"I already have the tickets." I told her. "We can all go."
"Sweet!" Tara grinned.
"Anything else?" I asked them.
"Hmm… We're going shopping after this. You'll pay for whatever we want." Kat added with a taunting smile.
I smirked and said, "Yeah. Sure. But, I will also buy you all some stuff I want you to wear, and you need to wear it anytime I want."
"That's fair." Kat agreed. Tara just shrugged in agreement and Jody blushed slightly.
We didn't do anything much, just making out and humping on the roof because the girls told me they never wanted to do it with another person watching.
So I could do it with them, one by one. Never all at once.
…
I didn't go to the gym after lunch, and went to the autoshop in a hurry. Mark already sent me the tools for the sponsorship deals.
I shot a few videos of me using the tools on the Mustang, and added it to the video. It was only 120 seconds long, but it took me an hour to shoot it.
"Sponsorship deals are tough." I said, slightly shaking my head.
I edited the video quickly and uploaded it to Youtube. Now that I had finished it, I went to the mall with the girls.
They bought a lot of clothes and makeup. But honestly, everything didn't even cost me 300 bucks. And that was with them being very demanding.
I kept thinking to myself that this was the good decision. Since I couldn't keep any of them, this was for the best.
Kat decided to be the first. So I brought her back to my bedroom today.
Fez and Eric were in the basement when I came in, they didn't even turn their heads from the tv so I just walked behind them.
"Hyde, Mrs Ling said you're going to the summer gym." Eric shouted at me.
"Or, I can bribe the principal. New hoops for the basketball court."
"That might work." Eric said. "Can we go to the summer camp spot– Kat?" Eric finally saw the girl as he turned around.
Kat smiled at him disdainfully and said, "Eric. Why don't you and your foreign friend go out to the movies? We're going to need some privacy."
She gave him some money. Jackie, and now Kat. A lot of the girls at school think Eric is a wimp.
"This is a dollar." Eric was stupified. I laughed and said, "Make that last."
"Hyde–" He paused, "Okay, I'm going."
Eric pulled Fez and they left together through the side door.
I smiled in satisfaction and said to Kat. "Now, there's no one to disturb us–"
Kelso came downstairs from the indoor basement entrance and saw me. "Hyde! I need to talk to you about Jackie!"
"Can this wait? I have a pretty important thing to do here." I sighed.
"No! This can't wait!" Kelso stood in front of me, looking really urgent. "She hasn't been calling, or speaking to me today. I'm really worried that she's planning something."
"Yeah, she's planning to break up with you." I added.
"What?!" Kelso was shocked. "How did you know that?!"
"She told you she's thinking about you two, that's already a hint. Alright. I'll leave you to it. So just go out now."
"Wait, what do you think I should do? I don't want to lose her." He grabbed my shoulder and begged me.
"Hmm… I guess, you put her favourite song on a radio, go to her house and stand by her window holding the radio in the air. Then, put the song in full blast and tell her everything that you love about her." I replied playfully.
"Aww." Kat exclaimed sweetly. "That's so romantic. I'd die if you did that to me."
"Really?" Kelso noticed Kat's reaction and was convinced. "Thanks Hyde." He hugged me and left in a hurry. "You really are my best friend."
"Kelso! That's a joke!" I shouted at him, but he didn't turn around. I turned to Kat and asked, "Will that really work on you?"
"No. But I figured it's the best way to get him to go away." Kat sneered slightly.
"You're so hot right now." I exclaimed, feeling turned on. We went to my room and began kissing on top of the bed.
I put on a red lightbulb, which made the bedroom sexier. I even put on some mood music.
My hands slid underneath her cotton shirt and gently groped her breast. I squeezed it and played with her nipple too.
She moaned and unbuckled my belt. I put on the condom while she took off her jeans.
Then, we did it without foreplay since the entire day had been foreplay for us.
I slid my cock inside her wet pussy, spreading her inner walls. She moaned and took a deep breath. Then, I thrusted my hips like a jackhammer.
"Steven– Slow down, you're big–" She moaned and curled her legs slightly. We did it missionary style, then, I flipped her over on all fours.
She kept moaning as I thrusted my hips. Her pussy gripped me like it didn't want to let go.
My skin glistened from sweat, and Kat's cheek turned red from the blood rushing to her head. I kissed her while thrusting, and I could feel her body shivering.
"I've never been toyed with before." She wrapped her arms around my head and kissed me slobberingly. Her red hair sticks to her face slightly. "You're so manly!" She squealed.
"I'm cumming." I came inside the condom. She giggled and said, "That was fun."
"What do you mean was fun?" I took off the condom and put on a new one. "That's just the beginning."
"Really?" She was surprised.
We did it four more times since I was quite pent up. She orgasmed constantly since I kept playing with her body, fingering her pussy and licking her earlobes.
My entire bedsheet was wet from all of our entanglement. "Round five?" I asked her playfully.
Her naked body laid flat on my bed, her chest heaved as she tried to catch her breath. "No more." She rejected me. "I'm so sore right now."
She walked funny as I sent her back home. When I returned, I quickly changed the bedsheet and washed the old one. Then, I turned on the air purifier to get rid of the smell.
"Ah, that was fun." I exclaimed, already preparing to go to bed.
…
As I woke up the next day, the video had already crossed five hundred thousand views. That's just in 20 hours.
'I'm checking it since it's the first sponsored video. But I didn't expect it to blow up like this.'
I quickly checked the monetization dashboard.
Automotive channels usually had a high RPM. Mine was sitting around nine dollars per thousand views.
After the platform's cut, that meant the video had already earned around four thousand dollars in ad revenue.
Not bad for a single night.
And the video was still climbing.
With the length sitting at forty-five minutes, the mid-roll ads were doing their job nicely.
"Steven. You look happy." Mrs Forman said as she served breakfast this morning. I offered to help, but she just told me to sit.
"He must be. Since the tv people pay him a lot of money." Red chortled proudly.
I smirked and said, "Channel Five is premiering it tonight. I got the prime slot on Friday at 7.30."
Eric interjected, "So, are you going to do another project? The house one?"
"I'll do that over the summer." I sighed slightly. "I'm too busy right now."
"That's good. No one'll say anything if you slow things down. Not once did Point Place ever show up on TV, but you did it twice. The Mayor should've thank you for your service." Mrs Forman gushed proudly.
I sneered in secret. If only she knew how much the town government was a pain in my butt, she wouldn't be so genial with them.
"Hey, how about I help you with the house?" Red asked with a smile.
"So you're bored huh?" I asked him back.
He was caught off guard and agreed. "Yes."
I smiled and said, "Sure. You can work with me on my actual house, I need to work on Megan's by myself. Since that's the premise of the next video."
"I should do this with my life." Eric muttered. "Just film stuff and sell it to the tv station."
"You shouldn't. You're not that creative." Red scolded him. "What you need to do is to work hard, and go to a good college."
"But why does Hyde get to do it?" Eric was saddened.
"Because I have money. I can buy the cameras and film." I interjected.
"How much is that anyway?" He asked sarcastically. "I can work for it."
"I made that Mustang video for around… 250 thousand."
"Two fifty?!" Eric, Red and Kitty were shocked. "That much?" Red exclaimed, his eyes were filled with disbelief. "Wait, where did you get the money?" He asked skeptically.
"It's the TV station advancing it to me. I could pay half of it today once I signed all of the deals. Then, I might profit a bit when the big network buys it."
Red and Kitty were quite relieved. Eric asked, "If they didn't buy it?"
"Then I'd have to take on the debt myself." I told him.
He was shocked again and said, "Filmmaking is really risky."
"It is." I nodded slightly. I didn't want to tell him my truth since Eric was quite impressionable.
So I told him about the actual industry numbers so that he wouldn't have certain expectations if he decided to make cinematography his career.
"Red, I might go to Chicago this weekend." I told him.
"What for?"
"Car auction."
"Alright."
"I might stay there a few days. Since they have Saturday and Sunday auctions."
"I guess that's fine."
Eric looked at me and Red with disbelief. "You're really easy on him." Eric murmured with displeasure.
"He's making me money. You're not." Red said to Eric mercilessly.
…
At school today, Jody approached me at lunch and said, "Kat told us everything."
"So, you can't wait for your turn?" I flirted.
She blushed and said, "Well. Let's go to my house today. We can play around in the hot tub."
"That's cool," I replied vaguely.
She left after saying that, taken aback and didn't know how to react properly.
Eric, Fez, Kelso and Donna froze.
Eric snapped back to reality first and asked, "Hey Hyde. What's that about?"
"Oh, I'm dating Jody too." I replied.
"You two-timing bitch–" Donna wanted to curse at me, but I added, "Kat's fine with it."
"What?!" Donna grimaced. "You're sick."
I shrugged and ignored her. I turned to Kelso and asked, "So did it work last night?"
"No." He grimaced. "She threw a book on my head and said, "IT'S MIDNIGHT , MICHEAL!... GO AWAY, MICHEAL!"