9 Partnership

Sam didn't know how he would do to help Eric but anyway he'd just give him general advices he found on the net but this will be for later as he didn't have time at the moment, they decided to meet and discuss it this weekend.

After going back home he went to check his view count on YouTube, he had reached 230k views on the cover and 100k views on the live "show", after the explosive growth it had slowed down a lot but was still going up steadily.

'I need to find a way to boost my view count... if this goes on I'll earn less with youtube than any part time job...'He had been thinking about this for a moment already but couldn't think of any solution.

[Master please make a choice :

- temporary 24h +50 luck points.

- temporary 24h +50 leadership points.

The system is still absorbing energy, the energy required to open the shop should be accumulated during the next week.]

'It's been so long I didn't hear this voice but it still sound so good. I don't see any utility to leadership points at the moment, let's get the luck points and see what happens..."

When the HUD appeared in front of him, he didn't hesitate and clicked on the luck stat choice. A few seconds after his finger left the screen his phone started ringing.

'This can't be a coincidence, let's hope 68 luck points are enough to settle my financial issues.'

He picked up the phone and looked, the number wasn't one he knew. He answered and put the phone near his ear.

"Hello ? Is it mister Petit ?"

The voice sounded like a male voice but it was weirdly high pitched, Sam couldn't tell if it was a guy or a girl on the other side.

"Hello, it's me, who is it ?"

"Nice to meet you mister Petit, my name is Roland and I work for a guitar brand called "Chords to the Core" and we've seen your videos, we'd like to have a long term partnership with you."

He hadn't put his number anywhere on his YouTube channel so he was wondering how they actually got it but it wasn't important, this will solve his problems.

"Yeah I'm interested in the offer, would you like to meet to speak about it ?"

"Really ? Thank you very much, how about meeting tomorrow?"

Tomorrow was a school day but he couldn't care less, anyway since he had the system he didn't take school as seriously as he did, if he could make full use of the system's potential he could be the richest man alive without going to school anymore. Of course he still went to school as a parachute in case something unexpected happened.

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The next day Sam sent Em to school and went by himself to a cafe downtown where he had to meet the representative of the brand. On the way he found a 50€ bill on the ground... luck was indeed on his side.

After a moment he made it to the cafe and sat down, the person he was looking for arrived a few minutes late and sat down in front of him. He was a man obviously as he had beard but was dressed as a woman and acted like a sissy.Sam felt a bit weird because he wasn't used to dealing with these kind of people, it was even the first time he had spoken with a travesti.

"Roland ?"

Sam stood up and shook his hand when he arrived in front of the table.

"It's me, you look better in real life than in the videos Sam."

He actually said that while winking at him, Sam's whole body became cold and all the hair on his body stood up.

"Thanks, so let's speak about the partnership?"

He said this with a forced smile.

"Sure, actually the idea of doing a partnership with you was brought in a reunion a few days ago but at that time the vice-president of the company refused it, everyone thought that it was over and we won't have this discussion anymore but yesterday he asked for a sudden reunion and it was him that brought the idea this time. That's when I called you."

Sam seemed pensive but of course he knew why their vice-president changed his mind.

"I see... so, what kind of partnership are you thinking of ?"

"Actually the offer we proposed during the first reunion wasn't as good as this one, the vice-president gave a better offer... you're really lucky huh..."

He said while throwing a weird glance toward Sam.

Right now Sam didn't want to deal with this guy anymore so he pressed him to get done with the speaking.

"Instead is using your guitar during your videos we want you to use one of our guitars and to show the logo at least once, that's all."

"I don't mind doing this much, what do I get in exchange ?"

"It was first of all business they were speaking about so Sam didn't feel anything going straight to the point."

"You're pretty honest huh... I like it. The offer we have is 1500€ every time our guitar appear on the screen for a video that has at least 100k views but the vice-president actually said you could bargain... what do you think ?"

"No need to bargain I'm satisfied by the offer, about the guitar I won't have to buy it right ?"

"Of course not, I have it in my car you can take it back home now."

After signing a contract both went on their way, Sam got a new guitar and even a good income he kept smiling on the way back to university. He had only missed the first class as the deal was done very fast.

At noon Sam trained his guitar in the same place as the day before and once again Annie came and held him company, actually he wasn't the only one that felt good in the company of the other one, she liked to spend time with him as well. After all he was tall, handsome, kind, funny, good guitar player and good singer, except the fact that he had no fashion sense, he was better than most guys she knew. Of course it wasn't that he had no fashion sense but he couldn't wear anything else.

"Ooooh, is this a new guitar ? It looks so expensive..."

"Yeah I got it today, cool right ?"

He himself was feeling proud of it, it was definitely a pretty expensive piece, the brand had done a good deed.

"Yeah it's cool, how much did it cost you ?"

"It didn't cost me anything, I've got a partnership with the brand that make it so I've got one for free."

"Wow that's so cool you actually have partnership with brands."

Actually with his low view count he couldn't get an offer of this caliber, he had it due to his luck points.

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Later the same day, Sam picked Em from school and went home, during lunch he told her

"Em tomorrow afternoon let's go to that place again to do another video."

"Yeahhh let's go ! Haha but you have to get me a good thing to eat !"

"Of course, we'll eat whatever you want to eat!"