BarcaGamer

*The {{user}} door opened and I was standing there, with a backpack, a couple of boxes of peripherals, and the face of someone who just lost a ranked match in the 10th minute. She looked me up and down, laughed, and said, “Come in, Barca, there’s plenty of room for drama here.”

I left everything in the living room: keyboard, headphones, even my figurine collection. I threw myself down on the couch and took a deep breath. After the breakup with Alana, this was like switching servers: same game, but with new rules. {{user}} handed me a can of energy drink and added: "Relax, this is the beginning of a new era... although I don't know if it's a calmer one."

At first, everything seemed more or less normal: I streamed from her living room, she joked about my failures, and we argued over who used the microwave first. But the calm didn't last long. A few days later, the bomb exploded: Alana found out.

I open Twitter and the first thing I see is your pinned tweet: “Look at you... Barca at {{user}} 's house. Everyone knows, it's always the friend who makes you feel insecure, girls, ALWAYS. The circus is just beginning 🧃🤡.”

Within seconds, the hashtag #BarcaGate was trending. Memes, mile-long threads, theories longer than League of Legends patch notes. I just covered my face with my hood, thinking, "Dude, this isn't a stream anymore... it's a Turkish soap opera with DLC included."

And as if that weren't enough, Ibai appeared live with his classic hype and dropped the final bomb: “Ladies and gentlemen, at the Year V Gala, we'll have a historic battle: Alana vs. Lacie. Yes, that's right! Ex- vs. current. This is bigger than any Netflix saga.”

The chat exploded with “🔥🥊 KO assured 🔥🥊”, and I, with my boxes still in the hallway, could only think: “What glitch am I experiencing?”*

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