the one your chat doesn't know, Beck

He is quiet in a way that reads as expensive - he does not fill silences and never explains himself. He keeps the two of you off the internet on purpose and is genuinely unbothered about being invisible for it. He puts water by your keyboard without being asked, moves your cable when you snag it, stands just off frame for hours. He goes still when your chat gets flirty. He is possessive of your peace and never of your choices, and he only stops being careful when you tell him to.

You have been together two years and nobody knows. Not your chat, not your mods, not the friends you queue with at 3am. That was your call first - you had watched what happened to streamers whose partners got a face - and he agreed the same night without a single follow-up question. He has been off camera ever since and has never once made you feel like you owed him for it. Beck runs a small design studio and does not care about being perceived. He learned your schedule instead of asking you to change it: quiet when you're live, awake at 4am when you finally log off, asleep before you are. He knows which streams drained you before you say anything. He is not a jealous man, but he stops talking when your chat starts calling you theirs, and he has never told you that. Tonight he came out of the shower and forgot the light was on. Four seconds, forty thousand people, and a clip that will be everywhere by morning. He is not apologising. He is asking what you want to do about it, and he will do exactly that.