Spiced Apple Toddy ~ Karl Jacobs x Candle Girl

II

I awake to a bright light shining in through my window. Ugh, I forgot to close the stupid curtain. 

Since I'm already awake and there's no way I'm going back to sleep easily, I decide to embrace the morning hours. 

As always, the first thing my mind races to is my phone. I have to check social media every morning or else I just simply feel deficient. 

Surprisingly, when I open it there is a text message from an old friend. That's strange for two reasons;  1. I haven't talked to or even messaged this girl in about 8 months, and 2. who uses text messages anymore when Snapchat exists?

Whatever, she probably just wants to talk or something, "catch up" like old friends do. But strangely enough the message simply reads,  'you work as Bath and Body Works, right?'

As random as it is, I don't think much of it, 'yeah, why' is all I respond with. 

I set my phone down on the nightstand and start to get ready for work. After brushing my hair and getting dressed, I look back down at my phone to see that my friend had sent me a video.

I was shocked, this looks exactly like the boy who was in the store last night. I look at the title and it's something about a "candle girl".

Oh. My. God. I'm candle girl, aren't I? This video had a ton of views, too. Is this mysterious boy, Karl Jacobs according to the title, famous?

I hesitate before clicking onto the video and watching it's entirety. There's no way I'm not candle girl. The literal second I get to work I have to show this to Clara. 

Also, did this bitch just diss my taste in candles? I'll let it slide this one time because he's attractive, but this needs some serious thought. Spiced apple toddy is his candle of choice over all the, clearly superior, Christmas scents. Any yet he has the audacity to say he only bought the candle because I was cute. 

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I rush into the back entrance of the Bath and Body Works, I've never been so excited to go to work. 

Clara can feel the excitement radiating off of me before I even step in the door. "Someone had a good night with lover-boy," she says with a wink in my direction.

"Ew what the literal fuck Clara, no," I respond with a disgusted look on my face. 

"Well then why are you riding cloud 9 all of a sudden?" she says, putting on an act of confusion though she knows perfectly well I wouldn't just go sleeping with a stranger. 

"Okay so I got this random text from a girl I haven't talked to in forever, and she just sends me this video of the boy, Karl I think his name is, and he's talking about a 'candle girl' who works at Bath and Body Works, and he's saying how she's cute and everything, that has to be me, right?"

"Well no shit it's you, unless he's going around to all these other Bath and Body works and buying the exact same candles and meeting with other cute girls," she says grinning with a wide smile that looks almost proud.

Wait, how would she know all that, I never even showed her the video. Did she know about this guy already and not tell me- 

She sees my look of confusion, and realizes she has to elaborate. God I hate how well she can read me. "I saw the video already, just came up in my recommended, never seen the guy before, because I know you're about to ask if I knew who he was and was betraying your trust by  deliberately not telling you or something."

"I swear you can literally read my mind, how do you do that? But whatever, what do I do now? We clearly both like each other but I'm not about to be an online stalker and figure out his address or something," I say,

"Well if you really need the address, I could definitely get it for you," she looks at me before continuing, I just stay poker faced, I'm far too used to her strange, borderline concerning comments, "but I think you just play the waiting game for now. If he's really that into you, he'll be back here before you know it to talk to his darling."

Great, now I'm just going to overly stress about him coming back until he does. What am I supposed to do in this situation? Do I tell him I know who he is, or is that just really creepy? I guess I'm just not used to crushing on random strangers who just so happen to be famous.

*******

My day goes by in a blur of thoughts, words, and occasionally not being spaced out in thought and actually doing my job. I swear I'm going to end up getting fired before I can talk to this Karl boy again at this rate. 

All day, I hope that he will come back to the store but my wish doesn't come true. This is so stupid, why does he have to be famous. If I never saw that video everything would just be so much simpler, I could just do my normal 'subtle' flirting and maybe even get away with it. 

But now everything is just so stressful because I have an inside scoop on what's happening in his mind through his social media. The thing is, he doesn't know I know, and I don't know if I should even tell him if or when he comes back to the store. 

*******

The second I get home I start to do my homework on the Karl Jacobs boy. 

I find out that he has a Twitch channel, a tik tok, and is also a part of the Mr. Beast crew. That must be why he seemed so familiar! I've seen so many Mr. Beast videos but I guess I never thought to pay attention to this adorable boy. Even I don't know why not, I mean who wouldn't fall in love immediately after watching one video. 

I watch a few videos he's in, and binge his tik toks. God he has the cutest laugh I've ever heard. I didn't know I could like Mr. Lover-boy here even more than I did already, but somehow I managed. 

I also discovered that he is big into Minecraft. That's something I'm going to have to get used to. I used to play it all the time when I was younger, but it's been a hot minute since I last played. 

You know what, why not give it a go? I start up my computer and download Minecraft. Since when is this game $27? Geesh, I guess he bought a candle because I was cute, so I might as well buy Minecraft in the name of a crush.

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A/N 

I hope you liked chapter two! I'm sorry the chapters are so short I'm just struggling to find a lot of things to fill them with when I'm not deliberately writing about Karl and Candle Girl having an interaction. Still, I wanted to have something fairly early just talking about how she does know about him being online, so I hope you don't mind too much!If you want me to start adding a word count at the beginning of chapters, just let me know and I'll make it happen. Have a great day/night and remember to drink some water or eat something if you haven't already today! :)