Odd Squad one shots {requests are open}

Will you be mine? (Olive x Otto)

Otto sat at his desk, tapping his pencil on the edge of it as he bobbed his head in time with the music that was playing through his headphones. Olive hadn't arrived at work yet, since Otto had gotten there a bit earlier today. Anyone who looked at him at this moment would probably think that he was relaxed, enjoying himself, but they would be slightly wrong....

No, in reality, he was nervous. In fact, he was listening to music to try to calm himself (not that it was doing much good so far).

And how could he not be nervous? He was brainstorming clever ways to do something very important that he'd wanted to do for a long time.

Asking Olive to be his girlfriend.

He had been crushing on Olive for a while now, and much to his delight, Olive seemed to reciprocate his feelings. They'd been extra flirty with each other lately, stealing glances, holding hands for a little too long, cute nicknames and all, yet neither of them had verbally admitted to anything. So Otto decided that he should make the first move. That is, if he could manage to think up a clever way to ask her out.

His nerves were going crazy as the lyrics to the Soundcheck song that he was listening to faded into background noise, his thoughts way louder than the music. But he was pulled from his thoughts when he suddenly heard something or someone quite familiar from next to him.

"Obfusco!" came a voice out of nowhere, making Otto jump in surprise.

He pulled his headphones off as he looked over to the side, seeing the one and only Agent Obfusco standing beside him.

"Where did you come from?" Otto questioned the mustached boy, trying to gain his composure since he was quite startled.

"Like a monkey playing hop scotch with no bananas, you remind me of a stressed jungle animal." Obfusco replied in a confusing riddle like always.

Otto narrowed his eyes in confusion as he shook his head some. "What does that even mean?" he asked.

"Like two peas in a pod, being separated is like two chimpanzees trying to-"

"If you're asking where Olive is, she should be here in the next ten minutes." Otto cut in before Obfusco could finish his confusing statement. "I got here early today since I needed some time to plan out how I'm gonna ask Olive to be my girlfriend." Otto added, letting out a sigh as he couldn't help but rant at the moment.

Obfusco nodded, seeming to understand.

"I just need some ideas...." Otto trailed off, not even sure why he was basically asking Obfusco for advice.

Apparently he was very desperate.

Obfusco opened his mouth to speak and Otto almost rolled his eyes, knowing that He'd get some impossible riddle-like statement for his reply, but he listened anyway.

"Like a llama playing sports, some ideas are easy to figure out."

"I don't know what that- wait, that's it! Sports! I know what I'm gonna do." Otto said, grinning as an idea entered his brain. "Thanks, Obfusco. And please do not tell Olive about this." he told Obfusco, and before anything else was said, Olive came walking in.

"Morning, partner. You got here early." she commented as she walked up to Otto.

"Heh, yeah, just wanted an early start I guess." he shrugged.

It was at that moment that Obfusco decided speak up. "Like a Goose chasing a cheetah, it is beautiful when two friends fall for each other."

Otto's eyes widened as he gave Obfusco a look that said 'Alright-please-shut-it-with-all-the-romance -metaphors!' He didn't want Olive suspecting anything.

"What?" Olive questioned in confusion as she sat down at her desk, luckily not understanding what he meant, Otto still sending a glare Obfusco's way.

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Later that day, Otto pep-talked himself like crazy as he prepared to ask Olive the important question. He took a deep breath before walking to the break room where Olive was waiting for him since they were planning to have lunch together.

"Hey, Otto." she greeted him with his favorite smile.

Gosh, that smile.

"Hey, Olive. I have a surprise for you." he said, trying super hard to keep his nervousness from showing. There was no going back now.

Olive tilted her head to the side in curiosity. "A surprise? What is it?" she inquired.

Otto then reached into his pocket, bringing out two tickets. "I got two tickets to the Bears game tonight."

Olive lit up instantly. "Seriously?! That's amazing, Otto! Thank you!" she exclaimed.

"Yeah, one's for you and one is for your boyfriend." Otto told her, earning a confused look from her.

"What do you mean? I don't have a boyfriend." she replied.

"I know. I was hoping you'd let me change that...." Otto said, his heart rate speeding up as he then took a beautiful, pink flower from his pocket and held it out to her.

"Will you be mine, Olive?"

Olive's eyes widened as she stared at him in shock, Otto feeling as though he was going crazy with every second of anticipation.

After a couple moments, which felt like hours for Otto, a brilliant smile formed on Olive's face, her dimples making an appearance.

"Of course I will, Otto." she reacted, wrapping her arms around him in a hug as he shamelessly let out a sigh of relief.

"Really? Thank goodness. I seriously thought you were gonna say no." he admitted as Olive giggled a bit, pulling away to look at him.

"Well, since we're admitting things.... I thought you were never gonna ask, I was beginning to think all that flirting was just all in my head or something." Olive told him, blushing a bit as she avoided his line of sight.

Otto couldn't but smile at how cute she looked. He lifted ger chin up so that she was looking at him before gently kissing both of her cheeks, making her blush even more, not that his face didn't resemble a tomato either though.

"It definitely wasn't all in your head." he said as they both laughed a little.

"Thanks again so much for the tickets."

"No problem. And you can thank Obfusco too, he gave me the idea." Otto casually informed her.

Olive raised an eyebrow at him. "You got advice from Obfusco? How did you even understand what he was saying?"

Otto's reply was simple. "I didn't understand."

That sent them into another round of laughter. But they had more than one thing to smile about, now that they were officially a couple. And they had one confusing agent to thank for that.

Posted! 😘 This was requested by LaurexForLife123 I hope this is what you were expecting, and that you liked it! Sry it took so long for me to post it, but here it is now lol! Idk what I think of it honestly, so plz let me know what you think of it in the comments! I hope my writing has not been trash lately like I sorta think it has.... lol. I've never written for Obfusco before (am I even spelling his name right? Lol) but I hope I did ok. It was so hard but fun trying to come up with all the crazy, nonsense riddles for him to say lols. Anyways, hope you liked it!

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