♡ Marigold Sunset ♡ (Taranza x Reader)

♡ That was when I died ♡

I laid there, my eyes open, but unmoving. I could only lay there and wonder, what the fuck subconscious, that was pretty rude. No, that was extremely rude, it felt as if the world came crashing down, that I would never do any of that with him. Groaning, I turned over and got up out of bed, slipping on some shoes. The real sun had begun peaking in my room, in reality I did have work today, and Taranza would be there too. Beginning to get dressed and doing my usual morning routine, I had to make myself get ready to go, I didn't really feel like seeing him today after that. Oh I would've loved to just keep dreaming, and not realize it wasn't real, I would've been fine with that. To just keep dreaming. I'm such a dreamer.

Scoffing, I grabbed my work apron and tied it around my waist, it was dark green and the ribbon on it was orange, the tie on it always ending up looking like a perfect butterfly. It's so adorable. Looking at the time, I noticed it was almost opening, so I grabbed an apple and ran out the door. Walking and taking the occasional bite of my fruit. I wasn't anything great to talk about, just another somebody in the crowd of different faces in dreamland. I mostly stayed at home, until I found this job. I thought it'd be easy, and maybe fun to do, working at a flower shop, but it was harder then it looked. I'm lucky my boss Magolor didn't fire me or something on the spot when I accidentally killed a new batch of flowers from over watering them, but I didn't want them to be thirsty! They were looking so dry.

I shook myself out of those memories from the prior week, as I arrived in front of the small building, knocking on the glass door and waving at Magolor. He was floating around the store, more than likely gathering things for bouquets. He came over and unlocked it, letting me inside. "Good morning." I spoke. His glowing eyes squinted together, he smiled. "Good morning (Y/N)!" He nodded in acknowledgement. "If you don't mind, could you clean up that mess over there? A flower pot must've fallen over last night, again." He looked annoyed, as did I. This had been happening for almost a week now. something breaking before opening time. Yet there were never any signs that the store was broken into.

I sighed and went to grab the broom and dust pan, and begun begrudgingly sweeping up the dirt that covered the floor, maybe we have a faulty shelf or something? The doors' little bell rung, as it opened and Taranza walked in. My breath hitched as the sunlight hit his face perfectly, appearing almost magical. He's so handsome. Wait fuck you're staring. I looked away quickly, now staring at the ground while sweeping. "It happened again?" I heard Taranza speak, probably looking over at me. Magolor sighed in affirmation. "Yup, but that's not important right now, what is important is that we have a busy day ahead of us." Oh, that's right. It was spring now. Everyone would be ordering flowers, even the ones that don't have very long life spans. They must've gotten a ton of them and now it was time to fulfill the orders.

Magolor jabbed his thumb in the direction of the back garden. "Your turn." He snickered to himself, the spider didn't mind it though and floated outside. I continued cleaning in silence, just going ahead and sweeping the whole room anyway. "So.. you and Taranza?" Mags spoke. I looked over at him, my eyebrow raising in fake confusion. Damn it, am I that obvious? "What?"
"You stared at him, for a good minute when he walked in."
"Yeah, so?"
"You like him don't you?" I stopped what I was doing and looked into his eyes, I couldn't tell if this questioning was with malicious intent or not, he always did hide his true intentions well. "You're taking a minute to answer." He must've been counting too, making fun of the look on my face. "So are you two together or something?" He finally asked. I laughed. "No way. I'm just the local simp." Sticking my tongue out at him.

He pouted, before smiling mischievously. I'd be lying if I said the look on his face didn't leave a bad feeling in me. "No."
"I haven't even said anything yet?"
"I don't care, I'm perfectly fine with just... watching from afar."
"No your not."
"No I'm not.."
"So let me help you! It's my job after all." Magolor held his hands out in front of him, pointing around the room. I deadpanned.  "You make and sell flower bouquets. The whole romantic part is on the buyers end. Who says you even have charm??" He chuckled and looked at me with half lidded eyes and a mock deep voice. "Many people think I'm charming (Y/N)~ I'm just not interested in the people who do." He was making fun, I shoved him. "Ew! Don't do that again." We laughed for a second before hearing the back door open, Taranza floated inside, holding a basket full of freshly cut flowers, ready to be arranged into colorful bouquets. "What're you both laughing about?" He smiled, looking curious. "We were just talking about the MAJOR cru-" "OH NOTHING MUCH! JUST TALKING ABOUT HOW UNCHARMING MAGOLOR CAN BE! HAHAHA-" I exclaimed loudly in panic, and in my fear, I punched Magolor in the side. "Yikes!- You punch hard!!"
"Hahaha..." Laughing nervously at my embarrassment. I just decided to walk away and continue to sweep, now using it as an excuse to get away from the situation.

"Okay?.. you both can be so odd at times." The spider laughed and set the basket on the counter, going around it and grabbing some ribbon and tissue paper to wrap the plants together in. Magolor raised both his eyebrows at me in a suggestive way, me mouthing 'no' didn't stop him much. "Well.. seeing as you didn't get nearly as many flowers as we'll be needing to sell today, I'll go ahead and get some more! You both go and continue what you're doing. Bye!" He floated out the door, slamming it behind him. Of course he was lying, Taranza already got every flower he needed for the special orders today, and there were plenty of pre-made ones for sale around the shop. Man fuck that chocolate kinder egg ass weaboo catboy.

As I swept literally nothing, I looked over in Taranza's direction, his back was turned to me. He was always so very sweet, I'm almost kinda glad that he turned up in my dreams, because let's face it, in reality I'll always be the one staring at the back of his head, lmao. Hugging the broom close to my body, I wondered what he was thinking about right now, maybe he was thinking of how pretty those flowers were, or how werid it was for these flowers pots to keep breaking overnight, or maybe that green is such a pretty color on him, or maybe that I'd like to be tangled up in his web sometime, I bet it's really soft- wait fuck these are just my own gay thoughts.

My eye's shot down to the ground, my face burning a little, I can't go a minute without thinking of him. One day, maybe I'll get the courage to try and woo him. I looked back up at him, he was still turned around, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Okay, you got this, you got this. looking back over at him, his shiny white hair still faced me, and the cute little yellow eyes stared back at mine.

Then one of them winked at me.

One fucking winked at me.

I doubled over, choking on what had to had been my spit, or air, maybe both, now coughing to death as my mind broke for a split moment. Taranza turned around quickly and came over to me in surprise. Fuck he'd only make it worse. "Are you okay!?" I stared back at him for a moment, he was cute when he was concerned. I looked away, my face turning red yet again, he had to have only blinked, yeah, he blinked and I blinked at the same time, it was a harmless blink, I was worked up over nothing. "Yeah.. I'm fine!" I stood back up straight and hugged the broom close to me again. If I hugged it any closer It would probably sue me for sexual harassment, I swear. "Sorry for worrying you, just went down the wrong pipe I guess!" Cue nervous laugh. He blinked, I blinked, he spoke. "Oh, okay!" He turned to float away back to the counter, but stopped and faced me again. "Oh yeah, and.. you missed a spot." He pointed to a random spot on the ground, and I swear he had this.. look on his face.. was he... flirting with me just now?!?!

And that was when I died.