bubblegum ; karl jacobs

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"he's the boy of your dreams!"
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5:30am
2 new messages from café boy karl <3
hey! do you wanna hang out with me
after your shift today?

dont feel stressed to say yes btw! i just
had some free time and wanted to
see you :)

as your freshly opened eyes adjusted to the bright world around you, your arms flopped to your sides while your nose sniffed the soft sweet smell of incense burning from debs room.
rolling over underneath your thick doona, you reached out your arms for your phone which was sat charging on your bedside table.

this had been your daily routine for months, wake up, scroll through twitter for half an hour, get ready and then leave for work- however, recently this had changed ever so slightly.
instead of scrolling through twitter, you would text karl for half an hour until you had to get up and ready for work.
opening your messages app. you saw two new notifications from karl, and clicked on your conversation feed, and your face immediately brightened ten times to what it had been before.

karl wanted to hangout with you. he was actually interested in you.
he liked you.
quickly typing out a response, you realised you should probably get ready- you wanted to look nice for when you guys hung out.
you ended up deciding on a brown cardigan over a blouse- that cardigan is one of the only fucking things you own that isn't fucking blue- paired with white cargo pants and your deep blue converse.

"DEEEEEEB!" you whine from the entrance to the kitchen, not wanting to wait to tell her about the most exciting thing to happen to you in months.
hearing her giggle a little bit, she responds just as annoyingly, whining back a simple "WHAAAAAAAAT!"
running into the kitchen, you see shes sitting legs crossed on the floor, presumably waiting for the water to boil so she can make her coffee of the day.

sitting down with her on the hard tile floor, you utter a simple sentence, mouth nearly bursting with how excited you were.
"karl asked me to hangout after my shift today."

seeing her face immediately turn up in an excited smile, she pushes her smile down and gives you a teasing look,
"is it a date or no?"

as soon as her words hit your ears, your cheeks turn a deep red, hiding your face in your hands as you giggle softly.
god, you hadn't felt this way since high school.

he hadnt said it was a date exclusively, but it was obvious there was some form of tension between you two- it was literally undeniable. so, thats what you told deb.

"he hasn't exclusively said it is but yeah- i guess so."

picking yourself up before she could tease you any further, you grab your bag off the counter and run out the door.
putting in your earbuds as you walk down the stairs of your apartment building, you pick a song that reminds you of nobody but karl- this side of paradise, by coyote theory.

today was going to be a good day.