🐚 | sheet music, sapunz

[008]

why is this book growing so mf quickly😭

[chapter 8]

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sapnap hurried down the crowded sidewalks, uncomfortable in his sweatshirt in the hot florida weather, shoes tapping on the concrete. today was the day he met the faceless singer punz. but, as it turned out, sapnap was not the first person to see and know who punz really was; niki had taken that opportunity. she said punz had asked her things about sapnap so punz didn't "screw up."

so now sapnap was nearing the apartment building address punz had given him. it was near his own, thankfully, but still a good walking distance away. the building itself wasn't anything special except for the many plants potted outside the entrance and even on some balconies. the inside was nice and modern, the hallways decorated with abstract art and paintings to give life to the dull halls.

sapnap raised his fist to knock on what he hoped was the right door before a wave of anxiety washed over him. it always happened knocking on a new door, and sapnap had to fish his phone out of his pocket to check the address again before he allowed himself to actually knock.

when he finally did, a blond boy a few inches taller than him answered the door. his blue eyes were sparkly and excited, but his smile was nervous.

"sapnap?" the boy asked shyly. nick nodded happily.

"punz?"

"yeah! nice to meet you, sapnap," punz giggled. sapnap grinned and punz let him into the apartment. the raven slipped off his shoes, sliding them neatly next to the door.

"sorry it's so messy," punz apologized, moving between boxes, "i haven't gotten a chance to put everything in their respective rooms just yet."

"why don't we start with that, then?" sapnap suggested, crouching by a box labeled living room.

"sure." punz nodded. "then we can unpack the living room first and take a break or something."

the next hour was full of lugging cardboard boxes filled with god knows what into different rooms. punz's couch was delivered sometime halfway through the time, so they had to pull and push the big boxes into where punz wanted the living room. once the rest of the smaller boxes were cleared and there was enough room, the two of them started to open the couch's boxes and empty the contents in a pile.

"what the fuck is this," sapnap asked as he held up a metal rod. punz stifled a giggle and took the rod from him, pointing at the picture of the couch he wanted; the rod was for the bottom of the sofa to hold up the cushions.

"oh."

punz didn't manage to muffle his laugh this time. sapnap shook his head and continued to try to sort through the multiple metal screws and pieces.

"do you even have tools?"

"you ask an awful lot of questions," punz noted.

sapnap's gaze fell to the pile again. "sorry," he mumbled.

"that's not a bad thing, though," punz corrected himself quickly. sapnap shrugged and opened the instructions manual. the rest of the time building the couch was quiet except for the few times the had to communicate to attach something or to pass a tool.

"i'm sorry if i offended you in some way," punz whispered at some point. sapnap looked up from where he was drilling in a screw, eyes softening at punz's almost sad expression.

"oh, no, you didn't do anything. i'm just a bit tired is all," sapnap said. he reached over the couch and patted punz's closest limb, which happened to be his hand. punz nodded stiffly and they went back to their jobs.

the pair collapsed onto the finished couch together when they finally shoved the cushions in the right spots and placed pillows dug out from other boxes.

"we did it!! we actually built a couch," sapnap breathed. his hands hurt from holding things in place and screwing things, his neck sore from leaning down for so long. punz looked equally tired, a smile on his face despite his droopy eyes.

"what say we stop for the night and head over to my place so we actually have a place to sleep?" sapnap asked, pulling out his phone to look at the time. they'd spent the entire evening building a couch.

punz shrugged. "sure."