The Best Love Story Since Shakespeare (A Sasha Slow Burn)

Centaurus Meet-Cute

It's a fine sunny afternoon, the sun blazing outside. Gigip is lazily sprawled across his bed, not a care in the world, wasting his life on his super expensive phone, scrolling through Instagram when he comes across a new post from CeraVe. He is suddenly alert, and jolts upright. He steadies himself and sees the post. It's a post about CeraVe launching their newst product. The Resurfacing Retinol Serum (no joke its a great serum check it out guys). 

His excitement cannot be masked as his eyes skim over the product features. He needed to have that serum, eventhough it was barely gonna be used once and then was gonna be forgotten by him, but he needed to buy it before it sold out. 

He scrambles to get up and goes upto Draino, who is in the middle of texting two awesome hoomans, aka your author (meee) and milo. He shakes her violently ranting about the new product and how he needed to purchase it. It was available at Centaurus for a limited amount of time so he urges her to go to centaurus so they could buy it. Draino could not give a single fuck, but decided to go along just to eat her heart out at the food court.

So it was settled! They got ready, and drove to Centaurus.

Draino and gigip walk into centaurus. While draino roams about aimlessly, gigio walks with purpose in his strides. For he has come to purchase his 420th skincare product. He walks excitedly towards the skincare shop dragging along a reluctant, half asleep, hungry draino with him. He enters the store, excitement glinting in his eyes. He's like a little kid entering candlyland, overwhelmed with joy.

He has forgotten about an annoyed Draino, fluently swearing at him for dragging her here and not letting her go to the food court. He sees the latest display and runs towards it full speed. He grabs the serum, and rushes to the counter to purchase it. He was truly having the best day of his life, but little did he know. His day was about to get a hundred times better.

Draino was obviously handling the payment, and gigio took that time to admire the skincare paradise he was in and decided to roam around eyeing different products.

 He's looking at a certain display, as he locks eyes with a peculiar gentleman from across the room. Tousled hair, wonky glasses, a moustache that could be described as a dead rats carcass at best. Gigio stood there, staring in awe. He felt something as he stood in the middle of the store, holding eye contact with this stranger he felt a magnetic connection towards. It was exactly how you see it in the movies. They could feel the butterflies, the breeze softly blowing, the loving melody playing in their hearts.

The moment was interrupted as Rida walked beside gigio, scanning the bill with narrowed eyes. 

"Fucking little shit, you drag me here to buy this stupid fucking product that costs more than your entire existence and then don't even have the guts to walk up to the fucking cashier and pay for it. As if you need more products, we could sell all of them and buy an album but nOoO prissy princess needs her face masks. What are you staring at, bitch? Can we at least go and buy a fucking meal so I don't die of fucking hunger? I want chinese food, and you're paying because I fucking get up and drag my ass here to buy your stupid lotion thing. Why is this thing so expensive anyway? Can't you use regular soap and water like a normal fucking human? Are you even listening dickhead? WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU LOST YOU LITTL-"

Draino stops midsentence and looks in the direction gigip is staring at. As gigio stands in awe, his companion draino perks up beside him, seemingly recognizing the unknown figure of the boy with the moustache. She curses under her breath, and attempts to steer gigio towards the exit door.

Gigip gets annoyed at her for interrupting the moment and glares at her, staying put in his place.

"Okay okay bro, we need to get out of here right now. Let's go get some food, aight?" Rida tries her hardest to get him out of there, before the stranger sees her.

It was too late. He had already spotted her next to gigio, and was equally shocked as her.

Gigip was clueless about whatever was going on, he just thought of the tousled hair guy as a cute guy. One that he was magnetically attracted to, mind you. Gigio was confused about the reactions of the stranger and Draino to seeing each other. He turned to Rida quizzically, oblivious as ever.

"Oh, so the lovebird has come out of the trance huh? Get us out of here now you little shit, this is all your fault!" Rida whisper-shouted.

It was only then, when the stranger began walking towards them. Both Rida and Gigio panicked. For many different reasons, but still they were frozen like deer in headlights.

Yusha made his way over and ran a hand through his hair, clearly nervous. He cleared his throat and said "Uh hi."

He made an awkward nod towards Rida, not knowing what to say. Internally he was cursing at himself for even walking over, but he felt something special about this guy so he had to. Rida cleared her throat aswell, and regained her composure, saying hi back. 

There was silence for a few minutes. It consisted of gigio having social anxiety and not knowing what to say, Draino cursing at the universe and waiting for Yusha to leave (completely unaware of the magical encounter between him and gigio), and Yusha waiting for the guy to introduce himself or at least Rida to introduce who he was and what she was doing at the mall with him. 

Draino being the smarter out of the lot, realized that gigio was there too and decided to introduce him.

"Right so uh, this is gigip. Gigip, yush kebab. Yush kebab, gigip." Both of them nodded at each other, unknowingly smitten and then suddenly it hit gigio-

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WAIT THIS IS YUSHA?! LIKE YUSHA WALA YUSHA?! DAMNNN I CANT BELIEVE THIS IS HIM. HE'S KINDA CUTE THO- NO NO NO WAIT THIS IS YUSHA! YOU CANNOT THINK YUSHA IS CUTE WTF? But like he is tho. OK OK FOCUS TIME DUDE. WHAT SHOULD I DO? SHOULD I PUT MY HAND IN MY POCKET? WILL THAT MAKE ME LOOK COOLER? OH FUCK POSTURE POSTURE, FIX YOUR POSTURE. IS MY HAIR LOOKING OKAY? DAMNIT I WAS RUNNING TOWARDS THE STORE, I HOPE MY SHIRT DIDNT GET ALL CRUMPLED. SHOULD I SAY SOMETHING OR WILL DRAINO KILL ME IF I TRY TO MAKE CONVERSATION? OH NO WAIT SHE'LL KILL ME EITHER WAY, AND I HAVE SOCIAL ANXIETY. BEST KEEP IT QUIET. DANG HE'S FREAKING CUTE THO OMG-

"Well um, it was nice meeting you two. I better get going haha, see you guys later." Yusha said. He started to walk away, but then stopped as if he was going to say something. He looked at gigio and opened his mouth to say something, but no words came out. So he just gave an awkward nod to say goodbye, and parted ways with the duo.

Gigio found himself staring after him as he watched him leave. As soon as Yusha was out of sight, Draino fiercly punched gigip in the stomach. He doubled over in pain, and she pulled him up ticked off at him.

"COULDN'T YOU TAKE THE FUCKING HINT?! THAT WAS YUSHA. YUSHA NAUMAN. JESUS AND I HAD TO GREET HIM AND PRETEND LIKE NOTHING HAD HAPPENED AND IT WAS ALL YOUR FAULT! FUCK. YOU." Rida blurted in anger.

"I'M SORRY DUDE HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW? I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM! I'M SORRY" But deep down inside, gigio was not as sorry as he made it sound. He was glad Yush Kebab walked over, he could still feel the warm fuzzy feeling inside his heart.

Rida rolled her eyes, and handed gigio the bag with his serum in it, and then walked out of the store with him following closely behind. He had completely forgotten the reason he came to the mall, but was still overjoyed at buying the product.

 Maybe just not as overjoyed as he was about 10 minutes ago... He thought about the encounter thoughtfully, still puzzled by that strange feeling. He shook his head and followed draino up towards the food court.

Yusha walked out of the store, looking back one last time. No sign of gigio. He sighed and turned his attention to exiting the mall. Yush Kebab was equally confused about the attraction he felt towards someone he had barely known for 5 minutes. He shrugged it off and continued on walking.

And that was the day Gigip and Yush Kebab met. Though both walked their seperate ways that day at centaurus, little did they know. Their journey surely didn't end there.