Raekkuno Stories

New Year's Special

Sykkuno's POV: (11:30 P.M. December 31st)

I was waiting out in the hall of the hotel room for all of my friends to pop out so we could head for Times Square. This was the first time in New York for most of us so I was pretty excited to watch the ball drop and say hello to 2022. I liked this year a lot, the world finally opened up a bit especially compared to last year, my growth only grew higher this year, and I got to meet and get closer to so many people, like X and Hasan. I never thought I would get close to people like them but they were actually so much nicer and less intimidating than I thought they would be in person.

I do wish I got to spend more time with Rae though. I did get to hang out with her in person more often, but not often enough for me. I don't know, I kind of feel like I started this whole meme of me not wanting to hang out with her or other people like Toast and Lily, but I am actually starting to get a little annoyed that I can't hang out with them now because of that. Especially Rae, since I thought that this would finally be my year where I confess my feelings towards her.

She was just... the best, in every stretch of the imagination. She's such a kind and supportive friend, that it blows my mind how she manages to find room to talk and hang out with me after all these years. She's grown so much, so beyond my league, I'm shocked she still talks to me. She's so smart, and hilarious, and pretty... god I love her. I would be afraid to admit it but I've bottled these thoughts up in my head for so long that I've practically become desensitized to it.

I've talked to Toast about it, since he's known the longest about my hidden crush. I developed feelings for her back in the second minecraft server we played together, right before among us happened, so back then it shocked me how Toast was able to deduce that I had a crush on her.

He always tells me pretty much the same thing every time I ever bring her up: 'Dude, just be confident around her! She likes you back, I know that for sure. Just walk up to her, play cool and smooth, and just win her over. Simple as that!'. Yeah well, I never really found it all that simple. He's also been pressuring me lately about doing it before the new year hits, and now that we're 30 minutes away from the New Year, I'm feeling more driven than ever, to finally just grow a pair and go for it.

"Ugh what's taking them so long!" I jumped when I heard Rae speak out loud right next to me. I had been so deep in thought that she just snuck up on me, and apparently she noticed. "Oh gosh I'm sorry! Did I scare you?" She asked, actually sound concerned.

"No, no it's okay! I'm just waiting for them like you." I reassured her as she smiled at me.

"They're taking forever!" She said, sounding annoyed as ever.

We stood there, in a bit of awkward silence. Usually when I talk to Rae, I tend to find little slip ups or hints on her end that would imply that she liked me back. Sometimes I would get some little things that I personally thought were hints, but she usually just spoke to me normally and platonically for that matter.

"So... what are your New Year's resolutions? Do you have any?" She asked me, making me think back to what I had for a New Year's resolution.

"Um, actually my New Year's resolution is to just become more confident." I replied back to her, making her eye brows widen.

"What? But I thought you were already past your Shykkuno phase?! You're really confident already right?" She asked, not understanding my New Years resolution.

"Yeah, well I just want to be, I don't know... more assertive?" I said back to her, as a sort of test to see how she would respond. She ended up smirking at me, with an expression that looked kind of, for lack of a better term, 'into it'.