Wrong Number<>QuackityHQ

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3rd person pov;
20:52pm

alex let out a breath before hovering his mouse over the join button eventually pressing it. he cringed as he did so waiting for wilbur to speak before he did.

"hello" wilbur said, he seemed calm, "quackity?"

"uh, yeah, hello" he cleared his throat sitting up in his chair, "what's up?" he asked his leg bouncing uncontrollably underneath the desk as he fiddled with the strings on his hoodie.

lauren sat next to wilbur they both had a pair of headphones being able to both hear alex on the other end, however will told lauren not to speak until he said. so she obliged silently listening to the other two talk.

"it's about the halloween party" wilbur spoke again, "you can make it right?"

alex frowned, "what's the date of it again?" he asked pulling up the calendar on his pc, it was mainly empty for most of october.

"the thirty-first" wilbur said looking over at lauren every now and then.

"yeah yeah, i should be able to make it, i'm free that whole week apart from a few planned streams but i can move them" he said, "i'm staying at george's for the night with karl, sapnap and dream but i'm not too sure on the room situation" alex laughed.

"fair enough" wilbur laughed, "well there's only one slight problem to you coming and we kinda need to sort it out"

alex swallowed frowning at the discord call, "uh, what?"

"well, i know you've been talking to lauren and if you're going to come i don't want things to be awkward" wilbur paused shoving the microphone over in front of lauren, "so you guys are gonna talk this out and hopefully we should be all good and i can get lauren to come"

will stood up throwing a thumbs up to lauren before leaving the room.

"uh, hey" lauren mumbled.

alex was frozen staring at his screen, he couldn't tell if will was mad they had been talking or if he didn't mind at all. he was more shocked that lauren had told him, well it kinda made sense. but at the same time alex was confused.

"alex?" lauren asked checking the discord call to see he was still there.

he cleared his throat, "hello" he said, "sorry"

"it's good" she replied. an awkward silence fell upon the call before alex spoke up again.

"you told wilbur?" he asked

lauren frowned, "yeah, he was getting excited about me meeting you guys at the halloween party and i just had to, i felt bad"

"completely understandable" he replied.

"yeah" lauren said, "i also kinda told him we had an argument the other day and that's why he wanted us to sort it out"

alex raised an eyebrow, "makes sense" he spoke, "were you not going to go if we didn't sort it?"

"uh, i don't know, maybe not" she said, "would've been awkward"

alex let out a small laugh, "probably" he mumbled.

a silence fell upon them again, this one less awkward.

"is he mad?"

lauren's eyes shot over to the discord call, "wilbur?" she asked.

"yeah"

"no, he's not. seemed quite happy to be honest, said we have the same humour" she laughed, "but he's not mad at you don't worry"

alex smiled at this, "thank god, your brother would snap my neck in a heartbeat" he said hearing lauren laugh on the other end. it caused him to smile, that familiar feeling in stomach again just from hearing her laugh.

"i'm sorry for calling dream without explaining it" she said, she bit her nails feeling bad about the situation.

"don't be sorry" alex replied shuffling in his chair, "i'm sorry for getting so angry, i don't know why i did" he paused, "guess i was jealous" he mumbled.

lauren smirked, "no way" she said, "mr alex quackity is jealous"

he laughed playfully rolling his eyes at the girl, "oh shut up" he said smiling still, "of course i'm jealous"

"and why is that?" lauren asked leaning back in the chair, still smirking at her screen.

"oh lord" he mumbled, "it's dream, and he was talking to you" he said, "obviously i'm gonna be jealous, your my best friend"

lauren's face fell slightly.

best friend

she cringed at herself shaking off the pit that landed in her stomach, "no need to be jealous, he's got nothing on my favourite streamer" she said clearing her throat as she did so.

the feeling never left her stomach, although she tried to ignore it, it stayed. alex was cursing at himself for not telling her how he felt, he wished it was that easy, but it simply wasn't.

"does this mean you'll go to the halloween party?" he asked hopeful.

"i mean i guess so" she laughed, "can't say i'll be on time, i'm working and that shit is tiring"

he nodded, "fair enough, you better make an appearance" he said smiling at his screen.

"course i will" she smiled.

the two ended up talking for a while until lauren got tired and said her goodbyes. they both left the call with smiles on their faces and their stomachs aching from laughing too hard at one another.

neither of them knew how much the other was falling for them. it was only a matter of time before one of them blurted it out, seemingly very soon.