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i want to hate you but.... - day 2

purse woke up the next morning, having had the worst sleep of his entire life. he'd hardly gotten a wink of shuteye last night, and whatever he did get was filled with nightmares. he was absolutely exhausted.

he supposed he'd brought it upon himself, being that he stayed up late listening to true crime while drawing. even still, it was extremely annoying.

if his brain would let him go back to sleep he would. what was the point of him waking up at eight in the morning if he didn't plan on doing anything anyway? even his own body wanted him to be absolutely miserable.

he sat up to look around for his phone and became immediately ten times more exhausted when he saw it mocking him from the ground.

'great, now i actually have to get out of bed,' he'd only just woken up and was already ready to give up and lay back down.

he reluctantly stood up, having to take a second to let all the blood rush out of his head. the last time he'd tried to walk when this happened he'd almost fallen down the stairs. all his siblings laughed at him, even his mom didn't try to hide her amusement. ever since then he decided it's better to just stay put than to risk more unnecessary embarrassment.

once his vision finally cleared he grabbed his phone and scrolled through his wall of text notifications. his friends avery and heath had blown up his phone already.

'it's way too early for this,' he thought as he scrolled through the messages.

he grimaced trying to hold back a chuckle at their terrible your mom jokes and the amount of times the word "boobs" showed up.

he shut his phone off and shoved it into the pocket of his sweatpants, deciding it was a better idea to respond when he had the energy for conversation. again, it was way too early.

he went downstairs and poured himself a bowl of cereal and went to go eat it in the living room.

robin, one of his three cats, sat staring out the front window. he went over to go see her and looked out the window and almost dropped his bowl of cereal all over the floor.

sitting directly across from his house was the same car that the markiplier freak had followed him home in yesterday afternoon.

'oh my god, you have got to be kidding me,' he thought, absolutely mortified.

this guy had to be absolutely insane to do something like this. how long had he been there for??? was his car sitting there all night and purse didn't even notice??? had he ever even left in the first place???

purse wasn't sure if he should be angry or scared, but by this point he was more confused than anything else.

he'd barely even had a conversation with this man and it made him decide to follow him home???

normally purse would be too scared to even think about confronting this man, although this time was different. he was so done with this situation, he had to put an end to it immediately.

he set down his cereal and stormed outside. once he reached the car his knocked as hard as he could on the window, waking up markiplier.

once markiplier woke up and saw him standing outside the window his face seemed to light up with happiness, sending a wave of disgust through purse like he'd never felt before. this guy was psychotic.

once markiplier rolled down the window purse had to fight the urge to punch him square in the face.

"what the hell is your problem??? why are you camping outside my house like a freak???" purse yelled at the man in the car.

"i know what this looks like, but i just wanted to apologize for my..." markiplier tried to counter, but was cut off by purse yelling at him again.

"you're kidding right??? go home dude, go home!!" purse was absolutely enraged at this point.

he would be surprised if there wasn't steam coming out of his ears by now.

this was his idea of an apology? in what world was following someone home and stalking them from outside their house an apology?

the man looked as though purse's words had hit him like a knife to the chest.

purse almost felt bad for him. almost.

"you're right, this is no way for me to be acting. i'm deeply sorry for being so weird, but after seeing you in the store i just couldn't stop thinking about you. the fact that you don't even know who i am is just.... it's just a breath of fresh air is all...." markiplier stated, staring purse in the eyes with the most serious yet pained gaze he'd ever seen.

purse did remember him asking if he knew who he was, but he wrote it off as him thinking they knew each other from somewhere. this guy wasn't famous or anything.... was he?

the look in his eyes really did make purse feel sorry for the guy. if he was famous, it probably was nice to meet someone who has no idea who you are. but even then, it was no excuse for this guy to follow him home.

"listen man, i'm sorry but this is crazy. even if it was a breath of fresh air for you or whatever you said, it was no excuse for you to follow me home. like i said earlier, you have to leave," purse tried really hard to be firm with him, but by now he really did feel bad for the guy.

they exchanged awkward glances before purse shooed him away one final time.

watching markiplier leave sent a gust of relief through purse, but also made him sad. for what reason? he couldn't really put a finger on it.

purse made his way back across the street to his house and back up to his room.

no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get markiplier out of his head all day. this confused him. he should hate this guy. he should be glad he left, not wondering what would've happened if he had stayed.

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mark had faced rejection before, but none of it had ever felt like this. this confused mark, as he'd barely even talked to this guy. he didn't even know his name.....

mark had to see him again, even if he didn't want him to. he didn't know that he could go on if he didn't see him one last time. he needed a happy memory to end on, not one where he was being shooed away from the outside of his house like a stray cat.

he was determined, he would see him one more time.

author: WOOOOOWWWWWWW i wonder what will happen next 😮😮😮 also just btw i didn't get my ass beat soooooo 🕺🕺🕺