Daily Grind

5: this is what falling in love feels like

this is what falling in love feels like by JVKE

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Karl had his alarm set for 8 AM that Saturday morning.

When he woke up, he was honestly pretty excited to go out with Sapnap. Sure getting tattoos with someone is a weird 2nd date, but they both wanted to do it and he was sure he'd have fun. He talked to George the night before and said he'd be up at 8 to get ready.

Around 8:10, the brunette was knocking on the boys door with 2 empty mugs and a freshly brewed pot of tea.

Karl discussed the plans they made the night before while they drank.

"Are you nervous?" George asked him,

"No, not really. I'm looking forward to it!" Karl replied, smiling back at the man.

"I'm glad you're excited! I can tell how much you like him."

"I really do." The taller replied, looking almost dreamily off in the distance.

"You should probably start getting ready K" George had said after another sip of his tea.

"Yeah, probably. We've already been sitting here for 20 minutes."

Karl got up from one of the few chairs he had, and went to walk to his room to decide on an outfit.

"Would you mind helping me pick something out George?" He had asked a little shyly.

"I'd love to. Take me to your wardrobe!"

...

After repeatedly asking what color things were, and a lot of guessing, the 2 landed on something.

He wore a duckling yellow baggy sweater over a white turtle neck, and pristine white ripped jeans to match. Next some old pastel yellow converse were chosen. He attached a couple silver chains to his waist, put on a handful of simple silver rings and another simple silver chain around his neck to match. When George saw him after he put it on, all you could describe the look in his eyes as was "proud parent".

Karl wasn't used to that feeling.

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Now that the clock struck 10:30 and the man was fully dressed, George made the comment he would look really pretty with a pale white highlight on his cheeks and inner corner of the eyes.

Karl was in a good mood and was excited to try something new, so he said he'd try it if George helped. While the brunette ran to his apartment to grab the highlighter, Karl reheated their mugs of tea. (After checking with George that the mugs could go in the microwave.)

Once back with some sort of pallet that Karl definitely couldn't pronounce the name of, he was getting makeup brushed on his face.

Besides getting highlight in the usual places of cheekbone, eyebrows, and cupids bow, he got some on the inner corner of his eyes to make them pop.

By the time they'd had his highlight applied and they'd finished their tea while talking, it was 15 minutes till Karl left the apartment. George was getting ready to leave when someone knocked on the door. To both's surprise, Clay had shown up to the door with muffins "fresh from the oven". After the tall dirty blonde hugged Karl as a greeting, they sat down to enjoy the food.

None of them realised how long I'd been until there was another knock on the door in a new pattern.

Karl got up to get the door, but George beat him to it. When it opened Sapnap seemed slightly caught off guard.