JIGSAW - SAPNAP

FIVE. . .

last night, nyx had stayed up until 2 in the morning binge watching sapnap's old videos. and xey definitely regretted it, because they were exhausted.

"someone looks grumpy," rue was quick to announce as soon as nyx stomped xeir platforms into the store.

"shut up."

"jeez jeez okay," rue coughed awkwardly, continuing to assist another worker with rearranging the belts, "pronouns today?"

"neos or he, i don't really care."

"got it, thanks love."

the coworker who rue had been helping had a disgusted look on his face.

"what the hell are "neo pronouns"?" he scoffed, rolling his eyes. "we really can't just live in a modern society without some queer making up some stupid slang, can we?"

nyx stopped in his tracks, then slowly turned to the employee.

"what?" xe stared dead into the boy's eyes, not blinking once. his eyes only lowered to see the dumb brunettes name - isaac.

"those are made up, just stick to what you look like - a girl."

nyx's heart took a hit. man, did he hate those type of comments.

"hey, isaac?" xey took a step closer to him, pulling his name-tag off of the black uniform they all had to wear. "you're fired."

his face flooded to anger. "you can't do tha-"

"in the guidelines, it says when you apply that "every person is accepted, no matter what". you, sir, did not meet that guideline. therefore, goodbye."

the boy slowly took off his vest, then threw it on the ground, making way to the door. once he was there, he turned around quickly and yelled, "fuck you, girl." before walking out with huff.

rue stood there fuming, then picked up the vest, proceeding to throw it in the trash.

"fuck you, i hope your parents don't pay your allowance ever again, rich bitch." she kicked the trash can, then turned to nyx with a smile one her face.

"how's my favorite boy?" she said, her voice was apologetic, though she hadn't done anything.

"feeling like a girl." xe walked away from rue and over to his happy place - the counter. he started to occupy himself with the mini skateboards, laying stickers out on a few of them.

"well, hey, you're not."

"whatever."

hours of silence passed, where nyx sat with his thoughts, until the bell chimed.

"hi again."

pretty boy.

nyx immediately smiled, biting xeir lip to contain his happiness. "hi."

"i need a new toy."

"the uh...same type of toys?"

"yes!"

"are you wanting any type of specific one, or color, or anything?"

"same thing as last time, different color though please."

nyx nodded and went off to the back, a wave of déjà vu hitting him in the face. from there, xe looked around the forbidden toy isle until xeir eyes caught a blue toy. he grabbed the package with the dildo in it, then headed back to the counter where sapnap was waiting.

"ooh, blue, i know just the friend to show this to," sapnap chuckled under his breath, then snapped back into reality. "i think i might become a regular here, so i think i'll need your name, or something."

nyx went red, then chuckled nervously after letting out a quiet "i'm nyx.".

"nyx? now i don't have to keep calling you pretty smile! thanks!"

nyx fumbled over xeir words while telling sapnap his total, then once he left, xe was in orbit.

"head out of the clouds, nyx, he's buying dildos for god's sake."

"shut the fuck up."

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