Lovesick Monster, A Bob x Opheebop Story

The Arbianero

"Opheebop slow down, I can't even see!" Bob remarks quickly as she drags him along quickly to their mysterious location. It would help if Bob wasn't blindfolded by Opheebop as well, but she told if she didn't that it wouldn't really be a surprise at all then too. So, wondering where he was being taken, he tries to sense any other factors that might give him any clues of their mysterious location. It was warm, breezy, a smell of algae in the air, was is it a calm beach possibly? He loved the peacefulness sounds of the water, the grainy plain sand, and collecting shells in the shining sun. Or maybe it was a small and quaint lake in a forest, another place that brought him tranquility. Either way, it seemed like a place that he would go to when stressed or needed to get away from people, a new happy place for him. Bob smiles widely and turns his head to Opheebop happily, "I think I already know where we are going, is it a nice, relaxing place by the water?" He asks ecstatic to her expecting to already know the answer, however she just only laughs at him loudly. Looking at her with confusion, he asks her again "What's so funny?", to which she replies "How off you are about your guess!" Opheebop chuckles loudly at him. "But now you can take off your blindfold." Bob does so a bit nervously, and can see how wrong he was, internally facepalming himself. It was a full town. 

"Oh."

He just says and just looking around with a big stare. Constant noises came from everywhere with hoards of people bustling around in buildings. He takes a sniff in the air and looks down, only to realize that the crisp smell of algae was coming from a nearby sewer, leaving his face a now light pink. Bob was froze still, every single thing that stressed him out was here, yet he was too nice to tell Opheebop that he hated it so, so much. "Opheebop, didn't I tell you that I'm not comfortable around people, and I thought that you would, uhm...pick up that I like calm, quiet places?" He asks politely as he can to her, yet with an disgruntled face too. Now annoyed with her, a goop slowly cover his face again causing a sharp eye. His pupils shrink and it gets worse as a loud car come blaring by, honking a loud horn that rang through his ears, "Ugh! Opheebop why did you bring me here?" Bob asks her angrily as everything only get more on his nerves. She just shrugs and drapes him along, holding his black claws and trying to cover his eyes again much to his annoyance. "Okay, the route to our location wasn't the nicest all admit, but now we're finally here!" She exclaimed excitedly as Bob pushes her hand anyway, not expecting much from her right now. Making the surprise all the more amazing as he just stares at the new location, but not with contempt, with wonder. It looks nothing like the city, like something new out of his world. It truly was place where fauna and man coexisted into one beautiful thing. 

"Opheebop..." he whispers to her softly "It's gorgeous." Holding her hands tightly, with whiten claws. Looking at her with sparkling eyes, he asks "What is this place?"

It was a small building, yet you could tell that was somehow enormous too just by looking through the windows as well. Covered with leaves radiating with soft shades of green and yellow with flowers from life bursting from them. It looked like a little slice of heaven plopped down onto Earth. Bob just stares in awe at the marvelous place, with Opheebop smiling softly at his happiness too. "Oh silly, it's a greenhouse! Well it's also technically a cafe, but mostly a greenhouse!" She tells him, holding his claws carefully. She reveals to him by moving a bundle of ivy that his beloved place is called "Botanists Delights", a greenhouse/cafe where they and other lovers of plants and nature would come to hang out too. As he's focused on the sign however, she perplexed why he still has those claws despite being in a good mode again, and how he even had them in the first place. "Oooh! Are those claws due to you being a powerful being, or your nature?" She asks his curious with her horns up and tail wagging again, trying not to use the word demonic as that would probably upset him again too. He sticks out his hand revealing a set of beautiful white, yet sharp and dangerous claws on his bean-like hands, waving her over with his finger and her obliging. "Well yeah, it's due to both of those things. But they usually only come out when I'm angry or when something is wrong..." He tells confused and stroking his chin perplexed. A whiff of flower nectar, orange, coffee, and baked goods comes seeping out the windows, helping him find out the cause rather quickly. 

"GGRROOOOWWLLL!" Erupts from his empty stomach, he quickly clutches it closely to him with a tomato red face, making him brim with embarrassment. An impatient reminder that he hadn't eaten breakfast this morning due to rushing out the door, after all he didn't want to be later than he already was. She just giggles out loudly, ready to tease him a bit. "Oh, getting hungry now are we?" She asks him cheeky like, her horns even more pointed up and here tail was furiously too. Bob face is now crimson "You already know that answer!" He retorts back to her flustered, still holding his stomach tight. Opheebop just giggles again and touches his arm to loosen his grip, "Don't worry Bob, this place has bunch of stuff to fill you up okay? You'll be filled up in no time!" She says to reassuringly, causing him to pace in quickly in hopes of getting a much needed meal faster. Opheebop just chuckles at Bobs eagerness and follows behind him. 

Entering the greenhouse plants and flowers dangle from the wall freeing, covering the room in all the colors of the rainbow. Tiny buds burst from the ground, excited with life. Trees hang down bearing fruit as a gift for its new visitor. Amiss his hunger, Bob couldn't help but marvel at the enormous plant sanctuary, seeing fauna from every part of the world all in one area. It was like traveling across the world all in one place, and Bob loved it. He reaches out to gaze and touch at many plants that he's never even seen or heard of before, after all he doesn't get out much. A flower catches his attention, it's a white and black flower with hints of red, covered with thorns from its stem and jagged leaves. Yet they weren't dangerous as long as you didn't provoke it too much. If you see beyond the danger, a beautiful and soft flower shine through. Looking down and stooping to its level, Bob touches on of its petal, causing it to squirm a bit softly. He holds it close with a soft smile, feeling a close connection to it. "Hey Opheebop, what is this beautiful flower?" He asks curiously with wonder. She can tell that he particularly has an interest for this beauty, "Well this an Arbianero flower, it's a carnivorous plant that can be either dangerous, or gorgeous, or whatever to the eyes of the beholder." A small fly comes along and Bob catches into his hands, place it near the flower, Sensing a free meal, its body slips open to reveal a maw of sharp little hairs ready to trap its prey, gleefully devouring it when Bob places the fly into its mouth, him smiling softly. It gives a sweet smell of nectar off, used usually to either lure in more prey or digest them too. Mhmm...the sweet smell of nectar..

Another "GROOOWWLLL!" Erupts from Bobs's stomach again with a hunger pang. Oh yeah, he still hasn't eaten anything yet, and by now it was already lunchtime. "Oh yeah, I forgot how starving I am..." Bob says deflated placing his claws onto his stomach again. Then he remembers that he's in a greenhouse and looks up, oranges dangling from a tree to soothe his hunger. He grabs one quickly and starts devouring it happily with his claws now fading, "Wait, I can eat these right?"  He asks her, not wanting to accidentally steal any food. She nods her head happily "Of course!  As long as you don't take too much, these trees and place provides for everyone." She tells him and is thrown a fruit by Bob, not wanting her to go hungry. "Oh, well take you." She replies smiling as she leads him through the trees and garden into the cafe. However before this, Bob quickly sneaks one of the seeds from the Arbianero flower into a makeshift pocket made from himself, after all one seed couldn't hurt, and he felt a special connection with this flower, it reminding him of himself too. As they walk into the cafe, he gets to take in the quaint but charming place with Opheebop. Not many people being here, just the way he likes it, and it still being covered with fauna. At first glance this place actually just looked like another part of the greenhouse, yet at another looked reminded him a little oasis in a forest to rest and relax. The light hardwood walls and floors, the smell of fresh coffee and baked good, the homey atmosphere, Bob now truly understands why Opheebop brought him here. Getting ready to dig in for the rest of his late breakfast and chill with her, first turns himself Opheebop holding her hands with sparkling eyes. The words built up inside him, and he just felt like that he had to get the out about how grateful he was tonher.

"Opheebop, I know that I might have mentioned this about the greenhouse before, but this whole place, it's something that I'm so truly grateful for. You have no idea how ha-" 

"Wait a minute, is that you Bob?" A voices yells out, it sounds familiar and he starts to sweat nervously. Why were they here?! Oh no, oh no no no no....All he can mutter to himself is..

"Oh crap."