Splatoon x Male Reader

S3C Chapter 33: Never Alone

Callie POV

Callie laughed on the phone.

Callie: Sounds like everything's back to normal then?

(Y/N) from the other side of the phone responded to her.

(Y/N): A new normal, but yeah. It's going well. Are you going to stop over here sometime?

Callie: How about you come over here if you want to gawk at me so badly?

She said with a joking attitude hoping to catch him off guard.

(Y/N): Eh, I don't really know about that just yet.

He said with an awkward tone, understanding what she was getting at.

Callie: Worth a shot, but you can't put it off forever.

(Y/N): How'd it go between you two?

Callie: As Marie would say, it went splatastic.

She said the end with her best Marie impression which got a small laugh out of the two.

(Y/N): That's good. I don't know what the world would be like without the Squid Sisters being together.

Callie: Don't wonder too much, that'll never happen.

She said confidently.

Callie: Well, I'll let you go now. Talk to you later!

(Y/N): I'll see ya, Callie.

He responded back as the two ended the calls.

Afterward, Callie let out a sigh, knowing what came next.

Callie walked back over to the room Marie was in.

Marie tried to contain her feelings as usual, but Callie could always read her, letting her know how expectant she was of what Callie had to say.

Marie: Well...?

Callie held her hands together with a reassuring smile.

Callie: He can't make it today, but-

Marie already looked down before Callie could manage to spin it into an okay statement for Marie.

Marie: But nothing, he doesn't want to see me...

Callie: That's not true! He wants to, but it's just taking him a bit to be ready for it. You should've seen him when I found him, he wasn't ready to see any of us again.

Marie: And now he's come back to see everybody but me. He always just "needs more time" and "can't make it today"...

Her annoyed expression turned to a sadder one.

Marie: And I deserve it for doing the same thing to him before...

Callie was upset at hearing her usually confident cousin run herself through the ringer.

Callie: Stop putting yourself down. You didn't do it on purpose, and he's not avoiding you. You'll get to see him and this will all just be a bad memory.

Marie still looked down.

Callie: He's just... He's just worried that we'll all resent him for what he did. He said as much to me and the others.

Marie: Well I don't, so can he just hurry it up already?

Callie didn't want to just tell her he needed more time again, so she decided instead that she'd just change the subject to something Marie would enjoy more.

Callie: Hey, what time is it? Isn't that show you love on TV right now?

Marie: Oh yeah, it is.

Callie happily grabbed the remote and changed the channel.