Fear x Anxiety // Anxifear

Chapter 3

(sorry for the late chapter shnukums)

//I can listen to you all day.\\

Fear always thought dream duty was boring, especially if they just play the same thing over and over and over. It took a while to get back to it after that.. nightmare Riley had. Someone just had to say with him, and every other emotion would say no except for Joy. And even SHE got sick of it after a while.

Fear was almost asleep before he heard, "Oo, what's on?" from a voice that sounded like Anxiety. That got him awake. She pulled up a chair and sat next to him, smiling at the screen, then to Fear. "Joy told me about those months where you couldn't do dream duty by yourself," Embarrassing!! "So I just thought that I can do it with you- not that I don't think you can't do it by yourself! Just- thought it'd be nice. I mean, I can barely get through it without almost ripping my hair out. They come up with some good stuff, hm?" Anxiety rambled while Fear watched with hearts for eyes. "Oh! Sorry for rambling! I just, uhm, tend to talk a lot."

"No, it's okay, I can listen to you all day." Fear smiled before actually registering what he just said.

"Like, uh, I, you can talk as much as you want to me.. in the least weird way possible haha!" He quickly corrected himself while talking way too fast, sitting up straight, and giving Anxiety a weak smile. She grinned widely at that. She always thought she was annoying because she talked too much but Fear, he was willing to listen. Suddenly, they got interrupted.

"How are you lovers, I mean lovers, I mean lovers, I mean lovers, I mean lovers, I MEAN friends doing? What is wrong with me today?" Joy walked over to them, smirking. Fear got red with embarrassment.

"No, we're amazing, really." He tried to subtly hint in his voice for her to go away. The ONE good moment they had of COURSE Joy had to ruin it.

"Okayyy I'll just leave you two lovebirds be!" Joy walked back to her bed and immediately went to sleep.. weird. Fear sighed and rolled his eyes before turning back around to the screen.

"Joy, right?" Anxiety tried to start a conversation, but realized that her sentence probably made no sense. She was attempting to skip over the fact that Joy had called them lovebirds.. why did she tell her about her.. thing for Fear!? Fear sighed once more and nodded, obviously tired.

 Uhm, where were we?" He tried to get back to their original conversation. He glanced over to Anxiety, and oh my god it felt like he could ascend she's so BEAUTIFUL. His eyes, once tired and his eyelids almost covering his eyeballs, widened and stopped blinking for a solid 15 seconds. Geez, what is Anxiety doing to him!?

"..Are you going to stop staring at me?" Fear quickly looked anywhere but Anxiety and felt the need to disintegrate. "Not that I mind! I don't really do good with eye contact, though. You can look at me.." Oh god, what if Anxiety thinks he's weird? What if he looked weird? I mean, he was just staring at her, not even blinking. Who knows what he-

Wait.. what?

Anxiety was fidgeting with her hands while Fear was computing what she said. What did she mean? Was that in a romantic or platonic way? What if he takes it the wrong way and she hates him? Finally, the dream ended.

"I'm going to sleep now. Night, Fear!" Anxiety got up as fast as she could and quickly walked to her room before turning around and waving with a crooked smile.

"Goodnight, Anxiety." Fear waved back. "Love you." That. Slipped out. Hopefully she didn't hear that. He was actually BEGGING she didn't hear it. But she did hear it, thinking it was just her imagination getting the best of her.. again. Little did both of them know, the other stayed up, staring at the ceiling and contemplating what Anxiety said. Was she too bold? Was she trying to make a move? Does Fear hate her now? Does Anxiety think it's a joke? These thoughts kept them up, having ups and downs with their feelings.

(A/N: this chapter was really unserious 😭)