Sidelines

Obstacles

Mug and I were sitting on a bench at a park watching the sunset because Mug thinks she's the main character.

"Mug?" I asked, turning my head to look at my friend. Mug was already looking at me but I didn't question it.

"What's up man?" She replied, her beautiful brown locks flowing as the wind combed through her hair. Her beautiful ocean blue orbs were deep enough anyone could get lost in them, I shook this feeling off and sighed.

"When we get back to yours... wanna do a stream?"

"Yeah! Of course, let's get going then?" Mug smiled, standing up and offering her hand to help me up. I accepted, obviously, and ignored the rising butterflies in my stomach.

Once we got back to Mug's house we removed our shoes and Mug rushed to her cabinet, grabbing some chocolate chips and scarfing them down. Boy, did she eat a LOT.

I snickered at her and grabbed a two drinks from her fridge,  a can of Coke Zero for myself and a normal Coke for Mug.

We made our way downstairs into Mug's freezing cold basement, how did she survive down here? It's like basically negative one hundred degrees. I shivered and pulled my Garfield onesie further up my shoulders,  the fit is fire and no one is allowed to disagree.

I watched as Mug turned her PC on and sat in her usual red gaming chair, I sat in the black one she had boughten for me when I first visited Canada. I made fun of her for it a shit ton but I did appreciate it.

"What kind of stream you wanna do? We could do a You Laugh You Lose?" She posed, smiling at me.

"Yeah, sure!" I replied, fiddling with the tail on my Garfield onesie.

Mug booted up OBS and pressed start stream, filling in all the information needed to start the livestream.

"I already know they aren't going to send anything funny, my chat is criminally unfunny, unfortunately."

"I'm very aware, especially since Swag and Susie make up half of your chat." I teased, giggling a bit. Mug playfully punched my shoulder and eyed me before going live.

Her chat sent in a few videos, they weren't pretty funny but I did see Mug trying not to laugh out of no where. Someone did end up sending the Youtube and Barbecue Chips and Mug started laughing, apparently her laugh is contagious because I did as well.

After an hour or two we decided to let chat send in their weird confessions. A few of them were weird as shit, but most were pretty tame. Mug and I were talking until we were interrupted by the Text To Speech voice I've grown to hate.

„Are you two dating? #JugForLife„

I felt may face erupt in red, my hands felt tingly as I looked over at Mug. Her face was red as well, she had a girlfriend. She couldn't like me. Could she?

She ignored the question and continued talking, it felt different this time, I don't know why I did it but I leaned in and closed my eyes. I felt Mug's warm breath against my face until our lips connected, her braces slightly cutting my lips but I didn't mind it.

When we pulled away I felt my vision blur a bit, what had I done? I rolled my chair back a bit, trying to process everything. I saw the chat going wild and heard Mug's phone blowing up with texts from who I assumed to be her girlfriend.

"Haha! That was all staged! Now, have a nice rest of your day or night everyone!" Mug panicked, ending the stream. I watched as she grabbed her phone, trying to reason with her girlfriend. The silence was overwhelming so I decided to speak up.

"Mug, I'm sorry— I didn't mean to do that in front of your stream." I choked out, holding back tears.

"Joe... It's— It's alright. I'm not mad." She said with a misleading smile plastered across her features.

"My girlfriend might be a BIT upset but I... How do I put this..."

I watched her pupils dilate a bit, her deep blue ocean eyes looked gray when they weren't in the sunlight.

"I like you."