The Boy Next Door

Chapter 5 - puppy pals

I didn't tell a soul. After all who the hell would I tell? None of my friends back home watched markiplier. My excitement remained my own as I struggled to make my lunch for the day.

He was really cute. I didn't realize just HOW cute he was until now. Damn it. I grab a soda and cracked it open as I look at my TV screen. The list of people on it only made me sigh as one of his new videos popped up.

"Of course you would pop up now that I just met you...." I mutter flipping through before landing on a Mr.Kate video and play it to distract my thoughts.

I knew my imagination would get the best of me as I started to eat. What if he needs a cup of flour? Or his WiFi gets turned off? Or if we go and get dogs and they end up being beat buds?!

"For the love of god, Alana stop it." I groan again and take a long drink from my soda. NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.

And apparently I was right. Nothing did for weeks and weeks. We would wave to one another if we were passing. Or stop and talk about the weather but nothing more than that.

I heard his door open as I was on my computer downstairs my eyes hurt a little from focusing on some layers for my project. Then I heard knocking at the door and I paused.

The knocks happened again as I got up and slowly opened the door. "Unless your girl scouts selling cookies.. I don't want anything your selling." I say before seeing Mark. I swallow hard. I was in my grubs. Wearing my youtube t-shirt from sourcefed. "Mark?" I question shifting a little in my pajama bottoms. I was defiantly not socially acceptable right now.

He paused seeing me as he cleared his throat. "You know how you said you wanted a dog? Are you still looking into that?" I perk up a little "yeah. Actually... why? Find a good shelter?" I say with a smile as he nods "actually a great one." He says fumbling with his phone to show me the website.

I smile at him then look at the screen. "Oh my god! Puppies!" I say with a huge grin. "They look like shi-tzus !!" I say with a grin. "I need this dog mark. You don't understand." He laughs and nods "they have a litter of twelve. Wanna go? You don't have plans or anything right?" He says in a sheepish tone.

I shake my head "just working on some designs for a game I wanna make, but that can wait... I'm going to get a puppy!" I yell as I run off upstairs to change.

I was nothing but smiles as I fixed my hair and put on jeans and a nice top before coming down stairs with my shoes and purse. I paused seeing Mark looking over my computer screen. I flushed.

"Hey noisey!" I quickly turn off the monitor. "Hehe. Sorry. I was curious." He says in a innocent manner as I tried to calm my heart. I had been working on that game for two years. All the art work and character designs were my own. Even the story and everything. It was my baby.

"So yeh... puppies?" I say looking at him as he gazed back at my flushed expression. "Puppies." He replied.