Too awkward for a Youtube romance

Ch.1 An awkward start.

You sit as your desk entering information into your laptop. You are young 20 year old who works as a simple file clerk at a branch of a flip and rental company your mom runs. Your desk is one of four in the front room of the office, right near two couches and the front door. Your mom and one of your co-worker's offices are set in two separate rooms. on the opposite side of your desk.

The clock on your computer reads "Friday, 3:00" and you sigh. Only another hour of entering payment info into documents before you and your mother go home. You stretch out your back hearing the door ring over the sound of the youtube video you are watching coming from your headphones. Your head whips to the hallway hoping that Jesse, the only co-worker besides your mom that is in the office, will get up. You hear no indication of this and sigh. You HATED the awkwardness of answering the door.

"[Y/N], can you grab that please?" you hear your mom call from her office. You stand and walk to the door, a muffled talking coming from outside. opening the door you only see one man with short black hair with a matching mustache and the startings of a beard standing there, his face seemingly familiar but you shrug it off and force out your rehearsed greeting.

"Uh hi, h-how can I um help y-you?" Your thoughts immediately scolding you for fucking up such a simple sentence but the man smiles despite your vocal blunders.

"I am here for Jesse? Is he in?" His eyes go past you scanning the office and you nod.

"Uh yeah he is I will go get him, um you can come in and sit if you want" You leave the door open and fast walk to Jesse's office letting him know of the man at the door, Jesse being on the phone and just nodding. From the main room you hear two voices, one sounding so familiar you're almost positive you know who it is, but you shake off the feeling as it would be impossible for it to be him. You walk to the front room and you feel like your heart stopped when you see the second man standing there, your previous suspicion confirmed. Their eyes lift to you and you search for your voice, it finally coming back to you after clearing your throat.

"He i-is on the phone at t-the moment so uh just give him a moment" You say quickly, lowering your head and fast walking to your desk, hearing Jesse get up from his squeaky chair behind you. focusing on your computer you but glancing up as you hear hear him come out and greet them.

"Tom, it's nice to see you, I assume this is your brother Mark?" he shakes Tom's hand first then looks to mark, his eyes obviously glance to the large strip of blue at the top of Mark's head, shaking his hand.

The group of guys start talking about houses, you keep glancing up at them, then back to your computer screen, your inner fangirl screaming as there is no doubt one of the guys in front of your desk is your Youtube idol and crush... Markiplier.

You try not to listen to their conversation, putting both your headphones in and continuing the ridiculous remix made for Markiplier, going over and over a way to get to say hi to him without being too awkward. Maybe even get a selfie? 'No I can't ask him here, he is doing private things!' you yell at yourself in your head. You refused to be the typical fangirl who doesn't care what he's doing and continuously bothers him. Maybe you will just wait till he's leaving to tell him you're a fan and like his videos.

Your inner contemplation is interrupted by jesse tapping on your computer to get your attention. You take an earbud out and look up at him when he points to your mom standing in the hallway.

"[Y/N]" She says obviously it not being her first time calling you then giving you a "let's head out back" nod. You jump up jittery again when you realize THE Markiplier is looking at you.

"ohhh, wow, ooooh wow, ooooh wow"
Markiplier's voice rings from your laptop speakers and your face flushes a bright red, any fan will know it's audio from the "I am bread hot sauce challenge" but to other's ears it sounded like something else entirely. You slam the MUTE button, turning the sound of but already too late. You don't need to glance at the men standing there to know that you are being stared at so you just keep your head down, staring at the ground and rushing outside with your mom.

"MOM I AM GOING TO CRY I SWEAR" You squeak as the door shuts behind both of you, your mom lighting a cigarette and shaking her head.

"Nothing to get too worked up over sweetheart, happens to the best of us" She rubs your back, knowing how worked up you get about small things "though you really shouldn't be watching those types of videos at work..."

"NO, MOM, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! I was listening to Markiplier!" You whine and she just raises an eyebrow confused. Letting out a sigh you spell it out for her "It was a Markiplier VIDEO, It just happened to sound like... And the guy in there IS MARKIPLIER! That is SOOOO embarrassing! I am never going to be able to say hi to him now" You were about to whine when the door opens, you jump up but realize it's just Jesse, on the phone again with his keys in hand.

"Hey sorry, I gotta go run to a house" He says to mom as he fumbles with his keys.

"Wait, are they gone?" You ask halfway sad but also relieved. He nods mentioning they are going to return monday to finish their business. You head back inside, knowing the coast is now clear now. You plop down with a heavy sigh as you are about to open your laptop when you notice a little note

"Hey, noticed you were a fan, sorry HAD to see what you were watching, sad I didn't get to talk to you, you should say hi next time

P.S. Love the #SexyMark sticker on your laptop ;P

-Mark"

You squeal, your face red. You were DEFINITELY not coming to work on Monday.

Throughout the rest of the hour you found out that Tom was moving to Florida and Mark was here on vacation helping his brother find a house and move and that throughout this month they will be coming back to the office many times... Great.