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silence. All I hear is silence as I sit down on the couch with a guy I hardly know or care about. It's so awkward I want to die. I get out my phone to check my Twitter but then he finally speaks, after how long?

"Ah, you want to play Mario Kart?" He asks me and I nod slightly.

Yes, a game that I'm good at and includes zero talking. Perfect. But I have to ruin it of course with my thought I could start a conversation.

"I'm known to be quite good at Mario Kart so you have been warned" I say with a smirk but he just nods.

What the heck was that reaction, why! Does he want this be anymore awkward? Is he a freaking mute? A small laugh would have been nice. I wanna the ground to swallow me. My facial expression probably made me look like I wanted to kill him. Whoops. I go back on my phone while he sets up. My Twitter has nothing other than a few posts from my favourite celebrities.

I hear the familiar theme song and my head flings up to stare at the screen. He passes me a controller and bless it, i don't have to use motion control. I have a joystick controller, I'm best at those. He presses multiplayer but then someone comes through the the door behind us.

"Okay would you and Liam like some dessert?" His Mum asks and we nod simultaneously.

I'm being pulled to another one of these stupid dinner meet ups, might as well get something good out of it. I go back on my phone to look busy while he gets up to get the dessert.

He grabs to bowls and passes one to me. Before I can grab it and say thank you, I sneeze. It wasn't a normal sneeze into the elbow crease kind of sneeze, it was a hand to mouth, saliva spraying sneeze.

I sneeze all over this random guy I apparently have known for my whole life. He starts wiping his face with his arm and that triggers me to help him. I apologise dearly.

"Oh my, whoops sorry!" I chuckle awkwardly to myself as I grab a tissue from my bag to give to him.

He almost accepts it until he backs his hand away.

"What?" I say as I take it back to investigate what's wrong with it.

I curse under my breath when I realise I almost gave him a previously used tissue to wipe his face with. I screwed up big this time.

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry" I apologise, grabbing a unused tissue from my black handbag and handing it him.

"Sorry again" I repeat myself while he wipes my spit off of his face.

"We can forget that happened" I laugh to myself and he finally laughs back.

Oh wow his laugh is cute. No I didn't say that be quiet. I hate myself ew.

I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight without cringing in my sleep from this so far awkward dinner.