Icy - John Mulaney x OC

9 - I Realize I Might Not Know What I'm Doing

We waited at the bus stop. The bus should be here soon.

"Hey John. Where are we going?" I asked.

John shrugged. "I figured i'd take you to this hipster cafe I know." He said. "Your apartment looks like you'd be into that kind of stuff."

I was in fact, into that kind of stuff. For some reason, the fact that he knew that made me happy. I brushed my feelings aside as the bus pulled up. 

John helped me onto the bus, and even though I could've done it myself, I let him help me. His hand was really warm. The bus driver gave us kind of a dirty look though, so I quickly pulled my hand away. Oh well.

We sat down and I whispered to John. "What was he so upset about?"

He gave me a look and whispered back, "Charlie, he was probably homophobic."

"Yeah, but we're not together." I said.

John pressed his lips together and nodded. "Yeah. But he doesn't know that."

I looked up at the driver, who was busy driving the bus. "He shouldn't treat us like that!" I whispered furiously to John. 

He raised his eyebrows. "Are you going to do anything dumb?" He asked.

I shook my head. "Absolutely not that guy is so buff, i'm terrified. I'm just pointing out, It's 2019, he needs to get with the times."

"I know." John said. "We're the next stop, anyways."

We got off at the next stop. I glared at the driver as I got off. 

John led me to a place called 'See You Latte' Personally, I think Thanks A Latte would be better. It sounded more right. I expressed this to John, and he smiled at me and told me I was right, which made me blush and stumble over my words a little bit.

"What are you thinking of getting?" He asked me.

"I'm not sure." I said, staring at the menu board. "I love classic chai lattes, but the strawberry frap sounds good too."

John snorted. "Of course you would be the kind of person to say frap. Oh, we're up!"

"I thought we were ordering separately." I protested, not really caring one way or another. John was a good decision maker. I didn't really care what he ordered for me.

John ordered the drinks while found a table. he sat down with the drinks. There was a hot drink and a cold one. A chai latte and a strawberry frappe.

"Which one's mine?" I asked. 

"Well, you couldn't decide. I figured either you could chose the one you want and I can take the other one or.. we could share."

I bit my lip. "I don't mind sharing if you don't." I said.

John smiled. "I suggested it, didn't I?"

Ohhhh no. I got it. I just got it. I liked him. I thought I just liked him as a friend, but nope. Life decided to really fuck with me this time. I had a crush on John Mulaney. Famous comedian John Mulaney.

I took a sip of the frappe and tried to act normal. We chatted, and I kept looking at him and wondering why I hadn't noticed how handsome he was before. I mean, i had. I'd be dumb not to notice, but I had only noticed in a 'look at my friend! He's really good looking!' and now it was 'look at this man! He's stupidly attractive! I want to kiss him!' So that was a fun thing to realize in the middle of a crowded place.

John put his hand on my shoulder. We had finished the drinks, and now we were walking and eating sandwiches we had bought from a sub shop. "Hey are you okay? You seem a bit distracted today."