Unnatural blue II A. KNIGHT

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░▒▓█▓▒░ "Jawn! C'mon, be serious," Awsten requests of his friend, "I want this to go good! I wanna impress her and make her like me and hopefully get another date and just have everything go good." "Just calm down," Jawn advises, "she wouldn't have agreed to go on a date with you if she didn't already like you at least a little." "A little isn't comforting," Awsten groans, rolling his eyes. "A little won't get me another date. I don't want it to be all awkward and weird and then not get another date—" "First dates are always awkward," Jawn puts it simply. "There's no getting around that but you just gotta try not to worry about that. Gonna sound cliche and stupid but just be yourself. If she already likes you, she'll probably end up liking you more after tonight. Your personality isn't entirely terrible...well, at least, not all the time." "I don't know whether to say thank you or fuck you," Awsten remarks, giving Jawn an odd look. "Thank fuck," Jawn supplies with a grin before checking the time on his phone. "Oh, shit, you're gonna be late if you don't leave, like, now." "Shit, fuck, holy crap," Awsten exclaims in shock, "I'm out, I'm gone; bye, Jawn, I might call crying if this goes horribly!" "I'll be expecting a call and tears!" "Fuck you!" ●☆●☆●☆●☆● "No, okay, so, Ry and I have the little Saturday tradition of Starbucks in the morning—he always gets a smoothie but asks about coffee first,and we go to the park after that. So, the morning we met you, he was, like, obsessed with the whole magic thing," Skylar informs him, smiling. "He got some sticks to use as magic wands and we spent that whole morning doing that—oh my god, sorry, this is supposed to be a date, you probably don't wanna hear mom stuff." "I wanna hear whatever you wanna talk about," Awsten assures her, "and it's pretty cool that he's so into the whole magic thing. Kid's got a nice imagination." "He really does," Skylar confirms with a bright smile. "My friend says it's 'cause I've been telling him stories since he was a baby." "The Twitter friend? Christina, right?" Awsten inquires, thinking back to the Twitter interaction. "That would be the one," she confirms with a nod. "She's basically the only person I call my friend." "She seemed nice," he comments, "liked the idea of you dating." "Well, I've been single for a, uh, a while now so...she was excited for me to actually be agreeing to a date." "Why'd you agree to it? I mean, I'm glad you did but...why?" "I don't know...it just felt right, I guess." ░▒▓█▓▒░