i'm here.. (quackityxmalereader)

ch. 3 being human

      The next day, totoro and meadow decided that the three of us should get out of our houses for the weekend. I told them about how i want to be young and experience dating, to which they responded, "hell yes." We decide to meet up at a little coffee shop/mini-library not too far from our college and help each other with our work.

     I arrive first out of the three of us and decide to order a coffee and save us a table. "Hi, how may i help you today?" The woman behind the register asked. She looked about my age and appeared to be the only person working right now. "Just whatever you think is good for right now please," i replied. It was about four in the afternoon and coffee didn't seem like the best decision right now, but when is coffee a bad decision.

     I walked over to the mini-library they had prepared for anyone who wanted something light to read. "One book per person please" a cutesy sign read. If anything you picked out was interesting enough, you could ask to buy it. I grabbed a book titled "autoboyography" whenever the woman called my name. I proceeded to take my coffee and take a seat at my table.

     There were only two other people in the cafe, a young man near my age and an old woman in a rocking chair by the library. The young man had a really nice looking beanie on with the letters "LAFD" on it. Maybe he could be my first attempt at being human if i could ever find the courage to talk to him.

     I didn't have to wait much longer until totoro and meadow arrived, they got here together because meadow moved in with totoro and her mother after meadow's parents died. "Hey loser what's good?" meadow announced, raising the brow of the young man. "Girl, shut up and get a coffee," totoro hushed. The two ordered their coffee and sat down. 

     "So how have you two been?" i said. "Tired and hungry, you?" emily responded. "Oh broke too," julissa chimed in. Totoro's and meadow's real names were julissa and emily respectively, they decided against revealing their names online, they already have more than enough trouble with college and caring for julissa's mom.

     "How much work do you two have?" i asked. "Not a lot but i need help figuring out the difference between every living animal that lived within the mesozoic period," julissa replied. "I don't have anything but i didn't feel like staying home," emily said. "Beautiful," i ended. We began working on mine and julissa's work until our three rounds of drinks were finished along with our work. It was getting dark outside and that young man was still here on his laptop with his headphones in, was he some youtuber i haven't heard of before?

     Emily started signing to me out of nowhere, we learned after i decided to take courses on it in high school and most of it stuck. "That boy over there has been looking over to us for a while," she signed. "y/n you should ask him out, you said you wanted to start dating people," julissa signed. "I'm pretty sure he's going to look at me weird if we keep signing when we've been talking this entire time," i said and of course he noticed but darted his eyes back to his laptop as soon as i looked at him. 

     "So y/n," julissa started, "you said you wanted me and emily to fix your dating life correct?" "Yeah but i already have my marking, it feels kinda weird dating someone when i know it's not going to work in the end," i said back. "Well you can't let that keep you from being young and having fun. You're just barely an adult and you decide fun is bad for you?" emily puts in. That wasn't why i didn't want to date, but trying to change either of their opinions whenever they were this deep was like kicking a brick wall and wanting it to move out of your way. "C'mon let's go out to some book store or something and see if anyone looks interesting," julissa suggested. "Fine just let get my stuff together," i laughed. 

     I could feel that young man looking at me now while julissa and emily bought some croissants. I stopped to look back at him and our eyes met. We stared at each other for much longer than i intended to, something about him seemed so special, like i was missing something. He wrote something down on a little post-it note and walked over and gave it to me, before sitting back down and working. Julissa and emily missed this interaction and made the three of us leave.

???'s pov

     This boy just walked in here, he's kinda cute. No, what am i thinking, there's no point in dating someone if i already have my marking. I can't help but watch him though. He looks tired, the type of person who'd get a coffee at 4 in the afternoon... he just got a coffee. Whatever i have a video to edit. A few hours pass, i could've gone home by now, why haven't i? Something is just keeping me here and i can't help but stare at him though. I think i heard his friend say he has his marking already. Can he be like me? What if he's... no, no he can't be. But what if he is. I can't let this opportunity pass me by, not again. His friends got up to get something from the woman, this is my chance. I take one of my post-it notes and write my twitch name on it and give it to him. His friends and him leave and i take the biggest sigh i've ever had in my life. I hope i did the right thing.