"Now, now. Who let these little rugrats in?" Joked a fellow officer, his arms crossed against his armor chest. Joseph-098 was always on the tough side with things, but was never a bad friend. His exterior may make him come off as a jerk or someone who simply doesn't care, but he has a heart a gold.
"Don't know, don't care. Better to not ask questions you don't want the answer to, right?" Carol-127 responded with, glancing up at Joseph's gold visor. The male returned her gaze, before smirking underneath his helmet. He had a plan to mess with these kids.
"Carol, do you remember the ventilation patterns?"
"Of course I do! That's how I used to get around, you big idiot." Carol told him, but there was no malice in her tone. Just two friends, messing around. "Why did you ask? Have something in mind?" Carol asked, her eyes glinting with excitement, though Joseph couldn't see them.
Joseph grinned with giddiness, letting go of his soldier attitude. Admittedly, though, it wasn't exactly there in the first place. "Oh yeah, I do. Imagine all of the pranks we could pull on these rookies."
Carol basically bounced on her heels, ready to mess with some recruits, but the two were interrupted by a familiar friend.
"Sorry to disappoint, but you guys can't pull any pranks right now. We need to train these little rugrats, as you called them." Evan-163 told the two, his SMG in hand, the other strapped to his hip.
Carol let out a sigh of disappoint, Joseph frowned in displeasure. Evan just shrugged off their reactions to the news, thinking that it wasn't so bad.
"C'mon. We have to teach these guys to be Spartans, and besides... we have no limits with these training sessions." Evan told them with a glint of mischievous on his tongue. The two suddenly perked up again.
"No limits, eh?" Joseph questioned, before returning Carol's gaze. Evan could've swore he could feel their smirks from underneath their helmets.
"This is going to be so much fun." Carol exclaimed in joy.
"Mae, just calm down."
"How can I calm down? I screwed this all up!"
"It's not your fault-"
"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE ACE!"
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Mae Parker has had some tough times after her major breakup with her boyfriend, lossing her younger brother, and even failing classes in school. She seems to be loosing herself in her problems, she can't stop blameing herself for everything that's happened. But when she comes across a certain youtube channel, she cant stop watching. Mae has found her happy place away from all the darkness, and people have noticed her attitude has changed to life.
When Mae finds her favorite youtuber in a Starbucks one morning, it all just turns upside down from there.
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"Oh God I'm so sorry!"
"No, no. I'm okay." I looked up to see the person I tripped over. My eyes widened.
"Are you sure? You seem a bit winded..."
"I-I'm fine, really."
"Are you sure? I mean I can go get some-"
"No really...I'm fine." I was fine, I really was. The one that saved me from death was standing right in front of me, of course I was fine. I mean...he basically saved my life.
"Okay, I'm Ethan."
"Mae." I held out my hand and he shook it.
"That's a pretty name...Mae, I like it." he said, I gave him a small smile and looked to my knees, blushing slightly.
"Thanks." I whispered. Ethan returned a smile to me and stood up, he held out his hand and smiled. I took it and he helped me to my feet.
"So, uh, um, see ya-" he started to ramble on and I placed a finger to his lips.
"Shh." I whispered, "I'm free Friday afternoon, we could meet at Starbucks and hang out?" I asked quietly, Ethan nodded and I removed my finger from his lips.
"Cool, yeah, Friday...yeah, cool, seya then!" Ethan raced off in the other direction and I smiled to myself.
"Oh god...I just met my hero..."
[If anybody has the guts to show this to Ethan...I will flipping follow you and you will be like my bestfriend...]