Chapter 3

It's now night again.

At around the same time as the day before, I start getting ready to go visit baby Daniel at his job. I also have a dislike of Crystal for being a hypocrite. But then again all in the webtoon are too, it's just more in your face with her.

I get there, briefly greet him when walking in before heading into the aisle to get my snacks.

While I do, some dude comes in gets his stuff and leaves. After finally collecting all my snacks, I head to the register to pay.

"Today I can stay a little while longer, if that doesn't bother you. I wanted to interrogate you about your interests and type of humor to see if we could become friends. You are welcome to do the same to me or to decline."

He looks at me taken aback while I gather my snacks in a neat order and sit myself on the counter, facing sideways so that I can look at him when we talk while also having a view of the door. After some time he awkwardly smiles at me.

"Sure I don't mind."

We then begin talking about random things. After some time of chilling here, and Daniel doing his job, Vasco walks in and freeze while looking at me and Daniel for a while. He looks like he's having an internal debate. Because he doesn't seem to be able to figure out if he thinks I'm bullying him or not. Which ouch. Vasco thinks all good looking people are bad guys, so him hesitating with me tells me how he thinks of my looks. But then again he might be confused like everyone else because of the makeup and clothing.

I look at him dead in the eyes for a second before not being able to help myself.

"On a scale from 1 to 10, how likely would you be to agree to let me color in your tattoos with markers? Because I am itching to do it. I could also use pain that peels off but that would crack easier which would make me sad if my hard work got destroyed in seconds. Also have you ever thought of wearing one of those cool blouse with dramatic see throught sleeves that give a pirate vibe? I think it would suit you. But then again you'd need something matching at the bottom or else I'd cry. Oh shit I'm rambling. I don't even know you what am I doing? Oh god I'm still talking I'm so embarrassed, Danny help me I've made a fool of myself."

Daniel just sweat drops while I die on myself, putting my whole face in my hands and just slumping on myself. Vasco looks like he's still processing what I've just said but looks overall a mix of confused and happy that he got a compliment. Everyone just stands there in their position until Vasco gets his stuff, pays and leaves.

I then turn to Danny.

"How creepy did I sound just now, from a scale of 1 to 10. Please be honest. And how likely are you to let me give you fashion tips? "

Daniel sweat drops again before nervously answering me.

"I'd say probably 5 and I guess maybe 7?"

I turn to him, internally lighting up.

"Well I think a dark blue long sleeves with a sleeveless jean jacket, open could look nice on you. With jeans. Or if you want to go more comfy casual black sweatpants would work. On you I think a tin necklace would be a nice addition to any of your outfits. But we have to take into consideration your daily life, so seeing as you seem pretty used to being beaten up I'd say it's not smart to wear necklaces, earrings or bracelets. But I do think that I've seen rings self defense weapons before, with actual hurtful spikes or something. But then again that last part might have been a fever dream, I would honestly not be able to tell."

I just sit there, looking at him with stars in my eyes, until I jolt up. Remembering the plot.

"Y'know what? Best way for you to defend yourself is to build muscle. Let's do this."

I jump down from my seat, and place myself in a stretching pose, waiting for him. He thinks for a while, before getting a determined look fall on his face. He finally joins me and I start instructing him on how to properly stretch without hurting himself so that he also doesn't hurt himself when working out. Stretching is important, knew a guy in previous life that injured himself very badly because he didn't stretch before working out. Dude suffered permanent damage, was never able to do anything competitive anymore. Scary.

We start working out side by side, people coming and going, me warning Danny in advance so he can be in his normal position to do his job and not get embarrassed. This goes on for a while, until we've moved on to yoga poses and meditation. We're currently both balanced on one feet, with the other leg being held by both our arms over our head. Well, I am, Danny isn't used to this so he's struggling hard.

Concentrated on breathing, I don't have time to warn Danny of Crystal. Or warn myself for that matter. She just walks in, and Danny notices her and gets startled, in turn accidentally hitting me and making me loose my balance, falling very disgracefully with a squeaky yelp.

Crystal chuckles, although I do see her hesitate a bit at the sight of me. But in the end, she decides to treat me like air.

Everything happens like in the webtoon, while I just sit here on the floor, being forgotten.

After she finally leaves, Danny decides it's been enough exercise. Remembering the story, I decide to simply not care about the fact that I'm changing this small part.

Me and Danny are just chatting, when I see Jiho come in. I just stop in my track to stare. Danny and him do like in the webtoon, completely disregarding my existence. Which is starting to worry me. Will Jay forget me too? Sad feelings.

But then Zack's goons walk in, and I decide I'm going to do something I'll regret later. They just brought forth the "you two fight, see who wins" thing when I chuckle lowly, bringing everyone's attention to me.

"I have a better plan. I think I've seen you guys bother charger dude at school. I've decided I'm annoyed by this. So I'm going to fuck you up, don't worry I'm for gender equality so I'll hit you all the same. Hehe hehehe..."

I just start psycho laughing at their face drop. But they decide to push their luck. So we're now standing where Jiho would have fought Danny, but it's me and them. The dudes get ready to fight me, as I do for them. But before I can do anything, Vasco steps in. Damn I forgot about that.

Vasco just basically comes in, scares them, grabs one by neck and then he lets them go and they leave.

Then Vasco has his moment with Chargy and Danny and then turns to me and awkwardly gives me some shoulder pats and he's gone.

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The day goes by nicely, I got to play around with Jay's hand during all of the morning classes. He even let me start a fake tattoo on it! It's a mini dragon curling around his index finger and resting it's head next to his nail. I was very careful with the details. Then I had to let go while we were walking to lunch, even though I was just itching to hold his hand. I was able to hold myself back, but not without being extremely gloomy.

We sat down at what I learned to be Jay's spot, where no one bothers us. And we were eating and talking, well Jay telepathy and me quietly talking to his ear.

But then Jay gets distracted by Zack and Vin Jin arguing and fighting, so I just start feeding him his lunch and some bits of mine.

Suddenly, Jay gets super tense cuz Daniel attracted Vasco's attention. So I start holding his hand and playing with it to distract him.

When Daniel gets shoulder grabbed, Jay gets even more tense while being on the edge of his seat. So I sigh, before whispering to him

"He's fine, he'll grab him by the wrist and pull it off in just a minute."

As I said, Daniel pulls Vasco's death grip off and Jay turns to me questioningly. I just restart feeding him while giving him a smile.

So Jay just stays seated while I feed him, even as it looks like Vasco is pissed after Daniel pulled off his grip.

The situation is defused and everything like in the webtoon, lunch ends and it's time to get back to class.

In class, Daniel has the whole get together thing talk and Jay listens in but doesn't seem to react. I mean, in the webtoon too he wasn't there. So I decide to push my luck.

"Hey, would you be interested in hanging out after school? We can go out or go to my place or your place, whatever you decide."

Jay turns to me, mouth open for a bit. He looks shocked. Come to think of it, in the webtoon Jay was never really invited to hang out. Or to go fight. He just was there when called because they needed him. Even in the amusement park thing he ended up alone and forgotten since he spent the whole time searching for his phone. That's sad. Anyways, he nods and tells me to decide throught his telepathy thing.

"Awesome! Well I was thinking that we could go to a ceramic cafe nearby if you want, and then go back to my house maybe since it's close by since I walk to school every morning, and maybe play video games or watch movies if you want. You can even sleep over. Well I don't know if you'd be comfortable doing that since we've known each other for like 3 days, probably not. Oh god I probably sound creepy right now. I don't know how to do this. Oh god."

I just burry my face in my hands in embarrassment while Jay waves his arms around a bit before just starting to comfort me. He does let me know by telepathy that he'd love going to the ceramic cafe and having a sleepover.

I can't help smiling brightly at him. He's so sweet.

He then raises the problem of his motorcycle and needing stuff for the sleepover. So I propose that he takes me on his motorcycle to get his stuff and then we head to my place to drop it off, he leaves the motorcycle in my parking spot and we then walk to the cafe. He agrees and I get butterflies. This is really happening. I can't wait!

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