Note: the bears are humanized in this, if you wanna see what they look like here's the link art/We-Bare-Bears-613432019

Panda is sitting at home alone, thinking about what he's going to do today. Grizz and Ice bear are out at some convention and Chloe is at school all day, so he's all by himself today. He pulls his phone out from under him on the couch, no new notifications, as per usual. Panda sighs as remembers just how many dating sites he's made profiles on, and still none of them can find a match for him. "You know what?" He says out loud to himself, "I've had it with just laying around depressed, I'm gonna go out and do some stuff". Panda grabs his laptop bag, his phone and his pair of earbuds and confidently marches out the door with a smile on his face.

Panda arrives in town after the long walk that he isn't used to taking by himself, it seemed to have felt much shorter since he didn't have Grizz blabbing at him the whole way. Panda pulls up a map on his phone and sees the new mall that had just finished being built in the corner of the city, it's about a 5 minute walk from where he is currently. He arrives at the mall and walks inside, it's massive. It has everything from gaming stores to pawn shops to beauty salons. Panda's first mission is to pick out a new case for his phone. He goes into the tech store and scans through the shelf of phone cases. One catches his eye, a simplistic multicoloured snap case. He picks it up and studies the box.

"Good choice, that's the one I have." A feminine voice says from beside him, with a hint of a British accent. A chill goes down his spine to the thought that a girl is talking to him. He looks next to him, what he sees nearly makes his jaw fall to the floor. What he sees is a woman seemingly his age, she has black hair with white highlights, green eyes, and freckles scattered along her blush line. She's a bit on the chubbier side in terms of appearance, but not overweight. She's wearing black semi thick rim glasses, a light grey and white plaid over shirt on top of a black t-shirt with the word Overwatch written on it, coupled with the Overwatch logo. She has loose fitting blue jeans and black high top sneakers. Panda is speechless, he's never someone more attractive in his life. He feels like time has just stopped, like he could just stay there and look at her forever. 'Oh my god, did she just talk to me?' Panda says in his head. 'Ok, think of some kind of response, something that she'll like'

"Haha, then I guess we both have good taste" he replies nervously. 'OMFG are you kidding me right now? That's all you could come up with?'. Panda expects her to just disregard him and move on with her shopping, but to his surprise, she giggles.

"I guess we do" she confirms. "But if you're going to get that design, I'd suggest you get the more protective model, I got the snap back and my screen broke when I dropped it" she explains. She gives a little nervous laugh, kinda like she thinks she said something she shouldn't have.

"Thanks, I've already had to replace my screen three times" Panda says, trying to strike up conversation. "I'm just really clumsy I guess, that's why I need a case", she gives a little laugh to his point. Panda doesn't know what's going on, usually he's terrible at talking to girls, but he's on a roll. She holds his shoulder for support and reaches to the back to grab the one furthest back. He shivers, 'oh my god... She's touching me... Ok, don't freak out, just be cool' Panda says to himself in his head. She pulls out the case she's looking for.

"Got it" she gives a smile and hands the case to him. He smiles back,

"Thanks a bunch."

"Zara" she states.

"Huh?" Panda says confused.

"My name, my name is Zara"

"OH, haha, nice to meet you, I'm Panda" He says with a blush.

"Panda? Like the bear?" She asks

"Yup!" He replies confidently. She give a little giggle

"That's a nice name" she says, with a bit of a shy look on her face. "So are you here with friends Panda?" Zara asks.

"Nope, just me today, all my friends are out doing stuff, you?" He replies.

"Same, except for the friends part, I don't really have any of those." Zara answers with a smile.

"You don't have friends? I find that hard to believe" Panda boldly states. Zara chuckles a bit,

"And why is that?" She asks intrigued.

"Well you seem like a pretty nice and fun person" panda says. 'Jeez, was that wrong should I have said that? How in the world and I managing to keep up a conversation. Zara smiles and blushes a bit in response.

"Thanks, I usually try to stay away from being overly social though, too much drama you know?" she says.

"Yup, I hear that. Hey, um. Since we're both on our own, do you wanna maybe walk around together?" Panda asks hopefully, he's surprised with himself, normally he would have had a panic attack before he could even get this far. Zara gives a little giggle,

"Ya! For sure" she replies enthusiastically. "Let's go" she says walking toward the exit of the store. Panda follows her with the biggest smile on his face.

"Um, sir? You need to pay for that." The boy from behind the counter says pointing at the phone case in pandas hand. Panda and Zara look at each other, they both just share a laugh. Panda buys the case and they head out into their day at the mall.