These have been the best few months ever. You kept yourself busy with little odd jobs around town. Cause basically everyone knew everyone so it was easy to have something to do everyday. Right now your trimming limbs and separating them as burning wood, trash wood, and smoking wood. There was an ice storm a while back and everyone either procrastinated on cleaning them up, was to busy, or assumed the city would pick up all the rubish.
Which is hilarious cause now you have all this fire and smoking wood in piles and selling them per 20 pounds. Gettin' paid to clean them from lazy peoples yards and still getting a profit. Laughing you remember the saying 'Another mans trash is another mans treasure.' You sat back and looked at your hard work, soon you'd be taking all the scrap branches and limbs out of town and put them in a storage shed, the town would use this to their advantage and possibly just burn a lot of garbage in one go or something.
Glancing down at your phone you noticed it was about lunch time. Well, you could take a little break. Sitting down on the tailgate of one of the trucks you swung your legs and pulled the cooler to your side and reached in grabbing a soda. Using your own perspiration you slicked back the free strands of your hair to keep it out of your face.
"Hey sweetpea." One of the other people that's been helping walks up to you. His name is Keith, he's pretty chill. Bumping his knuckle with your own you pass him your unopened soda and reach in for another. "Sup bro?" Laughing he nudges you over and hops up onto the tailgate with you. You two had been friends for about a month now? He was pretty nice and what not, you both took turns making lunch.
"Anyway, I thought since you had been doing SUCH a wonderful job. I would reward yuh with a dinner date perhaps?" Oh god there he goes with those fucking eye brow waggles. How do people do that. You want to do the fucking wave with your eyebrows. What the fuck. You proceeded to laugh your ass off during your monolog.
"Oh man those brows man, I don't know. Wow uhm. Are you sure a dinner DATE?" This was a little nerve wracking, you hadn't dated in years and you hadn't attempted in years. "Uh, well yea why not? Your pretty intrestin' and sweet." Oh man were you okay enough to even try? You felt like you shouldn't but you knew you had to slowly work out of your comfort zone.
"Uhm. Yea I'll try. But don't expect anything more or rash. You know just." Before you could finish and held up his hand and nodded.
"Just to test the waters right? Don't worry 'bout me I'm old fashioned." He smiled gently. Okay step one of getting out of your little shell is complete. "All righty then I'll get ya at 7." He bumped your arm with his knuckles in a faux punch and walked away. That gives you 4 hours to go home and shower and get dressed.
Oh no.
You forgot to ask where he was going to take you.
Should you dress nice or normal or lazy? Now your freaking out. Maybe you should play it safe and dress casually but wear minimal make-up?
Finishing up the rest of your work you hurried home and continued your freak out session while getting dressed.
"Honey you need to calm down, your exhausting me just watching you." Your mother chimes in.
Your father laughed, "It's like watching a chicken with it's head cut off. Why so high strung?"
You stopped. "Ah. Well.. I'm going on a date tonight and I just you know. Don't wanna screw anything up tonight." Their blank expressions brithened up. "Oh thats great! Things will go good, this is a great step for you honey." Your mother looked positively excited and your father butts in, "Who is it? Do I needa talk to him?"
"Oh, no you don't need too. I'm not really that attracted to him like that but I just thought I needed to attempt getting out you know?" You swallowed, that sounded a little bit like you were using him.
Later Keith picked you up and took you to a simple diner, thank god you only wore simple jeans and a nice shirt. He wore a button up plaid shirt, levi's, and his boots so at least neither of you over dressed the other.
"So anyway, how you been feeling since you came back? I know some stuff went down while you were gone and what not but you look much brighter now-a-days." Oh, yea you forgot everyone in town knew you temporarly went "crazy". It bothered you a little bit, mainly the chuch folk trying to get you to go repent your sins and pray for forgivness so you'd be healthier with God. You didn't like that kind of pressure, it always made you feel a bit annoyed.
"Mmm, things have been much easier I guess the stress of city life got ta me." Shit, your drawl came out. He seemed to have not noticed or cared as he smiled. "Yea I'd imagine so. All those people day and night. At least your feelin' better." He seemed legitimately concerned.
Things seemed to actually progress pretty well, though on your side it was very much platonic, but you noticed the signs he was giving. For some reason you felt jealousy bubbling up every now and then when his hand brushed against yours or when he gave you something from his plate off his fork. You didnt know why you felt that way when there's no reason to.
He offered to take you to the movies or to walk around and talk, you took the latter. He smiled and laughed at your jokes and you to his. You'd catch him staring sometimes and feel those negative feelings again. What was wrong with you? Keith finally took you home and you awkwardly side hugged him bye and slipped in the house.
Maybe going out with him was a bad idea? Or it's just your brain trying to go against change. You didn't know and went to your room, changed, and laid in bed. This was frustrating.
*you have fun on your date?
Jumping, you sighed. It was Sans. "Hey there buddy, it wasn't that bad. I don't think there'd be a second. I just kept feeling weird, and not a good weird you know?"
*actually yea I know, i-
He just stopped right there. "Sans?" closing your eyes you didn't see anything but a faint glow, so you knew he was still there.
*i just. i gotta tell ya some stuff.
"Like what?" now you were curious.
*tonight, i'm gunna prove i'm real.
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Aaaaand, that's it. Yea this took a while, just stuff going down and procrastination both me and my friend's part lol but now no more editor I think I can handle it on my own from now!
So if there's any typo's please let me know!
