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He was sleeping and had a cat shirt on, she thought that he was mostly a laid back kinda guy since he had long hair for a guy. She looked at his name tag and it said 'Heracles', she smiled at this because she kinda liked the name, it sounded Greek. She liked all of the myths from the ancient culture, those were more of her bedtime stories when she was little. She did read Dr. Suess and all of that, but she also liked the myths too.
Sofie couldn't get the attention of the sleepy guy because she was too short and you could only see the top of her head and not her whole head when she was by the counter. She said "Um, excuse me?" And waved her hand.
It didn't work, he only shifted his position in the chair and slept anyway. She got her blow horn from her bag and pressed the top for only a second, he was awake though after it, but it got the attention of another guy that worked there.
He was tall, just like the guy that was sleeping in the chair. But they were different in a lot of ways, like he was tanner, had a stubble and wore a jacket with his hood up and had a mask on, odd enough. He walked to the counter and said/yelled in a crabby voice "What seems-" and then he saw the small girl, trying to buy some food and his enemy sleeping on the job.
He said to him agitated "Jerkules, what's the problem? What did she have to bring out a blow horn for?"
Heracles's mood looked more like he was deep in thought rather than regret or fear. He said calmly "I was taking a nap. It was my break."
The guy in the jacket yelled "Yeah, well you could've told me! I could've helped her and she wouldn't have to use the blowhorn!"
He replied "Well, you don't have to be so rude about it." Then he finally looked at Sofie. In his eyes, she was cute in every way. When he saw her, he was reminded of cats, how soft and cute they were. Maybe she was soft, he didn't know, but he would like to find out.
She pressed the top again when the guy in the jacket started to shout again. She said to the guy "Well, you don't really have to shout at him. Personally, I don't like yelling at all."
No one could really tell, but his eyes widened behind the mask. He said "Oh, uh sorry."
She smiled at him and said "You shouldn't worry about it, you didn't know that I hated it anyway."
She put the food on the counter and Heracles ringed it up. She was about to pay for it, but he said in his soft and sleepy voice "Don't worry, I can pay for it."
She said "Really, you really don't have to."
He gave her a small smile and said "It's fine."
So, he paid for it instead. She was about to carry it, but the guy in the jacket got it for her. He said "I'll carry that for you. It's the least we can do."
She grinned at both of them and said "Wow, you two are so sweet." Their hearts stopped beating for a second when she said that, and they started beating again, but a lot faster. She looked at the one who was carrying her bags and said "I'll be fine." And got the bags from him. She was about to leave, but asked "What are your names anyway? I don't think your at my school."
Heracles said his name and the hooded man said "Well, I'm Sadik."
Heracles said "I never saw you around the school."
Sadik butted in "You're sleeping in class, you idiot, how would you know?"
Heracles retorted "Well, I would think I would know if an angel was at our school."
Sofie blushed at that comment. She hasn't gotten a compliment from many people, yet again, people didn't notice her until a few days ago when her first friends noticed the board.
Sadik snapped his fingers in front of Sofie's face and stopped zoning out when he did. He said "I asked what you name is." a little irratated.
Heracles added softly "That wasn't all that nice."
She said "Well, uh, my name's Sofie and I go to the school that's right by here. So, why are you two here so early?"
Sadik said to her "We had the day off."
She nodded and said to both of them "Well, I have to go back, nice to meet you two." And went out of the little gas station.
They waved goodbye to her and Heracles went into the break room to sleep and Sadik went to work at the counter instead. When he woke up though, he was screaming at the guy for what happened with her.
Sofie got to the school on time and got the food set up, but what she didn't expect was two notes at the bottom of the bags. What the first one said was:
Dear Sofie,
Hello, I was wondering, would you like to come over to my house? I noticed that you had cat socks on today and I wondered if you liked cats just as much as I do.
Sincerely, Heracles
PS: the address is on the back, angel.
And so it was. Sofie found it odd that it didn't include the address at first, but she saw the back. She also didn't remember him looking at her socks or him even putting this note in the bag, that goes for the other one too.
Sofie got it from the bottom of another bag and it was taped onto a receipt. She almost forgot that he paid for all of her stuff, she had to repay him somehow. She opened the note and it said:
Yo Sofie!
Wanna hang out at the mall or something? We could buy cool stuff or whatever. My phone #'s on the back, just call me when you want to!
~ Sadik
She flipped it and, at least he didn't forget the number. She smiled at these notes, two new friends today too. It kinda stinks that they aren't at her school, but at least she can see them or talk to them in Sadik's case.
She puts the notes in her bag and waited for all of her friends to show, her bunny in her arms like always.
The first one was Roderich on time, he just stood around. Sofie looked at him and said "Roderich, you know you can sit in a bean bag."
He gave her a questionable look. "Do you expect me to sit in one of those? They are so close to the floor, you might as well sit on it!"
Sofie sighed and said "Wait, when you play the keyboard, doesn't it feel like your in a different world?"
He nodded, she smiled and said "Well, you can play your keyboard here. But, just make sure the keyboard isn't loud, that's all I ask."
He thought it over and decided that would be the best decision. Sofie, was honestly so excited that he would play in her head, but didn't show it. She listened to him play through a door, but not up close like this.
He started playing it and she saw the fairies all on the keyboard and they danced along with the music and sprinkled fairy dust on the keyboard. Roderich didn't notice the fairies since he was playing the piano and he didn't believe in them. The fairies giggled as they twirled and danced on the keyboard, Sofie smiled at them. One came to her shoulder and sprinkled some purple fairy dust on her clothes and hair.
She just giggled at their antics, she didn't even notice that Roderich stopped until he said "What's so funny?" a little agitated.
Sofie jumped a little. She had to think on her feet for this one, from what she can recall, he never seen a fairy before. So, she lied "Um, I was just reminded of something funny, that's all." And smiled.
He only nodded and continued playing the song that made the fairies appear in the first place. Arthur came in and Sofie put her finger to her lips, saying that it wasn't the right time to talk. He nodded and made tea from the little packs of tea that she got.
A fairy came to Arthur afterward and sprinkled fairy dust on him too. He laughed and so did Sofie when the fairy did that. Roderich stopped playing, a little agitated that they would laugh while he was playing. He shouted at them "Would you please stop laughing?"
Sofie and Arthur both looked at him, simply surprised. They even forgot that there was another person in the room because of the magic in the room. Sofie, embarrassed that she did the same thing twice when someone told her not to, said "Sorry again Roderich. I just love to hear you play though."
He blushed and blinked, he heard that compliment a lot of times, but when she said it, it made his heart race. He stuttered "Th-thanks."
She nodded and he continued playing his keyboard. The fairies disappeared when the rest of the popular guys showed up, Alfred started annoying the crap out of Roderich and he left, Alfred got out of his beanbag to get some food from the tables. Sofie sighed and said while getting up from her bean bag "I'll go and get him." and went out of the room.
Before she closed it, she asked Alfred "Hey Alfred?"
He stopped eating the food for a second and said "Yeah, wassup dudette?"
"Can you tell people if they ask for me, I'm helping out Roderich?" She asked.
He nodded and she said "Thanks." and disappeared behind the door to go and look for him.
Sofie had an idea of where he could be. She looked in the music room close by and, sure enough, he was there. The door was open, but she knocked softly anyway. She asked "May I come in?"
He looked over his shoulder and said "Yeah, fine."
She walked over the the baby grand piano he was sitting at and said "Sorry about laughing in front of you when you were playing. We weren't laughing at you, we were honestly laughing at something else."
He rolled his eyes and said "Yeah, what could you have been laughing at?"
Sofie sighed and said, a little cautiously "Promise you won't, like, roll on the floor from laughing or something."
He gave her a questionable look and said "Why would I roll on the floor? That's unsanitary."
Sofie sighed again and said "I noticed that fairies tend to like it when you play the piano and they sprinkle fairy dust when they dance. And, the reason why me and Arthur were laughing was because of them sprinkling fairy dust all over us."
A long silence followed after that, she didn't know what to say and neither did he. He did want to laugh at the idea, but didn't want to be rude.
He said "I don't believe in fairies, but if that's what you say, okay." And he continued playing.
Sofie said to him "Are you sure you don't wanna come in the room?"
He shook his head. "If Alfred isn't there," He said while looking at the piano "Then maybe."
That was a big problem for her, she kind liked Alfred and how generous he was when they were hanging out at McDonald's. "Well, I can't guarantee you that, but he might be annoying someone else since you went out of the room."
He stopped and pondered this over. He said "Okay, I will. But first, sit on the bench with me."
She blushed, but sat by him anyway. He played a piece that was very complicated to Sofie, she did play the guitar, which was a stringed instrument, but never like this.
She never played it with so much intensity and this fast. She just played songs she knew on the radio, she never really knew how to read sheet music since she knew every string so well and what sound it would make if she strummed it. Well, that came with a year of memorizing the strings on an acoustic guitar that her uncle gave her for that while and about a couple more months when she got an electric one. If she listened to a song on the radio or on Youtube that she really liked now, she would play along with it until she got it right.
She played more like those college hippies that you see that just play for the fun of it and make up lyrics to the song as they go. She played with ease and she had a natural talent for it, Roderich did too, but he didn't play like she did all the time. Well, sometimes he would play like her, with ease, but not this time. He played out what he felt, if he was angry, he tapped the keys with more force, especially in this tune. She was smiling anyway, she liked his music even when he played like this.
He stopped and said "What do you think?"
She said "I thought it was awesome. On my guitar, I don't play that fast like you did."
He smiled and got up from the bench after a while and said "Okay, we can go back to the room." He walked out of the room and Sofie followed him.
They got back and the popular kids and Ludwig and Kiku were arguing. Elizabeta was nowhere to be seen since she called in sick, Mattie and Gilbert were making out and Lovino was trying to yell at all of them to stop and Antonio was just trying to have a conversation with Feliciano, but it didn't really work, so he tried to shout over them.
When Sofie and Roderich came in, Sofie had about enough screaming for one day. She was pissed, anyone could tell, that's why Roderich was a little scared, but it quickly receded when she saw his face. She got the blow horn out and held it for about a half of a minute until everyone was silent.
Sofie asked "Can you please stop shouting, all of you?"
They nodded slowly and she grinned. "Good!" She chirped. From this, she all of a sudden remembered the idea that she got from Feliciano. "So, um, I got this great idea from Feli earlier today and. . Who wants to go to the Art room next door?"
Many people raised their hand except for Lovino and Roderich. Roderich for obvious reasons, but Lovino, she wasn't exactly sure about. Sofie said to them "Sorry Roderich and Lovino, the majority vote goes to the art room!"
Ludwig forced her to make a note before they headed out to the art room that was close by. She walked with Arthur and Ivan on either side of her, Arthur thought that if she isn't scared of him, than he shouldn't. So, he stayed by her side.
All of them went into the art room and did what they wanted. Roderich played his keyboard, Alfred talked with his group of friends and didn't annoy him, and everything was going smoothly. No one really did anything, except for Lovino. He was by himself and had an easel in front of him and a bunch of colors on a small table next to him and a paintbrush in his hand.
Sofie was kinda concerned about him. She went to Antonio since he hangs out with him so much and asked "Hey Antonio, do you know what's up with Lovino."
He looked where he was and said to her "No idea chica. But it's probably not a good idea for you. He might yell."
She nodded and went to Lovino anyway, despite his warning. She was smiling as she went over to him and chirped "Hey, watcha doing?"
"What are you doing here?" He spat. "Idiota."
She sighed, she knew he was most likely gonna say that, so she pretended not to hear it. "Well," she started "I just wanted to see how you were doing. You seemed stressed." She got a stool and sat by him.
Lovino sighed and said "Look at this, then." And pointed to the easel.
It was a big mix of colors varying from orange to blue to gray. He said "Now you see why I'm stressed ragazza?"
Sofie didn't find anything wrong with it. She asked "Why? Do you think there's something wrong with it?"
He sighed and spat "It's supposed to be a person. I really want it to be perfect"
Sofie only blinked. She said "Well, it doesn't have to be a person, you know. Painting people is really difficult for me."
He rolled his eyes. He said "You're only saying that."
Sofie said "If you don't believe me, I'll show you."
She got an easel from the back of the room. He showed the tiniest smile, Antonio obviously noticed and grinned from ear to ear, and yeah, he was on the other side . He went over to Lovino and hugged him from behind and noogied him, careful to avoid his curl and said "Was that a smile I saw Lovi?"
Lovino got really flustered and angry and shouted "Shut the fuck up you tomato bastard! And don't call me that!"
Antonio didn't care though, he was as happy as could be. Someone could get him unstressed and that's saying something. Sofie came back and Lovino was about to punch the Spaniard in the face, but when he saw her, he stopped, but Antonio walked (or more like skipped) to the other side of the room. Sofie didn't really notice him skipping, so she didn't say anything.
She set up the easel and put the small table with the paints to be in between them and she tried her best, but it was a lot worse than she could've imagined.
She laughed at it, even her stomach was tightening from how much she laughed at it. (Her laughs are more of little girlish giggles) she tried her best to calm down and actually say something legible, but she couldn't. Lovino looked at it too and laughed just as much as she did, she couldn't help but smile and laughed even more. Yet again, she wrote some swear words and made it have a moustache too, she really doesn't know why she made it like that, maybe it's the influence of those midnight bloggers.
She finally calmed down and said "Oh my gosh, what did I paint?"
He was gasping a little to try and make himself stop laughing and actually calm down. He said between them "I don't know!" and started laughing again.
Everyone was really creeped out, they didn't know he could laugh at something that wasn't an insult.
Sofie said "Do you feel better about your art skill?"
He nodded with a subtle smile. "Good!" She chirped. "Now, what should I do with this?" she questioned and looked at the painting and smiling the whole time.
She got an idea and brightened up by it. She said "I wanna give it to you."
Lovino was surprised by this. Not many people give him gifts because of his tsundre personality, but she did. He panicked in his head 'Her? Why would someone like her give this to someone like me? Is this a joke or something?'
Lovino went back to his anger filled personality as he was reminded of how better his brother was and how much people liked him more, even his grandpa completely ignored him. If Sofie knew this, she would try her best to build up his self esteem more. Well, better than the shriveled piece of crap it is now.
He said "Thanks." (or more like spat)
She kinda knew about his personality, so she thought to herself 'at least I got him to laugh like that at least once.'
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