It had been a long day and Miko was exhausted. It takes a lot out of a girl to face a childhood fear and admit to her best friend that she was the villain of his tragic young origins. Spotting her boyfriend's bright platinum poof of hair as she walks into the staff locker room Miko's body goes on autopilot. Walking over to him she hits her forehead on his chest sighing loudly.

"Why so glum, sugar plum? You look like you just found out the game boss had a second health bar." Mitch asks as he looks around the locker room making sure they're alone before wrapping his arms around her.

Miko hums and brings her own arms up to hug him.

"You gonna tell me what's got you so down or am I gonna have to guess?" Mitch asks as he pets her head enjoying their height difference. As Miko continues to stay quiet and just hug him Mitch starts to get worried. She's never usually this quiet. I wonder what happened? He thinks, but he knows they can't stay here less they give someone the chance to walk in on them. He had already seen BITT enter, scan the room and turn back around. Sighing Mitch puts his chin on the top of her head "how about we grab a couple of smoothies and go to my place yeah?" Mitch feels Miko nod and the two grab their bags and head up to the store. Miko leaves first and Mitch follows behind her after a few minutes. As they enter the Groovy Smoothie they see Levi who's usually on shift when they come in and Mitch scowls, seeing Antonio at the counter as well. He knows the boy has a crush on Miko, he could tell by the way he looks at her and how he tries to interrupt their conversations to get her attention. It only bothered him a little before, but now that Miko is his girlfriend, seeing the boy pissed him off.

"Hey Miko, what can I get for you today?" Antonio says ignoring Mitch.

Mitch tries to keep a neutral face as he puts his arm around Miko pulling her closer. Miko smiles up at him before returning to her usual demeanor. Mitch finds that she enjoys physical touch especially since he's usually so standoff-ish around others.

"I'll have a peach mango and one strawberry blast and he'll take a blueberry smoothie." Miko smirks, nuzzling herself more into his side.

Mitch just raises an eyebrow as Antonio watches them not putting in their order. "Sometime today would be nice. Or do you want to stare a bit longer?"

Antonio rings up the total as Levy makes the smoothies. "I thought you two weren't dating." Antonio says looking disappointed and a bit angered.

"Well you have eyes, does this look like we aren't dating?" Mitch asks as he leans down and kisses Miko. He's smirking as he pulls back and looks at Antonio.

"Gosh you're embarrassing." Miko says but can't but smile as she covers her face, "why am I dating you again?"

"Because I'm irresistible, charming, the list goes on."

"Ha more like a low level boss with an over inflated ego." She smirks and Mitch is about to say something, but Levi brings them their smoothies. Miko waves at them as she and Mitch leave his arm still around her.

"Better luck next time, but we all did tell you that they would end up together." Levi tells Antonio and he starts to head to the back.

"Where you goin' shifts not over yet?" Antonio asks, finally pulling his gaze away from the door.

"I've got some money to collect. I won the bet." Levi says with a laugh.

On the drive to his place Mitch noticed that even though Miko was animatedly talking about the new characters being added to realm crashers she still wasn't completely herself. He held her hand as he drove and she beamed at the gesture. As they pull into his building's parking lot and they make their way up she's finished one of her smoothies already. As he opens his door Miko makes a beeline to his couch and the pile of pillows flopping down on them.

Mitch chuckled and was glad he hadn't moved them since her last visit, "you finally gonna tell me what's been bothering you?" Miko's answer is muffled from the pillows as Mitch sits next to her. "What?" he asks, unable to hear her until he moves the pillow from her face.

"Ralphie Bear!" She shouts moving so her head is in his lap and proceeds to tell Mitch everything that happened with the glitch and Five and the animatronic bear.

Mitch listens while massaging her scalp before taking her long hair and sectioning it to braid. At the end of her rant he's almost done, but can tell Miko has had enough of being still as she starts fidgeting and messing with one of the pillows. "I don't know what you were so worried about," Mitch chuckles as he continues his work, "those animatronics are super creepy plus everyone is afraid of something."

"Oh yeah then what are you afraid of?" She asks, tilting her head back and Mitch quickly stops her so he can finish the braid. Mitch is quiet for a bit and Miko thinks he's not gonna answer her.

"Turtles."

"Turtles?" Miko says, sounding confused "As in the cute tiny dudes with shells?"

"Yes Miko, turtles." That's all he says before Miko bursts into a fit of giggles and sits up.

Well at least I finished. Mitch thinks to himself as his girlfriend laughs herself off the couch. He knew she'd find his fear funny, but he didn't care since it got her back to her usual self. Plus he knew she wouldn't tell anyone.

Miko catches her breath as she throws herself back on the couch squishing herself against Mitch. "Thanks for listening and for telling me that." She kisses his cheek and grabs her other smoothie as Mitch scrolls through her crunchyroll account trying to find something for them to watch. "Also you did a great job with this braid. Think you could do my hair next weekend. Lexi has this recital and mom is always getting on me about being dressed presentably to not embarrass her."

Mitch just laughs as his girlfriend continues to play with her braid as if she were a cat.