(Tootie's PoV)
Tormented: Well since, you know... that... I wanted to know.
MysticFae: Know what?
Tormented: If you might want to do something on my birthday.
MysticFae: Yeah sure... um what game?
Tootie sat in front of the screen, waiting for Timmy's answer. No this wasn't what she imagined it would be like when Timmy asked her to do something with him, knowing it was her, really her. But it was a start, at least he didn't just start ignoring her. She had been worried when she found out she had been talking to the person she had a crush on since they were in elementary school, that once he found out who she was he would just start ignoring her. She started to get worried that he changed his mind and wasn't going to tell her what game they'd be playing, when someone knocked on her door, she swiveled in her chair, facing the door before asking the person to come in. Her mother walked in, barely even looking at her. It wasn't that her mother hated her, well she didn't think so. But ever since she got turned twelve, just three years ago, she had stopped paying much attention to her so much. That was one of the first time's her sister, normally evil had ever been kind of nice to her. Telling her that it would be alright, that she wouldn't notice it after a while. But now wasn't the time to think about that, her mother held out the phone, telling her it was for her then left. She turned to the computer.
MysticFae: Hold on phone call.
"Hello?" She asked kind of curious about who was on the other end, she normally didn't get phone calls. She didn't even have any friends. Not any that knew her number anyways
"I know." The voice sounded familiar, but she couldn't place it at the moment. Then it dawned on her who it was.
"Timmy?" She was very curious if this was really him she typed another message.
MysticFae: Timmy is this you?
"Yeah..." Her heart started beating faster... it was Timmy... what does he want? He said he wasn't going to call. "When I asked if you, um wanted to do something. I... well... I didn't mean in a game."
"You mean like..." Her mind raced, wondering what he was asking. He couldn't be really asking her... or was he? "Go out and do something... together right? Not like... a quest in a game... or PMing all night."
"Yeah... you know like regular people. We could go have lunch, or see a movie... or sit at your... well I don't want to see Vicki, maybe my house and watch a movie if you don't want to go in public," She didn't really want Vicki to end up ruining this for her... Yeah Vicki had started acting a bit nicer since their parents now ignored them both... maybe this was why Vicki was always so angry at her... Did their parents ignore Vicki, and all Vicki as was them giving her all the attention? Not now Tootie, Timmy... he just asked you out... knowing you're you... didn't he?
"One, you are not regular, and neither am I. Two..." She would play this off like it didn't make her sweat... pretend it didn't make her heart race, or make her face flush. "Did you just ask me out on a date Timmy?" She laughed to herself before continuing. "I was teasing, Timmy."
"No... I was asking you out on a... date." Her mind drew a blank... she wasn't sure what to think about this. He really asked her out on a date, yeah she'd have to wait a month, but she he really just asked her out. She'd have to wait a month, but she'd be get to go on a date with Timmy... "And it doesn't have to be on my birthday... I'm free tomorrow."
"Oh..." She pulled her pillow to her face, and let out a tiny scream of joy... it's happening. It's really happening, he asked me out... ME! Okay Tootie get it together, don't act all desperate. "Yeah, yeah... um sure yeah... Uh... where?"
"Well..." She waited, and he never said anything. He had started a couple times, but didn't seem to be able to figure it out. "You pick."
"Well how about we just..." What could they do? The park? Beach? No... um "Go to the mall and have lunch. We could go see a movie after if you still wanted to... I know you don't like to be out long, but if you want to we could."
"Sure... uh lunch and a movie. See you there at... um... whats playing anyways?" Lunch and a movie! He was willing to have lunch and a movie... Maybe she could get him to change his mind for dinner and a movie later, maybe it would be like a real date date... would he try to kiss her... No, her mind went to what she knew about the Timmy now. He wasn't that confident, nor was he really into getting close to people physically. But she could dream right?
"Um... I don't know..." She opened her browser and looked up what was playing.
"Um..." Couple romance movies she wanted to see, but maybe Timmy might think she was expecting something... and he'd get uncomfortable... "Nothing we'd really like..." a action movie, that Timmy had said sounded stupid once before. And kid movies... wait. She saw it. A horror movie that had come out the day before, a zombie movie, her and Timmy both liked horror movies... "Wait there is one maybe... it's a horror film about zombies, you like zombies." and maybe... he'd pull her close during the movie... Focus Tootie! "Speaking of zombies... if the apocalypse comes... you still want me to be with you?"
"Yes idiot... I mean uh yes, you'd have to be a idiot to think I wouldn't." She squealed out again, forgetting to put her pillow over her face. Her face turned red as she realized what she had done... she wasn't sure what Timmy would think about that... she sounded desperate... she was but she didn't want to sound that way.
"So about tomorrow... I um..." she thought about it, and decided to tell a lie. "I have... an appointment tomorrow afternoon. So um..."
"Oh... maybe another time..." Did he sound disappointed... she had to tell him what she meant.
"No.. I meant..." she took a deep breath and let it out here goes. "I was wondering if maybe you wanted to... maybe we could go to dinner instead, then go and see a movie after..."
"Yeah... we could do that." He sounded more relieved about it... maybe he wanted to have a real date with her. No... he was just desperate for company... "So I'll meet you at... that restaurant in the mall?"
"Yeah... it's a date!" Giggling she hung up the phone jumped up and onto her bed, bouncing around and giggling in joy. Then she sat up looking horrified. "What am I going to wear? What about my hair?" It had been a while since she even did anything to her hair... Maybe she should go get a hair cut tomorrow before her date... make up... did she need any? Her mind ran all which ways as she ran to the closet tearing through her cloths... "Black, black, black, black... Why is everything black?"
Because you like black... and Timmy likes black... Calm down it'll be okay... you could show up in nothing and he wouldn't care... then she blushed as she thought about it... Okay he'd notice that... but she had a point. He wouldn't care would he? Maybe she'd buy a different shirt... to go with her black skirt... something red... yeah red would work. Now make up... she looked through what she had... she didn't own much because well she didn't use much... maybe just lipstick, red... it would match the shirt she's going to buy... how about eyeliner? She spent the next hour stressing over everything she would need to do.
The next day she laid back in a salon chair, someone washing her hair before cutting it. She wished she did this more often, this was relaxing... if Timmy decided to do this more often... maybe she'd have a reason to, she smiled to herself, and sighed happily. This lady was the usual lady that cut her hair.
"You got a date tonight Tootie?" she smiled a dreamy smile, though she didn't realize it and nodded. She was in pure bliss at the moment. "So are we going to do any styling today?"
"No... I'm just going to put them up in twin-tails." Tootie said, she hadn't really worn her hair like that in a while. So it would be different, and would show off most of her face.
After her hair was cut, and dried. She walked into the most popular clothing store at the time, 21 something. She wasn't sure where they came up with the names to places, but this one seemed to be doing well, it had been one of the best stores for several years. She walked around the store, until she found a shirt she was sure would go well with her black skirt... it was red, and it was just the right color matching her lipstick... what luck, she thought. Grabbing it, hurried to the counter paying for it, then darting out of the store.
It was almost time, she thought as she finished putting her hair up into twin-tails, applying her lipstick and eyeliner. I'm not Trixie... but I think I look nice enough. She had always compared herself to that snob of a girl... and why wouldn't she... she always wondered why Timmy loved Trixie but never her. She debated on using her contacts tonight... but decided it would be best if she wore her glasses... it would be hard to lose those... and dropping a contact lens... best not to even let it happen. With one final look in the mirror, she grabbed her purse, and set out for the mall.
She stood by the big window looking out, she had come early... but she hoped that he would have been here early too. Timmy was never early... when he was Tormented, or Timmy. He was always either on time, or late. Usually late, but it wouldn't worry her... not tonight. This was her big night. Finally, her first date... and it was with Timmy. She had been busy looking out the window for Timmy, she didn't notice, or hear someone walking up behind her.
"Tootie? Is that... You?" Tootie jumped at the voice before turning around... It was Timmy... oh God he's so cute, she squealed in her mind before she was able to put a tight leash on her emotions... Timmy's mouth hung open slightly, as he just stared at her... what was wrong?
"Is there something wrong..." she looked down at her shirt... maybe she split her drink... or was her makeup messed up... her hands went to her hair... no it was in place... so then what?
"You're..." his faced flushed a bit, and his mouth closed... What was wrong... her heart started beating faster. Each second that passed was she was closer to just running home. "You're beautiful."
"Oh... I um..." her face turned red, which she was sure matched her lips and shirt about now... she wasn't sure what to say... no one had ever called her that before... she'd been called many things, a lot of them wasn't nice... but beautiful... "Um, thank you Timmy... are uh..." She had been crushing on him most of her life, and right now... she felt like she might just float away. "Are you ready?"
He nodded taking her hand... she felt him hesitate just before his hand touched hers... Timmy didn't touch anyone anymore... she knew that. It had to have been hard for him to force himself to do it... but she was happy he did... her heart fluttered, as they walked into the restaurant.
(Timmy's PoV)
"So about tomorrow... I um..." Tootie started, he was wondering what else she might have planned, and wondered what he might have gotten himself into "I have... an appointment tomorrow afternoon. So um..."
"Oh... maybe another time..." He was disappointed, he had been worried about what else she had wanted to do... he hadn't realized that he had started looking forward to the encounter... even if it had only been a little while.
"No.. I meant..." He waited for the damning words every girl told him, that she wasn't interested... maybe Tootie had thought about it, and decided dating a total outcast wasn't what she wanted. "I was wondering if maybe you wanted to... maybe we could go to dinner instead, then go and see a movie after..."
"Yeah... we could do that." he was relieved that she wasn't just going to crush him like that... dinner was good... at that time there would be less people at the mall, so he wouldn't have to worry about being around all those people. "So I'll meet you at... that restaurant in the mall?"
"Yeah... it's a date!" He heard giggling over the phone before it hung up. And he was back wondering what he had gotten himself into. A date with Tootie... he never thought that this was what he would someday be doing... much less looking forward to it. He was excited, as he laid back on his bed. He tried to remember what Tootie looked like now... he had seen her of course at school, but he'd always stayed away form people, and in class he never even looked up from his book. He knew what she had looked like, she had been cute in her own way. Long black hair... up in twin-tails. He liked black hair.
He started to wonder what he would wear... the restaurant wasn't all that fancy... but if this was supposed to be a date... he would have to at least try to dress, in something other than what he normally wore. Nothing too big, he thought as he pushed himself off the bed, looking at the closet where, for most of the past few years, he'd just tossed things into without caring what happened to it.
The closet opened he looked through it... nothing really stood out, then again he never stood out. Maybe he had gotten in over his head. He could always buy something tomorrow... but did he really want to look that desperate. She knew he didn't wear anything new, and that most of the things he owned was faded because that's how he liked it. The new stuff was always so stiff, and uncomfortable... but if Tootie was dressing up... he didn't want to disappoint her. Wait... when did this become about disappointing Tootie, this is supposed to just be... going to hang out with a friend... wasn't it? No it's a date you idiot, his mind was back, and still obviously mad about being ignored.
So, his mind taunted him slightly, are you going to listen to me now, or ruin your only chance at a girlfriend? Girlfriend... no this wasn't about that... Tootie was just looking for a friend to hang out with... like me. Keep telling yourself that, the little voice in his head taunted again. After the internal struggle it was decided that he would go to the mall, the next day and find something better than what he owned... even though he knew Tootie would see this right off the bat... he never got anything new, it was a waste.
The next day he stood in front of the mirror, looking at a cleaner... better dressed version of the boarder line emo boy that usually looked back at himself. His hair covered half of his face, like he normally wore it, he wasn't sure why he had saw it once and decided he liked it, so he wore his hair like that. His stomach was hurting and more than once he wanted to call Tootie and just cancel... but that little voice in his head kept telling him it was a bad idea, and that if he did he might never get this chance again... So with that thought he went out, and made his way to the mall.
He'd left early and arrived early. He wasn't sure what he expected... Tootie wouldn't be leaving for a while yet so maybe he'd just wait around for her. Find a nice place to sit, and play some games on his phone. He walked towards a bench and veered off when he noticed the black twin-tails, attached to a girl looking out the window. The red shirt clung to her like a second skin, you could just see the slightest hint of skin, between the shirt, and the skirt... It wasn't that the skirt was short. Her legs had become much longer than he remembered, Makes sense, Vicki had long legs, it was only a matter of time before hers would grow... he just didn't imagine... she could look like this. Even when he was younger, he had always noted Tootie as 'cute', but now. Wow, his mind echoed his thoughts... obviously it liked how Tootie looked.
"Tootie? Is that... You?" Tootie jumped at the sound of his voice then turned around... Timmy's mouth hung open slightly, as he just stared at her... not able to think of anything else to say at the moment. His mind was too busy drooling... so much for listening to you. Something about how her lipstick matched her shirt... he just couldn't keep his eyes off her.
"Is there something wrong..." she looked down at her shirt... her hands went to her hair... no it was in place... so then what? She looked confused as if she was noticing something that she couldn't find. It was cute... and he didn't know why.
"You're..." his faced flushed a bit, and his mouth closed... What was wrong... his heart started beating faster. It took him a few moments to get his mouth to form the words he wanted to say... that he never thought he would say. "You're beautiful."
"Oh... I um..." her face turned red, which almost matched her lips and shirt... in this moment, he reassessed everything he knew about MysticFae and Tootie... and with a smile he couldn't figure out why he had chased after Trixie all these years. "Um, thank you Timmy... are uh... Are you ready?"
He nodded taking her hand... he hesitated just before his hand touched hers... he didn't touch anyone anymore... he tried not to. Right now he couldn't remember the last time he had touched anyone. But he liked this, it made him feel good, made his heart beat faster. He felt great, this was his first step back into the real world... as he walked with her into the restaurant.