Chapter 2
Austin smiled contently. He thought his date with Hana went well, even if she was a bit off the entirety of it. She was looking at her phone for a while, leaving Austin to twiddle his thumbs. He loved just quietly staring at her, her presence making him happy, but it was a little saddening. What was so interesting on that phone, that she barely paid attention to him? Ever the optimist, PBG pushed away the thought and just reminisced time they did spend together, even if they admittedly hadn't spent much time together at all. He pushed his house's door, then consecutively flopped down onto a leather couch.
He sighed. He had nothing to do for the rest of today, so he decided texting Jeff would be fun. They could talk about planning the next PB&JEFF video!
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12:10 pm
PuhBuGuh: Hey, what's up? Are you still on the train? I assumed the 'something you had to do' was leaving the train, but I wasn't exactly sure.
Joof: Erm, yeah. I just got caught up, I met an old friend at the train station.
PuhBuGuh: Wow, really? I guess you always have been quite the popular guy, I wish I had that many friends. '^'
Joof: Hey, you do have friends, and it's quality, not quantity.
PuhBuGuh: Can you stop being right about everything?
Joof: I'll try.
PuhBuGuh: Yeah, so where are you?
Joof: Oh, uh, I'm getting stuff at the store.
PuhBuGuh: But it's your first day back?
Joof: It's just stuff like gum and chapstick, you know we're expecting snow. How was your date with Hana?
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PBG frowned. After recalling the date, he really had no evidence to even call it a date at all, but he had no interest in burdening Jeff with his problems.
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PuhBuGuh: Oh, it was fine.
Joof: Really? I can see that something's wrong.
PuhBuGuh: How can you see something's wrong?
Joof: Well, first of all, the usage of the word fine. You're one to use words like 'extravagant' or 'wonderful', which isn't a bad thing. Secondly, the wait before you sent it. Contemplating? And thirdly, no emoticons.
PuhBuGuh: You surely know your Austin Hargraves.
Joof: I try to stay up to date.
PuhBuGuh: Look, nothings wrong. It was just like our last date! We went to get coffee, and nothing more. I thought you didn't like hearing my long droning explanations; I didn't want to bore you.
Joof: Mmkay, just know you can tell me anything.
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PBG did know that, and he knew it too well. Jeff worked double, working for him as his editor with no payment and doing his own videos too. Jeff was always caring, and sometimes even motherly, but he always carried around his little Jeff charm. Austin often thought that he didn't deserve Jeff Fabre, he was such a good friend.
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PuhBuGuh: Thanks. Hey, you wanna come over and play some video games?
Joof: Oh, sure! I'm unpacking and reacquainting myself with Ian, so I'll probably be there around a quarter to one.
PuhBuGuh: Okay! :3
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Peebs yawned quietly into the chilled air. Perhaps a nap would sooth him. He stretched out and leaned back against a pillow, taking another one and holding it against his chest for a bit of warmth. With a small huff, he closed his eyes tightly and hugged the pillow to sleep, still hugging it as he drifted into a realm of unconsciousness.
~Le Fashionable Time Skip~
Austin was awoken from his slumber by three loud knocks on his wooden door.
'What time is it?' He thought sleepily. After rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, he got up from the couch and clambered over to the door. He peeked through the window next to the door, seeing Jeff making a funny face at it. He laughed and strolled back to the door.
As he unlocked the door, the larger figure bustled into the house, chuckling all the way.
"Hey Peebs!" laughed the taller male.
"Hello, peasant. Welcome to my kingdom."
Jeff laughed at the spunky man. "So, Austin, what games are we gonna play? I already had one in mind, but you can choose." Jeff smiled.
"Well, uh, okay, we could play Nario Kart, or maybe we could look for some old gems, I have some cartridges. Wait, what did you have in mind? I probably sound really rude and ignorant right now, not to mention dumb, okay I'm stuttering so ideas?"
Jeff chuckled again as he reached into his bag. He really wanted to surprise PBG, so he bought it on his way to his house. Of course he wasn't socializing with Ian, who gives a crap about Ian?* "So, don't get mad at me, but, I think we should play, uh, I dunno,
WIND OF THE WILD, THE NEWEST ADDITION TO THE ZILDA FRANCHISE!?"
Austin was stunned, face warped like a deer in headlights, until the smol boy jumped up and wrapped his arms around Jeff. "Oh my lord, THANK YOU! Thank you, thank you, thank you! How? How did you even get this?" PBG's face was lit up, every single feature glowing with excitement, so much you could see the happiness radiating off of him. Jeff was even getting hyped off his adrenaline.
"The friend I told you about? Well, he promised me he'd give me it, after I promised I would do some random thing for him in the future." Jeff laughed. "Oh my god, this is- this is so fricking awesome!" Austin cried. Jeff chuckled. "Yeah, I guess it is."
"I can't wait to play it with you! I can bring over the switch to your house every time we wanna play together." PBG rambled. "Well, let's pop that sucker in there!" Jeff laughs heartily.
As PBG scrambles for the switch, Jeff sits down on the leather couch. Even though he was excited, he kept on thinking back to his encounter with his 'friend'.
—{Flashback}—
As Jeff hopped off the train, he breathed in the fresh oxygen. Much better than the train.
He looked around him contently. Ian said he'd meet him at his station, right? Then, as if out of the blue, he saw a silver necklace with a green gem on it hanging from a bush.
He quickly ran over to it, grabbing the jewelry in his large hands. "Hello? D-Does this necklace belong to anyone?" he shouted. Everyone just rushed past him, aggressively knocking into him as if he was invisible. Suddenly, a man in a cloak rushed up and knocked into his side, causing the tall man to wince and drop the necklace. "Oh dear, I'm so sorry!" cried a deep voice. Jeff looked to see the man in cloak worriedly clenching onto his cloak's sides. Jeff shrugged it off and smiled. "Oh no sir, it's okay. It's not even-" The man hushed him. "No, please! That necklace looked rather valuable. Here, take this instead of money, I was going to sell it anyways." The man pulled the Zilda game out of cloak. "Take this." said the man. "Oh no, I couldn't possibly-" The man grabbed Jeff's hand. "Take it." He slid the game inside and shut it. Jeff shivered, the man's hand was cold and his eyes were icy and emotionless. He then darted off again, leaving Jeff confused. As the place cleared, he saw the necklace was gone. How odd.
—{Back}—
"Hey, earth to Jeff!? Come back to me!"
Jeff shook himself out of his trance. "Oh, yeah, just spacing out."
Yeah. Just spacing out...
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