#hape

(I’m at it again with my bullshit)

“Okay, so I know his name now”

Exterminatus is, not so subtly, watching the skeleton who helped him earlier from across the food court. It was lunch time now, and they were sitting at opposite ends of the hall, so he didn’t mind talking about this with Dreamcatcher.

“His name is Shifty, he’s in our year, and- wait who’s that?”

For the first time ever, there’s more than 1 other person on Exterminatus’ table. Along with Dreamcatcher, there’s another skeleton. Around the same height as Exterminatus, so short, with a grayish hoodie and bag over his shoulder, both carrying Pokémon and other gaming pins. Along with that, was the large beanie on his head, the design including a shoddily sewn Arceus sprite, covering most of his head.

The skeleton nervously shuffles in his seat, while Dreamcatcher writes down on some paper.

‘Collector. He’s my new friend. Try being nice’

“Hey what the fuck’s that supposed to mean? I’m a delight!” He yells toward the stoic skeleton. “Nice to meet you, Collector” he stays politely, mostly to spite Dreamcatcher.

“ANYWAY- Shifty‘s in a club with a few other guys, gaming or something, so I’m gonna join that to get close to hi-“

“O-Oh! You want to join the gaming club? I’m in there!” Collector springs up,

“Hey, hey, hey. Don’t interrupt me, please” Exterminatus sighs, “anyway, you’re in the gaming club, right Collector? How do you get in?”

“You can just ask Blue”

“I can? I’ve never joined a club before”

Dreamcatcher writes another note;

‘Do you even play games, or are you just gonna run in blind like an idiot?’

“Bah! Of course I play... uh... games. Yeah, loads. Like that uh... sonics the speedy” Exterminatus fumbles out an answer, leading to laughter from Collector.

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A few hours later, upon the end of the school day, Exterminatus nervously stands outside the door for the gaming club. He’s never been apprehensive before, not even to get a vaccine or go on a rollercoaster, this was bizarre as hell. He’d already been accepted by Blue, why is this so damn hard.

He pushes the door open, stepping inside, strangely timidly. He immediately spots Collector, sitting in a large beanbag, and quickly sits next to him before anyone can try to talk to him.

“Oh! You made it!” Collector seems genuently happy,,, to see,,, ¿¿him?? How bizarre. Collector is giving him a huge grin, in his hand a large hunk of plastic, a ‘controller’, he believed ‘Catcher called it. On the screen, there was some kind of epileptic nightmare going on, a blue creature running around a saloon, jumping into a giant gun that shoots him in the sky for no identifiable reason. To say the least, Exterminatus is baffled.

“So, this is the new guy?” That voice, sending sparks around his whole body like he’d just stepped on a live wire barefoot. He turns his head to the side, seeing Shifty sitting on the couch behind them, leaning cooly on the armrest, another skeleton sitting next to him, playing on a different hunk of plastic, small, purple, with a screen.

This other one was small, very small, with a gray hoodie and baggy pants, his shirt containing a circle with a small spike in the top corner.

“I remember you, you’re the one I knocked over yesterday. Sorry about that by the way”

It takes Exterminatus a second to respond, his face heating up, an obvious blush showing on his face,

“I-It’s... ok. I’m Exterminatus” What the hell was he feeling right now, was this a crush? How stupid, he wasn’t one of those lovesick morons who follow their hearts and live happy lives and don’t die alone- woah where did that come from?

He turns back around, and, for the entirety of the club, sneaks glances behind him, getting caught very rarely.

Damn it.

He has a crush.

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Back at it again with my bullshit

Dreamcatcher, Collector and Exterminatus - @me

Shifty - @ashwolfcub

Hape - @toggy001

ooooooh heck yes I know about these two ┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬

Just a thing