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And she looked at me her grin stretching from ear to ear as she spun me around, being very careful that she didn't let go. Her laughter ringing through my ears and her eyes crinkled at the corners.
"Tisha!" She giggled out as she was finally slowing us down to a stop- still leaving her hands resting on my waist as she did so. "Hey, Yatta." I breathed out, nervous from the close proximity. The look on her face was one I'll never get over, her eyes were filled with glee as we stood there unmoving and she leaned closer lowering her self to my height. "So it's been a WHILE hasn't it?" She said looking into my eyes, her voice giggly and excited while her breath was hot on my face, providing a stack contrast to the cold air around us.
"yeah... Yeah it has, hasn't it?" I then spoke trying to mask my nerves, after all it had been a few years sense we'd last seen each other, the last time being a few days before when she'd moved to live closer to her half-siblings, looney and poppy. "SO WHAT'VE YOU BEEN DOING THE PAST FEW YEARS?" She asked voice loud and sharp in my ears, like when I would stand just a bit too close to yatta and she'd begin to speak in her usual tone of voice, nearly deafing me.
"Well..." I began to speak catching up with yatta just like before she moved, just.. talking like old times, it was nice and sweet but in the end she had to head to her classes and I had mine but we exchanged numbers and agreed to keep in touch this time. Properly.
I groaned setting down my bag and moving away from the door to my dorm, flopping onto the couch. I felt eyes staring at me and shuffling steps walking closer, indicating that one of my dorm mates; most likely Gigi were walking towards me probably trying to scare me.
"Gigi i'm not in the mood for this right now do you mind?" i said my voice muffled by the pillows on the couch. the next thing i heard was huffing before she spoke "daw no fair! You never let me scare you", she started taking a breath before continuing on "you know i wish you were more like Boxten, he's easy to scare!" she huffed out the last part, clearly upset at my lack of cooperation in her attempt to scare me.
I sat up moving my face from the couch to look at her, "you know boxten is pretending to be scared in order to not hurt your feelings right? I really hope you know that." i responded, far too tired for this conversation, shifting into a more comfortable position for when Gigi get even more upset. "wait wait wait, he's what?!" she said far too dramatic for what it was, flailing her arms around in the air to (presumably) empresses her point "thats like- WHAT!" Gigi yelled out getting louder as she went, stoping shortly when she got interrupted before starting again this time to respond to whoever it was that called her, i however wondered who was calling for her, i mean how i couldve i have not heard them?
"YEAH, YEAH I'LL BE RIGHT THERE FLUTTER!" she called out, before turning her attention to me once again. "We *will* be continuing this later" she said ending the conversation and walking off to go to this flutter person.
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I sat up, warm sun beating down on my face dispite the large tree above me. I turned and looked around looking out at the grassy hills all around me stretching out as far as I could see (which admiralty wasn't very far I definitely needed glasses), and the bright blue sky, framing various birds as they flew above me.
I picked myself up dusting off me dress as i walked around, getting chills whenever the wind would brush past me. It was peaceful and quiet, a sound that had grown foreign to me after these past few months, I mean after all I'd moved and was in uni now and my dorm mates weren't exactly... quiet more so loud and rambunctious often yelling across the dorm or being.... loud in their rooms with their "friends" over. There were even a few times when gigis friend who liked loud and annoying fish puns came over and not only that but he spilt water *every where* I mean there somehow wasn't absolutely any in the bathroom but still!
I saw a figure walking over towards me at the bottom of a hill in the distance, bright yellows, blues and pinks covered their body in a sort of striped pattern zig zagging up and down and up and down. As the figure got closer I could tell they were trying to tell me something "TISHA! YEAH HEYY TISHA I GOT THE GOODS!!" As they called out I realised who they were it was Yatta! Once she finally made it up the hill she sat down on a blanket I hadn't realised I'd been standing on, situating herself in such a way to face both where I was standing and the Fields all around us.
"O-oh hello Yatta," I said awkwardly as she gazed up at me before I sat down in front of her "how are you?"
"oh well I'm just GREAT blots been teaching me how to mime and it's SO MUCH FUN!" She responded putting an empsses on different words as she spoke. I felt flat at the mention of blot. I mean I know that I shouldn't and that they're 'just friends' but still! I could've sworn that Yatta had a crush on him with how she spoke and acted when ever they were brought up! "That's really nice Yatta." I said trying to hide my envy over the time they were spending together. "YEAH ITS *SO* MUCH FUN," she rushed out quickly pausing to take a breath "DO YOU WANNA SEE!" She continued eyes sparkling as she spoke mesmerising me. "Huh oh yeah of course I would love to see you be min- I meaN MIme I would love to see you mime!" I said pulling my eyes away from hers, feeling a smile planted firmly on my face cheeks flushing from her staring at me and from my mess up with words.
And so she stood up and began to act out a mime preformance thing, I really didn't know what it was that she was doing but it was cool none the less.
"So how was THAT!" Yatta asked grinning down from where she was standing with the sun setting in the background she looked... ethereal even if she was sweaty and huffing and puffing from her preformance. I just couldn't help myself. I stood up walking over and taking her hands in mine feeling how warm they were against my hands, as I looked up at her I saw just how flushed her face was, with it being absolutely plagued with even more pink then usual.
And I leaned in, our faces just infront of each other breaths mingling. Her breath hitched and I croaked out my voice hourse all of a sudden "hey can I um can I kiss you?" I looked into her eyes seeing them sparkle and glimmer before she nodded leaning in to close the gap between us and...
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prung PRUNG PRUNG!
I sat groaning as the realisation that no I did not kiss Yatta and that yes I did just dream all of that (Yet. Again.) set in leaving me annoyed and upset. "Whyyy couldn't it have been realll- ughhh" I groaned loudly already over today. Waking up from good dreams was always the worst! Ugh whatever I'd agreed to help Cosmo and sprout out in the kitchen today and I wasn't gonna back out of it!
Getting up off my bed and Turing off my alarm clock to see the time was eight twenty one just about 40 minutes before I'd agreed to meet up with Cosmo and sprout. Waking over to my cup bored and getting dressed in slacks and a collared shirt before going out to make myself some breakfast.
After debating what I should have to eat Boxten walked in looking rather disheveled with what seemed to be hickeys and libstick marks on his neck any questions about it squashed when glisten walked in right behind him. "Good morning Glisten, Boxten." I nodded my head towards them coaching to ignore the markings on Boxtens neck. Boxten looked over simply smiling and nodding before starting to fix himself some coffee, Glisten on the other hand cheerfully began talking to me "Oh well good morning Tisha!" He began "How are you today? You're usually up much earlier then this." He continued interest peaking in his voice.
"Oh well I just slept in today I guess." I answered glisten looked over to Boxten and replied "hm well I'm sure boxy here can relate to that- can't say I can through." Boxten apon the mention of his name looked up inquisitively questioning Glisten with his eyes- at least I hoped it wasn't the alternative! "Oh you know I mean no harm boxy!" He chuckled waving off Boxtens narrowing eyes. Boxten just grumbled into his coffee before setting his mug down and waking over to Glisten, pulling him down by his collar, giving him a peck on the check before heading back to his coffee.
"Eh- wha- puh" Glisten sputtered out face flushed and eyes wide in shock as he simply stared at Boxten who had already gone back to drinking his coffee. "Oh my would you look at the time well it seems I've gotta run!" I said scrambling to get out of the room. "Whoa why did you two fuc-" I heard Gigi begin as I scrambled together my stuff and raced from the dorm.
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As I walked in to the kitchen smelling the warm cinnamon wafting out of the oven I spotted a tall pink head with green hair on the other side of the room who I deduced to be sprout. "Good morning sprout!" I called out walking over as he saw and beckoned me over. "Hey morning Tisha," he said clearly "thanks for agreeing to help us!"
"Hey Yeah of course I understand how much this means to you both." I said really excited to get to baking. "Morning sprout" I heard a voice chirp out pfrom behind sprout then saw two brown arms wrap around him enveloping sprout into a hug from his back causing him to let out a squeak. "Ak- Cosmooo come onnn Tisha is already hereee!" Sprout groaned out, trying to wiggle his way out of cosmos arms. I heard Cosmo giggle from his place behind sprout and saw him tighten his grip around him. I laughed as sprout groaned outwardly as he attempted to pry Cosmos hands off of his waist.
"Come onnn Cosmo Tisha is here and we need to get starteddd!" He tried to reason with Cosmo turning his head as much as he could to look at Cosmo, allowing me to see Cosmo bury his face into Sprouts back. "Pfff- daw but whyyy! You always react so well!" He tried to convince Sprout to allow them to stay exactly how they were. "It's not fair you always sneak behind me and don't let go!" Sprout fired back. "Whenever you do this we fall behind on what we plan to bake!" Sprout complained.
"Hmf fine then!" Was Cosmos only response as he walked off to the other side of the kitchen calling me over because he was "more equipped" to show me the ropes. And so we'd quickly fallen into a compfortable rhythm of mixing and pipeing the various sweets and things they were planned. It was rather nice to just have a simple day where I focused on a task that wasn't just cleaning everything repeatedly.
Before I knew it the day was over and I was back in my room having awkwardly said hello to Glisten as he was ushering Vee into his room presumably to talk about how he had been... close with Boxten reacently. Yeah very close.