Pixels and Prescriptions ~ Pangi x Reader ~

Chapter 3

Y/n's POV

I was ten years old, and it was the last two days of summer before school. Pangi, Mila, Sasika and I were all playing Minecraft. I was running around, trying to gather materials from our house to make a rollercoaster around it. I was determined to get it working, and I wanted to make it with really good drops. I was building a staircase when Pangi hit me from behind.

"Hey!" I said, turning around to look at him. "That was mean! Do you want a rollercoaster or not?" 

His character crouched down in front of me. "Do you wanna go on a date?"

Mila and Sasika instantly started screaming. I was completely flustered, and the summer air became overwhelming as I felt the warmth in my chest begin to grow. 

"What?" I asked, shocked, backing up a little.

"HE'S ASKED YOU ON A DATE?!" Mila cackled.

"I have a gift for you, if you accept, that means you go on a date with me." He tossed a poppy at my feet. 

My Minecraft character betrayed me, and I picked it up. 

Sasika and Mila were cackling loudly. "You're going on a date! You're going on a date!" They chanted.

I threw it back to Pangi, and ran away from him. "We are not going on a date!" I scolded Mila and Sasika, as Pangi began to run after me.

"It's a date!" They kept chanting. "It's a date!"

"It's not a date!" I yelled. "It's not!"

Pangi stopped running after me, crouched, and looked at the ground. "Now I'm sad." He said, walking away sadly.

"NOOO!" I yelled, dropping my controller and throwing my arms around him. "I'M SORRY!"

"Ow!" He said, but smiling. "Fine, fine, I forgive you!"

"Do you feel better?" I asked him. His face was red. "Do you feel okay? You look flushed."

"Yes, yes, I feel okay." He said, "Get off of me!"

"Woah!" I said, mock offended, releasing him. "No hugs for you ever again, I guess!"

"NO I DIDN'T MEAN THAT!" He yelled, as I jumped up from the couch. 

"BYE! I GUESS I'M GOING HOME THEN!" I yelled back, heading to the door. 

"NO! WAIT!" He began to race towards me, and I quickly opened the door and took off. "Y/N! HOLD UP!"

I raced over to my house, which really wasn't that far, but before I could get there, he tackled me into the grass.

"I've got you!" He whispered into my ear. "Now you can't leave!"

"Would you really miss me that badly?" I teased him.

He dropped his head to my chest, turning it to the side. "Honestly?" He asked. "Yeah, I would."

I hugged him. "I would miss you too, Pangi." I whispered.

"Together forever?" He asked.

"Together forever." I told him. 

"We should probably go back inside." He said. 

"Maybe." I said. "You'd have to get up first." 

"Do I have to?" He sighed.

"Do you want to be kicked?" I asked him.

"Nope!" He said, rolling off of me and onto the grass next to me. I turned my head to him, laughing. "You're evil sometimes." He told me.

"Hey!" I nudged him with my shoulder. "No I'm not! You just do stupid things, and I scold you!"

He flicked my forehead. "You scold me because you're too smart!" He argued. 

"I guess." I shrugged, my mind turning back to school. "You reminded me of school! Why would you do this?"

"I'm sorry," Pangi said while laughing. "I promise I will try to make your school experience as not-miserable as possible. While also copying off of you during tests."

I rolled my eyes at him. "You cannot copy me, Pangi. You're smart enough to be able to do well on your own."

"You overestimate me." He said quietly. "I struggle in school."

"You consistently get Bs!" I said. "Most of the class is failing under you!"

"Thanks to your help, you make school fun!" He shot back. "It's hard to feel smart next to you."

I fell silent, thinking over his word, dissecting every hidden meaning possible behind them. "I understand." I told him simply, "Being my best friend must be hard."

"I mean, not really," He said, "It's just... Hard to be compared, sometimes." He shrugged, "People don't say it to me, but I feel like they think it." He sighed. "I wish I could read people's minds to know what they thought about me." 

"Well I'll tell you what I think about you." I smiled. "You're incredibly kind, and smart, even though you don't think so, and you're pretty cool..." I pushed him a little bit. "Even for a minecraft nerd."

"You got me into it!" Pangi protested, shoving me back. 

I laughed, and turned my gaze up to the puffy clouds within the blue sky. "Maybe you're right." I told him. "People shouldn't compare you to me. If they do, then they're stupid, because we're-" I cut myself off. 'Friends' didn't seem to fit us anymore. Hell, 'Best Friends' didn't fit us anymore, and I wasn't sure why.

The warmth in my chest was combating this label the most, telling my brain that something was wrong with the label. It wasn't telling me what, exactly, but it knew that the label of anything related to 'Friends' was wrong. It was frustrating to not know why, and have the thoughts of 'wrong, wrong, wrong' consuming me, but I knew my brain was usually right in most situations, so I continued my sentence.

"because we're, so, so important to each other." I said, turning my head to look at him again. 

A bit of pink color was now dusting his face. "You are really important to me." He said. "I would go as far to say the most important person to me." 

I reached out and grabbed his hand, squeezing it once. "You're the most important person to me too, Pangi."

"Y/n," He asked, "What do you want to do for the rest of the day?"

I squeezed his hand again. "I'd love to sit here and do nothing with you."

He smiled at me, a full-grin, toothy, goofy smile that made the warmth in my chest heat up so much that my heart seemed to melt with it.