"i went to the room where he was supposed to talk, and i waited for over three hours by the door and he never showed up" y/n exclaimed towards her phone as she entered to a nice and small cafeteria. "i don't get it. he took another route. I'm so frustrated" she end up talking to let her friend on the other side of the phone talk
"and i am bored" she answered, "Brad went out for a walk" her boyfriend, "i let him do it because I thought he'd be back soon" Hayley, y/n's friend on the other side of the phone, said out of her mind
"okay" y/n answered still walking around the place, "I'm at a cafeteria in front the hotel for juice. Chasing this guy left me exhausted. I'll finish and come see you" she explained her best friend
"please hurry. I don't have all day, Y/n" she hung up after that
Y/n was placing her phone on her purse walking backwards when she crashed with someone and spill his juice on his shirt. "I'm sorry" she apologized turning to see the person she crashed, "i didn't see you" she found a medium side guy covered with sunglasses and a purple cap, placing his glass on the table next to him before taking some napkins to clean the juice the girl spill on him. "i didn't see you because of those ugly sunglasses" she admire the boys style from head to know, judging how bad he dress. "i was preoccupied with my cell phone"
"we have a problem" the boy said, "you have to help me" he turned his head to look all around the place
"why?" she asked, "i spilled juice on you, but it's not that bad" she said staring at the small stain on the boy blue shirt, "i said i was sorry"
"it's not that bad" he took her from her arms making her jump in surprise, "it's terrible" he turned her and once again look around the place
"what are you doing?" she asked disturbed by his actions. she looked around as well, hoping to see a clue of what was going on on the bad dress boy head. he moved his index finger to his mouth signaling her to keep quite followed by taking away his glasses. it took her a while to recognize him but she did. "Jesus you are Arcade" she said filled with surprise, "i can't believe it" after her five seconds of fan girl moment he asked her to shut up covering her mouth after putting his glasses on again. he slowly took his hand away. big mistake. "i can't believe I've just-" Y/n started freaking out but got cut before she could finish
"don't even think about saying it" he said frustrated, "don't you see I'm trying to go unnoticed" he checked around the place once again. "will you help me or what?" he said in a rude tone turning his attention to the foreign girl in front of him
"what do I have to do?" she asked, getting serious
"the mission is the following: to scare away strangers" he said like if he was talking to a team ready to get into war. "do you understand the instructions?" Y/n answered with a confused yeah, it sounds simple
they looked around again, and contrary to the previous times, they found a group of girls looking around for the boy in ugly sunglasses
"who scheduled this" the boy exclaimed, "i need gadgets" he started thinking about real life as if it was a videogame, "or at least a secret passage, or any alternative..." he gave a quick look to the girl in front of him and then to the fans searching for him. "okay, come here" he then pressed his lips against hers. it was quick but enough for y/n to catch the butterflies and for some feelings to start growing in both sides. "mission accomplished" he said the moment their lips stop touching and there was no sign of any other girl around
"what as that?" she asked dreamy touching her lips
"in my world it's called a fake kiss" he answered leaning against the wall
"in my world it's a dream" she wondered out loud. he immediately took his sun glasses away to let his hazel eyes a clear vision of her, "i mean, I've been trying to reach you for a long time and it's weird having you so close" she cleared her words after realizing her thoughts went out, but saying the truth at the same time. trying to calm her self down as well
"oh, you are the one who overwhelmed me with emails, calls and messages, right?" he remembered everything she send him. she nodded guilty and smile
— ♡ —
"i can't stop thinking on the competition" Hayley spoke. Y/n, Hayley, Brad and other two went to London for a skating competition
"and i can't stop thinking about Arcade, or Tom?, how should i call him?" Tom, the boy she met earlier, is a gamer, Arcade is his nickname, "he kissed me, do you get it?" Hayley rolled her eyes after listening to that for the thousand time
"how many time are you gonna tell me, y/n?" Hayley asked jaded of the same story
"he couldn't be more handsome" y/n's daydream continued, "besides, he is cool, popular, trendy and he can also help me with Fab and Chic" she explained
Fab and Chic is her YouTube channel, and how you can guess for the name, it's about fashion. Y/n is the most fashionable girl you'll ever meet, but not so smart
"well, I don't want you to get your hopes up" Hayley said being a good friend, "wasn't it just a kiss?"
"yeah, but I really felt it" she remembered the two seconds her mouth was against him
"okay, stop it" Hayley snapped her out of her head, "there is no time for these things" she may be a good friend but she is her main priority. Hayley always need to go first and she is the center of everything
"yeah you are right" y/n got more serious. but she couldn't contain it, she has already fall in love. "but if a guy approaches me like that, it's because he likes me, right?" her head gave circles to any possibility while Hayley began to loose her temper. "besides, I'm sure the thing about the fans was an excuse to get near me" her eyes got dreamy and Hayley's rolled, once again. "he is so arrogant. I love it" excitement in y/ns voice. "do you think he'll realize we're meant to be together?"
"i don't know, Y/n, call him and ask him" Hayley spoke satiated and sarcastically
"do you think that would be okay?" but y/n took it literally, "wouldn't i look desperate? or wouldn't it annoyed him?"
"the one you are annoying is me" y/n's excitement fall on a cliff, "i don't want to talk about Arcade anymore. I'm not interested. we only talk about the competition, okay?" if you got colors by your temper, Hayley would be the most intense red, "you know what, I'm going to train" she left her friend in love
"it was a short kiss but it's start" y/n continued talking alone, not realizing Hayley left, "imagine if he asks me to be his girlfriend at an event when i come down the stairs in a beautiful dress" she already pictured it
— ♡ —
"he never showed up, Hayley" y/n spoke to her friend on the phone as she was waiting sad for the guy who got her in love, "why didn't you tell me?"
"what?" Hayley answered on the other side of the phone
"that he kissed me to run away from his fans. it was obvious. he stood me up" disappointment on her voice, "what shall i do? i can't leave now. everyone would notice. it's so embarrassing. do not tell anyone" that would be of the worst things that could happen to y/n. she has never been stood up
"how long have you been waiting?" Hayley asked
"three minutes and twenty seconds" y/n answered in a rush. no reply from her friend. "what?" y/n asked worried
"next time let me know when it's been at least an hour, Y/n" Hayley spoke angry and hung up
Y/n took her phone away from her ear and placed it on the table. she then listened to the door of the cafeteria went open what made her turn around and see who it was. "it's him" she spoke for her self, "no, it's not" she turned to look to the chair on the other side of the table. she turned once again to the door, "yes, it's him" she said in excitement turning her head to the table, "he has ugly sunglasses like the last time" she turned towards the door once more, "you came" she called for his attention
he start approaching her cautiously, "is it so obvious that it's me?" he asked her next to her ear and then move to sit on the available chair in the table, "this is a disaster" he exclaimed, "i need a camouflage kit or at least a level three invisible coat" his head again thinking as a videogame
"a coat?" y/n bear out disgusted, "that already went out fashion" Tom payed no attention
"we need to get out of here" he looked around as if fans followed him everywhere, "i can't stay in the same area for a long time" he took away his sunglasses and got closer to her, "my fans are after me" he whispered
"i love it when you talk like that" she whispered back, "i feel like we are in a spy film" she spoke louder this time
"or in a videogame" he put his sunglasses on again
"sure, exactly, like on a rollercoaster" Y/n thought of mechanical games instead
"yeah-" he got in count of what the girl said, "that's another thing, a different game" he said offended
"okay, it doesn't matter, i have a great idea" she will not waist time, "i need you to help me with Fab and Chic. with your fans and my sense of fashion, we can make social media explode. when will you help me?" she spoke as fast as she could, leaving a big smile at the end
he sighed and placed his hand on top of hers, "I'd love to" her smile grew, "but i don't have time. it's impossible" her smile disappeared and he took his hand away to look for fans again
"but after the way i saved you, aren't you gonna do me a favor?" she started getting a bit angry
"it's nothing personal, darling" he placed a lock of her hair behind her ear, "but i can't, game over, okay?"
"okay, i get it" she rearranged her self, "then you don't care if I shout out who i am with right now?" if she wants something she gets it, one way or another, "what's the worst thing that could happen?" she started to shout his name
Maybe Tom is a gamer but he is the most famous one. Everyone knows his name and countable fans are on his life
"NO" he shut her up, "okay. i think i still have some extra time to help you" y/n made a victorious smile, "what's the name of your channel?"
— ♡ —
"no way" y/n exclaimed as she gave a last look of herself on her small mirror, "Tom can't see me like this" he invite her on today, maybe for him is just a friend meeting but for her it's definitely a date. "makeup, perfect" she started to check up her imaginary list, "hair, impeccable. smile..." she smiled to the small reflection of her self, "divine" she closed the mirror, saved it on her purse and continued walking until she found the not too well dress brunet, hide in a cap as always. "hi, I'm here" she announced her self
"give me a minute" he answered with his gaze locked on the screen of his tablet, "I'm about to pass 10,000 point barrier" his fingers moving as quick as a thunder along the screen. "oh, no, no, no, NO!" he lost, "game over" he sigh in desperation. he has been an hour trying to reach his goal. "it's okay" he calmed himself. "what do you think of the place" his eyes finally caught the stunning girl next to him
"i love it" she was finally able to speak, "I'd love it more if it were closer. why didn't you say it was so far away? i can't walk a lot in these shoes" fashion, her priority. he laughed after listening to her
"you walked all the way here in those shoes?" he pointed to her expensive and not so comfortable shoes still in between laugher, "you didn't get a taxi to bring you?" she realized how simple that could have been
"no, all i saw were blisters on my feet" she admire her pretty shoes. "I thought it'd be a special date, not a sports encounter" she complained. "anyways, thank you for the fab and chic" Tom already posted a video for her channel
"you're welcome" he is proud of his work. "what do you think of my last post? radical, right?"
"based on the fans comments, it seems super cool. honestly, i couldn't see it, but our popularity is growing and that's what matters" she spoke fast, as always
"Tom, are you ready?" a man in the back spoke before Tom could answer y/n
"i born ready" his attention on y/n got lost and he walked away towards a set with cameras and lights waiting for him
"but what for? weren't you going to spend time time with me?" y/n asked indignantly
Tom stopped and looked back at her, "yes, but you'll have the immense pleasure and privilege of seeing my photoshoot for a very important magazine where they wrote about me before, so wish me luck" arrogant, isn't he? but y/n finds it cute
Tom arrived to the place and started posing while y/n just felt more in love. and an idea run to her mind. she walked as fast as she could next to him and posed with him. the photographer got pissed by that action and Tom got confused but it appeared like a sweet act. unfortunately the photographer made her move
his photoshoot ended and as a gamer he is he took out his tablet and started playing. "when you are playing videogames, you're like those kids that are with the games all day. what are they called? they have a name" y/n said making fun of Tom and Tom turned to look ate her confused but at the end he end up chuckling
"you know, you're the most fun girl I know, so you win a bonus of ten extra points in being nice. what do you think?" his vocabulary being only of videogames
"no ones ever told me that" y/ns daydreamer head got her up in the clouds even if it wasn't a romantic compliment. but it turned out that Tom felt for her in that moment. His chocolate eyes never left the girl again in the whole afternoon
— ♡ —
"oh Hayley, I arrived and Tom isn't here yet, and I arrived five minutes with sixteen seconds late to not seem desperate" once again y/n minds thought he stood her up. "okay I'll leave" she answered her friend on the phone after she ordered her to leave
but when she opened the door the brunet walked in. "what happened? I arrived late?"
"i don't know. I've just arrived" after she answered they made their way to an empty table
"what are you going to order?" Tom asked once they where handed the menus
"I don't know" she gave a look to the paper on her hands, "is a web star boyfriend on the menu?" Tom sight went from the menu to the funny girl in front of him. a smile flashed his face
"i like your sense of humor" his eyes returned to the menu, "you're nice." and the fans finally showed up, "game over. fans attack. we're surrounded. what do we do?" he whispered hiding his face with his hand
"i know" she exclaimed after picturing the people looking around for the gamer, "under the table"
and they got under the table. with a small distance between them. the two pair of eyes traveled down to the others lips and without doubting they started leaning
but the fans found them and raised the tablecloth, making them both create the distance between them once again. Tom hit his head upon leaving
once they where standing as normal people, fans surrounded him and bombed him with questions and comments. "i loved your explanation to solve level four" one of them said. "and panic and delirium" another one said
y/n got confused. "panic and delirium? who are those fans?" she exclaimed for her self disgusted
"i need you to tell me how to solve level five of steel scorpion" the fans continued to make y/n more confused every second that passed, "post it on fab and chic when you can" y/ns attention was called this time
"what? on fab and chic? what's steel scorpion?" she took out her phone and logged into her channel, "how to solve the battle of steel scorpion by arcade" she read out loud, "what did you do to fab and chic?!" she demanded for an answer, "explain me, i don't understand"
"just a second" Tom got rid of her fans to talk with the confused girl, "i only did what you asked me to do, raised your number of followers"
"i didn't ask you to fill it with tricks for videogames" she said pissed
"that's what i do" Tom fought back, "I'm a gamer"
"what? a gamer?" for the first time in all this days she realized, "i didn't know you were a gamer" and this time, Tom was the confused one. "you are a gamer. how awful"
"i did the only thing i could do with your fab and chic. play" he defended his self
"yeah, you also played with me" she took her purse and left the place. sad. and leaving a concerned boy behind
— ♡ —
while putting makeup on Hayley for her big competition, y/ns phone shone after receiving a notification. she had to stop to check it. it's him. Tom left her a voicemail since she won't answer him
"don't pick up if you don't want to, but i left you a message on fab and chic"
y/ns face light up after hearing his regretful voice and her fingers made their way to her channel just after
"this is one of those girl meets boy stories" the boys voiced started sounding in the back of the video while his hands drew a girl and a boy on the screen. "but it isn't like some romantic movies where they walk off into the sunset holding hands. she was a very pretty girl, kind and fashionable. and he was the most popular boy on the internet." y/ns face drew a smile as the video went on. "they met purely by change. she was looking for him in the streets, and he was hiding from his fans" the drawings from the video picture the scene
"then, he had an idea. he kissed the girl so the fans couldn't tell it was him and so our story begins. he fell in love. she had no idea he was a gamer until one day, she finally found out. and this story doesn't end well" the heart that he drew before broke. "so, as you can see, this story is nothing like the movies. no walking into the sunset holding hands. but this game isn't over yet. she has to decide: is it a game over, or does he has an extra life?"