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Like every Friday night, the bar was bustling as usual, with a lot more people than the weekdays as groups of people gathered and spend their time with their companions. Sounds of people talking and laughing filling the bars as the night deepened; though Mysta can’t really find the time to share the same sentiment with most people here.
Working as a bartender eats up his time to enjoy the weekend night as it is the peak time for customers to order drinks and have fun at the bar. He did thought to spend a night out like the others but has no one close enough to go with.
‘5 more minutes and I can finally go home…’
Mysta glance at his watch while mixing up a customer’s drink, counting minutes until his shift end. As soon the time struck 12AM, Mysta packs up his stuff and inform the manager before he heads home.
Riding motorcycle through the almost empty road, Mysta feels the wind sweep pass his entire body and the weariness from working slowly dissipated. The brunette man enjoys quiet moment like this after exhausting his social meter while serving the never-ending groups of customers.
Though, every so often he would feel a twinge of longing at the corner of his heart whenever he sees a group of friends laughing happily without a care to the world.
He went to his room as soon he arrives home, seeing that his mom went to sleep already. Mysta cleans himself up and turn on his computer, planning to play some rounds of Valorant before going to sleep.
Before he start playing, the young man checks the game’s friend list and notice that one of his friends, username NotBanana, or who he calls Mino is still online.
‘This guy never sleep I swear’ Mysta thought, amused by the man on the other side. He immediately start typing to his friend but got beaten to it before he press the send button.
New messages
NotBanana: Ayyy yooo Riass I thought you weren’t gonna play today? It’s rare to see you online this late
Mystakes: Lmaoo you say that but look at you
Mystakes: Don’t you have to work early morning tomorrow dude
NotBanana: That’s for tomorrow me to deal with lmao
NotBanana: You up for some rounds? The others are still up to play, they just chilling on discord I think
Mystakes: YESS man I’ve been waiting all day to try the new skin I got yesterday
Mystakes: But if you guys are sleepy we can just play tomorrow y’know
He has actually been waiting all day to play the game with his friends, excited to show his new character’s skin. But since it’s gotten kinda late than the usual time they play, Mysta thought he wouldn’t be able to play with his friends today.
NotBanana: I’m pretty sure sleep is just a concept to them at this point
NotBanana: And I wanna show you a new strat I found while playing with Luca- it’s hilarious
NotBanana: You gonna love it
Mystakes: LMAO if it’s involving Luca I know he must be trolling
Mystakes: Aight let’s get ready I’M PUMP
NotBanana: Nicee I’m tell them
Mysta checks on their discord servers which they decided to call ‘The bois’ that includes all 5 of them. The young man have known Mino first through Valorant when they had a match together and found great chemistry in their playstyle. Since then, they’ve communicated through discord and found a lot of similarities between them.
Although he weren’t too great with people, he finds enjoyment when talking with his small group of friends. Somehow the conversation always flow so smoothly despite his awkwardness when talking to other people. He still remembers how he and Mino stumbles each of their friends while playing the game.
Milord was the first one that they met. He is now the unspoken leader of their group due to his charismatic personality; though shows the opposite when they hear him malding in the game. After getting closer to the older man, Mysta finds Milord obsession with monkeys and FNAF lore makes the man much more approachable and fun to talk to.
THE BOIS: Text channels
Milord: And that is how William Afton slips on a banana and dies.
XxBigBossxX: POG! Who’s that?
NotBanana: Ayee guys Rias is here! Anyone up to play Valo rn?
XxBigBossxX: Yooo Ri ass I wanna show you a new strat I found
XxBigBossxX: I named it Bufalo strat
Mystakes: Sup guys! Didn’t expect you guys still up at this time lmao
Mystakes: Jokes on you Luca, I already heard that one before and it didn’t even make sense dude
Quill: Urgh… He did it to me this morning. He’s probably waiting all day to hit you with it too.
‘Yep! That’s Luca for you alright’ Mysta laughed to himself, amused by his friend shenanigans. Out of them all, he laugh the most when he’s with Luca with his never-ending jokes. Luca could say anything repeatedly and Mysta wouldn’t be able to stop his laugh, sometimes even join him to troll the others.
Quill on the other hand are like the voice of reasons in the group. Whenever someone was getting out of control while playing (especially Mysta and Milord), Quill will always be the one to reprimand them to focus though they sometimes just do it on purpose to get a rise out of him. Mysta also enjoys talking to him since never make their conversations awkward and sometimes even ask for advices for certain things.
Two hours later, all five of them were engrossed with the game, enjoying mix of serious rounds and trolling other players. Mysta starts to feel sleepy- exhaustion from his shift came back to him and let out a yawn.
“Alright guys I think that’s enough rounds for tonight. We can continue again tomorrow’s night if y’all are up to” Mino said to the others, just realizing how late it is.
“Yeah I think I’m going to log off first, my bed been calling me for the past half hour” Quill also agrees with Mino.
“Mine been calling for you either Quill” Mysta was about to replied when Milord beaten it to him first.
“Dude, I was about to say the same thing!” Mysta claimed and Milord burst out laughing. He heard Quill’s exasperated sigh and continue laugh even harder.
“Bruhhh I am bruhing so hard right now” Luca’s words cracked up all of them.
“Good game guys, See you all tomorrow!” After wishing each other goodnight, the brunette man turn off his computer and lay his back on the bed, already feeling sleepiness encloses him.
He kept his eyes on the ceiling, absorbing the satisfaction feelings he get from spending times with his friends.
His mind wanders back to last week where Milord suggest for them to have a face to face meet up since they have gotten much closer. Although Mysta feels excited to meet his online friends IRL, he can’t deny the anxious feelings he gets by the suggestion. Maybe it’s because he was worried that they would be disappointed with his personality when met face to face.
Mysta always shows his outgoing and jokester side to his online friends, when in reality he was much more reserved as a person towards other people. The young man afraid that this precious friendship would ruined when they realizes that he’s actually aren’t as fun to hang out with as they might think he is. He had ‘friends’ is the past that leaves him because of this, and since then have develop trust issues towards any relationship he had.
Slowly he falls asleep with his thought wandering around, with bit of anxiousness lingers in his heart.