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Peter was towering over my desk in the corner of the office. I looked up and grinned, “What’s up?” I asked. He looked at me straight faced, then sighed, “I’m tired of Spenglers head being so far up his genius ass that he doesn’t know how either of you feel. I’m taking you out on a date tonight in order to make him jealous. My treat. If it doesn’t work out, I leave you two alone.” He proposed.
I would’ve said yes either way honestly, I didn’t like Peter the same way I liked Egon, but his company was nice and I enjoyed his extroverted personality.
I shrugged, “Alright. What time?” I asked getting out of my chair.
“I think 6 works out great,” “Fine by me.” I said. It was 2 pm, “I’m gonna head home. Are you gonna be the one to tell him we’re going out on a date?” I started grabbing my bag off the floor and Peter nodded, “Oh sure, I’ll do your dirty work.” He smirked and started heading up into the lab as I started walking out.
“Guess who has a date tonight!” Peter said holding up his arms in triumph. “Are we talking a work job or out of work.” Ray scoffed, making Peter shake his head. “Nah nah man, realllll hot girl. Beautiful curvy body, has a very steady job as a receptionist at Ghostbusters Inc… I might just marry this woman.” Peter announced shrugging his shoulders. Him and Ray made eye contact and immediately winked. Ray and Peter looked over at the back of Egon’s head, who had accidentally dropped his glass beaker, making it shatter all over the floor. “You alright there buddy? Look like you just saw a ghost.”
“Im fine.” He mumbled as he walked over to grab a broom to sweep up his mess. Peter and Ray smirked at eachother.
“Just exactly what are you trying to do here?” Ray whispered to Peter as Egon stepped out of the room, “I’m trying to make this dumbass realize he’s in love with her. I told her my gameplan about making him jealous and she agrees. He’s so far up his ass in studies he doesn’t realize his own feelings on whats happening.” Peter explained, Ray shrugged “Your funeral.” He chuckled.
“I wonder what she’ll wear tonight. Maybe it’ll be that one purple dress she wore to out Christmas party. Oh! Or that black one she wore when she went to a highschool reunion in. Egon you really liked that one, didn’t you?” Peter asked, pushing the knife deeper. Egon stayed silent as he bent over slightly in order to brush the glass into the pan.
Peter looked at Ray and shrugged, obviously not getting any reaction out of him. “Well boys, I better go get ready. See ya later, I’ll let you know how far I get.” Peter said winking and skipping down the steps. “Arent you bothered by this at all?” Ray said leaning back on the loveseat and looking into the back of Egons head. “The way he’s practically objectifying her like any other woman he’s gone out with? Yes, a little bit. But, she’s a grown woman who can go out with anyone she wants and I don’t have a problem with that…” Egon huffed as he finished sweeping up the rest of his mess.
“Yknow Egon, I think you do have a problem with it, and you’re just saying you don’t because you don’t know how to explain how you feel.” Ray judged his friend.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He said stone faced, not making eye contact, while dumping the broom pan into the garbage. Ray rolled his eyes.
“If only you two say how much you loved eachother you wouldn’t be sulking right now.” He slapped his knees and sat up off the couch, and also started making his way down the stairs. Egons head whipped over towards Ray, a confused look on his face. “Love?” He asked, now curious. “Yeah, you dont see it? Because we all do,” He chuckled, “for being a scientist, you’re really out of check with other peoples emotions.” He sighed, making his way towards your desk. He opened one of the top drawers and rummaged around for a little bit before finding a little origami bird, one that Egon had made, and almost threw away.
“She kept this because you made it,” he said while having himself rummage some more through the drawer. “This is a mixtape with ‘E’ on it, obviously referring to you.” Ray said throwing it on the desk. Egon gently grabbed the tape and turned it over to read her writing on what songs she put on it. Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepplin, Alphaville, and a bunch of other songs that must’ve reminded her of him. Egon felt his face grow darker.
“Here’s the picture of you and her at Christmas, and another picture she took of you working in the lab…” he said, adding onto the pile of evidence. Egon didnt even know she had taken the second photo since his back was to the polaroid camera when she took it. “Man I cant believe she keeps all this stuff in here…” Ray mumbled.
Egon was registering all of this staring at all the evidence. He really didn’t think of himself as the loveable person, his parents really only thought of him as a child prodigy and only cared about education. They never cared about mental health or well being, they almost treated him like a robot.
Egon took a deep breath, and slowly everything made sense. The constant thoughts of her, the specific details he remembered, the dreams, the way she was the only one who made him smile, how fond he was of her looks. Ray watched as Egon processed everything.
“You know what this is right?” Ray questioned, Egon looked up at him and stared. “Peter did this because he wants to make you jealous and realize how much you love her. He wants you to chase her down and-“ “Where are they going to be.” Egon interrupted, Ray laughed, “I dont know, maybe you should go to her apartment and tell her not to go out with him before the date happens.” Ray suggested, starting to put her stuff back in the drawer.
“No. Wait,” Egon said, grabbing all the little memories she had gathered herself. He shoved them gently into his pockets and ran back up into the lab to put away his lab coat and put on his regular suit.
By the time Egon arrived at her apartment it was around 6. He hurriedly ran up the stairs and marched his way to her door. He stood in front of the door and hesitated. He lifted his hand up to the wood, and then finally lightly knocked. He heard shuffling and then the doorknob open. He felt his heartbeat almost double within seconds as he was met with her eyes, which widened a lot at the surprise visit. “Oh, hi Egon.” She grinned at him, he took a deep breathe and continued to look at her.
“Did something happen?” “Yes, um. Peter won’t be making it.” Egon said, trying to fib.
She looked up at him and frowned. “Man, that sucks. I did all this for nothing.” She sighed, Egon tried pushing his way a little bit more through her door. “I want to talk to you about something.” He stated seriously, now pushing himself fully through the door and shutting it gently behind him.
Egon noticed her cheeks darken increasingly, his probably looking the same. “About what?” She mumbled, starting to get nervous. He sighed and started going through his pockets and gently pulling out her belongings one by one.
After he had emptied his pockets she couldnt even look at him, meanwhile he was burning holes into the top of her head because of his height. “ Ray showed me all of these… and I just… Im sorry I never noticed,” Egon started as she stayed quiet, “I never really thought anyone would want a relationship with me. Im always so caught up with my studies, Im awful at reading others emotions, and Im not very… experienced in that field…” he mumbled, she continued to stare at her feet.
“However, I do think I want to… try it… with you… I trust you and you seem to show care to me more than anyone else…” he mumbled, lightly playing with the origami that she had kept. She was still staring at the floor, trying to process everything.
Suddenly a knock at the door interrupted her response, she stood up and opened it, to be met with Peter. “Whoa whoa whoa! Spengler, are you trying to steal my date!” Peter smirked while wrapping his arm around your shoulder. You shook your head and face palmed lightly, while Egons face turned dark, “Beat it Venkman.” He grumbled, Peter laughed.
“Jesus Christ its about time something happened! If I had to hear about how handsome and smart you were I think I mightve puked!” He joked while taking his arm off your shoulder and handing you flowers that were in his other hand. “Have fun kids,” he patted your back before shutting the door.
She slowly shuffled her way across the room to where Egon stood, setting the flowers down on a nearby coffee table, and gently wrapped her arms around him. He slowly wrapped his arms around her as they both melted into eachother. Soon he felt he shaking though and started to panic, “Are you okay? Did I do something?” He asked trying to tear away to check on her, but she wouldn’t let him. “Ive wanted this for so long. Ive wanted you to touch me. I wanted you to pay attention. I wanted you to try and love me. I wanted you to be my first real relationship. Youre perfect.” She whimpered into his chest and his shirt started to get stained from the tears. He wrapped his arms around her and bent down to lightly kiss her head.