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You hummed to yourself as you moved in between the aisles of the small store. Picking out what things you needed and what things had caught your eye. But most importantly you were just trying to restock your house with food that wasn’t expired.
“Alright…” you said to yourself as you looked down at the basket on your arm.
“I think thats everything..” you trailed off as you took out your list and looked over it.
“Hmm….” you looked between the list and your groceries, checking off everything in your head. You smiled and nodded as you saw that you had everything.
“Alright thats all-” you said as you folded the list only to stop mid sentence when you saw something on the back of it.
You turned the paper over to see the highlight written and covered back that read.
‘GLOWSTICKS!!’ with huge zig-zags around it and many underlines underneath it all of it in yellow, pink and blue highlighter.
You snorted to yourself for doing this, knowing full well you would have left without getting glowsticks.
“Heh, thanks past me..” you whispered with an amused grin on your face, shopping the list into your pocket as you made your way over to the part supply section.
You didn’t actually need the glowsticks for a party or anything, you just loved glowsticks.
Ever since you were little you remember coming to this town called Beach City, for the 4th of July to visit your grandfather in the house he built on the the beach.
It wasn’t exactly in Beach City, it was a little down the way. And if you didn’t know it was there, you would have just passed by it on the way over to this lovely city.
That's why you loved visiting here so much, other than to see your grandfather. It was so isolated and you felt like you were in your own world there. Yet the dirt road was on the main road to town, giving you easy access to the town, which was a good 20 minute walk away.
So when your grandfather had left it to you in his will, you didn’t hesitate to take it. You had moved into it not just a week ago.
You loved the old thing. It had needed work to make it suitable for you to live there throughout the year, and with the help of your parents, who supported your decision fully saying you needed to go out and explore, you now had clean and hot running water.
You also had air conditioning that no longer went into smokes when you had it on longer than five minutes, and a tv set that allowed you to get Kindle Fire.
You were happy with getting just cable since the old one use to get just one channel.
You were happy in your new home but that didn’t mean you sheltered yourself in there 24/7.
You did go out after the house was fixed up, went to see the local stores and businesses.
You had been to the pizza parlor where you had met the sweet girl behind the counter.
Kiki as you remembered. Oh and along with her father and grandmother, the owners you presumed.
“ Oh so you are Harold’s granddaughter?” Kiki’s grandmother asked as you waited for your pizza.
You smiled and nodded, “Yes ma’ma! I just moved into his house Saturday.”
She sighed a smiled on her face, “Dat man was such a nice one, he made friends with everyone!”
You blushed a bit, feeling proud of your grandfather for being the person he was, everywhere he went he never left it without making friends with everyone there. You admired that so much.
“Are you talkin’ about that Harold man?” Kiki’s father piped up a grin on his face which had shocked you by how serious and flat his expression was when you came in. He continued, “Such a good man, he always helped fix the restaurant when a storm came in and damaged it, and he never asked to be paid eitha!”
“Here you go! One cheese pizza.” Kiki announced placing the slice down. You went to pull out your wallet when you were stopped by Kofi. “Oh there is no need for that young lady. It is on the house.”
You looked up at Kofi and cocked an eyebrow. “Are you sure, I don’t feel rig-”
“Your grandfather was a good man, it is a shame that he is gone.” Kiki’s grandmother said as she walked around the counter taking your hands into hers and patting them gently.
“Afta all he has done for us, this is the least we could do,” she assured you.
And that wouldn’t be the last time someone had spoken so highly of your grandfather.
When you had gone to the arcade later that day to check it out only to be stopped by the owner when he immediately caught your resemblance to your grandfather. Mr. Smiley as you learned, told you about how your grandfather save his business by letting old arcade games in to get retro loving customers in.
When your grandfather was younger, you explained, when your father was seven he had opened his own arcade. So you weren't surprised by his knowledge of gaming. That made Mr. Smiley laugh and allowed you the next time you came over to play he would give you a round of tokens no charge.
….. You didn’t know if you liked this, people giving you stuff for free thing.
Luckily only Mr. Smiley and the Pizza family seemed to do that.
But that didn’t mean no one else gushed about your grandfather.
Even the mayor, who you thought was quite jittery and sweaty in your opinion, boasted how your grandfather helped him win his first election for mayor. And that the (L/N) Family would always have his blessings and live forever in his gratitude. But of course he didn’t leave without handing you a pin that said “Vote for Dewey” with his face on it.
Yup, it seemed you grandfather had a great reputation here in Beach City, and you hoped that you could live up to him.
You sighed a small smile on your face as you passed by the cereal aisle seeing two teens around your age and a little boy.
“Oh yeah this one is my favorite!!” the little boy exclaimed holding up the box of what you could see was something that looked like Hello Kitty ate a bunch of glitter and sugar and threw it up.
You could definitely see why he liked it so much.
‘Kids and sugar these days.. What the hell am I talking about I fuckin’ love sugar!’
The teen with glasses shrugged as he looked over the other cereals “Its cool” he said nonchalantly as he picked up a cereal box and inspected it.
“Hey, where is Sour Cream?” The girl who looked alot like Kiki asked looking around.
The boy spoke up turning to her, “Oh he said he was going to get stuff for his rave.”
You walked by them their conversation slowly drifted away as you walked over to the party selection.
You quickly began to scan the shelves in the aisle looking for your prized glowsticks.
You really had no idea why you liked them so much. If you had to guess you could say it was because you liked the feeling of cracking them on or the way they lit up in such pretty neon colors.
When you reached the middle of the aisle your eyes finally caught onto the packages that read ‘GLOWSTICKS’ in bright colors each one in a different color said glow sticks came in.
You chuckled and reached out for it when another hand went to grab the package as well and brushed over yours.
You pulled your hand back as did the other hand. You took a step back and looked over at the other person…
You were surprised to say the least when you saw a cute guy, most likely your age with headphones over his ears looking down at you.
And thats when you realized how freakin tall this dude was.
He blushed lightly and quickly pulled his headphones off letting them fall around his neck, the sound of muffled music coming to life from the speakers.
“Oh, sorry I didn’t notice you there,” he apologized the blush still adamant on his pale skin as he shoved his hands into his pockets.
You blinked at him for a moment before you giggled and waved it off, “No worries, its my bad as well I didn’t see you either,” he chuckled nervously making you giggle at how cute he was being.
When you both fell quiet for a moment he quickly tried to fill the void of silence, “u-uh, so, uh, you like glow sticks? W-what are you gonna use ‘em for?” he asked stuttering a bit as he shifted uneasily on his feet.
“Oh, nothing really, I just really love glowsticks and my supply has run out.” you smiled tilting your head at him as you placed your hand on your hip, “what are you gonna use them for?”
“Oh, um,” he jumped a little bit before his hands started to move around in his huge pockets to those huge sweatpants you just noticed. You wondered how he could rock that color or orange let alone wear sweatpants in public and not look like he had given up on life.
“Uh, here!” He finally found what he was searching for and pulled out a slightly crumpled flyer and handed it to you.
“Uh, rave tonight..” he mumbled as you looked over the flyer, which was purple with a white stripe over the middle of it with the word ‘Rave’ in purple. The location was on it in dark pink, ‘warehouse? Did he mean that old building that looked like it was falling apart?'
“Oh cool!” you smiled looking up at him, “I’ve never been to one before actually, I’m guessing you’re gonna be there?”
“Uh, yeah.. I’m going to be djing and some of my internet friends are going to be there.. And uh, there’s gonna be.. free glow sticks?”
You smiled at him and chuckled, “You had me at free glowsticks.” He smiled at that and chuckled lightly making you grin. “But yeah sure I’ll definitely come over! It’ll be nice for me to meet more people here,”
He rose an eyebrow at you, and you were quick to answer, “I just moved here a week ago, my grandfather died and left his place to me in his will.”
His mouth hung open like he was saying ‘oh’ thats when he jumped back into reality and shook his head, “ah, I’m sorry, um..” he held out his hand awkwardly to you, “my names Sour Cream.”
“Oh shoot wow, sorry about that, my name is (Y/N).” you shook his hand, and smiled
“It’s nice to meet you,” You beamed up at him as you pulled your hand away from his.
“Uh, yeah, s-same.. “ he trailed off for a moment and just when you thought he was about to say something someone called out.
“Sour Creaaaam~” a high pitched voiced sang making Sour Cream visibly wince.
You chuckled and turned to the glow sticks and pulled two packs.
“I guess I better be going and let you go to your friends,” you held out one packet to him.
“I’ll see you tonight then, Sour Cream,”
“Uh, y-yeah..” he took the packet from your hand his blush deepening a little making you giggle.
“Bye,” you waved to him before you turned around and walked out the aisle.
He stood there packet still in hand as he watched you walk away.
“B-Bye…”
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You hummed as you walked to your jeep, it was the type you would use to go on safaries with. Yeah sometimes you wish it had a proper covering over it so the sun didn’t bother you. But in moments like these when you had to put something in the back, you could easily put it in through the window in the back seat.
You hummed the a tune as you walked up to your car about to put the groceries in when you heard something.
“Hey, Sour Cream is that her?”
“Steven-”
“Oh my gosh it so totally is!”
“She does seem like the only other cool chick here.”
“Guys, serious-”
“Hey! Girl at the black jeep!” the same high pitched voice from before called out.
You looked behind you to see the two other teens and kid from the cereal aisle walking up to you with a very red Sour Cream trailing behind them.
“Guys come on, let her be..” he hissed in a hush voice.
“Dude no way! I have been DYING to meet this girl! Everyone has been talking about her!” the girl exclaimed.
“Yeah, Sour Cream!” the boy agreed as he skipped over to you.
Hearing this new information you blushed.
“ H-Hi” you stammered out as they came up to you
“Hey! I’m Steven! And you must be the girl everyone is talking about, (Y/N), right?” the boy, or you should say Steven asked.
You blinked for a moment before you snapped out of your shyness seeing his enthusiasm and kindness.
“Hehe yeah, that's me. I just moved in this week.”
“That's so cool! We only usually get new people around during the summer. Oh yeah! These are my friends-” he gestured to the girl with the leather jacket.
“This is Jenny, her family runs the pizza parlor-”
“Oh yeah! I’ve met your family. You guys have really good pizza by the way.
Jenny laughed smiling and grinned at you, “hah, you’re funny. And yeah Kiki told me about you. You’re that cool guys granddaughter right?” You nodded.
“Apparently that's my identity in this town now,” she laughed along with Steven, the guy in glasses smiling a bit.
“And this Buck, he’s-”
“My dad is the uncool mayor of the town.”
Your eyes widened, “wow really? I would never have guessed, you guys act totally different.”
He shrugged, “My dad doesn't know when to relax and stuff.”
You pursed your lips a bit at that, “yeah I could notice that, but I can imagine being a mayor you’ve got a lot of things on your plate. I’m pretty sure if he didn’t have some of that, he’d relax a bit.”
“I guess you have a point there, (Y/N). You’re good in my book.” You smiled at that and thats when Steven spoke.
“And you’ve already met Sour Cream-”
“He’s told us that you’re coming to the Rave tonight~!” Jenny sang swaying her hips as if she were dancing.
You laughed a bit and nodded, “yeah that I am, he said there’s gonna be free glow sticks, I couldn’t resist.”
Jenny groaned a bit, “ugh, you and him with glow sticks. No wonder you two met while trying to get them!”
You rolled your eyes, “hey glow sticks are da bomb, ok? Don’t diss the fluorescent sticks.” you mocked a angry tone a smile on your face however making them chuckle.
“You should totally hang out with Jen and I during it,” Buck smiled stuffing his hands into his pockets.
You smiled and nodded. “That sounds great, um, I should probably get going though, I have milk and ice cream in my car.”
“No prob, girl. We’ll see you later!” she smiled waving to you over her shoulder as she began to walk away.
“Yeah, see ya later.” Buck held his fist to yours which you pounded with your own.
“Heh, See ya, Buck.”
Steven came up to you next “It was really nice to meet you, I hope I can introduce you to the gems soon!”
“Gems?” you asked only to have Steven run off to catch up with Buck and Jenny.
“Um..” Sour Cream rubbed his arm as he looked up at you that small blush still on his face.
“I guess I’ll see you later then..” he trailed off looking down at the ground again.
You grinned shaking your head at his shyness. You turned to your car and reached in to grab something to write with only to find the blue highlighter you had used on the grocery list.
'Eh, good enough’ you thought as you grabbed it and turned to Sour Cream and walked up to him.
“Here.” you said as you held your hand out for him, the cap to the highlighter already popped off. He looked up at you and raised an eyebrow when he looked down at your hand held out to him.
You rolled your eyes at him and chuckled. “I’m not going to bite you,” you said as you reached for his hand and held it up.
You pulled the highlighter out and then began to write on his hand. Once done you let go of his hand and capped the highlighter.
“There wasn’t so hard now was it?” you teased lightly watching him as he read his hand seeing his eyes widen made you giggle.
‘Gosh he is too cute,’ you thought as you walked back over to your car.
“Use it whenever you want, or want to talk or something. See you later, Sour Cream.” you waved goodbye as you got in a small blush on your cheeks as you pulled out and drove away, knowing he was still there watching.
When you had driven out of sight he looked down at his hand again and blushed at what you had written. Ten digits to what he assumed was your number and your name in cursive and a heart beside it.
He looked back up at where you had disappeared, “wow…”