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To say Shuriken is nervous would be the understatement of the century.
Today, he and Skateboard will go on a date. Nothing they haven’t done before, they’ve went on plenty of dates before this! The only issue is…
This’ll be their first date as an official couple.
Is he suppose to do anything about this? Does he have to act any different? Will Skateboard be expecting more from him???
He couldn’t disappoint Skateboard, what if he does something wrong and doesn’t realize until it’s too late—
Calm Shuriken, breathe. It’ll be fine.
…
What time is it?
Oh right, he should be getting ready now.
Maybe Shuriken should begin to buy a larger range of clothes, currently he’s been on the same outfit rotation. Skate might see it as a bit off if he kept wearing the same things right?
After all, as much as Skate seems otherwise, his closet has a large variety of clothes, just… very similar looking ones.
They’ll just be hanging around the mall so maybe that’ll be a chance to see what Skate would like him in, it’s not as if Shuriken himself has a defined style of choice.
He rummages through his dresser for a blank t-shirt, an overshirt, and wide shorts.
Putting on a belt, he looks back on top of the dresser to hair ties. Would he look nice with his hair braided?
Shuriken brushes the thought off, the hair ties weren’t his anyways so he grabs his hairbrush right next to them instead.
Anything else he needs to do? Ah right.
Style his hair as best as he could, put on socks, find his phone, keys, and wallet, put on his shoes, and leave the house and wait for Skate to pick him up.
He looks by to birds flying through the clear blue skies, it’ll be alright he thinks.
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It is NOT alright, his Skateboard is dressed up so much better than him and oh gods, does he look good, not even mentioning the bouquet of flowers [deep blue orchids, Shuri would be ashamed if he couldn’t recognize them] he’s holding with such a bright grin.
“Shuri! Sorry babe, didn’t keep you waiting for too long I hope?” He winked, holding out the flowers for the other to take, unfortunately for him the other inphernal is still stun-locked.
Shuriken snaps back to reality, taking the bouquet —oh they’re very pretty— and responding.
“Ah yeah no, not at all— I just walked out from my apartment so…” He glanced back and forth between the flowers and Skateboard, “so… it’s fine, should we uhm, should we get going now?”
Skate beams and walks to the passenger side, opening the door dramatically.
“After you, princess.”
Shuriken giggles, oh so graciously taking his seat and let Skate close the door for him.
Skate gets in the drivers seat and starts the path to the mall.
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They’ve arrived. Shuriken unbuckles his seatbelt and puts a hand on the doorhandle— Skate panics.
“HEY HEY HEY WAIT A MINUTE—“
Shuriken freezes, confused on the sudden shift. Skate pays no mind to him as he hurries to get out of the car and walk around to Shuriken’s side, opening the door for him once again.
Shuriken breathes a sigh of relief that nothing was seriously wrong, he steps out of the car and places the bouquet on his seat, he wouldn’t take them inside the mall of course.
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Once inside and wandering for a bit, buying things here and there, Shuriken realizes Skate is noticeably going into stores about trinkets and games, less clothes.
Shuriken himself does not know what type of clothes he’s looking for, making bringing up the fact that he’d like to buy some a bit awkward for him.
They pass by a few clothing stores anyways while walking and Shuriken only hopes to spot something that catches either of their attention to go in.
He passes by a display holding a pretty, long, flowy, pink shirt, though he could tell it was for more feminine customers so he walks by.
[Un]fortunately, he’s beside the most attentive inphernal known in existence.
“That’s cute isn’t it? Wanna go inside?”
“No, no it’s fine— look, the store we were looking for is right there.”
Skateboard lets him brush it off in favor of a new game console in order to play the new game he was waiting for to come out. Something about living on dream island?
Shuriken isn’t sure but it makes Skateboard happy talking about it so he doesn’t mind listening.
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Even by the time they reach his apartment and they’re standing outside Skate’s car, Shuriken with the flowers in hand, Shuriken thinks it’s too soon. If only they could stay together for a bit longer…
He’s broken off from that train of thought to Skate kissing the hand of his hand, Shuriken blushes at that.
“I hope you’ve had fun today! Goodnight babe, love you!”
“Oh! Yeah… I did, thank you. Goodnight Skate!”
He walks to his apartment and opens the door to both Vine and Sling trying their best not to bombard him with their excitement —add fussing over the orchids in Vinestaff’s case.
He allows Vine to take the bouquet to properly place it in a nice vase and walks back to his room, flopping onto the bed and opening his chat with Skate to a single new message sent right when Shuriken was dropped off.
Skateboard
- hope ur missing me already <3
You
- I don’t have a clue on what you mean.
He changes something from Skate’s profile and turns away from the screen to go shower.
The phone lights up with a notification as Shuri looks for his towel.
Skate ❤️
- sureee you dont love ;3