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5XG started a live video. Watch it before it ends!
Lapis Lazuli nearly drops her phone at her lunch.
"...and then I... Lazuli, are you listening?"
"Nope. Shut up."
"Oh Gods. We lost her. I'll tell Professor Holly that you are not coming for her political science class."
Aquamarine props her cheek with her hand and looks with contempt at her friend, who froze with a fork near her mouth. On the screen of Lapis' phone there is someone in a black tight-fitting suit and with a black helmet that covers their face to the very neck. Aquamarine, on the one hand, is glad that she doesn't hear anything because of Lapis' headphones (and she won't kill herself with a facepalm), and on the other hand she is curious why her friend smiles so stupidly.
“If I knew that you were a fan of this wierdo, I would never talk to you at the admission ceremony,” Aquamarine grumbles, taking the fork from Lapis' hand and putting it back on the plate. "We are not children anymore to be fans of "superheroes"."
Fortunately for her, the broadcast ends quickly, and Lapis, typing something with the speed of light, reluctantly takes out her headphones and puts down the phone, returning to her lunch as if nothing had happened. Aquamarine slaps her forehead.
“Did you even hear me?”
Lapis innocently blinks.
“Of course not.”
“What the hell is so interesting about this guy? You haven’t even seen his face. And you're not interested in guys at all!”
Smiling dreamily, Lapis sighs in love, and from this sigh Aquamarine wants to puke rainbow.
“Rumors say that this person is a girl.”
“And your little gay heart is happy to know that? Honestly, Lazuli, you urgently need to find someone before you start drooling over your phone whenever this… person appears on the screen. I swear on rector Dewey's bald head, I will either get Jasper back for you or…”
Lapis shudders and winces, as if she had sent spoiled food into her mouth. What she definitely does not want is to return relationships, in which both partners got broken mental health and a couple of broken ribs.
“Please, no. We just stopped avoiding each other in school. Jasper is in the past.”
“Alright, alright. But, please, don’t look so lovingly at... I don’t care what his name is.”
“You wish.”
“Ugh.”
Aquamarine returns to her own phone, allowing Lapis to finish lunch in peace. Ten more minutes until the end of the break, and Aquamarine frantically tries to find a reason not to appear at Professor Holly's lecture. This old witch scares the entire university, and they say she still has this work just because Dewey simply doesn’t have balls to fire her.
She calmly scrolls the Instagram dashboard for several minutes, not paying attention to anything else, until she hears a loud and sudden “HOLY FUCK” from usually calm and chill Lapis. Loud enough to be heard in the whole cafeteria.
“Why are you yelling, you idiot?!” Aquamarine hisses, throwing angry glances at the students who turned to scream. Not every day their table attracts attention with something other than just blue hair.
“5XG... Asks me for a walk...” Lapis's voice trembles, she looks at the phone with puppy joy in her eyes.
“Wha-“
“This broadcast I watched. They offered to write any questions in direct, and opened a PM for a minute.”
Aquamarine wants to thrust a fork in the screen of the Lapis’ iPhone.
“And you immediately decided to try your luck? What did you manage to say so that your question was noticed? He surely has a bunch of fans like you.”
Lapis just gives her the phone and bumps her nose into the table, making strange noises.
“Please just say that you're a cute girl under the helmet!”
Aquamarine grimaces. Lapis being Lapis, this is not even a question.
“How about we meet and you check this out?~”
“Ugh. Surely, he simply sent this answer to everyone who has a nice photo on Instagram. Do you really want to meet him?”
Lapis sighs dreamily for the fifteenth time. Of course, Aquamarine is right. She definitely can’t get any attention from 5XG, an urban superhero on a jet black bike, with a cyber costume and, possibly, cyber limbs. 5XG can get anyone.
But damn curiosity doesn’t allow Lapis to retreat. This person seemed to have come down from the pages of comics, so beloved by Lapis in childhood. Anonymity, courage on the verge of idiocy and self-confidence, not to mention selfies with the future troubles at the background. How can she say no?
“Yes. Yes I want.”
“I’ll laugh till I piss my pants, if you find out this is actually a guy.”
Lapis ignores this tease, quickly typing the answer and erasing it. She can’t look like an obsessive and stupid fan.
“I’ll be happy! When?”
The “read” mark appears on her answer so fast, so it seems like 5XG didn’t close the dialogue, waiting for her answer.
“How about in an hour? I can pick you up near some parking. I don’t think you wanna be seen near me, and I don’t wanna my fans to tear you apart lol. You can give me an address and I’ll pick you up~”
“Oh dear, it seems like he is just hoping for a quick sex on his motorcycle...” Aquamarine teases, peeping at the dialogue. “I can lend you my shocker, it’s strong enough and his suit won’t help him.”
“Thanks but no... In an hour! I need to drive home, wash my hair, choose what to wear! You’ll come with me!”
Lapis grabs her backpack, writes a quick “Okay, see you!”, reads the answer and almost dies right on the floor of the university cafeteria.
Aquamarine smiles hopelessly. That’s the reason not to go to the lecture! Now she can say she was trying to save a friend from being killed. That’s a good thing. And, most importantly, she won’t lie...
“Okay, okay. Let's go. But if you don't get back before midnight, I'm calling the cops.”
“See ya, beautiful~”