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Sprawled on your bed, You had been scrolling  through your messages with Kasper on your phone, thinking about how your conversations never flowed like they used to. Youd tried to ask him what was wrong but he’d always brushed it off nervously. Saying something about how “college is really kicking my ass right now” or something like “I’m just really busy these days, I'm really sorry Y/N”. He was really the only person you’d had left from highschool, and now it was starting to feel like you’d had nobody left. Being a freshman in college was hard enough but barely getting any social interactions felt like it was literally killing you. 

You shut your phone off and sit on the edge of your bed, you sigh and move to stand up when you receive a text from Kasper,

 “wut? XP”.

 Confused, you click on the notification, and stare at your phone mortified for a second. A speech bubble from you with a singular letter, “q” to be exact, sat there. You must have accidentally sent him a message while scrolling through your messages. “God damnit I am such a fucking idiot, what doI even say to that? “Sorry I was scrolling through our messages thinking about better times?” NO what the fuc-” you were cut off by another speech bubble from Kasper 

“u gud? -_-”.

 You take a deep breath and begin typing,

 “yeah im all good must’ve texted you when i left my phone on in my pocket, my bad”

 You thought it was a shitty excuse but no way in absolute hell were you going to tell him what you were doing. 

“K, ttyl th3n”

Before you could think you began typing 

“Wait”

“We havent seen eachother in like forever”

I was just wondering if maybe you’d want to hangout” 

“You don't gotta say yes, thought maybe it’d do us both some good to get a break”

“U seem stressed”

“Idk :/ my appt is a m3ss rn”

“1 gess i cud do sum cl34ning tho”

“So can i come over?”

“Ye cum @ lik 6,if u want u can spnd n1te >:)” 

To say you were overjoyed would be the understatement of the century. Look at your phone, wide grinning smile and fall back on your bed, staring at the ceiling, now smiling. 

You began getting ready early, you were basically hopping up and down most of the time, singing to your favorite songs while showering. Once you were out of the shower, you stressed about what to wear for a good 20 minutes, eventually just deciding to wear something comfortable since you'd literally just be hanging out at his house, with only him.

You’d have to end up sitting on your couch for around 30 minutes since you’d gotten ready much too early. A giddy and anxious feeling sat in your stomach. You had barely talked to anybody these past weeks being swamped in school work so you were pretty damn excited.

Once the time had rolled around you sent a text to Kasper to let him know you'd be there soon

“Onw” 

“K :D” 

You begin driving.

Once you arrive you get to his floor and knock on his door. A couple seconds go by before you hear a muffled “COMING” and footsteps hurrying to the door before you see the grinning face of Kasper with his hands outstretched waiting for a hug. You basically tackle him into a big hug and you both go to the floor in fits of laughter.”KASPER!!!!” “Y/N!!!”. You kept laughing as you rolled over onto your back and sat up looking at Kasper who still wore a goofy grin. You stand up and offer your hand. He takes it and you help him off the ground.

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At some point you two had made it to his one couch, laughing and talking about basically everything that's been going on in eachothers lives. But then the question of why he's been distant came up. He immediately tensed up. “Well uh, you know work stress, got alot on my plate.” You looked at him disappointed he wouldn't tell you the real reason. “..Kasper, you know you can tell me anything.. Is it you and Lampert again? You guys fight like brothers I swear to g-” You began before being cut off. “No no no, nothing to do with L dawg, I probably have been talking to you more than him recently lol”. “Oh..” Is all you could think to say. He sighed before continuing, “There's this… guy? Guy. whose.. Uh… I guess been a pain in the ass recently.. He loves to.. Hover? I don't know, he's just incredibly annoying.” he looked off a couple times to think about what to say. “Oh, well why don't you just stop talking to him if it's that big of an issue?”. You say, confused. “He's very persistent”  Kasper looked at you with a straight face. You kind of just sat there awkwardly looking at his serious face before glancing down at your phone. “Holy shit it's already 2am dude don't you have class tomorrow?” you look at Kasper being glad to have a way out of that conversation. “Shiiiiitttt your right, alright, why don't you take the couch and i'll take the floor, that all cool?” You had no clue why he preferred to sleep on the floor but he always had. “Yeah that's fine” he looked at you and put his hands down. He turns the light off before laying on the floor next to you, you throw him a blanket from the couch and the moment his body hits the floor he's out. You toss and turn before you eventually start to feel exhaustion coming down on you, before you drift asleep you question who the mystery guy Kasper was referring to was.

You're awakened by a noise that sounded like rubber squeegeeing on glass and the sounds of the city directly after, as well as the noises of ruffling, a grunt and then a thump. You get over your drowsiness quickly, immediately concern fills you, your thoughts immediately go to some kind of robbery, then a murderer, and basically any other kind of dangerous situation. You began to freak out and slowly sit up, looking at Kasper who was still dead asleep. You slowly got up trying not to make a noise. You shuffle around to see a strange figure pulling their leg through the window. It was too dark to really see anything but they had the build of a man with long spiky hair that almost looks unnatural. You make a small noise of alarm before the silhouette looks towards you. You back up and hide yourself behind the shelf, whisper shouting to Kasper as you hear the silhouette remove his foot from the window and slowly make his way towards you. Kasper moves around a little bit, and grunts but you're not waking him up. You then feel somebody's hand softly pulling your jaw towards them. You're frozen, now face to face with the thing, you don't see any eyes but you can make out a big grinning mouth as it opens and begins to speak “Is this rizz?”. You scream loudly and pull back landing on your ass. He turned around and doubled over laughing like it was the best thing he’d ever heard. In your fear, confusion and terror you fail to notice the fact that Kasper was now up and flicked the light on. You quickly turn to Kasper taking in his exhausted and hunched frame, you hop up and cling to him crying hysterically. “Somebody b-broke in somebody-” Kasper wrapped a hand around you and looked at the thing, you hid your face in his chest too scared to look at the thing that was still laughing. 

“Dude what the fuck you promised you wouldnt do this shit tonight. I told you that you're never welcome in my home but…” he trailed on, your confusion now taking over. “Did Kasper know this guy? Surely not. Gay lover? No, probably not. weird creepy ex? Nah” You decided to shakily look at the guy who was now bathed in light. It was probably the weirdest thing you’d ever seen, no it definitely was the weirdest thing you’d ever seen. It was a tall skinny but well built guy who for one was a literal fucking gradient with a human(ish) body, he was doubled over laughing still. You fully turned around with blurry tear filled eyes and looked up at Kasper for some kind of explanation. “God I'm sorry Y/N, he told me he wasn't going to bother us, god you should have never come over in the first place, I’m sorry you had to deal with this.” he looked at you and then back at the guy, the tears going back only being filled with confusion. “Who is that?? What is that??” you looked at him, stepping back slightly. The thing was now finished laughing and came over to the two of you and stood farther away from you guys but closer. Kasper pointed to him, “I don't really know exactly what he is but I've just been calling him unpleasant gradient, usually just unpleasant. He's been haunting me like an angry ghost for the past few months.” He explains, exasperated.

The thing, who you now know as Unpleasant, looks at you with a toothy grin before outstretching his arm, seemingly to give you a handshake. You slowly take his hand and before you know it hes violently shaking your hand, somehow grinning wider than he has been before. “Good to finally meet Kasper's friend! I’d just like to say you’ve got a major gyatt!” he spoke, “...what? What does that even- you know what nevermind..” You continued, more than confused. You let go of his hand confused on how it was somehow moist and wipe it on your pants, trying to get whatever that thing had secreted off onto you. 

“Soooo Kaspy kasp kasp, I’m just gonna be on your computer watching some videos, hope that’s cool.” he says and begins towards Kaspers computer. “Hey! Dude please dont do this tonight, if I have to hear that fucking toilet thing again or 3am challenges I’m going to go mad! And we have company, plus its fucking-” Kasper checked his watch, “3 in the morning.. can’t you actually just leave me the fuck alone for one night, one fucking night thats all im asking.” He’s practically begging Unpleasant. “Okay what about this, I’m gonna look at videos real quiet, and I mean real quiet, on your computer, and I swear I won't mess with your files again.” he says still grinning. “..god whatever fine as long as you're quiet and Y/N’s okay with it, if she isn't then you gotta leave man.” he says definitely extremely tired, looking towards you. “Uh, I guess it's fine?”, you said, unsure of what you'd be agreeing to. “Well, I wasn't going to leave anyways, but thanks you guys are goated.” He says before going to Kasper’s computer and immediately going to youtube shorts. Kasper looks almost depressive at you, as you hear Unpleasant making giggling noises  “Im sorry Y/N he said he wouldn't come here, god if you wanna go home you can i'm not gonna make you deal with this weird creepo” he says “I HEARD THAT!” you heard Unpleasant shout from across the room Kasper ignored him, “No, I guess it's okay, I don't feel safe leaving you alone with this guy, Kasper. I’ll just go home in the morning.” you said kind of in a hushed soft tone. Kasper smiled at you, “okay, just try to get some sleep. I swear he's not dangerous, he's just a fucking weirdo.” He says before flicking the light off. “Goodnight,Y/N.” he says before you both go to your respective sleeping area, you on the couch, him on the floor.

 You toss and turn for a while, being kept up from Unpleasants deep chuckles and strange comments that he’d make to himself. Stuff like “this is so ohio” and “BRO HE'S MOGGING CHAT HES MOGGING”, you didn't really understand. You’d also sometimes hear a song that went something like “sikbidi dah dah dah yes yesss” you had no idea what he was watching but it really did make sense that he acted like this if that's all he watches. 

You were finally about to pass out when you felt a tap on your shoulder, you opened your eyes expecting it to be Kapser but it's Unpleasant, and he's looking down at you and grinning. “Y/N come look at this, I swear you’ll like it.” He looks at you, stifling giggles with one hand over his mouth. He grabs your hand and basically drags you to Kasper’s PC. You guessed he’d migrated to instagram reels and had a video of a still image depicting “red m&m”, “Mr.raisin” and somebody called “ freaky mix” all messaging one person.  The m&m was saying “let’s knock boots” , Mr. raisin was saying “wanna collab”, and freaky mix was saying “you freaky vro?”. As well as the whole image being horribly over exposed and slighlty low quality. You stared at it for a good couple of seconds while reading it, before you started slowly laughing that turned into louder laughing and you had to grab only Unpleasant’s weirdly moist shoulder to keep yourself up, nearly doubled over laughing holding your stomach with the other hand. The pure just strangeness of the entire situation had caught up to you and you couldn’t stop laughing. Unpleasant brightened up immediately and looked almost proud of himself. “See, I told you you would like it!!” Your laughter eventually died down and you looked at him. “Yeah it’s pretty fucking funny, I’ll give you that.” you looked at him smiling.

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After Unpleasant had shown you his reel, the two of you had just ended up scrolling for a while. A quiet chuckle or giggle coming from the two of you every once in a while. It was honestly sad for you to admit but this had been the most fun you’d had in a long time. The longer you were up the more tired you became. You were sitting in the chair that Unpleasant had forfeited to you when he took notice of your exhaustion. You had been resting your cheek on your arm that sat on the desk. Tired eyes gazing at the screen with a light smile painting your face. 

Regardless of all of the noise Kasper was yet to even stir, Since you’d known him he’d been a pretty heavy sleeper but it was kind of impressive at this point. 

Unpleasant turned to you, the straight look of his body and the not very nice colors of his gradient were illuminated by the computer screen. “Don’t want to be a party pooper but babes you look mad tired. I think you should get some sleep.” Unpleasant spoke almost softly, still smiling at you. You yawned and then gave a sound of recognition and a sleepy smile before getting up and popping your bones. “Thank you for hanging out with me, usually people don’t really ever do it willingly, my rizz has been kind of lacking lately.” he says looking at you smiling. Hearing him say that for some reason puts a pang of sadness in your chest. “Anytime Unpleasant, if I’m ever over again then I’ll definitely hang with you, just try not to make Kasper upset, I can tell he’s been going through a lot.” you said looking at what you assume is his face. “Goodnight Unpleasant” 
“Goodnight Y/N”

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You woke up to the light being on and the sun streaming open from the now busted window. Moving the upper half of your body up, you heard the shower running so you’d assumed it was Kasper getting ready to go to his early class. He’d always told you that his biggest regret was not showing up to orientation quick enough to get a class later in the day. You weren’t sure when you’d gotten to bed yesterday but all you knew was that it was pretty damn late, And if being there wasn’t enough to know the exhaustion you’d felt from the moment you’d opened your eyes was evidence enough. You look around for unpleasant honestly half hoping it was some weird dream but the computer screen still being Instagram with tabs of Youtube and Tiktok also being open was proof enough that it actually happened. Regardless of the Computer still being powered on, Unpleasant had obviously left. Realizing this you plop back down on the bed with a groan, body aching from spending the night on Kasper's less than nice couch. You close your eyes for a couple more seconds before you hear the bathroom door opening to a clean and well rested Kasper. He came out wearing his classic “tough guys wear pink”, black skinny jeans, and two different belts, no beanie since his hair was still wet but he held it in his hand. He looked at you taking in your tired state, “ Man Y/N you look like shit, that rainbow sherbert cunt kept you up didn’t he? Fuck Y/N I’m sorry i should’ve drove you home or something yesterday.” he said looking at you dejectedly. You smiled at him “Oh no it's fine Kasper, I’d actually ended up hanging out with him a little bit yesterday. He’s actually not totally horrible, he's kind of funny.”. Unexpectedly Kasper glared at you, he looked almost angry, no more like generally upset. He paused for a few seconds before continuing in a strained voice, “...Y/N are you kidding me? That's literally the guys whose been tormenting me for months, I haven't had a single day to myself since he came into my life, and worst of all he probably ate fucking Poptart, Y/N do not trust him, I thought you were smarter then this. I wouldn’t deal with him if i didn’t have to but who the fuck is going to believe that some god damn gradient walked into my apartment and won’t leave? Nobody would Y/N”. you looked at him with wide eyes and tears slightly welled up in your eyes, you’d never done well with confrontation before and Kasper had never spoken to you like that before. You Understood him, but you were conflicted, for the time being you just decided to go with what he was saying. “Kasp.. I'm sorry, I didn't know it was that bad, if I’d have known I wouldn't have entertained him.” after you’d said that Kasper's features immediately softened realizing how genuinely upset you looked. and he walked over to you and wrapped his arms around you, giving you a hug. The hug had made you feel better, you had also softened and also wrapped your arms around him, “ I’m sorry Y/N I didn’t mean to get upset, I’m just really stressed out and I don't want you to get in any kind of trouble.” he mumbled into your hair. You pulled away and looked at him slightly smiling, no longer tearing up, “It’s okay Kasper, I’ll be more cautious around him I swear.” you spoke.

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Driving home you’d begun to think about everything that had happened, you’d wondered if what Kasper was saying about him was true, and if he was really untrustworthy. Sure you’d trusted Kasper, you knew he was telling the truth from his perspective. But to some degree you felt like Unpleasant was just extremely socially unaware and didn't know how bad what he was doing was. Quite frankly he seemed rather lonely. But then you got to thinking about exactly what he was and why he’d choose Kasper. It really to more questions than answers.

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When you got home you honestly really didn’t feel like doing much, you were exhausted from staying up so late yesterday. You plug your phone in, leaving it on the dresser, before you flop on your bed and lift a light blanket over you so you can attempt to take a nap. Before you know it you're drifting off…

CRASH!!!!

You let out a yelp while quickly sitting up and covering your face with your hands. You slowly lower them to look at where the noise comes from and see a multicolored half- block-half-person, who you’d come to know so recently laying on your floor seemingly from breaking your window open with just his body weight. Glass shards surrounded him as he lifted his hand up, giving you a thumbs up before saying “I’m okay…”. 

You sat still for a moment, partly in fear and partly in shock, contemplating what to do. How had he found where you lived? Seriously what was with this guy and windows? Couldn't he have knocked on your door like a normal person? You supposed he wasn't actually a normal person so maybe norms didn't really occur to him. Whatever the reason you now had a groaning gradient on your floor face down on the ground.  Plus a broken window. 

Once you got yourself together you got off the bed and took a knee next to him, pissed about the window but more concerned about Unpleasant. “... you good buddy?” you asked, honestly completely forgetting everything Kasper had said to you earlier that day. “That was not a w moment.” he spoke before sitting up and giving you a pained smile. “Uhh windows my bad….” he said looking at you with a now nervous smile. You looked at him deadpanned, fuming on the inside about the broken window.

 How the fuck were you going to explain that to a landlord? 

“Unpleasant dude, do you know what the fuck a door is??” you looked at him furrowed brows and a frown. “...Yeah” he replied, which only made your anger increase. “Then why don’t you use the door.” you rebutted in a strained tone. “Well uhh, I thought somebody might see me aaaaand people usually react like you did, ya know,  when I came through K’s window last night.” he started now almost laughing, trying to hold it so as to not anger you further. You let out an angry sigh before closing your eyes and breathing deeply. “Ok, well what am I supposed to tell my landlord about this Unpleasant? And how do you suppose I pay for this?” you questioned. “Welllllll I mean Kasper does have that  lamp robot friend who works at Ikea, maybe he knows a thing or two about windows.” he looks at you perking up at the idea, like a fucking lightbulb was above his head. You sighed before replying “yeah i guess I’ll call Lampert, I don't think he could help but I’ll ask.” you say before turning away and clicking on Lamperts contact. It had only rung once before he picked it up.

“Hi, is something wrong Y/N?” you could practically hear the frown on his face. 

“Heyyy Lampert, uh sorry it's been awhile since we've talked… so you know anything about fixing windows?” you talked into the phone nervously fiddling with your other hand. 

You heard a heavy sigh on the other end “single pane?” he replied. 

“Uh i think? Yeah probably.” you say. 
“I’ll come over when I'm off work tomorrow, I'll do the work for free since we're friends but you have to pay me the money to get the stuff for it. Send me like.. 100 and ill Paypal you back the difference.” he says. 

“Thanks Lampert you don’t know how much of a life saver you are, I would be in deep shit if my landlord found out about this.” you say smiling. 

“No problem Y/N, anytime really, how’d you break your window though? Never knew you to be the type of person to do something like that” he stated in a questioning tone. 

“.......I have a friend over he's super clumsy and basically fell onto the window” you said almost too quickly turning to Unpleasant and glaring.

Thankfully but also unfortunately  Lampert took this a different way. 

There was a brief pause before Lampert began to speak “For one ew… Y/N that is BEYOND unsanitary, how hard were you even going at it for that to happen?” he laughed “or two why didn't you tell me you had a partner? Does Kasper know?”.

It took you a second to process what he was saying before you became flustered “Wha-? no, no, NO Lampert that is NOT what just happened now i swear. And he isn't my boyfriend he's more of a pain in the ass-” you began before being cut off. 

You heard a chuckle from the other end, “yeah yeah yeah, okay Y/N whatever you want to say, I'm not judging just telling you to clean whatever the two of you did and i won't ask anymore questions.” 

“Again it's not like that but whatever, text me when you decide to show up” you said, face fully red.

“Alright Y/N see you tomorrow.” he hung up, you could hear the smile in his voice. 

Unpleasant looking at you smirking you felt like if he had eyebrows they’d be raised. which honestly just made you even more flustered. “So he said yes?” “shut the fuck up and help me clean up this glass." 

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After you and Unpleasant had cleaned up the glass you sat on the edge of your bed while Unpleasant was sitting criss cross applesauce front of you, you began to speak, “Okay, Unpleasant, you can stay here because it doesn't really seem like you have many other places to go, and I'm mostly letting you stay here because your stay at Kasper's has been majorly fucking him up.” you said to him, he immediately broke into a wide smile, “but if you're gonna stay here there's gotta be some ground rules.” his smile dropped.  “One, don't break anymore of my stuff, obviously. Two you're gonna have to sleep on the floor, or if you want a cot I can probably get you one next paycheck. 3. Don't keep me up please man, I've got shit to do like almost everyday”, You said to him. “Also… uh I feel like I gotta ask before I feel comfortable enough to let you stay here, did you actually.. Eat Kasper's cat? He said something about that.” you said looking at him, hoping with every bone in  your body it was some weird misunderstanding. “Oh the black furry thing? I let it out because it was pawing at the door. I don't know, it seemed like it was trapped in there.” your prayers had been somewhat answered. “Okay well, that's better than eating it.” 

The rest of the day was basically just you both sitting on your bed, you doing school work on your laptop and unpleasant and ended up watching top 10 scariest internet mysteries from watchmojo. You have to admit it, it was nice to have somebody to hang out with, your biggest mistake was not having roommates your freshman year so you guessed he was kind of a roommate. And just having somebody around was a comfort to you. You told yourself you were doing this for Kasper's sake but a part of you definitely knew you just needed a friend.

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You practically felt every bone in your body aching, you’d been sitting on your bed, slouched over your laptop for what felt like hours. The noises of the tv played soft in the background while Unpleasant was laying on your bed, upper body leaned on the headboard, legs crossed. You turn your head to look over at him to see him not smiling for once, now he just wore a resting face. You thought it was funny that you'd never seen his expression normally. He now looked at you, giving you a better view of his face. You look at the line that is his mouth, then his weird multicolored hair that looks connected to his body in a weird way. You wouldn't say he looked bad just wei-

Andddd you were staring.

Unpleasant looked at you before creasing his eyebrows and smiling, “are you trying to rizz me or something? You're looking at me how I look at gyatts.”. It took you a good couple of seconds to process what he was saying, “what? Yes?? I MEANT NO?!? Stop it.” you said in rapid succession, red slowly crept up your face. He then loudly chuckled which died into giggles. “I was joshing around Y/N.” he laughed again. Honestly you’d had no idea why that made you so flustered. You figured you’d stew on that later. You check the time, it's 8:32, shaking your head slightly violently you replied “uhm yeah my bad… uh I guess we can do something else.. Only for like an hour and a half though. I gotta get up early.”. “Sweeeeeetttttt you got anything sour?? I would drink a grimace shake from Ohio for some gummy worms right now." he moves to lay on his stomach next to you and your computer, once he positions himself he begins kicking his feet. You think about it for a moment before you light up like a lightbulb and go to the kitchen in your house. You open your cupboard and reach for your basket of candy, setting it down and you begin to root around in it, grabbing a bag of Trolli gummy worms, Swedish Fish, and some Sweet Tarts. You quickly go back to your room hopping on the bed grinning at Unpleasant. His face lit up like a Christmas tree, he smiled wide before grabbing them from you and practically ripping the gummy worms up and emptying the bag in his mouth. Your knees dropped to the bed and your arms went to your side, a face of sorrow appearing, “dude what the fuck I wanted some of those you owe me like 4 dollars.” You said to unpleasant. “Sucks to suck.” he said, mouth full of gummy worms still chewing. “Whatever, no Swedish fish for you then man. Greedy ass motherfucker.” you whispered under your breath. Unpleasant chuckled.

Unpleasant had now gone back to his original spot and position on the left side on your bed. You crawled over his strange moist legs to get to the other side of the bed, now mirroring his position aside from your legs not being crossed. You reach for the remote before hesitating. “...What do you wanna watch?” you asked him to look at him. “Probably funny TikTok compilations on Youtube I don't know.” he said resting face back looking at the tv again. “God he is such an Ipad kid” you thought to yourself. “Uhh do you like any movies?.” you say opening the bag of Swedish fish, turning to him before popping one in your mouth. “The emoji movie was pretty fire, maybe boss baby or something that's probably on nuttyflix.” you looked at him open mouthed, squinting your eyes. “Dude for one, what the fuck is nuttyflix? For two what the fuck is wrong with you?” you said bewildered. “Y/N I never usually get to watch movies unless it's on Kasper's computer and they just looked the most colorful,” he completely ignored your first question. “Whatever floats your boat man, I’ll find something on Netflix that isn't made for literal 6 year olds.”

Instead of actually watching a movie that night, the two of you just ended up scrolling on Netflix, Hulu, and Max, laughing, arguing, and just talking back and forth. It was probably the longest and most you had talked to somebody in a hot minute. While also being some of the most funny and interesting conversations.

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You had awoken, room still dark, to warmth mostly all around you, your back had been to something but in your half awake mind you didn't really care. Whatever was there was warm and comforting so in your head you could have given less of a shit. You got closer to whatever it was and drifted back off to sleep…

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Waking up, you opened your eyes to the light seeping in through your window, you sat up in bed stretching your arms out and letting out a yawn. Looking to the left side of the bed, unpleasant was nowhere to be found. “Fuck… guess i accidentally broke rule fucking 2 already.” you thought, putting your hands to your head and sighing.

“Unpleasant?? Unpleasant!?” you shouted. “Y/N??? Come check this out!!” you heard from the kitchen. Oh fuck..

“Unpleasant Gradient, what the fuck is this?” you said looking in horror at some kind of batter all over your counters, egg shells, spilled milk, and a half open stick of butter that looks like it had a bite taken out of it are also present, as well as your sweet tarts being there… “I made pancakes… WITH SWEET TARTS?? ISN'T THAT AWESOME!!!!” you looked at a plate with disgustingly colorful and burnt pancakes. “What the fuck is wrong with you?” you say eye twitching. He laughed “what's right with me!” he said with a big bright smile, still laughing. You sighed before having a different plate full of surprisingly normal, other than being slightly burnt, pancakes shoved in your face. “I made you some because I figured you wouldn't love the sour ones..” he looked at you with an almost sweet smile with the pancakes held out. You grab them and smile at him, it’d been a while since somebody had done something like this for you. Honestly it felt really good. You and Unpleasant sat down at your small dining table and began to eat. He drenched his toxic waste pancakes in syrup and basically just dumped the plate in his mouth. You just looked at him weird before eating yours with a fork and knife.

After you and Unpleasant had eaten you hopped in the shower and basically got ready for company. You cleaned up the mess Unpleasant had made while making him clean the dishes. He bitched and moaned about it for a good couple of minutes but begrudging ended up doing it. After you’d cleaned up you lit a candle and sat on the couch next to Unpleasant who had gone straight there after dish duty. You checked your phone, 1:37, Lampert got off work at 1, but he also did say he had to grab some stuff for the window. “Unpleasant, Lamperts about to be here so act right. Don't fool around, he's helping us for free. Sit on the couch and minimal communication okay?” you said pointing and glaring. “Sir yes Sir.” he said, mock saluting.

Shortly after this conversation, you hear a short and soft knock at your door, you stand up and quickly walk to the door. When you open it a lamp with a silly smile. “Hello. “ you said smiling back, you hug each other briefly before opening the door inviting him in. “Thank you for coming on short notice, I don't even know how I’d begin to explain this to my landlord.” Lampert then stopped and looked at you with a smug knowing smile, “explain what?” he said. You then realized how that had definitely sounded to Lampert, becoming flustered you tried to explain “I-I meant that uhh, uhm that it's a hard thing to explain.. Uh people don't usually.. bump into windows.. that hard.. Uhhh”. Lampert laughed heartily and looked at you. “It’s fine Y/N, tell me about this “friend” of yours anywa-'' he looked over to the couch to see Unpleasant on the couch with his hands in his lap, giving a smile. He almost looked like an eager puppy. Lampert looked at you with the most shocked and disgusted face you’d ever seen him make before.

He pulled you into your room by the arm “Y/N.. who the fuck is that?? What is that?? Why is it…augh.. So.. disgusting.” you creased your brows and crossed your arms. “Well that was fucking rude.”. “Sorry sorry… but Y/N he’s- don't tell me that's your boyfriend.” he looked at you seemly more horrified then a moment ago. “He’s not my.. Whatever just.. Try to be nice to him… for me.” you said. He looked at you for a couple more moments before sighing. “Okay… uh I can try…”.

You then both left the room, Lampert surprisingly went over to unpleasant. “Nice to meet you… uh..” he didn't know Unpleasant's name. Unpleasant began to speak, “people call me Unpleasant” he says still smiling and all eager. “Uhh, nice to meet you Unpleasant.” he held out his hand which Unpleasant took and shook violently. “Erm, Excuse me, I have to use the restroom.” you then watched as Lampert almost frantically ran to the bathroom. You then heard the sink turn on, you figured he’d be washing his hands for a good while.

“Well I think that went really well!” Unpleasant said grinning. You looked at him with a strained smile on your face, trying not to laugh from how purely just obliviousness Unpleasant shows. “Yep. you did well Unpleasant.” you looked at him sweetly.

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You now helped Lampert carry up all the shit to fix your window up the stairs and to your room. This was already the second, and hopefully last trip you’d need to make. The two of you had set your stuff down on the floor next to the window. “Y/N, why was he moist?? God I can't imagine home many germs and grime that dude must have embedded in his skin he's so disgusting.” you laughed at this and lightly punched him, “Lampert I said be nice”. You then made the move to sit on the edge of the bed kicking your legs.
The room was quiet aside from Lamperts power tools making loud noises every once in a while, till Lampert spoke, breaking the silence. “So, Y/N does Kasper know about your new… uhm “friend”?” he turned to you. “No, I mean, he knows who he is just not that he lives with me.” you replied to Lampert. Lampert stopped what he was doing for a moment. “He lives with you!?!”. “Fuckkkkkkk” you thought. Giving him an unsure face you continued “uhhh yeah he's like, kind of a roommate, I'm letting him live here, as a favor to… somebody.” you had replied in half truths, I mean technically this was a favor to Kasper, he wasn't having to deal with Unpleasant anymore, he just didn't know about it. “Okay Y/N you don't have to lie…” fuck you were so busted, “I won’t pry, it really isn't any of my business, but I'm not going to judge you for having a weird boyfriend…” you sighed out in relief realizing he just thought this was some sort of weird secret boyfriend thing. To which Lampert took as you admitting he was right, he laughed before continuing “Fork in a kitchen Y/N, you two are so obvious, especially with the window being this fucked up i figured you two were up to some less than delicate “activities”. But Y/N I’M not going to tell Kasper or anything, I just wanted to know if you're happy and safe with this guy” he said, setting down what he was holding and going over to you. “He's no-'' you thought for a minute, he just said he wasn't going to tell Kasper about it, maybe it would be better to tell a couple white lies. “...Sorry for lying, I just… didn't want you to judge me, and you know how overprotective Kasper gets.” you said trying to keep a straight face, Lampert laughed at this, giving you a knowing smile before hugging you. “Why don't you tell me about the two of you then?”.

It was now 6:30, fixing the window took a lot longer then you had expected, but that could have also been because the entire time he was fixing the window you guys were chatting, mostly just Lampert asking about you and Unpleasant's relationship, and you either giving vague couple word answers before changing the subject, or answers that seemed so genuine it surprised you. It's probably just because you hadn't had much human interactions, but whatever, Lampert was believing you for now so that's all that mattered. Lampert and you walked out of the room laughing loudly, before you looked to the couch to see an Unpleasant balled up on the couch snoring. You both immediately quieted down, you looked at him on the couch, he looked so comfortable it was honestly a very sweet and adorable scene. “Ew Y/N stop looking at him like he's your new puppy and walk me to the door.” you decided to ignore what he was saying, shaking your head with a smile and walking him to the door. “It was really great to see you Y/N and again, keep me updated on you and him. I miss talking to you and I want you to keep me posted.” you looked at him, hugging him before replying “ yeah yeah I’ll be sure to text you if anything happens.”. “And please don't do it against a window next time, I won't help you again if that's the case.” he said, pulling out of the hug giving you a jokingly stern look. Red crept up your face, “again, haha, not what happened.” you replied nervously. Chuckling Lampert walked out of the door, not without letting out a “goodbye, see you later.”. You watched him close the door, letting out a sign you walked over to Unpleasant, ready to wake him up, but you stopped for a moment, before changing your mind. You went to your room, grabbed a blanket, and draped it over Unpleasant. You smiled at his now covered form.

You walked to your room before throwing yourself on your bed and groaning in your pillow. Today was a lot for you, between the stress of basically having to lie about a relationship and the other stress and slight anxiety at the back of your head telling you Kasper's was going to find out made you feel utterly exhausted. You turned on your back before fishing out your phone from your pocket. Checking your notifications you see 3 unread messages from Kasper.

“G3ss wh4t Y/N”

“4ft3r u l3ft 1 h4v3nt s33n th3 gr0ss gr4d13nt guy 0NC3!!! :D”

“1 c4n f1n4lly sl33p”

You smiled, at least somebody had a good day.

“Really? Kasper, that's fucking amazing. Glad he's not bothering you anymore."

You powered your phone off, figuring you’d reply later. You honestly felt bad for Unpleasant, you had kind of felt like everybody ragged on him all the time regardless if he realized it or not. Sure sometimes he could be pretty obnoxious and greedy but under that he was just a genuinely funny and sweet guy. He’d done more for your mental state than half the people you knew had your entire life. You really had just enjoyed having him around, and the dynamic you too just worked really well together. Everybody's hatred for him just didn't add up to you.

You figured that you really wouldn't mind being in this fake relationship with him for awhile, as long as you got to be happy with somebody, and Kasper was happy NOT to be with this somebody it was a win win…

Unless Kasper finds out who the somebody who's making you happy is.