"So what do you guys want to eat?" The group of six sit in a round booth together in a diner as Courtney and Yvette sit on both ends of the booth, Timothy and Vaughn sit on the inside, and (Y/n) and Rhys sat in the middle next to each other. The superiors on one side and the employees on the other. Rhys can't help his faint blush from dusting his cheeks at how close he sat next to (Y/n) as he and his two friends looked at the menu.

     "Uhm... I'm not so sure what I want." Rhys says as he looked at the other two, "You really don't have to get us lunch-" Vaughn elbows him and Yvette coughs out loud.

     "You do know this is free, right?" Vaughn whispers to him as Yvette nods, Rhys gave them a glare half-heartedly. (Y/n) chuckles softly.

     "It's fine, this is my treat." She looks over at Timothy and Courtney, "Do you two want anything?" They both shake their heads.

     "I'm not that hungry but I'll take a black coffee." Timothy says as he leaned back in the booth and put his arm comfortably on (Y/n)'s shoulders.

     "Same, I'll take a cup of coffee, decaf." Courtney says with a small smile. (Y/n) nods as she returned the smile to them.

     "Alright. Tell me when you guys change your minds." The two nod as she looked back at the other three, "So, what are you three getting?" 

     "I'll get a cheeseburger. But without the tomatoes and pickles and onions. And a soda." Vaughn says.

     "And I want chicken sandwich with a side of home fries and a cup of carbonated water." Yvette says as she and Vaughn low five each other and Rhys sighed heavily at them and rubbing his face, wanting to hide away. (Y/n) laughs softly and looks at Rhys.

     "What about you?" She asks as Rhys perks up slightly and looked at the menu, he still haven't chose what he was gonna get.

     "U-Um, I'll just have a hamburger with a side of fries and water." He says quickly as he closed the menu and looked down at her with a light blush. (Y/n) smiles as she nods.

     "Sounds good. How do you want your burger?" She asks as she rested the side of her face in her palm while looking at him, her button up showing a bit more of her cleavage and unnoticeable to her. Rhys glances down and his blush got slightly darker as he stared.

     "Uhm... Juicy- I-I mean medium rare!" Rhys stammered as he quickly glanced back up at her, face getting darker and internally hoping no one caught on to it. But they all did as Courtney and Timothy stared at him with their brow arched. While Vaughn and Yvette stared at Rhys in total disbelief and glancing at (Y/n).

     "Great choice. I like medium-rare too." She hummed with a smile as she looked at the menu.

     'She didn't notice...' They all thought to themselves and to the three friends' relief. Rhys looked at her and away as he placed the menu closed on the table.

     "We have so much in common..." Rhys mumbles under her breath before quietly adding, "I think I'm in love..."

     "What was that?" (Y/n) asks as she looked over to him with a head tilt, Rhys blushes as he's about to make up an excuse and Vaughn claps his hands together to cut him off.

     "I think I need to head to the bathroom real quick!" He then shoots a Rhys a look, "Rhys, come with me." Rhys looks at him in confusion.

     "But don't need to go-." Vaughn takes his arm and shooed Yvette away so they can both get out.

     "Yes you do so come on." He says as he pulled Rhys away. Courtney, Timothy, and (Y/n) watch them head to the restroom with confused expressions before looking at Yvette, who smiles sheepishly and shrugs with a nervous laugh.

     "Those two are cute together aren't they?" She says with a chuckle as the three return the confused chuckle.

     "What the hell was that, Rhys?" Vaughn says as he forced Rhys into the handicapped bathroom and locking the door.

     "I-I don't know!" Rhys says as he paced back and forth.

     "What do you mean you don't know?"

     "I don't know!" He says again, "She makes me blurt things out by accident a-and makes me stumble on my words. And... She makes my heart pound against my chest and make it flutter whenever she smiles at me." Rhys sighed with a small sheepish smile and looking at Vaughn, who stared at him with his jaw hanging. "What?"

     "Bro, do you like this girl?" Rhys' face bursts in many shades of red.

      "W-Whaaaat? No way!" Rhys laughed nervously as he crossed his arms over his chest, trying to play it off.

      "Dude, really? You're telling me that you're not crushing really hard over a girl who's cute, hot, rich, successful, practically powerful, talented, and apparently a total badass from what I heard." Rhys stared at him as he blushed and Vaughn raised a brow.

      "I wouldn't say that I'm 'crushing really hard' over her... I mean she is cute a-and talented but that doesn't mean that I have a crush on her." Vaughn rolls his eyes.

     "But you think she's cute?"

     "Yeah."

     "And hot?"

     "Mhm."

      "And a bitch?"

     "She is not a bitch! Red Eye is the sweetest, beautiful, most hard working, kind, and talented girl I have ever met!" Rhys argued quite loudly as he took Vaughn by his shirt and shoved him up against the bathroom wall, expression angry before softening with a sudden realization as Vaughn looked at him with a brow raised.

     "You don't have a crush on her?" Rhys stares at him before letting him go.

     "Bro, what am I gonna do?" Rhys asked with desperation laced in his voice. Vaughn sighs as he pushed his glasses up.

     "Just relax and don't act like a total weirdo, dude. Because so far, I'm pretty sure your first impression is creep. You don't want her to think you're a creep, right?"

     "Right." Rhys says with a nod.

     "You want her to think that you're innovative and smart!"

     "Yeah!"

     "Then go out there and act like it, bro!" Vaughn says as they both give each other a crisp high five before they hear a knock on the bathroom door.

     "Occupado." Vaughn says.

     "It's Yvette!" Yvette whisper yelled on the other side. The door opens and Vaughn and Rhys peek out.

     "What's up?" Rhys says.

     "What the hell are you two doing? Everyone can hear you two yelling!" She yelled in a whisper. They both gulp.

     "Even...?"

     "Yes."

     "All of it...?"

     "Yes!" They grimace as Rhys blushed in embarrassment.

     "I think I'm about to throw up." Rhys murmured.

     "Well, you're not allowed to. We're wasting Red Eye's time so get out here and present your idea to her." Yvette scolded the two with a glare. They both nod as she huffed and walks off, the two look at each other and sigh heavily.

     "Sorry about that, ma'am. They're on their way back." Yvette informed with a smile when she can back. (Y/n) nodded as she blushed lightly since she and everyone else heard everything. Timothy snickered in amusement as she lightly slapped his chest with a smile. Rhys and Vaughn finally come back and slide back into the booth. Rhys' face flustered as (Y/n)'s was the same.

     "Is everything alright?" (Y/n) asks as she looked between Vaughn and Rhys, they both nod.

     "Yes." They answer at the same time.

      "Well, that's good. Now, can we get to the main reason of why we're here." Timothy says as he started to feel rather impatient.

     "To eat lunch." (Y/n) says as he gave her a stern look and she sighs as she looks back at Rhys, "And to see your idea." He nods as he brought the papers out and gives it her, she takes it with a smile up at him and he smiles back. (Y/n) hums as she looked them over, Timothy looking over at them as well. "You said you were in the data-mining department, Rhys?" She asked as her eye scanned the papers and collected the data.

     "Uh yeah." He says with a smile while scratching the back of his head.

      "Hm, so you want to be sort of like a programmer?"

     "Yes."

     "Uh huh, I see. So that would make you efficient in coding and whatnot." Rhys nods as he watched her. Vaughn and Yvette slide into the booth more as the watched her as well. "Are you a Handsome Jack fan?"

     Rhys lets out a small laugh, "Who isn't?"

     "Vault Hunters." She answers while glancing at him with a serious expression before back at the papers. Rhys swallows as he clasped his hands together.

     "R-Right. But to answer your question, ma'am, yes. I'm a big fan of Handsome Jack."

     "Yeah he's so much of a fanboy that he has posters of him in his room." Vaughn says abruptly, Rhys sends him a glare as Yvette snickered.

     "Is that so?" (Y/n) giggled in amusement as she turned to the next page, Rhys blushes slight from embarrassment.

     "Well, yeah. I've looked up to him for awhile since I started working here. And I've been dreaming to be just like him."

     "How old are you?"

     "27." Rhys answers as she glanced at him.

     "Do you think you can handle being like him, Rhys?" He's quiet for a moment as he thought.

     "Um, I don't really know if I'm qualified but I like to think so." He responds with some confidence and she arched a brow and hums.

     "Hm..." Rhys gulps as he feels as if he seemed too cocky. "Listen, I've been here since I was 19. You've been here longer than I have but, I never saw Handsome Jack as a hero before coming here, I never liked him. I hated him as a matter of fact." The three look at her in shock as Courtney and Timothy didn't seem fazed by her response. Timothy only chuckles.

      "You didn't always hate him, kiddo." He hummed as he leaned his head back, "You warmed up to him at one point." Rhys, Vaughn, and Yvette look at (Y/n), who shoots Timothy a playful glare, blushing lightly as she waved him off with a small and crooked smile.

     "That's besides the point, Tim. Right now I'm talking about when I hated his guts. Anyway," She turns back to the three as Timothy chuckled, "I'm gonna let you in a lil' secret. I used to be a Vault Hunter, Bandit Killer, and a member of the Crimson Raiders. I was born and raised in Pandora as a killer." She says in a low voice and the three gasp, "I know right. Whose balls did I have to fondle in order to get here? Here's a hint, no one. Handsome Jack took me in spite of the Crimson Raiders, took me from the place where we all hated him." The three lean in closer, very interested in her back story and chuckles, "The point is, after he died, his position was put on me. And let me tell you, this job isn't easy. I may make it look easy but that doesn't mean it is. I'm over here, 24 years old and working my ass off. Trying to keep this whole corporation running and trying to win the trust of everyone down on Pandora. Can you handle that, Rhys?" Rhys looks at her with a certain glint in his eyes, no matter how much he didn't want it to happen, he could feel himself falling for her as he slowly nodded.

     "Y-Yeah." (Y/n) chuckles as the food arrives.

      "I like your optimism and your idea." The three perk up with growing smiles.

     "Really?!" The three say at the same time. Courtney, Timothy, and (Y/n) chuckle.

     "Yeah. I mean, with the ability to hack into the enemies' even tougher systems during an infiltration by just using the drones with the right coding. This could save our military's time and make the operations faster." (Y/n) says with a glint in her eyes as Rhys smiled.

     "I am so glad you're on board with this. Thank you." He says with a wide smile, "I don't know how to express my gratitude." (Y/n) hummed with a smile at him as she rested her chin in her palm.

     "By eating your food."

     "You don't have to tell us twice, Miss Red Eye." Yvette says with a grin and digging in, Vaughn nods and does the same. Rhys rolled his eyes as he watched the two in disbelief and (Y/n) chuckles as she ate her salad.

     "I'm sorry about those two." Rhys murmured to her and she waved it off.

     "It's not a problem, Rhys. I'm just happy to make others happy. Aren't you happy?" She asks as tilted her head slightly. Rhys nodded.

     "I am. But um... Something else could make me even happier." He says softly and she looks at him quizzically, Timothy watches the two closely as he sipped his coffee.

     "What's that?" She asks as Rhys blushed and rubbed the nape of his neck.

     "Would you um... Maybe wanna get something to eat?"

     "Like right now?" (Y/n) inquired with a brow raised and a small smirk.

     "I mean yeah, but later on a different day maybe and just the two of us possibly?" He asked softly so the others don't hear him as he blushed and glanced at her. She pauses and looks at him, he feels as if he ruined everything before she smiles.

     "I'm free tonight at 7 and we can have dinner at my place if that's alright with you." She hummed softly as he feels his heart almost burst.

     "Y-Yeah. That's great." He says as she smiled and eating a lettuce.

     "Good, now eat your burger." She says with a wink and Rhys smiled and looked at the burger before chuckling to himself.

     "I landed a date with the CEO." He says under his breath before shaking his head, "You go, Rhys." The two young adults smile to themselves as they ate and discreetly scooting closer together, and Timothy only stared as he sipped his coffee.