"Matt?" I felt someone shaking my shoulders but didn't move.

"Matthew if you don't wake up right now..." I heard a threatening voice and immediately sat up straight in my bed, grumbling.

"Good boy." Someone patted my head.

I hate it when people wake me up, especially with death threats.

"Wait a minute!" I looked at my watch and almost screamed.

"Shit! I have to go immediately! My boss will skin me alive for being late already!" I jumped out of the blanket and couch and almost ran out of the room, but was stopped by a laughing Desdemona.

"Where do you think you are going now?" She chuckled.

"Office." I deadpanned and tried to maneuver around the busty blonde towards the door.

"Don't you have holidays on Sundays?" She arched a perfect eyebrow up.

"I do but today's-" I stopped in my tracks and checked the day in my almost dead phone.

"Sunday" I sighed relieved and went back and collapsed on the couch and wrapped myself all around with the soft blanket.

Just when I was able to sleep, I heard the shrill ring of my phone.

Groaning, I took out my phone without opening my eyes and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Uh um hey!"

"Josh!?" I looked at the caller ID groggily.

"Yeah hehe it's me. What are you doing now?"

"Me? I am still in bed." I mumbled.

"Oh" Josh chuckled.

"What's up?"

"I uh hum uh I don't even" He sighed, "Would you like to go out? Like on a bros day out or something?" He finished awkwardly.

I opened my eyes and frowned.

That's odd... he's never offered to spend time like this and stuff...

"Sure, why not?" I shrugged, knowing it maybe better distract myself right now.

"Great! I'll come pick you up around 10?" Josh asked, sounding excited and I couldn't help but grin.

"Sure, I'll text you my address." I cut the call and sent him my address before.

"Ooooh someone's got a dateeee!" Delilah sang in a silly childish voice, but I was too comfortable in my blanket igloo to even try and respond.

~*~

I lied on my bed, reading the news and trying to research about the Inexistentials and the spawn of satan, coming up with no related results.

Pure disappointment...

I stood up when I heard the doorbell, closed my laptop and notebook, grabbed my wallet, phone and keys and went to open the door.

Josh stood nervously, and seeing him in a black jeans and Polo shirt felt odd, as opposed to his usual office-wear.

"Shall we?" I smiled and turned to lock the door.

The entire car ride was pretty silent initially, so I decided to break it.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"You wait and watch." He smiled mischievously, somehow reminding me of Him.

Ughhh why am I thinking about him now? Will I ever get a break from all that madness? I groaned, when images of his cherry red eyes and the broken halo and wings invaded my mind.

"Hey are you okay?" Josh asked me.

"Nah, I am cool, just feeling a bit stressed about work." I gritted out, not wanting to even try to explain the actual issues.

"Believe me when I say, don't worry about work." He leaned in conspiratorially and beckoned me forward too. "I think I heard that Mr. Diablo and Mr. Romero discussing about a salary hike, and a promotion for you!" He grinned.

"Oh!" I sat there shocked, my brain refusing to believe that the devil of existence would be arranging for meager things like a salary and a promotion for some random fellow like me...

I looked out of the glass window of his Volkswagen, letting my thoughts wander to my parents, my sister, her studies, how she'll be off to college in a few years, how we would have to pool in all our money for the degree she will choose, how she may start dating people because our parents didn't allow to do so during high school, how Jessica was an obedient down-to-earth kid who deserved the world at her feet...

"We are here!" Josh announced as he parked the car.

I looked out of the window to see we were at the small breakfast diner a few blacks from my home.

"Figured you wouldn't have had breakfast." He shrugged when I gawked at him and back to the diner a few times.

"Great bro!" I finally got out of the car and made my way towards the diner, Josh in tow.

The waitress ushered us in and gave us the menu. I looked through it, briefly because I had been here before when I was too lazy to even pour out my cereal and if I was ready, early enough before work.

I looked up to ask Josh if he was ready order and found him watching me, and immediately looked away and eventually back to the menu.

I shook my head and let it go, knowing Josh wouldn't tell me what his exact thoughts were.

The waitress came and took our orders.

"So Josh, what's up?" I asked lamely, trying to slice the weird awkwardness. If I was going to spend almost a whole day with him, we had to be less awkward than that.

"Uh, nothing much..." He shrugged, tight-lipped.

"Right." I said, eyeing him suspiciously.

"So what's up with you?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Me? Nothing much lately..."

"Uh huh, right. Cause that totally explains why you have been leaving early last week and all.."

"How do you know I have been going home early?" I challenged him.

"I have my ways." Josh smiled mysteriously.

"You do know that it sounds pretty creepy right?" I told, trying to divert it all on him.

"Well, I am just observant." I heard him mumble.

Just then the waitress came back with our food, interrupting our weird conversation, giving me enough time to come up with a valid excuse.

"I went to the dentist's!" I said at the exact same time he asked "Were you going on dates?"

"No!" I shook my head at his abysmal suggestion.

"Oh! Ok then." He smiled softly, and gestured to our food. "Shall we?"

"We shall!" I nodded smartly and started digging into my waffles without a second thought.

~*~

"Where do you want to go now?" He asked once we were back in his car.

"Uh I don't know?"

"Matt.." He sighed. "What do you do in your free time?"

"I watch the news, read the annual reports, watch for the stock market stocks, review any remaining office work, listen to music...." I trailed off when he shook his head.

"So no malls, movies, bowling alleys, night clubs or parties or something?"

I snorted. "What are we? Fifteen?"

Josh heaved a deep sigh and started the car.

"I don't care we are going to go watch a movie now." He wagged a finger in my direction before concentrating his attention on the road.

We reached the cinemas in ten minutes and stood in the long line for tickets.

"What movie do you want to watch?" I asked.

"Nothing in particular... you choose."

"What about the Nun?" I asked.

"What? No! I don't want to watch it!"

"Are you scared?" I smirked.

Pansy I giggled inside my head.

"Uh no! Psssh! Me? Scared? Absolutely not."

"Then let's watch the nun." I expected him to try to convince me otherwise, but he let out an exaggerated shrug and actually got the tickets for the movie.

2 hours later when the lights finally came on, Josh was clutching onto my hands tightly, almost half sitting on my lap, his eyes half closed, his whole body shivering, and I couldn't help but chuckle.

"Is the movie over?" He timidly peeked out but immediately closed his eyes again.

"Yeah." I nodded. "Now if you could kindly release me..." he stepped away immediately and stood up, looking pretty embarrassed.

"You are way too easy to scare." I laughed.

He just shook his head and threw the popcorn tub at me which I caught promptly and put it in the bin.

We left the theatre, me just wondering about how legitimate the movie was considering how the world actually was and everything.

"Hey uh Matt?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you dating anyone?"

"Nope. Not yet anyways." I let out a wistful sigh, thinking about Samantha.

"Well, uh um, me neither." He shrugged, his cheeks turning red.

"That's alright man, you'll get someone you deserve, don't worry." I clapped his back.

"I uh I um uh like you!" Josh blurted out and I froze just in front of the car.

"Well you are cool to bro?" I replied hesitantly, turning around to look at a pale and shaking Josh.

"I uh uhm how do I say this... I like you more than as a friend or a colleague?" He bite his lip, avoiding looking at me.

"So best friends? Buddies?" I was puzzled at his incoherent words.

"More. Like boyfriend kinda like!" He blurted and put his head in his hands.

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A/N:-

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