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Shop windows. People look in them all the time. Because of that, Baekhyun decided to put posters up in shop windows.

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ "Well, I'm glad I've been of s-service," Frank smiled and grabbed his own coat, putting it on. He grabbed the shopping bag and fished his wallet out of his pocket. "Sure, whenever you have time or feel like w-wearing a bowtie and fedora for fun, hit me up," he chuckled and slowly walked off to the counter to pay for everything. "Thanks for the h-help and your time," he aimed this at Maria, while waiting for the cashier to bring out the change.

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "That's understandable, I like my privacy too." Maria said in agreement, at home she had no privacy at all. She shook her head but she started to put her coat on anyway, she wanted to hang out with Frank a bit more but she was afraid her social battery wouldn't allow it. "No, but I'm tired from all the fun we had, we should hangout again." Maria was being genuine, she kind of thought today would be awkward and boring but she had more fun than she thought. "I hope your boss doesn't drag you back to do anymore work for today."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ "I don't mind being s-surrounded by anyone, yet I treasure my p-privacy," Frank spoke with honesty, hanging out with people like this has its cost, especially on Frank's account. He likes things permanent and not in constant movement, which makes it harder than ever for him to make new acquaintances. "Do you have to go?" Frank questioned, seeing Maria maneuver her phone about.

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "Don't say that." Maria chuckled as she pulled out her phone to check for any messages from her family telling her to get her back to the farm. "I think one souffle is enough for me to keep craving more. You should hangout with some of the guys then, Bryan and the cop think you're pretty cool." She said truthfully or from what she observed, she slipped her phone back inside her pocket and looked at Frank with a teasing smile. "Or do you like being surround by girls?

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ "I just got rejected by a farm girl," Frank chuckled and looked around the coffee shop. "Do you have any o-other wishes? Another s-souffle or an open tab?" he joked playfully, propping himself up on his elbows. "And I admit, I have a few f-friends. Call it a girl squad, if you will." Truth be told, he sure made more female friends around Magnolia for a change. Before, he hung out with mainly male companions and occasionally their girlfriends.

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ Maria laughed when she heard the other snickering "I'm glad you take my words seriously." She said as she looked at Frank "You mean friends, you have more friends around here than you think." She said trying to further encourage him and toyed with the napkins that came with her souffle "Excuse me, we're going to have real dates and I won't be making a such a pact." She retorted playfully rolling her eyes at him

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ "Why, thank you," Frank leaned back against the backrest with a thud, shaking his head while snickering. Of course, that was likely to happen every time he gave those before mentioned chances. "I'm glad you think so o-of me, at least I have a f-friend," he smiled at Maria with an endearing toothy smile. "Well, seems like you w-will have to friend-date me as long as I or you don't get real d-dates," Frank suggested playfully.

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "That's preposterous." Maria's voice was firm and a frown etched itself on the corner of her lips, she thought Frank was charming. He had his own style, beliefs, and personal achievements he seemed to take pride in that no one seemed to really care about. But that was everyone "Trust me, you're not that at all, you're handsome. Of course your hair may be shaggy but that's your style, if I didn't have my crush and you weren't my dear friend, I would gladly date you."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ "I give chances," Frank chuckled and took a sip of his coffee again. After placing it down he draw the outlines of the cup with his finger. "I just don't th-think I'm that charming. Like, let's s-say, I'm a piece of used up t-toothpick with shaggy hair compared to, well, who comes f-first to mind is that bloke of y-yours. So you see."

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ Maria let out a breath of relief, quietly thanking Frank for letting her pass up on his question. She never seemed like the type to have confidence issues, especially when she could be careless at times. "You know, you said you don't have people lining up to date you but I think otherwise. You should give yourself more chances."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ “It’s fine,” Frank waved his head around dismissively and paid a closer attention to Maria. She seemed somewhat uncomfortable talking about these personal things, and as far as Frank was concerned he wouldn’t push it, yet it interested him to the very core. “If you don’t, you don’t. I u-understand,” he smiled slightly. “What do you mean?”

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ Maria put her palm up to her forehead and shook her head at the fact she didn't get what Frank meant by records "You and your...otherwordly slang." She covered in surprise, she forgot she was wearing boots and did not mean to kick him that hard. "Sorry." Maria said as she brought her foot back to cross her leg over the other, she couldn't come up with answer to Frank's question and felt like she was on the hot seat. "I don't want to talk about it." She said with embarrassment in her voice but it quickly went away when she spoke again. "I don't see why you say you can't get many dates."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ "I meant videos," Frank rolled his eyes amused at the fact that Maria did not get his language. At the kick, Frank leaned down to grab at the hurt spot on his foot and scowled at Maria. "Careful with you c-cowgirl boots, you might hurt s-something important," Frank continues rubbing over the hurt spot before sitting back again. "Oh my d-dear lord," Frank exclaimed in disbelief, chuckling in process. "You have this m-mission impossible challenge all wrong. I think your concept is all k-kinds of mixed up, Maria," Frank pursed his lips, definitely not leaving Maria to think like that. He couldn't care less about her asking that guy out or not, but there was something unsettling about a girl like her speak of herself like that. "Why w-would you assume you scare him?"

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "You still use records? Nevermind that, I'll take a listen since it's so much." Maria snickered hearing the other whine and shook her head again. "Don't lie like that." She laughed and lifted her foot to kick Frank's leg under the their table and shook her head again. "True, but I'd rather not, it's like a mission impossible challenge and I think I scare him so there's no use."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ "I have some records somewhere. If you're like you m-might have a sneak peek of why it su-." Frank was now completely mirroring Maria's posture, not quite understanding why she thought this way about herself. "I don't think any of you is out of the o-other's league. If you don't try you w-won't know and there's always a point," Frank whined almost over the last part which he said, since he really wasn't fond of such demeaning thoughts about oneself.

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "Why do say it ? Don't say that, I feel like you're pulling my leg, and you tugged it real hard when you say you can sing. What instruments do you play?" Maria looked at Frank offended and pulled herself back to slouching down in her seat with her arms folded over chest. "I meant it in that sense, I just have a confusing way with words. I know that already so there's no point."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ "Yeah, well," Frank rolled his eyes, it did not matter anyway. "Hey, I can p-perform!" he protested tensing up a little in his chair, knowing very well he did not look it. "I sing, play instruments, it s-, but I can do it all," Frank informed and crossed his arms over his chest. The next statement made him frown. "You must be e-either blind or stupid, no offence," for what it was worth, he really thought about the situation in the other order. "If anything, you're out of h-his league. But that wouldn't be c-completely truthful either."

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "Oh, that's pretty degrading." Maria had thought the other was being dressed up in female's clothing just because it was funny to his parents. "I can see." She chuckled and perked up a little more when he mentioned performing "You perform? What on earth do you perform?" Maria leaned forward full of interest, she would have never guessed that he performed in front of a crowd or anything, it didn't seem like him at all. "Hm, out of my league." She shrugged with a small dreamy smile before giving a firm nod "Way out of my league."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ "She wanted to have a d-daughter out of me, so if that's called love," Frank shrugged. "My mates back in London used to be a bit on the m-mad side. We liked m-mocking about and just poke fun at everything, especially ourselves," Frank confessed and folded his arms over his chest. "I don't really have b-boundaries," Frank shook his head chuckling. "You may, if you f-find me a place where I can perform," Frank offered, thinking hardly anything of it. "Why don't you m-make a move?

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "Mathilda? And you say your mom doesn't love you" she joked before going on "You have my word, but why did you ever have to wear a dress? If you don't mind me asking." Maria asked as she looked at Frank strangely, she had too many that needed to be answered for her to put at ease with everything he was revealing. "Wait are you telling me so I can paint your nails and do your makeup sometime?" She asked thinking Frank would actually let her do such a thing, she was bad at applying her own makeup which was why she wore none in the first place, but she had a steady hand when it came to painting nails. "I'm not completely glad you realize you are doing yourself in. No, you don't have to give a name." She said calmly while her face rested in her hands.

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ “In all honesty, I’ve w-worn dresses. My mum still calls me Mathilda when she wants to annoy me. But this is only be-between us, okay?” Frank said waiting for a confirmation from the other. “Look, I don’t mind w-wearing nail polish,” Frank wiggled his fingers that really had patches of old, cracked and chipped red nail polish, “and Queen’s white makeup, but when you don’t h-have the right group of friends, these things just cease t-to come to mind.” Frank gave Maria the stink eye, wondering if she said that on purpose. “I’d be killing my-myself then,” he came to a realization. “Do you really w-want me to say it?”

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ Maria opened wide as she heard Frank call her "farm girl" it had been ages since someone called her that, mainly her enemy from middle school but she was hysterical over Frank admitting to wearing leggings. "So you mind wearing a dress but not leggings? That makes sense." She said with a wide grin on her face and cackled "But what about drugs? I think addiction to drugs is more important than some addiction to the tv." Maria sipped the rest of the green tea out of the plastic cup until a loud noise could be heard, making her frown. "Give me your best shot then."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ “Watch it farm girl, I’ve had d-drama classes, I know yoga pants suit me,” Frank wiggled his neck around sassily. “They are o-overrated, I’ll admit that, but I have to protest about the d-disgusting part,” screwing up a pained face, Frank acted as if there was no other option but let doughnuts be. “That’s what I’m s-saying. It’s an addiction, m-media,” he said sighing before taking a sip of the coffee. “Don’t worry, it would still only be a g-guess, no solid evidence provided,” Frank smiled playfully, looking at Maria with the most reassuring and genuine eyes.

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "That's the spirit, now we have to get you into some yoga pants! You might attract even more people with your buns." Maria cackled and if she could force Frank in yoga pants than a dress, she would definitely dare him to wear them for the whole day. "Crazy woman? Donuts are just disgusting, people can have a twinkie instead of a donut. They taste exactly the same." Maria said with a shrug and took another sip of her drink "Goodness, but I like getting my daily dose of news and reality tv shows, even if they might be totally fake." Maria pouted and shook her head at Frank "Please don't tell anyone else who it is, I'm begging you."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ “If I get a date out of the yoga class, broken n-nonexistent hips will be worth it,” Frank chuckled with a smug expression, sitting back comfortably in the seat. He listened to the out of blue question, which actually sounded like his Tuesday afternoon thought process. “Crazy woman,” he retorted with a disappointed click of his tongue and a shake of his head. “I’d destroy current media,” he said with all seriousness, drumming his index finger on the table. “Lies, deceit, brain-wash, that’s all that is,” Frank shrugged and pursed his lips. “What have doughnuts ever d-done to you?” He chuckled. “It did, yes! And I think I ha-have,” Frank’s never ceasing smug and overly confident smile turned even wider. “I’m glad it w-went for a good cause. Feeding the cult leader.”

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "Nope! I'm making you do the whole updog thing, I don't care if you break your nonexistent hips." Maria said as if her words were final and smiled sweetly at him, ignoring any other protest he may have for her about yoga or working out. Maria laughed at the other but a question, maybe the most random one she could think of made itself apparent. "If you were an evil scientist, what would you destroy first? I hate donuts, they're fattening and too sweet, they deserve to be the first thing eliminated from this planet." She said as she ate the rest of her souffle in deep thought. "Why do I feel like it had everything to do with my crush, have you figured out who the mystery guy is?" she asked raising her brows teasingly at him. "Oh...I would give you a bite, but I ate the rest already. It is good, your money has been well spent."

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ “I’ll enjoy the s-surroundings, most definitely,” Frank continued, surprised that Maria didn’t quite get what he meant, or she just refused to acknowledge it. He would end up in knots if he ever tried any stretching exercises. “Yeah,” he nodded and took a sip of the coffee. “But they might have changed it in the h-higher education cu-curriculum. But I’m not a scientist,” he whispered the last sentence as if it was a top secret information, a goofy smile on his face all the while. “Oh thank goodness you’re hard of h-hearing,” Frank snickered, gently placing the cup down. “Is it any good?” He asked, nodding his head towards the souffle.

@frank d。ᵒᵘᵗᵒᶠˢᵖᵃᶜᵉ "Oh no, you're going to enjoy it, I'm going to make sure of that," Maria assured with most evil grin could conjure as she sipped her tea, maybe the hardest yoga moves she had in mind might actually correct the hump that lived in Frank's back. Maria looked at him slightly confused and gave a small but unsure shake of her head "Is that what they teach you in human school?" she joked back "I don't think science is ready for such theories, Frank." Maria picked up her fork again, already more than half of the souffle was gone and she was ready to take the last bite. "What did you say?"

@maria r。ᵐᵃʳᶦ If it wasn’t for Franks carelessness, he would be definitely -hurt after seeing Maria laugh so hard on his account. But he wasn’t, he wouldn’t. He was as much entertained as she was. “Alright, I’ll go. But I’m not p-promising there won’t be complaints,” Frank warned, knowing she would understand what he meant by that. The cult of siblings sounded fascinating yet scary at the same time and in conclusion that was all it took to make Frank interested. “So you have a ‘tribe’ of siblings. Are go-goblins considered close relatives to b-bunnies?” Frank joked, taking a hold of the cup of coffee and brought it up to his lips. “I might have an idea who th-that special someone is,” he spoke quietly with the cup almost muffling his words.