Prompt: Write a romance story which involves a bracelet, 'unicorn', 'you're toast', delinquents, and a happy ending728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNaMVXAAi1C
This is the part where I say, I love you.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoNguSDyGa
I open my mouth, draw in a deep breath, and am promptly knocked unconscious by a delicate china coffee cup disagreeing with my temple. I'm not sure which one shattered first.
Sometimes, I wonder what my life would be like if it were a story.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzf6ribwnA
First of all, it would be far more interesting; after all, stories are rarely as boring as my daily routine.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBR2OL7GOP
It goes a bit like this: I wake up at six, I brush my teeth, make breakfast (usually cereal, leftovers from takeaway the night before, or Gladys'), catch an update on the radio, and - oh, stuff it. Even I don't want to hear about that.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY8mcznhb9w
Secondly, I wouldn't always be so bloody miserable. Protagonists in books are hardly ever miserable, and I hope that someday I could amount to something more than the minor character 'annoyed guy across the street', no?728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMzDg26OQp
Thirdly, I should have had a happy ending by now.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBw2iYlR61p
I mean, seriously, I'm twenty-nine. And as everyone knows, the age of thirty is practically death. I live alone in a small apartment, have a crummy office job, and really not much else. Oh - I'm also in love. But since when has that turned out well in stories? Like, look at that Romeo guy. I think he dies or something.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8xjjepuQV
So honestly, I don't have much going for me, for my life. All my friends (ha! friends) guilt trip me about how lucky I am, but to be blunt I can't help feel every morning and every night that I'm on the short end of the straw. You know, the short side of the bendy straw that gets chewed on and spat out.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDxwIBb7OT
My mum unfortunately knows this too. She moved into the apartment next to mine to 'keep an eye' on me, to 'lend a hand if you need'. Now in the evenings I'm serenaded by the sweet sounds of her explosive diarrhoea. I'll be filing a thin wall complaint when I get the chance.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0piRHOxA4X
Day in, day out, this is my life.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtF9yis3AS
So when is my story going to start?
This is the part where the boy escapes on a Unicorn.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbvXT29hh2
My favorite haunt is a tidy little coffee shop on the corner between work and home called Gladys'. The food is good, the coffee is great, and the service is stunning, thanks to a magnificent woman by the name of Ellie. I've memorized her time schedule and make sure to check in when she's around, which is why I'm an hour late to work every Monday and Thursday. Gorgeous brown eyes, little chocolate beads they are, and hair like a preened horse mane, which I assure you is a compliment of the highest degree. Her voice is just heavenly, although I do admit I've only ever heard her say 'The usual? Coming right up!'. She wears a lovely china bracelet too, little swirls of blue on white that she fiddles with constantly. I find it rather endearing.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MtOhMXaOO
It was a fine Saturday - of course it had to be a Saturday that was ruined. You see, I always like to watch Ellie make my coffee - I assume it's because I become slightly mentally unhinged when I am around her. This time, however, I could not enjoy my morning drink due to a particularly disturbing young man.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURzDtW1sls
Now, he was clearly a criminal of some sort, despite looking no older than nineteen. Heavy leather jacket, metal studded jeans, and a swagger that exuded sheer unjustified arrogance. I noticed him approaching the counter just as I was taking the first sip of my extra hot coffee.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyjhCjsUwiq
'A piece of toast thanks.' He orders.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP3V0hZfx5w
'...just toast?' God her voice sounds so soft I could sleep in it.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqBxiIQlHZ
'Yes. Just. Toast.' His, on the other hand, was so rough I could feel his vocal chords being sanded down as he spoke.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfYaAi25s5
I watch Ellie as she slips the slice of bread into the toaster, the way her curved finger pushes down the lever. The way she drums her fingers nervously as she waits. Why nervously?728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxS8jeWEjob
ping!728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsPvovcfyn
'Here you are.' She doesn't look him in the eye as she hands over a plate with a single slice of toast. 'Your toast.'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJckCaXeMmV
He doesn't touch it. 'No, Ellie, I've been thinking about those things you said to me - about how I'm too young, how I'm too, what, immature and irresponsible - and I've decided that no, you're toast.'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PzunvbkGk
A question mark hangs in the air. 'Jonas, what do you mean?' She knows this ugly specimens?728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZywrqILJCZ
'Look.' He picks up the toast, and in one gloved hand, crumbles it into dust that falls meekly onto the counter. 'That's what I'm going to do to you for breaking my heart.' He storms out of Gladys', and, angered by the look of upset on Ellie's pretty face, I make quick pursuit with my coffee in hand.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKAXRDk5aZN
'Hey! Hey, you!' He stops and turns around at the sound of my call.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHytk9Uh45e
'What do you want?' He snarls.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgIrYnoqrt
'I want you to keep your dirty fingers off that girl!' I snap at him in a feeble attempt at intimidation.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dLjW06SZt
'No no no. That's not how it works. A girl turns down the Jonas Jones on a date, they pay the price.' An infuriating sneer, one clearly tempting me to make a move - and that is an offer I'm not going to turn down. I put my extra hot coffee to better use and throw the entire thing into his face, spoon and all.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg23jHSBnWC
'AIEEEE! You're crazy, man!' His shocked eyes stare at me in disbelief, the attack having startled him enough to turn and flee. I watch as he rounds the corner and clambers onto his motorcycle - a painfully pink hunk of metal with the word Unicorn plastered on the side in blue and white.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8JueyFZRK
Smooth.
This is the part where I try Robin Hood on my mother, an adventurous position to put myself in which involves feeling around the front of her dress.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JQLOBe9OQ
My obsession with dear Ellie grows, as does my need to see her happy, after the strange encounter with Jonas Jones. I brainstorm gift ideas - she seems awfully fond of the unconventional china bracelet.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PIXFuqDRS
My own mother happens to be quite the china connoisseur - her collection of bits and bobs all on display in an IKEA cabinet in her apartment.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlm5JaiwBq
Now, my average job of tedium was never going to pay for such dainty things, nor, I suppose, will Ellie's, so I felt no moral wrongness in the notion of pulling a Robin Hood on my mum and donating some china pieces to someone who no doubt needs them more. Ahem.
The heist begins with inviting my mum one meter down the corridor to have a 'life chat' with me, a strange ritual which she usually enforces on me once a month. Five laxative pills dissolved into the hot chocolate I've made so lovingly for her.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuhrTxSamBi
I bear through the grueling first few minutes of the talk in which she tells me to 'assess where I want to be in three years' but, much to my pleasure, the rant is prematurely interrupted by a rather rude anatomical sound which I won't indulge with a description.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzbSbv7q1bU
'Dear me!' She hobbles toward my bathroom, but I stop her -728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoCSBou10Jc
'The flush doesn't work.' I smile.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXDvO2HaCL
'Oh, dear, dear, dear!' She's hunched over, and she can't reach into the front pocket of her dress - in which lie her room keys.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfnH9xhl9T
'Would you like me to unlock your apartment for you?'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiciF5LHSxm
'Please!'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EiRLEzaAn
What happened next was unpleasant but necessary. Suffice to say, I retrieved the keys from their storage place, remarkably near my birth place.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUErxpDC9Ft
The moment the door to her room was open, she hurried into the bathroom and locked the door - without thinking to show me out first.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnSVVR5ZXR
I collect in a bag the nicest of her china collection - IKEA cabinets don't have much security. An assortment of cups and plates and animals, carefully picked to match the color scheme of Ellie's bracelet. Lovely.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jkPYyGZcV
I leave the keys on dear mother's bedside table, and quickly desert the premises. The unfortunate woman's bowel structure combined with the help I had given to her digestive system meant that she should be occupied for a while.
This is the part where I abandon my preconceptions of love, abandon my apartment, and abandon my sanity in general.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMOKD3v6Lz
I decided I would not return to the apartment. Mum would surely kill me, or worse. So instead, it being a Monday morning, I headed down to Gladys' with a bag going chinkle chinkle tied in red ribbon and a notetag with 'For Ellie' in my finest cursive. Which isn't very fine, mind you, but it's the thought that counts.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0RtSZ045Nm
Gladys' was not the most active of places, and it was not difficult to wait for a moment when no one was looking to place the bag on the counter.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfcHVpSfr3R
I sit, and wait, and watch. Could it be that this might win her heart?728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeJ63UAtxu
She sees the bag, looks around confusedly, and opens it there on the counter. She gasps, looks around confusedly again, and closes the bag before placing it on the shelf beside her.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGYVpPszSA
I walk up to the counter.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FqHFRckaX
'The usual?' Angelic.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHycUDyx9vS
'Not quite.' I say. In fact, I decide to abandon all of the usual. I wouldn't be showing up to work today, I wouldn't be doing anything of the sort I usually do.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEm3IPO2S6o
Forget everything. This is the part where I say, I love you.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPeWIKtdw4
I open my mouth, draw in a deep breath, and am promptly knocked unconscious by a delicate china coffee cup disagreeing with my temple. I'm not sure which one shattered first.
This is the part where I emerge victorious from a deathly battle against cute fluffy creatures.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzh7RZXkx4D
'owwwww...' I rise from the floor with a grunt. Above me stands Jonas Jones, and his band of delinquents. I note the bag of china in his hands - the bloody nerve of him.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDvlnumt9c
'If the JONAS JONES isn't good enough for someone, no one is!' He booms.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡInP3OdZWNN
'Leave her out of this!' I protest, noticing Ellie cowering in the corner of the cafe, the few other people inside watching the course of events with an excited but strangely detached interest. 'Let's take this outside.'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnIE1P8Fkd
'Let's go, big boy.' He cracks his knuckles.
RABBIT. UNICORN. PUG. They stand by their named motorcycles, Jonas in the center. 'Rabbit' was a tall and scrawny pimply fellow, whereas 'Pug' was a much more rotund beast, but just as unattractive as the former. To be honest, I couldn't catch the resemblance between Jonas and a unicorn, though.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPxXj776uM
'You boys are going to leave Ellie alone. And her gifts.' Upon feeling a twinge of pain, I quickly added 'And me.'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1eVt1wVQgd
'Make us.' Rabbit pulls out a knife from his pocket.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lfbM2chhS
'Now now, let's play fair - ' but my protest is cut off halfway through by a scream that made the windows of the cafe shake dangerously, threatening to shatter.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEpHHDHrwd
'WHEEERE IIIIIIS MYYYY CHIIIIIIIIIINAAAAAAAAAAA?!?!?!'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgEunXb2z4
I run into the shop, but the gang is stunned still - and I watch as my mother appears over the horizon, face inflamed red like a microwaving tomato ready to burst.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsb9g3TV9tC
She looks at the bag in Jonas' hands.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMpFgxnF1m
Jonas looks down at the bag in his hands.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKqIYp1CgG
Pug grabs the bag and hides it behind his back.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2uafeR36y
Mother morphs into her final form and unleashes her rage.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMe8TXClmsp
'AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!' I can't tell among the carnage who the sound is coming from, but I don't care - I turn around to face Ellie, and I grab her hands.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA4TLHK40S0
'Ellie.' I say, eyes staring into hers.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxQdavptoY
'Yes?'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbNSzpoF5ei
This is the part.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGanbtf4xD
'I...'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6wFec8aNZ8
'Yes?'728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhj5AEOI6nX
'Ellie, I luh. I lughhhh. I, I, I lughhhhhhhh - '728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfvaHbzlJV
'Oh, shut up.' She lunges forwards and places her lips on mine, and the people in the cafe cheer, drowning out the noise of the scene outside.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbF2oYPr9X8
And so it is, that my story ends here for you, and just begins for me, with an unexpected kiss and a declaration of love.728Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9z1A6UzaJv
I even think that mother might approve.
This, my friend, is the part where you stop reading.
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