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For Arin, who's a normal guy that was a part time teacher at the age of 21 at some local bakery school and a full time baker at his parents bakery, and still a college student. Life was surprisingly good and according to what he wanted for his entire life. Sure he gets to be an amazing baker at his young age, with his best friend Frak who's also working at the bakery with him, life was perfect. Well he never told anyone that in his private time whether there's no class to teach or attend, he often went to the gym to work out. He needs some muscles if he wants to be a baker too since it needs a lot of energy and power to do the heavy things.
Except for Frak, he knew about it and often went with him to the gym. For him, he wants to impress some girls and well he also needs some extra muscle and power since he also worked with Arin and didn't want him to burden all the work by himself. They often went out two times a week, usually after hours between class or work. So no wonder they gain a lot of muscle in a few weeks.
That also meant a lot of girls were noticing it. And they would often go to the bakery just to see the goodies. “Whoah there ladies, there's plenty of us to get there” Frak would often flirt with the girls which only made them squeal and fangirl around the two of them. Which was good, they got the usual customers but also the other thing was those girls would not stop staring at them both. “Dude, I think you need to stop flirting with them…” Arin said one time when their shift was over and went to their class afterwards.
“But we got a loyal customer in the end, bro!” The serpentine hybrid would nudge Arin with a lot of teasing and energetic way as his tail would rattling with happiness. Still Arin could only sigh and even let a small smile from his face, just as the two walked to their class for the day, Arin couldn't help but to look over to Frak's phone. He was actually watching someone else streaming on Twinge, apparently a platform for people to go on live streaming.
Surprisingly he would even be damned to watch it as he was also invested by the streamers and the games they were streaming. “You watch that pink hair cat girl again? Seems like someone is crushing on her” Arin teased him and Frak only just shook his head with a bashful expression. “I'm not crushing on her, that's different. I only watched her because she's not the reason I watched her streaming all the time” Frak told him as that only made Arin confused by his words.
“Not her? Then what's the reason then?”
The serpentine just pointed at the goth girl beside the pink hair cat girl streamer, which the goth girl was also a streamer. “she's the friend that is often in the stream. If you think I'm into pink hair, well I used to, but I think I'm more into goth girls. And that goth girl is my type” he explained smugly as he focused on the goth girl. He was really heads over heels for the goth streamer which he didn't look at where he walked and ended up crashing into a giant pole.
“I told you…” Arin snorted while Frak cleaned himself up and put his phone into his pocket and glared at his best friend, “ha ha very funny…” the sarcasm was there as the two walked to their class, well not until when Arin saw someone that caught his attention. It was a pink-haired girl wearing a hoodie and headphones while she's talking to her goth friends right beside her. “Yo, are you coming to class or not?” His serpentine buddy asked him as he was already inside the class.
“Yeah I'll go now…” for now he could think about the girl later as for now he might have to watch some streams after class and his teaching classes.
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Arin was curious of course. He didn't mean to watch the stream after class but he did, after he said his hello to both of his parents and working out, he was bored and ended up watching the stream that Frak often watches. He kinda admitted that the stream itself was pretty much exciting and the content was really fun. Especially the one where the pink haired trying to play the cooking simulation, which she failed miserably, that really made Arin laugh freely.
He found out that her name was Sora, which he became infatuated with her and her streaming game. He would often watch her after his work out or even after his shift was done, Frak would often be suspicious but he didn't dare ask as he would find himself to be more fascinated by the streaming. “Hahaha… She's kinda funny playing this game. The look on her panic expression when she's cooking the food, maybe I should try to donate to her” he said and donated some generous amount of money. But he kinda forgot to change his username, so when he sent that and she read the chat—
“Thanks for the tip! From… ArinNived. Wait– you're… you're from my cooking class! The substitute teacher one?!” She exclaimed as Arin just realized just now that he made a mistake. “What— she's that girl from the class I'm teaching??” he was even also surprised seeing and hearing the plot twist happened.
That is until the chat was instantly filled with a lot of chat messages and even told Sora about him, as he reads them:
‘WASN'T HE'S THAT ONE GUY YOU MENTIONED YOU HAD A SMALL CRUSH ON HIM?!’
‘The guy from the bakery that is famous?? The two guys who're beefy one!?’
‘OMG HOW LUCKYYYY!!’
‘Nooooooo my pink hair Goddess is being swept away by the famous baker 😭’
Sora immediately tried to moderate her chat as she was panicking and was being a blushing mess. “Stop saying that!! N-no I don't have a crush on him! Chat, stop it!!” She yelled as her cheeks got even warmer from what just happened. She couldn't even believe the guy that was one of the substitute teachers and also that famous baker was watching her stream and even donating to her.
“She… has a crush on me?” Arin couldn't believe it himself as he later got a message from Frak as he was watching Sora's and her goth friend's stream from his own place.
“ARIN! YOU LUCKY GUY!! I didn't know you had that game in you! Any chance you could help me get to know her goth friend, Obscuria?” That was the text he got from the serpentine which Arin was still flabbergasted by what just happened to his life now. “What…”
He also got some message from Sora that was private as she was then asking him something. “Hey, sorry to burst out like that… Please forget about what the chat said. I was surprised you would watch my stream though I didn't expect that. So… wanna hang out sometime?” Arin kept looking at the private message as he was too stunned to process everything.
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Somehow a few months later after chatting and getting to know each other, which included Sora kept chatting with him and the one who's hitting on Arin as she would ask him about his day and asking him to teach her how to bake pie. To ask him on a hang out, which also turns into some dates. And well the next thing Arin knew was that he and Sora were in a relationship. Of course that's also included with Frak begging Arin to introduce him to Obscuria, which Sora happily introduces him to her friends.
And now since they were kinda in a relationship way, Arin would sometimes invite Sora to bake with him in his family bakery, even introducing her to his parents. Both of his parents really liked her and would pamper her so much. Sometimes Sora also likes to bring Arin to her streaming live and whoah the chat was mixed there, most were happy for them. While some little minority wasn't happy at all, well both didn't really care for that as long they were happy it was what mattered the most.
Also Frak and Obscuria ended up dating. Guess the serpentine got his goth girl at the end.