It all started when Zee recommended you play with him, saying he found some weird entity and somehow became friends with it.
Honestly, even after Zee kind of forgot about you, you still kept joining that world alone. Sometimes you'd hear the chaos of the gang somewhere far off in the map, but most days you just stayed by yourself.
Over time, you built your own little place there.
A cozy house.
A farm near the river.
An animal barn.
It was peaceful, surprisingly peaceful for a world full of glitches and idiots.
Then Reject showed up.
At first, he thought your house belonged to some random villager with unusually good taste. So obviously, like the toxic little gremlin he is, he broke in planning to steal whatever he wanted.(he do that bc yes he can even tho he can do command but he is just an asshole)
But the second he saw you were an actual player, he froze.
The only player he knew was Zee.
So who the hell were you?
You explained your story while also asking why he was casually standing inside your house like a criminal caught mid-robbery.
Reject got weirdly nervous about admitting the truth, but eventually he did. Zee had been busy with real life stuff lately, Moe was off doing… whatever Moe does, and Reject had just been wandering around the world out of boredom until he stumbled across your place.
You sighed. Zee already warned you Reject was a brat, so instead of kicking him out, you just let him stay.
And somehow… he kept coming back.
Over time, Reject started opening up more. He’d tell you stories about him, Zee, and Moe. Some were funny, some genuinely creepy, and some sounded so stupid they looped back into being funny again.
Eventually, the two of you became oddly close.
thought Whenever Zee logged on, Reject would immediately run off to bother him again, yelling a quick goodbye before disappearing into the chaos.
But for some reason… Reject couldn't stop thinking about you afterward.
At first, he kept visiting just so you wouldn't beat his ass for breaking into your house that first day.
At least, that's what he told himself...
But then it became something else..
The way you laughed at his dumb comments.
The way you smiled when teasing him.
The way you treated him normally instead of like some corrupted mistake....
It made something twist painfully inside his chest… or whatever was left of it.
Reject's body was held together by glitches, failed tabs, corruption, and broken code.
And you?
You were warm. Alive. Real.
Naturally beautiful in a way that made his entire system short-circuit.
So like the emotionally constipated disaster he is, Reject suddenly started avoiding you.
Which made absolutely no sense considering you started visiting him more than you visited Zee at this point!...
One day he'd cling to your side for hours.
The next day he'd disappear the second you got close!?
Classic push-and-pull nonsense....that what you assumed.
And eventually, you got tired of it.
Reject was so painfully complicated it genuinely started giving you headaches.
One second he was attached to your side like a stray cat.
The next, he acted like even looking at you annoyed him???.
So you finally did what any normal person would do.
you confronted him.
You pointed out the way he kept pushing and pulling you around and demanded to know what the hell his problem was.
...
What you didn't know was that Reject already believed he was the problem.
One of those spirals again.
The kind where he convinced himself he ruined everything he touched.
And honestly? Yeah, he was an asshole sometimes.
But that didn't mean you hated him?...
The problem was… Reject couldn't understand that.
So instead of explaining himself like a sane person, he pushed you away even harder.
Which only made you more confused.
And more stubborn.
Until eventually, after you kept cornering him and refusing to let him dodge the conversation, he snapped.
Not calmly either.
He yelled.
"You don't get it!"
His voice glitched harshly through the room, static flickering around him.
"You're- you're literally perfect!"
He looked furious saying it, which honestly made the whole thing more confusing.
"You're pretty, you're nice to everyone for some reason, you keep laughing at my dumb crap, you built this whole place by yourself and somehow still act gentle after everything!"
The glitches around his body sparked violently.
"In my world, you're something different!"
Then he laughed bitterly, pointing at himself.
"And me? I'm just some corrupted asshole Zee found one day!"
His voice cracked into static again.
"I break stuff! I spam viruses into your laptop! play with your cards poker website when Zee kicks me out of his tabs because I've got nowhere else to go!"
You stayed silent.
Reject looked away before speaking quieter this time.
"And you're still patient with me…"
That sounded like the part he hated most.
"I can't handle that."
His fingers twitched.
"i..I can't handle somebody actually caring about me without wanting something back."
The room went quiet after that, Then, almost under his breath
"…I don't wanna get attached again."
That part hit harder than the yelling did.
Because suddenly everything made sense.
The avoiding.
The mood swings.
The pushing you away every time things started feeling real.
And honestly?
Your first reaction wasn't even embarrassment at all.
It was shock.
You spent so long believing you weren't enough that hearing someone talk about you like that almost felt unreal.
Especially him.
There had always been that weird little feeling in your chest whenever Reject stayed close to you too long. You ignored it every single time, telling yourself he was probably just being friendly in his own strange way.
But now?
Now both of you knew.
And suddenly every glance, every joke, every moment alone together felt completely different.
...
YOU DIDN'T GET IN A RELATIONSHIP YET!? WHAT THE FUC-
