CHAPTER TWELVE. *ೃ༄
❝ FIRST TIME GREETINGS. ❞

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"Hello? Can you guys hear me?"

"We can hear you!" A voice yelled and Nat eyed Angelica's name since there was a green ring around her profile picture as she spoke. "Hi, Nat! So good to hear from you."

"So good to hear from you guys, too," Nat smiled, looking around her room while she nervously tugged on the ends of her sweater. "I mean, I did hear from you. I was watching some videos and old streams."

"You watched videos and streams?" Angelica gasped. "Did Quackity tell you who we were?"

"He basically exposed you all," Nat chuckled. "He showed me some of your messages and someone called your boyfriend Dream and I told him it sounded familiar. It went on from there."

"You're not gonna... tell anyone, right?" Angelica nervously chuckled as they could hear clinking noises in the background, telling them she was playing with knives.

"Of course not!" Nat snorted. "Anyway, are you, like, playing with knives?"

"Did Corpse give you those?" Heaven chuckled before they could all hear clinking noises coming from her. Angelica hummed. "He really gave us knives as presents."

"At least he didn't send us his whole collection of hentai games," Angelica snickered, knowing that Karl and Tina were part of the few who had a folder sent to them, though, Corpse did state he'll send it to them soon.

"Where's Diana?" Nat asked, noticing that the other girl wasn't on.

"Oh, she had a meeting real quick because she needed to be reminded of her schedule," Heaven explained. "She has an interview tomorrow which means we have more photos of her from paparazzi."

"God, she's so hot," Angelica let out. "You guys are hot, too. Friends are hot."

"Thank you," Nat felt her cheeks burn, not used to being complimented on.

"She's so adorable," Heaven gushed, a small chuckle escaping her lips as she heard the girl's response. "But Diana said she was almost finished since she started the meeting half an hour ago."

"Who are you talking to?"

Nat could hear a chuckle coming from Angelica's side and could hear her response, "I'm talking to Quackity's friend. Remember? The one he always talks about?"

"Ooh," the voice let out. "I wanna say hi."

"Okay."

They could hear rustling and Nat jumped a little when she heard a loud, "Hi, I'm Sapnap! Nice to meet you, Nat."

"Nice to meet you," Nat mumbled, not used to speaking to new people since her friends usually did that.

"Why are you yelling?" Another voice perked up.

"Ang is speaking to Nat!" Sapnap exclaimed, causing Heaven to tell him to "Shut the up, Sapnap, please" under her breath. "You shut up, Heaven. I'm still mad that you stole Karl from me."

"She's still in the friend zone," the other voice added and a Yelp was heard. "Ow, babe, don't hit me."

"Nat, this is Dream," Angelica introduced. "He's my boyfriend."

"God, that sounds so hot," Dream mumbled, loud enough for all of them to hear. Sapnap gagged, finding it annoying as he usually he did when the couple showed any type of PDA. "Anyway, nice to meet you, Nat. I'm the boyfriend... and Dream."

"He forgot what he was about to say," Heaven teased the long pause between his sentence. "Guys, shoo. This is girls only."

"But I want to know more about Nat," Sapnap dramatically groaned, a whine escaping his lips just like a child would. "I'll just join on my computer. See you!"

"Me, too," Dream said after, following after his friend as the two ran to their rooms. Angelica glanced over her shoulder and sjooo her head.

"Excuse them, Nat," she breathed out. "Anyway, you're in college, right?"

"Yeah," Nat answered. "I'm studying psychology."

"That's so cool," Heaven said. "We got a smart person in this VC!"

"Thank you, you're so kind," Nat cleared her throat, having the girls smile at her reaction. "I'm sorry! I'm so awkward when people compliment me."

"It's fine," Heaven snickered.

"Hello," a British accent invaded Nat's ears, alerting her that Diana had now joined the VC. "Sorry for coming in late. I had a meeting."

"Yeah because Diana is so famous," Angelica chuckled, sending her friends a kiss on chat. "She's an actress and a college student, too."

"Really?" Nat brightened. "What are you studying?"

"Acting basically," Diana answered. "I'm not letting my career stop me from achieving my dream to graduate college."

"Wow," Nat stared at the girl's username in complete awe, "you're so amazing."

Nat's eyes widened at the sudden compliment that came out of her mouth and could hear the amused chuckle from the actress, who let out a "Thank you."

"I'm sorry that just came out," Nat nervously chuckled, but Diana waved her off. "It's nice to meet you, though. You seem like such a nice person. All of you do."

"You do, too," Angelica said, the others humming along. "I'm sad that Quackity isn't here so you two could finally talk together, but he has a lore stream to prepare for in a couple of minutes and I have to go mod his chat."

"And I need to go see it," Heaven commented.

"And I need to go criticize it," Diana mumbled. "Are you going to watch, Nat? We're still going to be on, of course."

"Sure," Nat hummed.

"I'll share my screen!" Sapnap came in and yelled, along with Dream who came to VC after him. "I can't believe Heaven stole Karl and now Nat stole my other fiancé. How dare you?"

"I'm sorry?" Nat questioned, confused. "I don't know what to say!"

"Just ignore him," Angelica chuckled. "He's so dramatic."

"Shut up, Ang."

"Be quiet, Sapnap, or I'll push you off your chair again."

"Come in here! I dare you."

"Bet."

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Ahhh I'm sorry for
this late update! Sorry 🥲