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Coincidentally, it was Wednesday, and time to record a session for Grumps. Arin and Dan had been talking a bit before, and were now headed to the recording room with snacks and drinks in hand.

"Arin," Dan said,"You know you don't have to keep playing Majora's Mask right?"

"Nope!" Arin raised his arms with La Croix in one hand,"What the lovelies want, the lovelies get. Especially if its my eternal pain and suffering of playing this game."

Dan breathed a laugh and plopped himself down on the couch almost at the same time as Arin,"We'll be sure to tell them that."

"Hey, what'd you think of that new intern?" Arin queried as he grabbed the TV remote to turn it on.

"Hmm?" Danny was in the middle of popping a few skittles into his mouth.

"The girl that Ross brought in today. Y/N"

"Oh, Y/N?" Dan swallowed and crossed his legs to get more comfortable,"She seems pretty cool."

"Yeah. She looked super young too. Isn't she like, 19 or 20?"

"Arin I just met and heard of her today, how the hell would I even know how old she is?"

Arin shrugged,"Just didn't know if you knew. You know some things that I don't Daniel!" He playfully raised his voice and turned his attention to the Nintendo 64. He realized that it wasn't on, and the fact that he had to get up to turn it on. "Fuck me..gotta exert energy into turning on the fucking Nintendo 64."

"Why is it called the Nintendo 64? IT obviously wasn't made in 1964..was it?"

"You know, Dan.." He paused as he knelt down to turn the console on, then shared eye contact with Dan,"That is a good question." He sat himself down with a long exhale,"You know what else is a good question?"

"Does Bruno Mars Is Gay?"

Arin erupted into laughter, causing Dan to join in. Both of the men's heads were thrown back onto the back of the couch.

"Oh my god.." Dan sniffled in between giggling fits,"That has to be one of my favorite callbacks.."

"I almost fucking forgot about that, holy shit.." Arin cracked up a bit more before taking a deep breath,"Now, although that is a good ass question, what I mean to say was; what do you think about her?"

"Her who? Is Bruno a woman now?" Dan joked, and got a few more laughs out of his buddy.

"Jesus..no. I'm talking about that new intern girl still."

"Oh! Gotchya."

"So.." The console started up and the Nintendo 64 logo appeared on the TV screen,"What do you think about her? Do you hate her or something?"

"What? No. I love her! I mean.." Dan choked. Jesus Christ Dan, you can't just say that!

Arin made a weird, yet concerned face to his fellow host. His eyebrows rose up a few inches.

"I--I meant that I like her. She seems super cool. Why you ask?"

"Just wanted your opinion on her. I admire her honestly, she's that young and already she's doing great at animating. Good enough for Ross to pick her out of everyone else."

"Yeah, and Ross is a damn good animator." Dan added.

"Agreed. I'm actually kinda excited to have her around."

Danny's heart skipped around a little bit when Arin said that but he scarfed down skittles to ignore it. He focused on the system starting and Arin maneuvering around the title screen for Majora's Mask.

"Why's that?"

"Well, aren't you?" Arin tilted his head at Dan,"We got a new person in the office. I'm always excited to meet new, cool people."

"Yeah. Me too."

A few moments of silence broke through as Arin selected his save file and put his drink on a table beside him. His eyes darted to Dan again who was still focused on the game and its 'great' graphics.

"Dude.." Arin started,"Do you not like her or something?"

"No. Arin.." He sighed,"It's not that I don't like her," He couldn't just confess to Arin. He wasn't even sure of himself. Could he tell that to Arin?

It took Arin a minute, and when he got it, his eyes narrowed and his lips turned upward into a sly grin,"Oh..you like like her don't you?"

"What?" Jesus Christ he had hoped Arin wouldn't have come to that conclusion, but he was kinda acting like he liked her, wasn't he? Shit. "Arin I'm like twice her age."

"And? You've dated girls that young before."

"Yeah, but.."

"You didn't say you didn't like like her." Arin turned back to the game, acting like a gossipy middle school girl.

"No, but.." He said firmly,"I don't like like her. Arin. It's just like.." Dan thought for a moment while Arin was making some adjustments on his phone, setting up the timer and such,"It's like when Matt and Ryan first came here."

"The first day they were here and you met them, you were blabbering on about how much you loved them."

Dan gave up. If he couldn't come up with an excuse, he'd just drop it. Such a mature almost 40 year old. 

"Shut up and play the game Arin."

"Yes sir Danny boi." Arin proceeded to start the timer and winked at Danny. 

Dan knew Arin would drop it. He'd probably pick it back up and shove it in Danny's face again at a certain point. For now, they could just chill and play some games.

That's what Dan thought at first..ever since that conversation, Dan couldn't get the image of Y/N out of his mind. He wasn't 100 percent focused on Arin's game play, as terrible as it may have been. He kept picturing her hair..the way her lips moved when she spoke. How she smelled when she leaned in to Dan in order to take a jab at Ryan. Dan seriously hoped he remembered to put cologne on this morning.

"Hey..Dan..you alright?"

Arin saying his name caught Dan's attention and snapped him out of the small daydream of Y/N talking to him about unicorns. He blinked and pretended he was invested in Arin playing the game,"Yeah? You forget how to turn into the Deku kid?"

"No..is something up buddy?" Arin paused the game and looked at Dan, hair dangling down his shoulders just by a few hairs.

"Nah. I'm fine man."

"Seriously, dude. Talk to me. Matt and Ryan can edit all of this out."

Dan stared at Arin for the longest time. Could he really tell Arin about this? He's had endless deep talks with him before, a good handful of them were about girls. Arin was his best friend. He always confided him with everything...so why was he even hesitating talking about Y/N?

"Well.." Danny sighed,"You asked about Y/N, and that got me all frustrated. And then I got frustrated that I was even feeling that way, and then I tried to hide it..and I just got more frustrated from there. You know what I mean?"

Arin laid back against the couch,"So you do like like her?"

"I don't know." Dan said simply. Was that really so hard. "I'm pretty sure its infatuation."

"Oh, so you think she's cute?" 

Danny's eyes widened as color grew on his cheeks,"I didn't say that Arin." He pretended to be more calm than his heart was at that moment.

Arin was playing around now, shouting at the top of his lungs in the soundproofed recording groom they were in,"Matt and Ryan! Don't cut any of this out! Keep it!"

The playfulness Arin was showing made Dan smile too, and made his leg come up to kick Arin's own leg,"You fucking asshole!"

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"Oh my god are these the Portal bathrooms?" No longer embarrassed or ashamed, you let out a squeal in Ross's presence.

Ross nodded with a smirk,"You'd be correct. Go on ahead." He gestured for you to go into the women's one, to which you needed no further words.

The neon lights were beautiful, and lit up the room just enough so you could see when you were doing your business. It was even more than all of the pictures the Grumps shared.

"Ross, this is fucking awesome!" You cursed, and couldn't have a care in the world.

You heard Ross laughing outside, and you were so overjoyed you were spinning around in the room. You had to continue the tradition. You pulled out your phone and positioned yourself perfectly so you were beside the famous Portal mirrors. You snapped a few pics and saved them so you could upload them later. Maybe you'd get more than 20 likes on those.

"Do you actually have to go to the bathroom or..?" Ross spoke outside the door.

Taking in one last look for now, you grinned at the room as if to say goodbye and rushed back out as quick as you came in. Ross was still standing at his post, happy that you were still pumped.

"Sorry..I've just always wanted to see that bathroom in person."

"No, its cool. Its pretty fuckin sweet. Want me to keep showing you around?" Ross gestured ahead down the hall, where it was unexplored territory.

With a nod, you straightened yourself up and positioned your bag better on your shoulder,"Yeah! Lead on Ross."

"Will do."

The first thing that came up was a large recording studio, with those foam squares all over, but it was nicely furnished. Then you realized--you recognized that couch, that lighting, that TV, that game that was being played. You recognized those Grumps heads.

"Holy shit is this where Dan and Arin record?"

"I think you may be right." Ross jerked his head at the window that was besides the entrance to the recording room.

You two stood there long enough to catch the Grumps attention. Ross waved first, which made you wave as well. Arin and Dan waved at the same time, smiling as they were saying something. You couldn't hear it though.

"Oh shit, are they recording right now?" You worriedly turned your head to Ross for an answer.

"Yeah, but its no big deal. I fuck with them and bother them all the time when they're recording. Same with Matt and Ryan."

"Good, I didn't want to bother them." You turned your head back to look at them. Arin was engaged with an Octorock at the moment while Dan was still looking at you. He did that thing where you made eye contact with someone but that person realized they were looking too long so they look away and pretended that none of that had happened. You knew, you did that many a time.

You felt your face get a little warm but you continued to watch the two men you'd listen to for 4 years. 

"We can come talk to them later. I'll continue to show you around, I think your space is nearby here." Ross gestured to the left of the hall, but made sure to wave again before you and him departed.

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"Oh..look, it's Ross." Arin glanced over at the window and waved. Dan did the same and saw Y/N. She really was cute. And pretty. And sexy.

"And the new intern girl."

"She has a name, Daniel." Arin poked at him,  moving a little closer to the microphone. They were recording currently, so all of the lovelies were hearing this, or were going to. Maybe Matt and Ryan would edit this out, who knows.

"You think I have time to remember everyone's names?" Dan said in a joking fashion, letting a small laugh out. After a pause he continued the bit,"Adrien?"

"Adrien? That's what you think my name is?" Arin acted bewildered. Their humor was always genuine, and the two absolutely loved to play off of each others words. 

"Oh, sorry..Alex."