You've always been kind of a loner since you moved to Zinnia City due to a job transfer. Back at your home town you had plenty of friends but that charisma of yours took a nosedive after the move. Mostly due to your fears of predators that you haven't been putting yourself out there.
So to push your boundaries you've been trying online dating, and are on your way to where he said he'd be waiting. Of course the meeting spot has set off every shade of red flags in your mind. It's an empty lot at the end of an alleyway, what part of that isn't suspicious! But you swore to yourself to at least attempt to show up, you look down at your phone rereading the text conversation you had with your date. He claimed that he didn't want to eat without you, and the lot was real close to the cafe he wanted to visit. The last text sent was filled with heart emojis, a lizard emoji and a "See you there Mattie~" You don't really get the lizard emoji, is that just a reference to you being a gecko? You could also do without the nickname, just Matt was fine
Well Matt'd purposely left late so hopefully his date would get there before him, so he could run if this turned out to be exactly what he thought it was. He turned a corner onto the street the alley was on, as he continued to walk he felt the pit of anxiety in his gut that had pained him since he left his apartment get worse. He kept considering just walking past the alley, and looping around back home. He didn't need to expose himself to mortal danger to get out of his shell did he?
His mind continued on this downward spiral until he reached the alley, stopping in his tracks. Might as well check... right? Mentally screaming at himself to turn around he ducked into the alleyway. The gecko walked quietly, trying to sneak to the lot, he'd take a look and decide what to do from there.
Slowly, slowly and surely he made his way to the end of the alley. Reaching the end he settled behind a trashcan, and peaked over. There was someone sitting in the lot, but it wasn't his date... It was a crow, a crow with a large squirming gut! Matt nearly blew his cover in his panic! He swiftly ducked back behind the trashcan, and pulled his phone out. He, wasn't sure what he was going to do with his phone. He tapped the messaging app and opened his chat, and texted "omw now, sorry for being a little late." and sent. A sound rung out into the quiet lot, and Matt heard the crow speak
"Huh? Oh, you got a text. Guess I gotta answer for you, oh? No password needed, nice. Let's see, you were meeting up with this guy here huh? Heh, looks like that lucky lizard dodged a bullet. Nearly fell for it, like Joshy did. Good thing Joshy's quick, otherwise you'd have gotten a meal, and gotten away with it. Okay reply time, Sorry Mattie, something came up and I can't show up. Please don't be mad."
Bing! The notification sound on your phone rang out, Matt forgot to turn it off! He barely registered what was written on the text and scrambled to try and turn his sound off. He received another text from "his date", then another, and another. His stupid phone rang out 5 times before he managed to get it off! Not caring if he'd get seen Matt geared to make a run for it when,
"Boo!" The crow was right next to him and spooked the gecko. Matt had shouted in surprise, and fell on his ass. The crow was standing right in front of him, snickering. "Hehe, so you're the guy I ate's date right?" Matt mutely nodded. "Haha! Dude you look so terrified. Chill out, I'm not gonna eat you."
Matt squeaked out "You're not?"
"No, now get up and stop sniveling before you piss your pants." Matt did as he was told and rose to his feet.
"Um, Why did you eat my date?" Matt asked in a shaky voice.
"Simple, bastard used whatever dating app you used as food delivery and almost got one of my brothers. So really you should be thanking me here, you nearly got ate."
"Um, thank you... May I ask your name?"
"It's Randal."
Matt swallowed the saliva that had pooled in his mouth, he felt like he should still be terrified. There's still a predator right in front of him with a live meal still fighting in his gut. But instead, Matt felt, weird. He'd never seen a pred with a full belly before. The convulsing mass of black feathers should be a terrifying sight regardless of what the gut's owner has said. Instead though, Matt didn't feel scared. He couldn't really describe the emotions running through him or why he felt that way. All he really knew was, he wanted to be around Randal for awhile longer.
"Well, Randal, I want to thank you, properly so...
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