Gary Barkovitch is all bark, no bite. Almost everyone around him knows that. He only knows how to make people see him as a threat because no one has seem his as a friend before. Well, other than you.

You were one of the only person, if not the only person, who put time into getting to know Gary and getting to be his friend. You know he really just wants connections because he never realized just how isolating it is to have no friends.

Now, you two are both idiots. Neither of you realize, both of you like each other. It's an annoyingly long pining game to see who will suck it up and confess first. Apparently, that one will be Gary. On accident.

You two were out with some acquaintances, they don't really consider Gary a friend but you are their friend so he gets to tag along. You were talking with Collie and Garraty at the time while Gary walked a little further back with Stebbins.

You weren't really listening until you heard your name get mentioned between the two of them, you started to listen more and that's when Stebbins asks. "If there's nothing going between the two of you, you don't mind if I ask her out on a date, do you?"

Before Gary immediately shouts back. "Don't you fucking dare ask her out you creep bunny fuck. I'm the only one who's going to date her." And then it clicked he said that out loud. And you were listening, the whole group was listening.