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Jazz pulled her phone back out when she got another notification, about to respond about the games when Marcus came over to look as well. "Oh, uhh, yeah. I play a lot of osu, mostly. I think that guy is following me though, kinda weird..."

She locked her phone again, looking nervously back at Marcus again before turning to the games once more. She tried to just ignore him and focus on the shelf, squinting up at the top one and groaning. Being only 4'10", she'd have a pretty impossible time actually seeing what it was, but the box art looked cool.

Jazz had figured Marcus had left by now, but to her surprise she turned around to find him stepping forward and promptly scooted to the side to let him get to the games there. She watched him struggle to catch them with a strong sense of empathy; she was was exceptionally challenged in the way of dexterity outside of games. She took the game with a nervous laugh and moved quickly to the checkout, waving behind her and typing back once more, "No, I don't think so. It seems like he's just kind of awkward like me; he just helped me get the game I wanted from a high shelf. I'm kind of really short, so it was nice."

Jazz was almost at the counter when she abruptly heard her screen name blurted out behind her, and she immediately fumbled and tripped over her shoelace to go tumbling to the ground. Thankfully the floor was soft in here, so she was totally unhurt, if not a bit frazzled. She scrambled back against the bottom of the counter, staring up at Marcus and seeming in general, a smidge panicked. Her beanie and headphones had slipped off when she fell, and now her face was clear to see as the same that had always been in her streams. "H..hello...I'm, ahh, sorry; I'm really not good with shocks like that.."

Jazz subconsciously scooter back against the counter and blinked up at Marcus, actually shivering just a bit from the pressure of the situation. She'd been talking to this guy for a week now, playing games with him and hanging out, but she honestly hadn't been prepared to just meet someone in person so abruptly that she'd only had an online presence with. After all, her two personas and the way she presented herself differed vastly over the internet and face to face, and she had a significant fear that he wouldn't like her in person.

Or, well...that would have been the case, until she noticed just how freaked out and anxious this guy seemed to be as well. She picked herself up off of the floor, dusting herself off and smiling sheepishly. Her cheeks were similarly tinted a deep rose at the awkwardness of the whole situation. "O-oh, uhhhh, no, that's...I mean, definitely, totally fine. I just wasn't really expecting anybody to recognize me from my stream here, much less you of all people."

Jazz laughed nervously along with him, adjusting her headphones around her neck and setting the game she'd picked out on the counter behind her. "O-oh, uhh, that makes sense, actually. I just very recently got here; there was a bit of a surprise power development. It was kind of scary, and we didn't really know how to deal with it, so we got in contact with the school based on our old invitation."

Realizing a few moments later that he would have no idea why her family already would have been invited, she rubbed the back of her neck and gave another slightly more confident grin. "Right, sorry! You wouldn't know about that. One second, let me show you." With that, she quickly shifted into her sun bear form, sitting on the floor for a moment and waving a paw up at him before turning back, brushing some hair out of her face.