"Woah, an anthro,"
"He's so cute,"
"Why would an anthro come here?"
'Here' as in a place where high-ranked race like anthro normally wouldn't go to. People's attention shifted from Jasper to that familiar bunny anthro, Esther. Esther is wearing a tight black turtle neck. He looks more classy than how he met the first time.
Jasper tried to be as calm as possible by looking back to the food and put a slice of shrimp into his mouth. He grabbed his glass of soda to ease his nerves that's growing every time the footsteps grew closer and closer to their table.
"Woah, Jasper Pierce!" Jacob's voice announced Jasper's name proudly, loud enough for everyone in the restaurant to hear.
Jasper almost chokes on the shrimp he's eating. The soft shells tickled his throat but the soda helped him swallow it safely.
"Jacob,"
Succeeding on being as calm as possible, Jasper turned his head cooly and give Jacob a lopsided smirk that caused half of the customers there choke on whatever food they're eating. His eyes finally met those two glowing pink eyes that reminded him of pink sapphire.
An imprecise smirk that covered on Esther's face. It wasn't Esther's usual wide stupid grin nor pout, or that other childish expression Jasper saw yesterday. He looks like a real anthro. Dignified, and full of class.
The real question is, how did he get here? did he saw the trending news on social media that Jasper Pierce is currently eating at this restaurant?
No, it can't be. He's obviously with Jacob's group.
There's only one way to find out. Wait until someone else asks.
"My my, who is he? I don't know you're friends with an anthro," Somebody that Jasper didn't recognize suddenly asked, causing some heads to turn into him.
Bingo.
"Guys, this is Esther. I know this is our school's reunion but he's pretty chill. So I invited him," Jacob grins with his arm wrapped around Esther's shoulder.
Esther smiled brightly. "Hello~"
"Wah, he's so cute,"
"Hello, Esther!"
"Please take a seat!"
Probably this is what happened with Jasper's security. Everyone just let Esther do whatever he wants because he's an anthro. They can get whatever they want just by being an anthro. The thought of it caused Jasper to scoffs softly, then hides it by sipping on his soda.
He silently watches the scene. It's only for a minute, but their attention goes back to Jasper since he's technically super famous too. It's like having two celebrities in the same room.
Everyone is ecstatic at the unexpected development. A good development.
An anthro and everybody's favorite streamer.
Jasper noticed the glances Esther blatantly gave him. How Esther's pupils went slightly bigger when seeing Jasper gulping down that soda, watching his adam's apple as if it was the most fascinating thing in the world.
Esther subconsciously would lick his bottom lip, pretending to be interested in other's conversation when obviously he wanted to keep staring at Jasper.
It's not the first time Jasper getting eye-fucked. But this is a new sensation.
Esther sure is attractive. Only an idiot can resist Esther's charms.
He's still curious if Esther has a fluffy tail tucked in. He's too curious. The curiosity messes with his ability to think.
"Jasper?"
"Hm?"
His own buzzing mind gets interrupted by a girl's voice that's calling his name. People's words slowly beginning to get clearer. But Esther distracted him so he can't comprehend what the girl just said.
"What are you thinking about?" The girl asked again, giggling. Along with other girls that are sitting near him.
"Just, this and that," Jasper shrugs. He managed to not look at Esther while saying that.
"Must be your streams huh?" Jacob, who dragged a seat next to him, elbowed Jasper in a playful manner on his arm. Jasper faintly smirked.
"Maybe,"
"Right! I watched your last stream!" Katey jumps in. "You're going to get a pet bunny right?"
"Yeah,"
"I can't wait to see it!" A girl exclaimed happily.
"Me too!"
They all begin to talk about Jasper's nonexistent bunny. Jasper's smirk grew as he saw Esther visibly fidgets on his seat. The corner of Esther's lips were twitching, trying to hold his composure.
"I actually found a really cute bunny,"
Jasper's sudden comment spark interest in everyone who hears it. A girl leaned closer.
"Really? you already adopted one?"
"No, not yet. Honestly, I'm not ready to take care of a bunny. I need to do more research. Getting to know more, you know?" Jasper's chocolatey and soothing voice causes Esther to cough. Not too loud to make everyone looks at him though.
"You're so caring, Jasper," A girl breathed out. Her obvious heart eyes made some girls look at her with annoyance.
"Thanks," Jasper answered casually. "But yeah. I was kind of interested in this one particular bunny. When I have my own bunny, I would set my whole attention on my bunny. Pamper it. Shower it with kisses, tons of them,"
"Uh, I'm going to the restroom,"
Esther's flustered combined with a squeak made Katey and others looked at him.
"Oh, okay!" Katey says cheerfully, then returns on hearing Jasper's words. "And then?" she giggles.
"And then," Jasper's words trailed off for a split second as he watched Esther practically rushing toward the bathroom.
He couldn't contain his amusement.
What a satisfying reaction.