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Zacharie sighed softly to himself as he laid on his bed, staring up at the picture of Batter and the statue of himself on the roller coaster that Zacharie owned. He had pinned it up somewhere on his wall, too excited at the time to think of where would be a legitimately good spot to have it, so he simply put it up at the first place he saw. 'Worth every credit..~' he thought to himself, a small smile now slowly creeping it's way onto Zacharie's face. Weather he wanted to admit it to anybody or not, Zacharie knew that he was in love with the Purifier, and having that picture meant so much to him since it made him actually have hope that The Batter could love him back.. But from how emotionless he acted, Zacharie doubted it.. Plus, a simple picture couldn't determine if someone loved someone else, especially if the person in the picture wasn't even them, but just a statue that was created to be of them. He still liked to imagine it, though; The Purifier holding the masked merchant in his arms, kissing him, showing him the affection and love he craved so very much.. Oh, just the thought brought a delighted and happy purr in Zacharie's throat, the smile on his face growing wider as well. That's when Zacharie heard it. A faint knock on the door of his store, snapping him out of his thoughts. The merchant looked at his frog mask, almost instinctively then put it on, and once satisfied with it's adjustments, calmly got off of his bed and headed down a hallway and went through a door at the end of it. Zacharie closed the door behind him, and once out of it, it lead him to behind his counter.. He definitely didn't regret attaching his store to his house for times like these, when he heard a knock on entrance but was in somewhere like his bedroom. Zacharie headed over to the door, more then sure that he had made it so it had told any customers that the place was closed. He shrugged it off and opened the door, the words immediately coming out of his mouth; "Don't you see? We're closed."