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Balloons pov

As suitcase finally decides to hang up first, I put my phone on the bedside table. We talked all night about so much, and I'm so glad she's doing ok. I miss her so much and I feel so thankful that nickel shared my number to her.

Nickel...

I've been thinking about him so much recently and now everything I do seems to remind me of him. I blush as I think of all the things we did. Especially in the garden house. I had every urge to just... KISS HIM in there. Oh god, it's getting worse. I realise i'm looking at his bed. I wonder if he's awake...

"Nickel?"

"Hm?"

"Oh, you're awake?"

"No, I'm sleeping SO peacefully you can't even imagine" he replies sarcastically.

"Very funny nickel"

We lie there silently for a few minutes, it wasn't awkward, just... S I L E N C E.

"Did you have to say something?" He asks

"Hm?"

"I mean, you called out my name, did you need to tell me something"

Well, I really only called his name to see if he was awake, but there is something I wanted to talk about.

"Yeah. I need to tell you something.."

He suddenly gets up and walks to my bed. He sits down next to me as I look at him confused.

"Why did you com-" I ask, sitting up, but he interrupts me.

"Idk man, it sounded serious. But I'm just really bored"

"Oh, ok heh"

"Well, what do you wanna talk about?

I look at him in the eye.

"Nickel, thank you for giving suitcase my number"

"Oh it's nothing!" He says. His voice goes higher as he says that, sounding a lot different than his normal self. But it also sounded really, REALLY cute.

"Oh and,"

My hand moves up and cups his face.

"I'm proud of you nickel. Proud that you made up with suitcase. Never did I ever think you could but.. here we are. You've changed,"

My other hand somehow ends up on his side.

"And... I'm glad we aren't enemies anymore, heh. We both really changed, didn't we?"

Nickel looks up at me with widened eyes. His face goes a deep shade of red. I don't realise it, but I keep looking at his lips. His mouth opens to reply, but instead of words, I hear his breath go shaky. He looks like he spaced out, thinking deeply, until the energy seems to come back to his eyes. I'm no longer looking at his eyes, I'm looking into them. He looks into mine and immediately looks down. Still not realising, my thumbs circles his cheek, and he goes even more impossibly red. At this point, I can FEEL the heat coming off of his face. He starts slightly shivering.

"Nickel? Are you o-"

I suddenly realise what I'm doing.

Crap.

My hand moves away from his face as quick as lightning and I shuffle all the way back to my bed post. He's still in the same position, and he looks like he's paralysed.

"Nickel? Hello? Nickel!" I move my hand in front of his eyes. He suddenly jumps slightly and shakes his head.

"Oh, uh- sorry- I uh-"

He looks around flustered, and I find it adorable. Then I remember what I just did.

"S-sorry nickel, I.. don't know what came over me"

"It's fine really I'M fine"

"You sure? I don't want you brain dead on me again" I laugh. I wonder why he had the need to reassure me that he's fine.

He laughs along with me lightly, and we both look out the window.

"It's almost sunrise." I say.

"Wanna go watch it?" nickel says.

We both agree on going outside and watching the sunrise. As we sit down on the cool grass, we both stare at the sky in a comfortable silence. The sky goes from a deep blue to a lighter blue. The clouds slowly turned orange and pinky rose and the sky bright orange. A circle of bright red started emerging from behind the trees. A few birds were flying by, and they looked like silhouettes. The whole scene looked almost magical. Nickel quickly took out his phone and took a picture.

"Send that to me" I say.

"Should we take a selfie?" He asks.

"Sure!"

He switches the camera and we both smile. After he takes it, I look at it.

"Ew no, delete that" I say.

"Yeah I look horrible in it" nickel says, repositioning the camera.

"Nah you look fine, I look like a deranged chicken wing with eyes."

We both start laughing hysterically for some reason. But nickel accidentally clicks the shutter button.

"Oh wait, I just took one, lemme delete it.'' he says, but when the picture shows up on his screen, he hovers over the delete button. The picture looks... amazing. Just us laughing with pure joy on our faces.

"I'm keeping that" nickel says.

"Wait, I have a better idea" I say.

"Put your face in the picture as your profile picture and I'll do the same with mine. It'll look cute because it's obvious we took the picture together!"

Nickel changes his profile picture and so do I.

"You're right! It looks cool" he says.

He goes onto my profile and I see what he named me. Even though his foot was covering half the screen, I could see 'latex chi-'.

"Latex chi-'? HEY. DID YOU REALLY NAME ME LATEX CHILD?" I say, figuring it out. He looks shocked and quickly hides his phone, but after he seems to realise something, he calms down.

"Y-yeah. What are you gonna do about it?" He says, sounding confident yet nervous.

"Well..."

I quickly go onto his contact and name him "five cents". I show it to him, smirking.

"HEY! I mean, fair enough" he says laughing.

When he's not looking, I quickly add a heart.

We chat for half an hour, laughing and giggling so much that unfortunately paintbrush had to hear us.

"WHO is LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY at 5, IN THE MORNING?!?!?" we hear them shout. That only made us laugh harder. Eventually though, nickel started getting tired. He leans onto my shoulder.

"You... ok bud?" I say, blushing slightly.

"I feel... really tired all of a sudden" he says quietly.

For some reason, I get the urge to hug him close. I don't usually listen to myself, but my hands wrap around him before I could think twice. He snuggles against my chest, and a flutter of butterflies release in my stomach. I didn't know nickel could be this soft.

"Do you wanna go back?"

He mumbles his reply, which is pretty hard to hear because I'm still hugging him against my chest. I wonder why he hasn't tried to break free yet.

"I'll take that as a yes." I say, laughing slightly. I get up to leave but nickel stays where he is.

"You coming?" I ask, confused.

"Carry me"

"W-what?"

"I'm too tired to walk that far, carry me."

I blush hard as I hear this. But I'll do it.

"Ok hehe..." Shoot. I sounded too awkward saying that. But I walk towards him. I pick him up, which isn't too hard to do since I've done this before. As the elevator goes up, I hear him snoring slightly. He's asleep. I walk into our room and place him into his bed, folding the covers over him. I look at his peaceful face one last time, before I go to my own bed.

"Sweet dreams, cutie" I say, climbing into my bed.

Wait. Did I just say that out loud?

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