Nickels pov

At breakfast, oj announces that he was going to make a hotel group chat, so it'd be easier to send alerts and messages throughout the whole hotel. He walks around the breakfast table, collecting everyones numbers. Both balloon and i take out our phones and place them on the table with our profile and number open. 

"Hey nickel" balloon says

"Yeah?" 

"I just realised we never exchanged numbers on Mechat. I mean, we have each other on Mecall but it's better if we get each other on both, right?". A faint blush covers his face as he speaks, and when I notice, I feel myself blushing too.

"Yeah, i'll share my number as soon as oj takes it down. I look up across the table and see fan, test tube and paintbrush all looking at us. Fan was glancing at us while typing vigorously and paintbrush was trying not to laugh. And when test tube noticed I saw her she quickly looks away, whispering to fan, trying not to crack a smile. I glare at paintbrush. I just know this has probably got to do with them. 

Oj comes around and writes our numbers on a notepad. When he walks away towards yinyang and cherries, i show my phone to balloon and he takes the number down. My phone dings as a message from an unsaved number pops up. 

"Hii :)"

"That's me by the way" balloon says, noticing my slight confusion. 

I saved his number and looked at his profile picture. It was a picture of him with a white flower on his head. It didn't look like he put it there, it looked like the flower fell on him. I kept looking at the photo for like, 3 minutes straight, because this picture of him looked way too cute. I realise he's literally right next to me so I quickly glance at him to make sure he didn't see, and he was THANKFULLY looking away. I quickly text back "hey". 

"How do you do those smileys?" I ask him as we leave the breakfast table. 

"I'll show you in our room". We enter the room and sit on his bed, as he shows me how he uses brackets and punctuation signs to make faces. He laughs as I struggle to make one but helps me out too.

Balloons pov

I congratulate nickel as he finally figures out how to make a smiley. He pretends he's a 5 star artist and stands on the nightstand while saying "thank you, thank you, it's my best work yet". We both start laughing at his little roleplay before we get a notification on Mechat at the same time. I check what it is and it's the group chat Oj said he'd make.

"Heh, i know for sure yinyangs going to be banned sooner or later" nickel smirks. We both then fall silent, checking our own private messages. I stare at my screen, wishing I got suitcases number before I got eliminated. I could always visit her, but I'm never sure where she could be. 

Nickel gets up and tells me he'll be right back. He walks into the bathroom. While waiting for him, i look at his profile. His profile picture is of him standing in front of a mirror with his phone at his foot. The picture is slightly blurred and greyscale but it makes him look... so... uhm nevermind. Damn, these feelings aren't letting me go. I quickly change his contact name to "nickel <3" before he comes back. 

Suddenly i get another message from the hotel group chat. It's from Fan?

It's a link with a picture of nickel and I at breakfast?! When did he take that? It's titled "nickloon theories." WHAT?!?!? THATS NICKEL AND I'S NAME MIXED TOGETHER. THAT MEANS... IS THAT A SHIP NAME?!?! 

I quickly go to press on it but it deletes before I can touch it. I have to talk to fan about this. And in real life, not over text, because I can tell if he's lying about anything irl.

I text nickel

"I'll be back in a bit"

Because he probably wouldn't hear me if I shouted from outside the bathroom.

Fans pov

OH NONONONONO. DON'T TELL ME I JUST SENT THAT TO THE HOTEL GROUP CHAT. My finger quickly goes to delete it, but before i do, i check who's seen it, just in case. Only balloon, phew. WAIT- BALLOON?!?! OH NO THIS ISN'T GOOD. I delete it as quickly as I could and pray that balloon didn't click on the link. That was meant to be for test tube, lightbulb and paintbrush! NOT THE ENTIRE HOTEL.

I hear a quick knock on my door. Please don't be who i think it is...I open the door and my nightmare comes true, balloon is standing right in front of me.

"What did you just send to the hotel group chat?" he asks firmly, but with a somewhat worried tone laced in his words.

"I-i- it's not what you think balloon, really" i say. But of course my nervousness had to show, and balloon looks at me, not falling for it.

"Fine" i say. Just tell him the truth, in a way he won't be too mad.

"Well.. I ship you and nickel" I say. Surely he can't really be mad at that. That's my opinion! He looks at me and a slight blush forms on his face. 

"Wha- how?" he says, now the nervous one. I decide not to disclose any information or anything.

"Oh you know, it's just the way I think about people and stuff. You don't have to worry about it." i say. Hopefully that sentence that literally made zero sense gets him to forget about it. Balloon isn't really the one to press things forward and force people to tell him stuff.

"Alright I guess..." he says.

"Bye!" he walks away from me. Phew, that was close. It didn't look like he clicked the link, otherwise, his reaction would have been way different. I wasn't planning on breaking the promise I made to test tube. I didn't tell him that nickel liked him so... Also, was he blushing?

Balloons pov

Fans onto something. That guy seems to find out everything, and with test tube on his side, he can easily find out I like nickel. I've got to be careful. Was I blushing back there? Oh no, what if he noticed? IS HE GONNA TELL EVERYONE?!? I feel my phone buzz in my hand and I hope it's not what I think it is. But I sigh in relief to know it was just a message from nickel.

Nickel <3: Kk ;)

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HELLO AGAIN GUYSS

Hope y'all liked that chapter

That drawing is not it 😭

Btw, handwriting reveal? Kinda? There a difference between writing with your finger and writing with a pen. That is def not my real handwriting 😭

Also the new cover is temporary 

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