Nickels pov:

Sunlight blinds my eyes as I open them. I blink a few times and look away from the window, where the sun was coming from. Still half asleep, I reach out for my phone for the time, but something stops me. Confused, I look up to see it wasn't something, but SOMEONE? A wave of shock explodes through me as I see balloon, peacefully resting. That's not what surprised me though, the reason I'm surprised is because HE'S IN MY BED. Internally panicking, I try to remember how we ended up like this. In the process, I realise both of his legs are wrapped around mine AND IT DOES NOT HELP. I try to find ways to get out, but I can't without possibly waking him up. But by how much I moved, he started stirring.

Oh no.

Balloon pov

I open my eyes and look around. The room looks alot different, for some reason. Am I in someone else's room? No, that can't be right, because I can see my bed right there, with its bright red bed sheets. 

Wait.

If my bed's there then...

Realisation hits me and I look beside me just to make sure it's true. And there he is. I'm in nickels bed. WHY AM I IN NICKELS BED. I look down to see that our legs were tangled together and I feel my entire face heating up. How did we-... 

Then I remember. We were chatting on his bed and we must've fallen asleep together. That pillow fight probably had our body begging for rest. But now what? I have to get up without him waking up. But before I do, I look at his peaceful face. He's always got a sarcastic expression on and his eyebrow is almost always raised for those sarcastic remarks, so it looks a lot different when he is resting. I subconsciously raise my hand and touch his face, but I quickly bring it back realising what I was doing. I slowly untangle myself from his legs and I successfully get off the bed without waking him. Then I walk into the bathroom.

Nickels pov

The moment I hear balloons footsteps get quieter and the sound of the bathroom door lock, I immediately sigh of relief. Pretending to fall asleep was a good idea. I touch the area of my face that he touched and I blush profusely. I look down, lost in thought. Thoughts of the things he does, the way he smirks at me when he's got a point, his laugh, his face, his cute smile, HIM. I shake out all these thoughts. He has no idea what he's done to me...

The bathroom door unlocks and he walks out, looking at me. 

"Good morning!" He says cheerfully. I blush at his enthusiastic voice. 

"Hehe.. good morning" I say, my nervousness showing in my voice. I smile looking off to the side.

"Are.. you ok?" He says, noticing my nervous tone.

"Yeah, yeah I'm totally fine" I say quickly, looking back at him. He looks at me suspiciously but seems to shrug it off.

"I'm going down to breakfast, or do you want me to wait for you?" He asks.

"Wait" I say smiling.

Timeskip to after breakfast

Papers pov

"OJ?" I call out. We were meant to tell everyone at noon but OJ wasn't back from the grocery store then. It's now half one. I watch him as he enters the office, where I was sitting. 

"Paper, hun, could you start the call for me please?" He asks, "I'll hop on in a second"

"Alright" I say, clicking the call icon in the hotel group chat.

Balloons pov:

Nickel and I were just chilling in our room when both our ringtones went off. Paper was calling the entire hotel group chat. I pick up and immediately put myself on mute, because nickel started yelling.

"OH MY GOD CURSE THIS STUPID BATTERY" He yelled at the top of his lungs. He started frantically trying to plug in his phone charger while saying "go in go on go in GO INNN". The plug just wasn't being nice today.

"Out of charge?" I ask, giggling at his actions.

"IT'S LITERALLY ON 2%" He shouted, still not successfully plugging in the phone. 

A voice comes from the call.

"Ok, that's everyone but two people," paper says.

"OJ isn't here yet, and... where's nickel?" He asks, continuing. I unmute my microphone to tell them.

"Sorry paper, nickel's having trouble with his-" I didn't need to finish my sentence because as if on cue...

"NOO MY PHONE JUST DIEDD" Nickel yelled. I started laughing along with four or five other people on the call.

"Ohhh" paper says.

I look over at nickel and he was looking at his phone sadly.

It's like I stopped thinking the next moment.

"Aww c'mere" I say, forgetting about the call. I turn towards him with my hands out and he runs towards me. He falls into my chest and I hug him, while looking down at him. 

The thing that breaks us apart is that the entire call erupts into "Awww"s. Paintbrush reaches out and seems to press the volume button, or... SCREENSHOT? About a second later a notification tone chimes and fans video outlines itself, meaning the notification came from him. He points his finger out and seems to swipe up whatever was on his screen.

Nickel breaks from the hug. He sees what painty did.

"DID YOU JUST SCREENSHOT?" He shouts at paintbrush.

"I've got a better question" Trophy says."Since when were you so emotional over a ph-" 

But before he could finish, yang VERY LOUDLY asks,

"ARE YOU DATING?!?!"

My face heats up hotter than the sun and I think I'm visibly sweating. Nickel blushes hard too, but he speaks up first. 

"WHAT NO! OF COURSE NOT". For some reason, that hurt. But the sadness quickly flows away as his foot reaches mine out of the camera's sight.

"DO YOU HAVE TO DATE TO SHOW AFFECTION?" He continues.

"Woahh nickel, calm down" paintbrush says smirking. Fan's typing at max speed with his camera at a weird angle, soap's saying "ooooooh", and almost everyone's giggling, especially Test tube.

Everyone quiets down when OJ joins.

"Good afternoon everyone" he says. Everyone murmurs a reply.

"So, we have an announcement to make, but before I do, I have a favour to ask". Everyone perks up, eager for the job.

"Anyone who has the numbers of the remaining contestants, please, add them to the call. To the call, I repeat, not the group chat." Woah, this must be important if they have to listen. I add suitcases number and ask suitcase to add baseball. Lightbulb and knife also appear. Lightbulb seems to be running and she sits down, exhausted. 

Suddenly, another number pops up. It was unsaved and the camera and sound's off. A lot of people look at it confused.

"Should I... remove that?" Paper asks, also confused. Just as he finishes his sentence, a voice starts speaking. A voice we all recognise.

"Ugh, OJ, Why'd you add me to this... why is everyone here?.

"MEPHONE?" paintbrush shouts. Tissues violently sneezes, filling in the awkward silence. Well, it wasn't awkward, just, everyone was sitting in shock.

"Well... why is mephone here?" I ask, curiosity biting my words.

"So... mephone has agreed to send the competing contestants to our hotel for a party this weekend".

Almost immediately the entire call blasts with screams of joy and cheers from almost everyone. I just smile along with a few other people, clearly we didn't like social gatherings much. Even suitcase grimaced. On the other hand, nickel was screaming like there was no tomorrow. I cover my ears and baseball laughs. He must not know how loud nickel is capable of screaming, because my eardrums are dying. 

The loudest cheer is coming from lightbulb, who dropped her phone and is currently doing a happy dance in the distance. I catch paintbrush giggling and blushing at her. I screenshot the call and nickel stops screaming when he notices. We share a smirk and I send it to paintbrush circling them and lightbulb. Paintbrush's phone chimes and they put their finger out and seemingly open the text. Their face changes from cheerful to a dead stare. They text back. My phone chimes and I open their text.

"You better not be suggesting what I think you are".

Both me and nickel burst out laughing and the whole calls attention turns to us. I quickly text back "dw" and we quiet down. Once the whole call was calm, mephone pipes up.

"So... why am I here?" 

"Last time we invited the competing contestants, it didn't quite end well because you insisted that I didn't ask you, even though I did." OJ replies

"So?" Mephone says.

"This time everyone knows I asked you, and this is proof. So you can't pull any tricks again." OJ says.

"Oh ok, then. Does that mean I can leave?" Mephone says unfazed. But before oj could answer, he was gone. 

"The party's this Sunday and from 5pm to the next morning." Paper says.

"Bring anything you want, but no alcohol". Right after he said that, two or three people shout a mixture of "WHAT?"s and "Awww"s.

"C'mon guys, I'm not dealing with other people's hangovers again" OJ explains.

"Well, that's all I had to say." OJ says.

"Thanks for listening"

Slowly, one by one, everyone starts to leave the call. I save baseballs number for nickel and leave too. The room becomes silent after the beep of the call ending.

"So... charged your phone yet?" I ask nickel. He walks to his charger and his mouth almost drops to the ground. I check what's wrong as he dramatically falls to his knees. 

"NOOOOOO" He yells. The charger is in but the plugs switch is still off. I go down to his level and pat his back.

"There, there drama king" I say. He falls into my chest and I hug him just like we did before, and I comfort him as he sulks about his phone.

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