CHAPTER THREE;
JUST A FRIEND.

MIKE🥵✋🏻

i finished my book assignment finally

omg u texted me first!!
this is getting so serious wowza

don't be weird about it

ok 🥺

you're so dumb

UR HURTING MY FEELINGS
i'm gonna cry 😖😖
are u excited to start skool

no

omg we're seniors
isn't it sooo weird
like LIFE MAN
we're going to be adults

i guess

holy shoot
ur bday is next month
🥳🥳🥳

did i tell you that?

yes
remember u said it's september 7th
omg u were born in 2001
i was born in 2002
i won't be 18 until march 25th 😤😤
our love will be illegal 😳

thank god

the law can't stop me bb 🥰

you're insane, el

like i said, IM AN ARIES
♈️♈️🤠

what does that have to do with anything?

ugh ur such a virgo

none of that is actually real

what the frick yes it is
i'm FIRE
ur EARTH
together we are a natural disaster

you're not really selling this

ok tru
but like forget the part abt the natural disaster
😁😁

you really believe in astrology?

sì

sounds fake but okay

gasp was that ur first stan twt lingo

what?

ugh ur so dumb

oh, how nice

i'm just joking ily chill 💖💖
stan twt lingo is like how stan twitter talks

makes sense

really?

no

omg u will catch on eventually
have u decided if i'm someone u want to further associate w

i'm talking to you, aren't i?

O CRABBY OK
u like me

no

not even as a friend?? 🥺🥺

just a friend

ok good that's all i want
i know i come off a lil strong and scary and loud and annoying and all
but i'm just joking when i say we're soulmates
well kind of joking bc anything is possible bb 🥰🥰

you are annoying

o
that's not what i was trying to get at
but whatever floats ur boat 🤧

i don't mind though
i mean, i did at first because you were some random person that wouldn't leave me alone

but now i'm ur wifey poo 🥰

no

ur gf 🤠

no

ur friend 😒😒

yes

ok fine
we r friends
(until we have babies)

seriously what the fuck

OMG NOT ON MY CHRISTIAN MINECRAFT SERVER U DINGUS

what?

WATCH UR PROFANITY
u could say frick, heck, frickle frackle, fudge

oh, you're mad because i said fuck

DO U KISS UR MOTHER W THAT MOUTH U SINNER
my eyes 😱😱
ur bad

are you sure you're a senior because you come across as a 3rd grader

i'm babie 🤧

right

no more bad words 👊🏻👊🏻

fine

so what do u wanna talk abt sugar poo

if i can't swear, you have to chill with the nicknames and all the weird stuff

🥺🥺
but i'm just being myself

okay, be yourself just stop calling me sugar poo and 'babie'

ugh fine
u suck sm mike
is mike short got michael

yes
why?

IM CURIOUS GOSH
so what's ur last name
now that we're friends u can tell me

tell me yours first

it's hopper

oh
mine is wheeler

omg el wheeler
that's so cute 🤧
i'm relieved
i thought it was gonna something weird like robinson

how is that weird?

BC IT JUST IS OK

okay

so wyd imy

i'm about to go meet my friends

oooooo fUn
i wish i had friends 🥺

what about rosie?

she isn't talking to me 😔😔

you two are still fighting?

no
sometimes she just hangs out w her other friends and they don't like me so she acts like she doesn't like me

that's terrible
i'm sorry

eh what can ya do tho 🤣

get new friends?

hA it's not that easy

why not?

omg u ask soooo many questions
u love me sm u just want to know everything abt me 🥰🥰

isn't that what friends do?
they get to know one another?

ok then MY TURN
tell me abt UR friends
since u already know abt mine

correction, i know about rosie and i'm not really a fan because she seems like a bitch

FRICK MIKE THATS SUCH A BAD THING TO SAY OMG STOP😤😤

okay
sorry
i forgot
no swearing

yes!! no potty mouth 🚫🚽👄

nice emojis

they're for xtra emphasis

i got that

OH CRABBY MIKE HAS RETURNED
r we really doing this again
i thought we were making progress
MIKE
ok now ur ignoring me
ur breaking my heart bb 🥺💔

my friends saw that message

omg tell them i say hiiii

they think i'm talking to you

we r talking luv whut u mean

no, like talking
like pre-dating "talking"

oh
why would they think that
there's no pre abt us
WE R DATING
u my 4ever babie

i thought you said you'd chill with the nicknames

omg u swore again so i got a free pass 👐🏼👐🏼

fair enough

😇😇
so what r ur friends names
what r they like
do they support our luv

they keep trying to look at my phone
and their names are lucas, will, dustin and max

they sound hot 🥵🥵
not as hot as u tho

i'm starting to think this friends thing isn't going to work

omg no i'll be good swearsies

right

I PROOOMISE
oh i've been left on read
k then

i was going to text you back
i'm with my friends right now, remember?

ok 🤧🤧
i'll let u go then
miss u already luv

you don't have to go
i just might not reply quick

o that's alright ig
what r u guys doing
what do boys do

first, we're eating pizza
second, we aren't all boys

...
UR WITH A FEMALE
R U CHEATING ON ME
WHAT IN HECK

max is a girl

WHAT WHY

2 x chromosomes, i guess

STUPID CHROMOSOMES AH
is she prettier than me

i don't know what you look like?

o right
ok nvm

you're so confusing

part of my charm ✨✨

max dates lucas

omg cute love them together sm
who's lucas
OH YEAH UR FRIEND

yes

i have to go 😢😢
i had chores and i didn't do them and my dad is abt to get off work 😳😳
i must speed clean

good luck

thanks bb 🥰
ttyl

bye

...

a/n: so i've sort of changed my plan for the book so i might rewrite the prologue lol. it's less of changing the plot, but the characters. thanks for reading!! xx

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