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And so their texts began, and with it began something much bigger than either of their minds could’ve imagined.
Topics were pouring more than a teenage girl that just saw Micheal kaiser come on the screen.
They talked for hours, quickly enough they exchanged clash Royale IDs after he discovered that she plays it —which was coincidentally his favourite game at the time— soon enough they challenged each other and suddenly all of his years of honed skills in the game was defenestrated, he lost.
And by god did the teasing begin; he quickly protested saying that his “defence was top notch” and that “he only lost because he hasn’t played in a while” and finally after a lot of teasing about his lack of skill Melia agreed to another match.
He lost.
Well fuck what can we say now, Jonathan simply accepted his loss with not-so-humble replies. “I’m really good at this game today is just a bad day for me I swear!” Melia replied calm as ever
“oh really? And a bad day makes you put ice golem on the bridge to tank for a push?”
“Uh…” he had no reply, in the end only an idiot would do that. He brainstormed for an answer, finding none; this time he actually had to accept the defeat “fuck” he thought to himself.
“Fine fine you won I was just stupid that time, although how about a third? Ill humiliate you this time”
Melia was amused at his very desperate attempts on saving his pride, with nothing better to do she agreed for a third, hoping to kill his idiotic ego once and for all.
After a very long and difficult 3 minutes and 2 minutes of overtime with blood, sweat, tears and pride shed, Jonathan won.
And oh did he ride that high hard, not even a second passed after the singular crown appeared on his side he already was teasing Melia in their DMs:
“I TOLD YOU IM GONNA FUCKING HUMILIATE YOU FUCKING SLUT” he was overly prideful of his very pathetic win.
“Careful now a couple more insults and I’ll be turned on” Melia replied, completely throwing Jonathan off guard.
Jon was embarrassed and blushing oh so very hard but he couldn’t tell her that yet. “oh yeah? Didn’t think you were that easy” he teased back.
Out of everything Melia expected, that was not it.
Unbeknownst to them; they were both blushing but they were both also too embarrassed to admit it.
Trying to hold apart what’s left of her pride she hit him back “well When a hot guy such as you I just can’t hold back can I?”
Jonathan was feeling hot all over his body in a second, he couldn’t keep the act together anymore
“OKAY STOP IM BLUSHING TOO HARD NOW” he broke.
“Alright alright I’ll stop just for you, princess.” She wanted to make sure to squeeze him out for every bit of butterflies he could feel, hiding the fact that she herself was feeling the same way but she hid it a little better.
“Princess” he thought to himself, “thats such an embarrassing pet name… why do I like it?” He contemplated with his thoughts, each time the name “princess” goes to his cranium he feels his face getting hotter; to his surprise, it felt weirdly nice. His string of thoughts were cut off by another message ping. Melia replied to one of his messages where Jonathan said that he was a writer and said that she too loved writing. Jon was surprised, it’s not the most common thing to meet another writer in the wild, so he asked “where do you write?” She excitedly told him, “well I was a wattpad warrior” “although now I switched over to Ao3” to which he immediately replied to a screenshot of him on the homepage of it. “I’m a cultured fellow aswell, I’ve witnessed the great 2023 shutdown and also the 227 incident” Jon added. “Y’know the ‘I love atushi” fic right? I’ve read it” Melia immediately recognised the the name, because, well who wouldn’t? Shortly after they decided to look at the tags of the fic together, “Kentucky fried cockskin” “pussy piss pasta” each one quoting a tag and the other coming back with worse, the both of them basically hollering at the extremity of each tag. And immediately after Jon starts talking about the time his mom broke a bedframe while beating him once, “I’ve already broke a bedframe once, so I know damn well I can break another one if I were to see you” God that was awful. he cursed himself for such a bad line, although a few mins after throwing his phone across the room he picked it up, and he was Appalled to see * “Melia, 4 new messages” “Why did I even do that? I’m so fucking stupid oh my god what if she thinks I’m a creep now?” He was oh so scared to open those notifications up, finally a few minutes he bit on his tongue and opened his phone. To Jonathan’s absolute amazement, she wasn’t insulting him or calling him a creep. wait what, she isn’t? No, no way. Jonathan rubbed his eyes hoping that he wasnt just going crazy, once again, to his astonishment, she didn’t block him, she didn’t even tell him to fuck off “Oh yeah?” “You think you’re strong enough to break a bedframe on me” “I’d love to see that” “Big boy” WHAT THIS IS SURELY NOT TRUE RIGHT? NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL DID THIS LINE WORK.. surely a stroke of luck right? Or maybe she was just ovulating and he was the first person to flirt with her, I mean she was flirting back when other people did, was she into me? Or mayb- Another message ping cut him off. “What, chickened out so fast for a guy who claims to be ‘a smooth talker’” Oh fuck. in his train of thought he completely forgot about replying to Melia. “Oh no I didn’t chicken out, my mom just asked me for help” “Yeah sure thing big boy” Usually he would’ve immediately found a line to hit her back with, not this time tho. She made him nervous; something that no one has ever done before. “Don’t piss your pants I was just kidding anyway” she wasn’t. “Oh yeah me too” he lied aswell, his mom doesn’t need help. Hell she’s not even in the same vicinity to begin with, she was at work swearing at costumers over the phone, but oh well he couldn’t say that, maybe another secret for now? Sure why not. “Anyway I just realised I’ve never asked of your fav color, so what is it?” Jonathan said, trying to shift the conversation around to a more “friendly” vibe. “Mines black and pink” —dear kpop fan, no it’s not a reference— “Thats so cool, mines purple!” “Purple? Isn’t that unusual for a guy” “YEAH I KNOW BUT ITS SO COOL, IT USED TO BE THE COLOR OF ROYALTY BACK THEN BECAUSE IT COULD ONLY BE OBTAINED FROM A TYPE OF SEA SNAIL THAT WAS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT THE MOST WERE THE PHOENICIANS IN THE CITY OF TYRE OR MODERN DAY LEBANON.” “AND EXTRACTING IT WAS SO HARD BECAUSE ONLY THE MOCUS THE SNAIL HAD THE COLOR SO IT WAS SO EXPENSIVE THAT ONLY KINGS WORE IT, AND THATS WHY ITS CALLED THE COLOR OF ROYALTY” Jonathan loved info dumping, it was a love language of his. He started to clearly grow on Melia, although he felt a little annoying for dumping without her asking “sorry I just like to tell people what I know when a topic I’m interested whenever asked” he added, anxious as ever. On the other hand. Melia only had a big smile on her face, she loved when people were passionate about things they like, she was falling for Jonathan and his stupid little habits and also the way he talks about- “fuck get a grip Melia” she stopped herself from getting too lost in thought. “No no that was actually so cool I like it when people tell me stuff I’m not really knowledgeable on” “You’re such a cool guy Jonathan” she was blushing sending that. even though she borderline flirted with him earlier, but playful flirting didn’t come close to a genuine compliment that she actually meant. “Thank you!” “You’re pretty damn cool aswell if you ask me” He was blushing too, they were both falling in love harder than a millennial who just hopped on a skateboard after seeing Tony hawk. Their unspoken love was growing by the day, they kept exchanging conversations and opinions about everything they could think of, and by Lord did neither of them want to stop talking. Jon showed her as he made his favourite dish, grape leaves —also known as dolma sometimes— Which was a dish consisting of rice, vegetables or meat, some kind of salsa, and well, grape leaves. Unfortunately, Melia couldn’t do the same with hers, because she didn’t know how to cook. And when she told Jonathan of that he simply said “really? Then I got you covered cutie, I’m a cook I can do it for you.” As stupid as that sounded it still made Melia’s Heart flutter. She didn’t reply for a few seconds and the wrote back to him “I THINK MY MOM NOTICED” Puzzled he asked “NOTICED WHAT” “IM ON A CALL WITH MOM AND I STOPPED TALKING WHEN YOU CALLED ME CUTIE” there was no point of hiding it anymore. The fact that she was so very vocal about her feelings and what his words did to her made Jonathan smitten over her, so he decided to keep going a little more. “AWWWW YOURE SO ADORABLE” “SHUT UP SERIOUSLY” she blushed redder than freshly picked tomatoes “NO I WONT WHEN YOU SOUND AS CUTE AS YOU DO” He was blushing over himself aswell “HEY PLEASE STOP IM BLUSHING SO HARD AND MY MOM JUST CAME INTO MY ROOM” “AWWWW YOURE SUCH A CUTE LITTLE BABY I BET YOU LOOK SO PRETTY WITH THAT SMILE AND BLUSH ON YOUR FACE, I BET YOURE GIGGLING SO HARD RN” He caught her right in the act, all that he said was in fact true, Melia didn’t know what to say, she simply liked his messages and said “Okay fine I’m blushing because of you rn happy now? Can we seriously move on now my stomach can’t handle much more butterflies” Although what she didn’t know that as that happened Jonathan was also blushing so hard his face was almost as red as cherry juice, and he was also in a vc with his friends during that time, and he too was giggling like a school girl. Which his friends teased him for of course, and that only made him blush worse.