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‘THIS IS SO CUTE!!!’
‘GUYS LOOK AT THIS’
‘AWWW THE LITTLE PECK AHHHH’
Latte couldn’t help but scrunch up his face in disgust as he scrolled through more of his timeline, the same clip playing over and over again, ignorant to how it only haunted and damn near tormented him. He never watched or listened far enough to know how it ended, but by looking at the post itself, he knew what he would see if he lingered just a bit too long on a video of those two.
She knows she should get off her phone, go throw a ball or something to get her mind off this, but looking at all the posts people were making was like looking at a car crash, painful but you couldn’t help but stare.
And by Glub, was Latte staring.
Soon, the comments seemed to melt together, their words of love and support growing to become more similar to each other as Latte scrolled past and what once hurt Latte to first look at, quickly became numb as they disconnected from what was really happening in front of them.
This wasn’t happening
None of this happened
The people they were looking at weren’t Chalky and Broomer, AI has come quite far
Those two weren’t together, Broomer was too up himself to fall in love with anyone and Chalky would never go for someone like Broomer.
Latte still had time-
oh
Latte’s eyes locked on the picture in front of them, ignoring everything else around them as if it were nothing at that very moment. Reality was here and it wanted Latte to come back to it.
Latte took a deep breath and turned off their phone, oblivious to their hands trembling and their grip on their phone growing slightly stronger. That was enough.
He stared blankly at the wall, her phone discarded somewhere on her bed, only a single thought going through his head:
That should have been him
That should have been him being fawned over
That should have been them being supported
That should have been HER kissing Chalky
Why Broomer?!
Why Chalky?!
How did ANY of this happen under the viewers’ watchful eyes?
How did ANY of this happen under HIS watchful eyes?
They were best friends!
Sure, Chalky would talk about Broomer sometimes while the cameras were off, but that didn’t mean anything!
You chose not to look close enough
Chalky NEVER mentioned that he and Broomer were dating
Because you chose to ignore it
It was supposed to be HIM
No it wasn’t
Latte could feel his throat close as he held back sobbing
It was never meant to be you
Latte could see his vision getting blurry, but quickly wiped those tears away as he picked up her phone once more, hands still shaky but grip now much looser.
They turned on their phone, opening it to the tweet with that image. Before Latte could exit out of the app, the person who tweeted the image caught their eye…
…it was Chalky himself
‘We’ve been dating since season 1, we’ve just decided to be a little more open about it on the show!’
Latte once again turned off her phone, this time with a sigh of defeat as she dropped it on her bed.
It was never going to happen