minishaw one-shots

tinder in real life

warnings: smut (8469 words)

note: prompt submitted by teya. pov's change between jj and simon at first. 

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JJ remembered the exact moment he knew his best friend had feelings for the youngest Sideman. 

It had been an unusually warm afternoon, somewhere in late September, and the boys had been drinking on Harry's roof terrace, after filming multiple video's that day. Simon had been awfully nice to the boy all week, probably thought he was being sly with the glances and smiles he threw in Harry's direction, but JJ noticed. They were sat on the beanbags they had taken from the sitting room and Harry ended up resting his head on Simon's shoulder. Simon hadn't only allowed it, he had welcomed it, wrapping an arm around him and pressing a quick kiss to his forehead. JJ saw it all happen in a flash and that's when he knew his best friend, Simon was head over heels for Harry. He was excited, thinking about the prospect of his two mates getting together. Simon deserved the world and then some, knew Harry could provide him with that. 

Nothing happened though, and eight months flew by like time wasn't even a concept anymore, all seven of them busier than they had ever been. The glances hadn't stopped, instead, Simon just looked sad now, like he was pining over a lost love, and JJ couldn't take it any longer. He decided to do something about it because Simon was too blind, too much of an idiot to see how Harry's face lit up whenever Simon entered the room.

"Another Tinder video?" Josh asked him, while they were having a Discord call that evening, discussing new video ideas.

"Yeah, you know they get bare views and that," JJ replied, trying to justify why he wanted to organise yet another Tinder video, even though they had all agreed they were done with them for a while.

"We might as well, Josh. No one has come up with a better idea," Ethan chimed in, sounding tired, and JJ couldn't blame him, they had been talking for over two hours at that point, aimlessly going back and forth between ideas but getting nowhere.

"They're not that hard to organise, JJ's done it multiple times before," Vik said, and JJ thanked him silently.

"Tobi, Simon, Harry, what do you guys think?" Josh asked, still sounding a bit unsure. Josh was often the one who made the final decision, JJ knew he hated it, wanted them to all agree on something together.

"Fine by me, mate," Harry replied, sunken down in his chair, looking like he was about to fall asleep.

"I'm just happy I don't have to organise it," Tobi said, chuckled softly.

"Si?" JJ let out, waiting for the other to look up at his screen because he hadn't been paying attention much, had barely spoken a word.

"Yeah, sure," Simon replied.

"Alright, that's settled then!" JJ said cheerfully, knowing his work was cut out for him.

The day of the shoot arrived, and JJ had been looking forward to it all week, had put together a master plan if he said so himself. He had shown the girls he had pulled for the video to Simon, called them peng, hoping to get some sort of reaction out of him. Simon was absolutely horrible at hiding his disinterest, causing JJ to smile. It made him more confident that his plan was brilliant, that he was doing the right thing for Simon. 

JJ had convinced Simon to go over to the filming location early since it was JJ's video. He saw all the candidates arrive one by one, as they looked on from a distance, leaned over to Simon now and then to point some of them out. Simon simply looked up from his phone and mumbled something, before hunching over again. JJ bit his lip, tried not to chuckle as he felt more and more excited for his plan to unfold, knew that if it didn't go as he had hoped, that it'd at least make for some funny content, and the boys would be none the wiser. He didn't miss it when Harry arrived, and Simon crawled into his phone even more, he really needed to get a hold of himself. JJ could already hear Simon's voice in his head, thanking him for being such a brilliant friend, and he let out a chuckle when he thought about the others calling him out on his cockiness if they had heard him speak like that.