Serendipity | Ninjago One-Shots II

a complicated mess of feelings | ninjago oc's au

Prompt: Isla x Nya AU from TheMagicalMang0

Title from the lyrics of: How Lovely by Reinaeiry

I wanted to call it I Feel A Little Tingle In My Chest And At This Point I'm Really Hoping It's A Heart Attack but that seemed too long. 😂

🏳️‍🌈❤️Happy Pride Month!!!! ❤️🏳️‍🌈
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Isla didn't laugh a lot.

She scoffed, she snickered, but never full-on laughter. It wasn't that she didn't have a sense of humour. Her humour was more dry and sarcastic than anything. She just didn't burst out with bubbles and chortles of joy the way others did.

Nya laughed.

She laughed a lot.

It was a beautiful sound to Isla's ears.

It wasn't exactly dainty. She snorted if something was funny enough but it was beautiful nonetheless. Every time Isla heard it she felt her heart flutter.

Isla was good at self-regulation. Whether it was for school, social interaction, or anything. When it came to Nya it was no different.

Stop. Isla told her brain every time she felt her cheeks heat when Nya talked to her.

Stop. Isla protested when she accidentally brushed the girl's hand.

Stop. Isla hissed when she couldn't stop watching the girl valiantly beat up Chen in P.E.

She's straight. Isla reminded herself. She has a boyfriend.

You can't have her.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Nya was not straight.

Isla was pretty good at masking her surprise but it was a huge struggle not to gape at the girl. Nya smiled like it was nothing and continued walking calmly down the hall.

"Yeah, I'm bi." She had said.

"Oh cool, I'm bi too." Isla had oh-so-intelligently replied.

Not a lot drove Isla crazy.

There were annoying people.

And then there was Nya.

Isla was starting to think Nya was winning at the contest of what made Isla's head spin the most.

Isla was always a calm cool and collected person. She was that girl who sat alone with her nose in her book. The girl whose aura said STAY AWAY! and usually people respond to it.

Except for Nya.

Nya would plop down beside Isla. She'd either stay quiet and do her homework or occasionally engage Isla in conversation. Nya moved like it was a dance, always so smoothly, so fluidly whether she was talking or running. Her pretty dark eyes made all logical thought disappear and her smile caused a tingle in Isla's chest that she couldn't ignore.