When the Leaves Fall [bxp] ✔

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Hi! It's been a while, really sorry about that but with school and stuff I have been busy, writing block didn't help. Anyway, this one's a little short, sorry about that </3 but three chapters left after this one!! 

Friendship Among the Falling Leaves

"And that's why I moved here," Jupiter said, looking at the others. Tarla was leaning against the jungle gym, Nils and Quinn sitting cross-legged in front of her, Aeron and Nils standing behind their significant others, and Felix was standing next to Jupiter.

"Wait, so does that mean you have no social media?" Tarla asked slowly, lifting her sunglasses off her face. Felix let out a loose laugh as Jupiter raised their eyebrows.

"I guess, yeah?" They said, giving her a sheepish grin.

"Please? Not that being the first thing you say?" Felix laughed.

"Listen, we can all agree, your ex-friends are pieces of shit, your mom, terrible, basically your whole school, not great? But like, socials?" Tarla said, glancing at Aeron who just shrugged. "That is, if you're interested in actually having any social media of course. Cause like some people hate it ya know. And some people enjoy it."

"Ok so like before I was outed and stuff, I enjoyed having social media ya know, Instagram is a great texting platform I guess and also Reels are great, and - if you follow the right people slash topics - Twitter can be great as well. Of course, with that, you have to click 'not interested in tweet' like a billion times to avoid the toxic sides of course, but ya know some parts of Twitter are awesome. So yeah I guess I like social media."

"What if, only if you're up to it, we can help you create some stuff? Like Insta, Twitter, Discord?" Tarla asked, slowly.

"I'd be down for all three of those, although I've never actually used Discord."

"I haven't either and I have an account," Felix muttered softly, inciting a laugh from Quinn.

"Me and Wren both made servers recently - it was a competition to see who could make a better one and the loser had to delete theirs so we can just add all of you to Wren's," Quinn said, grinning. "We'll teach all of you how to use it."

"Okay, I also probably need a new email by the way. Cause I changed my number when I moved, but I still need an email I think." They pulled out their phone as they spoke.

"We can sit on the bench over there," Aeron said softly, gesturing to an empty bench a little away from the playground.

"Yeah," Nils cheered, and Felix suppressed his grin. His extreme excitement compensated for Aeron's quietness and it was so warm to see.

"Okay, but what's their new email username gonna be?" Felix asked, turning to Jupiter. They shrugged, making Felix laugh.

"User biggestplanet," Tarla said quietly making Jupiter jerk their head to look at it.

"That's perfect," they said deadpan, making Tarla look up, flabbergasted.

Their straight face fell at Tarla's reaction and they let out an unfiltered chuckle. "It's still perfect but your face."

"Well, I guess we're going with that," Quinn laughed. "Also who's making what?"

"I'll make the email!" Wren said, glancing at everyone, "also you can change all the passwords later but for now Jupiter@1 capital J work?" Jupiter nodded.

"I'll make the Instagram after you make the email and Jupiter you should probably look for profile pics," Quinn nodded, glancing at them.

"I'll take care of Twitter," Aeron said softly.

"I'll do Discord," Felix added.

"What else is there?" Nils asked quietly.

"Well we could do Snapchat but that's not for everyone. There's also TikTok?" Tarla glanced at Jupiter.

"I'd be down for TikTok but I don't think I want Snap," they said, glancing up from where they were looking through their camera roll. "But Tarla I know you tend to have all the group pictures 'cause you ask everyone to send them to you, so could you maybe, possibly, help me find some?" Jupiter sped up as they talked and Tarla just laughed.

"Yeah, I can help," she grinned, moving to stand next to them.

"Then I'll do TikTok," Nils beamed.

"I'll put the profile pictures for each app in the group chat," Jupiter said, tearing their eyes away from their phone to glance at everyone.

"Perfect," Quinn said.

It didn't take long for all of them to add profile pictures to the accounts and for Jupiter to log into their accounts on their phone.

"I don't know when I'm going to change the passwords cause then I'll have to come up with something and change it for all of these accounts which frankly is a lot, so just so you know." They looked up from their phone as they said that.

"Wait, is your Spotify still connected to your old email then?" Felix asked, glancing at them.

"Not exactly? It's connected to my iCloud email, my dad thought it was a good idea for me to have an iCloud and a Gmail so I have both, my iCloud was different than my other one and no one really knew about it so it worked though. I used that one for my Spotify."

"Checks out," Wren said, nodding. "Anyway, we're about to be your first followers slash friends."

"You don't have to say slash-" Quinn started.

"Anyway!" Wren said loudly, cutting her off.

"If I accept your follows that is," Jupiter grinned at Wren's look of betrayal.

"You will," was all Quinn said, grinning.

"Your first six followers, hell yeah," Nils smiled, glancing at the Instagram account.

"And now time for the first post, but first we need a picture of us today," they said grinning.

"Here, lemme lean it against this tree, '' Wren said, taking his phone and turning on the photo timer. "I think everyone's in it?"

Felix felt Jupiter slip their hand into his as Wren clicked the shutter button and rushed to get into the picture before the timer ran out. He felt his heart speed up and grinned wider just at the sound of the picture being taken. It took a couple of pictures before everyone's eyes were open, but the whole time Jupiter never let go of Felix's hand.

"Now let me just," Jupiter started, picking up their phone. "Wait Wren, I need you to send me the picture." Wren laughed, sharing the pictures on the group chat.

"Ok now I just have to choose all the pictures that me and Tarla chose and-" Jupiter stopped, glancing up from their phone. "I didn't think of a caption." Nils laughed lightly and Felix covered his smile with his hand.

"Here wait, I got something," they said after a second. "First post on my Instagram."

"Oh I love the caption!" Quinn grinned, smiling.

"Very cheesy," Wren said, nodding his head. Quinn smacked his hand, scrunching her eyebrows. "Hey! Listen, I never said it was a bad thing, all I'm saying is..." the two of them started bickering.

"I like it," Felix said softly, glancing at them. "Friendship among the falling leaves has a nice ring to it."

"Thank you guys," Jupiter said softly. "Like actually, I never thought about doing this and it does feel like I'm actually moving on."

"Of course," Tarla said cheerfully. Aeron nodded slowly, pushing their hair back.

"Anyway now that that's done, the park!" Quinn smiled. Felix felt his heart lighten seeing Jupiter's carefree smile. Yes, friendship among the falling leaves really was beautiful.