Just friends, right?

small things

Changed my mind abt this chapter 3 times (help me) :3
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Context:It's the next day, Paani came over and got Kwazii ready. Now he gonna put Cupid Paani's plan into action (slowly)‼️‼️
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                            (Third person)
Shellington had just woken up, the only thing that he could think of was yesterday,
Why did I get so close, that was so embarrassing and awkward. What if he was uncomfortable? But then why would he invite me over? WHAT IF HES PLAYING WITH MY FEELINGS?!- wait, he wouldn't do that... but what if he would? Does he even know?
The door opens snapping Shellington out of his thoughts, it was tunip with flour all over him.
"Tunip? what happened?" Shellington asked concerned. He didn't get a response so he got up and went to the kitchen to see a complete mess, "How did this happen... whatever I'll get you guys cleaned up."

"I'll help you!!" Kwazii entered the room making Shellington jump, "Sorry if I scared you-"

"I uh- it's ok! And I've got this, you shouldn't waste your time helping me." He declined politely, but Kwazii kept insisting. Shellington knew he wouldn't give up so they started to clean the room and then the vegimals.

Step 1: communication (≧∇≦)

After they finished Shellington thought that Kwazii would've left him alone, not like he wanted him to leave him alone. When he kept following him talking non-stop, Shellington realized that he wasn't leaving. He got a bit confused, "Kwazii, why are you still here?"

Kwazii stopped talking for a second, "Do you not want me here?" He replied hesitantly.

"It's not that- I like you being here it's just that you're usually doing something, like taking the Gup-B out and stuff!"

"Oh, well I just wanted to hang out with you! I miss your company." He gave a shellington a small smile.
Shellington's face turned pink as he tried not to smile, he ended up giggling and pulled out a book from his satchel. "Fine, but I'm just going to be reading," he looked down at his book about some rare jellyfishes.

"That's boring, let's do something fun- like actually looking at those jellyfish!" He shut the book and dragged Shellington along with him to the launch-bay.

"Kwazii, are you sure? They're pretty rare to find, and I wouldn't want to waste your time, and I don't everything about some of them, and they could be very dangerous... or-"

"It's ok! I brought your book so you can learn about them as we get there!" He handed the book to him while they got into the gup-A. "Tweak, open the octo-hatch!!" Once tweak opened it they were off. Peso came down after they left.
"Hey Tweak, have you seen Shellington?" He looked around the room before looking at tweak who was working on something.
"Mhm... he went out with Kwazii in the gup-A." She replied still looking down at her work, "You think they'll ever notice that they go on a date or hangout 2 weeks a month?" She asked him.
"Maybe, it has been a while since they've gone out together. Shellington's been busy with stuff lately so he probably forgot... besides Shellington is oblivious and Kwazii is... weird when it comes to him ; anyway, once he comes back tell him I wanna see him asap!" He said while going back.
"You got it!"

Back with Shellington and Kwazii, they were trapped in awkward silence for a good 3 minutes. Kwazii noticed that Shellington went back to reading his book, "Hey shelli, do you have a favorite animal you'd like to see?" The name Shelli caught him by surprise, he hasn't been called that for years, but it felt nice.
"Oh- uh, there's the box jellyfish. Though they're really poisonous..." he responded nervously.
"I've dealt with scarier thing. Do you have a map to find those box jellyfish?" He asked.
"They can be found near here," he answered trying to avoid eye contact.  After a few minutes of looking around around they finally found the jellyfish. Kwazii quickly put his helmet on and Shellington followed. Once they both got out they swam and got to a safe distance and watched the jellyfish. The jellyfish caught Kwazii's attention, he stepped closer and closer reaching his arm out to touch one. When he suddenly got pulled back, he felt an arm wrapped around his, when he turned around he saw Shellington throw away his book and with a worried expression.
"Kwazii, be careful! I knew you were reckless but not that reckless..." he tightened his grip and sat back down.
"Sorry for worrying you, Shelli"
Shellington got really defensive when Kwazii said that, "Worrying?! I wasn't worrying I was just uh you know concerned or whatever . And stop calling me that!" He turned his head with his arm still wrapped around Kwazii.
"Sure thing, shelling" he answered back teasingly.
"Don't call me that either! Also what were you thinking?! Not that I care or anything- not that I DONT care but what you did was stupid. You wouldn't have died.. I think, but it would hurt a lot and I wouldn't want you to get hurt because you decided to take me out..." he said nervously.
"Take you out? Is this a date? And either way I would have no regrets on 'taking you out' even if I got hurt" he reassured him.
"You know what I meant by taking me out... don't make it weird." He rolled his eyes at Kwazii before looking at his beaten up book, "Shoot, my book. It's all ruined" he picked it up and sighed.
"Sorry, matey. How about next time we go out we go somewhere new?"
"Like where?"
"I dunno but I'll think of something. I'll pick you up tomorrow around... three?"
"Is this gonna be like an actual date?"
"An actual date?"
"Yeah, I mean this time you're actually planning it out and setting a time for when you're gonna take me instead of just taking me like you did this time... so yeah it would technically be a date."
"Yeah I guess so... can't wait to take you out again, babe!" He winked at Shellington with a stupid smirk on his face.
"Oh shut up, Kwazii" he rolled his eyes, he took a quick glance at the jellyfish and realized that they were gone. "The jellyfish is gone... I suppose we should go back now." He let go of kwaziis arm and started swimming back to the Gup while Kwazii followed.
"You know, it's a bit too early to go back. We could go somewhere else!"
"Nah, I need to do some stuff in my room. We'll go out tomorrow." He put his helmet away and his dirty book in a bag, Kwazii pushed Shellington's head with his hands making them make eye contact, he held his face in his hands for a few seconds before letting go.
"Please Shellington? I want to spend more time with you. We could watch that show you like so much, 'The Music Freaks' right?" The suggestion surprised Shellington. He told him that years ago, he didn't expect for him to remember that.

"You remember that?! Oh gosh, I told you that so long ago." He chuckled about it .

"I remember everything you told me. And I have some other ways to find out your interest- not creepy ways just some other unique ways." He stepped back to the stirring wheel and placed his hands on it, "I heard there's a new episode coming out!"

"Yeah, I can't wait! It should be coming out in a few minutes. We could go back to the octopod, grab some snacks, and watch it! If that's ok with you"
"Definitely!"

Once they got back Tweak told Shellington about Peso wanting to see him. He told her that he'd go to him once him and Kwazii were done watching their show. On the way to Kwazii's room the same thought went through Shellington's head, Did he always do this? He kept looking at Kwazii who ended up noticing.
"Is there something on my face?" He gave him a nervous smile.
"No, I just got carried away, sorry." He quickly looked away embarrassed about it while Kwazii chuckled a little.
"Why? Is my face really that handsome?" He smirked at Shellington who was still looking away.
"As if." He answered back with another smirk. Once they got to Kwaziis room Shellington flopped backwards on the bed while kwazii got the snacks out, once he was done he jumped on Shellington. "K-kwazii... you're kinda heavy!.. can you get off? I can't breathe,"  he panted a little.
"I'm not that heavy, you're just kinda weak." He rolled off of him and onto the other side.
"Am not!" He sat up and took out his phone. "I think we have some time until the new episode is out... wanna rewatch episode 10?"
"Sure," he pulled Shellington back by his waist and held him close resting his head in Shellington's shoulder. "Are you ok? You're sweating."
"I'm doing just fine- just hot in here, haha!!"
"How about you take off your shirt or something?"
"I DONT THINK THATS NECESSARY!!" He yelled back while clicking his phone.
"Fine, but you could at least roll up your sleeves, that might help." And with that he grabbed Shellington's arm and rolled up the sleeves making Shellington blush.

He zoned out and got trapped in his thoughts for a few seconds, Why am I blushing? I know I like him but still, he's just rolling up my sleeves...wow it really is hot in here.
Kwazii let go of Shellington's arm. He opened a bag of gummy worms and handed some to Shellington, "I brought extra gummies since you love them so much," When he looked back at Shellington's face he noticed that his expression changed from flustered to surprised, "What?"
"Nothing- just that I never told you that I liked gummies," he grabbed the gummy worm from Kwazii's hand.
"You never told me?" Both of them looked confused as Shellington shook his head, "Hm, I guess you just eat them a lot to the point where it noticeable. Not in a bad way,"  he scratched the back of his head followed up with Shellington letting out a giggle.
"Gosh, you remember so many small things about me- you really are a great friend" he looked at Kwazii, who had an expression of sad and awkwardness that filled the room. Shellington started panicking thinking he did something wrong, Why is he sad?! Was it something I said or did? I didn't do anything to upset him, at least I think not. Crap, what do I do?!
Kwazii looked down trying to not look at Shellington, the word "friend" made Kwazii lose some hope in thinking that he might've had a chance with him. "Friend" is that what he thinks of me? It's better than an enemy or disturbance I guess but still, what if he doesn't want to be more than that? Whatever, I don't wanna ruin this moment with him because I got sad over a word. His expression quickly changed to more joyful and reassured Shellington that he was ok. They spent hours watching their show before the season finally ended.

"I can't wait for the new season! Hopefully we won't have to wait another 3 years." He put away his phone and began cleaning up.

Kwazii stared at him with love in his eyes when he realized that he had a necklace on, one that seemed very familiar. "Hey, isn't that the necklace that I gave you when we were 15?" He got closer to take a better look at it, and sure enough it was the necklace he gave him. "You kept it?" He eyes softened as a smile appeared on his face.

Shellington smiled back, "Of course I kept it. You were the one who gave it to me." He paused for a minute, "I should get going now, Peso wants to see me." He started walking away before Kwazii reminded him that they were going on "friend" date tomorrow. Once Shellington got to Peso's room he looked down at the ground.

"So, I heard you went out with Kwazii-"

"HE CALLED ME BABE AND I CALLED HIM A GOOD FRIEND."

"What."

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Woah, I finally posted a new chapter! Sorry for not posting this sooner. I'm currently being targeted at summer school and it was very hard to come up with something. My head was all over the place for the past few weeks wkldkwops. ALSO GO CHECK OUT THE MUSIC FREAKS ON YOUTUBE!! I just KNOW the drake fans r crying after the new episode rn.