high rise hearts ☆ lifesteal smp au

𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐏𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐒 ✶

𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲: fluff
𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀: squiddo x kaboodle (squiboodle? does this ship even have a name) platonic or romantic whatever
𝘁𝘄: n/a
𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆: n/a
𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁: little bits of fluffy moments, just girls being girls yk?

─── ⋅☆⋅ ───

𝐏𝐎𝐕: none

The first time they met. A group chat between Clown, Kaboodle and Ash...

> asswag: yo guys
> asswag: im adding one of my friends to gc
> jesterpenetrate: who?
> kab: yeah tell us ashhh
> asswag: gimme a sec
> ash adds squiddo to the group chat
> Squiddo: HIIII
> Squiddo: I WAS INFORMED THAT YOU GUYS WERE ASHS FRIENDS
> Squiddo: and by you guys i mean the one rando in the gc
> kab: indeed i am <3
> kab: im kaboodle but u can call me kab!
> Squiddo: okk hi kab :D
> Squiddo: im squiddo but you can call me squiddo, squid, whatever!
> Squiddo: ash and clown, you know this alr
> jesterpenetrate: this is a recipe for disaster ash, yk that right?
> asswag: they bribed me

They're hanging out at the shopping mall, ready to blow a metaphorical hole into Zam's stolen credit card. Well, the hole is already there.
"AHHH, this might be my BEST HAUL in like a THOUSAND YEARS..." Squiddo exclaims, digging through the bag they got from Hot Topic. Multicolored fabric swims around their hand as they stare at the many articles they bought that day.
"I KNOW RIGHT? This is literally, like, the best mall ever-" They both continue walking down the corridor, its glittering white tiled floor slightly slippery beneath them.
"I cannot wait to put this on when I get home. But first, I'm starving." Squiddo, still walking, briefly glances around their surroundings, vivid gaze hidden behind equally colorful sunglasses. "Where's the food court at?"
Kab giggles- clearly, Squiddo remembered nothing of the giant map they took about 10 minutes to stare at when they first walked in. "The food court isn't here, dummy. It's on the bottom floor."
"Oh." Squiddo's brief response only makes Kab laugh harder.

"Oh, hi Kab!" Squiddo's sitting alone at one of Leo's cafe tables, digging into a plate loaded with barbequed steak. "Didn't expect to see you here- I was too lazy to cook today." Their voice is muffled by the sheer volume of food they're chewing.
"Don't talk with your mouth full," Kab chides them jokingly. "Also hi! I'm here because I can't fucking cook." She slides onto the chair opposite Squiddo.
"Typical Kab." Squiddo finishes chewing to look up at her. "You do need to learn how to cook someday, though..."
"I doubt anybody'll teach me with my history with ovens. Unless- maybe you want to?" Kab proposes the idea, sounding hesitant.
But Squiddo is over the moon at the prospect: "TEACH you? I have NEVER been so honored to receive such a request from ANYONE EVER. When do we start?"

"Noo, KABBB! You'll BURN THE APARTMENT BLOCK DOWN!" Squiddo stops Kab from fiddling with the oven knobs, their mittened hand firmly grasping the other girl's wrist.
"But it makes such cool SPINNY SOUNDS, listennnn!" Kab frees herself from Squiddo and proceedes to demonstrate said "spinny noises:" just the sound of the oven dial clicking as it moved between different temperatures.
"Okay, I will admit that is a very cool sound, but you're STILL GOING TO BURN THE APARTMENT BLOCK DOWN." Squiddo grabs Kab again and directs her back to the table, cluttered with kitchen supplies and stray ingredients. "If you really want to learn how to bake, you need to stop messing with the oven for once..."

"Are you SURE you don't wanna try it?" Kab hiccups, holding out a bottle of beer to a hesitant-looking and much more sober Squiddo. "It's really good, promise..."
"I dunno Kab, I'm not really a drink kinda person..." Squiddo eyes the bottle apprehensively from behind her glasses.
"Pleaseeee? Can you try it for me?" Kab gives Squiddo her best pleading, innocent expression, blinking wide eyes like a small child. The disco lights halo her bright blue hair from behind, as if to prove she's really an angel.
"Ugh, fine... just for you, Kab." Squiddo grabs the bottle by the neck, staring into its opening for a moment, before pouring a little of the amber liquid onto their tongue.
Instantly, they start sputtering, making a show of spitting out every last drop of beer onto the ground. "Pfbt- that SUCKS. Never doing that again." Kab starts wheezing with uncontrollable laughter.

It's just about Christmastime, and as per tradition, everyone is cramped into Redd's apartment to watch The Polar Express on his giant ass TV screen. Squiddo's seen it probably a thousand times before, but to her shock, Kab hasn't watched it once.
"Ooh, the train is sooo pretty! I wanna ride one like it someday..." Kab loudly whispers into her ear. She's curled up beside Squiddo under their shared thin blanket.
"Yeah, a shame it isn't real. I think they might have trains that look like that in real life though..." Squiddo's gaze is fixed on the screen, trying to imagine what it would feel like to be sitting with Kab on one of the cushioned benches.
"Oh really? Will you take me on one, maybe?" Kab's eyes glitter with excitement at the prospect.
"Maybe." Squiddo giggles. "If I ever get that much money."

They're visiting the Empire State Building, standing by the balcony and looking out over the city. The view is simply breathtaking- steel skyscrapers reach for the clouds, glittering with thousands of lights, framing the many smaller buildings cluttered below them. A lone plane whistles off in the distance.
"Woah, this looks so cool!" Kab is practically leaning over the railing, trailing a hand through the gusty night breeze.
"Careful over there, Kab- wouldn't want you falling, that'd be a lot of paperwork." Squiddo jokes, edging closer to stand beside Kab.
"Waitt- wait, that's actually a good idea! We should jump off together! It'd be a great bonding experience..." Kab pleads, taking one of Squiddo's hands tightly in her own as if ready to drag them off the balcony with her.
"Kab, NO! Are you CRAZY-" But it's too late. Kab has already scrambled on top of the railing, pulling Squiddo behind her, and dragged both of them with no hesitation off the edge.
"AHHHHHH-" Squiddo shrieks, the wind whooshing through her ears muffling her cry. But they can't repress a wide smile at the exhilaration of falling over 100 stories to the ground.
"WHEEEEEEEE!" Kab yells from right beside them, hand still closed firmly around their own as they plummet downwards towards the sidewalk. Squiddo registers that she's smiling too before they make contact with the pavement and everything goes dark.
They wake up in the respawn ward, a nurse briefly examining their vitals. "Launching off the Empire State Building isn't even the worst death excuse I've heard..." He mutters before handing Squiddo and Kab their paperwork and walking off.
"That was... amazing..." Kab manages to say, still groggy from the experience of reapawning.
"You know what? It kind of was." Squiddo leans back in the crisp white bed. "You're a really amazing person for thinking of it, too."
"Aww, that's like actually nice of you. I'm already aware that I'm a nice person, but I think you're just as cool."

─── ⋅☆⋅ ───

𝗮/𝗻: i got this ship from a random lifesteal hs au on ao3 and i was like "why the hell not?" also unrelated but i have been listening to too much of that one artist that sang "hot to go." 2 am me doesn't remember her name (it was chappell roan) but screw the fact i'm a guy, that shit is fire. also i might consider making one of these into a longer story, idrk ☆ bk

𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓: 1291