Little Numbers (tronnor remake)

Chapter 18

DISCLAIMER: I did not write this story, I've merely altered it into a Tronnor story. I claim no ownership over it at all. The original Little Numbers, written for the Glee fandom, can be found under the user iknowitainteasy on Livejournal.

Formatting Key;
Connor
Troye
Kayla
Caspar
Tyler
Matthew

******

Sun 8 Feb (5:17pm)
Wait. What's up with yours?

(5:18)
Mine walks the whole of Central Park South each Sunday and Bradshaw and I are getting tired.
(5:19)
Why? What is yours doing?

(5:19)
That's delicate intel.

(5:21)
How delicate?

(5:21)
Game-changing.

(5:23)
Well, are you gonna tell me?

(5:24)
You can't tell him.

(5:24)
He doesn't even know we're talking.

(5:25)
Promise.

(5:25)
Come on!

(5:26)
Promise on your prank videos, Caspar.

(5:26)
What?
(5:27)
I don't know what you're talking about.

(5:28)
Connor told me your channel name.
(5:28)
I may or may not have searched you up.

(5:29)
...

(5:29)
We put your bathroom break to good use.

(5:30)
For what, future blackmail? Whose side are you on?

(5:30)
I'm just asking you to keep it to yourself.
(5:31)
Operation TC can only succeed if we forge an alliance.

(5:33)
Can I ask you something?

(5:33)
Sure.

(5:34)
Why are you in on this?

(5:34)
Because I want Troye to be happy.

(5:35)
But I thought he *was* happy. That's what he told Connor.

(5:36)
Matthew was...
(5:36)
He was good for Troye. I knew that, even though we got off on the wrong foot. Before him, it had always been just the two of us . Matthew marched in with this... nonchalance, and shook it all up. I guess I wasn't prepared.
(5:37)
Troye keeps joking that we're too much alike and that's why we clash.
(5:37)
Anyway. He gave Troye strength, confidence, something to hold on to, and yes, he made him happy. We weren't best friends, but he was a good guy.

(5:38)
So, again... Why are you in on this?

(5:39)
Because I know Troye. I know him more than he knows himself sometimes, especially when it comes to this.
(5:40)
I saw the changes in him, ever since he and Connor started texting. It wasn't much at first, and I didn't even know about Connor's existence in the beginning, but - looking back at it, everything made sense.
(5:41)
The smile on his face when he texted, his eyes lighting up... Subtle, but still noticeable.
(5:42)
Not to mention the obsession that came with the missions. Of course, I knew about Connor by then, even though Troye didn't like to talk about him.

(5:43)
Obsession?

(5:45)
All of them had to be perfect - absolutely perfect. Who does things like that for someone who's supposed to be a stranger?