Hey Sunshine

Waffles are better!

*please read the authors note from the earlier chapter or else this one is going to be pretty damn confusing*

WYLAN

HIS CHEEKS WERE BRIGHT RED ONCE AGAIN, and he started to realize that hanging out with Jesper's group will make him permanently red. Maybe I should put a stop sign on my face, Wylan thought. It'd tell everybody to stop embarrassing/humiliating/speaking to me, while blending into my face when they ignore it.

He absentmindedly reached out for a coffee that wasn't there before accidentally hitting Jesper in the face, his hand digging into the other boy's nose. He drew his hand away instantly, blushing once again with embarrassment. "Sorry," he cringed, "I was trying to reach for coffee that isn't there because it's a habit." He winced again.

Jesper shot him a grin. "Did you call me coffee?" he asked suddenly, flashing Wylan a crooked look. "Really merchling, if you wanted to touch me all you have to do is ask."

Wylan's cheeks burned red as the nickname registered. Merchling? That was never becoming a permanent thing. Ever. "No, I was really just-"

"-just what?" Jesper interrupted. "Trying to come up with a bad excuse for touching me?"

Wylan sighed, giving it up.

The other boy smirked, looking down to his own laptop. A brief feeling of disappointment flooded through Wylan for a while before the boy switched back to his laptop, tapping out lines of code.

"I think I'm done," Wylan finally said after a couple more minutes of heated typing. He scanned through the pages quickly but couldn't see anything particularly bold. But on the other hand, words never made sense to him anyways so it was pretty moronic to hope any mistakes stood out. "Yeah, I'm done."

"Let's go tell Kaz then," Jesper sighed, standing up gracefully before helping Wylan to his feet. "The one time we actually need him and he's not there."

Wylan half expected Kaz to pop out right then responding with something along the lines of 'actually I am' but unfortunately Kaz was really not in the room. They looked around the lab for a while before finally reaching the main section with the empty elevator space was. To his surprise, he saw Inej and Kaz talking to each other, both looking closer than one needed for a conversation.

Jesper slowed down, looking at Wylan. "Hold on, take a picture," he whispered quickly. "Nina's going to love this."

"Why?"
"Because Kaz and Inej are Kaz and Inej. They rarely show off their feelings for each other and pretend their friends. It's ridiculous, so we figure that if we blow up a picture of them on the massive screen that we use for our school's football fields, then they'll get the message that we know."

Wylan stifled an amused laugh. "Won't Kaz kill you?"
"Worth it."

Quickly Wylan took out his phone and snapped a picture, wincing as the click sounded. Switching it to silent mode, he slid his phone back out before finishing the walk to the both of them.

"Hey guys," Jesper said loudly. Both turned their heads quickly and almost unconsciously took a step back from each other. Inej waved cheerfully, her eyes landing on Wylan.

"Hey Wylan," she said easily as she looked at his computer. "Is the program finished?"

"Yeah, it's finished," Wylan said as he looked at the fully written code on his laptop. "I just need a flash drive to get it on, and then we can plug it into the elevator. As soon as it's in, it'll send the message and get Matthias out of the elevator."