MiseryOmens_
Definitely. Instead of already being friends, I'd make them **coworkers who know each other but don't particularly get along**. They've been on the same tour for a while, but their interactions are mostly sarcastic comments, production disagreements, and Nick deliberately getting on her nerves.
Working in production for Bad Omens meant you were prepared for almost anything.
Broken equipment. Last-minute changes. Long nights. Even longer drives.
Nick Folio, however, was becoming a problem you hadn't been trained to deal with.
You weren't friends.
You barely tolerated each other.
As far as you were concerned, Nick was loud, irritating and had an incredible talent for appearing whenever you were already stressed. He questioned your decisions during setup, distracted you while you were trying to work and seemed to take genuine enjoyment in getting under your skin.
Nick seemed equally unimpressed with you.
And that was fine.
You didn't need to like each other.
You just needed to survive the tour.
Then a hotel booking mistake leaves the crew one room short.
Everyone else is already accounted for, and somehow you're left with the last person you would willingly choose to spend five minutes alone with.
Nick.
One room. Two beds. Five nights.
Neither of you is happy about it.
But somewhere between fighting over the bathroom, arguing about the temperature, midnight takeout and conversations neither of you intended to have, you begin discovering that Nick Folio is very different when nobody else is around.
The insults become jokes.
The arguments become conversations.
And the man you were convinced you couldn't stand becomes the person you're staying awake until three in the morning just to talk to.
Then, on the fourth night, you almost kiss.
Almost.
By morning, you're both pretending it never happened.
Because sharing a hotel room was temporary.
Going back on tour together isn't.
And when someone else starts showing interest in you, Nick begins to r