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Ah, what the heck? It would be a power move.
Group name:I promise this isn’t a group chat, Dad
Members:Ni-Ni, Bay, Sharky, Tis Moi Luca, Not Zesty, Eggo
Eggo
Theoretically
If you could watch some old videos (like vlogs) of your crush
Would you?
As I waited for any of them to respond, I looked over their names again and wondered who was who. Obviously Bay was Hudson, but what about the rest of them? The only one that seemed obvious was that Ni-Ni was probably Neil. I thought back to when they first added me to the group chat. They kept calling me Z, which I’d thought might stand for Zesty, but now that I thought about it, one of the boys had a name that started with Z too. Zach, I thought. I pulled out a piece of paper and scribbled it out:
Bay = Hudson
Ni-Ni = Neil
Not Zesty = Zachary
That left… Jude and Finn. Tis Moi, Luca and Sharky. Neither of their names made sense with Luca, though. Actually, none of the boys’ names did. But hadn’t “Luca” mentioned at one point that he didn’t use his real name at school? So Luca was his real name and whatever he went by in Take Five wasn’t… but unfortunately, that didn’t narrow anything down for me at all. I sighed and looked at the names again. Sharky… what kind of nickname was that? Who would choose to be called that in their group chat? I put the names and nicknames together in my mind. Jude—Sharky. Finn—Sharky. And then I laughed to myselfas I realized what it was. They named him after a fish because his name wasFinn.
Sharky = Finn
Which left Luca to be Jude. There was a possibility for flaws in my puzzle-solving skills, but I had a feeling I was right. At least it all made sense this way. My phone screen flashed on with a notification and I looked at it.
Tis Moi, Luca
That feels oddly specific
A factor of this I hadn’t taken into account was that the boys might figure out what I was talking about. They were all in the videos too, after all. But they also didn’t know who I was in real life, so it wasn’t that embarrassing. At least, that was what I was going to tell myself, so I didn’t feel like crawling in a hole to die.
Eggo
It might be
But I will not be explaining
Ohhh should I make a poll?
POLL: Should I watch my crush’s old vlogs?
Options: DO IT or NAH THAT’S CREEPY
Sharky
I think I’ll needmore context
Why would it be a bad thing?
Eggo
I think it might be crossing the line to watch old videos of him when he doesn’t know about it
But they are online, so like it’s his own fault
But it would also mean I would know a lot more about him than he does about me
