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He is so gone for her and has absolutely no idea.

They’re not together, but they’re not NOT together, if you know what I mean.

The chemistry is actually insane, like this isn’t something you can fake.

Fish nation, we are NOT surviving this content.

Wonder what her brothers think?

What the fuck? Panic floods my body, ice cold and immediate. What the hell are they talking about?

Evan: They’re not wrong.

Fish: Of course, they’re fucking wrong.

Nelly: The internet doesn’t lie.

Bouch: You should see the fan edits, they are fire.

Bouch: *Sends Videos*

Nelly: The people work fast.

There are heaps of them. Slow-motion clips set to viral songs I half recognize. The videos slowed down look way worse than what happened in real life. They’re talking about us joking in the tunnel. The lanyard moment seems to be a hit. Someone has zoomed in on my hand in her hair, added some slow, achinglove song over the top, and I look like a man who’s about to drop to one knee in a corridor that smells like industrial cleaner. Another one has spliced together every time I’ve looked at her on camera and set it to a montage, and it looks bad. Like really bad. Like I-am-in-love-with-this-woman-and-the-whole-world-can-see-it bad.You’re not in love with her.Then why does that montage look so convincing?Because they slowed it down and added music.They could make anyone look in love with slow motion and a sad piano track.

Pierre and Felix are going to kill me. I click out and watch the actual videos that were posted on the official account, the ones we filmed yesterday, and they seem so harmless. Just me being me. Just Collette being Collette. I don’t understand.

Bouch: Bro.

Fish: I know. This looks bad.

Nelly: You two aren’t?

Fish: NO!

Evan: I can vouch for that.

Thank God my best friend has my back.

Fish: What the hell am I going to do? I’ve done nothing wrong.

Bouch: The internet ships the two of you.

Fish: They’re not supposed to.

Nelly: You do look cute together.

Fish: Not helping. I’m panicking. Pierre and Felix are going to kill me.

Bouch: No, they won’t, not unless you’ve done something.

Fish: I haven’t. Believe me, I would tell you guys. But this time I’m innocent.

Nelly: Just ignore it, the public will move on to something else.

Maybe Nelly is right. Maybe this is one of those twenty-four-hour internet things that burns hot and disappears by tomorrow.

Bouch: “The way he untangles her hair like he’s done it a thousand times before.” I am DECEASED.