Warning: swears, my headcanons, my humor, my (bad) grammar, mostly unedited
TW:

Just go w the flow u guyz

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Silly cookie 🍪, 14 minutes ago
[Wanna hang out later? :3]

Me, now
[Why weren't you in class? 😑]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[I was]
[Texted you while the teacher wasn't looking 🙈]
[Soooooooo???]

Me, now
[🙈🙉🙊]
[Sure 😊]
[But I gotta run some errands for mom first]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[Okey dokey 😁]
[Our usual spot]

Me, now
[❤️]
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You couldn't help but smile as you put your phone away, just one more class and about 20 minutes of errands away from meeting the wholesome dork you befriended in record time.

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"Who're you texting?" Kai leaned over his best buddy's shoulder with a smirk, but before he could see anything Lloyd quickly pulled away.

"Who do you think?" The blond deadpanned, hoping the Porcupine Hair will let it go.

But Kai's smirk only grew. "Was that a heart?" Fuck. So maybe he wasn't fast enough...

Lloyd sighed. "It's just [Name]"

The smirk immediately disappeared, a happy smile taking its place at the name. "You mean my favourite not ninja friend?"

"Shhh!"

"You guys meeting later?" The brunet continued, completely ignoring the attempt, although recognizing he probably shouldn't throw this word around at normal volume.

"As a matter of fact, yes. Yes, we are"

"Say hi from me! If you won't, I'll come to your house and eat all your candy" Kai threatened, a serious expression on his face promising this was no joke.

Lloyd glared at him, not liking his treasure being threatened like that. "Can't you do that yourself?"

The brunet sighed, getting tired all of the sudden, "Not today. I need to make Sky un-break with me..."

"Wait. Again?"

"I'm having a real bad streak recently, okay?"

"Yeah, I can see that..." Lloyd deadpanned, turning away from his friend as he started going on about everything that was against him those past few days. He looked out the window, not even admiring the view of the outside world on the other side of the glass, just thinking of all the fun things you two could do later. A smile crept its way onto his face.

He didn't even register Kai stopping his rant and snickering to himself as he noticed the dreamy look.

But of course, his happiness could never last.

The school's GAA went off, all the other students who were also spending their break in the classroom ducked under their desks. Lloyd sighed and Kai suppressed an eyeroll as all eyes turned to the blond (and by extend his friend) with annoyance.

*****

"Thank you, sunshine" Your mom and you smiled at each other, the woman then quickly pecked your forehead, drawing a playful whine. She chuckled, not feeling any remorse for her actions.

After double checking your job here was done, you pulled out your phone, texting a thumbs up to the blond, letting him know you were on your way. The phone quickly landed back in your pocket and you started to make your way over to you two's meeting spot, quietly humming the song you recently discovered as you did.

Despite the usual 'Dark Lord attacking the City shenanigans', it was a good day! And everything was going pretty smoothly.

But as they say, you shouldn't count your chickens before they hatch.

Arriving at the particular tree in the nearest park and seeing no trace of your friend around was confusing to say the least. You checked your phone. There was no answer to your massage, no warning or heads up that he'd be late or just wasn't around (let along that the hang out was canceled for this or that reason). Actually, you realized with a frown, he haven't even read your message.

Well, it's not the end of the world (though the damaged part of the City might beg the differ—). Stuff like this happens sometimes, maybe he turned his notifications off? Dunno why he'd do that, but it was always an option. Or he just missed it and haven't gotten around to checking his phone because he was doing something else – zoning out was one of his adorkable traits after all.

So, instead of immediately panicking, you acted like a sane person and just messaged him.

Me, now
[@ our spot xoxo 😗]
[u?]
Sent

You leaned against the tree, staring at your phone, waiting.

...

......

.........

You couldn't help but furrow your brows a little as the messages remained unread.

Okay, so maybe the notifications were turned off. If that's so, this could be a prank from one of the guys; surely they'd know you two planned a hang out, and teasing was in their nature.

No biggy, he was bound to look at some point to see if you finished helping your mother.

Me, now
[🙈🙉🙊]
[Imma spam u if u don't answer in 3 >:3]
Sent

You grinned to yourself, a mischievous glint in your eyes as you followed on your 'threat' moments later, not a single worry in your mind.

That is until you stopped, having run out of ideas for random ahh texts as he still didn't read them.

Maybe he was with one of your other friends? And they took his phone? Depending on who, there was a possibility the messages were left unattended while they teased him; you'd seen things along these lines happening for lesser 'offences'.

You sat down under the tree, deciding to scroll through [social media you use most] as you waited. For him to check his phone. For his friends to give the phone back to him. For his friends to text you something embarrassing for shits and giggles. For them to call you just to say 'hi' while he screamed at them in the background to stop fooling around, only to be embarrassed further.

Some of these thoughts made you smile.

But minutes passed.

And there was nothing but radio silence.

You glanced at the time, frowning at it before checking massager. The one-sided, unanswered, unread conversation staring back at you coldly.

Me, now
[Hey r u ok?]
[If u have sth else u can tell me 🙃]
[I won't be mad]
[U know that]
[Right?]
Sent

You bit your lip, pausing for a moment.

There was a possibility... something made him sad perhaps? Like, super sad.

Come to think of it, you haven't exactly seen him at school anymore after you made plans together...

Me, now
[Did sth happen?? :(]
[U can talk to me if u need it]
[We can just jump on call :3]
[Or I could come over]
Sent

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......

.........

............

Me, now
[Well if u still wanna hang out I'll wait for 5 more minutes 😅]
[Text me if u can't get here B4 that?]
[So I'll wait]
[If u do wanna]
[Hang out]
[Still]
[🙈🙉🙊]
Sent

...

......

Was there a chance he was upset with you? He wouldn't just ignore you like that.

Did you do something wrong?

Did someone insinuate something stupid? Chen and his friend circle had tried something like this a few times, both with Lloyd and his friends. First he tried stirring drama within their group, then to make a divide between them and you.

You'd roll your eyes at the memory if you weren't so worried.

You waited for five minutes, then checked if the messages were at least seen.

Nope.

With a sigh, you picked yourself off the ground, shoving the phone into your pocket as you somberly started to make your way back home.

*****

Nine hours.

Nine fricking hours.

At this point just kill him already.

Zane, who, being in the same room, was glancing in his direction while organizing something in the cabinet(?), turned to him, sensing his friend's heart rate accelerate. He looked at the blond in worry, if Lloyd's horrified expression was anything to go by, he was in for some hardcore damage control. "Llo—?"

Before he could even finish, the boy jumped out of bed, clenching his side and hissing in pain, the bandages getting just a little more red. Zane was immediately by his side, both hands on Lloyd's shoulders, holding him in place. "Bad idea. You should still be resting—"

Lloyd looked up at him, almost offended. "I don't have time for—!"

"Resting." Zane repeated, tone stern as he gently pushed him back down, making him sit on the bed. Not without a fight though. "Lloyd. You're going to make your injury worse"

"I don't care!" He snapped, gripping onto the hands that refused to let go. They stared at each other, his glare quickly softening. "They'll hate me now..."

"[Name]? They'd never do that. I've noticed hatred is not in their nature" The nindroid smiled to himself, still immensely amazed by that revelation.

Yes, Zane was right. You'd never hate him for missing one hang out (one he, himself proposed—).

But you could be angry. Or worse – sad.

A pitiful whine left him while he raised his hands to cover his face, if not for the hands still holding him, he'd fall back onto the bed fully. Zane knew him though, and he was smarter than that.

Stars, he fucked up. Bad.

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No.

Lloyd fucked up.

But he could still fix this.

The Green Ninja could still fix this.

If only Zane would just leave the damned room...

"Why don't you text them?" The droid was about to continue on but he was cut off. Patience was his forte, but this was starting to become tiring.

Lloyd looked at him as if he was insane. "They won't even see it! It's the middle of the night!"

"Yes, and they're probably sleeping. All the more reason why you shouldn't go out" He pointed out, giving the blond a certain look. "You're hurt. You won't be going to school tomorrow, and probably not for the following week" Lloyd sulked at that.

"Not helping..."

Zane couldn't help but roll his eyes. Every single time, with each of them, the same fucking dance. Yes, having friends/partners outside of their team was complicated, but there was an easy way to compromise this. "Just answer them" He grabbed the cellphone and gently pushed it into his friend's hand, deadpanning. "83% of problems in relationships can be averted by simply communicating. So. Talk. To. Them."

Lloyd stared at him, then glanced down at the phone in his hands before hesitantly following the advice.

*****

Your face twisted in annoyance as your alarm pulled you out from the dream realm. Quietly huffing, you threw the covers off and lazily marched across your room to reach your phone and turn the damn thing off.

It was the best way to make you move so earlier in the morning, but God damn was it annoying!

Just as you were about to slam the poor phone onto your desk, you noticed you had a few notifications. Normally, you'd wait until you were eating to check, but you spotted a certain nickname, one you were waiting to see.

Postpone everything!!

Silly cookie 🍪, 23:28 yesterday
[😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭]
[IM SORRY!!!!]
[I had an accident 👉👈]
[We were being stoopid and I had to go to the ER 😆😅👌]
[Khflhfohfogdigditd]
[I'll be ok 🙃]
[But no sql 4 me tmrw]
[Again sorry 😣😣😣]
[I'll make it up to u 🙈🙉🙊]
[Promise!]
[(Zane says hi btw)]
[Dchocohcitdti]
[Word vomit 😅]
[Dunno what to say]
[I should probably stop typing]
[...]
[...........]
[Forgive me??? 🥺🥺🙏🙏]
[Plz 😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏]
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You couldn't help but chuckle.

Yeah, here's the dork you know and adore.

Me, now
[R u okay? 😭😭😭]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[ILL BE FINE]
[R u? 😭😭😭]

Me, now
[Yes UwU]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[Am I forgiven...? 😃]
[Plz]
[I beg]
[I'd be on my knees if not for the injury 😆]

Me, now
[GET OFF THE DAMN FLOOR >:(]
[REST]
[TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF 😡😡😡]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[No 💖]
[😙]

Me, now
[IM FKN /SRS]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[THEN FORGIVE MEEEEEE 😭😭😭😭]

Me, now
[I DO]
[DID]
[ALREADY]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[Yay!! 🥳🥳🎉🎉]
[Now I can rest 😌]

Me, now
[Did u sleep at all?]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[Nope 😃]
[I was fricking the fuck out]

Me, now
[GO TO BED]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[I ALREADY AM]

Me, now
[SLEEP 🤬]

Silly cookie 🍪, now
[OKAY 😤]
[Text me whenever u can]
[I'm lonely out here 😢]

Me, now
[Yeah yeah 🙄]

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Some1 give Zane a break xD

Or at least pay him

And then pay him more

He's the GOAT he deserves it U_U

GAA obviously stands 4 Garmadon Attack Alarm 🤌