╰┈➤ 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞: 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴

𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐎𝐁𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐋𝐘 𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐄.

Over the course of the last 96 hours, Gwen had befriended and moved in with Hobie. His excuse being, "No one deserves to be homeless." His survival skills obviously weren't in tact, he had known her for 19 hours, who lets a stranger move in with them.

Hobie Brown, that's who. The same man who alternated between living on a house boat and living in an flat. And that whole "Poppy and Hobie aren't dating" thing, had to be a lie. She had suspected something after his teasing upon their first meeting.

The longer she lived here the more evident it became that the two of them were in some sort of relationship higher than friendship.

"Because they are." Love shrugged, grabbing a fry off Gwen's place. Hobie had invited Love over to give Gwen some form of company. Gwen raised an eyebrow at the smaller girl, watching her happily munch away on her stolen fry.

"You said they weren't dating?" "They're not." "But they aren't just friends?" "Correct." "You're making no sense here sunshine." Love held up a finger, as she took a sip of her Diet Coke.

"Hobie doesn't believe in labels. As far as I know, they aren't seeing other people, but they're technically not seeing each other either." Love sat on her knees, leaning across Hobie's dining table to snatch another fry off the blonde girl's plate.

"So Poppy's not single?" Love frowned, placing her fry back onto her plate. "I mean technically yes, but no she's not. And she's 18 so maybe it's best if you just drop the whole idea."

"Why? You jealous?" "Shut up and eat your food."

The jingling of keys rang through the apartment, a soft whistled tune began to grow closer as Hobie rounded the corner.

"Whatcha up to?" He stalked over to the table, ruffling Love's hair as he saluted Gwen.

"I made us hamburgers." Love grinned, Gwen rolled her eyes. "You replaced the beef patty on yours with a portobello mushroom, you can hardly call it a hamburger." "Shut up and eat your food Gwendalyn." Love hissed.

"Ah a little Gordon Ramsey eh? Listen, Poppy's coming over soon, maybe you two want to go down to the shopping center down the road yeah?" Hobie shot Love a knowing look and she nodded. Gwen looked at him confused. "Well Love and I were going to watch a movie-" Love cut her off.

"Let's just go."

"𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒."

Love sighed, holding the jellyfish earrings up to her ear, admiring them. "The universe?" Gwen shoved her hands in her pockets, eyes darting around the small antique shop. Love nodded, "Why else would we be in this random antique shop, in a random country, in a random dimension where these exact earrings are? The universe sent us here."

"Hobie sent us here." "Must you ruin everything?" Love placed the earrings back onto the the display. "The universe did not account for the fact I don't have any pounds."

"Hobie would tell you to steal it." Gwen shrugged, admiring a sweater on the track beside the Korean girl. "Hobie would tell me to burn down the whole shopping center as an act of rebellion against major corporations. I'm not listening to Hobie." "Fair enough."

Gwen watched the girl's eyes dart around the shop, full of curiosity. "So.." She started staring at her feet, rocking slowly. Love hummed in response.

"What's the deal with Miles?" "What about Miles?" Love replied quickly, whipping her head around, her eyes wide full of adoration at the mere mention of his name.

"Why is no one allowed in his dimension?" Gwen tore her gaze from her feet, looking up at the black haired girl.

"Oh, people are allowed in his dimension. Poppy's been like twice. 𝘞𝘦 aren't allowed in his dimension. Miguel thinks we'll try to talk to him." Love shrugged, turning her gaze back to an antique tea set. Gwen's eyebrow furrowed. "And that's so bad because?" "He thinks we'll tell him everything. Considers him a vulnerability, Miguel hates those." Gwen groaned, taking a step closer to her, she leant over her shoulder whispering on her ear.

"Love you're being cryptic." Her breath tickled her neck, causing Love's breathing to stutter. "I'm not. I'm answering your questions as you ask them." "Why can't we see Miles?" Gwen's arms wrapped around her waist, as if attempting to squeeze the information out of her. Love sighed, "Well, he's kinda the reason the whole society had to be started to begin with so.."

Gwen blinked, "What." "I can explain later, look at the pretty doll." Love cooed clapping her hand, grabbing Gwen's hand and dragging her towards the glass figure. Gwen groaned.

"That's what you said last time." 

𝙇𝙊𝙑𝙀 𝙎𝙋𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙎!

I should put a warning for crappy writing. Sorry for the wait I'm back in the UK for the summer so I've been hanging with friends and family til I have to go home. feel free to vote and comment, I read every comment and I love reading them it motivates me.   If the header text is crooked, it's because it's on desktop that I wrote this and it's probably gonna be cricket on iPhone. 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙