Slide Into My Heart
Chapter 1 - Wrong Dm, Right Person
Me trying to act normal when my crush replies
Arielle Santos
*deleted a message
Arielle Santos
*deleted a message
Arielle Santos
*deleted a message
Kian Reyes
“ Uh... did you mean to send that to me??”
Kian Reyes
“ wrong person bestie” 😂
Arielle Santos
" OMG IM SO SORRY "
Arielle Santos
" i was supposed to send that to mika 😭😭 "
Arielle Santos
" please forget you saw that "
Kian Reyes
" too late i already screenshotted it for blackmail"
Kian Reyes
" but fr the dog is so accurate. who’s the crush?? "
Arielle Santos
“no one!!! just a meme!!”
Arielle Santos
“anyway sorry to bother you goodnight”
Kian Reyes
“you’re not bothering me”
Kian Reyes
“also it’s 11:47 and you’re sending memes. insomnia twin?”
Kian Reyes
“what are you up to”
Arielle Santos
“ just... overthinking and scrolling ”
Kian Reyes
“ same. and now talking to the girl who panics and deletes 3 times ”
Kian Reyes
“ you’re kinda funny ”
Arielle Santos
“ you’re making it worse ”
Kian Reyes
“making what worse?”
Arielle Santos
stares at "typing..." for 2 whole minutes
Arielle Santos
opens app again
Kian Reyes
“nothing. forget it.”
Kian Reyes
“but uh... goodnight Ari”
Kian Reyes
“i got your name from your bio btw. hope that’s not weird”
Arielle Santos
"not weird”
Arielle Santos
“goodnight Kian”
She puts her phone down. Grins at the ceiling. Immediately regrets it.
Opens notes app: "do not catch feelings for wrong DM guy. rule #1."
The 3am Voice Note
Arielle Santos
“yeah. why?”
Kian Reyes
“couldn’t sleep”
Kian Reyes
“stats homework is killing me”
Kian Reyes
“also... u owe me a meme back”
Arielle Santos
“that’s not how it works”
sends meme of a cat typing furiously at 3am
presses play, then immediately panics
Arielle Santos
“WHY IS IT A VOICE NOTE”
_listens with volume low_
Kian Reyes
(voice note)*: “ok so the cat meme was perfect. 10/10. also your 'yeah. why?' was so dry i felt called out. sleep well, wrong person.”
Arielle Santos
“that was 7 seconds of roasting??”
Kian Reyes
“that was 7 seconds of being friendly”
Kian Reyes
“u didn’t have to listen to it 3 times tho”
Arielle Santos
“HOW DO U KNOW”
Arielle Santos
“are u stalking my activity status”
sends sticker of anime girl hiding
Arielle Santos
"ok i’m actually sleeping now"
Kian Reyes
"goodnight Ari"
Arielle Santos
“goodnight Kian”
Mika Cruz
"screenshot. NOW."
Mika Cruz
“who is Kian and why are u smiling at ur phone at 7am”
Arielle Santos
"it was a wrong DM"
Arielle Santos
“that’s all”
Mika Cruz
“sure. 'goodnight Ari' sounds like a wrong DM to me”
The "wrong DM" is starting to feel very... _right_ 😳
*Chapter 3: The Group Project Trap*
*[Thursday, 1:20 PM - Stats Class]*
Prof. Dela Cruz
“For your final project, I’ll pair you randomly. No swapping.”
Arielle Santos
* _in her head_: please anyone but—
"Group 7: Arielle Santos and Kian Reyes"
Kian Reyes
from the back_: "oh"
Mika Cruz
whispers: "THE UNIVERSE IS SHIPPING YOU"
*[Thursday, 3:05 PM - DMs]*
Kian Reyes
“so... groupmates now huh”
Arielle Santos
It’s called random selection"
Arielle Santos
“ not fate”
Kian Reyes
“randomly selected by the universe to suffer stats together”
Arielle Santos
"we need to meet to start"
Arielle Santos
“library. tomorrow. 4pm”
Kian Reyes
*"don’t bring your 'i hate this' face" *
Arielle Santos
“no promises”
*[Friday, 4:02 PM - Library]*
Kian is already there. Two coffees on the table. One has "A" written in messy marker.
Kian Reyes
“got u coffee. iced. you looked like a coffee person.”
Arielle Santos
_freezes_ "how did u—"
Kian Reyes
“your lockscreen is a cat drinking coffee. I’m observant.”
Arielle Santos
sits down fast "ok so project"
Kian Reyes
“right. project.”
5 minutes of awkward typing
Kian Reyes
“your hair is... different”
Arielle Santos
“I cut it 2 weeks ago”
Kian Reyes
“it looks good”
*Both*: "about the data—"
Kian Reyes
laughs "we’re bad at this"
Arielle Santos
smiles a little_ “we’re good at texting tho”
Kian Reyes
“yeah. maybe we should just... keep doing that?”
Arielle Santos
heart does a backflip "for the project?"
Kian Reyes
“For everything else too"
Arielle Santos
"let’s focus on the project first, Reyes"
Kian Reyes
"yes ma’am, Santos"
*[Friday, 11:11 PM - DMs]*
Kian Reyes
“thanks for today”
Kian Reyes
“you didn’t hate the coffee”
Arielle Santos
"it was decent"
Arielle Santos
“10/10 coffee, 0/10 groupmate”
Kian Reyes
“but i’ll take it”
Kian Reyes
“goodnight, groupmate”
stares at message for 5 minutes~
Arielle Santos
“goodnight, Kian”
From "wrong DM" → "groupmates" → "coffee dates"?
The universe is definitely not being subtle 😳
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