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On a deserted highway, one car was going faster than it should've, inside were nickel and taco, chatting as if the police hadn't been chasing them for kilometers now.
How had they ended up in this situation?
𐔌 . ⋮ 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙧 .ᐟ ֹ ₊ ꒱
Taco was frustated, like, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 frustated. She'd just lost the big game, she'd been so close to winning and she lost at the last damn moment. The competition was totally rigged, there's no way her marvelous stragedy failed, there's no way that 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘫 could've won instead of her, no. She was furious, she wasn't gonna give up that easily, she needed a plan. Since the last few days she'd been watching oj really close, planning how to steal the million from him, waiting for him to say the password of his bank account too loud of that he withdrew the money so she could grab it and steal it. After a week she finally had a plan: he'd hired architects to build some kind of hotel, he said something like "put the million towards something we can all enjoy" or a corny stupid thing like that. Anyways, her plan was to wait until he withdrew the money himself to pay to the architects and then steal it.
The oportunity was right in front of her bc she'd heard oj complaining about a missunderstood with the architects and the day they would go to start building the hotel, he was supposed to meet with them that same day to give them the money but they had planned to go the next day, so now the money was in a suitcase (lol) at oj's house, waiting till the morning. Taco's plan was to infiltrate in the early morning with a bow that made her invisible (stolen directly from the no-so-secret lab of a green-haired girl taco didn't know) and steel the money.
It was 3:00am now, taco was waiting the perfect moment to come into the house, putting on the bow and making sue she was gonna be able to break the window lock. She was about to enter when nickel called her name, making his presence known. (also how long had he been watching her there? weird)
"hey taco, whatcha doing?"
"wha-who are you?!" she said, trying to keep a low volume so se don't get caught.
"bow for sure, it's incredible that u don't know who am I after a season together, very charming of you huh"
"stop with your annoying sarcasm, what do you want, nickel?"
"ur trying to steal the million, again?"
"that's none of your buisness"
"well it's gonna be my buisness if I call the police or oj! that's dead end for u and I have his number right here-"
"OK OK FINE!!!" taco sighed, resigned to listen to this loser "what do you want?"
"give me one part of the million, and also let me help u"
"and why do YOU want to help me?"
"that's none of ur buisness"
"fuck you, but fine" taco put the bow on nickel, making him invisible, "this is the plan: I'm gonna break the window lock, you're gonna enter to oj's room to take the silver suitcase with the money, then you give it to me and that's it, got it?"
"and how the fuck do you expect me to enter to oj's room?"
"he never lock his door, also, be careful with paper, he's easy to wake up"
"wow, how long you've been stalking them?"
"I'VE NOT- ugh, just do it already!"
Taco broke the window lock with a tiny metal artefac nickel had no idea where she got it from, he climbed in through the window, trying to make as little as noise as possible, opened the door to oj's room and saw the precious suitcase he was looking for, he quickly grabbed it and left the room. He was in front of the window, about to hand the suitcase to taco and leave the house to succesfully complete the mission when the window suddenly slammed shut. Somehow, the lock had engaged again, and now nickel was trapped inside oj's house with the suitcase. At that same moment, the bows they had magically stopped working, and thanks to the noise of the window slamming shut, paper and oj had woken up. It was like the world was decided to ruin taco's plan.
"fuck it" taco finally threw a rock and broke the window, grabbing the suitcase and helping nickel out, not caring about all the noise they were making.
"OJ!! THAT TWO ARE STEALING THE MONEY!!!" paper shouted, seeing the other two outside the house with the suitcase in hands.
"RUN!!!" taco grabbed nickel's hand and started running, ignoring that oj and paper were chasing them. They reached a convertible parked on a nearby street. Taco unlocked the car door with the key (a key nickel also had no idea where she got it from) and got in. "Get in loser"
"who the fuck did you stole that from?"
"it's so hard for you to believe that's mine?"
"well you're stealing a million dollars so, yeah"
"just get into the car now or I'm gonna let you here so oj and paper could catch you!"
Nickel got into the passenger seat (and thank god she didn't ask him to drive bc he CAN'T drive) and she started the car as fast as she could, heading down to a long highway. As they drove away, they heard the echo of oj yelling "FUCK!!!" which made them both burst in laughs.
"god, oj should be really mad if he's cursing bc isn't smth he does often" and that was true, nickel had never heard oj swearing during the time he was on season 1.
"ikr? I think this is the first time I heard him since, like, ever"
"oww, but we only stole him a little bit, nothing bad! he should be amazed by our incredible plan" (you can tell nickel was being a little bitch sarcastic by the tone he was using)
"𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯? it was 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦, don't give yourself credits" taco kept driving really fast, her precision to avoid the other cars in the highway was amazing, she didn't seem to have any trouble driving despite the speed the car was going or the fact that eveything came so naturally to her, as if driving at such a high speed was a kid's game, the easiest task in the world.
"anyways, u have any idea of where are we going or smth?" nickel said, talking again ( BC IT SEEMS LIKE HE CAN'T SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR ONCE UGHHH)
"actually, I don't really know, the plan didn't include you, or break his window, or them chasing us rn"
"well, at least it's just them and I doubt oj would break the speed limit like us, so no nworrie-" nickel was interrupted by the sirens of a police car that now was chasing them. "ugh, just great, perfect!"
Taco acelerated, doing her best to leave the police car behind, but they were still following them. They had reached an empty highway, they were the only two cars for kilometers around. After a few hours, the whole chase thing had lost its excitment. Nickel and taco were chatting as if they were in a calm morning in the park, judging absolutely everyone, complaining that oj had wond, making fun of mephone4 and all the contestants. The conversation flowed so well that it didn't seem like it was the first time thye'd talked to each other. They continued chatting and laughing until sunrise. The conversation stopped when they realized the gas in the tank was running low and they were sure it wouldn't be long before they were finally caught.
"...when u asked me who I am, you really didn't know?" nickel broke the silence again (wow he really want to talk huh)
"I didn't remember you, my goal was to win that million since the season started. Everything else wasn't relevant enought to be so present in my mind, and that includes you"
The adrenaline rush of being so close to the police car made him realize that maybe there wouldn't be another moment to say this, maybe this was his only chance to reveal why he knew taco was gonna try to steal oj's moeny that day. Whatever happens, maybe he won't live to tell it, or to deal with the consequences.
"well, ik very well who u are, I haven't been able to stop thinking abt u since the season ended..."
"that's why you were stalking me?"
"I WASN'T STALKING YOU!!! but yeah, that's why I knew were u were"
"are you coming on to me or something?" taco looked at nickel for a short moment, the way he looked at her like she was the most precious thing in the world, his glaze full of love and admiration, which at the same time revealed fear and regret for what he had just said, more fragil than ever, as if she has unlocked a new version of him that he didn't let anyone see. Sure, taco actually didn't really know anything about him, but from what she'd could remeber, she had never see him so... 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭. Vulnerable. Really trying to talk about his feelings. Delightful. At that moment, taco's perception of nickel changed, with just that fleeting moment of seeing him like that, she felt like she truly 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘩𝘪𝘮. Nickel was avoiding her gaze, but in the ephemeral moment their eyes net a spark ignited, like they were two pieces of a puzzle that fit perfectly and only realized it at that moment, with that look of less than a sencond they said everything that words couldn't: nickel likes taco, it was pretty obvious, and taco couldn't deny that he was kinda cute.
"I'll kiss u if you let me keep the whole million dollars" taco looked back at the way, holding the steering wheel with more strength than before.
"wait what"
"the gasoline is about to run over anyways and a offense for impaired driving is nothing at this point"
Nickel looked at the gasoline meter, it was really about to finished, then he looked at taco and just said "deal"
Taco began to slowly reduce her driving speed, getting closer to nickel's face, they melted into a soft, brief kiss. It was short, but it felt like the fireworks in both their hearts exploted in a perfectly synchronized show. In the fleeting moment that kiss lasted, they both felt like they had discovered a new way to comunicate, as if they could say everything that words couldn't. 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤, 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦.
When both cars finally completely stop, a police officer got out of the police car and said "you guys are so arrested". And that's how nickel and taco ended up under arrest , with the car confiscaded and the million dollars returned to oj,. Bohoo