whenever i see fics where cliff steals ājaneāsā number to text about ilya or to add āherā to a groupchat with the boston team, ive never seen one where it is the adding janeās number to the groupchat that outs shane and ilya (at least only to the boston team). bc you cannot convince me that at least one of the guys on the boston team does not have The Shane Hollanderās phone number. theyāve either gotten his number from junior hockey days or bc Shane Hollander is yuna and david hollanderās son, so he is incredibly professional and networks like thats what he was actually trained to do. (plus the hockey world is small)
just imagine cliff adding jane to the chat and someone saying ābro whyād you add hollander?ā and ājaneā immediately leaving the chat.
Wait (I'm a tourist, I don't go here). Does this mean that these two guys - who are apparently trying to hide their gay trysts from everyone - are using their regular everyday goddamn phones to sext each other? They--They don't have separate numbers just to contact each other? You know, to make sure that if someone gets a hold of their numbers/the numbers leak, no one would connect their names to said numbers?
I understand your concern, but an important bit of information you should know is that Heated Rivalry is set from 2008-2017 (ages 17 to 26? I think?) so the technology for individualized numbers was a separate phone. Walking around with a second phone for your torrid gay affair was more suspicious than having a (fake) woman's name in your contacts under normal circumstances. (unless someone else has that guy's real contact information, of course.)
The real problem is they should have quickly transitioned to texting on AIM or something that had a password (and usernames) when it became available on cellpones (I feel like AIM was available on mobile, might be wrong). The next book they do use some type of Skype service so that's a bit better.
