DAY 1!
Welcome to Day 1 of FireWorks Fest reveals! We’re so excited to share these works with you over the next four days. You can use this handy Masterlist to keep track of your reading progress and creator guesses. Without further ado, let’s let the sparks fly!
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a straight up hoax
Nick/Charlie, Tara/Darcy
Rated: NR
Word Count: 7,572
Is it possible for two of the gayest people ever to pretend to be a straight couple for one night?
Charlie is roped into playing Darcy’s boyfriend during the company’s party where both her crush and his are attending together, since they are (supposedly) a couple. Neither of them is good at being straight so things don’t go as planned… but perhaps, that might be for the best.
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two can play this game (and win)
Nick/Charlie
Rated: T
Word Count: 5,342
Charlie Spring is a Twitch streamer and Nick Nelson is a YouTuber, they meet, fall in love and... Well, they try to keep it a secret. They manage, for a while. And then they don't. It's totally not Nick's fault that that happens (it is).
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Friday Stagecoach Gold (and Blue)
Nick/Charlie
Rated: T
Word Count: 6,481
Once a week, for a short but glorious window, Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring catch the same bus to work.
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Four times Nick and Charlie almost speak to each other, and one time they do.
This is a group-authored fic we worked on together over the course of an intense 48 hours. The process has been poetically described by one of the authors: "It’s like one of those conspiracy theory evidence boards with all the yarn except it's a gay bus romance."- [redacted]
Please have a listen to Nick and Charlie's incredible Spotify playlist of commute bangers.
Thank you frogcakes for the beta read and cheerleading ✨
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retriever? i hardly know her!
Nick/Charlie
Rated: G
Word Count: 2,243
'Oh god, oh god, he’s wearing rainbow shoes. Is he gay, or just extremely unaware that gay people exist?'
So there’s this boy. Man?
Boy? Fellow? Gent?
Cute Park Guy™ is either a professional dog-walker or someone with a large, bumbling group of pets. This is probably his day job; he plays tug-of-war with leashes and chew toys and, from time to time, Nick’s heartstrings.
In which Charlie is always at the dog park with a group of dogs, Nick is there with Nellie, and they both pine after each other softly from across the field.
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the dominoes cascaded in a line
Nick/Charlie
Rated: T
Word Count: 3,100
They studied together most nights, one of the study rooms in the uni library becoming their unspoken spot, and hung out most weekends. Over time, Charlie got to know her long-distance girlfriend, Tara, as well as her best friend, Sahar, who was at uni with them. She also had another best friend, an ever-elusive boy named Nick, who he’d yet to meet but was assured did exist.
Or, Nick and Charlie are part of the same friend group in uni but haven't actually met yet.
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