Warning(s) — Tickle fluff, mild angst at the beginning, swearing (mild)
Ship(s) — I DO ship them, but this is platonic (you can see it as romantic if you'd like!)
Summary — Come to think of it, what...IS Balloony's string? Is it thick, or is it thin? Soft, or rough? Leathery, or silky? Or is it just straight up a stretchy string? Only one way to find out!
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Balloony had been sitting in the squishy green grass, in the strange small area with small mountains. Their new game area, AKA where they'd all be having their contests from now on.
(Lets just pretend Balloony didn't get eliminated. Okay? Okay!)
Balloony stared at his hand. It reminded him. Reminded him of when Four physically pulled his circular hand, morphing it into an actual gripper with fingers. His hand had eventually returned to it's originally round, digitless form, but that had HURT. It had hurt a LOT.
Balloony still remembered how painful that was. The quick yet slow feeling of his hand being twisted and pulled into a thumping knot that wasn't normal for him or the other objects. Even THINKING of that almost made him wanna cry. Balloony NEVER wanted to experience that again. That was...excruciating!
Balloony couldn't help but let out a small sniffle, hiding his face into his knees. Well, as much as his bendy legs would allow him to.
. . .
Lollipop woke up, rubbing one of her eyes with a yawn as she hopped out of bed. She glanced up at the clock...12:24. AM. That was definitely NOT the preferred time to wake up. Oh well, she was already up...might as well take a strut in the narrow space.
As the lollipop walked under the starry sky, she spotted a familiar balloon buddy in a small patch of green, tinted a slight blue from the night sky above. Lollipop plopped down next to Balloony, leaving the moment completely silent as she looked up at shimmering stars of light that sprinkled across that night sky, lighting it up with a twinkle with each ball of plasma.
In the middle of sniffling and hiccuping, still struggling to keep soft sobs in, the balloon felt a finger rub up and down the middle of his string. He immediately jolted jumped and tensed, letting out a "UAGH-?! Egh..?" Lollipop didn't seem to notice (or just didn't fucking care), almost inspecting the string in curiosity. She practically his string-torso in her hand, still using the other to slowlyyy trace up and down..up...and down.
Lollipop heard a few stuffed giggles here and there but still payed no mind to it, rubbing and fiddling with the unknown material in her hand(s). The inflated victim next to her was squirming ever so slightly, a noticeable smile creeping it's way into his face as airy, contained sniggers escaped his mouth. He even started to tap his foot a bit.
Lollipop hummed to herself. "I can NOT figure out what type of string this is. Definitely stretchy, but I don't know what else. Balloony, you are QUITE a mystery." The candy on a stick said light-heartedly, gently scritching to see if that helped her 'observation' at all.
Well, that certainly didn't help BALLOONY'S situation!
The poor, current experiment was dissolving into a fit of hysterical giggles. "L-LohOLLI-!" The Carribean green balloon attempted to gently push Lollipop's hands away. She seemed to notice, wondering was going on.
"Balloony? What's going on with--" She cut herself off. "..oh. Ooohhhh." A small, sly smirk slowly spread across her face. "Ohoho, does this perhaps TICKLE you a bit, Balloony? Well them, you wouldn't mind if I..experimented..a little more, would ya?"
"Ihi-- Uhm-- Gah-- W-Whahat's that suhuposed to mean-?" Balloony sniggered, covering his mouth a little.
Lollipop hummed, only answering by raising her hand up, and beginning to twirl the mysterious string in her hand. Y'know, like twirling your hair! This caused the typically cheerful individual to burst into..well..cheerful giggles, hiding his face in his palms. Lollipop's smile widened.
"Aww, yeah, you're tickish~! Hehe..cute." The cocky individual teased a bit, Balloony reacting with a few flustered stammers. "I-I-- GUH-- AH-?" Lollipop couldn't help but hold in a chuckle, simply fiddling with his string some more. With his string trapped and lightly wrapped around her first hand, her other came along and joined in, gently rubbing and tracing with a taunting touch.
Balloony curled up and squealed in response, kicking his legs. "LOHOLLIPOP!!" Balloony tried everything he could, twisting and turning, stomping and kicking, pushing and flailing, but Lollipop had him in a firm grasp. Gentle, but firm. Speaking of Lollipop, she could help but laugh at Balloony's attempts to escape the tickles, raising an eyebrow. "Aww...look, your big, inflated noggin is trying SO HARD to get away, isn't it~? Darn, too bad.."
And suddenly, Balloony LOST it. Lollipop now gently scritched up and down the string, giggling 'evilly' with a mischievous smile on her face. "Y'know, this is WAY more fun than Four."
"..."
"..Don't tell him I said that, though.."
Balloony was too busy screeching and squealing with laughter to respond, almost looking like a little ball at this point!
"..pft--" Lollipop HAD to hold back a snicker. Okay, this was pretty funny. The playful scritches continued, moving up and down, side to side, in a circle..this continued on for a while, before Balloony shouted out a loud--*
"OHOKAY-- OKAY, OHOKAY-!! IHI CAHAN'T!! CUT IHIT OUT, STOP, STOHOP!! PLEHEHEASE-!" Balloony begged, gently grabbing onto his friend's hands. Lollipop paused, and thought about it. "Well, my experiment HAS been over with for a while, and you look like you need a break, so...fine, I suppose~!" With that, Lollipop untwirled her finger(s), stopped the scritching, and put her hands in her lap.
Balloony sighed in relief, rubbing his string to get rid of those left over weird tingles. He giggled a little here and there, laying his head against the pink lolly. Lollipop blinked, staying still for a second, before she sighed, putting an arm around his shoulder. She spoke for the final time that night before going to bed.
i need someone to make a ler lollipop and lee bubble fanfic (there's like the gloves you can use to hold bubble and they are fuzzy so it would be so tkly)
