#nini roberts

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- HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, SEASON THREE

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You're The Only One I Love // Nini Salazar-Roberts

request: hiii, if you could do any nini/olivia x fem reader it would be amazing!!

prompts: none

summary: y/n sees something she wasn't supposed to, and starts ignoring her girlfriend because of it.

warnings: ricky being an asshole, crying, sadness, slight argument

word count: 602

Nini knocked on your door again, hoping that this time you would finally answer. It’s been days since she’d last seen you. You hadn’t been going to school, and you were ignoring every single call and text she sent to you. At first she had wanted to give you your space, but enough was enough. She was beginning to get worried. You couldn’t just cut her out without at least telling her why.

“Go away,” came your muffled voice from the other side of the door.

Nini let out a sigh of relief. It had been days since she’d heard your voice. And even though those were words she didn’t want to hear, she was glad just to be hearing anything from you at all.

“No. I-I’m not leaving y/n. You’ve been avoiding me all week. I miss you. Please talk to me. What did I do wrong?” she said the last part in a whisper, still scared that you were mad at her for something she did. Something she didn’t even know about.

Suddenly your door opened. And there you stood, all red faced and puffy eyed. Nini immediately pulled you into a hug, but you didn’t return it. You just stood there and waited for her to get off of you.

“I saw you,” you said softly.

“What?”

“With Ricky? After auditions. I saw you. That’s why I’ve been avoiding you.”

Nini’s eyes widened as she finally realized why you were mad at her. You saw what had happened between her and Ricky. Of course you didn’t have the whole story, and yes from an outsider's perspective it did look incredibly incriminating. But at least she finally knew why.

“What you think you saw, isn’t what happened. Ricky wasn’t leaving me alone, he was always texting and calling. Trying to get back together. And he wanted to meet with me after auditions to talk things over. I agreed, but only so I could make it clear to him that we were over. I don’t love him anymore y/n, I love you. I told him that, and I told him that we weren’t going to be together anymore, and he seemed to be okay with that. But when I tried to leave he pulled me towards him and kissed me. I pushed him off of me right after, I promise. I didn’t want to kiss him, believe me. I don’t want him. I want you. I will only ever want you.”

You smiled softly at her, new tears began to form in your eyes. Nini noticed them and immediately reached up to wipe them away.

“Hey, why are you crying?”

“I’m sorry, I’ve been such a jerk. I should’ve trusted you. I should’ve just talked to you about it. But I pushed you and everyone else away. I’m sorry.”

It was silent for a moment before you added, “I also have a lot of makeup work to do now.”

You both laughed softly at that.

“It’s okay y/n, I probably would’ve done the same. I’m just glad things are okay now. I really missed you.”

“I missed you too,” you replied as you pulled Nini into a hug.

“So, you love me?”

Nini’s face lit up in a blush at your words as she smiled at you.

“Yeah, I do. I know it’s not as grand as a whole big song for it, but being away from you for so long made me realize just how much I need you.”

“I know what you mean. And, I love you too.”

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[bychenxhen]

you have any theories about the finale of hsmtmts?

I'm 100% certain on a couple of things:

Mr. Mazzara gives EJ an opportunity, perhaps an acceptance into some university program

EJ cancels his date with Gina, and they go to the cast party (per the preview photo)

Nini gets a chance to move forward with her music, propelled by Gina and her brother

And based off of the second chances song, it's possible that:

Gina will be on her way to leaving for good (going to stay with her mom), because she's been hurt one too many times at East High

Also, from the preview

It seems that Ricky and Nini will finally get the closure they need, and their relationship will become fully platonic. The card reading scene doesn't strike me as romantic.

And...

I have no idea what's gonna happen with Ricky and definitely not with Rina 🤷‍♀️

[youre-on-your-ownkid]

RICKY IS LEFT HANDED?!

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Hi - firstly, I hope you’re doing good! 💕

Second, thank god you are positive towards Portwell! I’ve had to avoid the hsmtmts tag since there’s so much discourse and just generally negativity, so I love seeing you put positive hsmtmts content on my dash!

Thank you! Sorry it took me a bit to respond to this! And after writing this I'm sorry it turned into a rant/essay, but I can't help but share my thoughts.

Honestly, with what I've seen of EJ and Gina, they're so cute! I will put the disclaimer that I don't interact a ton with the fandom, but on occasion there's some good stuff I find.

I remember during the first season, the focus on Ricky and Nini was so strong and EJ and Gina seemed to stand in the way of that and that's all they were there for as far as I could tell. Understandable! The writing was so obviously pushing for Rini to be endgame, and Josh and Olivia worked great together to make that happen. As far as Caswen or Gini, I can see the appeal, but not remotely enough content for anything to be addressed in canon.

It's been a minute since I've watched the season, but I never truly understood where EJ's feelings for Nini came from other than that she was cute and talented (which, not the worst but very surface level). Gina's chemistry with Ricky was already nice and fresh. I don't blame her for catching feelings. Anyone who's gonna go after her character for that after she established such a no-nonsense personality needs to understand the nuance of it. To quote Hadestown, "she fell in spite of herself." It was easy for her to be soft for someone who seemed to just get her. Gina is the one who is under pressure to always look put together and never giving up. Ricky is literally the embodiment of *not being that* and she found charm in his ability to be that expressive. Their moments felt personal because everything else to her was forced to be impersonal. Also, heaven forbid a girl falls for a guy, it's not a sign of weakness! Even more when it's a WOC falling for a white guy.

EJ just needed to wake up to a world where he couldn't control everything perfectly and the breakup with Nini did that. He went from being a classroom globe spinning on its axis to just some guy being held to the Earth with gravity like everyone else. Fallible, embarrassing, not the first pick. He wasn't exactly the self-centered jock like many stereotypes would've had him be, but he didn't have a hard time stepping into the role of Gaston for a reason.

Ricky and Nini, despite their challenges, still chose each other, for better or worse. I don't mind that this plot still went sour because it's such a realistic thing. They really cared and made so much effort! They were flawed and in different places and they couldn't truly blame each other for not working out in the end. I thought it was such a healthy thing to depict, them admitting that they just didn't work no matter how much they forced it.

Gina's falling out with Ricky sucked. They had good potential, but you can't force someone to take anything they don't want. She offered up what she had for him and it was like he played with the food on his plate before walking away from the table without taking a bite. It's genuinely upsetting.

Gina's arc includes how all the kids at East High are her friends and becoming her found family and her insecure attachment style is slowly breaking down into a more secure one. This is the first time she's had an opportunity to stretch and breathe and I am here for seeing her go from the mean girl to a protective bestie. It's what sets up why she's so good with EJ to me. She's very good at grounding herself - only before she would put down roots in defense instead of in vulnerability.

EJ is not used to being this grounded. He flies and he's good at it (okay WE'RE SOARIN', FLYIN', THERE'S NOT A STAR IN HEA- sorry I did this to myself). He and Gina thrive in opposite territories, but are currently living in the spaces they're weakest in. The middle ground for both? Theatre. That's where they begin their relationship as acquaintances and eventually move on from there. But after the respective fallouts with Ricky and Nini, they're slowly helping each other navigate what to one is hostile territory and the other is home.

That's really the point I wanted to make here. Everything they've been through created a natural environment for them to get together and have a shot at happiness in that. Why be mad? They deserve it.

[someonemorelikemyself]

If Nini is changing her name back to Nina, then this means her and Ricky’s ship name is now Rina…