“Okay but like don’t you think we should invite someone else to watch?” Ella laughed, snuggling closer to Luke as he chuckled against her, his arms wrapping around her warmly.
alright so we know Luke is a pretty big flirt and that Ella flirts right back but in reality she’s dying inside
so what if to ask her to the flower festival Luke’s like “I’ll write her a song then do this elaborate thing with the song playing in the background and it’ll be great”
but everything ends up going wrong and Ella doesn’t even show up on time because she gets caught up in doing something
and Luke’s like “well what do i do now?”
and then like, the next day Ella comes up and she’s like “Yo you wanna go to the flower festival? i mean, not as a date or whatever if you don’t want to”
Luke just laughs because oh my god he’s such a dork and he could have just asked her simply
silly little SI fic for me and @shortybishop because we have no shame
Also go vote for who should be pres of Asagao here!
It was a normal day at Asagao. Beautiful blue sky, warm spring air, and of course, food. The lunch room was abuzz with chatter and students eating, most of the attention focused on the antics of the Normal Boots and Hidden Block clubs. With the recent development of a new group of students passing back and forth between the tables, the rest of the student body waited with baited breath for something to happen, whether it was something to divide the three groups completely or something to make them finally just push tables together so all three groups sat together.
Dave was acutely aware of the rest of the school’s attention on her and her friends. It was hard not to be, people talked about it constantly, and with how quiet Dave was most of the time people didn’t even know she was listening. It was useful, if just because she was able to figure out if there were any stupid rumors being spread and tell the clubs immediately. Stupid rumors were luckily few and far between, but one could never be too careful. Dave put her thoughts to the side as she tuned back into the conversations around her.
“All I’m saying is that not enough students participate actively in the elections. Its unfair. People shouldn’t vote if they don’t know more about who they’re voting for.” Arden shrugged as they spoke, stabbing at their lunch with a fork.
“Exactly! You know what? I have an idea!” Dave raised an eyebrow as Ella spoke. Ella ideas were always interesting and only sometimes ended up being bad. That said, Ella had a lot of ideas. “Let’s have our own election of sorts. Get everyone to vote that we can, make sure people know that there’s an election coming up.”
“Are we going to have them vote between Jeff and Paul like they’re already going to or…?” Dave interjected, intrigued with the idea of their own vote. It really wouldn’t be a bad way to make sure people were aware of the election… Ella shrugged.
“Yeah! Oh man, this is gonna be good. Okay, so, we have to figure out how we’re gonna have people vote and we have to tell Jeff and Paul, of course, and maybe have some flyers put up or something?” Ella rambled as Dave took out her phone, typing quickly.
“Or, we could just set up an online poll and spread the word?” Dave smirked as she passed her phone to Ella, poll already created.
“...Good idea!” Ella laughed, writing down the poll’s address as she continued to plan. Dave shook her head, moving to tell the clubs. She plopped down into a chair at the Hidden Block table, waiting patiently for a lull in the conversation.
“Hey! We’re doing a poll to try to spread the word about the upcoming elections. If you guys wouldn’t mind passing around the link, spreading the word, etcetera.” Dave copied the address down for Jeff who took in it surprise.
“Wow, thank you Dave! It’s not easy to get word around the school for something like this. People just don’t seem to care.” He frowned slightly and Dave shrugged, smiling.
“Not a problem. Besides, it was Ella’s idea.” Dave looked pointedly at Luke when she spoke Ella’s name, trying to judge his reaction. He seemed to perk up slightly at the mention of her name and Dave grinned, taking note of that for later. She moved to get up from the table, stopped by Jeff’s hand on her wrist.
“Wait, Dave... “ He seemed to to turn something over in his mind,shaking his head slightly before he let go of her wrist. “Ah, never mind.” Dave glanced questioningly at him before moving to tell the Normal Boots table. She guessed it must not have been important.
With three groups of people spreading the word the poll was quickly passed around, votes coming in constantly. It was a close race, neither boy showing a clear lead until-
“Jeff’s in the lead.” Ella’s voice came before she did, Dave glancing up amusedly as Ella walked into her room.
“I know.” Dave gestured to her laptop, open to see the live results of the poll. Jeff’s leap ahead had come out of nowhere but seemed to be here to stay, his percentage quickly rising while Paul’s plummeted.
“Do you think it’s too early to congratulate him?” Dave’s mouth quirked into a smile, Ella laughing before pushing her toward the door.
“No, it’s never too early.” Dave paused.
“If you come with me Luke will probably be there….” Ella’s eyes widened slightly before narrowing, pushing Dave once again.
“Okay. But I’m not coming for Luke.” Dave rolled her eyes, closing the door behind her as she and Ella began the walk to Bluebell.
shortytown- "You've got some batter/dough/other cooking ingredient on your nose"
“You’ve got cookie dough on your nose.” Luke chuckled, swiping at Ella’s nose to remove the offending ingredient before sticking it in his mouth, letting out a pleased hum. Ella quirked an eyebrow at him, picking up a dish towel to wipe the rest off.
“Gross. Also, you have flour on your hat, dork.” He froze, spinning around to try to see his hat without taking it off. Ella smirked, holding up a pan for Luke to use as a mirror while he frowned.
“No I don-” He stopped midsentence, coughing from the sudden explosion of powdery white that had come from Ella’s hand. He blinked slowly, wiping flour from his eyes before giving her a disbelieving gaze.
“You have flour on your hat. And on your face. And on your shirt.” She looked entirely too pleased with herself and Luke thought for a moment before grabbing a handful of flour, smushing it into Ella’s hair as she yelped.
Luke doesn’t really strike me as the sassy type, but if he’s very tired I can imagine his filters dropping and he becomes like, the king of saying something sassy and then apologizing so here we go!
So depending on her mood Ella is either going to be really sassy and flirty right back or she’s going to get annoyed very quickly.
Either way Luke feels bad about the sass and is constantly apologizing for it
Good mood Ella tries to explain to him that it’s fine, probably ends up giggling at how much of a dork he’s being
Luke doesn’t quite know why she’s giggling but he takes it as a good sign (and he really loves her laugh) so he keeps being sassy
This starts Luke being sassy just to hear Ella laugh, then Ella is sassy/flirty back, then Luke being even more sassy.
Not a bad cycle, but can get annoying to everyone else.
Ways to stop cycle: Ella ends up kissing Luke and sending him to bed, Luke goes to bed, or someone else makes him go to bed so they’ll both shut up.
Bad mood Ella is most likely going to repeatedly tell him to shut up.
Repeatedly.
Of course this is just going to make him feel worse, leading to more apologizing, leading to more ‘shut up’.
Bad cycle.
Only ways to stop the cycle: Someone leaves/gets away from eachother, Luke gets some sleep, Someone else steps in.
Sad Ella ShortyTown HCs
Mostly because I am sad. And this a lot of the time cheers me up.
(The formatting will be god awful plz fix bc mobile)
Ella isn’t normally sad, it’s pretty rare for anyone to see her sad at all ever really
But when she’s sad it’s like a frickin thunderstorm over her head but she won’t ever let anyone know that
Normally she just hangs out by herself when she’s sad and just lays in bed
but one day it’s really bad, she’s just doing the painfully silent cry in bed while she tries to control her breathing so nobody walking in would ever guess how badly she was crying
bless luke walking in to check on her to see and just seeing her in a mess
she doesn’t want him to worry, ‘it’s just all stupid things’
but of course he worries this is luke we’re talking about
so he just hugs her and rubs her back gently as she painstakingly explains what’s on her mind (she takes forever because she never wants to bother him ever)
after he was sure he got out all out (and he 'd make sure) he’d probably just kiss get face gently in random places telling her specifics of why he likes her (well, I really couldn’t tell you why)
eventually they just cuddle and she falls asleep on him and it’s adorable hat and all
And this is my 3 am emotional contribution good bye 👋👋👋
(PS you don’t have to post this if you don’t want to I just had the feels)
More Shortytown hcs because why the heck not and I also may like this ship too much haHA
Ella is too embarrassed to admit she likes Luke but he finds out she likes someone and while he’s totally joking it becomes a game between them as to if he can find out or not
And while Ella has to hide it the closer he get’s to finding the truth the more nervous she gets (read as: She’s smiling but inside she’s screaming)
While Luke isn’t the brightest or best at picking up on cues he notices when she starts to tense up and while she doesn’t say anything in fear of giving it away he starts to get the hint
And now that he’s started to realize he has two options: Confess and hope he’s right or stay silent
So there’s just sort of this nervous tension between them for a day or so while Luke is trying to decide if he should say anything and Ella is hoping he didn’t realize but also kind of hoping he realized
Man idk anymore gdi @shortybishop why do you keep doing this