No Filter - Loaded Banana #RainbowSnippets #LGBTQIA

Snippet #2 from No Filter - another Checking Him Out / Hiding Behind The Couch crossover (the first being Hiding Out), featuring Matty (CHO) and Libby (HBTC).

I should say deliberate cross-over, as today, I realised I’d accidentally (or maybe not?) put characters from both series in exactly the same place at the same time—even though they live 250 miles apart—although they don’t interact. I wonder if they even noticed each other? Hmm. (For those who are curious, it was in The WAG and The Scoundrel and The Making Of Us)

Brief background: Libby and Matty first met in Hiding Out, when Libby was fifteen and Matty was an undergrad dance student. No Filter is a year later; it’s a very early work in progress, and it’s a friendship story, not a romance. Now I’ve figured out where it fits in the timeline of both series, I sort of know what I’m doing. Possibly.

This snippet is from Matty’s point of view. Noah is Matty’s SO.

“Did you want me?”

A banana appeared right in front of my face, like, so close I could smell it. It made my mouth water—I didn’t even like bananas, or not much. Give me a Mars bar any day, especially after dance practice. Or a Crunchie. God, I love Crunchies. The way the honeycomb breaks off when you bite it. Not sure why it’s orange, though, when honey’s kind of yellow. “What’s this?” I asked.

“A banana?” Noah’s mouth stayed in a perfect straight line, while his eyes were proper laughing at my question.

I took the banana and peered along it, aiming it at him. “Is it loaded?”

“Yep.”

As was he—with fruit. “No chocolate?”

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