Anyone wanna take bets on how long it’ll take before people start shipping them?

looks like video’s already filming audio’s butt

totally shipping video and audio

and also text and chat

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Text wants to date Quote- everyone does.  But she only has eyes for Video.  Video can get her places.  Video can help her achieve stardom.  Chat secretly likes Link’s best friend Text, and when Text asks for help getting Q to like him, she of course agrees so she can spend more time with him.  But he is oblivious.  He never does realize how she feels, and he spurns her advances unknowingly.  It tears her apart, and every time Quote pays Text any attention, Chat can’t help but go crying to Audio, her bff.  But little does she know, Audio has liked her since kindergarten, when she first started saying snarky dialogues out loud (he loved to record them and play her voice back over and over.  He still has some of her earliest ideas, and can’t bring himself to throw them away).  Photo’s a creep.  He tries to embarrass her by taking horrid derp pics of her and showing them to Text in some twisted attempt to get Quote’s attention.  When Text makes fun of them in front of Audio, Aud punches Text in the face, and Chat begins to wonder where her relationship with Aud stands.  However, since she feels her reputation is wrecked, she hides out instead of going to the end-of-the-year party. 

By this point, Text went to Quote with his black eye to tell her about the fight.  But it backfires: if there’s one thing Quote understands, it is worrying about her reputation.  She tells Text off for his reaction, and explains that she’ll never be able to reciprocate his feelings.  She finds Chat hiding in her bedroom, listening to the mix tape Audio made her for her last birthday.  Quote convinces her that if she allows Q to give her a make-over, everybody will be so distracted by her latent beauty they’ll forget about the derp pictures. 

When she steps into the party, there is a moment of silence.  Then, to her surprise, Text comes running up.  He starts flirting with her, and Chat can’t believe it.  After everything, he likes her?  But then she realizes something: Text sucks.  Text is fickle, blind, and assholish.  And plain.  She needs someone who cares about what she has to say, who knows what kind of music she likes (duets are her favorite: they sound like a conversation, like a chat), who pays attention to her.  She deserves someone so much better than Text, she deserves —

She smiles prettily, looks Text right in the eye, and simply says, “No.”

When Aud first saw Chat walk in, he smiled ruefully.  She was, of course, gorgeous, but she looked uncomfortable in the preppy outfit.  He knew her favorite outfit was just a tshirt and jeans.  He knew that her mind spoke in beautiful volumes, and he heard her voice in the echoes of symphonies.  He was in love with her, but now Text had wised up and was taking his chance.  Audio turned away, and left the party before he could say hello.

Chat turned away from Text, looking for Aud.  She’d seen him when she had first walked in, so she knew he had to be there somewhere.  But he wasn’t.  She ran out the door, excited to tell him what she’d just finally realized, but she couldn’t find him.

It began to rain.  Audio didn’t mind.  In fact, he welcomed it.  The rain was a good soundtrack to his feelings.  He stopped when he got to Chat’s favorite bookstore, and sat outside on the stoop.  And that was how Chat finally found him.  With her newly-painted face smearing and her freshly-curled hair falling into her eyes, she sat down next to him and took his hand.

“I-” She started to talk, but then stopped herself.  He looked at her, not knowing what she was about to say, hoping for the best but preparing himself for — no, expecting — the worst.  She was about to tell him she had finally been asked out by Text.  She was about to tell him Text was the most wonderful guy.  She was about to tell him she had just had her first kiss.

Instead of speaking, she began to sing:
Do you hear me,
I’m talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I’m trying
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea…
Her voice trailed off and faded into the sound of the rain.

Audio just stared at her for the longest time, trying to convince himself this was for him, but knowing it must be about Text. 

Finally, Chat opened her mouth again.  “Audio.  You are my best friend, the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.  You have always been there for me, and I know you always will be.  And so I need to tell you something, because it’s important to me that we are always honest with each other.  I think I might be in love with you.”

Audio reached up and wiped the running mascara from her face before chiming in with the second part of her favorite duet, the third track on the mix tape he’d made for her freshman year, hoping she’d get the subtle hint.

I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard
I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend

Text didn’t go out with anyone for as long as they all went to school together.  Link eventually won that obscure IT scholarship.  Video and Quote never were quite official, but it was always understood.  Photo was eventually thrown in jail for blackmail.

And Chat and Audio?  Well, they became an item that night.  The two best friends were perfect for each other in every way.  Audio’s favorite recording would eventually be the one of them exchanging their vows.  And later, the sound of Chat singing their song as a lullaby to their little girl.