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Summary:

Two strangers connect through the number neighbour trend, something thought by Xiao to be left behind in 2016, yet here we are, looking back at a... text message from some guy claiming to be his. Number neighbour, that is. He's settled on ignoring the flirting thing. But whatever, that wasn't important. What's more important is the university work he's desperately trying to balance alongside his job and his friends who for some reason are looking for any reason to set him up on a blind date and then some more people pushing him to join a club or whatever. Just, wonderful...

Major credits to CodenameCarrot and La_Temperanza for providing the details on how to recreate text messages in Ao3. Their tutorial can be found here!

Chapter 1: xiao

Summary:

some random weirdo out of nowhere texts xiao and now he's gotta figure out how to deal with them and he's not quite sure if they're an idiot or they're doing it on purpose to annoy him.

Notes:

heya! this is a social media fic featuring your favourite genshin characters [winks with both eyes]
while these are much more common on twitter, it's probably more akin to a chatfic, though with the power of work skins and css and writing fanfic in visual studio code, it looks pretty clean for ao3 (i think)

as such, i highly recommend leaving the creator's style on for this fic in order to have a better experience!!
(also, you can click on pictures to enlarge them (kind of) if you want it'll just take you to an imgur page though :>)

note: please do NOT attempt to call any of the phone numbers mentioned in this fic. they are randomly generated and mean nothing

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Chat Title: (249) 115-2098

(249) 115-2098: hi!

Me: who is this

(249) 115-2098: it's your number neighbour!

Me: my what

(249) 115-2098: it's this trend that was going around a while ago where you message the number that's one off from your own number, which is your number neighbour, and how i got this number :3

Me: how old are you

Me: didn't your parents ever tell you talking to strangers was dangerous

(249) 115-2098: i'm 20!

Me: i would've thought you were 12 with how you follow trends without any sense of worry for your own safety

(249) 115-2098: well, would you consider yourself dangerous?

Me: am i? you figure that out for yourself, i'm not about to lead you by the hand on the internet

(249) 115-2098: ooh, aren't you sassy?

(249) 115-2098: i don't think you're dangerous. you seem pretty normal to me

Me: how the fuck are you this naive

Me: like geniunely

(249) 115-2098: it's not like i told you anything about myself yet!!

Me: ... anyway, what happened to 2491152100?

(249) 115-2098: ah

(249) 115-2098: they were some old fart

(249) 115-2098: i think they blocked me lol

Me: give me one reason why i shouldn't block you too

(249) 115-2098: woah woah woah, blocking already? is this the start of my enemies to lovers au?

(249) 115-2098: besides, you shouldn't be mean >:(( i'm super cool i promise

Me: i don't even know your name

(249) 115-2098: giving your name out to strangers is dangerous, you know!!

Me: i didn't realise i was talking to a hypocrite.

(249) 115-2098: hmph, you're so mean

(249) 115-2098: weeeellll... if you insiiiist.... you can call me carmen!

Me: carmen? what kind of a name is that?

(249) 115-2098: it's not my real name you idiot!!

(249) 115-2098: since you're gonna harp on about online safety or whatever...

(249) 115-2098: i stole it from latin, since everyone steals words from them all the time. it makes me sound mysterious

(249) 115-2098: (this is where i fling a cloak around me like that tuxedo mask meme)

Me: [sent an image]

(249) 115-2098: WAIT

(249) 115-2098: THAT'S IT

(249) 115-2098: YOU KNOW THE MEME

Me: of course i do. it's not like i've never seen it before

(249) 115-2098: how very cultured of you,

(249) 115-2098: . wait

(249) 115-2098: you still haven't told me your name

Me: you talk as if i intend to speak with you in the future

(249) 115-2098: well, i'm procrastinating right now, and i don't have anyone to talk to, so entertain me for a bit!! please?

Me: procrastinating?

(249) 115-2098: oh... i'm a university student!! i'm majoring in english with a minor in music

(249) 115-2098: im trying to compose something right now but my head is completely fried from trying to come up with an original chord progression that isn't I V vi IV

Me: you're giving out an awful lot of information for someone that barely knows me

Me: what if i'm secretly part of the mafia and sending my bodyguards to kill you right now for finding this number?

(249) 115-2098: well, you're satisfying my ennui, so

(249) 115-2098: besides, who's fault is that? :( i know nothing about you other than your number. you could at least tell me your age and what you do in return for me telling you mine

Me: ... i have work in a bit.

Me: bye

(249) 115-2098: oh well, can't say i didn't try

(249) 115-2098: see ya, mx. stranger who-could-also-be-a-40-year-old for all i know

Me: mx. stranger sounds so tacky

Me: and i'm NOT 40

Me: ... i'm 19

(249) 115-2098: hmm?? i thought you had work :o

Me: ...

Me: whatever

Me: you can call me alatus, by the way

Me: see ya, carmen

(249) 115-2098: bye alatus!! it was really fun talking to you, i'll message again tomorrow! :D

Notes:

i'm hoping this works lol i wrote this a longg time ago but i have some of the first few chapters planned out, i just need to roleplay a bunch of characters in a modern au lol

please feel free to check me out on twitter (@allixirr) for cool art rts and writing updates

until then!! pray it won't take me 3 years to update this fic! (spoiler alert it will in fact take her a long time to update this fic)