Jonah | Pickles

Jonah was currently sat on a doorstep contemplating life. To a passerby, he might've looked like an existential teenager that was just trying not to question life's meaning but if you looked closely enough, you could see the way his lips were twitched up into a tiny smile. Then again, what was the purpose of life?

He was going over the fun memories of him as a child. Those carefree days when he was innocent and baby faced. He remembered going for walks with his family, especially with his older sister who he didn't see very much of ever since she had married her long-term boyfriend who she had met under extremely odd circumstances but that was a story for another day. He also thought about meeting Elena. An accidental phone call and voila! A friendship that was forged in steel but unfortunately over the years, due to wear and tear, it eroded. The reason for this was because he had to move away from his previous house and had to start all over again in another part of the country. Fortunately, for Jonah, it wasn't much of a problem as he was an extremely sweet soul that everyone ended up loving. Life was mainly easy for him and along with his innocent air came popularity. As he was quite popular and wrapped in his new life, he started to forget about his old friend back in Soho.

Exchanged phone numbers were lost and the talking ceased. For the first few months, they pined over each other's absence but slowly, they adjusted to their dismay.

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As soon as his train of thought went down the wrong path, his small smile turned itself upside down into a frown which looked out of place on his handsome face. His calm expression was now stressed. He regretted losing all contact with her but it was too late now.  He sorely regretted it. Even though they were young, it was the kind of friendship that felt like home and anyone could see that they were compatible with each other.

All this thinking started to make Jonah's head ache. He originally had wanted to feel better and so he had decided to think about his childhood but today it made feel guilty and just worsened his mood. 

"Stop over thinking Jonah." he muttered to himself out loud as he got up to go inside.

"Oi Jonah!" a voice called.

Jonah turned to see Zak standing by his house.

"Oh hi. Didn't see you there."

"Are you ok? I saw you sitting on your doorstep looking stressed, man. Is everything ok?"

"Yeah, yeah." he said not wanting to give anything away. The last thing he wanted was a fuss about how he never really did much apart from staring at his phone all day.

"Cool! There's a party at uh, Max's-"

Zak was cut off by Jonah's phone which had decided to ring at this exact moment. Jonah's attention was now on the phone.

Pickles.

"Do you mind if we talk later? It's important. Can't really miss this call."

"Yeah, totally. See you later." and with that, Zak walked off.

"Hey Pickles!"

"Hey JJ!" her warm voice greeted.

"How's your job going?"

"Yeah, it's goo- How do you know when I work?"

"I don't. I just said how it was going for you on the whole."

"Hehe. Okay."

"This just reminded me of yesterday when you said come out the door when I was right behind my door."

"Hehe Elsa."

"There's no way I'm Elsa."

"But I'm Anna!"

"Wait, let me google the characters. Hmm, I'll be... Kristoff!"

Pickles made a choking noise which made Jonah slightly terrified. The website had said that Hans was the villain.

"Kristoff..?"

"Yeah, the nice guy with the reindeer."

"Yeah, I know which one! Anyways, what were you doing before I called?"

"Just sitting here."

"Haha, it's not like you gave up talking to a friend when I called!"

With those words, Jonah blushed and even though Pickles couldn't see it, he buried his face in his sweater.

"Haha. Well, I was actually just lazing around so no."

"Cool, wait a second. An Americano and a... chocolate cake. Okay, it'll be £5.20 please. Thank you. Have a nice day!"

"You work in a coffee shop?"

"Yeah. How cliché is that?"

"It kinda is but my sister used to work in one. I used to get free cookies."

"Ooh!"

"My sister also ended up meeting this love of her life there."

"That's cute! Aww!"

"Everyone says that it is something out of a Wattpad book."

"Aww yeahhhh! It is!"

Jonah smiled to himself fondly. He loved these conversations with her. She made his days a hundred times better.

"I'm still not going to tell you my Wattpad username."

"Uh fine!"

"But, I'll tell you when we meet up."

"You- I- You're up for that?"

"Totally! You seem sweet and you don't seem to be a crazy old lady."

When Pickles answered, she sounded extremely flustered which made Jonah smile.

"Sure!" she squeaked.

"Oh Pickles." he muttered grinning. She never failed make him laugh.

"Yes, I'll make you macchiato. Sorry JJ, I have to go because it's rush hour. Bye!"

"Bye Pickles!" and with that, the call ended. He sighed. He hadn't met a girl like Pickles before and she intrigued him. Even though he was popular, he had never had a girlfriend because the girls in his area were quite fussy apart from a few and because he hadn't felt ready for one. Wait, why was he thinking about girlfriends?

All of that was cut off with another phone call. It was his sister.

"WHO WERE YOU TALKING TO ALL THIS TIME? I'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU FOR AGES."

"Calm down. The hormones are really whizzing around today. I was talking to a friend. Why?"

"Oh, just so you know Jonah, I've booked tickets for you, mum and dad to come here till I have my baby."

"I'm coming to Soho?"

"Yes. Ju's family will be here as well!" she exclaimed making Jonah feel guilty. Again.

He now had an opportunity to fix things but would he use it or throw it away?

A/N: Yoohoo! So, Jonah's returning to Soho! What will happen then? Ehe, I actually think that this chapter is sloppily written.

Wattpad is being extremely weird lately. I don't know if it's happening to anyone else but for books I'm reading, it gets rid of ALL of my votes and goes to the beginning of the book. So, I click on the book and I'm like 'How come I haven't read this?'  I read and I'm like 'I've read this though. What.'
Is this happening to any of you? I've uninstalled the app a couple of times :/

Question: If the characters of ICDL and PO made a social media account, what would their handles be?

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