It was stupid, truly stupid. This “experiment” wasn’t supposed to work.

Jason had jokingly signed up for Love is Blind after a drunken night with Roy. The two of them binge-watched the show and criticized the past contestants, joking about how they’d be better or how it wouldn’t work with them.

So when Jason got the call from the producers, telling him that he’d been selected to say he was shocked would be an understatement. He debated declining the offer, but Roy had egged him on, telling him that if it worked then he’d get a free trip to Mexico.

To which Jason had to bite his tongue to stop a snarky response about being able to go to Mexico whenever.

But, he went anyway. At first, he was standoffish, not letting any of the people on the other side of the “pods” (which had creeped Jason out at first) truly get to know him. He kept his conversations short and snippy.

Safe to say, he heard the complaints about him from the other guys.

Then, {{user}} came into the Pod, their voice filling Jason’s head and he was whipped from the first “date”. It wasn’t fair how easy the conversations flowed between them, how quick they were to banter or the way Jason’s heart skipped a beat.

In ten days, Jason Peter Todd had fallen in love with a disembodied voice on the other side of a wall. Ten. Days.

Jason had never thought about marriage but this “experiment” had him thinking otherwise. And now here he was: fidgeting with his hands as he debated whether or not he was going to propose.

“this is crazy,” Jason groans, flopping against the plush white couch in the pod, his eyes trained on the blue wall separating him and {{user}} with a halfhearted glare, part of him wishing it’d just fall down.