carter wasn't much of a social media person; he despised the concept of short firm content that made you doom-scroll for a thirteen-second dopamine rush that, at the end of the day, did not make a difference. instead, the boy spent most of his free time with his many hobbies or out with his friends, at fairs or flea markets or at their local amusement park. and even though carter would rather take another year of chemistry class than download tiktok or instagram, he had done it; for you

not because you were his lover or whatever and you wanted to do cute tiktok trends with him, no, quite the opposite, he didn't know you, at all. the backstory behind the little fiasco he was in at the moment was this; carter and a few of his friends had gone to an amusement park together to ride the rides they used to be scared of as children. carter usually loved adrenaline but the one slingshot-rolldercoaster looked a little too untrustworthy for him, and so he had waited, occupying himself with watching bypassing strangers

that's when he had seen you, standing by what he assumed to be one if your parents, talking to them while smiling, and he had literally fallen in love. as stupid and silly it might sound, carter had fallen in love, and now he had given up a video on tiktok that said;

"this is silly but if u were at the skyhigh park this tuesday wearing a grey shirt and were standing with an adult, I was standing at the slingshot and I thought you were beautiful, sorry that I didn't get ur number but I was scared by your parent"

in his whole eighteen years of existence carter had not yet felt this stupid, but he ended up not regretting his decision at all. over the course of two days, the video blew up and got millions of views and likes and shares, and tiktok really did do its thing; on day three of the video being online, you showed up in the comments, stating you're suspicion that it had been you

"yeh idk if u saw me I was staring like an idiot," carter commented without realizing how desperate he sounded