Summary:

After a major hack exposing athletes for many (stupid/dumb/terrible) things, Ilya Rozanov's messages are laid bare for the world to see. He promised Shane he would delete anything incriminating, but they didn't define what that meant.

For Ilya, who doesn't care if the world knows Shane Hollander is his friend (after all isn't that what the plan is for), it means he deleted every sext and mushy I-love-you texts between them.

So now the world is figuring out that the sport's biggest rivals are friends...

Set in Jan. 2018, this is a (twitter) reaction fic (take 2) (- no need to read take 1 (first) though).

 

Or: Shane and Ilya's text get leaked, luckily they deleted anything incriminating and now they're outed as friends.