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Dennis Whitaker was regretting living with Trinity Santos more and more everyday. He loved her deeply but he also wanted to strangle her sometimes. She had gotten obsessed with TikTok trends, he would hear the clipped music play over and over, she’d even started posting some of herself and had started trying to film him as well. Dennis was not interested in the slightest, she’d had a couple of videos do good number wise apparently and it made her want to post even more. He wasn’t safe at home and he certainly wasn’t safe at work. She and Victoria Javadi were basically thick as thieves at this point. Talking to each other constantly about trending videos and filming each other.
Dennis knew he was fucked when Trinity and Victoria cornered him in the living room one morning when they were all off. He was doing laundry with a hungry desperation, he was down to basically nothing. He’d stolen a pair of Trinity’s old yoga pants she didn’t wear much anymore just to have something to wear, they clung to him like a second skin. He didn’t have a single shirt clean either, it was humiliating especially since Victoria was over after spending the night and giggled every time she saw his nipple piercings.
Dennis was writing notes out, attempting to study while his clothes were in the wash when he was cornered.
“So Huckleberry” He looked up, paling when he noticed the both of them looming over him.
“No, whatever it is no”
“So you want to me to post flyers around the hospital with the pictures I took last weekend?”
“You took pictures?” He squeaked.
Last weekend had not been great, they’d had a bad week and decided to go out drinking. Trinity had put makeup on him, which Dennis had thought was nice and made his eyes look cool but he’d gotten so black out drunk he didn’t remember much about the night, until Trinity had laughed so hard that she had cried describing how he’d sobbed over a sad ASPCA commercial and then fallen asleep sucking his thumb.
“Yup” Trinity unlocked her phone and showed him the screen. There he was in all of his drunk glory, mascara tear tracks running down his face, thumb tucked into his mouth and dead asleep. “Oh but before that” she swiped on her phone and a video played.
“Okay Huckleberry, repeat what you told me” Trinity’s drunk giggles came through first, then the camera focused on himself, the tears had already happened.
“I want to go to Paris” Drunk Dennis slurred. “I want Dr. Robby and Dr. Abbot to take me to Paris” The video blurred as Trinity laughed. “I want em to fuck me until I can’t remember my name” The video cuts off.
“You did not” Dennis’s jaw is dropped.
“Yup I sure as fuck did, now unless you want all of the Pitt to know that you still suck your thumb and think the Eiffel Tower looks good this time of year then you’re going to participate in our next TikTok” She looked just as smug as she sounded.
“Cmon Dennis!” Victoria pleaded “It’s a dancing trend, you’re good at dancing!” Victoria had her phone opened. She turned it to show him a few reference videos. “It started with this animation but now people are dancing to it and it looks so good! And the sound is so popular!”
“You do know that song is deeply misogynistic right?”
“Eh it’s 3OH!3 it’s excused” Trinity shrugged. “Now, it’s going to be you and me, Vic is going to film, and you’re the one swinging your hips like that”
“Jesus Christ I hate my life” Dennis mourned his peace and stood. Both girls cheered. “I need to change”
“Nope, you can stay in those pants they make your ass look great, but you do need something up top” Trinity cocked her head at him. She nodded once before going to her room. She came out with one of her stupid cropped sweaters. It was black and grey stripped and looked like it would just cover his chest.
“Aw Trinity no”
“Aw Trinity yes, C’mon Huckleberry, it’s that or our attending know you want them to fill all your holes”
“I hate all of this” Dennis squeezed himself into the stupid thing.
“You’re fine Huckleberry shut up and get ready to throw some ass” He rolled his eyes.
“Okay Dennis, you’re going to be here” Victoria moved him into place “then Trin you’re here” The got set up. “Now when the music starts Trinity is going to be leaned forward, then leans back revealing Dennis, as she moves you’re going to turn around and start doing the dance. Then when it says to you, you’re going to turn back around and point out at the camera, then it’ll cycle back around to What can I say and you’ll do it over again okay?”
“I think so?”
“You’re ready let’s do it!”
It took them three tries, then on the third when Trinity and Victoria watched it back Trinity’s jaw dropped and Victoria blushed.
“What! What’s wrong?” Dennis crossed his arms over his chest.
“I have never in my life considered a man hot, I’m just trying to rewire my brain” Trinity paused, watching the video loop again. “Seriously Huckleberry how’d you throw it into a perfect circle”
“Oh shut the fuck up”
“No seriously watch this!” Victoria showed him the loop.
Dennis blushed, maybe his ass did kind of look good, and his abs were on display. When he reached up and pointed you could see the metal glinting off his nipples. “That is so embarrassing” He whined covering his face.
“No it’s amazing, post it Vic”
“I’m going to go drown myself.”
By next work day Dennis had drowned himself in so much studying that he’d basically forgotten about the video. It was a decent day at the Pitt. They’d had a few patients come in from a pile up on the freeway, just enough that they’d gone on divert for a little while. He’s just managed to catch up on his charting at the end of the day when he heard that stupid fucking song.
He whipped his head around to see Victoria showing the video to Princess.
“It’s gotten a million views!” He heard Princess point out.
“Okay, so I have to leave, change my name and never come back” Dennis muttered to himself. Dennis decided now was a good time for a break. He sheepishly pulled his phone out in the privacy of the break room and opened TikTok. He hadn’t let Victoria tag him in it, but he noticed he had several message requests.
He hand’t braved looking at the video since it went up. There were over 11k comments.
A lot of them were images, especially one with a cat holding out its paws and looking to the middle of them. A lot of the comments were talking about his ‘perfect circles’. Dennis knew his face had to be beat red.
“It seems you got popular” Dennis jumped. Dr. Robby was behind him, having come in quietly.
“Oh my god Dr. Robby I’m so embarrassed, Santos basically black mailed me into doing it”
“Don’t be so embarrassed Whitaker, it seems to be a very popular video. Jack sent it to me last night.”
“Dr. Abbott’s seen this?” Dennis whined and tossed his head down onto the table.
“Let’s see here” Before Dennis could react Robby had grabbed his phone, the video was still looping.
“There’s a lot of images of this cat” Robby chuckled. “‘I need this little twink to put me in an early grave’…well that’s certainly creative. ‘I’m 67 and I think I just felt my uterus clench’ That’s excessive ma’am” Robby read from the comments. Dennis squeaked and looked up at his Attending. Robby was scrolling through the comments and laughing. Letting the video loop over and over. “‘The pants, the ass, the crop top, the nipples’ What going on with your nipples?” Robby looked over the phone down at Dennis.
“Um…they’re pierced, they flash for a second when I lift my arms” Dennis whispers.
“Ah…’Don’t ask me the color of anything’ ‘I feel like a female bird’ ‘I need this twink to crack me like a glow stick’ ‘I want to pet his hair and call him my good boy’…”
“Okay!” Dennis stood and snatched his phone back, hastily closing out of the stupid clock app. “I think I get it”.
The break room door swung open while he and Robby were almost chest to chest.
“Am I interrupting?” Jack Abbott asked from the door way, letting the door close behind him.
“No I was just telling Dennis how much the internet is appreciating him” Dennis squeaked again, he wondered if this is what a gazelle felt like before being snatched up by a lion. Jack Abbott had chuckled and sauntered closer basically trapping Dennis in between himself and Robby.
“Oh yeah, the video is great Mouse”
“Mouse?” Dennis whispered.
“I mean, every time I see you, you squeak like a little mouse about to get caught” Jack pressed in closer. Dennis back hit Robby’s front and he released another little noise. “Just like that” Jack purred.
“You know Dennis, Jack and I were talking last night…I think we’d really like to see that little dance in person” Robby rumbled from behind him. “What do you think about that?”
“I um…I think the Eiffel Tower looks really nice this time of year” Dennis banged to get out. He melted as Robby put a hot heavy hand on the back of his neck.
“Get him home before I fuck him over this table” Jack hissed to Robby. “I’m calling in that favor Shen owes me”
Who knew a stupid Trend on TikTok would make his Paris dreams come true.