Disclaimer: I do not own nor will I ever own Harry Potter and New Girl.

Author's Notes: This is unbeta'd so all mistakes and typos you find are all mine. This fanfic is crossposted from AO3 and was written for Harry Potter Crossover Versatile Prompt Fest 2023 , Cast the Dice 2023 , 30 Days of Crossovers Challenge and Melting the Pot's Tic Tac Toe 2023.

I used the following prompts:
- Harry Potter/New Girl
- Text/Letter Fic
- Popular character from a different fandom
- New Girl Fandom

I hope everyone enjoys reading this!

Nick Miller woke up one morning in his room with a phone number written on his arm, his head hurt from drinking way too much the previous night but when he saw the number on his skin he felt confusion wash through him.

"What the hell, what's that?" he muttered to himself, as he held up his arm to read what was written upon it.

He moved his body to a sitting position and just stared at the number.

Nick tried to figure out in his head why he would have a number written on his arm. He sat on his bed, thinking to himself, and trying to ignore his hangover.

Last night he had gone to a party with his roommates Schmidt, Winston, and Jess, and he had drunk a lot, that was something he was certain of going by the massive headache he currently had.

He remembered meeting someone, talking to them, kissing them and he remembered the person writing down something on his arm with a smile on their face. He could remember a man with green eyes, black hair, a lightning bolt shaped scar and glasses. He remembered that he had enjoyed being with the other man, whatever his name was.

However he couldn't remember the man's name or what they had talked about or if they had done anything that had gone beyond kissing.

He wondered if the person would be interested in him if they were to ever meet again.

Nick got up out of his bed, got dressed in jeans and a shirt before leaving his room, not bothering to brush his hair.

Once out of his room Nick saw Jess first and before the woman could say a word he asked about the previous night.

Jess stared at him, "Well…you got drunk Nick, you talked and flirted quite a lot with a hot guy at the party and you kissed him a lot"

"Anything else?" he asked.

Jess shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know Nick but you took the guy to your room and I don't know what else happened" Jess gave a pause, "So, what happened Nick? Did you and that Harry guy do you know…sex stuff together or what?"

"I can't remember…Wait , is Harry his name?"

The name sounded familiar to Nick but he wasn't sure.

Jess nodded. "Yeah, he's a friend of Schmidt's apparently. I'm pretty sure his name is Harry," said Jess.

"What's this Harry look like?" asked Nick.

"He has green eyes, black short hair, glasses, he has a couple of unique looking scars…" said Jess before she was interrupted by Nick.

"Yeah, I think I remember him now"

There was a brief moment of silence before Nick spoke again, "I…I…think I want to see him again or least talk to the guy. I think I remember him being kinda hot and I think I had fun with him"

Jess smiled brightly at her roommate, "That's great Nick!"

Nick soon returned to his room in the loft before grabbing his phone and sitting down upon his bed. He then just stared at the phone screen for a few moments before putting in the number that was still written upon his arm but suddenly found himself too nervous to make the call. He thought of simply sending a text instead, this seemed the easier way to go about it than actually talking to him. Afterall, talking to someone while drunk was one thing but he was so bad at it when sober.

So, he decided to text Harry instead of calling him, though admittedly it did take him a bit to put into what words what he wanted to say.

His first text message read:

'Hi I'm Nick. Do you remember me from the party? We talked, kissed, and might have done some other stuff together. You wrote your number on my arm…I think..Can we talk?'

Only a few minutes later Nick received an answer, he read it.

'Yeah, I remember. Head hurts like hell, though. I had fun, we didn't do any sexual stuff though, we just talked and made out.'

For some reason Nick felt both disappointed and relieved.

'Did I kiss you good?' texted Nick.

'Yeah, don't worry. You were great!' Nick received back in response.

Nick then after a minute texted, 'Do you remember what we talked about?'

'You talked an awful lot about some ex I think, we talked about Schmidt a bit and you mentioned that you're a bartender'

'Oh, ok.'

Nick then tried to think of what else to say but Harry beat him to it.

He read the new text from Harry.

'Would you like to go on a date? I think I want to see you again, but sober this time.'

Nick felt conflicted, a mixture of panic and excitement filling him up. Harry from the party wanted to see him again! He was happy about this, excited at the very thought of seeing Harry again, excited at the idea of going on a date with the other man but at the same time he couldn't help but feel panicked and scared.

He was crap at talking to people! Worse at dealing with his feelings and worse still, he still hadn't recovered from being dumped by Caroline. What was he going to do?

Suddenly there was a knock on his bedroom door , he yelled out 'what?' and quickly after heard the familiar voice of Jess.

"So, did you do it then Nick? Did you ask him out?" asked Jess.

Nick gave a sigh, "Not yet!" he told her loudly after a few moments. "He's asked me but I haven't said yes yet"

"Well…Do it then Nick!" Jess said. "You two really seemed to like each other"

"But what if I fuck everything up?" he said to the woman.

"I'm sure you won't Nick, don't worry" Jess said, trying to reassure her friend.

Nick wasn't at all reassured despite his friend's words and still was worried but decided to agree to the date anyway.

He texted back the word 'yes' to Harry.

A moment later Nick received an answer to his one word text.

'Great! Looking forward to it already. How does dinner and a movie on Friday night sound to you?'

'That sounds good to me , dinner and a movie sounds good and I'm not working then' replied Nick.

Nick and Harry continued to text to each other for a while , talking to each other of trivial topics of conversation and discussing further about their planned date.