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Wildflower (OP81 x fem!reader x LN4)

Chapter 3

CHAPTER SUMMARY: You’ve reached your breaking point with Oscar, but an unfortunate grand prix changes everything you thought you wanted.

WORD COUNT: 10.3k

WARNINGS: Conversations about sex and but no actual smut, degradation, angst. Mentions of cheating. Oscar is literally horrible. Mention of unhealthy family dynamics. Lots of cursing. Pain, so much pain. Mention of injury. I’m so sorry for all the emotional suffering this chapter will cause.

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Accept message request from Lando_Norris?

Your fingers hovered over the “accept” button, nervous but curious. What would Lando ever want to talk to you about?

He had avoided you like the plague since that night in Italy, and you hardly blamed him. But as far as you knew, no one except you and Nicole knew that Lily was no longer in the picture; still, what would have changed to cause Lando Norris, of all people, to be messaging you at night?

“Who are you texting?”

You jumped, not having noticed that Oscar had turned over to face you, seemingly unable to sleep.

“No one,” you said. “Just scrolling.”

Oscar confirmed your suspicions. “I can’t sleep.”

“Me neither,” you said, short and annoyed.

Oscar didn’t respond, instead just moving on top of you, holding your chin in his hands to force you to look at him.

“You can’t even sleep until I fuck you like the little whore you are, huh?” He leaned down to kiss your neck, lips grazing over where only hours before he had left dark marks in the supple skin.

“Get off me, Oscar,” you said, and he immediately pulled back.

“You okay?” he asked.

You weren’t okay. In fact, you were furious. “You realize that you never even asked me if I was okay with you talking to me like that?”

The look in his eyes said only two words: Oh shit.

“YN, I… I’m so sorry, I didn’t even think of it like that. Shit, why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

“I shouldn’t have to tell you to treat me with respect.”

“I thought you liked it?” he said, running his fingers through his hair out of nervousness.

You sat up, the anger burning within you. You hadn’t planned to confront Oscar so soon after what you had overheard, but now that you’d gotten started, there was no stopping you.

“That’s not the point. Maybe I’m tired of feeling like your personal sex toy, Oscar. Oh, but I forgot. My feelings aren’t your problem.”

Oscar exhaled angrily. “Is that really what this is about?”

You just looked at him, bewildered. “What the fuck is wrong with you?” you asked.

He began, “Look, I don’t know what you think you heard—”

“I heard you talking shit about me on the phone to your own mother.”

“It wasn’t like that, YN.”

“Then what was it like? What’s your excuse now?”

Oscar tried to begin, his mouth opening with no words coming out. He truly didn’t know what to say. “It’s been a hard time.”

“I know. I’m well aware, Oscar. Because I made your feelings my problem for years.”

“I know, and I don’t know what I’d do without you in my life—”

“I don’t want to hear your excuses anymore.”

“I’m not making excuses. I’m just trying to explain it to you.”

“Of course, you want to talk now that I won’t give you sex anymore,” you said, rolling your eyes.

“Oh my God,” Oscar huffed, and it took every ounce of your strength not to curse him out then and there. “You act like I’m some fucking villian. You can’t get mad at me for fucking you when you wanted this too.”

“But how do you know that, Oscar? How do you know what I want? Have you ever asked me what I want?” Tears began prickling at the edge of your eyes. “You haven’t, because you don’t care.”

Oscar looked at the wall, his jaw tense. “I’m not doing this right now.”

“Am I not even deserving of an honest conversation?” you said, the tears now flowing down your cheeks. It had been years since he’d seen you cry, but Oscar wouldn’t even look at you.

You got up from the bed and started changing from your pajamas to your regular clothes. “If you don’t want to talk, fine. I can’t make you. But I’m going home.”

“YN—”

“Leave me alone,” you said, grabbing your purse and exiting the bedroom. You heard him call for you again, but you ignored his pleas, walking ahead out of the apartment and to your car.

When you slid into the driver’s seat, you finally broke down, resting your head against the steering wheel. No thoughts went through your head. You weren’t much of a crier, so when you finally gave in, it was more of an act of your body giving up.

So you took a few minutes to compose yourself before driving the short distance home through the streets of Monaco, a place you’d grown to love. But his presence was everywhere. The car. The streets. Your apartment. Oscar was inescapable.

And when you felt your phone buzz as you sat with a cup of tea on the balcony an hour or so later, this reality was confirmed. He was calling.

You didn’t answer the first call, or the second. But by the third you knew that your only options were to turn your phone off, block him, or answer.

Well, what did you have to lose?

“What do you want?” you asked upon picking up the call.

“I’m sorry, YN. Can we talk?”

“Say whatever you’re going to say.”

He paused. “In person? I’m in the hallway.”

“I don’t know…”

“Please?” he asked. You sighed. Why could you never say no to this man?

“Fine. Give me a sec.” You hung up the call, took another deep breath, and opened the front door before immediately turning around to go back to your balcony. You couldn’t bear to look at him, and you welcomed the sound of the soft waves lapping at the harbor as a buffer.

He sat down beside you, and even before any words were said, you felt the tears returning. Something about this felt…final. And your intuition had hardly ever been wrong before.

“YN, I’m so sorry. When I get frustrated I say things I don’t mean. I was really out of line earlier.”

“Thank you,” you whispered, unable to truly accept his apology.

He continued, “And you’re right. I shouldn’t have just assumed that all the rough stuff was okay. And I’m sorry if I hurt you.”

You waited a moment for him to continue speaking, but he didn’t. “Is that all you have to say?”

“I just…don’t know what else you want me to say.” You looked over to him. His head was hung low, like a child in trouble at school. Not like a man who was taking accountability for his actions.

“You really don’t get it, do you?”

“What?” he asked.

You just stared at him for a moment, gathering the courage to ask your question.

“Did you talk to Lily like that?”

“Huh?” he echoed.

“Did you call her all those names? Degrade her?”

“Don’t ask me that.”

“Why not?”

“Because that’s…personal. I don’t think Lily would appreciate me talking about it.”

“She didn’t appreciate me being in your life, either. But look how that turned out,” you said, the malice lingering on every word.

Your statement cut a little too deep for comfort. But Oscar finally relented, answering, “...I would, sometimes. She didn’t care for it. But I just…get frustrated a lot. It helps me get all that pent up energy out. Half the time I don’t even think about what I’m saying.”

You hummed. The implication of his words hung in the air; you were a relief for his frustration, a thoughtless passtime.

When you didn’t respond, he got nervous. “Did I…hurt you?”

“Not physically, no,” you answered, your eyes never moving from the sight of the harbor in the distance. “But I don’t think you really care.”

“Of course I care.”

“No, you don’t.” Your lip quivered. You tried to swallow the tears that came up, but you couldn’t.

“No, don’t cry,” Oscar said, reaching out to embrace you, but you avoided him, getting up to lean on the railing. He followed you, this time not offering any comforting touch.

“What the fuck are we doing, Oscar?” you said, barely able to get the words out. He grasped for words but wasn’t able to find them before the flood of emotions spilled from you.

You began, “I used to think that the fabric of our lives was…like, sewn together. Like we were destined to always be in each other's lives. But ever since the breakup I’m so afraid that everyone who ever warned me about you was right. I feel like all these years you’ve just been using me, stringing me along so you could have someone there when things don’t work out. Like I’m just your backup plan. Like I’m not even good enough for you to treat me like a human being.”

“You really feel like I’m using you?” Oscar asked, his surprise horrifically genuine. “Was I just using you when I went out of my way to call you every week for 4 years when I was away in school, even during exams and races? When I got you this place because I wanted to live close to my best friend?” His tone went from gentle to frenzied—not angry, but desperate, like he couldn’t even fathom it. “I mean, YN, what, did you want me to cheat on my girlfriend with you?”

You looked up at him, and he realized again that he had messed up again.

“No, that’s not what I wanted. I’d never do that to Lily because you know it’s been done to me.”

“I know, and was I not there for you when you needed me?” In a way, Oscar was right. When you had broken things off with your unfaithful ex, Oscar was the first to your rescue, staying with you for days while you could barely even function. “YN, what else do you want from me?”

“I want you to be honest about what’s going on between us.”

“We’re…. hooking up, I don’t know.”

“Is that all I am to you, a hookup? A friend with benefits?” Your soft tears became full on sobs now. “Oscar, I am in love with you! You are the love of my life. And you can’t tell me that you haven’t known exactly how I felt, for years now.”

“Of course I knew,” he whispered.

“Then why would you do this to me? Why would you take advantage of me like this?”

Oscar had started crying now, too.

“I don’t know. I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

“This isn’t fair, Oscar.”

“I’m sorry.”

A thick silence fell over the balcony. You knew that the conversation should be over now. There was nothing else you needed to say. But you couldn’t stop yourself from continuing the pointless hurt.

“Do you even love me?”

“Don’t—”

“Can you even look me in the fucking eyes and tell me that you don’t love me?”

“YN—”

You didn’t even let him complete his sentence, instead walking back into your apartment and slamming our now cold mug into the sink. “Just go,” you said, your voice stern.

“YN, please—” Oscar said, following you inside the apartment.

“Go!”

“You want the truth?” Oscar said, raising his voice to you for the first time since you’d ever known him. His eyes now flooded with tears, staining his cheeks. His hair was tousled, his under eye bags puffy and pronounced. He looked like a mess.

“All I’ve ever wanted is the truth.”

“The truth,” he began, swallowing, his voice cracking as he spoke. “The truth is that I’ve been in love with you since we were sixteen.”

“No—”

“Yes, YN,” he said, his voice raising again.

“No, fuck you, Oscar, that’s not true!” You were both sobbing messes now.

“Yes it is,” he begged, his voice ragged.

“Then why would you do this?”

“Because…” he paused, taking a deep breath and sniffling, trying to regain his composure. “Because we were best friends, and you lived with us, and I was so scared of fucking things up.”

“So you went and just found a girlfriend instead?”

“No, it…” he looked away from you and took a sharp exhale. “It wasn’t as simple as that. You…” He let out a frustrated sigh. “It was just…complicated. You were the girl who lived with us, like another sister, I mean, I couldn’t have feelings for you of all people. So I was so scared.”

He looked at the wall, scarating his neck, and continued. “And when I met Lily, it was all just…simple. Everyone liked her, she was nice, she’s smart. When I brought her home she fit right in, the fans loved her. She was everything I needed her to be, y’know?” He exhaled.

His gaze fell to the floor and lingered as he continued. “I didn’t love her at first. I mean, I liked her, she was great, but it was more about just…filling a need, I guess. But I did fall in love with her later. I tried to love her with my whole heart, I really did. I thought that what I felt for you would just go away but obviously it didn’t. And then she fucking left me. As she should, honestly.”

Oscar nervously looked around the room until he could no longer avoid your piercing gaze, face frozen in disbelief.

“You’re horrible, Oscar.”

“I didn’t mean for any of this to happen.”

“You used me. You used Lily. And all of this from the very beginning was about… my family? I’m sorry you all had to take me in because no one else would. I’m sorry I didn’t go to a fancy boarding school in London. I’m sorry that my parents are two pieces of shit that didn't want to take care of me when I was a literal child.”

“It’s not that—”

“But it is. That’s what you said.”

“It’s not you, YN. I mean, it was, but we’re not kids anymore. I love you. It was just… awful circumstances.”

“And now? What’s your excuse? I cut off my parents. And Lily fucking left you. So why are you just using me now?”

“It’s just too much right now. The breakup, the championship…I know if I try, I’ll just fuck it up. I lost Lily, I can’t lose you too.”

“Why? Because then you’ll have no one to warm your bed when you’re sad?”

“You don’t know what it’s like to lose someone that you thought you’d spend the rest of your life with!”

“You’re right, I don’t. Because the person I want to spend the rest of my life with is you, Oscar. But you don’t want me. You never have. I’m your backup plan until something better comes along. That’s all I’ve ever been. I’m not good enough for you, you don’t love me. I don’t even know who you are any more.”

“You said I was the love of your life,” Oscar said, his voice lowered now.

“You are. But I’m not yours. I don’t care what you say you feel. If you really love someone, you don’t treat them like that.”

“I’m so sorry. That’s all I can say.”

You let out a shaky breath, exhausted of all energy from the fighting. You didn’t even have it in you to be angry anymore.

“We shouldn’t do this. We should just go our separate ways and be done with it.”

“No, YN—”

“You have a championship to focus on, don’t you?” you said.

“You’re my best friend,” he said through his tears. “I need you.”

“I’ll finish out my employment contract through the end of the season. You can sell the apartment. I’ll pay back Mum for anything she had to spend on me when we were younger.”

“YN, please,” he begged.

“Don’t, Oscar,” you said, your voice soft now. “Just let me go.”

“Can I kiss you?”

The correct answer should be no. You should have told him to get the fuck out of your apartment and never come back. But it was Oscar.

You didn’t answer him, instead just walking up to him and embracing him, letting him hold you in his strong arms as his lips met yours one last time. His lips were salty with tears, but for once his touch was soft and gentle.

When you pulled away, he stayed close to you, pressing his forehead down to yours. “I love you,” he whispered.

“Go home. You’ve got a flight to catch in the morning.”

You could call in sick to the United States Grand Prix in Miami; Oscar could not.

Well, theoretically, he could. God knows the reserve drivers would be happy to take his place and show off in front of the teams that were always scouring for new blood. But he couldn’t back down now. Not with a trophy looming so ominously over his head.

And especially not in Miami. Everyone hated Miami. Everyone except Lando, that is.

And as Oscar mindlessly paced the paddock back and forth, praying to God that no journalists would pester him for an interview, he couldn’t escape the reminder of his teammate’s victory.

“Well, things seem to be heating up here in Miami! The race continues between McLaren teammates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris in this early battle for the World Driver’s Championship. Piastri is putting in a valiant effort, but who can forget Lando Norris’ first victory here last year? It’s incredible to see how far he has come in such a short amount of time—”

He really needed to stop walking past the commentator’s box.

This is usually when Oscar would try to find you in the paddock, or send you a text from halfway across the world. But he couldn’t do that anymore; you hadn’t quite barred him from communication, but what could he say?

He just needed to focus. Perform. Drown himself in the work. That’s what he told himself as he made his way back to the McLaren garage, away from the prying eyes of the media and the haunting words of the commentators. That’s what he told himself as he slipped on a set of headphones and nodded along as his race engineer spoke, acting as if he was paying attention.

That’s what he told himself as he climbed into the car, took a deep breath, and pressed his foot to the gas.

Thousands of miles away, in Monaco, you were supposed to be having dinner. Actually, you were supposed to be in Miami, taking photos of Oscar in all his glory.

But you couldn’t face him. You couldn’t eat. You couldn’t even sleep.

In the corner of your living room sat a box with Oscar’s old stuff in it. You stared at it as if it had the eyes to stare back. Your hand mindlessly swirled your fork around your remaining food, now cold and mostly uneaten.

Why did this feel like a breakup?

You wanted to scream, but you’d already gotten noise complaints from the fight days prior. So instead, your apartment was deadly quiet.

You sighed, moving to your bedroom and collapsing in the soft covers, having decided to give up and indulge yourself with a night of bed rotting. But even your bed felt empty. The sheets held a faint trace of Oscar’s scent. It would come out with a simple wash, but laundry was the furthest thing from your mind right now.

You needed a distraction. You grabbed your phone and immediately went to social media to mindlessly scroll.

But in your notifications was one you had nearly forgotten about: that message request from Lando.

You opened it without even thinking, unfortunately sending the read receipt even though you weren’t in the mood to talk to anyone right now.

Hey, not to be weird but do you know if anything’s going on with Oscar? He’s been acting odd recently.

You groaned in frustration. You couldn’t escape your best friend.

The message was sent a while ago—when the pair were in Bahrain, actually. You should have just deleted it and acted as if you never saw it. But you felt horribly awkward leaving Lando on read.

Yeah, he and Lily broke up :(

Was the frown really necessary? Should you say more? You didn’t have the energy to think, sending the message without much fanfare. You locked your phone and put it back on your nightstand.

But only a few moments later, it buzzed. Another message from Lando.

But…Lando was in Miami? At the circuit? He should be driving, not texting you. You opened your phone and clicked on the notification.

Damn, that’s rough. I thought they were endgame. You in the paddock?

You raised an eyebrow. Why would Lando Norris, of all people, want to know where you are?

No, I’m back in Monaco.

Another nearly instant reply. Ah, I was hoping to make a cameo on Oscar’s Instagram haha. You’ll be at Imola though?

This whole interaction felt…weird.

I will! I’ll be sure to get some good team shots lol

You tried to match his energy with your reply, but you couldn’t shake the odd feeling that this wasn’t right. But as you finally did put your phone down and retire for the night, your mind kept racing, coming to wildly different conclusions.

Maybe Lando did want to be friends. Maybe, now that Lily was out of the picture, he felt more comfortable around you. Maybe he was just trying to smooth things over with Oscar in the championship battle. Maybe, maybe, maybe.

Or maybe you were so used to Oscar’s lying and manipulation that you couldn’t imagine someone talking to you just for the sake of friendship.

You huffed to yourself as the thought crossed your mind. You pulled your blanket up and buried yourself in it, as if the thoughts were something physical you could hide from. You fell into a tense sleep.

Oscar couldn’t sleep, though. He could barely sleep back when he had you at his beck and call, let alone when you all weren’t speaking to each other.

How had he fucked up so badly? He brought his hands to his face and roughly exhaled. Like you, he had resigned himself to spend his night scrolling, until he too noticed an unanswered message.

Except it wasn’t from Lando. It was from Lily. As if things couldn’t get any worse.

She was brief and to the point.

I just wanted to let you know I’ll be at Imola for a company event. I doubt we’ll run into each other. Hope you and YN are well.

Her words stung. The professionalism where there once was warmth and love. The perfectly petty dig at him and you, assuming that he had already moved on (though, she wasn’t exactly wrong).

He wanted to throw his phone off his hotel room balcony. From the slight crack in the blinds, he could see palm trees, and the ocean far off in the distance. And he knew that back in Monaco, you’d be staring at the same moon, hearing the water in the distance as it lulled you to sleep. The miles between you during race weekends had always been numerous, but the distance wasn't—not until now, at least.

He slammed his phone on the nightstand and took yet another sleeping pill.

It was going to be a horrible week.

And, unfortunately, the morning wasn’t much better. Another oh so friendly interaction with his teammate.

“Hey, Oscar, wait up,” the Brit called, jogging to catch Oscar as they both entered the paddock. Oscar slowed his pace but didn’t stop, hopeful that this would be a clear sign that he wasn’t here for conversation.

When he did catch up, Oscar just gave Lando a small nod as a greeting.

“Hey, I, uh, heard about you and Lily. I’m so sorry, mate.”

Oscar turned, making a confused and irritated face. “Who told you?”

“YN. Well, I asked her if you were okay.”

The Aussie made a small grumbling noise.

“I was just worried, you know. You just seemed like you were going through some stuff. You know I’m always here if you need me, right?”

“I need to beat you,” Oscar said, but his words had no bite to them. There was no snappy anger anymore, just exhaustion.

“Of course,” Lando said, smiling, as if he thought his teammate’s championship ambitions were nothing more than comic relief. “But for real, man, I’m sorry and I’m here for you.”

“Thanks,” Oscar said, though he didn’t really mean it. He just wanted to be alone.

In Monaco, you were breaking your first cardinal rule of a breakup (even a friendship breakup) and turning on your TV to watch Oscar drive.

You had managed to go without watching the free practices and even quali, but you couldn’t bring yourself to not watch the Grand Prix.

And it was good that you tuned in, because he won.

You nearly threw your phone across the room when he finally passed the checkered flag. You had been practically holding your breath since he secured the lead in a masterfully timed pit stop mid race, beating out Max Verstappen to bring home his second win of the season.

So, maybe he wouldn’t hate Miami as much anymore.

Your phone—secured now on your nightstand to prevent any race-related breakage—loomed in the distance as you debated sending him a congrats text. It wasn’t like you all had gone through a true breakup; you weren’t even together. But you knew you couldn’t let yourself end up in his bed again. You knew that he was a broken man, and you couldn’t fix him.

So your friendship had come to occupy this odd liminal space in which neither of you knew exactly where you stood. At some point, this would have to be discussed, but clearly neither of you had learned your lesson on healthy communication.

You wanted to tell your best friend that you were proud of him. Was that such a bad thing?

It wouldn’t be, if you could ignore that voice now echoing in your mind.

Since when are her feelings my problem?

You nearly gagged at the thought. Yeah, you weren’t texting him.

And back in Miami, Oscar anxiously awaited a text that would never come.

“Oscar, mate, quit staring at your phone and let’s celebrate!” Lando teased, patting his teammate on the back.

Oscar just sighed, opening his phone again to find no messages from you.

“She’s not coming back,” Lando said. “So either you get drunk enough to call her, or you get drunk enough to find someone to replace her. Either way, you’re getting drunk tonight.”

“Really, Lando?”

“She destroyed a five year relationship over some stupid shit, and you just won another grand prix. So yes, I think you should get fucked up with me tonight!”

“Don’t talk about Lily like that, mate. And besides, I’m not even waiting on her.”

Lando raised an eyebrow. “Then who are you waiting on?”

Oscar’s defenses were wearing down, even while sober. “You know who.”

“And you still want me to believe that you two aren’t hooking up?”

“It’s…complicated.”

“Spill.”

Under normal circumstances, Oscar was never the type to discuss his personal life at work, much less with his rival for the championship. But as the plan of going out was abandoned in favor of a nice bottle of Cuban rum ordered to the room, Oscar found himself spilling his secrets like a teenage girl at a sleepover.

“And then I just…” he hiccuped, “I told her everything. And she didn’t believe me, and I don’t blame her, but it fucking hurt, you know? And we were just screaming at each other, she said we should go our separate ways. What am I supposed to say to that? And I still haven’t heard from her, but her and Lily are gonna be at Imola. I don’t know what the fuck I’m going to do.”

“Mate,” Lando said, slurring his words, “You fucked this up worse than I fucked up the championship last year.”

The two drivers laughed—otherwise, they’d have to cry at the peril poor Oscar had put himself in.

But the time flew by, and soon enough Oscar found himself on a flight to Italy, which he secretly prayed would crash so that he could avoid this entire charade.

Of course, on all your respective flights, the feeling was mutual; neither you, Oscar, nor Lily really wanted to be there. But duty called, and you were nothing if not professional.

It was an odd place to be; on one hand, you loved this job. It was fun getting to explore the world with your best friend and get paid to take pictures and make silly videos. The electric atmosphere of the paddock was one that had always felt like home, like you belonged there.

On the other hand, every time you thought about seeing Oscar again, you wanted to puke.

Thankfully, when you did inevitably see him again, your lunch did not resurface. You operated like a robot; no banter, no friendliness, just stark professionalism.

And Oscar didn’t know what was worse; not having you there, or seeing you act like a stranger.

The one silver lining, at least, was that Lily was nowhere to be found. He couldn’t handle those emotions too.

So, again and again throughout the weekend, he repeated that manta to himself: Just focus on work. Just focus on work.

He said it to himself one last time before he hopped in the car for qualifying. Just focus.

But he just couldn't. From the seat of his car, the chaos of the pit lane and the gaggles of photographers were just blurs, unidentifiable blobs. I had always comforted him to think that one of those was you, watching him. Now it was haunting.

And somewhere, buried away in the paddock, Lily was there. Oscar could imagine it; her polished and professional demeanor, almost perfect, as she schmoozed up to that one executive from the company that he swore always had a thing for her.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he had to pull the car into the garage as the session was stopped due to an accident. It was raining heavily. Extra caution was advised, his engineer explained, but Oscar couldn’t focus. Not because of his thoughts—although, those certainly didn’t help—but rather because of what he saw across the garage.

You were chatting with Lando.

“Hey, YN!” Lando greeted as he hopped out of his car, seeing you in the back of the garage taking photos. “It’s nice to see you.”

“You too,” you said, though it wasn’t particularly true.

“Looks like we’re going to be a while,” he said looking over his shoulder at the storm brewing in the distance, “want to walk the paddock with me and get some candids?”

“Sure,” you agreed, though the request confused you.

The two of you left the garage and Oscar felt like punching the wall.

At first you walked in silence, your only emitted sound being the soft click of your camera. It was kind of pointless, though, since you were supposed to be getting shots of Oscar. You knew this. Lando knew this too.

“Can I ask you something, Lando?”

“Yeah?”

“Is there any reason that you’ve been pretty…friendly lately?” you asked, controlling your tone so it came off as genuinely curious rather than suspicious.

“Honestly,” he laughed, scratching the back of his neck with nervousness, “I felt really bad about everything that happened on the trip. I was afraid I might’ve scared you off.”

Well, that didn’t make much sense. Lando was the one who had been avoiding you since the trip. But, after dealing with Oscar, you had simply accepted that men in general made no sense.

“You didn’t,” you said. “And, I mean, the only reason we ended up like that is because Lily was trying to get rid of me. But, you see how that worked out.”

“Really? She didn’t have the balls to tell you to leave her man alone?”

“Not until after you left,” you said, exhaling in exhaustion.

“Damn,” he said, looking away from you. You snapped a few photos of his candid side profile, admiring how the light hit his curls just right. “You know, the only reason I ran off in the club that night like that was because I didn’t want to get involved in all that? I mean, I wasn’t about to steal Oscar’s side chick.” He laughed. “But from what I hear, things have changed?”

You laughed. “Oscar’s side chick?”

Lando raised an eyebrow. “You weren’t sleeping together?”

“Why do you want to know?” you laughed. Was Lando…flirting with you? No. He couldn’t be. He was Lando Norris, the most notorious playboy of the 2025 grid.

“Aw, c’mon. I want to know the drama!” he teased, flashing his boyish smile.

“Well, what if I want to know your drama?” you teased back, taking the opportunity to snap a few photos of him as you continued walking.

“Psh, I’ve got no drama. Just keeping to myself, trying to win.”

“I find that hard to believe.”

“You’re avoiding the question, YN,” he said, smirking. Holy shit, he was flirting with you. But did you really mind? It felt nice to have that playful banter, to see a man who wanted that back and forth more than he just wanted your body. What was wrong with having a little fun?

You sighed and told him the most technical version of the truth. “Oscar never cheated. But you really thought I was sleeping with Oscar and you didn’t say anything to Lily?”

“Wasn’t my business. Besides, I thought it was pretty obvious.” His comment left a bit of a sour taste in your mouth, especially knowing the fears that Lily had confessed to you so long ago.

“No, I wouldn’t do that to Lily,” you said, and it was true. After all, you were both women.

“And what about Oscar?”

You rolled your eyes. Having a nice conversation with Lando helped you remember how not nice your time with Oscar had been recently. “Oh, fuck him,” you said weakly.

“Well, did you?”

You paused, unsure of whether or not to confess. “I already told you that he didn’t cheat. Is what, or who, I do in my spare time really any of your business?” you playfully teased.

His lips curled upwards. “I like to know what I’m getting myself into.”

The double entendre wasn't missed on you. You glanced over your shoulder, scanning the crowds to ensure that no one was paying too close attention. “You don’t have to worry about me and Oscar. But you know I run his social media, right? So I see all the gossip pages, all the shit you get yourself into. It’s a bold claim to say you’ve got no drama.”

“Oh, darling, they don’t even know the half of it,” he smirked. You all had turned around by now, walking back in the direction of the paddock. The crows were thinner now.

He continued, “But what about you, huh? You’re all bored with Oscar and now you want some real fun?” He let out a small laugh. “No, you’re not like that. Too much of a good girl.”

“You think I’m too good? I’m here flirting with my best friend’s rival for the championship.”

“Are we flirting, is that was this is?” he asked, as if he didn’t know exactly what he was doing. “I thought we were just having a pleasant conversation, catching up on the gossip.” Unbeknownst to you, Lando had gotten all the gossip from Oscar after their drunken celebration in Miami. But he wanted to see exactly how much you’d reveal to him.

“Well, sure then. I’m sure you get tired of race talk all day, anyway.”

“You say that like you think race talk is boring. But I’ve seen you at enough races to know better. Don’t play coy, you love it, don’t you? You know more about racing than most of the drivers’ girlfriends.”

It kind of unnerved you, the way Lando knew exactly how to push your buttons. The subtle you’re not like the other girls implication; both you knew it wasn’t a compliment, but rather a statement meant to rile you up and see how you’d react. And it worked.

Your voice lowered, steady yet quieter. “It’s a bit sexist to assume that women don’t know anything about racing. And knowing more about racing doesn’t make me any better than anyone else.”

“I never said that, love.”

“Hmm, but you thought it.”

“Are you in my head now?” You playfully rolled your eyes. “So tell me about all the race talk between you and Oscar.”

“Is that a euphemism for something?” you chuckled.

“D’you want it to be?” he smirked. “No, no, really. Tell me what groundbreaking F1 opinions are inside that pretty little head of yours.” Yeah, he was definitely flirting with you.

“I’ve got nothing groundbreaking,” you said as your smile loosened, contemplating how you wanted to arrange your words. “I think Oscar has a good shot at winning the WDC this year, if he can get out of his own head.”

“And what about me?”

“I think you’ll give him a run for his money. But you care too much about what random people on the internet think,” you said, ending the statement with that on the nose jest.

“You’re probably right,” he smiled. “God, you sounded like my PR manager for a sec there.”

“Not exactly dirty talk, is it?” you joked.

You arrived back at the McLaren garage. Lando walked in first, seeing that Oscar’s back was to you, and positioned himself so that when Oscar looked around, he’d see him instead of you. You were none the wiser.

He leaned down to whisper in your ear. “You still haven’t answered my question. How was he?” Lando’s face was plastered with a mischievous grin.

You playfully hit his shoulder. “Don’t ask me that!” you cooed, though you didn’t mind his closeness, the warmth of his breath on your ear.

Oscar didn’t like it, though. And when he turned around and saw your back to him, Lando leaned down next to you, and smirking, he wanted to run him over with his car.

Lando looked up for only a split second, but his eyes met Oscar’s, as if to acknowledge what he was doing. Or, as if to say, yes, I’m doing this, and you can’t stop me.

Oscar couldn’t handle the audacity of watching Lando flirt with you in front of his own eyes. Thankfully, you were tapped on the shoulder by none other than the new guy, who had broken his extremely expensive camera, and you were called away to help him figure it out.

Oscar crossed the garage to face Lando, never breaking his line of sight.

“Oh hey, mate, what’s up?” Lando asked, innocently.

“Why are you talking to YN?”

“Oh, she wanted to take some photos—”

“Don’t talk to YN,” Oscar said, his voice plain but stern.

“Mate, we were just having a chat. It wasn’t like that. Don’t be so paranoid.”

“I’m serious,” Oscar reiterated. “Don’t cross that line, Lando.”

“Okay, my bad,” Lando said, nervously laughing and carelessly throwing his hands in the air. Oscar still wouldn’t shift his gaze, even as both drivers were called to get back in their cars to resume the qualifying session.

There was something up about Lando, he could tell. But it’d have to wait. Now, he had a pole to get.

Well, he tried, but only managed to come in fourth. Lando got pole. Of fucking course.

Another sleepless night passed with no messages from you.

And the next morning, there you were as usual, staring at him only through the eye of your camera lens.

But then, across the garage, you had no problem chatting it up with Lando. He threw you a glimpse of his award winning smirk and Oscar felt violent. He didn’t like this. Not one bit.

You were doing it to spite him, that was obvious. You’d never be interested in a guy like Lando; too much of a playboy. And honestly, Oscar knew deep down that he deserved this. But it still made him sick to his stomach.

The feeling only dissipated when it was replaced by that primitive need within him to win. The lights before him went out and reason gave way to instinct.

Lando bottled the pole, losing the lead to Max after the first corner. Oscar fell back one place, narrowly avoiding a collision between Charles and Lewis, before overtaking them as they struggled to reorient their cars.

So it was just him, Max, and Lando. He could do this.

His body moved automatically. He could hear the roar of the engines, the chattering of the radio, and the screaming of the fans in the distance, but in his mind all was quiet. Laps blurred as he sped along the track, pushing inch by inch closer to overtaking Max.

Eventually he did, getting DRS and flying past the Redbull driver, pushing hard to get a good lead over him.

All that was left now was his own teammate.

“Okay Oscar, you’ve got enough space between you and Verstappen,” his race engineer said.

“I want to overtake.”

“A 1-2 is our goal right now—”

“Then he can be 2nd. I want to win.”

Silence befell the radio channel for a moment.

His engineer returned. “Okay. Papaya rules.”

Papaya rules. The phrase that haunted his dreams.

There was really no need to use the coded language anymore. The world knew what it meant—race, but keep it clean. Put the team above yourself. Don’t do anything reckless.

But Oscar was sick of being the good teammate, the one who always let Lando win for the sake of the team. He was tired of being gifted wins. Team orders were bullshit. This wasn’t about McLaren anymore. This was about his pride. This was everything.

So he pushed harder than he should have. He was wearing his tires out, he knew, but Lando just coasted along, as if nothing was amiss. As if his teammate wasn’t out for blood and gaining on him with every lap.

Lando glanced in his mirrors and saw Oscar behind him.

“Oscar’s getting close,” he said to his engineer.

“We told him papaya rules. Remember, our goal here is a 1-2.”

“He’s gonna wear out his tires.”

“Let’s just focus on keeping P1.”

But Lando knew it wasn’t that simple. This was no longer impersonal racing, just the best of the best competing against each other because it was in their nature to do so.

No, this was personal now.

Lando rounded the corner, feeling Oscar hot on his heels, but managed to defend his position. He knew that with DRS enabled at the next stretch, he wouldn’t be able to hold him off.

But in front of him, he was already close to lapping the backmarkers of the grid.

Oscar could see them in the distance; the familiar teal of Lance Stroll’s Aston Martin, and an even more familiar fumble as he drove erratically due to some mechanical issue with the car.

Lando slowed down, but Oscar couldn’t react. He swerved, hitting the barrier.

Back in the garage, the breath left your lungs.

You couldn’t resist the temptation of watching. You’d slid the headset on after Oscar had driven off, and you’d planned to leave before he got back to the garage and discovered that you’d ever been there. No harm, no foul. The allure of the purring engines and adrenaline-fueled racing was just too much to resist.

But now, hearing the violent scrape of carbon fiber against metal as Oscar’s car screeched along the barriers, your heart sunk into your chest.

“Are you alright, Oscar?” you heard his race engineer ask, his voice filling your ears.

But the silence afterwards was deafening.

“Oscar, can you hear us? Are you alright?”

All that came through was a metallic gargle of noise, a sign that the radio had been damaged in the impact. There was no way to know if Oscar was hurt or not.

A hush fell on the track as the safety car was brought out. Lando had effectively secured his win, with so few laps remaining.

Your eyes were glued to the screen, praying to whatever God would listen that Oscar would be okay. You watched as the marshalls rushed to the site of the car, huddling around the lump of broken parts that stood still on the sidelines.

Because of the force of the crash, the medical car had been deployed as well. You were frozen in place.

You had never been much of a believer in God, but all you could do now was beg.

Please, God. Please let him be okay. If he’s okay I can forgive everything he’s ever done. If he’s okay I will never let him out of my life ever again. Please, God, please let him be safe.

You chanted the prayer over and over again to yourself as the seconds ticked by like hours.

Finally, after an agonizingly long wait, you saw the marshalls carrying along an orange-clad form into the medical car.

You didn’t even think. You just reacted, taking off your headset and booking it towards the medical tent.

You weren’t the only one there, though. The tent was already swarmed with media, all craning their necks to see Oscar. You pushed your way through to the front, only to be stopped by security, since you had your media pass instead of your usual VIP pass as one of Oscar’s friends.

You panicked—to the eyes of security, you were just another reporter who was rudely trying to cut through the crowd to get to the injured driver.

“Please let me by,” you pleaded. “I know Oscar—”

“You can wait at the media tent.”

“C’mon—”

“Ma’am, we need you to leave.” You groaned, and you were about to leave before you heard the voice of your savior from out of nowhere.

“Hey!” he called. You turned your head to see who it was—the familiar, friendly face of Zak Brown.

He was on the other side of the barrier, but Oscar was still nowhere to be found.

“Oh, YN, am I glad to see you!” He turned to the security officer. “Let her in.”

“Sir, media personnel are not authorized—”

“She’s VIP, not media.”

“Sir—”

“Do you know who I am?” he said, an unusual sternness in his tone. The security officer glanced down at his pass and silently let you through.

“I’ve always wanted to do that,” Zak said, his boyish grin returning as he patted you on the back and led you along to the private area where they’d be bringing Oscar any second now.

You sighed as he pulled the medical curtain closed.

“Boy, was that a nasty crash,” he said.

“Is he okay?”

“Well, he’s alive. That’s as far as I know.”

Your heart sank again. But as if on cue, you heard the rumble of camera shutters and reporters chattering outside the tent as the marshals escorted Oscar into the tent. When he came up, the room was flooded with medical personnel, pushing you and Zak back to the edge of the curtained-off room.

A nurse rushed in. “Who’s his emergency contact?” she asked Zak.

“Her,” he said, gesturing to you. You were confused. Since when had Oscar made you his emergency contact?

“Stay here,” the nurse instructed, but even if you wanted to, you couldn’t move an inch. You resumed your prayers as Zak blabbered on and on, mainly to himself. One thing that you’d learned very quickly about Zak Brown once Oscar had gotten to McLaren is that he really liked to yap.

As the doctors and nurses filtered in and out of the room, you caught a brief glimpse of Oscar in the hospital bed, his eyes rolled back into his head, slumped over into his shoulder.

You wanted to wail.

But it was only a few minutes before everyone began to filter out of the room, creating enough space for you to finally see your friend. And when you did lay eyes on him, it wasn’t nearly as bad as you feared.

His eyes were closed; an attempt to rest, rather than a state of unconsciousness.

A nurse at his bedside turned to you. “Don’t worry. He’s going to be fine. We’re going to sedate him and transport him to a hospital, but he’s not gravely injured. He just needs some tests done that we can’t do here.”

You nodded along, not once taking your eyes off Oscar.

“And, yes, you are his emergency contact, so we’ll need you to come with us. He’s authorized you to make decisions in the event that he's unable to. But that is unlikely, of course.”

“Is he…?” you asked, gesturing towards him.

“He’s still a little shaken up. The best thing right now is to get him into a calmer environment.”

You nodded. “I’ll make sure that new guy doesn’t lose all your stuff,” Zak quipped, and you threw a smile out towards him. “I’ll meet you all there when we’ve wrapped up here.”

Ah yes, the grand prix was likely still going on outside, and Lando would have to climb the podium and take his P1 trophy home.

But as you sat in a hospital room in Italy next to your best friend, the podium was the last thing on your mind.

Oscar was still completely out of it. The doctors had come and gone, confirming that all of his tests had come back normal. No broken bones, no concussion, nothing major. Just a shit ton of bruises and a shock to the system that left him too exhausted to stay awake for more than 15 minutes at a time.

Outside, the sun was setting, but you couldn’t sit still. You held Oscar’s limp hand in your own, tracing patterns into the cold skin. You hadn’t held his hand since you were kids—no, Oscar had held your hands above your head as he pinned you to the wall only weeks ago.

You flung the memory away. Now wasn’t the time. Besides, you promise you’d forgive all that.

Either way, you couldn’t focus on that now. Oscar’s eyelashes were fluttering open, his eyes squinting at the fluorescent light above him.

“Osc!” you said, truthfully too energetic for the occasion. You dropped his hand, got up, and turned off the overhead light, leaving only the swiftly fading daylight from outside the window to illuminate the room.

He groaned as you sat back down, but still mumbled a small thanks.

“Where am I?” he asked, bringing his hand up to rub his eyes.

“A hospital in Imola.”

“Shit,” he sighed.

“Yeah. You had a pretty bad crash.”

“I remember that,” he said, his throat dry and cracked. He took a sip of water. “Lando brake checked me.”

“Is that what happened? I wasn’t paying attention.”

“Yeah. Fucker,” he cursed, his voice dripping with contempt. You didn’t know what to say.

“How are you feeling?” you finally said, tired of the lingering tension.

“Awful. Everything hurts.”

“I’m sorry.”

“I’m just glad you’re here,” he said, reaching for his call button to request painkillers. “I’ve missed you.”

It was bold, doing this when he knew you couldn’t exactly be cruel to him. So, instead, you were honest.

“I’ve missed you too. I’m just glad you’re okay,” you said, reaching forward to smooth his hair away from his sweat-stained forehead. Your touch felt better than any painkiller. “We were really scared.”

“Nah, you’re not getting rid of me anytime soon,” he joked as the nurse arrived and wordlessly administered his meds. He let out a sigh as he felt the painkillers enter his system. “I run on pure spite. A little wall isn’t gonna take me out.”

You gave him a small smile. “You didn’t say anything after the crash,” you said, your voice just a quivering whisper, giving away the true depths of your fear.

“I had the wind knocked out of me. And then, everything just went black, I was fading in and out.”

“I was praying you’d be okay. It was so scary.”

“Hey, I’m okay. A little busted up, but I wasn't exactly a looker anyway, huh?” he joked, a feeble attempt to make you laugh. You sniffled and smiled.

He continued, “Can I use my near-death experience as an excuse for us to make up?”

Your smile dropped and you bit your lip. “Osc…”

“I just want my friend back,” he said, cutting you off. “Look, I can’t be the boyfriend you deserve. Not right now, at least. And I think, after all the shit I did, you wouldn’t want me to anyway. But I miss my friend.”

“I miss my friend, too.”

Your heart to heart was interrupted by a knock at the door. The same nurse from before poked her head in. “Excuse me?” she asked in an Italian accent, and you looked up. “There is a visitor asking to be let in. She said her name is Lily?”

You couldn’t help the face you made. What on God’s green Earth was Lily doing in Imola?

“Um, yeah, let her in,” Oscar said. He didn’t react, though you scooted away and sat at the edge of your seat, ready to leave at any second. “Stay,” he whispered to you, and you did.

A few moments later, you saw her walk in, and the atmosphere was thick.

“Hi Oscar,” she exhaled, grateful to see him okay. He greeted her back, but she didn’t even look at you. You got up to give them a moment, but Oscar reached out and grabbed your wrist. “Don’t go,” he said, and the look in his eyes was impossible to refuse. You tentatively sat back down.

“How are you feeling?” Lily asked, and the two exchanged pleasant conversation back and forth. You wanted nothing more than to jump out of the window that now showed the sunset over the trees. Normal visiting hours would be ending soon.

“Well, I just wanted to make sure that you were okay,” she said, getting up to leave. “I’m glad you’re doing well. You too, YN,” she added on the end, but you didn’t believe it. You gave her a flat but polite smile.

“Actually, YN, could we have a word?” she asked, cocking her head in the direction of the hallway.

The look on Oscar’s face told you that this was a horrible idea. But one of you was confined to a hospital bed, and the other wasn’t. You ignored him and followed Lily into the deserted hallway.

She turned to you, voice full of venom. “How long have you been sleeping with Oscar?”

“What?”

“You heard me,” she said, plain as day.

“I’ve told you before, Oscar never cheated on you.”

“That’s not what I asked.”

You turned your head in confusion. “What are you getting at?”

Lily angrily sighed. “You think that you can just waltz around the paddock talking shit about me with Lando, and that I’m not going to hear about it?”

Had Lily been at the paddock? Or even worse: had she somehow heard you?

“Well, if you actually heard my conversation with Lando, you’ll know that I stood up for you.”

“I thought you were a girl’s girl,” she said, deflecting from your defense.

“I am.”

“Then why were you in bed with my boyfriend 4 days after we broke up?”

“Your ex boyfriend,” you said, meeting her level of venom. “You left him.”

“I just thought, after all that talk, you’d have the decency not to prove me right.”

“Lily, I was honest with you. If you’re mad at Oscar, don’t take it out on me. He’s the one who suggested it. I told him it was a bad idea.”

“But you did it anyway.”

“And I felt horrible about it. So I stopped.” Your voice was sharp. “Who told you any of this?”

“It doesn't matter. I hope you’re happy.”

“I hope you are, too. Genuinely.” You lacked the words to say what you really wanted to. He treats both of us like shit. He used us. I am not your enemy. She wouldn’t want to hear it anyway. She wordlessly walked away, scoffing and mumbling to herself.

You didn’t say anything either as you walked back into the hospital room and slumped in the chair.

“I’m guessing that didn’t go well?” Oscar said.

“Nope.”

“Well, we were in the middle of something…”

Oh, right. The conversation where Oscar was trying to get back in your pants.

“I’m not going to fuck you, Oscar.”

“I’m not asking you to.”

“We can let anything lead to that. Not again.”

“I understand,” he said. “I just want my friend back in my life. Like all of that never happened.”

“Could we even do that?” you asked. It felt like a line had been crossed, moving your friendship in a way that couldn’t be undone.

“I promise. And I know my word doesn’t mean much, but really, I promise. Never again.”

Haven't you promised that you’d forgive him?

“Okay,” you said, “Okay.”

Oscar smiled at you, showing off his bunny teeth. You still loved him. You couldn’t help it. But true to form, you could never stay away.

“Oh, and by the way, congrats on Miami.”

You fell asleep in the chair, having refused to leave Oscar’s side. He’d be discharged in the morning to make his flight back to Monaco, though it was questionable whether or not he’d be able to race in the iconic Grand Prix.

True to his word, though, Oscar got one final set of visitors in the dead of night.

The first was Zak Brown.

“Oscar!” Zak yelled, before Oscar shushed and pointed to your sleeping form. You stirred but didn’t fully wake, and Zak placed his hand over his mouth and raised his eyebrows as Oscar let out a quiet laugh.

“Hey Zak,” he said, his voice hushed.

“Glad to see you’re doing better.”

“Yeah, I made it,” he mused. “Hey, what did the FIA say?” Oscar’s phone had died since you had fallen asleep, and his charger had been left at the track.

Thankfully, Zak had brought his (and your) belongings, and he placed the bag at the foot of the hospital bed. “What do you mean?”

“I mean, the penalty, from the crash?”

“No one got a penalty.”

“But, Lando brake checked me.”

“Lando barely avoided a crash with Stroll.”

“I know, but he didn’t swerve, he slowed down. He had room to swerve, I didn’t. How did no one get a penalty?”

“That's just racing.”

“He intentionally slowed down to stop me!”

“Oscar, I highly doubt that that’s what happened. It was a crowded track, and you all had to react in a split second. These things happen, you know this.”

Oscar wasn’t at all pleased with this answer, and it was worsened by the appearance of his second visitor: Lando himself.

“Ah, there’s our grand prix winner!” Zak said, giving him a hearty pat on the back.

Lando smiled, and Oscar wanted to throw up.

“Had to bring it home for the team,” he said, smiling at Zak. “You doing alright, mate?” he asked.

Oscar was already tired of people asking him how he was feeling. “I’m fine,” he said.

“Lando gave Stroll an earful after the race.”

“Oh yeah, probably getting fined for that one…”

“Why? I didn’t crash because of Stroll. You brake checked me.” The pain was making Oscar more irritable. He’d need another dose of meds soon.

“No, Stroll was driving like an idiot out there, I had to slow down.”

“No, you had to move. You’re not stupid. You just didn’t want me to overtake, didn’t you?”

“Okay, boys, let’s save this for the track,” Zak interjected. Oscar just grumbled. “I’ll meet you outside, yeah?” he said to Lando, who nodded but stayed behind.

The Brit glanced at you, still fast asleep in the chair by Oscar’s bedside. “D’you tire out your babysitter?” he smiled.

But Oscar was relentless. “Don’t talk about her.”

“I thought you all weren’t on speaking terms?”

“Lando, mind your business.”

“I don’t know what your problem is, mate.”

“You think I don’t know what you’re up to.”

“I’m not up to anything. I’m just trying to be a good teammate. Jesus, Osc, they should check that you didn’t hit your head too hard, you’re so paranoid.”

Truthfully, Oscar was bluffing. He had a horrible feeling about his teammate, but no evidence to back it up. But his intuition was hardly ever wrong.

“I ran into Lily after you left,” Lando said. “I hope you don’t mind, but I told her you were here.” His tone of voice was so gentle that Oscar began to wonder if maybe he was being too paranoid.

“Yeah, she came by earlier.”

Lando’s eyes glanced back to your sleeping form, and Oscar felt his anger rise again. He didn’t even want Lando to look in your direction, let alone be speaking to you.

“Your heart rate is up,” Lando said, gesturing to the monitor that now showed the physical effects of Oscar’s anger.

“Look, Lando,” Oscar said, shifting to sit up in bed. “Stop acting like we’re friends. Stop talking to YN, stop trying to play this buddy-buddy game. We’re here to beat each other.”

“I was just trying to be kind, but I guess if you really don’t want to be friends, I can’t make you.”

“I’m serious. Leave YN alone. Don’t even go there.”

“She’s an adult.”

“And she’s mine.”

Lando laughed. “Seriously? That’s not exactly what she told me.”

The monitor beeped again as Oscar’s heart rate continued to rise. “I don’t care what she told you.”

“You can’t tell me what to do.”

“Try it. See what happens.”

A nurse gently knocked on the door, and Oscar was grateful for the distraction and relief of pain meds.

“Well,” Lando said, leaning on the door, “I guess I’ll see you all in Monaco.”

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virgin loser bff!nanami had been your closest friend ever since the time in preschool when your doll’s head broke, and he came over with his toy truck, offering to play together instead.

the fact that you had such different personalities never got in the way of your friendship. you were always the most popular and social person at school, while nanami didn’t even have any friends other than you. whenever you called him over to join you, and your friends asked, “how are you even friends with this guy?” he thought it might bother you. but when you’d respond, “ken is the most important person in my life. if you have a problem with him, you can fuck off,” it made him realize just how much you truly cared about him.

to nanami, you were the most precious and beautiful thing in the world. even if he knew he didn’t deserve you, he would do anything for your affection.

it didn’t take long during high school for him to realize his feelings for you had shifted from simple friendship to what he could only describe as “real love.” the way his dick would get hard whenever you hugged him, the way he’d sweat with excitement, and the constant desire to kiss you — these were definitely not things a friend would want.

the more time he spent with you, the harder it became to suppress these feelings. he thought about confessing to you, just to get it off his chest, but he knew you’d reject him. someone like you would never look at a loser like him. besides, it would mean the end of your friendship, and he couldn’t risk that. so instead, he chose to endure it silently, watching you hang out with other guys and resigning himself to a life filled with pain and self-loathing.

until tonight.

he had no idea how it happened. maybe someone had slipped something into his coffee because there was no other explanation for why he was inside you right now. you were supposed to be out with that handsome guy from the university club, but apparently, you could only stand the date for an hour before coming home.

“you’re such an idiot, ken. how can you not see that i love you? every guy i meet, every guy i date—i’m looking for you in them, but none of them are you,” you yelled at him through your tears, and all he could do was stare at you in shock.

had you wanted him all along?

“i don’t understand…” he muttered.

you cupped his cheek with your hand, your tearful eyes locking onto his. the heat in his face was unbearable as he felt your fingers gently stroke his skin. you’d never touched him like this before.

“why don’t you see me as a woman, ken? i want you to touch me. i want to touch you.”

he wanted to—more than anything.

“you’re only doing this because your date didn’t go well. otherwise—”

“otherwise what, ken? you think i’m lying?” you snapped angrily.

nanami sighed deeply, his voice breaking as he said, “how could someone like you love someone like me? i’m just a loser.”

you never saw him as a loser. to you, he was the funniest, kindest, and most handsome man in the world. who wouldn’t fall for someone like him? you knew people didn’t want to get to know him because he was shy and quiet, but the real nanami was so much more than that.

you said with longing, “ken, kiss me.”

he tried to ignore how painfully hard he was as he stammered, “i can’t…”

“shut up and kiss me.” standing on your tiptoes, you placed your hands on his shoulders and leaned in closer. whispering again, you said, “kiss me…”

when nanami finally pressed his lips to yours, he closed his eyes. it was his first kiss, and he had no idea what to do. thankfully, you guided him, moving your lips against his, teaching him. he followed your lead, sometimes using his tongue, sometimes tugging on your bottom lip with his teeth, making you moan into his mouth as the kiss grew messy and heated.

“let’s go to your room,” you managed to whisper when your lips finally parted.

that’s when nanami started to panic. he had just had his first kiss—how was he supposed to satisfy you in bed? if something happened and you regretted it, he’d never forgive himself.

“i-i’ve never done this before,” he admitted, embarrassed.

you smiled softly, pressing a kiss to his lips. “it doesn’t matter. i just want you, ken. just kissing you is enough to make me cum. but if you don’t want to—”

before you could finish, nanami scooped you into his arms, silencing you. as he carried you to his room, he said, “of course i want to. i’ve always wanted to, angel.”

he loved calling you angel.

and that’s how it happened. now, here he was, fucking into you with uneven thrusts, his cock buried deep inside the tight heat of your pussy — something he’d dreamed about for years.

you couldn’t understand how this man hadn’t had sex before. when he was preparing you, he was like a professional. sure, his excitement made his movements a bit clumsy now, but his mouth had worshipped every inch of your pussy, giving you exactly what you needed.

“ken… you feel so good,” you moaned, your legs wrapped tightly around his waist as the thickest and biggest cock you'd ever seen stretched your tight walls with audible intensity, his face buried in your neck.

“angel, this is so—so…” nanami pressed kisses to your neck, pumping into you with desperate, erratic movements.

“k-ken, i love you,” you whispered.

if this was a dream, nanami never wanted to wake up. having you like this, feeling you so deeply while you told him you loved him, it couldn’t end.

lifting his head from your neck, he straightened up, moving your legs to rest on his shoulders. gripping your thighs for support, he began thrusting faster, his hips slamming into you with a rhythm he didn’t even know he had.

“oh my god, ken—this is too much—ugh…” you could feel him in your stomach, his cock reaching places no one ever had.

“i saw this position in a porno… i always imagined fucking you like this—shit,” he confessed, his voice full of raw emotion.

“ken…” his words made you blush even harder because, for years, you’d wanted this too.

you had always wanted his thick, 8-inch cock to pound into the deepest corners of your pussy with a merciless rhythm, his sweat dripping onto your body as he claimed you completely.

“i-if i’m doing something wrong, tell me,” he said, throwing his head back with a groan. the muscles in his neck were taut, making him look unbelievably sexy. “teach me, angel, please…”

if anyone needed to be taught, it wasn’t nanami—it was you. despite his inexperience, he was giving you the best sex of your life.

“ken, if you insult yourself again—ahhh—i swear…” you gasped as he kept hitting your sweet spot over and over, your back arching off the bed. your fingers moved to your nipples, trapping them between your fingers and playing with them as you kept grinding against nanami’s cock.

“angel, i—i can’t last much longer.” your pussy was gripping him so tightly he could barely hold himself together.

still pinching your nipples, you gasped, “cum, ken.”

“fuck, i’m sorry…” he muttered.

after pumping his thick, sticky cock into your delicious pussy a few more times with quick and uneven thrusts, his grip on your thighs tightened, and he emptied himself inside you, filling you with his warm seed.

breathing heavily, he slowly lowered your legs from his shoulders to the bed and gently pulled out of you. his lips left a trail of kisses from your waist to your neck and finally to your lips. as he nuzzled his nose against yours, you closed your eyes and inhaled the scent of his woody cologne.

“you didn’t cum, did you?” he asked, regret evident in his voice.

opening your eyes, you kissed him and pulled back slightly. “you made me cum twice with your fingers and mouth, ken. trust me, i got everything i wanted.”

his cheeks flushed red. “i’m sorry, angel.”

“don’t apologize, idiot. even though you’ve never done this before, you gave me the best sex of my life. and this won’t be the last time—you’ll have plenty of chances to make me cum again.”

“do you really love me?” he asked, still unable to believe it.

“ken, if you ask me that one more time—”

“okay, okay” he said quickly, pressing a kiss to your neck before whispering, "i love you."

you looked into his bright, honey-colored eyes, placed your hands on his cheeks, and pulled him closer for a kiss. “those rumors from high school were true.”

nanami furrowed his brows. “what rumors?”

“the girls used to call you the big-dicked loser,” you said, biting your lip to keep from laughing.

nanami looked at you, utterly defeated “big-dicked loser?”

“uh-huh.”

“they talked about me?”

“ken, no matter what you wore, there was no hiding that massive thing, but thanks for giving us the view,” you said, finally unable to hold back your laughter.

“you’re welcome?” his confused response only made you laugh harder.

“i love you, big-dicked loser,” you said between laughs.

nanami didn’t respond. instead, he flipped you onto your stomach, pinning you under his weight.

“we’ll see who the loser is. get ready, angel, because this time, i’m gonna make your pussy squirt.”

you didn’t protest as he slid his still-hard cock back inside you, burying your face in the pillow and screaming from the sheer pleasure.

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glasses pt. 3

nerd!eunseok x reader | 7.5k words

the third installment to a well liked seriez. this couple is loved by me and so many other people. thank you to my dearie who commissioned me to write this. i got a little carried away (per usual). i hope it's to your liking heh and sorry for making oyu wait forever.

contains: eunseok plotting on the reader a lil, protected sex, fingering, oral sex (female and male receiving)

glasses: one | two | three

You didn’t tell Yunjin and Giselle about your visit to Eunseok’s until two weeks later. When you told them to guess what happened when you went over to his place after class they faked contemplation before answering in a second.

“He played on his computer while you were whoring out on his bed.” Giselle said.

“And he didn't even notice?” Yunjin added.

You had smug look on your face and in a second Giselle and Yunjin were looking at you with wide eyes. They leaned forward over their lunch trays to your side of the booth as you leaned backwards. You crossed your arms and Giselle and Yunjin looked to eachother before looking back to you.

“You’re fucking lying.” Giselle said.

“There’s no way.” Yunjin says.

You shrug to your friends skeptical faces, and then they were gasping so loud you had to preemptively shush them with a finger to your lips.

“You actually fucked him?” Giselle asks.

Giselle’s eyebrows are raised like she can’t quite believe it. Something about your friends doubting the idea of you and Eunseok getting together makes you want to defend him more. You remember Giselle and Yunjin saying he didn’t have it in him, that he didn’t like you to begin with.

“He actually fucked me.” You say, shrugging your shoulders.

Yes you may have been playing it up to your friends. By your groups standards, you were definitely the one who fucked him. He was the one who came first (both times), the one you made the move on, the one you instructed. But they were doubting you and the man you had grown fond of. Stretching the truth a little wasn’t a problem. Eunseok was desperate to please and was red all the way down to his stomach, and he genuinely looked mortified when he realized you didn’t finish. He was a person after all, and he was one of the few men you felt fond of outside the idea of having sex. He was so oblivious to your advances but rose to the challenge as soon as he could. You had your fun with him, and seeing the shocked looks and slacked jaws of your friends made you laugh.

“No fucking way.” Giselle said.

You nodded your head and threw up your hands to really sell it. Giselle and Yunjin were giggling like schoolgirls in front of you repeating how they didn’t know he had it in him. You spared them the details, like his friends hearing him moan over voice chat and how he was packing underneath all those baggy clothes. They were still reeling off the fact that you made it past putting out signals and him missing every single one.

“Have you seen him since?” Yunjin asked.

That’s when you shake your head. Before you can tell your friends that you haven’t been sitting in the same spot in class for two weeks or have been skipping the class all together, Yunjin and Giselle both look over your shoulder before tilting their heads to the side. Giselle looks at you and smiles, Yunjin starts looking at her plate.

“He’s coming over here.” Yunjin says under her breath.

You turn your body in the booth seat, desperately trying to not look over your shoulder but to also confirm who the he is. Certainly it’s not the same he who you were talking about seconds ago. He never comes to the cafe, instead cooking the same meal over and over in his dorm or ordering takeout. The only time you’ve seen him eating in the cafe was on the rare occasion he would join his friend.

But Eunseok was alone. He was alone and taking strides towards your lunch table, hand gripping the strap of his backpack. You stayed still in your seat, fulling eyeing him before turning to face your friends.

“Is he actually coming over here?” You ask, confused.

Although you’ve talked about Eunseok plenty to Giselle and Yunjin, they’ve never met. At most, they had built a relationship of crossing paths and awkward snatches of conversation. You walking with Giselle and Yunjin and calling out to Eunseok just to wave at him. Your unamused friends waving to not be rude and Eunseok waving back because he didn’t know what else to do. Trying to rope him into a conversation with your friends where he would avoid eye contact before making up a terrible excuse about needing to go to his next class.

Your friends had seen you a couple times before or after class when you’d be bothering Eunseok. You’re almost certain they’ve never exchanged words beyond the awkward hey and Eunseok avoiding eye contact. They’d tell him you that Eunseok was weird, but you’d tell him he was just shy. Once you really get to know him he’s a sweetheart, just a sweetheart who avoids conversation whenever he can. So it’s weird, seeing him barrel towards a conversation he doesn’t have to have with new people he’s barely met. But he’s determined, not stopping as Giselle nods her head to your question.

“He’s coming over here.” Giselle said.

Then, as if on cue, Eunseok’s steps started to falter. People pass by him, on their way back to the food for seconds or heading outside of the dining hall altogether. You, Yunjin, and Giselle don’t speak. Three pairs of eyes stare at him, you’re all still watching his next move. His steps get a little slower, Eunseok turns to nod to someone when they apologize for bumping into him.

A quick glance backwards showed that he hesitated, then looked around, then he started moving with the traffic of people leaving to make a beeline for the vending machines.

“He’s no longer coming over here.” Yunjin said.

You waved your hands in front of your friends quickly, trying to get their attention away from Eunseok and back at you. Now it was you leaning over the table, making them come forward to hear you.

“That’s because you guys are staring at him.” You seethe underneath your breath.

Giselle further proved your point by carelessly looking over your shoulder, staring at Eunseok looking at the terribly curated selection of chips and snacks. After a second she’s already seen enough, looking at you.

“He’s fake browsing the vending machine.” She deadpans.

Yunjin laughs, finally starting to eat her food. She spares a less obvious glance over her shoulder, a smile on her lips when she turns back to you.

“I think he’s waiting for you.” She says.

You swear you can see Eunseok’s ears turn pink as he presses his hand to the glass of the vending machine. He leans close, tilting his head and moving like he’s really trying to sell the fact that he’s considering buying something. You feel embarrassed that you find him obviously waiting so cute, even when your friends look at you like they can’t believe it. There’s no way the man that allegedly put it down on you two weeks ago is too afraid to walk over and say hi.

“Watch my stuff for me, please?” You ask your friends.

Yunjin and Giselle both ooh and aah at you quietly as you get up from the table. You have to wave your hands for them to be quiet again, and you start walking towards Eunseok. His back is turned towards you, and you know your appearance doesn’t matter. Whatever you do would have him blushing and avoiding eye contact all the same. Still, you find yourself making sure your shirt is falling just right on your body, your hair is laying the way it’s supposed to, and you’re clearing your throat to get ready to talk.

When you make it to the vending machine, Eunseok is still fake browsing. He’s looking at nothing but everything at the same time, pretending like you didn’t surprise him even though he jumps in his skin when he catches you in the reflection of the glass. The fluorescent lighting in the machine shows your reflection, and you can see Eunseok quickly glance to the side before you do the same thing. You find yourself starting to fake browse too, running over the assortment of snacks you don’t even like.

People leaving the dining hall pass behind the two of you. No one is coming up to the machine, neither of you are making a purchase. Just looking past the glass, waiting for the other to say something first.

“I didn’t see you at class today.” Eunseok says.

The Oreo’s look tempting. You don’t remember the last time you tried Sun Chips.

“Just felt like playing hooky I guess.” You say.

You’re both still locked in on the vending machines. Atleast you don’t have to worry about a line, because no one bothers to waste their time or money to get stale snacks. They also don’t want to gamble either, because these machines are notorious for stealing your cash and not giving you anything in return. You still have the five dollar meal voucher from the lunch lady when it ate your money your first year. But still, maybe an expired Cliff Bar is worth it.

“You didn’t miss much.” Eunseok says. “Just the usual lecture stuff. There’s an assignment due tomorrow, though.”

You hum in acknowledgment, as if you both don’t know that you’ve already seen it. Eunseok has stated the obvious, because you know that he knows you’re not helpless in that class. The Orbit Gum tablets are calling your name in the bottom row. You bring your fingers over the button, before you can take the gamble and insert your five dollar bill you change your mind again.

“Wanna come over?” Eunseok asks.

Your hand freezes. The invitation makes you turn towards Eunseok, who’s still mindlessly staring ahead. You have never been on the receiving end of an invitation from him. Whenever you’ve ended up at his apartment it’s always been you inviting yourself over, taking advantage of the fact that he’s never told you no. Two weeks ago you told yourself you’d take a step back from being overbearing. You might’ve clung to him too hard, bothered him too much in class when he was trying to focus. Interrupting his games too woo him, invading his space since the semester started, disrupting the peace he created for himself.

Hearing that he wants you over is different. Knowing that he has enjoyed you sitting on his bed and bothering him makes you feel like you’ve done something right. Another thing you find comforting is that Eunseok still stares forward, pretending like you’re not there. He’s nervous too, but you’ve never said no to him either.

You know Giselle and Yunjin are watching. You’re sure they’re full on peering over the edge of the booth, shamelessly looking to see what the nerd is saying to their bestfriend. You have something to maintain with them and Eunseok alike, you’re not sure what but you must maintain it. So even when you feel like your chest is about to explode you move forward to be in his line of sight, peering up at him.

His hand is tight around his backpack strap again, you can see the blush across his cheeks. Looking at his glasses takes you back to when they were resting on your flushed face, obscuring your vision while he fixed them crooked with shaking wet hands. You admire that he holds eye contact with you, even through him clearing his throat and his pupils shaking.

“Why do you want me to come over?” You ask.

Eunseok pushes his frames up with his other hand. You have to cross your arms to hide the fact you’re pinching your sides in an attempt to ground yourself. Why are you so much more nervous now than you were on the edge of his bed two weeks ago? The lack of contact since then must be the reason. The fact that you two are both trying to seem unbothered while clearly being bothered must also be another reason. Giselle and Yunjin watching just a few feet away is the terrible cherry on top.

“I got a drone.” He says.

When you accepted Eunseok’s invitation and half-assed reason for wanting you over you bounded back to the table like nothing happened. They both imitated how Eunseok was apparently shaking like a leaf while you remained calm and collected. You told them that Eunseok wanted to show you his new drone and they laughed. They laughed at the both of you, because Eunseok was inviting a pretty girl over to play with his new toy and they laughed at you because you accepted it. Giselle remained steadfast in her belief that you were going over there just to play with his drone. Yunjin told you that he wasn’t going to make a move. You excused yourself from dinner quickly, saying you were full before they could get another word in.

Eunseok was already home by the time you made it to his apartment. You had to take a detour to your place, then a detour to the side of his building to give yourself an impromptu pep talk. There was something riding on you meeting this time after two weeks of radio silence. Things felt less at stake when Eunseok didn’t know or pretended to not know what you wanted from him. Now that you were knocking on his door after sex and two weeks of pretending like the sex didn’t happen you were nervous.

Usually you had to wait outside his door. He always acted like you were going to recant your invitation, and you had to wait for a break in his games for him to come to you. This time when you knocked on the door you heard things moving, and his rushed steps on the other side. He opened the door a crack and then all the way, presenting his apartment to you like you hadn’t seen it before.

“You came quick.” Eunseok says.

“I really wanted to see your drone.” You reply.

It’s hard to sound enthusiastic. You’ve been overthinking since the dining hall and you’re not entirely sure the drone even exists. You’re just looking at Eunseok looking at you, nodding before he moves out of the way to let you into the apartment.

When he lets you inside, the first thing you notice is the couch. The first piece of non-bed and non-loveseat furniture takes up space in the living room and the television sits on an actual stand instead of the floor. There’s a coffee table too, another place people can eat food on besides standing at the counter in the kitchen or his gaming desk.

“It’s like a real person lives here now, Seok.” You say when he closes the door behind you.

Eunseok takes the teasing with a distracted laugh. He’s almost fidgety navigating his space, walking around in bee lines instead of his usual straight path. He walks around you, then the couch, then the coffee table, then his kitchen before he makes it to the counter. You watched his nervous path, all the way until he made it to his drone.

He looked at his newest toy before looking to you, his fingers tapping on the table. He wanted you to say something, you’re sure of it. The drone is cool, and you can tell Eunseok thinks it’s cool too by the way he set it up on his kitchen counter so it’d be the first thing you’d see. He made sure to turn it so the front was facing you, and the complex remote was right next to it. Like he was trying to tempt you to reach forward and grab the remote without asking.

“You actually got a drone.” You say.

Eunseok nods before reaching for the remote. He’s pushing on knobs and levers, and almost instantly the drone starts hovering above the kitchen counter. You back up by instinct but Eunseok starts smiling, so boyish and happy as he commands his newest toy around. He flies it around the small space of his kitchen, above and over him so he can turn around and follow it.

The two of you watch in silence and let the whirring of the fans fill the room. Eunseok is already an expert, flying it around the living room and avoiding the fan. He flies it around your tense body and over the couch. He follows it and you watch him, and he turns back to you to show you all of his tricks. He makes the drone flip and fly upside down, then he makes it move side to side quickly. He narrowly misses his new curtains and the corner of the television, but the drone is still in one piece when he makes it land perfectly in the middle of the coffee table. He sits down on the couch the same time the drone lands.

When he’s down he looks over the top of the couch to you, eyes bright with that smile still across his face. You smile with him, you can’t help it as you circle the couch to sit on the other end.

“That was cool.” Eunseok smiles even more, nodding his head proudly. “Why’d you get it?” You ask.

You try to sound as nonjudgemental as possible. You didn’t think of Eunseok to be a big spender, outside of the skins for the games he’s talked your ear off about and the manga collection lining his shelves. Outside of that, Eunseok is frugal. He buys things he needs, rarely thinking about what he wants. Sitting on a couch with space for more than one personal is already abnormal, and looking at his television rest on a TV stand rather than the floor is weird to. You also believe he doesn’t go outside nearly enough to get a drone. You think this is similar to an indoor cat getting a harness, or a man who values his life getting a motorcycle.

He shrugs his shoulders. He looks at the drone and then his remote.

“Just wanted it.” Eunseok messes with the controller a little more, gripping it in his hands before he offers it to you. “Wanna try?” He asks.

Eunseok has never been greedy of his belongings, he was never the type to hate sharing. But he’s never had to consider it. He’s lived alone his entire adult life, and even as a child he never had to share. Even when he offered you the remote it was awkward, half placing it in your lap before you even considered taking it.

“I don’t know how to fly a drone.” You say.

That got him excited. He’s scooting to your end of the couch quickly, he’s already ushering the remote into your hands. You take it and Eunseok’s thigh is touching yours, his hand is ghosting over yours as he points to a dial.

“Just push that.” Eunseok gets a little closer, his other hand comes close to actually touching yours. But he keeps a distance, pointing to the other side of the remote to a switch. “Press that at the same time.” He instructs.

This reminds you of something. You’re timid pressing both of the switches at the same time, afraid of doing something wrong. The fear of breaking Eunseok’s newest toy almost makes you want to hand the remote back to him, but he’s urging you to do it and arguably looks more excited for you to use his toy than he was. Even when the drone wobbles on the hover he’s smiling. He follows the drone up, and points at another lever below your finger.

“Press that to make it move side to side.”

You do as your told, and both you and Eunseok watch the shaky drone follow your movements. Left and right, a little diagonal when you accidentally take your finger off of the switch. Eunseok leans more into the couch as you get used to it, and his hand that was ghosting over yours goes to rest on the back of the couch behind your body. He gets a little closer to you and he pulls his leg into his lap.

You try to focus on the drone as you feel Eunseok start to caress your shoulder. His hand was hesitant at first, a clenched fist resting on the back of the couch before he finally spread out his palm and let his first finger touch you. He makes it hard for you to focus flying this thing when he fully clasps over your shoulder, rubbing it gently. He also makes it hard to focus because he pretends he’s not touching you, even when you can feel the sweat on his palm. Eunseok points at the drone with his other hand when it starts to get a little too shaky, then to the remote clutched in your hands.

“You have to press both of them at the same time.” He says.

You follow his instructions, until his drone comes closer and closer to the coffee table. The dismount is rough, you clench your teeth at terrible thought of breaking Eunseok’s precious drone. He doesn’t react the same. He continues holding your shoulder even when the controller for the drone rests awkwardly on your lap.

“Eunseok, I really like your drone. I really do think it’s cool but—”

“I want you to stay.” He says quickly.

“You want me to stay?” You ask.

There’s only been two times Eunseok has directly expressed that he wants you to continue invading his space. The first was right before he came in your mouth two weeks ago, and the second was now. He’s just desperate enough when he says it, his hands still holding your shoulder and the other moves to grab the remote from your lap. The words slipped out before he could figure out how to calmly say it, if he was going to say it at all.

“Why do you want me to stay?”

You watch Eunseok try so hard to keep eye contact with you. The way his flat hair is tucked underneath his glasses is cute. He’s due for a haircut too, because it’s getting to the length where it stats covering his eyes and he starts making subtle complaints about it.

“Because I haven’t seen you in so long.”

“You see me nearly everyday.” You push your luck further, trying to see how far you can get Eunseok to go. He already told you he wants you here, he’s already told you he missed you. You let your hand travel to his thigh, right where his basketball shorts rode up to reveal his skin. He’s warm already, he even freezes underneath your touch. “But I’m here. Right now.” You look at Eunseok, and see the rosy tint already appearing on his cheeks. You start tracing the beginning of a pattern, and you look at the crown of his head to see strands of hair sticking up. ”Seok.”

“Take your shirt off.”

He spoke fast. His order fell from his lips and stayed in the air, the two of you eyeing eachother trying to figure out if what you heard was real. Eunseok’s eyes are wide, yours are still blinking as you try to process what’s happening. Not only did he approach you in the dining hall he never eats at, and share things with you he’s never shared with you before, but now he’s telling you what to do when he’s always let you do things to him. Everything from today leaves your hand frozen on his leg and your lips parted.

You can tell Eunseok shocked himself. The blush on his neck gives him away, and the fact that he’s holding your shoulder makes it seem like it’s for comfort more than anything else. He’s going to recant his order at any moment, or profusely apologize for reading this situation wrong. Before his lip can twitch you let your hands go to the bottom of your shirt too fast, pulling it over your head and then tossing it to the ground. Your shirt ends up crumbled next to the drone on the coffee table, and you settle back into the couch. Eunseok’s arm is still along the back of the couch, and his eyes are even wider.

You’re sure you still match his frazzled expression. The same Eunseok that struggled to hold eye contact when you first met him is told you what to do. You put your hands on your knees and sit up straighter, doing everything except verbally telling him how ready you are to listen.

He’s slow getting up from the couch. He hesitates for a moment before standing in front of you. On his couch you tilt your head up until it’s uncomfortable, until you can him look down at you and push his glasses up with a timid hand. His body is so close to you. His baggy shirt frames the broadness of his shoulders, leaving everything else about him to the imagination. You’re in your bra and pants, looking up to him waiting for what’s next.

He reaches his hand to you but you stay still. He lets his hand go to the tip of your head, gliding down until he touches your cheek. His hand moves to your arm then your back, pulling you closer and you lean into his touch fully. He’s holding your shoulders, your eyes almost start to cross from keeping them open for so long. You don’t want to miss a single thing. The way he pulls at you, the way his shirt moves in front of you, the way he parts his lips just to close them before he brings himself to say something.

“Get on your knees.” He whispers.

He’s still looking at you wide eyed like he can’t believe the orders are falling from his mouth. He stutters, but you don’t hesitate when you start sliding off the couch. When Eunseok slowly puts the remote control down on the coffee table you listen, melting fully off the couch to rest on your knees. You’re timid getting into place, the most jumpy you’ve ever been in Eunseok’s presence.

He’s the same way he was in his gaming chair, nearly shaking as he settles in front of you. The scene is awkward. Eunseok doesn’t know what to do now that he’s lead you half naked to the ground, and you don’t want to do anything to scare him out of whatever mood he’s found himself in. From avoided looks in class to being ordered to your knees you’ve made it too far to ruin it now. You’re overexerting yourself to show Eunseok how good you’re being. Hands folded on top of your thighs, perfect posture, looking up at him with everything you got. The blush creeps to his cheeks as his glasses slide down his nose. You watch Eunseok’s hands wrap around the belt of his pants.

“Can I—”

You nod before he can even finish. You find yourself wanting him to not ask for a single thing. He lets out a silent exhale and starts undoing the perfect bow, the sound of the laces rubbing against eachother makes you shuffle on your knees. You let out an exhale when Eunseok lets go of the loose waistband, letting it pool at his feet. He wasn’t wearing underwear, the baggy shorts hid how he was really feeling about the situation. Your hands ball into fists and you try so hard to keep eye contact, but you can stop yourself from looking down at him.

The quick look up you can see Eunseok impatiently pushing his frames into place. He keeps his thumb underneath the rim and a hand slowly goes to his dick, shuffling forward to your kneeling body. His hand doesn’t leave his glasses until he brings them to your mouth, poking and pinching your sensitive lips.

“I haven’t stopped thinking about you.” He says.

Your hands go to Eunseok’s thighs when he starts dragging his hand up and down his dick. He slows down you give him small nods, letting him know you hear him and you need to see it.

When he starts working his hand again, the sight is unreal. Seeing Eunseok give you a sneak peak of what he does in his time alone makes your mouth water. His hands were barely involved last time, nervously touching you only after you gave him explicit invitations to each time. Now he was skillfully jerking himself off, massaging his tip and letting precum glisten between his fingers.

“I keep thinking about you too.” You say.

Although it seems like you’re saying anything just to appease him, it’s the truth. Like you’re playing the worst game of poker ever, you don’t try to hide anything. You can’t decide if you’ll focus on his hand touching himself or his eyes staring down at you, so you do both. The desperation is palpable, the way you keep fixing your gaze is obvious. You remember how his glasses blurred your vision last time you were in this position with him, and he starts working his hand a little faster at the sound of your voice.

“You’re so pretty.” Eunseok’s head tilts back when he squeezes himself tighter and you want to cry from the loss of eye contact. He starts fucking his hand and you shuffle forward and touch him so he’ll look down at you again.

“You’re so hot.” His hand still plays with your mouth, two fingers working past your lips to press down hard on your tongue and bottom row of teeth. The intrusion makes saliva collect in your mouth and your jaw parts, making your words sound even more pathetic as they’re slightly gargled. “You don’t even know.” You say.

“You keep telling me that.” He groans quietly.

Eunseok looks down at you again and he presses harder. Your mouth is open the perfect amount, and he stops touching himself to hold his dick steady at the base. Before you can shuffle forward again he taps your lips with his leaking tip. You can feel the slick precum already beginning to chill on your bottom lip. When you stick your tongue out Eunseok taps his tip there too, groaning at the feeling of your warm tongue flat against him. You’re shocked that this was the same Eunseok nervous to even let you touch him. He’s fucked out just from the motions, and he gets so lost the quick taps turn into prominent spaced out slaps. The sound of his heavy dick hitting your tongue makes you dig your nails into his thigh.

“Open up, baby.” His voice is bothered and he’s impatient, pressing your jaw even further apart down until your lips stretch. “Open up for me, please.” He says quietly.

You let his prying fingers open you up until he can slid into your mouth. Instantly he’s heavy on your tongue, and you can taste him. When you look up Eunseok’s head is tilted back, and he lets out a sigh so wrecked you’re reminded of the last time you were in this position. His hand palms your shoulder, using that as a slow guide to get you to take more of him. His head lulls every direction, and he shivers each time your tongue laves a new area.

“You’re so good at this.” He compliments.

Eunseok starts bringing his own hips forward to fuck your mouth and you hum that you know. Your words aren’t picked up, only the vibration and Eunseok moaning again fills the room.

Even when Eunseok’s hand stopped guiding your shoulders, you continued the movements. Buried in his lap, stretching your lips and jaw as you bobbed your head up and down. Each time you made a gagging sound Eunseok would moan, and his hand eventually went back to your shoulder to grip it with all his might. The pain only motivated you, and the way he was pulsing and getting harder in your mouth told you he was close. His weak whimpers above you were warning signs you were blowing straight past.

Right when Eunseok’s sounds started getting louder, he pulled you off of him. His dick bobbed in front of your face, and you quickly wiped your watery eyes to get a good look at him. Eunseok was flushed red, and bending down to be eye level with you in an instant.

You could tell something changed when Eunseok started kissing you the second time. Maybe you were still reeling from your overworked gag reflex and the taste of him on your tongue, but it was different. The way he found a slow rhythm it made you think he was doing it on purpose to trip you up. The pace he set was completely opposite of his hands that guided your shoulders. You were the one trying to catch up, not sure if you were going too fast or too slow.

When Eunseok was dragging his tongue over your top row of teeth wasn’t from inexperience, but to get you to open your mouth a little wider. He was kissing just to feel you heave impatient huffs of hot air into his mouth. When you tried turning your head to figure it out his gentle hands kept you in place, making you feel what he was doing to you. Your clutched at the bottom of his shirt hopelessly, fighting back a pitiful sound when he ran his tongue over your lips.

When Eunseok pulled back and you felt his spit cool on your face, he didn’t apologize or say that he was bad at kissing. He smirked at your glistening face and your mixed drool over lining your lips. He pulled your face back and tilted it up with fingers underneath your chin, smirking at his handiwork. The sheen caught the light and he brought you back in again, just to press his tongue against yours and watch the string of spit connect your open mouths. You didn’t know what to do. You were gormless, glazed over in the eyes as you let your face continue to be tilted by Eunseok. You didn’t even swipe your tongue over your lips to break the string. You kept your eyes on him, suddenly finding yourself waiting for what was next.

“Did I do something wrong last time you were here?” Eunseok asks.

His eyes are still on your lips, now dry and missing where they were seconds ago. You only think to talk when he looks into your eyes. You shake your head in his hand, eyebrows knitting together to show that you’re sincere.

“I had so much fun.” You say.

Eunseok stays on your lips, running his thumb over the bottom. He mindlessly plays with your face and mouth, touching you as he brings his eyes up to yours.

“You haven’t bothered me during class in awhile.” He says.

You want to deny it, but it’s the truth. You grip his shirt tighter, trying to figure out why you put off feeling like this for so long.

“I thought I came on too strong.” You grip Eunseok’s shirt and your back hits the couch. You’re still on the floor and you’re still on your knees. You embarrassingly still need more. “Thought I might’ve scared you away.”

Eunseok kissed you again, deep with his hand holding you steady. When he pulled away you’re eyes were still closed in bliss, opening up again to see his eyes blown out. You were just as wrecked as him, you could see it reflected in his lenses. He was able to see you clearly, the bleary look in your eye and how much of a mess you already were.

His hands go to the pocket of his basketball shorts, pulling out a condom in the pack you left last time. You watch him tear it with his fingers before his hands are back on you, until you were turned to face the couch. He continued handling you until your legs were spread and your top half was resting on top of the couch. He even fixed your arms until the were laying on top of the cushion, laying the foil wrapper right next to you.

You wait to feel Eunseok’s warmth as he shuffles behind you to slot his body between your legs. You wait for what feels like an eternity, suddenly too nervous to look over your shoulder and see it for yourself. Before you can whine about anything, you feel the tickle of hair on your back and then a wet kiss on your waist.

Instantly you freeze. You can feel Eunseok’s lips travel further down, and a hand on your lower back keeps you from turning to face him.

“Just stay like that.” Eunseok murmurs behind you.

When he kisses the curve of your ass you felt yourself meld into the couch. Your head is resting on the cushion, you swear you can hear your heartbeat when you press your ear into the sofa. Not knowing what’s happening behind you reminds you of the way you had Eunseok two weeks ago. You’re now in his shoes, still reeling from the dried spit on your face while he travels further down.

“Wait.” Your hand is in a panic behind you in seconds, but Eunseok can’t be phased. He grabs your hand and presses it to your lower back, his other hand grabbing your ass. He spreads you out and you whine because you’ve never been like this before, you would’ve never thought Eunseok would have you like this. There’s another wet kiss on your ass and you try to duck away. “Eunseok.”

His tongue is against your ass, then he works down lower. You’re pressing your face deeper into the couch cushion, scraping against the fabric to try and work through the feeling. It’s wet, he’s messy, he’s loud behind you. You can feel Eunseok’s tongue press into your heat timidly before he’s diving further in. His tongue prods into you, shallow laps that have you instinctually twitching away from his face. Your hand that’s still pinned to your lower back clenches and spreads out. You try not to make any noise. Like Eunseok’s got your tongue you’re just open mouthed with your eyes screwed shut. There’s no way he has you like this. There’s no way he’s spreading you further, there’s no way you can feel his finger push past into you.

“Feels good, right?” Your entire face is hot. Sweat is lining every part of you and there’s something touching your face to cause the worst kind of discomfort, but you can’t move from the spot he has you in. “You’re so tight.” He pushes your body forward when you jolt from another finger being added. “And wet.” Eunseok adds.

You don’t dare to look behind you. You can hear him situate himself behind you, sitting down and working his fingers inside of you while the other keeps you spread. Any attempt to move your hips away he follows. He doesn’t order you around anymore, accommodating to your swaying hips and your heaving pants against his new couch. You’re sure you’re drooling on his cushions, and you’re making a mess on his fingers. He keeps driving his fingers inside of you, until you’re shaking your head and reaching another panicked head backwards.

“Eunseok I think.” An effort to lift your body off the couch is thwarted when Eunseok’s hand leaves your ass to touch your clit. You’re pressed against the couch again, mouth agape. “I’m close.” You say.

For a moment Eunseok pauses. Just before you rapidly decline from the peak he goes back to the pace he set, constant and grueling and stimulating that drool starts slipping down your chin.

“Really?” He sounds amazed, like everything about what he was doing to you wasn’t calculated. Like he’s just playing with another toy, surprised that you are feeling any sort of pleasure. You nod immediately, and thee quickest look back you can see Eunseok let his glasses slide down lower. They’re foggy, because it’s a million degrees in this room and they’re focused on the part of your body where you’re bent and rocking back on him in the slightest way. Like you’re an experiment he takes you all in. “You’re close?”

If he wasn’t so curious you would’ve thought he was mocking you. But Eunseok is paying attention to everything, recalling what he was doing earlier that made you react to him. You selfishly don’t have it in you to pull him along, tossing compliments over your shoulder to let him know he’s doing the right thing. You’re too distracted, instead focused on crying out when he starts scissoring his fingers and closing your legs in on itself when he starts rubbing your clit the right way.

Eunseok doesn’t even notice that you came. He vocalizes something about how you’re squeezing his fingers, then commenting on how you’re so wet. Then he’s bumping into his coffee table. You’re still weak but he can’t be bothered as he pulls out to wrap an arm around your hip, rearranging you to his liking. You can barely move to follow him, trying to alleviate some of your weight while being moved into place. Eunseok is satisfied quickly with your head resting on the armrest and your hands gripping it for support. You hear him stumble to situate a leg on the coffee table, and he’s back to touching you again.

Eunseok is repeating curses behind you again and again, and you’re trying hard to keep that same form. You have to fight to keep your knee slipping out from underneath you from each thrust. You’re on the brink of overstimulation and Eunseok is trailing close behind you, panting and pressing his sweaty chest to your back.

“Did you cum?” He asks with the same doubt the first time, and it makes you clench around him again. His shaky fingers loosen the grip on your hip to go to your clit, and just the feeling of him pressing deep makes your entire body twitch. “Did you cum?”

He repeats the question, and you know it’s because he wants to make sure you’ve finished. But paired with his fingers working through your cries it seems like a threat, almost like a punishment. You lift your head from the armrest, tears staining your cheeks.

When you repeat to him over and over again that you came, and you’re going to cum again, he looks at you like he can’t believe it. His harsh pace with his hips even falter, but you’ve come too far to let anything stop. Now it’s you driving your hips back, working through the burn, the overstimulation, everything to chase after it. Eunseok’s shocked face pulls to ecstasy, and then he’s pulling at your shoulders until your back is pressed to his front. You’re gripping the back of the couch as Eunseok keeps your face turned to meet his lips. Shaky and deep kisses, where he’s just trying to feel the inside of your mouth and you’re trying to focus on getting him to finish.

Eunseok is the first to pull away to press his head into your shoulder, grunting into your skin as he ruts his hips against yours. You can feel the rim of his glasses press into your skin, and you can feel his hands hastily reach down to grab yours. He’s slipping his fingers between the gaps in yours and holds you tight, rutting into you it punches every breath from your lungs. By the time Eunseok twitches and slumps against you, you’re gasping to catch your breath. He matches your exhaustion, gasping quietly and panting against your back.

His hand is sluggish leaving yours, you stay clutched against the back of the couch and gripping it for support when he pushes his glasses back up his face. You’re staring forward at his front door, trying to come to terms with the fact that you manifested whatever just happened. Yunjin and Giselle really aren’t going to believe you, if you can find the energy to leave his apartment. You feel like you’re stuck now, and you’re about to become an even worse thorn in your side. You pray he doesn’t mind, because he pulls out of you and ties the condom off before he’s lying down and guiding you to lay on top of him. He catches his breath when he wraps his arms around you, breathing deep and rubbing shapes on your skin.

He’ll never be able to get rid of you after this, you’re sure of it. He holds you tight and you can’t even think of leaving, whatever obligations you had for the rest of the day are cast to the side.

“Seok.”

You look up to see Eunseok already looking at you. His glasses are halfway down his nose, so far down he looks at you over the rim.

“Can I wear your glasses?”

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prettymfwrites · 2 days ago

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paige x reader where in they pretend to be together because reader’s ex was in the bar with a new girl so r decides to just randomly kiss p? if you know that one scene from nick & norah’s infinite playlist it’s something like that 💕 i hope u give this one a try!

Not Pretending

Paige bueckers x female reader

Hope this doesn't disappoint! 🙏🏾

Sorry for any mistakes🙃

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The dim glow of the bar’s neon lights painted the room in shades of amber and red, the bass of the music reverberating through the floor as people crowded around tables and leaned against the bar. You were nursing your drink, trying to ignore the knot tightening in your stomach. Across the room, there they were: your ex, laughing and leaning into someone new, their hand brushing against hers in a way that felt far too familiar.

"Of all the places..." you muttered to yourself, tilting your glass back and downing what was left of your drink.

“Did you say something?” Paige asked from beside you, leaning her elbows casually on the counter. She was dressed in her usual relaxed streetwear, her blonde hair tucked into a braided pony. You had met her a few times before through mutual friends, and she’d somehow ended up as your companion for the evening after everyone else had bailed.

“Nothing. Just talking to my drink,” you replied with a forced laugh, setting your glass down.

Paige raised a brow, following your line of sight. “Oh, yikes. Is that your ex?”

“Unfortunately,” you said, trying to act unaffected. “And look who’s already moved on. A whole two months, and they’re out here playing house with someone new.”

Paige grimaced. “That’s rough.”

“Tell me about it,” you muttered.

You tried to focus on anything else, but every laugh and touch between your ex and their date felt like salt in an open wound. You shifted in your seat, your jaw clenching as you turned away.

“You okay?” Paige asked, her tone softening.

“Yeah, totally fine. Just love seeing my replacement in 4K,” you said sarcastically, reaching for your empty glass before realizing it was, well, empty.

Paige chuckled. “You’re taking this like a champ, though. No tears or dramatic storming out.”

“Oh, I’m dramatic,” you shot back. “Just trying to figure out my next move.”

Paige tilted her head, her curious eyes narrowing. “What kind of move are we talking about here?”

You opened your mouth to answer but froze. An idea—a completely ridiculous, impulsive, and chaotic idea—popped into your head.

“Okay, don’t laugh,” you started, leaning closer to her.

“That’s a great way to make me want to laugh,” Paige teased, but she gestured for you to continue.

“What if...” you began, voice dropping, “you and I pretended to be together? Just for tonight. Nothing serious, just... to make them squirm a little.”

Paige blinked at you, then tilted her head back with a laugh. “Are you serious?”

“Dead serious,” you said, your eyes locked on hers. “Look, you don’t have to do anything crazy. Just... maybe hang out with me for a bit, be my fake girlfriend, and if they look over, we sell it.”

Paige smirked, clearly amused by your sudden proposal. “Okay, two things. One, you’re bold as hell for asking me this. And two... what’s in it for me?”

“I’ll owe you one,” you said quickly. “Big time. Like, I’ll buy you smoothies for a week or whatever you want. Just—please?”

Paige sighed dramatically, but there was a glimmer of mischief in her eyes. “Alright, fine. Let’s do it. But you better make this worth my while.”

“Deal,” you said, standing up and holding out your hand. Paige took it, her grip firm as she followed you away from the bar.

You made sure to walk past your ex’s table, your hand still in Paige’s. As you approached, your ex glanced up, their expression shifting from surprise to something you couldn’t quite place.

“Oh, hey,” you said casually, as if you hadn’t noticed them until just now. “Didn’t expect to see you here.”

“Uh, yeah,” your ex stammered, their eyes darting between you and Paige.

“And who’s this?” Paige asked smoothly, slipping her arm around your waist and smiling at your ex.

“This is...” You trailed off, waiting for your ex to fill in the blanks.

“Emily,” they said, gesturing to their date.

“Nice to meet you, Emily,” Paige said, her tone friendly but laced with just enough confidence to make it clear she wasn’t just a random friend. “I’m Paige.”

Your ex opened their mouth to respond, but before they could, you turned to Paige with a grin. “Baby, want to grab a booth? I’m kind of over standing around.”

“Anything for you,” Paige replied, her voice light but convincing as she pressed a quick kiss to your temple.

You swore you heard your ex choke on their drink as Paige led you away, her hand still firmly around your waist.

Once you were seated, you couldn’t help but laugh. “You’re a natural.”

Paige shrugged, her smile smug. “What can I say? I commit to the bit.”

“Well, thanks for committing. I owe you one,” you said, leaning back in the booth.

She smiled, her hands stuffed into her jacket pockets. “Good. Because I’m holding you to it.”

“No worries,” Paige said, taking a sip of her drink. “Honestly, that was kind of fun. Your ex looked like they were about to combust.”

“Good. They deserve it,” you said, smirking

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The night wore on with the two of you sitting close in the booth, trading stories and jokes, the comfortable banter punctuated by occasional glances from your ex across the room. At first, you thought you were imagining it, but each time you looked, there they were—staring, their expression unreadable.

“Yup, they’re watching again,” Paige murmured, sipping her drink.

You leaned in slightly, lowering your voice. “Think they’re jealous yet?”

Paige smirked, her blue eyes sparkling. “If they’re not, they’re in denial. You’re killing it tonight, by the way.”

You laughed softly. “I think you’re the one doing the heavy lifting here. Thanks for being so... convincing.”

“Convincing?” Paige tilted her head, her lips curling into a playful grin. “Come on, I’m practically Oscar-worthy.”

“Okay, fine. You’re a natural,” you said, rolling your eyes but smiling despite yourself.

Her gaze lingered on you a second longer than necessary, and you felt your stomach do an unexpected flip. You brushed it off, chalking it up to the adrenaline of the situation.

As the night wound down, the two of you finally decided to leave. Paige stood first, offering you her hand with an exaggerated flourish. “M’lady.”

You laughed but took her hand anyway, letting her pull you to your feet. The warmth of her touch lingered longer than it should have, and as you made your way toward the exit, you couldn’t help but feel hyper-aware of how close she was to you.

Then, out of the corner of your eye, you noticed your ex again. They weren’t just glancing this time—they were outright staring, their jaw tight, their date clearly trying to get their attention.

Without thinking, you stopped in your tracks, your heart racing.

“What?” Paige asked, turning to you, her brow furrowed.

“They’re still looking,” you whispered, your voice laced with irritation.

Paige raised a brow. “So? Let them look. You’ve already won.”

But you weren’t satisfied. Something about their gaze, their audacity to act so unbothered when you knew they were bothered, made you want to take things one step further.

Before you could second-guess yourself, you turned to Paige and grabbed her by the front of her jacket, pulling her down toward you.

“What are you—” Paige started, but her words were cut off as your lips pressed against hers.

For a second, it was just you making a point—a kiss meant to sell the charade, to make your ex regret every decision they’d ever made. But then Paige kissed you back.

Her hands found your waist, pulling you closer as she deepened the kiss, and suddenly, it wasn’t about your ex anymore. It was about the way her lips felt against yours, soft and sure, like she’d been waiting for this moment as much as you had. The world around you faded, the noise of the bar and the weight of the past dissolving into nothing.

When you finally broke apart, your breath came in short bursts, and Paige’s eyes were searching yours, her cheeks flushed.

“Are we even pretending anymore?” she asked, her voice low, almost a whisper.

You shook your head, a small smile tugging at your lips. “Not at all.”

Paige chuckled softly, her forehead resting against yours. “Good. Because I’m definitely not faking that.”

You laughed, your hand still clutching her jacket as you glanced toward the bar. Your ex was no longer looking—probably too stunned to process what they’d just seen.

“Guess we really sold it, huh?” you teased.

“Yeah, but I think I want a few more practice runs,” Paige said with a smirk.

You rolled your eyes, but your heart was hammering in your chest. “Smooth.”

Paige grinned, stepping back but keeping her hand in yours as you walked out of the bar together. The cool night air hit your face, but it didn’t matter. You were too busy stealing glances at the girl beside you, wondering how a fake relationship had turned into something that felt a little too real—and hoping she felt the same.

As if reading your mind, Paige squeezed your hand. “So... about those smoothies you owe me.”

You laughed, the tension between you easing into something warm and comfortable. “I’ll buy you as many as you want. Just... maybe come with me again next time. You know, in case my ex decides to show up somewhere else.”

Paige smirked, leaning closer. “Deal. But next time, we’re not pretending.”

“Not even a little bit.”

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miniwheat77 · 3 days ago

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Loser. (Soap x Virgin!Reader.)

!NSFW, smut, p in v sex, unprotected sex, innocent reader, NO MINORS!

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“You’d hit that? Even with how innocent Y/N is?”

“Ugh. Until her fuckin’ legs shake mate.” Soap laughs. Gaz rolls his eyes, laughing too. “You’re sick.”

“Nah, I think it’s an act.” Soap smirks. “No twenty-something year old is that naive.”

He doesn’t realize you’re listening on the other side of the door. They’d chose to have this conversation right outside the office you usually worked in. It was late and they didn’t figure you were still inside.

———

Later that night, you’re in the watch tower alone. It’s dark out, it’s pretty late. Soap is supposed to be up here with you, but you’re early. You’re curious about what he had said. What he meant by it anyways. Hit that? Until your legs shake? What does that even mean? You wanted to ask but also knew how wrong it had been of you to eavesdrop in the first place.

Soap walks through the door and startles you out of your daydream and you act as if you hadn’t heard his entire conversation earlier with Gaz. “Hey little lady.” He smiles. “Hi Johnny.” You smile back at him. Looking away quickly. He can tell that you’re acting off. “Everything alright?” He asks. “Uh.. yeah.” You mumble. He can tell you’re off. You knew that you should have listened to the others on base and stayed away from him. Sarah and Layla had told you on more than one occasion to stay away from him but had never actually explained why. You knew that the two could be a little overdramatic at times.

“I have a question actually.” Soap says, sliding a chair up to sit next to you. “Why do you wear your hair like that?” He asks.

“L-like what?” You brush it down. He makes you nervous, you aren't sure why.

“It’s always done up real nice. Sometimes you even got cute clips in it and stuff.” He toys with the ends that hang by your face, seeing the way your cheeks redden by his touch alone. You look down with a laugh. “Uh.. I’m not sure. I guess it’s just something I picked up on from my mo-“ you pause, shaking your head.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” He asks. “Uh.. it’s just… I guess I just don’t like to talk about my parents.” You mumble. “You don’t have to if you don’t want to. But I’ll listen anytime you’d like.” He smiles, resting a hand on your knee. It doesn’t seem like it, but Johnny is being genuine. The other girls' words are always echoing around in your head. Johnny seemed nice and you needed to ignore what they said sometimes.

“They uh… they were very religious. So far beyond the normal extent that it was like a cult.” You look up at him. “No offense but is that kind’ve why you’re a little…”

“Sheltered?” You smile. “Well I wasn’t gonna say it.” He laughs.

“Yes it is. They didn’t let me have exposure to stuff like TV or books. Homeschooled all my life, expected to be well kempt and tidy. I guess some things just stuck. My room is spotless and my hair is always fixed.” You shrug. He smiles. “I like it though. Wouldn’t be you if it wasn’t I suppose.” He laughs.

“So. I know I shouldn’t have been listening, but I heard you talking to Gaz earlier.”

Soaps cheeks nearly light on fire.

“Uhhh. You weren’t supposed to hear it.” He laughs. “I’m sorry.”

“Well if you’re saying sorry it means it wasn’t good, what you were saying. I don’t know what that means.”

He furrows his brows in confusion. “Do uh… you not know what Sex is?”

Your eyes widen. “What? Y-yeah I know what it is. What does that have to do with this?” He sees the way you start to backtrack. How nervous you get talking about it. “I’d hit that” he laughs, repeating himself. In disbelief you have no idea what he meant when he said it. He looks down at the ground away from you. “It’s… a slang term. For sex.” He laughs. You look confused. “You’ve never heard it?” He asks. “No. I know what sex is but I’ve not mapped out the slang terms I guess. So what you were saying.” You swallow hard. Eyes finally moving up to meet his. You're starting to realize what he had meant. “You…” You’re very hesitant. “I would have sex with you, that’s what I meant.” He laughs. You try to play it off with a small laugh but he can see that you’re different now. “I’ve.. I’ve never um…” you rest your hand on the back of your chair. “I know. I can tell.”

He runs his tongue over his bottom lip. "I honestly thought that this was some kind of act you were putting up. Until you mentioned your parents. I feel like a dick now. I shouldn't have said what I said and I want you to know that what I was saying was really disrespectful of me. I shouldn't have been saying anything like that." He looks down at his hands, resting his elbows on his knees.

"What?" You ask. "I thought that wanting to have sex with someone is like a compliment or something." You mumble. "It is. Well. Kind of." He shakes his head with a laugh. "Look. It's awkward but I'll teach you all of the stupid slang terms alright? It doesn't make sense, you're supposed to grow up hearing this stuff and learn what it means along the way alright?" He laughs. You nod your head. "Okay. Yeah. Got it. " You blush. "Thank you Johnny." You mumble. "Course.” He laughs.

“You said something else too uh… until my legs shake? What does that mean?” Johnny’s face is on fire, embarrassed and blushing. How is he supposed to explain this away?

He sighs. “Well. This is what I get for being gross ah?” He laughs. “Sometimes during sex if it’s.. rough enough or good enough, your legs will shake. I guess. It’s more complex than that. You know.. Um... I'm gonna write down a website and I want you to look it up. Don't be scared alright? And don't watch it with anyone else around, it's bad."

"If it's bad why are you telling me to watch it?" You ask. "Because... It's about sex and you know how apprehensive you are about it. Everyone else is too. This website it's for adults only, watch it alone. You'll understand. If you see something you want to know about you can ask me or research it on like... an incognito browser on your phone. I'll show you how to do that too." He mumbles. He picks up a piece of printer paper and looks around until he finds a pen. He writes down the very familiar website and than shows you on your phone how to get to an incognito browser. Reminding you to never watch it with people around.

You have an idea of what he's telling you to look up.

Later that night when you’re off watch, you’re making sure your earbuds are connected to your phone before you look up the website he’s telling you about, the front page is intimidating enough before you even click on a video.

Hours later you’re still awake. The amount of terms you’ve learned about, the videos you’ve seen.

You feel corrupted.

Urban Dictionary and a Porn website have turned your entire life around. No wonder your parents kept you sheltered.

You finally fall asleep just a couple hours before you’re supposed to be awake. A new ache between your legs and you’re unsure how to fix it or make it feel better. The next day, you’re exhausted but everything you had learned the night before changed your perspective on everything. The conversations you had overheard from the men on base suddenly made so much sense. Why Layla and Sarah had told you to stay far away from Johnny made so much sense now.

“Uh.. Earth to Y/N. You alright?” Ghost waves his hand in your face and you jerk back away from him, swallowing hard. “Uh.. yeah. Sorry. Just didn’t sleep well.”

“Something keeping you awake love?” Ghost places his hand on your knee and Johnny watches across from the table as you go completely stiff, looking down at his hand. “Yeah.” You say it, “wait no. No I mean no. Sorry.” You shake your head, standing up fast. “Just slept in too late yesterday. I’ve got to go get some paperwork done.” You mumble. “See you guys around.” You wave, hurrying out of the mess hall and into your office. “What was that about?” Ghost laughs. "I think she's just stressed." Johnny laughs. He was getting a little nervous by your reaction. Maybe he had given you too much all at once.

———

You were desperate. You didn't care anymore. It had been almost two weeks since Johnny had showed you the website. He'd answered any questions you had, didn't matter how awkward.

You had so much pent up arousal. You were horny from days and days of watching nothing but videos. You wanted anything. You hurried up the watch tower stairs, heart thudding in your chest. You step inside, nerves growing as you such in a sharp breath. “Hey, everything okay?” He asks.

You swallow hard. “Yeah…”

“No not really.” You mumble. You take your seat like usual and face away from Johnny for a second. You don’t know how to ask him for help, you feel shameful. “What’s goin on? I do somn?” He asks. “Yeah. Yeah you did. You showed me what porn is and now I feel weird all of the time.” You huff. He laughs. “You don’t feel weird. You’re just horny.” You sigh. Tilting your head back and closing your eyes. “Yeah well. It sucks!” You groan. You feel tears pricking your eyes from your frustration. “What, touching yourself isn’t enough?” He laughs. “Touching myself?”

The thought of you doing that sounds foreign. “Oh dear… don’t tell me you’ve been watching 2 weeks worth of porn and haven’t made yourself cum.” He laughs. You stay quiet. “Poor girl, no wonder you’re so frustrated.” He laughs. You stand up, pacing back and forth slow. You’re trying to think to yourself. “I don’t really know how, no really. I’ve seen videos but they’re usually not helpful in the slightest.” Johnny glides his tongue over his bottom lip. Seeing you so frustrated has him a little riled up himself. “I.. not sure how much trust me.” He laughs.

You turn to look at him. Your pupils are blown wide.

“I could show you… if you wa-“

You nod your head before he even finishes his sentence. He leans forward in his chair, motioning you to come forward with his fingers. Your stomach fills with butterflies.

“Just uh.. take a deep breath, alright?” You nod your head. You’re still standing a ways away from him. He reaches out, pulling you forward by the back of your thigh, until you’re right directly in front of him. He looks up at you. “S’alright lass. Nothing to be nervous about.” He mumbles. You’ve sat next to Johnny sure, but this is different. You’re closer to him than you ever have been. He smells like cologne and hair pomade. You close your eyes as you he reaches for your cargo pants. You don’t make any movements to stop him. He continues. He unbuttons them, slow. He doesn’t want to startle you or move too fast. He wants to give you ample time to stop him. You have a choice, he wants to make that known. He tugs them down slightly, you close your eyes tight. Biting your lip. What you were about to trust him with was a lot. Further than you’ve ever gone with anyone else.

He grasps the waistband of your panties, pushing them down just far enough he could get a hand between them and your skin. He glides his hand between them.

Johnny glides the side of his pointer finger across your slit. Collecting your arousal on his finger. When he draws it away he can see just how wet you are. It drives him fucking crazy.

He parts his fingers, seeing strings of your arousal across them. His cock is rock hard in seconds, by far the most turned on he’s ever been in his life. He lets out a laugh. Shaking his head. “My god you are wet.” he shakes his head, biting his lip. He growls under his breath. He wants to devour you. Fuck you until your legs really shake, until you’re crying out for more. “You been watching more videos, Bonnie?” He asks. You nod your head. “See you’ve found one you like” he chuckles. You chew at your lip nervously. “Johnny..” you whine. “Hm?”

“I want to know what it feels like to cum..” you look down at him. “Please show me.” You whine.

“I’ll show you, doll. Just relax into me okay?” He breathes. “Cmere, why don’t you sit in my lap.” He pulls you forward. You spin around, sitting down on him. You can feel his erection pressing into you. He pushes your cargo pants and panties down further, until one of your legs is completely free. “Prop your leg up on me, don’t be shy.” He sighs. His warm breath is right against your ear. He pushes your hair behind your ear, he wants you to hear him. He’s going to talk you through it.

“Just watch my hand. Do as I say. I’ll show you how lass.” He breathes. You nod your head. Your face is hot, in such a daze you barely even know what’s going on around you. “I’m so horny Johnny.. I can’t take it.” You cry. Tears filling your eyes. “Just watch darling..” he trails his hand across your bare stomach, he’d pulled your shirt up. Pushing down, until his huge hand glides over your mound. Stopping just right at the top. He circles over your clit with two of his fingers, feeling you jump against him. “It’s going to be really sensitive. Since you’ve never touched here before, alright?” You nod your head. You’re panting. “It’s your clit. You try.” He moved his hand lower, drawing circles around your opening as you start to rub your clit. You’re getting more comfortable, relaxing into him. “That’s it. Just keep doing that for me, yeah.” He breathes. He raises his hand to his mouth. Using his saliva to wet down his fingers enough. Circling his spit over your hole. He’s prepping you.

“Deep breath.” He mumbles. You nod your head.

He doesn’t have to stretch you too much. He pushes his finger in, feeling you tense up. “Oh god.” You pant. Wiggling your hips lower into him. You pause your movement, whining out. “Keep rubbing your clit baby. I didn’t say to stop.” He breathes. His voice is low and sexy. He’s turned on. A side of Johnny you hadn’t seen.

He pairs another finger up, pushing it back into you. You gasp, clutching his wrist with your free hand. “There you go darling.” Your breaths get a little more rigid. Nearly panting out as he fingers you. “Keep going darling. Gentle, not too fast now.” He guides you.

“I- oh god!” You cry. “There you go baby. That’s it… give it to me.” He whines, raising his hips into you. You can tell he wants relief of his own.

You grasp his hand, forcing him away. “Woah- hey. Everything okay?” He asks. You stand on one leg. Turning so that you could straddle his lap. Sitting down on him again. “F-fuck..” he grits his teeth. “What’re you doing?”

“I want to know what it’s like.” You look him in the eyes. “Y/N.” He warns. He knows what it is you want.

“Johnny.” You repeat his name back. “Your virginity is really important. I think you’re just really turned on. Not thinking straig-“ he clenches his eyes shut as you rut your hips into his. He swallows hard. “You can’t take it back. Once you do it with me, I’ll always be your first.” He breathes. “I think you should really think about it.” He swallows hard. “I think I’ve got my mind made up, MacTavish.” You sigh, hands clutching at the collar of his shirt. You lean into him, lips brushing over his. You kiss him, hard. He can feel your heart thumping in your chest.

Johnny is in shock. Because this isn’t just another hook up and you’re not just another girl.

You’re Y/N. The girl who is supposed to be so far out of his reach, out of his league even. You’re not someone Johnny ever expected to be sitting in his lap, wanting more than just a kiss even. Wanting to…

He has to draw himself out of his trance. You want your first to be him. And Johnny up until this point is recognized as a scumbag. Everyone knows it. He’s desperate for any kind of attention he’ll get. He knows that this is how people feel about him. Maybe they don’t know him, don’t know that he wants to be loved. He wants it all, using any way he can to get it, even if it does make him look like an asshole.

Not anymore. Johnny wants your attention. Yours and yours only, he knows it.

“Okay.. look at me.” He pushes back. “If you want me to do this, we’re gonna do it right.” You nod your head. “We’ll go slow. I don’t want to hurt you. I want you to know that this is how you should be treated. Always. Okay?” You nod your head.

He unbuckles his belt, pushing his jeans down his thighs just enough. You swallow hard at the size of him, not sure what you were expecting. “Are you sure?” You nod your head. Looking at him. You prop yourself up and he helps you. Spitting in his hand and gliding it up his cock. If he had lube he’d use it. Knowing how bad this is about to hurt you. Once he’s got himself lined up with your entrance, you’re eager. Pushing yourself down onto him. He tries to force you to be gentle. You’re in a hurry. Desperate to have him inside of you.

Once you get to that point, where you start to stretch, you slow. Biting your lip. He can tell it’s starting to hurt.

“It’s okay- it’s alright lass. Deep breath for me.” Soaps face crunches up in pleasure, trying his best to conceal it because he doesn’t want to enjoy this when you’re not.

“Oh fuck…” he pants. His voice is so unsteady you can’t help but smile. “Are you okay Johnny?”

“Y-yeah. You just feel so fucking good.” He smiles, eyes closing. “Just a little more, you’re doing so good for me.” He pants. You hiss, and he hesitates. Drawing his hips back into the chair and raising you up slightly. He gathers more arousal at the tip of his cock. Spearing you further onto him. It’s easier to slide like this.

“I’m going to push all of the way alright? Deep breath.” He lowers you completely, burying his head into the crook of your neck. He takes in a sharp breath, standing up with you. It’s not the best place for it, but not the worst. He lays you right on the ground. It’s clean, you’d just cleaned it the night before.

The feeling of all of his body weight on you is intimidating. Something you’ve never felt before. He takes one deep thrust and you’re gasping out, a cry leaving your lips as he penetrates to the deepest parts of you. Just like that, it’s over.

You have your eyes screwed shut and he gives you a couple minutes to adjust before he starts fucking you. He’s slow, trying to ease the pain.

And it works. Your eyes soften as they slowly open, lips going from locked shut to parted. Your hands had a tight hold on his shirt and they’re staring to relax. You were dead quiet, but as he moves you start to pant.

You’re starting to like it.

Soap sighs, thank god.

He keeps a steady pace until he knows you can take more and then he’s rocking his hips into you deeper. “Oh god Johnny.” You mewl, opening your legs wider for him. Giving him complete access to you. His eyes widen.

Johnny has been with his fair share of women, each different from the last. You’re by far the most gentle, skin soft against his. Your clutches are even soft when you run your hands through his mow hawk and grip it. Your body is like a clouded temple and the fact that he’s been allowed inside is something Johnny is going to cherish, he’s never letting this go. He’s made up his mind.

He starts driving himself into you at a brutal pace. You’re trying your best to stay quiet but it’s hard. “Ah, Johnny. S’a lot.” You breathe. “Deep breathes, I said I’d make your legs shake and I intend on it darling.” He chuckles. You can’t help but blush.

He expected it to be easier, but you’re taking a lot. “Johnny I- I’m gonna cum!” You whine. Your legs start to shiver just slightly and he smiles. “Go on doll, show me how good I make you feel. Cum for me.” You screw your eyes shut, focusing on the knot building and how his cock stimulates the perfect place to make it unwind. He’s getting overwhelmed. This is the first time you’ll ever cum. Not just that. The first time you’ll ever cum, and it’s around his cock. Not from your fingers, or even his. Not a pillow you’re desperately rutting into. Around Johnny’s dick.

He lowers his hand, pressing his fingertips into your clit and your mouth parts in shock, how good he feels is unmatched. A cry barely leaves your lips and he covers your mouth with his hand. Fucking you into your high. When you hit it, your legs shake.

Just like in the videos.

You’re on the verge of crying when Johnny hits his high. He’s panting and whining and it’s almost pathetic as he reaches it. He doesn’t think to pull out.

———

“Y/N. He’s just using you. He wants to fuck you and then dump you. That’s who he is. He’s a loser.” Layla rolls her eyes.

Her words cut through you like a knife. “I.. why are you saying that?”

“Because it’s what guys like him do Y/N. He doesn’t want anything serious. He’d have a girlfriend if that were the case. I bet his body count would cripple you because he’s just a gross loser. He wants sex and no offense, but you’re naive and he knows if he shows up and shows out you’ll be dumb enough to give it to him. No offense.” She waves her hand. “I’m not trying to be a bitch but it’s true. I’m not saying to listen to me, I’m just warning you before you catch feelings and get your heart broken. You heard how he used to talk about you.”

You nod your head. “Thank you.” You mumble, turning away from her. The tears are hot as they spill over your eyelids the moment she can’t see your face anymore. You hurry away.

She was going to go find Johnny.

“I know you’re trying to get your claws into Y/N, but you need to stay away from her.”

She catches Johnny off guard, he’d just gotten off of watch with you. “What are you talking about?” He hurries to cover up the love bites he's got on his neck from you.

“I’m talking about how you’ve been spending so much time with her. I know you. You’re nothing but a loser looking for someone who will put out for you. That’s not her. So leave her alone.” He shakes his head. “You’ve got it wrong.”

“Do I? Because everyone here has heard the way you talk about her and other women.”

He shakes his head. “I don’t have anything to prove to you okay? I’m friends with Y/N and I care a lot about her whether you believe it or not." He's getting angry. "Whatever. I guess since she's so stupid and naïve we'll find out when you get her to fuck you." The words are laced with venom.

His face goes stone cold and he pauses, standing straight up and taking a step toward her. He's sharp with her.

"She's not stupid. Say whatever you want about me. Call me a loser, fine. But if you say that to me again we will have a much bigger problem on our hands." He's stern and his voice is quiet. "She's smart and she's had it rough. She's learning everything day by day. Naïve yes. Stupid? Absolutely not. Now back off." He growls. She is a little intimidated but she plays it off with a huff and leaves. His reaction to her calling you stupid had taken her completely off guard.

Maybe he really did have feelings for you.

———

"You know, one way to really find out if he likes her is to hit on him and see if he takes the bait." She shrugs. "Yeah, but I don't want to hurt Y/N by doing that." She sighs. "Layla, she'll get hurt even worse if she gives her V card up to that loser and he treats her like shit after." Her eyes are wide as she looks at her.

"I know Sarah. I guess you're right. Let's give it a go. But I already pissed him off so it's got to be you." She looks up from her tray of food. "Gross. Whatever." She scoffs.

The two wait until that night. Soap gets to the watch tower first and she takes the opportunity, heading up the stairs. Layla stays at the bottom of the stairs just in case.

She wants to stop you at the bottom and give Sarah enough time to do what she needs to do.

"Uh.. something wrong?" You ask. You startle her, she hadn't been paying attention. "Shit! You scared me. No- no nothing is wrong. I just really needed to ask you a question and it couldn't wait." Her response is fast and it has you narrowing your eyes. "What is it?"

"It's... uhh." She pauses, trying to come up with something on the fly. "Look.. about you and Soap..."

"Jesus Layla, I've already starting retracting from him, I really just want this all behind us." You groan, pushing passed her. "Wait!" She grasps your hand. "What is going on? Why are you stalling to keep me down here?" You tear your arm out of her grasp and move further up the stairs but she's hot on your tail. "She's testing him!"

You pause right outside the door. "What?"

"She's going to hit on him to see if he'd cave. Y/N we don't want you to get hurt by him.” She says. "Jesus Christ." You reach for the handle but pause when you hear Soap.

"Sarah, I'm not interested okay? I've told you like 3 times now. I... I like Y/N. And I'm sure she wouldn't like knowing that you're doing this. Because I respect her enough, the moment she comes through those doors I'll tell her." He takes a step back.

You and Layla can hear it on the other side of the door but she tries to stop you as you reach for the door again.

"Oh come on John. You'd be stupid to pass this up." Her voice is low and she's trying to sound sexy. They hear shuffling inside. "You need to leave me alone. I... I love Y/N. You and Layla can believe it or not but I do and I'm done with whatever this is. Back off before I make you."

You shove the door open. "That's enough!" You yell.

Soap and Sarah jump. "What the fuck is the deal?"

"Did you put them up to this?" He asks. "Of course I didn't put them up to this, I'm not fucking crazy." The swears leaving your lips have everyone in the room startled. "I don't know what the obsession is with you two trying to protect me from Soap when it's none of your business!"

"We just don't want you to give your V card to him because he's a fucking loser Y/N!" Layla calls back.

"I already had sex with him!"

The rooms falls quiet.

Their eyes are wide and even Soap is completely baffled. "I already gave him my virginity. I already slept with him, we've had sex multiple times." You have your arms crossed. Scolding them like a mother scolds her kids. "Seriously? Why didn't you lead with that?" Sarah hisses. "Because you both have been acting crazy."

"You.. you love her? You had sex with her and you still like her..?" Layla and Sarah turn to Soap. He looks away. "Yeah. I do. Maybe if you both had given it a chance you would've seen it." He sighs. "I just threw myself at him and he didn't take the bait. I think that's enough for me." Sarah shrugs her shoulders.

"Give us some space please." You sigh.

"Okay.. We owe you a huge apology Y/N. We had no idea." Layla mumbles. "It's fine, we'll talk later." You sigh. They both leave, the moment the door is closed you're locking it behind them. "Those two, my god." You laugh. He starts laughing too. "Yeah, a bit protective." He chuckles. "I'm sorry about that." You roll your eyes.

"It's alright. They're just looking out for you. Hitting on me though, that's a bit crazy."

"Very crazy."

The both of you start laughing, unable to contain it.

"Cat's out of the bag now I guess."

"Yeah, yeah I guess it is." You look up at him. He's beginning to close the distance between the both of you. "You ready to make this official yet or what?" He smirks. "I don't think that that's the way to properly ask a girl out MacTavish."

"I also don't think it was very respectable of you to let me hit it before at least becoming my girlfriend either, Y/L/N." He raises a brow. "Fuck you." You roll your eyes. Playful smile on your lips. "I'll never get used to you cursing like that. It's kind of sexy actually." He leans in, lips right by yours. "Shut up and ask the question Johnny."

"Fine." He laughs.

"Y/N. Will you be my girlfriend? Officially."

"Yes." You laugh. "Thank god." He mumbles, wrapping his arms under your thighs and lifting you up. You wrap your legs around his waist. He pushes you into the wall behind you, you can feel that he's already hard as he presses into you.

"Been waiting weeks to finally hear that lass."

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Trying to deal with the aftermath of your boyfriend cheating on you with your best friend is hard... But it becomes a little easier when the perfect opportunity for revenge suddenly presents itself.

You were done crying over Luke Hughes. Too many tears had been shed the night you broke up, and you refused to shed anymore— even when he was glued to the side of some girl you had never seen before, barely a month after your relationship ended.

It felt impossible to stop staring at the picture. Jack was the one that posted it, Luke wouldn’t dare, not when you still followed him. Or maybe he would, everything you thought you knew about the kind of person he was had been thrown out the window weeks ago.

Jack probably didn’t even realize that Luke was in the background, sitting next to some blonde girl with his arm thrown around her. She’s halfway into his lap and you hold back the urge to scoff.

“Okay, no.” Your phone is promptly snatched from your hand, and before you can react, your best friend has quickly turned it off and slid the phone into her pocket, just out of arm's reach.

“Chelsea—” you sigh, exasperated.

“Absolutely not.” She stares you down with a look that’s eerily similar to that of a mother’s. “I will not allow you to stare at this picture and wallow in self pity while Luke Hughes is out there sticking his dick into anything that moves.”

“Don’t say his name.” You sink further into your bed, pulling up the hood of your too-big hoodie that had been stolen from your brother’s closet long ago.

“I can’t believe you still follow him, and his brothers.” Chelsea shakes her head, speaking up again before you have a chance to defend yourself. “He’s lucky I haven’t strangled him already, especially after what he did.”

The reason behind your break up still lingers, and no matter how much you wish you could forget about it, you seem to be reminded of it at every corner. At least it was summer, and you wouldn't be subjected to seeing Luke Hughes every time you walked around campus.

Your eyes drift over to the cluster of pictures that decorates the space above your desk. There are noticeable gaps, empty squares of white that stick out like a sore thumb against the colorful collage.

There had been photos there, ones of you and the girl that was supposed to be your best friend since kindergarten, ones of you and Luke throughout your relationship, until you ripped them down with tears in your eyes.

Even now it was still hard to believe that she could do that to you, that they could do that to you. It makes your body heave with exhaustion. You were so tired of feeling like this, so tired of the ache that ran rampant across your heart.

So tired of being the only one heartbroken meanwhile Luke was off in New Jersey with his brother having what seemed to be the time of his life.

The sound of running water from the bathroom stopped, and you could hear as Luke stepped out of the shower. Right as he did, a ding! From his phone caught your attention.

“Luke!” You called out, “you got a text.”

“Will you read it for me?” He asked, voice muffled from behind the door.

Without responding, you lean over from your spot on his bed, reaching for his phone that’s face down against the nightstand. The screen lights up as you turn it over. The name that pops up on the screen makes you furrow your brows. Why was she texting Luke?

You type his password in before clicking on the message. Your face drops, and you can feel your heart beating so loudly in your chest that you can’t hear Luke call out your name from behind the bathroom door.

It doesn’t register in your head the first time you read it, you have to read it a second time, and even then it's hard to believe what the words on the screen say.

“I know we’ve already talked about this and you don’t want to tell her but she deserves to know. I know you said that you guys were on a break, but it never should’ve happened. We never should’ve slept together and I feel horrible about it. So either tell her about it or I will.”

When Luke calls out your name for a second time, you hear it. He’s standing in the doorway of the bathroom, a towel wrapped around his waist.

He scrunches his face in confusion. “What’s wrong?”

You don’t say anything, can’t bring yourself to. Instead, you stand up, phone in hand before shoving it into his chest. He stumbles, clearly taken aback by it.

Luke’s brows furrow before taking a look at what’s on his phone that has you so upset. His face drops, and then the yelling starts.

“You don’t unders—”

“I swear to God, Luke, if you try and come up with an excuse right now I’m going to slap the shit out of you.” Your jaw clenched, a futile attempt to hold back the tears that are beginning to well up and blur your vision ever so slightly.

You can’t even look at him, can’t stand the pleading look in his eyes. Though, it’s hard to tell whether he actually feels guilty about it, or if he’s just sorry he got caught. Everything you thought you knew about the kind of person he was feels different now.

“Just let me explain.”

Tears are falling down your cheeks at this point, but even now you can’t help but scoff. “Explain? Explain what?”

“How you fucked my best friend— a girl I’ve known since we were kids, and didn’t even have the decency to tell me.” The way Luke lowers his head, casting his eyes downward in shame does nothing but set you off. “Explain how I had to find out through a text?”

“Were you even going to tell me?

The question is followed by silence, which is an answer in itself. Luke won’t look at you, even though he’s the one who did it. He’s the one that made that decision, and he won’t even take accountability for it.

“When did it happen?” You ask, and it makes Luke look up at you, face scrunched in confusion, like he couldn’t possibly understand why you would want to know the details of him sleeping with another girl.

It takes him a moment to gather his words. “Uh, it was over spring break, when I was in New Jersey.”

The room goes silent as you process what he’s told you. Your voice cracks when you finally speak up again. “This happened almost two months ago?”

Luke takes a moment to respond. “We were on a break, I didn’t think it was worth mention—”

You attempt a scoff. “Just because we were on a break doesn‘t give you the right to sleep with someone else, and the fact that you didn’t think it was worth mentioning is… astounding.”

You search his face for any sign of guilt, and if it’s there you can’t seem to find it. He doesn’t say anything else. Doesn’t apologize, doesn’t beg for forgiveness, just stands and stares at you, like this whole situation is just an inconvenience for him.

The sudden urge to leave washes over you, unable to look at Luke any longer. Before you know it, you’re grabbing all of your things, but Luke is quick to try and stop you.

“Come on, don’t leave, can’t we just—” he goes to grab your arm, but you yank yourself out of his grasp, tears still streaming down your face.

“No, Luke! We can’t do anything about this, there’s no coming back from sleeping with my best friend.” Your tone is accusatory, and you can’t bring yourself to stand there any longer, not caring about anything else that could possibly come from Luke Hughes’s mouth. You’re almost to the door when you realize that there’s one more thing you want to get off your chest.

“I would’ve never done this to you.”

That was the last time you’d seen him. You’d gone straight home that night, letting Chelsea comfort you while you cried yourself to sleep. Luke brought your stuff over a few days later, per Chelsea’s request.

You refused to talk to him, even after he blew your phone up with messages, though none of them were an apology. He tried to talk Chelsea into letting him into your apartment so he could talk to you, but she was quick to slam the door in his face.

When Hailey texted you, however, you were torn. Explaining that she was upset with how you found out and that it shouldn’t have been that way. Apologizing that it ever happened in the first place. You couldn’t bring yourself to respond.

Which brings you to now, coping with the aftermath that comes from no longer having a boyfriend or a best friend in your life.

It’s two weeks before the start of your junior year, and you’re sitting on the couch watching a movie with Chelsea when you get a text. It makes you furrow your brows and you nudge Chelsea with your elbow, angling your phone so she can look at the screen.

She turns to you with a puzzled expression. “Why is Mark Estapa texting you?”

You shrug your shoulders. “I know they’re already back at school, so he must've just told them we broke up. I don’t know why Mark would be texting me about it though.”

Right as you finish your sentence, another text from him comes through, one that makes your eyebrows shoot to the sky.

Hey, sorry to hear about you and Luke.

Feel free to hit me up if you ever need anything.

The two of you turn to look at each other, Chelsea with a hand over her mouth in an attempt to stifle a laugh. No words are able to come out of your mouth when she takes your phone from you. She reads the text over again.

“Feel free to hit me up if you ever need anything?” Her mouth is agape, rereading the text once again like she can’t believe what she’s seeing. Chelsea laughs. “Oh, he wants you.”

You roll your eyes, reaching up to try and take your phone back but she holds it just out of reach. “No, he does not. He’s just being nice.”

Chelsea gives you a look. “No guy texts his homeboy’s ex after they break up just to be nice.”

The corner of your mouth quirks up, shaking your head at the girl, but the fun quickly ends when you realize she’s typing something. “Chelsea, what are you doing?”

She smirks and by the time you finally snatch your phone back to see what she’s doing, a text back has already been sent. Your jaw drops when you read what she’s written.

“I appreciate that, maybe I will, winky-face.” Your eyes went round, just completely astounded. You groaned. “Chelsea, he’s already seen it, what am I gonna do?”

“Well,” she starts, and you already know you’re not going to like what she has to say. “You could just fuck him.”

You swear your head has never whipped around so fast. “Chelsea!”

“What?” She laughs, shrugging her shoulders as if what she just said wasn’t at all out of pocket. “Come on, think about it. It’s like, the perfect way to get back at that dick.”

You sink further into the couch, glancing up to stare at your friend. “How is sleeping with one of his friends going to make this any better?”

Chelsea grins. “You wouldn’t be sleeping with just his friend, Mark’s like one of his best friends. They literally live together, could you imagine the look on Luke’s face if he saw you there with Mark?”

You cross your arms over your chest, waiting for her to keep going, but suddenly an expression crosses her face. You squinted at Chelsea, not liking the way her eyes twinkled with mischief.

“I have an idea.”

“No.”

She promptly ignores you, adjusting her seat on the couch so she’s cross legged and facing you completely. “What if you got with all of them?”

You blinked. “All of who?”

“Luke’s friends.”

An incredulous look crosses your face. “Do you know how many friends Luke has?”

Chelsea lets out an exasperated sigh. “I don’t mean like every single one of his friends, just the ones he’s really close with. You know, like Mark and the rest of their group. It would be the perfect way to get revenge.”

Suddenly, you realize exactly who she means. “They’re not going to get with their best friend’s ex-girlfriend, they wouldn’t do that to him.”

“Mark would.” Chelsea smirked. When you didn’t immediately speak up to disagree she kept going.

You open your mouth to speak up, but promptly close it, letting Chelsea continue her ramble. She did have a point, but you were still unsure. Doing this just kind of felt exactly what he did to you, and you meant what you said; that you would’ve never done that to him. You understood that the circumstances were different, of course, you and Luke were no longer together so it wasn’t exactly what he did to you.

You went back and forth in a mental debate before finally shaking your head. “I don’t think so, Chelsea. I just… at this point the last thing I want to think about is Luke. All I want to do is move on from this whole thing.”

Chelsea sighed, folding her hands in her lap. “Okay. If that’s what you want, then I won’t bring it up again.”

Reaching over, you grabbed her hand, squeezing it gently. “Thank you.”

As promised, she didn’t bring it up again for the rest of the night, and by the time you woke up in the morning, you’d almost forgotten all about it. It was around midday, though, when you found yourself scrolling on Instagram that you saw it.

You shoot straight up, elbows no longer resting on the counter top like they were previously, and for the first time since the break up you find yourself angry, rather than upset. You screenshot the picture and zoom in, making sure you’re not just seeing things.

You’re not.

You scoff, it’s a picture of Luke and some girl, his arm around her shoulders, but that’s not what has you upset. It's what she’s wearing, a necklace around her neck that’s yours. The one you were so upset about when you couldn’t find it because it meant so much to you.

You send the screenshot to Chelsea, typing out a message to go with it.

I take back what I said.

I want to get revenge.

— hope you guys enjoyed the intro, and if you did then there’s more where that came from

— i don’t have a set schedule for when i’m going to be updating, i am a college student so i’m pretty busy but i will try and get chapters out as quick as i can

— with that being said, remember my inbox is always open, feel free to ask me any thing you want to about the series (i’ll try and answer without spoiling anything as best i can) or if you just want to chat that’s okay too :)

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mikanotes · 1 day ago

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heavenly way to,

hyunju x gn!reader

genre: angst comfort, established relationship. » warnings: death, blood, mentions of injuries, murder, firearms, canon divergence. » note: yes i’m back to writing for the series that basically started this blog. hello! i love her.

synopsis: Is sacrifice for your lover a gift to be grateful for, or a burden worth being cursed for? The thought grows heavy on your mind the longer you spend in the games.

“Why?”

Hyunju’s voice has never sounded so broken. She’s too astounded to even think of not letting her guard down, simply weak and vulnerable as she stares up at you. The shake in that one word, the sickening concern in her eyes— It almost makes you regret what just happened.

Almost.

“Because I care about you more than—”

“Nevermind…” she scoffs, eyes widening. She presses her lips together but it doesn’t stop the tremble of a sob waiting to escape her throat. Her gaze averts to a wall in the dormitory, silently putting a stop to whatever you were going to say.

You decide to give her space.

The bathrooms are empty, leaving you silence and space for thinking. You look at your reflection in the mirror, the blood on your face and neck. You did not kill anyone. You assured your safety. You did not kill someone. They were a problem. The thought repeats steadily in your mind as you turn on the faucet, letting water flow into your palms.

It’s as if you can see the overflowing blood on your hands, still. That player you fought to throw out of that room, the sight of the bullet shooting through their head once the door finally locked, the weight of their grip of the other the side of the handle loosening until a thud confirmed the end of a life. But they were in the spot she needed. You could not risk it. What if she had died? It was only right.

The blood washes off. The thought remains. You aren’t sure how long you spend staring at the mirror, barely even really looking at your reflection. You just know you’re asked to return to the dormitory, and that you go to bed, then the lights turn off.

You think Hyunju hates you.

You thought she would come to hate you here over trying to protect her, maybe. Now you realize, now that the blood is there, that she could simply hate you for taking away someone’s life— Even if indirectly. It makes sense to hate a now-murderer.

Yes.

Then, if she hates you, you’ll be able to sacrifice yourself for her sake if need be without wondering how well she’ll take the loss—

“Don’t just disappear.” A familiar soft voice speaks behind you. Hyunju’s arms circle around your waist and her head presses gently into your nape. She’s so warm. You almost forget your train of thoughts.

Once it comes back to you, your expression pulls into confusion. “Sorry,” you whisper, “I didn’t think you would mind.”

“Were you trying to give me space?”

“Yeah.”

She sighs, but hugs you tighter. “Because I was angry? Angry that you got yourself in so much unnecessary danger for my sake? Try making some sense.”

Your body relaxes into her hold before you even realize it, and soon, you’re turning over to look at her. She just seems a bit sad. Your hand slowly moves to her face and cradles her cheek, caressing the skin with care. “I pushed someone straight to their death and you’re telling me you were mad because I was in danger?”

She doesn’t respond, simply pursing her lips. A silent yeah. Exactly that.

“In danger? Me?”

“One second off and they could’ve switched you out of the room. And then I would have been alone with someone who practically killed you. And that would have been it. No more you at all,” she explains, and her voice begins shaking, “No more— I wouldn’t see your face anymore, wouldn’t have you with me, wouldn’t have the knowledge you’re there for me when life fucks me over— Think about it, come on.”

She’s trying so hard not to cry and stay quiet you wonder how much it must hurt. So you were wrong. It isn’t at all that person’s death that made her look at you this way. It’s somehow even worse.

You turn fully to return her embrace, hugging her firmly and kissing her forehead. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t risk dying for me.”

“I’m sorry.”

She hides her face in your neck. “I love you.”

She says it with every single fiber of her being. After all, her touch, her tears, her words before this— They’re all marks of love. You feel her hand brushing over your arm, an injury you earned yourself during that game. She traces it gently and you think you could never promise her not to die for her.

“I love you too.”

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ladykailitha · 2 days ago

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The Au Pair Boy Part 11

Hello! And welcome back. You'll be happy to note that this story is now marked complete. It will have a total of 15 chapters that will be released here every Thursday! So I hope you enjoy the ride.

In this we have Steve adjusting to Eddie being home and Hopper runs afoul a creature.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10

Steve was adjusting to life with Eddie with some difficulty. Since Eddie did most of his work from home, Steve would turn a corner to do the laundry and be surprised to see someone else in the house.

“You had Chrissy and Wayne here for two weeks each,” Eddie huffed with a amusement the third time it happened. “How are you still surprised to see me?”

Steve’s face turned bright red with embarrassment. “I don’t know. I’d guess that it was because they tended to stay to the guest wing part of this massive house and you don’t.” Eddie raised an eyebrow. “Not that you have to or anything! Just an observation. I’ll get used to it! I promise!”

Eddie chuckled. “I’m not going to lie, having you here sometimes startles me too. I spent nearly a year with just me and the girls and now the house is teeming with people and it’s a bit of a shock to the system.”

“Oh!” Steve cried. “Yeah, I guess it would be. Do you like it better with people or without?”

Eddie smiled that sweet fond smile that melted Steve’s insides every time. But they were extra melty because that was the first time Steve had seen it aimed at him and he felt warm all over.

“Oh it’s definitely better with people,” he murmured. “Especially knowing that you hand picked everyone and would have never picked someone you didn’t trust. You also somehow managed to make the D&D room something other than a shrine to my past. People play in there now. And it’s all thanks to you.”

Steve blushed, ducking his head. “You’re welcome. I just did what you asked me to do, to find people I could work with and that’s what I did. I’m just glad it all worked out for you.”

Just then the girls came barreling through the hall like a herd of elephants.

Eddie and Steve shared a glance and then Steve dropped the laundry basket and they both took off after the girls. They chased them through the house until they were cornered in the kitchen.

“Joanie,” Eddie said darkly, “Janie, you were supposed to be napping.”

Both girls looked at each other then at Eddie and Steve who both had their hands on their hips and crumpled. Joan started with the water works first and then Janice.

Eddie and Steve shared an exasperated glance and eye roll, then Eddie picked up Joan and Steve picked up Janice.

“See how tired you are?” Steve murmured as he rocked Janice back and forth. “You’re crying because you need sleep but you’re fighting it.”

“Come on,” Eddie said gently. “I’ll read you a story for your nap so that you can go to sleep. But just this once. This is what Steve is here for. To take care of you while Daddy works, okay?”

Both girls nodded. But in the end Eddie hadn’t needed to read a story to them because halfway up the stairs, Joan fell asleep and at the top, Janice followed suit. Steve and Eddie carefully tucked them into bed, stuff animals piled up around them as fierce guardians. Eddie slipped out first and then Steve, turning the light off behind him.

As Eddie and Steve walked down the stairs trying to be as quiet as possible, they only were able to breathe once they had reached the bottom.

“I’d put them in their own rooms,” Eddie said with an exasperated huff, “if I didn’t know that they would be sneaking into each others rooms anyway.”

Steve licked his upper lip, nodding, “Oh yeah. But they’re also getting to the point where they’re starting to form their own thoughts and opinions and realizing that they don’t match up to their twin.”

Eddie pursed his lips. “Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”

“Ain’t that the truth,” Steve said, sighing. “Oh, I wanted to let you know that Dustin called, they’re moving the game to Saturday from their usual Thursdays, Lucas is trying out for the basketball team and they’re all going out to support him.”

“I’ll be sure to let the guys know,” Eddie said. “I’m sure it’ll be fine. It’s not like we’re partying or going out drinking on the weekend anymore.”

“God,” Steve said shaking his head. “I remember my frat boys days and it is not something I care to repeat.”

“When did you go to school?” Eddie asked, “I thought it was the circus and nannying?”

“There was about two years where I decided to get an associate’s degree in early child development,” Steve said with a shrug, “and applying at my dad’s former fraternity helped pay for the education.”

“Wow.”

He shook his head. “I was also nannying for a couple where they only needed me on the week days to make sure someone was home and the kid fed before they got off work.”

“Was that the weird taxidermists?” Eddie asked with a grin.

“That would be them,” Steve replied with his own answering grin. “It got me through college and gave me free weekends to blow my liver out.”

“God,” Eddie said, flopping on the sofa, “I remember those days. Before I met and married Ethan.”

“How did you two meet?” Steve asked, sitting next to Eddie.

“Some award show,” Eddie said, rubbing his eyebrow. “Not the Grammy’s, I’d remember that. Teen Choice Awards or the VMAs. Something like that where it was a mix of models, movie stars, and musicians. And he was the most beautiful thing I’d ever laid my eyes on. He had sea green eyes, coal black hair and a single dimple in his left cheek. I wanted. And the bastard made me chase him. And I did. I think that should have been my first sign he didn’t care for me like I did for him.”

“I’m sorry,” Steve said scooting closer to him. He took his hand into his and rubbed his thumb back and forth. “I’m sure there were too many signs to count but because he played happy to the hilt you believed it, because you were happy.”

Eddie scoffed. “Sounds like you’re talking from experience there. Any skeletons in the closet you keep your exes?”

“Loads,” Steve said with a snort. “I don’t date much because usually I’m up to my eyeballs in kiddos, but there have been some absolute chunkers of walking red flags in there. Men and women both. They all seemed to wander in search of other people some times breaking up with me first, but not always. But the unending refrain of why never changed. I was too much... of everything I guess.”

Eddie covered Steve’s hand with his other hand. “I don’t think there is anything you could do that would make me think that of you.”

Steve smiled back. “That’s kind of you.”

The back door bang open and there was a lot of swearing, forcing the two men to jump out of their skins, but somehow not apart.

“Those God damned critters!” Hopper cursed. “When I get my hands on them, I’ll skin them alive!”

Steve and Eddie shared a glance before they both got to their feet and followed the sound of cursing to where the house kept their garbage bins on the days it wasn’t out on the curb. Two of the three cans had been tipped over and riffled through. Hopper, the groundskeeper was standing over top of them with his hand on his hips glaring down at the mess.

“Oooh,” Eddie hissed. “What happened here, chief?”

Hopper looked up at them in confusion as if he had forgotten the house populated at all. He blinked a moment. “I didn’t wake the girls did I?”

Steve shook his head. “It would take a sonic boom going off near their heads to wake them once they’ve actually fallen asleep.”

Eddie chuckled, “They’re like their dad that way.”

Hopper breathed out a sigh of relief. “I was worried I had woken up the littles. As to what happened, raccoons is what happened. They get into the trash and just fuck it up.”

“How do you know it’s raccoons?” Steve asked cocking his head to the side. “Couldn’t it have just been someone messing around or even vagrants?”

Jim rubbed his chin. “Could be, but I used to do security on one of the neighborhood houses.” he said wearily, “and they were having raccoon problems. They put locks on the garbage bins and that was that. I’d suggest you do the same.”

Steve nodded. “And if it’s the other two, the lock would fix both problems as well.”

“Eehhh...” Eddie said with a wince. “If my cleaners were anything other than a single mom and her fifteen year old daughter, then I’d agree with the lock and move on. But aren’t there other things we can try first, like those bear proof bins at Yellowstone or whatever?”

“You’ve been to Yellowstone?” Steve asked tilting his head to the side. “I wouldn’t have thought you were the outdoorsy type.”

“Yup!” Eddie said with a bright smile, rocking back on his heels. “Wayne and I used to travel to all the national parks before I had the girls. We plan are starting back up next year or the one after now that they aren’t babes in arms anymore.”

“I’ll look into get some,” Hopper said clearing his throat so their attention was back at the matter at hand. “See if I can find some approved by the county. I’ve got a friend who’s a wildlife rescuer. Maybe he can loan me some traps so we get the critter some place safer.”

Eddie nodded. “Thank you. I’m sure the girls would appreciate knowing that the animal isn’t going to be harmed.”

Hopper got a twisted sort of smile. “Had a little girl myself once, I know how tenderhearted they can be.”

“I’m sorry for your loss,” Steve murmured, noting the past tense of that statement.

Hopper cocked his head and then shook it ruefully. “Pastor says she’s in better place, ain’t sure if I believe that anymore.”

“I hear that,” Eddie said, “I felt the same way when my mom died. Everyone was telling eight year old me that she was in a better place. When I thought the best place she could be was with me.”

Hopper nodded. “I get to it. I didn’t mean to startle you. Have a good day.” Then he wandered off to find garbage bags to clean up the mess.

“Grumpy, old man,” Eddie said fondly. “He’s good at his job though. How did you entice him away from his other job?”

Steve grinned. “I told him that he could live on the property rent free and be left alone for the most part.”

Eddie threw back is head and laughed. “That would do it all right. And it’s not like I don’t get wanting to be left the fuck alone. He does his job and his does it well. Ten of ten, no complaints from me.”

“I really should get back to doing the laundry,” Steve said jutting his thumb behind him to inside the house.”

Eddie checked his watch. “And I’ve got a Zoom meeting with some weirdo nu metal band who wants me to produce their album. Lord save me from Nu Metal!”

Steve just shook his head and the two of them went inside. Maybe living with Eddie wasn’t as hard as he thought it was.

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writeriguess · 2 days ago

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Starlit Promises // Sylus x fem!reader

author's note: this was just something my sister and I wrote while playing lnds together.

The low hum of the ship’s engine was the only sound in the dimly lit common room as Sylus stormed in, his crimson eyes blazing. His silver hair caught the faint glow of the overhead lights, messy from the way he’d been raking his fingers through it in frustration. The usual cool, detached aura he exuded was gone, replaced by an edge of agitation that had every crewmate present sitting up and paying attention.

He threw himself onto the nearest chair, sprawling out in his typical, effortlessly confident way, but the way he clenched his jaw betrayed him. Sylus wasn’t a man who let his emotions show—except now, they poured out of him in the form of a sharp, humorless laugh.

“She ran,” he said, his deep voice low and rough, like he was forcing the words out. “She just… ran.”

Rafayel, leaning lazily against the counter, arched a brow. “Ran? From you? That doesn’t sound right.”

Sylus shot him a look, his crimson eyes flashing with irritation. “Oh, it’s right. I got down on one knee like a damn fool, poured my heart out to her, and she bolted. Not a word. Not a glance back. Nothing.” He gestured vaguely with his hand, his usual composure cracking under the weight of his frustration.

Zayne smirked, perched on the armrest of a nearby chair. “Damn, Sylus. I didn’t think anyone could say no to you.”

“Neither did I,” Sylus muttered, leaning forward and bracing his elbows on his knees. He stared at the floor, his silver hair falling into his eyes as he added bitterly, “Guess I was wrong.”

“Maybe she didn’t say no,” Xavier suggested, his tone measured.

Sylus scoffed, leaning back in his chair and slinging one arm over the backrest. “What else could it mean? You don’t run away from someone you want to marry. She didn’t even let me finish.”

“She’s never been good at dealing with big emotions,” Caleb said quietly, his voice calm as always.

Sylus’s eyes narrowed. “So what are you saying? That I overwhelmed her? Scared her off?” He stood abruptly, his presence as commanding as ever despite the turmoil roiling inside him. “I thought I was giving her what she wanted. She’s the one who talked about building a future, about finding something real in this mess of a galaxy.” His voice dropped, quieter now. “I thought we were on the same page.”

“You don’t know what she’s feeling right now,” Rafayel said evenly. “Maybe she’s sorting through it. You’ve got to give her the chance to explain.”

Sylus shook his head, frustration etched into every line of his face. “Explain what? That I’m an idiot for thinking I could be enough for her? That she deserves someone better?”

“No,” Zayne cut in, his smirk softening into something almost reassuring. “That she loves you so much it scared the hell out of her. Running doesn’t mean she doesn’t care, Sylus. It might mean the opposite.”

For a moment, Sylus didn’t reply. He turned toward the window, his broad shoulders tense as he stared out into the black expanse of space. The faint starlight highlighted the sharp lines of his face, making him look every bit the rogue captain he was—strong, untouchable, and utterly alone.

“She wouldn’t just run like that,” he said finally, his voice barely above a whisper. But the doubt lingered, hanging heavy in the air.

Meanwhile, you were holed up in your quarters, pacing back and forth like a caged animal. Your chest was tight, your mind a chaotic mess as you replayed the moment over and over in your head.

Sylus, on one knee. The stars framing him like some kind of dream. His crimson eyes, usually sharp and full of confidence, softening in a way you’d never seen before. And then… the words.

“Marry me.”

It had been too much. Too overwhelming. You hadn’t even realized your feet were moving until you were halfway down the corridor, your heart pounding so loudly you couldn’t hear anything else.

Now, the weight of your reaction sat heavy in your chest. You hadn’t meant to run. You hadn’t even thought. The truth was, you were so overwhelmed with happiness that it felt like your mind short-circuited. And instead of staying, instead of giving him the answer that had been burning on your lips, you panicked.

You stopped pacing, your hands clutching the edge of the desk as you stared down at the communicator lying there. The thought of facing him after what you’d done made your stomach twist, but you couldn’t let this misunderstanding fester. He needed to know the truth.

With trembling hands, you picked up the communicator and sent a single message: Meet me on the observation deck.

Sylus was still standing by the window when his communicator buzzed. He glanced at it, and the moment he saw your name, his heart lurched.

“What’s it say?” Zayne asked, leaning forward with interest.

Sylus ignored him, his jaw tightening as he read the message. Without a word, he turned on his heel and strode out of the room, leaving his crewmates exchanging knowing glances.

The observation deck was quiet, the stars beyond the glass casting the space in a pale, ethereal glow. You stood near the window, your hands fidgeting nervously as you waited for him.

When the door slid open, your breath hitched. Sylus stepped in, his presence commanding as always, but there was a guarded look in his crimson eyes, a tension in his usually fluid movements. He stopped a few steps away from you, crossing his arms over his chest.

“You wanted to talk?” he asked, his voice cool, though there was a flicker of vulnerability beneath it.

You swallowed hard, forcing yourself to meet his gaze. “I owe you an apology.”

His eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn’t say anything, waiting for you to continue.

“I didn’t run because I didn’t want to marry you,” you said, your voice shaking slightly. “I ran because I was overwhelmed. I wasn’t expecting it, and when you said those words, I felt so… so happy, I didn’t know what to do. My brain just… shut down.”

Sylus blinked, his guarded expression faltering. “Happy?”

“Yes,” you said, stepping closer to him. “Sylus, I love you. And I want to marry you. I’ve never wanted anything more in my life.”

For a moment, he just stared at you, his crimson eyes searching yours as if trying to determine whether or not to believe you. Then, his lips curved into a slow, almost cocky smirk.

“You’ve got a hell of a way of showing it,” he said, his voice low and teasing, though there was an unmistakable warmth in his tone now.

You let out a soft laugh, relief flooding through you. “I know. I’m sorry. I panicked.”

Sylus stepped closer, his hand reaching out to tilt your chin up so you were looking directly into his eyes. “Next time, don’t run. I’m not exactly the kind of guy who handles being left hanging well.”

You nodded, your heart pounding as his thumb brushed lightly against your jaw. “There won’t be a next time. I promise.”

“Good,” he murmured, leaning down until his forehead was resting against yours. His crimson eyes softened, and the smirk faded into something more genuine. “Because I wasn’t kidding when I said I want forever with you.”

“Forever,” you whispered, your voice trembling with emotion.

And when he kissed you, it felt like the stars themselves were aligning just for the two of you.

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Her Heartbeat; Chapter 22: Her Heartbeat.

Parings: Wednesday x Fem reader. Wordcount: 11.5k.

Summary: You changed Wednesday's heartbeat forever.

Warnings: Angst or No Angst?

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Wednesday stood still, her dark, hollow eyes fixated on it...

On your name... carved into the smooth, cold surface.

The weight of the world pressed down on her shoulders, and yet, the world itself felt unbearably empty. Her hands trembled ever so slightly as she reached out, fingertips ghosting over the etched stone.

God, she missed you too much already.

She had always known this moment would come, had braced herself for it from the very beginning, but it didn’t matter. Nothing could prepare her for the weight of this emptiness.

The flowers in her hand were black roses, your favorite, the ones you said reminded you of her, resilient, beautiful, and worth everything, you had said.

She knelt down, brushing her fingers over the soft petals before setting them at the base of the headstone.

Behind her, a voice broke the heavy silence.

“Grandma Wednesday, how was Grandma Y/N?”

Wednesday didn’t turn around. Her dark eyes stayed fixed on your name, the corners of her lips twitching upward in the faintest hint of a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes. “She was…She was everything.”

It had been a good 62 years, with you…

“The surgery was successful.”

For a moment, Wednesday didn’t move. The words reached her ears, but they felt distant, muffled, as if she were hearing them underwater, she couldn’t process them. It didn’t feel real. It couldn’t be real. Fate had a cruel sense of humor, always snatching away what she loved most. Her mind repeated the doctor’s words over and over, trying to convince herself they were real.

She didn’t even register Enid’s arm wrapping around her shoulders until the warmth of the embrace seeped through her. It was a strange feeling—light and fragile, like something inside her had shifted, broken apart and rebuilt itself all at once.

All she could feel was the thundering of her own heartbeat,

You were alive.

She barely registered the doctor’s additional words, something about being able to see you after a few hours. It was as if the room had been muted, and all she could focus on was the singular fact that you were still here.

Time dragged on and yet moved too quickly. Minutes blurred into hours as she waited, her patience hanging by a thread. And then, finally, she was led to the room where you rested.

The sight of you made her knees almost give out.

You were there. Alive. Awake. The sight of you made her legs almost give out. You were pale, fragile-looking, but your eyes—those eyes that haunted her dreams—were open and staring at her with a soft, tired smile.

“Hey, Angry Bird,” you said, your voice weak but carrying that familiar tease.

Her feet moved before she realized what she was doing. In a matter of seconds, she was at your bedside, her hands reaching out to grasp yours. She didn’t care about appearances, didn’t care about keeping up her usual mask. Tears welled up in her eyes, but she didn’t care about that either.

“You’re…” She swallowed hard, her voice unsteady. “You’re okay.”

Your smile was soft, tired. “ You are not getting rid of me that easy."

The corner of her mouth twitched, a ghost of a smile. “You have an infuriating tendency to make me worry.”

Your fingers tightened around hers, the faintest squeeze. “Worth it, though. If it means I get to see you like this.”

“Like what?”

“Soft.”

Wednesday’s gaze darkened, but there was no real anger behind it. “I could smother you with your pillow right now.”

“Wouldn’t be the worst way to go,” you teased, your smile weak but radiant.

“You’re insufferable.” she said.

"I love you too." you said.

Her chest tightened, a mix of frustration and overwhelming relief flooding her system. “I wanted to protect you,” she admitted, her voice breaking. “But you made your choice. And you… you survived.”

“Because of you,” you said simply. “You gave me the strength to fight. You gave me everything, Wednesday.”

She didn’t know what to say to that. Words felt inadequate, too small to convey the depth of what she was feeling. So instead, she leaned down, pressing her forehead gently against yours.

And she realized she could wish.

She could wish for you.

And she would.

Wednesday walked beside you, her hand brushing yours with every other step, though she never quite reached for it.

It had been a week since you left the hospital, a week since you proved to the universe that you were stronger than anyone had ever given you credit for.

And yet, Wednesday couldn’t help the way her dark eyes would flit to you every few seconds, as though to confirm you were truly there, walking beside her.

In your hand, you held the diary. That diary. The one that had started this journey, that had changed her in ways she still struggled to articulate.

It was an object so small, yet it held the power to shatter her walls and force her to confront emotions she never believed she could feel.

Now it held an almost sacred place in her mind. It wasn’t just your story anymore; it was their story.

But it would all be over soon. The bucket list that had been her compass for months was coming to an end. It should have been a relief—proof that you were safe, that you had survived—but instead, it felt like losing something precious. It had connected her to you in ways she never expected, and now… now, it was slipping away.

“Wednesday?” Your voice broke through her spiraling thoughts, soft and tentative.

She turned her head slightly, meeting your gaze. “Yes?”

“You’re quiet,” you said with a small smile, though the concern in your eyes was impossible to miss.

“I’m always quiet,” she replied.

You chuckled softly. “Not like this.”

Wednesday’s fingers twitched at her sides, itching to reach for you, to feel the solidity of your hand in hers and remind herself that you were here, that this was real. But instead, she drew in a breath, “I’m fine,” she said, though the words felt like a lie.

You didn’t press her, but your gaze lingered on her, and she could feel the weight of your concern.

When the two of you finally reached your special place, the fireflies danced in the air like tiny embers, illuminating the clearing in soft, golden light. Wednesday watched your face light up at the sight, your lips parting in a quiet gasp of awe. It was the same expression you wore everytime you came here, as if seeing it for the first time.

You turned to her, holding out the diary with both hands. “I want you to do it,” you said quietly.

Her brow furrowed. “Do what?”

“Tick it off,” you said, nodding toward the diary. “The last one.”

Her brow furrowed. “Why?”

“You’ve been with me through all of this. You made everything on this list possible. It’s only right that you finish it.”

Wednesday stared at the diary as if it might burn her fingers. Slowly, almost hesitantly, she reached out and took it from your hands.

She opened it, flipping through the pages, her dark eyes scanning the wishes that had already been fulfilled. Each one was a memory, a moment she would carry with her forever.

And then she found it.

“Save a life.”

Her fingers twitched as you handed her the pen, the small object feeling heavier than it had any right to be.

Her hand hovered over the page, the tip of the pen poised above the box. Her throat tightened, and she swallowed hard, willing herself to focus. This wasn’t just a checkmark; it was a symbol of everything you had survived together. Of the nights spent wondering if you’d see the next sunrise, of the fears she’d never admitted aloud, of the love she had fought so hard to protect.

And then, she drew the line, completing the small, simple mark. But as she did, a wave of emotions crashed over her, threatening to drown her in their intensity. Relief. Gratitude. Joy. And beneath it all, a gnawing sense of emptiness she couldn’t quite shake.

You were safe now. You didn’t need her to protect you anymore. The thought should have been comforting, but instead, it left her feeling untethered, like a part of her purpose had been taken away.

“There,” she said, her voice quieter than she intended. “It’s done.”

You smiled, reaching out to squeeze her hand. “Thank you, Wednesday. For everything.”

You had kept your promise,

And now, it was her turn.

Wednesday reached into the pocket of her coat, pulling out a small, leather-bound notebook. She held it out to you.

You blinked at it, confused. “What’s this?”

“Open it.”

Her voice was calm, but there was something underneath it—a vulnerability that made your fingers tremble slightly as you took the notebook from her.

When you opened it, your breath caught.

It was a wishlist. Just like yours.

Your eyes flicked up to meet hers, wide and shimmering with unshed tears. “Wednesday…”

She crossed her arms over her chest, her gaze darting away as if embarrassed. “Don’t make a big deal out of it. Just read it.”

You smiled, a soft laugh escaping your lips as you turned your attention back to the list.

Dance in the rain with her. You smiled, your heart swelling. “You hate the rain.” “You love the rain,” she replied as if that answered everything.

You stood in the middle of it, water dripping down your face as you looked at Wednesday, who stood a few feet away.

“You really want to do this now?” you called over the storm, your laugh carried away by the wind.

Wednesday’s dark hair clung to her face, her usual pristine appearance completely ruined by the downpour. But her eyes were fierce, a fire burning in their depths. She stepped closer

You didn’t need more convincing.

She reached for you, her hands finding your waist as yours rested on her shoulders. The rain fell harder, soaking through your clothes, but neither of you cared. Wednesday guided you slowly, her movements stiff at first but growing more fluid as she let herself go.

Her hand slid up to cup your cheek, her thumb brushing away the water—or maybe it was a tear.

"Create a yearly tradition of Y/n's choice" You smirked, you already had an idea...

Bright, garish sweaters of every imaginable color and pattern filled the room, and her group of idiots was there too...

“This,” Wednesday muttered darkly, tugging at the scratchy fabric of the sweater, “is the single greatest regret of my life.”

You couldn’t contain your laughter. “Come on, Wednesday, ugly sweater parties are iconic.”

“I thought you would choose something dignified,” she snapped, glancing at the sweater again. It was black—thankfully—but the design was an abomination: a grinning skull wearing a Santa hat...

“Smile, Wends!” Enid came from nowhere, holding up her phone.

Wednesday’s glare could’ve incinerated the device, but just as Enid was about to take the picture, you leaned into Wednesday, planting a quick kiss on her cheek. Her eyes widened just slightly, the shock visible in her face.

Enid gasped dramatically after taking the photo, “Awww this one is so cute!!”

“Delete that immediately,” Wednesday demanded.

“Absolutely not,” Enid yelled running for her life... “This is going in the scrapbook.”

“I will never forgive you for this,” Wednesday said, but there was a warmth in her eyes that said the opposite.

“I love you too,” you teased, leaning in to kiss her.

And as she watched you laugh and shine among your friends, she realized something: Maybe ugly sweater parties weren’t the worst tradition after all.

“Stay inside and read books all day.” “Why do I feel like this is less my wish and more your dream scenario?” Wednesday tilted her head, feigning innocence in a way only she could. “Are you implying I tailored this wish for my own enjoyment?” “I’m not implying anything,” you replied, narrowing your eyes playfully. “I’m outright accusing you.” Her lips twitched in the faintest smirk. "Good. Think of it as a challenge." "Really? A Challenge? I can easily stay inside with nothing but books all day." you added.

“This is torture,” you declared, flopping onto your back. “maybe we could add, like, a little break? Just a quick scroll through social media, maybe a movie—”

“No.” Wednesday’s voice was sharp, her eyes never leaving the pages of her book. “The wish was clear. All day. No distractions. No technology. Just books.”

You groaned, slumping dramatically in your chair. “I didn’t think it would be this... quiet. How are you so good at this?!”

“Because I’m not a modern-day parasite glued to glowing rectangles,” she replied coolly, turning a page with deliberate precision.

“Glowing rectangles make life bearable,” you muttered, eyeing your phone on the far table like it was a lifeline just out of reach.

As the hours wore on, you did your best to immerse yourself in the story, though you took plenty of breaks to stretch, snack, or make sarcastic comments. By mid-afternoon, you were sprawled across the couch, halfway through a second book, when you caught Wednesday smirking faintly at you.

“What?” you asked suspiciously.

“You’re actually enjoying yourself,” she said, her tone smug.

You rolled your eyes but couldn’t hide the grin tugging at your lips. “Fine. Maybe this isn’t the worst thing ever.”

“Perhaps I’ll make this a weekly occurrence,” she said, her tone infuriatingly calm.

Your groan echoed through the library, but even as you protested, you knew part of you wouldn’t mind doing it all over again as long as she is here with you...

Your eyes landed on the next entry "Visit the Northern Lights." you read aloud, your voice soft. A small smile tugged at your lips as you glanced over at her.

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” you said, your voice barely above a whisper.

“It is,” she said, her eyes never leaving yours. “But it pales in comparison to you.”

You blinked, your breath hitching. It wasn’t like her to say things like that, to be so open, so unguarded. “Wednesday…”

The two of you lay there in silence for a while, the auroras dancing above, painting the world in their ethereal light. The universe is infinite, and yet, in that moment, all that mattered was the girl beside you—the girl who had changed your life in ways you couldn’t put into words.

You turned your head, your eyes meeting hers again. “Thank you,” you said softly.

“For what?” she asked, her tone tinged with genuine curiosity.

“For being here. For letting me love you. For everything.”

Her gaze held yours, steady and unflinching. “The gratitude is mutual.”

“Did you write these wishes just for me?” you asked, teasing “Because most of them seem like something I would’ve put in my own diary.”

“They are not for you,” she said simply, “they are for us.”

Your chest tightened at her words. For someone who wielded words like knives, Wednesday Addams could cut you down to your core with these words.

“Us,” you repeated, your voice almost a whisper, as if you were afraid saying it too loudly might shatter the delicate moment.

She nodded, her dark eyes steady on yours. "These wishes... they’re not just for you to live. They’re for me to understand what it means to live with you. Go onto the next wish.”

You hesitated, feeling a lump form in your throat as you turned the page. And tho, you have always wished your heart to beat faster, you can feel it now, going extra fast.

"Get Married."

Slowly, you looked up.

Wednesday was already on one knee.

A small dark velvet box in her hand.

Her dark eyes bore into yours, unguarded and vulnerable in a way you had never seen before. She opened the box, revealing a ring that was as unique and beautiful as she was.

"I didn’t love you because I was lonely,” she began, her voice steady but filled with raw emotion. “Far from it. My world was quiet, and I was content in my solitude. But then you came into my life, like a comet streaking across the night sky. You weren’t just a spark—you were a fire that consumed everything, that made me see the world in a way I never thought possible.”

Tears blurred your vision as her words washed over you.

“You made me see color, feel life, experience joy. You’ve given me more than I ever thought I deserved. And now, the thought of losing you…” Her voice wavered, but she pressed on. “It would be like being plunged back into darkness. You are my light, my everything. And I don’t want to spend another moment without you.”

She took a deep breath, her gaze never leaving yours. “You gave me everything. And if you’ll let me, I want to spend the rest of my life giving it back to you. Would you take one step into forever with me?"

Tears streamed down your face as you dropped to your knees in front of her, wrapping your arms around her. “Yes,” you whispered, your voice breaking. “Yes, of course, yes.”

She held you close, her grip fierce as if she was afraid to let go. And in that moment, with the fireflies dancing around you and your heart beating steadily against hers, everything felt just right.

"YOU DID WHAT?" Enid’s voice reverberated through the Ophelia hall.

Wednesday calmly placed her fingers over the keys, she knew the chaos she was about to unfold.

“I proposed,” she said flatly, not even bothering to glance Enid’s way.

Enid gasped dramatically, her hands flying to her mouth “You PROPOSED?” She squealed, “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it! You, of all people, did something so romantic! I mean, I always knew you were secretly sappy, but this? Wowie, this is next-level!”

“Control yourself, Sinclair."

Enid practically vibrated in place, her grin so wide it looked almost painful.

“I’m going to be your maid of honor!” Enid announced throwing her arms into the air.

Wednesday blinked, her expression unamused. “The wedding is years away. Two or three, at least. There’s no need to discuss something so far in advance.”

“Doesn’t matter!” Enid chirped, “I’ll start planning now. We’ll need a dress, obviously, and I’m thinking flowers, maybe something gothic to match your vibe, but not too gloomy because Y/N is, like, the literal sunshine to your darkness. Oh, and—”

“Enid.”

“—maybe a fall wedding? Or winter! Ooooh, imagine a gothic winter wonderland theme with snow and—”

“Enid.” Wednesday’s tone sharpened, but the werewolf was undeterred.

“—and matching outfits for Thing and your brother—”

Wednesday groaned quietly, pinching the bridge of her nose. How she tolerated Enid was a mystery even she couldn’t solve.

“By the way, Dad,” you said, setting your mug down. “Wednesday proposed to me yesterday.”

He didn’t even look up at first, too engrossed in his newspaper. “That’s nice, sweetheart.”

Then it hit him. His head snapped up so fast you thought he might have given himself whiplash. “Wait, she WHAT?”

You bit back a laugh as your dad’s coffee cup slipped from his hand, spilling onto the table. His eyes were wide with shock, his mouth slightly agape.

“She proposed,” you repeated, trying to sound nonchalant but failing miserably as a grin tugged at your lips.

“Proposed,” he echoed dumbly, “Like, as in, marriage?”

“Yup.”

He blinked at you, then ran a hand down his face. “Oh, my God.”

“Surprised?” you teased, leaning your chin on your hand.

“Surprised doesn’t even begin to cover it,” he muttered, shaking his head. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like her. She’s... uh, unique. But marriage? Aren’t you two a little young for that?”

“We’re not getting married tomorrow, Dad,” you assured him. “It’ll be a few years. But yeah, we’re serious.”

He leaned back in his chair, exhaling deeply. “I… I don’t know whether to be thrilled or terrified. Maybe both.”

“She makes me happy, Dad,” you said softly, your voice full of sincerity. “Like, really happy. And I think I make her happy too, in her own… Wednesday way.”

Your dad let out a long sigh, his expression softening as he looked at you. “Well, as long as you’re happy, that’s all that matters. But, uh… I’m going to need some time to wrap my head around this."

“Take all the time you need,” you said, unable to hide your amusement as he reached for his spilled coffee.

From her window, Wednesday watched you from afar, her hands clasped behind her back. Your laughter echoed faintly, carried by the breeze, and it stirred something deep within her, warmth.

She had brought you to her family mansion for the winter vacation, to show you a part of her world, of herself.

“You’re staring,” came Morticia’s voice from behind her, smooth and knowing.

Wednesday didn’t look away. “I’m observing.”

Morticia stepped beside her. Her gaze followed her daughter’s to where you were now chasing Thing across the field.

“She has a light about her,” Morticia said softly. “It’s rare for an Addams to be drawn to such brightness.”

“She’s not just light,” Wednesday replied, “She’s fire. She burns, and I can’t look away.”

Morticia tilted her head, a small smile gracing her lips. “You’re sure about this? Marriage is not a fleeting thing. It’s a vow, a promise you must keep forever.”

Wednesday didn't even take her eyes off you for a moment. “I have never been more certain of anything. She is my promise.”

Morticia studied her daughter for a long moment. Finally, she placed a hand on Wednesday’s shoulder, “Then keep that promise well, my raven.” she said softly.

Wednesday’s gaze drifted back to you, her heart steady and she knew, she would. For you, she would keep every promise.

And now, Wednesday stood before the full-length mirror in her room, she adjusted the collar of her black coat with deliberate precision. Everything about it screamed Wednesday Addams—dark, deliberate, and just a touch theatrical.

But the rest of her? The faint unease in her eyes, the almost imperceptible tremble in her hands? That wasn’t familiar at all. Today wasn’t just another step forward; it was a leap into the unknown, tethered only by the trust she had placed in you.

And it is enough.

Two years. It had been two years since you’d said yes, since she’d slipped that ring onto your finger with hands steadier than her heart had felt. Two years of planning, of waiting, of promises whispered in quiet moments. Two years that had gone by faster than she would have liked.

She remembered A Dance. The Raven.

Wednesday remembered standing on the edge of the ballroom, her fingers tightening slightly around yours as she led you to the center. The same room. The same polished floor. The same glimmering lights.

Last year, in this very place, she had watched you collapse. She had felt her world teeter on the edge of something she couldn’t control. She didn't want to attend another raven, but she couldn't say no to you.

She didn’t know why you had insisted on revisiting the Raven, why you had wanted to confront the memories of that night. But standing there with you, she now realized it wasn’t about the past. It was about writing the present.

Her chest ached—not with fear, but with something far deeper. Something she didn’t have the words for.

“You’re thinking,” you murmured, your voice barely above a whisper.

“I’m always thinking,” she replied.

“About what?”

She hesitated. The answer felt too raw, too exposed. But this was you. You, who had shown her what it meant to live.

“About how this moment feels like a dream,” she admitted, her voice quieter now. “And how I don’t want to wake up.”

You smiled, and for a second, she thought she saw tears glistening in your eyes. “Then don’t. Stay here with me.”

And just like that, the fear that had been clawing at her chest eased. You were here. You were alive. And for the first time in a long time, she believed you when you said everything would be okay.

The song ended too soon, the music fading into applause. But you didn’t let go of her. Not then, not ever.

She looked at you, her gaze steady despite the storm of emotions swirling within her. “Thank you.”

“For what?” you asked.

“For not letting me lose you.”

Your expression softened, and you reached up to brush a strand of hair from her face. “You’ll never lose me, Wednesday. I promise.”

And in that moment, she believed you.

Wednesday knew she would protect you, She has already committed her life and soul to your protection. As long as you are with her, she can hope, you can hope. She did promise to wish for you forever after all.

The sound of the door creaking open pulled her from her reverie. Pugsley stepped in, dressed in a suit that was slightly too big for him.

“Are you ready?” he asked, his voice hesitant but warm.

Wednesday turned to face him, “I’ve been ready.” she said, though her hands betrayed her with a slight tremble.

Pugsley grinned, his nervousness fading. “You look cool, Wens. Really cool.”

She gave him a curt nod, straightening her coat one last time. “ Let’s go.”

As they left the room together, Wednesday allowed herself one last thought: she wasn’t walking into the unknown. She was walking toward you, and that was all that mattered.

Wednesday looked up at the grand doors at the far end of the aisle, knowing that any moment now, they would open. This was how it had all started, here in this very place—this very church. When you had dragged her here for that absurd mission to break "little cupcake" out of an asylum for her wedding, Wednesday had felt detached back then, an outsider observing someone else's moment.

She hadn’t known you then, not really. You had been nothing more than a mystery wrapped in audacity and irreverent charm. She understood now, she had agreed to your plan not because she wanted to, but because something about you intrigued her, unsettled her in a way she couldn’t ignore.

And now, here she was, standing in that very spot, waiting for you. She never could have foreseen it. Back then, she had been indifferent to the concept of commitment, of love, of a future that wasn’t carefully crafted by her own hands. But then you had entered her life and ruined all her plans, burned them down and replaced them with something infinitely better.

The church doors creaked open, and her breath caught.

You were there, framed by the light pouring in from outside. Your dress was simple yet stunning, flowing around you like you had stepped out of a dream.

You weren’t trying to be beautiful. You were just being you.

And you were beautiful. It was a problem.

Your arm was linked with your father’s, his grip steady but full of emotion. Enid followed closely behind you, her face practically glowing with excitement as she trailed along with Brooke. But Wednesday didn’t spare them more than a glance. Her eyes were only on you.

Her entired world faded into nothingness as she watched you take those steps down the aisle. She felt it all over again—the weightlessness, the freefall. Her heart, that stubborn organ she once considered nothing more than a biological necessity, seemed to stutter in her chest. She had always prided herself on her control, her ability to keep her emotions tightly leashed. But in your presence, she unraveled in ways she didn’t mind at all.

When you finally reached her, your father placed your hand in hers. She grasped it firmly, her fingers curling around yours as if to remind herself that you were here, real and hers.

And that smile, that damn smile again, “Hey, Angry Bird,” you whispered softly.

“Hello, Trouble,” she replied, her voice steady despite the storm of emotions swirling within her.

The ceremony began, but Wednesday barely heard the words. Her focus remained on you, her mind was filled with you, your hand warm in hers, your eyes glistening with unshed tears.

When it was time for the vows, Wednesday took a deep breath and stepped closer.

“I never believed in fate,” she began, her voice low but steady. “I didn’t believe in destiny or serendipity or any of the romanticized notions people cling to. But then you happened.”

Her grip on your hand tightened slightly, grounding her.

“You walked into my life with chaos and unpredictability, and I hated it at first. I hated how you challenged me, how you saw through the walls I built, how you refused to let me retreat into the shadows where I felt safe. But what I hated most…” Her voice wavered for a fraction of a second. “Was how you made me feel. Because it terrified me. So today, I promise you everything. My mind, my heart, my… odd attempts at humor. All of it is yours, as long as you’ll have me. Because there’s no world, no life, no existence, where I don’t choose you.”

You blinked rapidly, a tear slipping down your cheek as you squeezed her hand. “Wednesday…” Your voice trembled as you began your vows. “My heart has always been fragile. I grew up thinking it would always be a weakness, a reminder of everything I couldn’t have. But then I met you. You didn’t just make my heart stronger—you made it feel alive."

“Every moment with you, every argument, every rare, stolen laugh—it made me want to fight, to live, to hold on. You once said I made your world brighter, but Wednesday, you’re the one who turned mine into something worth living for. You’re my heartbeat. My anchor. My everything."

"So today, I promise you my whole heart—flawed as it is. I promise you every laugh, every tear, every stolen moment we’ll ever have. Because as long as you’re with me, I’ll always be okay.”

The vows were complete, and the officiant spoke the final words. “You may now kiss.”

Wednesday didn’t hesitate. She leaned in, her hand cradling your face as her lips met yours in a kiss that was as much a promise as it was an expression of love. The world could have ended, and she wouldn’t have noticed. There was only you, the warmth of your touch, the taste of forever.

“They grow up so fast!” Rick exclaimed, wiping an invisible tear.

Ashley elbowed him sharply, muttering, “Don’t ruin the moment!”

“Forever,” you whispered.

“Forever,” Wednesday echoed.

And that was the first step into forever....

The house was modest, perched on a quiet street lined with old trees. It wasn’t grand or intimidating, but when you stepped inside together, it was surreal. The space was bare, the rooms echoing with emptiness, but there was a strange comfort in it. It wasn’t just a house—it was a blank canvas, waiting to be filled with your lives.

“I expected something more sinister,” Wednesday murmured.

You laughed, nudging her lightly with your shoulder. “Not every home has to look like it belongs in a horror movie, Wednesday.”

“Perhaps not,” she replied, the corner of her mouth twitching in the faintest hint of a smile. “But it could benefit from a few gothic touches. A gargoyle or two. Perhaps black shutters.”

“Baby steps,” you teased, “We just got here.”

“The lighting is acceptable,” she observed. “And the walls are a neutral enough shade to tolerate.”

You grinned as you followed her, imagining all the ways you could bring warmth and life into the space. “I can already picture it,” you said, gesturing toward the living room. “A big couch right here, some bookshelves there, maybe a coffee table that doesn’t look like it belongs in the Addams Family mansion.”

Wednesday’s eyebrow arched. “You speak as if the Addams aesthetic isn’t timeless.”

“Oh, it’s timeless,” you agreed with a laugh. “But I think this house deserves a little bit of both of us. Your timeless gothic vibes and my... whatever it is you call my taste.”

“Chaotic,” she deadpanned.

You laughed again, and it echoed through the empty house, filling it with the first sound of home.

The next few weeks were a whirlwind of activity. Boxes arrived in a steady stream, each one carrying a piece of your lives. Unpacking was both a chore and an adventure. You quickly learned that Wednesday was surprisingly particular about where things went.

“No,” she said, her tone sharp as she watched you place a stack of your favorite novels on a shelf. “Those belong on the second shelf, not the first. They’ll ruin the symmetry.”

You looked at her with mock exasperation. “You’re really serious about this, aren’t you?”

“Order is important,” she replied simply, taking the books from your hands and arranging them herself.

But for all her sternness, there were moments that melted your heart. Like the way she always did the heavy lifting, taking the heavy stuff away from you as if you would get hurt by them.

In the evenings, the two of you would sit together on the couch, sharing takeout and discussing plans for each room.

“Cozy, warm, maybe some fairy lights?”

Wednesday frowned. “Fairy lights?”

“They’re magical, you know?” you said with a grin.

She didn’t, but she nodded anyway. Compromise, she reminded herself. This was your home now. Your home together.

The kitchen was next. Wednesday had little interest in the room, declaring it “your domain,” but she indulged you as you picked out dishes and cookware, commenting occasionally on your choices. She vetoed anything overly cheerful, shaking her head firmly at the sunflower-patterned dish towels you tried to sneak past her.

The bedroom was the trickiest part. Wednesday insisted on black sheets and dark curtains, while you argued for something lighter. In the end, you compromised: deep gray bedding and curtains that were dark but sheer enough to let in the light during the day.

The final touch was the garden. It wasn’t much—just a small patch of earth in the backyard—but it was yours. You spent an entire afternoon out there together, planting flowers and herbs, your hands dirty and your hearts light. Wednesday also helped and you couldn’t help but marvel at how natural it felt to share this with her.

By the time the house was fully decorated, it felt like a reflection of the two of you, an unlikely combination that somehow worked. It wasn’t perfect, but it was home.

The two of you sank onto the soft blanket you’d brought, the world around you bathed in the gentle light of the fireflies. It was simple, just as Wednesday liked it, and just as you preferred. Grand celebrations had never been your style, and you knew Wednesday loathed them even more than you did. Here, it was just the two of you, in your special place.

“Three years together,” you said softly, your fingers tracing lazy patterns along the back of her hand.

“Three years together,” she echoed, her gaze fixed on the fireflies as they danced through the clearing.

For a while, neither of you spoke. Words weren’t necessary; the silence was comfortable.

After a while, you reached into the bag beside you, pulling out a carefully wrapped package. “I got you something,” you said, handing it to her.

She turned her head, her dark eyes narrowing slightly in suspicion. “I thought I told you—no gifts."

“It’s not much,” you said, handing it to her.

She gave you a pointed look but didn’t argue. Instead, she unwrapped the package, revealing an antique cello bow, the wood polished and smooth.

“I found it at this little shop in town,” you explained, watching her closely. “The owner said it was handcrafted in the 19th century. I thought… well, it reminded me of you. Timeless, elegant, and a little intimidating.”

Her fingers traced the polished wood, her dark eyes studying every detail. “It’s exquisite,” she said finally, her voice low.

“I’m glad you like it,” you said, your smile widening.

She set the bow carefully on the blanket before reaching into her pocket. “I suppose it’s my turn now,” she said, pulling out a small box.

"I thought you said- No gifts" you teased.

"I meant no gift for me." She said as she opened it. Inside was a delicate butterfly pendant, the wings were intricately detailed, catching the light as if they might take flight at any moment.

She stepped behind you, brushing your hair to the side as she clasped the pendant around your neck. The cool metal rested against your skin, a weight that felt comforting.

“Thank you,” you whispered, turning to face her.

She inclined her head slightly, a faint smile tugging at her lips. “It suits you.”

The two of you settled onto the soft grass again, her arms wrapped around you as you leaned against her.

Eventually, you broke the silence, your voice hesitant. “Wednesday… can I ask you something?”

Her gaze flicked to yours, sharp and focused. “You can ask me anything.”

You took a deep breath, your heart pounding. “Do you ever think about having a family? With me?”

She stilled, her expression unreadable, her dark eyes narrowing slightly in thought. “You mean children?”

You nodded, your fingers playing nervously with the edge of the blanket. “I mean… with me. I’d carry, of course.”

You could see the wheels turning in her mind, the way her lips pressed into a thin line as she processed your words. For a long moment, she didn’t speak, but you knew her well enough to understand that she was thinking deeply. You didn’t push her, letting her sit with the idea.

In her mind, she pieced it together. She understood why you might want this, why the idea of creating life, of being a mother, mattered to you so much. It wasn’t just about the future—it was about the past.

You had lost your own mother before you ever had the chance to know her, and deep down, she realized this was your way of finding something you had always missed.

Her chest tightened at the thought, a pang of something close to guilt twisting in her gut. She had never been the kind of person who dreamed of motherhood, of soft lullabies and tiny hands clutching hers. But for you… just for you, she could imagine it.

“I don’t know if I would make a suitable parent,” she said finally, “But if this is what you want, then I will consider it.”

You leaned into her, your hand finding hers and squeezing gently. “That’s all I can ask.”

The hallway was quiet, save for the soft, almost hesitant sound of Wednesday’s voice. She stood outside the door, her hand hovering just above the wood as if her knock might shatter you further.

“Y/N,” she called softly, her voice betraying a tenderness reserved only for you. “Please open the door.”

Nothing.

She pressed her palm flat against the wood, closing her eyes. “Whatever you’re feeling, I want to help. Don’t shut me out. Not now. Please.”

There was no response, only the suffocating silence pressing between you. She took a slow breath, trying to keep the tightness in her chest from rising to her throat.

“It’s going to be okay,” she tried again, her tone softer this time. “You and I, we will figure this out. But I can’t do that if you won’t let me in.”

For a moment, she thought you might not answer, that she would be left standing there with nothing but her own thoughts. But then, slowly, agonizingly, it creaked open.

The sight of you nearly brought her to her knees.

You looked utterly broken. Your eyes were red-rimmed and swollen from crying, your hair disheveled, and your shoulders hunched as if carrying the weight of the world.

Her chest ached at the sight. She had seen you vulnerable before, but this was something different. This was devastation.

“Y/N,” she whispered, stepping forward cautiously, as if afraid you might shatter at her touch.

You didn’t say anything, but the look in your eyes told her everything. The raw pain, the guilt, the unbearable weight of the news you had received.

She thought back to the hospital visit, the sterile walls, the doctor’s careful but ultimately damning words. “It’s too risky.”

The words had hung in the air, suffocating and cold. She had gripped your hand tightly as the doctor explained the risks. Your heart simply wouldn’t survive the strain of carrying a child. They couldn’t, in good conscience, give you permission to try.

She had been silent the whole way home, watching you retreat further and further into yourself. She knew you were hurting, but she hadn’t anticipated this.

Wednesday stepped inside, closing the door behind her. Without hesitation, she pulled you into her arms, “It’s going to be okay,” she murmured, her voice steady even as her heart fractured.

Your response was a choked sob, your arms wrapping around her as you buried your face in her shoulder. The sound of your crying tore through her, each sob a blade carving into her chest.

“I’m sorry,” you whispered between broken breaths. “I’m so sorry, Wednesday.”

Her brow furrowed, and she pulled back just enough to look at you. “What could you possibly be sorry for?”

“I—” Your voice cracked, and tears spilled down your cheeks as you struggled to get the words out. “I can’t give you what you deserve. I can’t… I can’t give you a family.”

Her jaw tightened, and she shook her head. “Stop that. Don’t you dare put this on yourself.”

“But it’s true,” you said, your voice rising in anguish. “You deserve so much more, Wednesday. You deserve to have everything you’ve ever wanted, and I… I can’t give it to you. I’ve failed you.”

Her hands came up to cradle your face, forcing you to meet her gaze. Her dark eyes were filled with something fierce, something unyielding. The truth.

“You have already given me everything, Y/N,” she said, her voice trembling with emotion. “You have given me love, something I never thought I would find. You have given me a reason to hope, to feel, to want more from this life. You have given me you. That is more than enough.”

Tears streamed down your face as you shook your head again. “But you deserve more. You deserve a family, Wednesday. A real one.”

She exhaled shakily, her thumbs brushing away your tears. “We can still have that,” she said quietly. “It doesn’t have to be the way we planned. There are other ways.”

You blinked at her, confusion and a flicker of hope mingling in your tearful gaze. “What do you mean?”

“We can adopt,” she said simply, her voice steady now. “There are children out there who need love, who need someone to fight for them, to protect them. We can be that for them. And we will love them just as fiercely as if they were our own.”

Your breath hitched, her words sinking in slowly. “Do you mean that?”

She nodded, her expression unwavering. “I mean it. I don’t care how our family comes to be, Y/N. As long as it’s with you, it will be enough. It will be everything.”

A fresh wave of tears spilled down your cheeks, “Wednesday,” you whispered, your voice trembling. “I’m scared,” you admitted, your voice barely audible.

“So am I,” she replied, her voice soft but resolute. “But I've learned this a long time ago, from you, fear doesn't make us weak, it gives us strength. It compels us to protect what matters most."

“I don’t deserve you,” you whispered.

“You’ve got it backward,” she replied, her lips brushing against your temple. “I’m the one who doesn’t deserve you.”

She guided you to the bed, pulling you down with her and wrapping you in her arms. Your head rested against her chest, and her fingers combed gently through your hair.

Exhaustion began to weigh heavily on you, the emotional toll of the day finally catching up, her steady heartbeat beneath your ear a soothing rhythm that began to lull you to sleep.

As your breathing evened out, Wednesday held you close, her gaze fixed on the ceiling. Her mind was already spinning with plans, with hopes, with determination. She would make this right for you, for them.

“Violet is a sweet, curious child." The coordinator smiled warmly as she spoke, "She’s been with us for over two years now. She loves to draw, and she’s very imaginative but mostly, she loves to read. I think you’ll find her to be quite remarkable.”

Wednesday gave a curt nod, but there was a softness in her eyes that you recognized instantly. “We’d like to meet her,” she said simply.

The coordinator gestured toward the door. “She’s just down the hall. I’ll bring her to you.”

As the coordinator left, you turned to Wednesday, your heart racing. “This is it,” you whispered, a nervous smile tugging at your lips.

Wednesday’s dark eyes met yours, and for a moment, you saw something unspoken there, a mixture of determination and tenderness. “Yes, it is,” she replied, her voice steady.

After a while, the coordinator entered, holding the hand of a a little girl with dark hair and piercing blue eyes that held a quiet curiosity.

Taking a deep breath, you crouched down to Violet’s level, offering her a gentle smile.

“Hi, Violet,” you said softly. “My name is Y/N, and this is Wednesday. We’ve heard a lot about you.”

She looked at you with wide eyes, her grip on the bear tightening slightly. “You have?”

“We have,” Wednesday confirmed, “Your love for books has not gone unnoticed.”

Violet’s lips twitched into a small smile, and she looked down at her bear, as if gathering courage. “Do you like stories too?”

Wednesday arched a brow and glanced at you. “Stories are… tolerable when told well. Though I prefer to write my own.”

Your laughter filled the space between you, and Violet giggled, the sound bright and pure. “She’s really good at writing,” you added, reaching out a hand toward Violet but not pushing her to take it. “Maybe she can tell you one someday.”

Violet studied you both for a moment, her eyes flickering between you and Wednesday before nodding shyly. “Okay.”

You spoke with her for a while, knowing her, learning about her favorite books and her dreams,

"I like to draw animals and… and stars.”

“That’s wonderful,” you replied. “You know, we have a lot of space at home where you can draw as much as you want. Would you like that?”

Her eyes widened slightly, and she nodded again, more eagerly this time.

Wednesday leaned forward just a fraction, her gaze steady but kind. “We’d like to give you a home, Violet. A place where you can draw, dream, and be yourself. Would that be something you’d want?”

For a moment, Violet seemed to study both of you, as if trying to decide if this was real or too good to be true. Then, her lips curved into a shy smile. “Yes,” she said softly.

You felt your chest swell with emotion as you exchanged a glance with Wednesday, who allowed the faintest flicker of a smile to grace her lips.

As Violet’s hand slipped into yours, something caught your eye. A movement near the doorway.

Standing just outside, half-hidden by the frame, was a little boy. He was watching the interaction, his dark eyes filled with a mix of curiosity and sadness. His skin was warm brown, and his clothes were slightly too big for his slender frame.

His big brown eyes watched you and Wednesday intently, a mixture of curiosity and sadness in them that tugged at your heart. He didn’t approach, staying just out of reach as if he wasn’t sure he was allowed to join in.

Something inside you shifted. You could feel it in your chest, an ache that wasn’t just sympathy—it was recognition.

Wednesday shifted beside you, her gaze following yours. Her dark eyes lingered on the boy for a moment.

I watched as the others played with their mothers, your voice echoed in her ears...

You looked at the boy and gave him a small smile. His gaze flickered to Violet, then back to you, before he quickly ducked out of sight.

Without saying a word, you looked at Wednesday. Her eyes met yours, and for a moment, the two of you communicated without speaking. She gave you a single, decisive nod.

By the time the paperwork was completed and the day drew to a close, it wasn’t just Violet who was coming home with you.

“This is your home now,” you said softly. “Both of you. It’s yours.”

Wednesday stood behind you, her arms crossed, but there was no mistaking the softness in her expression as she looked at the two children.

Violet clung to your hand tightly, her other hand gripping one of River’s. He was quieter, his eyes darting around the room as though he couldn’t quite believe this was real.

“Would you like to see your rooms?” you asked, your smile warm and inviting.

Violet nodded eagerly, while River hesitated before giving a small nod of his own.

You and Wednesday led them upstairs to their rooms. Violet’s room was painted a soft lavender, with a small desk by the window and shelves waiting to be filled with books and art supplies.

“This is your room, Violet,” you said, kneeling beside her.

She looked around, her eyes wide. “It’s mine?”

“All yours,” you confirmed.

Wednesday, standing just behind you, added, “You can decorate it however you like.”

Violet’s smile grew, and she hugged her stuffed bear tightly. “Thank you.”

River’s room was a calming shade of blue, with a wooden chest at the foot of the bed and a space for toys you hadn’t yet bought. He stood in the middle of the room, his hands fidgeting at his sides.

“River?” you prompted gently. “What do you think?”

He looked up at you, his dark eyes wide and uncertain. “It’s…mine?”

Wednesday stepped forward then, her voice low but steady. “It’s yours,” she said. “Everything here is yours.”

He glanced between you and Wednesday, his lips pressing together as if holding back tears. Then, to your surprise, he stepped forward and wrapped his arms around you, burying his face in your waist.

Your breath hitched, and you knelt to his level, holding him tightly.

“You’re home now,” you whispered, your voice thick with emotion. “You’re safe, and you’re so, so loved.”

Wednesday stood nearby, her dark eyes felt a bit warm as she watched you. She knew you were going to be an incredible parent. You had a way of making people feel seen, of creating a safe haven out of nothing. And maybe—just maybe—she could be part of that too.

As River’s breathing slowed, his small body relaxing in your arms, Wednesday stepped forward, placing a hand gently on your shoulder. You looked up at her, your eyes still shimmering with tears.

This was your family. This was forever.

You had insisted on hosting the Christmas party this year, and though Wednesday had been less than enthusiastic about the idea of a house full of people, she couldn’t bring herself to say no to you.

Now, standing in the living room as the sound of laughter and conversation echoed around her, she found herself less irritated than she expected. Perhaps it was the way the snow was falling gently outside, the fire crackling in the hearth, or the sight of you darting between the kitchen and the living room, making sure everyone was comfortable and fed.

The house looked different tonight, dressed in its festive best. The tree stood tall in the corner, decorated with a mix of ornaments from you and the kids had collected over the years.

River had insisted on putting the star on top, despite his height advantage, and Violet had teased him relentlessly for nearly falling off the stepstool. Wednesday had watched from the sidelines, her lips twitching into the faintest of smiles.

Enid was chatting animatedly with your father,her hands gesturing wildly as she described some recent adventure. Her two children, twins with Enid’s golden hair and infectious energy, were playing a game with Violet by the tree.

Violet, now a young woman, had grown into herself beautifully, her confidence and boldness were the perfect balance to her brother’s shyness.

Wednesday’s parents sat on the couch, Morticia regal as ever, Gomez a beacon of cheer, joining in Violet's game with Enid's kids.

She caught your father glancing at you often, pride evident in his eyes. It wasn’t hard to see why. You made it.

River sat on the edge of the couch, his posture stiff, his hands fidgeting with the hem of his sweater. He was typically quiet, more comfortable in the background, but tonight he seemed… different. Nervous. Wednesday’s sharp eyes didn’t miss the way he kept glancing at the clock or the subtle way he glanced toward the door.

Wednesday couldn't give it much thought because her eyes were on you again, the way you floated from one person to the next, ensuring everyone felt welcome and cared for. It was the kind of warmth she never knew she needed until you gave it to her.

“Mom?” River’s voice broke through her thoughts, hesitant and quiet.

She turned her head to find him standing nearby, his eyes wide and uncertain.

“Yes?” she asked, her tone as steady and measured as ever.

He glanced toward the clock again, then back at her. “There’s, um… someone coming over.”

“Someone?” she repeated, her brow arching.

Before he could elaborate, the doorbell rang, the sound cutting through the festive atmosphere. River’s face lit up with a mixture of excitement and sheer terror, and before anyone could react, he bolted for the door.

You appeared at Wednesday’s side just in time to catch the scene, your eyes narrowing in curiosity. “What’s he doing?”

“I believe we’re about to find out,” Wednesday replied, her gaze locked on the door as River flung it open.

Standing there was a girl, about his age. She looked equally nervous, clutching a small, wrapped gift in her hands. Her blond hair was tucked neatly behind her ears.

“Hi,” River said, his voice soft but filled with affection. “Come in.”

The girl stepped inside, her eyes darting around the room before settling on River, who gave her an encouraging smile.

“Everyone,” he began, his voice wavering slightly as he looked around the room, “this is Ella… my girlfriend.”

For a moment, there was silence. Not out of judgment, but because everyone, yourself included, was caught off guard.

Your father was the first to react, letting out a hearty laugh. “Well, look at that! Our boy’s got a girl!”

Wednesday’s eyes narrowed slightly, though her expression remained neutral as she studied the girl. Ella shifted under the weight of her gaze, but she didn’t falter, offering a polite smile and a quiet, “It’s nice to meet you.”

You stepped forward, breaking the tension with your usual warmth. “Ella, it’s wonderful to meet you,” you said, taking her hand in yours. “You’ve already made River’s night by being here.”

Ella blushed, her cheeks turning a soft pink as she glanced at River, who looked like he might melt into the floor.

Wednesday’s eyes flicked between the two of you, her sharp mind dissecting every interaction. She wasn’t distrustful of Ella, exactly, but there was a part of her that couldn’t help but scrutinize anyone who dared to step into her family’s world. Especially when it came to her son.

When the girl finally turned to her, she straightened, offering a respectful, “It’s nice to meet you, Mrs. Addams.”

Wednesday’s brows lifted slightly. “Is it?”

“Wednesday,” you said under your breath, elbowing her lightly.

Ella hesitated but didn’t look away. “Yes, ma’am. River talks about you a lot.”

“Does he?” Wednesday’s tone was unreadable, “I’ll be watching.”

River groaned. “Mom, come on.”

You bit back a laugh, stepping closer to Wednesday and slipping your hand into hers. She glanced at you, her expression softening just enough for you to notice.

“She seems lovely,” you said quietly.

“She’s bold, I'll give her that. ” Wednesday replied, though there was no malice in her tone.

“Like someone else I know,” you teased.

“And who would that be?,” she replied, though her lips twitched slightly.

You smiled as you leaned in, pressing a kiss to her cheek.

And when Ella laughed at something River said, her expression lighting up, the look in River's eyes, Wednesday saw something she hadn't expected... Herself.

You were pacing back and forth in front of her, your hands twisting together anxiously. “Why is it taking so long?” you muttered, glancing at the double doors down the hall for what felt like the hundredth time.

Wednesday wanted to offer some sort of reassurance, but the truth was, she wasn’t calm either. How could she be? Her son, her River, was about to become a father. That thought alone was enough to unsettle her, though she’d never admit it aloud.

River sat a few seats away, his leg bouncing nervously, while Violet leaned against the wall, trying to keep him distracted. She had her arm draped around his shoulders, speaking to him in a low, soothing voice, though it was clear her efforts weren’t doing much to ease his tension.

“She’s going to be fine,” Violet said for the third time, squeezing River’s shoulder.

“I know,” River replied, though his voice wavered. “It’s just… what if something goes wrong?”

“Nothing will,” Violet assured him, casting a glance at you and Wednesday.

You paused in your pacing to look at River, your heart aching at the sight of his obvious distress. “Ella’s strong, just like her husband,” you said, your voice filled with a warmth that seemed to fill the room despite the anxiety hanging in the air.

Wednesday’s eyes flicked to you, her sharp gaze softening slightly. Even in moments like this, you always found a way to bring comfort, to anchor those around you.

The sound of footsteps approaching snapped everyone to attention. You froze mid-step, your breath catching as the doctor pushed through the double doors, still wearing her scrubs.

“It’s a girl,” the doctor said, smiling warmly.

The room erupted. You let out a sound that was somewhere between a laugh and a sob, covering your mouth with your hands as tears filled your eyes. River shot to his feet, his face breaking into a mix of relief and joy, while Violet clapped him on the back with a grin.

Wednesday stayed seated, her hands gripping the armrests as the words settled over her. It’s a girl. She felt a strange tightness in her chest, an unfamiliar, almost overwhelming swell of emotion. She, Wednesday Addams, was a grandmother.

The word felt strange, as though it didn’t quite belong to her. But she could picture her mother’s delight at becoming a grandparent, could imagine you embracing the role with your boundless warmth, and maybe, since you are with her, she can too.

The moments blurred together after that. Eventually, they were led to the room where Ella rested, cradling a tiny bundle in her arms. River was at her side, his hand on her shoulder as he gazed down at his wife and daughter with unfiltered love.

You were the first to approach, your eyes wide with wonder as you looked at the baby. “She’s beautiful,” you whispered, your voice trembling.

“She is,” River agreed, his smile growing. “Meet Viper.”

The name caught Wednesday off guard, Viper, from her book...

“Come on,” you urged gently. “Meet your granddaughter.”

Her granddaughter. The words felt strange but oddly comforting. Stepping forward, Wednesday gazed down at the tiny face peeking out from the blanket.

“She’s… very small,” Wednesday observed, her voice quieter than usual.

Violet laughed weakly. “She’s a baby, That’s kind of the point Mom.”

“She’ll grow,” you added, looking at Wednesday with a knowing smile. “Just like all of them do.”

Years passed, and Viper did indeed grow, “Gloomma!” Viper’s voice echoed through the living room, pulling Wednesday out of her thoughts.

The little girl—who was no longer so little at five years old—came bounding toward her, clutching a stuffed raven in her tiny hands.

“I told you not to call me that,” Wednesday said, though her tone lacked any real bite.

Viper giggled, clearly unbothered by the reprimand. “But you’re gloomy, and you’re my grandma, so you’re Gloomma!”

“Logic,” you said from across the room, shooting Wednesday a teasing grin. “You can’t argue with that.”

Viper tugged on Wednesday’s sleeve. “Come play with me, Gloomma!”

“I don’t—” Wednesday began, but you cut her off.

“Yes, she’d love to,” you said, giving her a pointed look.

Wednesday narrowed her eyes at you but allowed herself to be led toward the play area, where Viper had set up an elaborate tea party for her stuffed animals.

You watched as Wednesday awkwardly picked up a tiny teacup, her posture stiff and her expression one of reluctant resignation.

“She’s trying,” River said, appearing at your side with a knowing smile.

You smiled back, leaning into him slightly. “She is. She always does for the people she loves.”

The fireflies danced around the two of you as you stood together in the soft light of the evening. The world around you had changed so much over the years, but this place—this little patch of earth beneath the trees, lit by the gentle glow of flickering fireflies—had never changed.

Sixty years. It sounded so surreal, even to her. Time, a concept she had always viewed with apathy, now felt almost precious as it pressed upon her. It was a lifetime, and yet, standing here, it didn’t feel like enough.

You stepped closer, your hand outstretched.

“Dance with me,” you said softly, your voice carrying the warmth it always had.

Wednesday raised a brow, a faint smirk tugging at her lips. “You’ve never needed to ask twice.”

You laughed, the sound like a melody in her ears, and she allowed herself to be drawn into your arms. The fireflies seemed to gather around you both, their soft glow casting a warm halo over the two of you as you swayed together.

“You’re so beautiful,” you whispered, your voice barely audible over the night.

Wednesday’s gaze flickered, and she tightened her hold on you, almost as if she feared you might disappear. “I thought I was supposed to be the one saying that.”

You smiled, your fingers lightly brushing her jaw. “Your beauty never scared me, Wednesday. Not your darkness, not your sharp edges. They were always a part of you, and I’ve loved every single piece of who you are.”

The fireflies flickered around you like they were listening, like they understood the depth of what you were saying. You felt the familiar ache in your chest, not the physical one you’d lived with for so long, but the ache of love so profound it bordered on pain.

“This is our forever,” you said softly, your voice carrying the certainty of a vow. “This place, this moment. I will always be here with you, Wednesday. Always.”

Her lips parted, and for a moment, she said nothing. Her eyes searched yours, as if committing every detail of your face to memory. Then she leaned her forehead against yours,

Your fingers slid into her hair, cradling the back of her head as you closed your eyes, savoring the closeness. “Do you remember the promise I made you, right here? To spend forever with you?”

Wednesday nodded, her hands trembling slightly where they rested on your waist. “Of course I remember. You told me we’d have forever, no matter what.”

You inhaled deeply, steeling yourself. “I meant that promise, Weds. But I think… I think my forever might not look the way we wanted it to. Physically, I might not...” Your voice cracked, and you had to pause, your eyes stinging with unshed tears. “I might not be here forever. But I’ll always be with you. In your heart, in your memories, in your heartbeat.”

Her hold on you tightened, and she shook her head, her jaw clenching as she fought back the emotions threatening to overwhelm her. “Don’t say that. Not tonight. Not here.”

“I have to,” you said gently, your fingers brushing her cheek. “Because I need you to know that even when I’m not here, I’m still with you. You’re my home, Wednesday. You’re everything.”

Her breath hitched, and she pressed her lips to yours, the kiss filled with a desperation that neither of you wanted to acknowledge. It was slow, lingering, as if she could pour every word she couldn’t say into that single act. When she pulled back, her eyes glistened, her voice barely above a whisper.

“You can’t leave me,” she said, her vulnerability laid bare. “You promised me forever.”

“And I’ll keep that promise,” you replied, your own tears falling freely now. “I’ll keep it in every way that matters. Because love like ours doesn’t end, Weds. It doesn’t disappear." Your hand moved to her chest, resting over her heart. “It will be right here. In your heart, in your heartbeat. Forever. Just keep it there, as long as you can.”

And she had been keeping it there, that's why she was here now, again.

The fireflies still danced, their soft, flickering glow illuminating the darkened grove where time seemed to stand still. Wednesday stood in the center of it all, the same place she had so often shared with you, the very spot where you had made promises of forever. The trees, the earth beneath her boots, the quiet hum of nature—it was all unchanged. And yet, everything was different.

You weren’t there.

The stillness pressed down on her like a weight, suffocating her. Her dark eyes scanned the clearing, hoping—futilely, she knew—for a glimpse of you. Her fingers twitched at her sides, wanting to reach out, to hold you again, but there was nothing to grasp... nothing but the emptiness.

A sudden movement caught her eye, and she turned her head to see a single blue butterfly, far from the nest she had once made Eugene set here decades ago, just for you.

The butterfly hovered for a moment before drifting closer, circling her as if it recognized her presence.

And then it landed on her hand that was still clenched tightly beside her, as if taking her hand....

She stared at the butterfly, her heart hammering in her chest. And she felt it, She felt you.

Her anger had once consumed her, your touch had calmed that...

One look from your eyes had broken her walls...

Your secrets became her emotions, her vulnerability.

And your absence became her weakness, her pain.

Your diary became her promise.

Your light guided her shadow, she offered you the warmth of her cold hands in return...

But it had been enough for you, hadn’t it? Enough for you, idiot. Her idiot.

You became her hope, her star.

You had called her your rose, but you were her rose. Beautiful, resilient, defiant against the odds, against her.

And made her go against everything she believed in.

You became her life, and your heart....

You heart had become hers.

Her fingers curled slightly, careful not to disturb the creature. She thought of you then, as she always did. Of your smile and the way it had softened the edges of her life. Of your voice, steady and kind, weaving words of comfort and love into the fabric of her existence. Of the way your hands had felt in hers—warm, firm, grounding her in a way she hadn’t known she needed.

The butterfly took off, its wings a blur as it joined the fireflies in their ceaseless dance. She didn’t move for a long time, her dark eyes following the butterfly as it disappeared into the night.

She could feel you here. She had always been able to feel you here. Even now, when the world had tried to convince her you were gone, this place remained untouched by that reality.

The fireflies continued their dance, but now, surrounding something invisible.

And yet, she could see it.

You and her, just you and her.

As you had been all those years ago. Young, hopeful, lost in each other’s arms as you swayed to music only the two of you could hear. She could see the way you smiled at her, the way her hands rested on your waist while yours settled on her shoulders. She could feel it too, the warmth of your touch. And she could feel it, she would always feel it, you made her feel it.

Her heartbeat.

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is it, We did it, This is the end of this journey. Writing this has been a rollercoaster of emotions, and I hope reading it has been the same for you.

When I started this, my main objective was to make it angsty, without making it angsty lol, none of this would have been possible without you. Your comments, your reaction, your love, all these got me hooked to writing.

To all those, who had been here from the start, to all those, who joined in the middle, and to all those who are still here, Thank you, it has been an honor.

Don't forget to tell me your favorite part of this chapter down below!! While this story has ended, I will still write requested one-shots/prompts set in this universe, whatever you guys suggest!! So you can comment that below too! ]

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