#yes i know ive not tagged any of these consitantly after the first 4 tags

[tangledstarlight]

Number 15 for Juke ✨💕?

now. i'm sure you were expecting first time love confessions and honestly so was it so you can imagine my surprise when this is what i wrote instead! hope you like it!! 😊💜

15. drunkenly confessing feelings

50 cliche tropes and prompts!

“Are you sure you’re okay with him?” Reggie asks as he slings Alex’s arm over his shoulders, eyes darting over to where Willie has started trying to climb a lamppost with a wince.

“I think you’ve got your hands full with those two,” Julie laughs lightly as she turns away from the passenger side of her car where she’s just managed to get Luke to re-fasten his seatbelt, head resting against the headrest as he mumbles through the lyrics to another one bites the dust.

Alex is half asleep on his feet and Willie has made it a foot off the ground and Julie starts to question why she’s friends with them. And why she’d offered to pick them up after their impromptu night out.

But when Luke had rang her an hour earlier to ask they’d all sounded giddy and excited and just like they’d sing along loudly to the radio. Yet when she’d stopped outside the bar they’d been in, Alex had been close to crying over a photo of him and Willie, while Willie and Luke had been giggling to each other as they tried to jump over a fire hydrant as Reggie, bless his semi-sober heart, had been trying to corral them together.

Getting everyone into her car had been a whole other situation that involved bribes of food and promises that she wasn’t mad. And even then it had taken 10 minutes and a few glares from passers by.

“Yeah,” Reggie heaves a sigh, head knocking on top of where Alex has rested his on his shoulder, “Text when you two get in?”

“Of course. Let me know if we’re on for breakfast in the morning or not,” she grins, as she watches Willie slide down the lamppost and lets out a string of giggles.

“I’ll be waking them both up at 8am on the dot for pancakes,” Reggie grins, patting Alex’s shoulder with his free hand and stumbles a little as he walks over to Willie. Julie waits until the three of them have linked arms and are stumbling towards their apartment door.

She shakes her head with fond amusement that turns to mild annoyance when she turns back to her car to find Luke half hanging out the window and staring up at her with wide eyes.

“You better not have taken that seatbelt off,” she says, putting her palm against his forehead and pushing lightly to guide him back into the car.

“It beeps at me when I take it off,” Luke pouts, his head rolling across his shoulder to look at her as she climbs back into the car again. “And not a fun beep.”

“And what exactly is a ‘fun’ beep?” Part of her knows she’s not going to get a logical answer out of him right now, but the rest of her can’t help but engage. She loves all the different sides of Luke she’s gotten to see over the years, but she has a soft spot for drunk Luke and how he says whatever is on his mind without a thought.

“Y’know like, b-b-beeeeeeep,” he replies, lips quivering as he says it, spit flying at the centre console that she doesn’t even have time to tell him off for before he’s talking again, “Do you think I should grow a moustache?”

Julie watches as he pouts his lips again, crossing his eyes as he tries to look below his nose and can’t stop the laugh that bubbles past her lips.

“I love that,” Luke says, lips falling into a soppy smile as he looks at her and Julie raises an eyebrow at him.

“What?”

“Your laugh,” he says and his words are a little slurred, but not enough for her to miss the truth in them, “I love you too. You know that, right?”

She pauses with her seat belt hovering over her shoulder to turn her body more towards him, at his furrowed brow and anxious eyes. Julie shakes her head a little, a small smile on her lips and she learns across the middle of the car to press a quick kiss to the corner of his frown.

“Of course I know. We’ve been dating for 3 years, you do remember that right?”

As she pulls away Luke lets out a loud sigh, throwing his head back against the headrest and smiling at her, “I know.”

Julie thinks that’s the end of the conversation and finally clicks her belt into place and turns to start the engine when Luke’s voice interrupts her.

“You didn’t say it back,” he sing-songs, eyebrows furrowed more dramatically now but he can’t stop the way his lips are still stretched into a smile.

“I love you too,” she laughs, nose wrinkling at the way he lets out a whispered ‘yes’, as he closes his eyes and starts mumbling along to a song only he can hear. Then Julie finally starts the car and drives them home.