•ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ʏᴏᴜ• ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ꜱᴛᴜʀɴɪᴏʟᴏ

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Song rec: Say it first- Sam Smith

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•Matts pov•

The second the car stops I immediately jump out and walk up to her front door, I take a deep breath and knock. Oh god what am I even gonna say? How do I even do this? What if Nick was lying?

Suddenly the door opens revealing Angeline, her nose is red and her eyes are puffy. I made her cry. Immediately without even thinking I pull her into a hug, even though she's upset because of me she hugs me back. She continues to cry into my chest for a minute before I pull away.

"What's wrong Ang?" I ask quietly

I know what's wrong, but Nick told me not to tell her I know so I have to get it out of her.

She stays silent.

"Angeline please talk to me, nothing you say is going to scare me away you know that." I say moving a piece of hair out of her face

She takes a deep breath and sits down on steps in front of her door. I sit next to her and put my hand on her knee waiting for her to speak.

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•Angelines pov•

"You need to pinky promise me that after I say this, if things go wrong, you'll pretend nothing ever happened and we can stay the same." I hold out my pinky

"Of course I promise." He responds linking his pinky with mine

I just have to say it, he has to know. I can't keep lying to him.

"Tonight in the van when Chris joked that I was your girlfriend, you freaked out and made a point to say we were best friends and nothing more. And that upset me cause... I like you Matt, I have since the eleventh grade. And I know now you don't feel the same and that's okay I just can't lose you as a friend. So that's why I'm upset, I'm sorry if this makes things weird." I say looking down feeling more tears start to fall.

"Who said I don't feel the same?" He asks me

I sadly laugh "Uhm you kinda did."

His hand comes to my chin and turns my face towards him. Using his thumb he wipes a tear off my cheek and then speaks.

"Angeline I've liked you since I saw you in the sixth grade. I only said that in the van because I didn't think you felt the same."

"Are you being serious?" I ask not believing him

"I promise." He holds out his pinky and I interlock mine with his for the third time tonight

I feel a smile come to my face and silence washes over us. The boy I've wished for on every shooting star, dandelion, birthday candle, 11:11, just told me he feels the same. This is another one of those moments I wish I could stay in forever, just us sitting here looking at each other after finally confessing feelings we've been hiding. My best friend since middle school, but what happens now? Starting to date right now feels wrong, I want to but something feels off about just jumping into it.

"Matt?" I ask him breaking the silence

"Yeah?" He responds

"I don't want to date you-" I start but he cuts me off

"What?"

"You didn't let me finish." I laugh "Of course I want to date you, I was going to say I don't want to date you yet, I wanna take things slow between us. I really don't want this to get messed up." I say

"You really scared me for a minute. Of course we can take things slow, but I can tell you right now nothing is going to mess this up, I have you now you're not going anywhere." He laughs a little at the end

I smile at him and he smiles back.

"You still wanna have that sleepover?" I ask him

"Of course." He responds and holds his hand out. I take it and we walk to the van.

I can't get this stupid smile off my face. This is a day I'll remember for the rest of my life and I still cannot believe it's real.

The whole drive Matts hand doesn't leave mine. It doesn't feel weird to be holding his hand, everything feels weirdly normal like we were always meant to end up like this.

Once we arrive at the house we both get out and he quickly is by my side grabbing hold of my hand once again. We both walk in and are immediately greeted by Nick and Chris in the kitchen. I watch them both do a double take at us and our hands.

"So uhhh what's that about?" Chris points to our hands

I let out a small laugh and look at Matt wanting him to explain.

"Well we had a talk and realized we both feel the same about each other, and yeah. We're taking things slow so we're not together yet but we will be." He smiles down at me at the end

"Oh my god FINALLY!" Nick yells and runs over hugging the both of us "You don't know how hard it's been knowing you both liked each other."

"Dude I can't believe you finally grew a set and told her." Chris laughs giving his brother a high five. "Also Ang I'm kinda offended you told Nick and never told me." He crosses his arms

"Chris you would've immediately told Matt and we both know it." I laugh at him

"Yeah you're probably right, I had my suspicions anyways, you made it kinda obvious." He says

I roll my eyes at him

"Alright well we're going to bed so goodnight love you guys." Matt says

"Goodnight guys love you." They both respond

"Love you guys." I say as me and Matt head upstairs.

As soon as we get to his bedroom he goes to his closet and grabs shorts and a shirt and hands them to me, I smile at him and head to the bathroom to change and get ready for bed. When I go back to his room I see him already in bed on his phone. Once he sees me he turns his phone off moves over and opens his arms, I walk over to him and climb in beside him resting my head on his chest. He immediately wraps his arms around me pulling me in closer. 

"Goodnight Ang" He whispers planting a kiss on the top of my head

"Goodnight Matt" I whisper back closing my eyes falling asleep the happiest I've ever been. 

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I write: The moment we've all been waiting for :))) Also thank you for 100 reads so quick <33333