ambivalent • a tronnor au ✔️

Chapter 25

"Tro?" I whisper, my head resting on his chest.

"Yes, Con?" his hands were playing with my hair ever so delicately.

"When should we start telling people? I mean, obviously we don't need to tell my family. But what about your family, and - wait! What about Tyler? He's coming home today and we're going over there. Should we tell him?" I moved my head so I could face him this time. His hands slowly unraveled from my hair as I did so.

"Con, I know how much Ty means to you, but I don't think we should tell him right away. It will be like a game - almost - I just don't think he's ready to hear that news."

"You're right." I huffed, wishing that we actually could tell Tyler. If we are keeping this a secret, does that mean I have to keep my distance from Troye? I can't hug, kiss, or even cuddle with him? This completely sucks.

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I took a deep breath as I parked the car in Tyler's drive way. Here goes nothing.

"Remember, you're mine" Troye winked, giving my hand one last squeeze before he got out of the car. I just shook my head and laughed, following in his footsteps as we made our way to the front door.

After a couple of knows, we were greeted by, none other than, Jackie. "Boys! Hello! So great to see you! Tyler is upstairs if you want to go up there." She moved out of the way, letting us step inside her home. "Holler if you need anything!" She smiled, pointing towards the staircase.

"Thank you!" I called out, cautiously walking up the stairs. Troye was following, not far behind me. As soon as I knew Jackie was out of sight, I turned to Troye and gave him a small peck on the lips. "If we're going to pretend we're not a thing, I at least want to kiss you before we do" I smiled, continuing to walk back up the stairs.

"Connor! Troye!" Tyler called, rushing to the door and engulfing us in a hug. "Oh my god! I missed you guys so much!" We all laughed together, making our way inside his bedroom. "So! What's the latest gossip? Any cat fights go down while I was away? Is zalfie finally a thing?" The last sentence made a slight chuckle come out of my mouth.

"Believe it or not, no. They have however, admitted their feelings towards each other - but they're not dating yet" Troye replied, with a slight hint of disappointment. "But I'm betting sometime before school starts" He added on, making his case.

There really hasn't been much drama since Tyler left, other than with mine and Troye's relationship - but I wasn't allowed to say anything.

"Oh! Troye boy here almost moved back to Australia!" I commented, realizing that was a major event that happened.

"and I find out about this now? Troye what the fuck?" Tyler practically screamed.

"but I didn't" Troye added, having a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

** Troye's POV **

Keeping my distance from Connor was harder than I thought. There have been so many times tonight where I would just want to kiss that stupid smile off his face, but I couldn't.

I wanted to tell Tyler, oh God, I really wanted to - but I'm just not ready. Hell, I wasn't planning on telling the Franta's for a while, but that didn't turn out so well.

"I'll be right back, I'm going to the bathroom" Connor announced, sending me a wink before getting up. Tyler looked amused as Connor walked out. He hurriedly got up and closed the door behind Connor.

"We have to talk" He whispered, walking closer to me. Something about the way he said it worried me. "First and foremost; Are you two dating yet?" a sigh of relief came over me as he asked. Surely, I should lie, right? Because that's what I told Connor to do.

"we- I mean - no" I looked down at my feet. Lying to him was hard, especially when it's something as big as me dating his best friend.

"Good" I looked up at him in confusion. His eyes were sparkling, filled with excitement. "I mean - well you see- I' sorry for you, cause I know you like - or liked - him, but you see" He paused, taking a deep breath and scanning the room to make sure Connor isn't near. "Troye, you can't hate me for what I'm about to tell you"

This is when the panic kicked in. Not to worry? Now I will worry! "o-okay" I stuttered, not trusting my own voice.

"I liked Connor. Like a lot" he breathed. My heart dropped and my eyes widened. He likes Connor? My connor? Even though he's fully fucking aware of my feelings towards Connor? It took everything in me not to launch at him and strangle the fuck out of him.

"oh" was all I could reply. Oh? OH? Oh? OH? OH!? That's all I could say was Oh?

"you're mad, aren't you?" he questioned, his voice dropping.

"To be honest, Tyler - I don't know how I feel. I mean, you know about how much I like Connor - you even helped me set up an entire game of Spin The Bottle so I could kiss him, Tyler! Why now? Why do you like him now?"

"Troye, it's just - I never had feelings for Connor, like never. He is my best friend and I could Never think of him like that. But I guess, something triggered me when I saw him kiss you at the party. I was jealous. Then I came to realize that I was jealous of you. Because you got to kiss Connor!"

I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry. I wanted to shout at him and tell him that I'm dating Connor. But I didn't do any of those things. I just talked.

"Tyler, I will admit that I am a bit flustered, but I can't stop ypu from feeling these things. But you have to listen to me when I say this; if Connor ends up dating somebody, you cannot be rude and heartless to them, okay?" I was trying to save my own ass here, knowing full well that he's going to find out I'm dating Connor one way or another.

"okay" he replied softly. "Please don't tell Con?"

"I won't. I Promise"

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A/N

HEY LOVIES!!

Sorry... I would've updated sooner but like NEARLY ALL MY BOOKS IN MY LIBRARY DECIDED TO UPDATE SO I HAD TO CATCH UP ON THOSE

Also, side note: con followed me on twitter xx

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