Unexpected (James Phelps x Reader)

1.10

Idk if A.M. is the perfect fit here but... Kinda. Yeah. 🎶

"Thirsty?"

Oliver asked. My shoulders dropped in disappointment after finding out it wasn't James.

"Yeah. Is everything okay?" I asked. "Sure." He replied and poured some water for himself. "You wanted me to be James didn't you?" He smirked raising his eyebrows while drinking. "I'll let you guess that one." I chuckled quietly.

"So how's it going with you two?" He asked me. How was it going? I mean.. good I guess. But what was I supposed to say? "It feels less complicated than it is I guess." Even I was surprised hearing those words come out of my mouth. But they made sense. Everything felt super easy for now. It was like some shitty highschool movie or something. We'd just blindly follow our feelings, while major problems were just weeks ahead of us, waiting quietly to then pop out of nowhere.

"How's it complicated?" He furrowed his eyebrows. "Well... I like James." I admitted feeling my cheeks warm up. "Like... A lot." Oliver was looking at me having no idea what I meant to be an issue. "And yeah. That's pretty much the problem." I finished.

"How's that a problem? It's amazing actually. I haven't seen him this happy in quite some time." My heart fluttered at those words. Was I really having a noticeable impact on James? A small smile would form on my face. But then I couldn't avoid the thought of me leaving in two weeks and my heart dropped heavy again.

"You know... I don't know who we are trying to fool here with our little love story or whatever. But facts are facts. I live far away and I'm studying university there. I couldn't just leave everything. This is not a movie. And James? He is a famous man, which is intimidating, not gonna lie, and he has his job and his life here. So if we try to call it a relationship, it's gonna have to be a long-distance one. And I honestly can't see myself being able to do that. To not be able to hug him, to feel his heartbeat and stuff. That would be hard as fuck! How could we possibly overcome that? It's like... so scary you know? Now listening to what I'm saying, finding out for real how attached I got in such a short time... What even is that?" I bit my cheek to keep a steady voice.

"Sorry I kinda got carried away there. In short. It's going to get complicated and then we're going to take a break and then it's gonna be over. At least that's a usual scenario for long-distance relationships." I said dully. If I allowed any emotion into it, I'd probably cry. And I didn't want that. I didn't want Oliver to pity us. I just wanted to state the facts. 

There was no way this could be a long term thing and I was a fool for hoping so.

"And it's gonna hurt like hell because we both were stupid enough to let us start feeling things." I continued when Oliver was quiet. "But I guess I kind of already said that." I mumbled.

I didn't even know why I started this conversation instead of just saying we were doing fine. I guess I was just somehow keeping these thoughts inside my head and now Oliver has got me started on them by asking that stupid question at 3 am. Never ask people about their feelings at 3 am if you don't want to start a deep talk.

"I don't agree with you on so many levels." He laughed quietly. "What? How?" I gave him an annoyed look. "It's just facts..." "Fuck the facts." He cut me short.

"First of all, you never got the chance to decide whether you'd start feeling things or not. Or I mean... I don't know about you but I'm quite sure James started feeling things the first time he spoke to you. However cliché it sounds. He was immediately blown away by you." I looked away uncomfortably.

"So you weren't stupid, you were just taken by surprise. And second of all. I was the one to encourage James to still go for it after he gave me the same reasons it was a bad idea that you just mentioned. Because I didn't want him to miss on something wonderful. And I don't know how but I believe that you guys can make it work."