Rim of the World (Gabriel X Reader) *discontinued*

Chapter 19

*This is the outfit you find and wear. That will also be your hairstyle. Feel free to imagine something else if you don't like it!*

Once I've changed I go and meet the others back by the escalators.

"Damn girl, you look good!" Dariush comments. I fidget with my fingers uncomfortably and force a smile.

"Thanks, Dariush... Alex, can I talk to you for a second?" I ask.

He stutters, "uh... sure."

I take him around the corner.

"You like Zehn Zehn, right?"

"Well... I wouldn't exactly say i- uh."

"Alex, you can tell me," I laugh.

"Yes," he says in a small voice.

"Well, why don't you get her something special?" I say nodding towards the jewellery shop, "she would like that you know."

"I don't know, Y/N..."

"Well, just a suggestion, but I really think you should," I pat him on the shoulder and then leave. Heading back to the others.

"What was that all about?" Gabriel asks.

"Nothing," I say in a light voice, smiling a little.

A bit later, we cycle back out of the mall and are stopped when we see Alex staring at something. A car.

"1973 Ford Mustang Mach One," he says, "my dad had one just like it."

"That Mustang doesn't have any computers or anything that can be fried by the pulse, right?" Gabriel asks.

"Right."

We all stand in awe and drop our bikes.

"I call shotgun!"

We all start running towards the car and I sit in the back with Gabriel and Dariush. Alex sits in the driver seat, we are about to drive off when Alex suddenly pauses.

"Oh. I can't drive a stick."

"What?"

"Oh."

Zehn Zehn and Alex swap places and that's when Zehn Zehn starts the car.

I feel Gabriel's hand reaching down and holding mine. I look up at him.

"Hey," he whispers.

"Hi," I smile.

"Hold on tight!" Zehn Zehn laughs while spinning around a corner. Our fun is interrupted when the alien jumps onto the front of the car.