You're everything I needed (Flamingo Albert x reader)

||Ex Best Friend||

As you stare into each other's eyes, he could tell something was wrong. You knew whatever you chose would change everything, for better or for worse, you just didn't know which one. Your thoughts raced as you realized you couldn't pause time to think about this, you had to choose at that moment. When you finally chose your answer, it wasn't anything personal, you knew it was what you had to do, "I um- I'd love to but I really have to do something but I promise it'll be quick-" you didn't really know what to tell him but that's all that came out of your mouth before you sped through the crowd once more, you couldn't let him get away again.

Maybe if you'd apologize to Jake and you become friends again, you didn't have to bring Albert into it anymore and everything could go back to normal. You continued to make your way through everyone before finally making it to the door, but it was closed. You thought to yourself for a bit before pushing it open, it was unlocked. And like you remembered before, it was raining. You close the door behind you as the loud music faded and you realized how dark it was outside, but thankfully the streetlights helped.

You covered your face with your hand preventing water from getting in your eyes as you look through the darkness hoping he was outside somewhere. As you look around for a bit longer, you saw him, he was about to enter the parking lot. It wasn't too late. A smile appeared on your face as you quickly started running towards him hoping you don't trip. As you get closer and closer you felt everything around you disappear, like it was a dream, until you finally called out, "Jake wait!" He stopped, causing you to stop as well as you tried to catch your breath. "What." he said quietly not wanting to turn around to look at you. "You can't keep running away," you replied before getting cut off. "Says who?" he answered before walking off again. You were getting kind of annoyed at this point, it was now or never.

You quickly grabbed his arm causing him to turn around, "Says me. Why can't you just tell me what's going on?!" "Because I don't want to" he snapped back snatching his arm away. "Jake just tell me what's wrong we can talk it out, you can't just keep ignoring us" you calmly say hoping to get some answers. "I don't have time for this y/n" he replied annoyedly. "Looks like you don't have time for any of us anymore." you sighed sarcastically, "Look, I'm sorry about the whole letter thing ok? I didn't know and-" "You don't get it do you." He cut you off laughing, "It's not about the stupid letter anymore it's you and Albert" "What do you mean me and Albert-?" you asked confused, "I thought you wanted us to be friends" He looked at you for a minute before finally saying, "Yea exactly, friends, but now it's like he's replacing me. I didn't want any of this to happen ok? If he didn't ask you to prom everything would've been normal! It's always Albert this Albert that and it's gotten to the point where Kirsten had to be involved!"

"...Wait what? What does Kirsten have to do- What are you talking about?" you replied in shock as his eyes widened. He was speechless for a second as he wiped the rain from his face before answering with a laugh, "Well crap, I gave myself away, might as well tell you about it now huh" "Jake what-? What are you-" you speechlessly let out as the horrible feeling in your stomach grew. "Well, you read the letter, right? Yea, I liked you. And Kirsten, well,
she liked Albert. And I know what your thinking, why would she date Jayden? She wanted to make him jealous, but clearly, it wasn't working, that's when she contacted me. She noticed you and Albert getting closer and she hated it, she saw that I hated it too, which is how she found out I liked you. So, we had a deal, If I got Albert to get closer with Kirsten, me and you could become closer as well. But, when she got suspended, I lost hope. Until prom was announced, I thought maybe I was just overthinking and you'd feel the same, but of course, he asked you before I could."

As you tried to process everything he just said, but it was all too much, "You were working with Kirsten- this whole time?! Jake it's been months you've been doing this for almost a whole semester and you weren't going to tell me?!" "Yes I know it's bad and I never wanted her to fight you I just didn't know what else to do!" he snapped back. "So you chose to plot against Albert with my fucking bully are you insane do you know what she would of done she could of blackmailed you into something!"

You didn't even know what to say at this point, all the emotions you felt turned into anger, sadness, and confusion. "Well I'm sorry I tore myself apart for you, if it wasn't for Albert none of this crap would of happened!" he yelled as you yelled back, "It's not even his fault!" He took a deep breath before "Well if it's not his fault, if I had asked you to prom before he did, would you have said yes?"

You stood there, speechless, you didn't know the answer, you didn't even know how you felt anymore. "Exactly, now go back inside, I'm pretty sure he's waiting for you." he said quietly before turning around and walking off again but your voice stopped him causing him to turn around again, "Listen, I'm still trying to process what just happened with this Kirsten stuff and I'm sorry about everything that happened, I would never try to replace you, you've been there for me for years and you're one of my best friends, please, don't leave us again." Your voice cracked as you felt yourself about to cry hoping that'll be the last time you'd had to see Jake like this.

As you held out your hand for him to take, you assured him, "We can all work this out right? We'll forgive you, we can be normal friends again just like old times. We can still have fun nights where we hang out and play tag like we used to when we were little! We still haven't watched the sunset on top of Walmart again like we said we would, we still have so much stuff we need to do together... Remember when we had just made our friendship bracelets? We made a promise we'd always have each others backs no matter what, we promised-" at this point, you couldn't hold your tears in any longer, you couldn't even tell if it was your tears or the cold rain, but you kept a smile on your face as you and Jakes memories raced through your head, "Please Jake, I miss you"

But, he didn't take your hand, instead, he looked at the friendship bracelets on your wrist, then at his. "You don't need our bracelets anyway, you already have Alberts." were the last words he said, before ripping his off. As the beads fell to the floor, the pain you felt was all throughout your body, you felt like you just got hit by a train. As he began to walk to his car, the words that would soon stab you left his mouth, "Maybe- you should move back to California."

Authors note

SOBBING EVEN MORE

IM SORRY I DID THIS TO YOU GUYS ARE U OK ILL HAND YOU A TISSUE 💔

(if u wanna feel even more miserable abt this listen to dear ex best friend by tate mcrae ur welcome 🤩)