A stupid crush: Nico di Angelo x reader

Chapter 12

Finally, you and Connor broke the kiss.

"Wow." you said. For that was all you could think to say.

"Wow, is right," Connor agrees.

Just at that moment, staring into Connor's eyes, holding hands, you fell into a dark pit of hell you couldn't get out of.

A black hole in the fabric of space and time where you would spend the rest of eternity floating, alone.

An endless ocean, where, impossibly, it gets darker and darker. And the sinking towards the endless bottom goes on and on. And just gets colder as you reach the bottom.

Like a dark cave, where the further you go,the further you go away from your love ones you go. Only onwards towards the darkness that wrenches your guts, and the monsters that you thought were only made up to give you a scare. . .but they'r real, real enough to make your life hell.

You were lost not only in Connor's eyes, but the black hole, the ocean.

You shook your head out of your stupor and your sense of reality and what was happening came back to you.

Like you grabbed the tether anchored to the spaceship, just in time before it was out of reach, to pull you away from the black hole.

Like you grabbed onto a lifebuoy and floated back to your boat, before you reached the deep sea where no one dared to go.

Like you realized going to the cave was a bad idea, a terrible one. And turned back before your monsters of regret and pain could grab you.

"I-I have to go," you told Connor suddenly. Getting up, you quickly tried to make your way to the front door.

But you reached out for the front door with your left hand and pulled back in pain. But the second your right hand reached for the door handle and it was a second too late.

Connor caughter up with you, grabbed  your hand and spun you around.

"I'm just going to say it before I lose the courage to ever say it again, (Y/N), will you go out with me?" Connor asked, eyes full of hope.

Beautiful eyes in fact.
Eyes that twinkle no matter what.
Like stars.
You could really see the galaxy in Connor's eyes.

Connor.

He was the one for you.

Sorry to break up the lovey-dovey stuff, but am I the only one here that remembers Nico?

That part of you was rational and tried to save you. It was the part of you that threw you the lifebuoy, made sure you was tethered to the ship, and convinced you to turn around from the cave.

Nico.

(Y/N)! He's your boyfriend for fuck's sake!

(Y/N), tell Connor you can't!

That your dating Nico!

Tell him-

"Yes." It happened so suddenly, an impulsive side of your that you never knew you had.

Connor whooped and leaned in for a kiss which you gladly returned.

As you fell deeper into his embrace, you realized there was no turning back now.

Just as you turned to grab the other end of the tether, it was already out of your grasp too far for you to reach. As you looked into the beautiful, peaceful, thinking galaxy, just moments before you'd be lost forever.

Just as the lifebuoy came in reach,a current came and pushed it away. You looked at the pretty sea because it would be the last pretty thing you would ever see.