cherry balm / c.g x reader

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𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 4 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, when she felt her world collapse before her. when she felt her heart stop as she looked down at her phone. gulping back tears, groaning, and laying back down.

she felt multiple things that she felt like throwing up.

her head ached, her chest did too and her eyes were burning from the bright light that emitted from her phone.

she felt frustrated, betrayed, upset, depressed, mad, angry, and all the synonyms for the mentioned.

she felt alone. again.

holding back her tears will only make it painful. she tried to look at the bright side of this whole situation. he's fucking finally out of her life.

CHERRY BALM.

"Welcome to Captain Bob's- Woah."

Carl Gallagher stood behind the counter, his eyes staring into the girl before him, wondering why she had such red puffy eyes and nose.

"Did you know?" Y/N frowned, looking upon Carl who stood behind the counter. "Should I know?" He asked, unsure of what she meant. Y/N grunts, "I'll have fries. And a new boyfriend." She said jokingly.

That's when it hit Carl. "You and Anthony are done?" He gaped. "We were long done for gods sakes, his name was Anthony." Y/N bit her bottom lip. "His name was Anthony. Oh, for fuck sakes, why did I get my heart crushed by a guy named Anthony?" She frowned, pulling a dollar from her jacket's pocket.

She tosses it above the counter with a shrug. Carl looked at her with furrowed eyebrows.

"I'll be having my break in a minute," Carl suggested. "You can talk to me."

Y/N looked up to him. "Why?"

"Well, why not?" He smirked. She smiled softly. "You're Anthony's 'best friend '" she quoted. "So?"

"So.." Y/N gave him a look. Defeated with nothing else to say, she sighed. At least someone'll listens.

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Y/N munched on her fries as she stared into nothingness. Carl sat in front of her, awkwardly watching her chew her fries as she couldn't care about anything else, too deep into thought or something.

She was thinking about all the good times she and Anthony had. Her head was starting to ache when all that ever came to her was how shitty he was to her. How come she never noticed it?

"So? What happened between you and Anthony?" Carl reached in for a fry. Y/N snapped from her deep thought, clearing her throat as she straightened her back.

"4 am last night. Friend called. Send me a picture even. He was with another girl." She explained, summarized, she didn't wanna talk about it.

Carl nods slowly. "I honestly thought you would know." Y/N scoffed and Carl shakes his head, shrugging. "It's Anthony." He smirked. Y/N scoffed. "I don't even know why I'm sulking about him." She took a sip of her coke.

Carl was, least to say, mesmerized by her. She looked so.. like she didn't care. Like she looked.. well hot.

Might be a wrong time to admit but he was so jealous of Anthony for pulling a girl like Y/N L/N. And for him to cheat on her? He was surprised. But, guilty and messed up as he admits, he's glad Anthony did what he did.

He was snapped out of his daze when Y/N stood up. Dusting her pants and began to pick up her baguette bag.

She pursed her lips, her stare, more like glare, focused behind Carl. It honestly scared him, her look. Hair on his neck rose as he turned to where Y/N was sending daggers, almost scared to do so, what if whoever, whatever she was looking at was already on fire? Just from her glare?

But his jaw dropped when he turned around. There he was Anthony. With a brunette.

He looked back at Y/N who looked like she was reaching her limit, she had that look, that look that warns she might just break down. But She managed to gulp me back down.

Wiping small tears forming, before turning around and making her way out.

Carl didn't know whether he should go after her, he still has one more shift.

But he did follow her anyways, grabbing her by her wrist just before she exited the place.

"Hey, uh, you wanna like to hang out later?" He asked. Y/N furrows her eyebrows at him. "You- You know like.. so you can have someone to talk to, distract yourself from Anthony?" He adds, awkwardly smiling. Y/N looked at the floor for a bit before letting out an exhale, "Yeah. Sure that would be nice." She softly smiled. "I'll wait for you?" She said.

Carl smiled back at her. "Yeah okay, I'll have one more shift, I promise I'll be quick."

Y/N genuinely smiled, but she was fighting with herself behind it. 'He's Anthony's friend.' 'so? he acted more like your boyfriend than Anthony did.' 'But even so, he doesn't like you like that.' 'the way he stares at you says otherwise.'

Carl jogged back behind the counter and Y/N mentally punched herself, cringing as she turned around.