rye POV
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The sun shoves its light through the window in Chili's house and lands on my face. I lift open my eyelids, confused at first about where I was. And than I remembered, what happened last night. I fell asleep at her house... oops.
I guess I understand better now. I understand how she feels... I guess. I glance down at chili
pepper, she's still asleep. Or so I thought... I sigh and that causes her to jump... a little too much.
She falls off the edge of the couch with a huge thud and I can't help myself to giggle a little bit. "Oh! Hello! I forgot you were here!" She looks up at me, her eyes widened as she rubs the back of her head. I smile at her and she lifts herself to her feet. I do the same and we both stand awkwardly for about 10 seconds.
"Sorry-" chili pepper looks downward and I let out a chuckle. "There's nothin' to be sorry about...?" She looks up at me with a look that tells me she'd like to say something but she keeps it to herself. "Uhm... do you want me to leave...?" "No! I meant- No." God-dammit everything about this girl is adorable... it's like she wants me to love her. "Well ok then... what do you want to do?" She looks down at her feet, obviously thinking about something and looks back up to speak. "You can go back home if you want... but I do have one more thing to say to you..." Her face turns a darker shade of red and I look at her with a perplexed expression. "Ok so uh... I didn't really like think... I would every say this but uh..." she laughs awkwardly. "I think I... like you. Like... 'like like' you..." she bites her fingernails and my eyes widened.
Huh? I wasn't expecting that. I don't understand why I feel so happy about this. I guess... I might as well tell her.
"Chili pepper. You could've just said love darlin'... but uh... I like you too." Chili pepper looks back up at me and throws her arms around me— I tumble backwards onto the couch.
"Thank you— so much. I didn't think you'd react so positively... I was scared." I wrap my arms around her in return as we sit there for about a minute.
She loosens her arms from my sides and looks at me. We made direct eye contact for a second before she moved her eyes away from my face. She's straddling both of my legs, and as I notice that I try my very best to ignore it.
"Does that mean that we're uh... like— dating?" She took a small section of the hair from her ponytail and twirled it around her finger as her cheeks turned red.
"If you'd like." I reply. She stares at me for a good 50 seconds and then smiles. "I'd like that."
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A/N
You get some fluffy chapters ig, I'm feeling nice today😒
