Does love matter? Gilbert Bylthe x reader

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Y/n's POV

I was walking home when I heard someone yelling my name, I turned around slightly and saw Gilbert running up behind me. "Oh, hey." I say trying to hide my blush.

"Hey," he says coming up to stand next to me, "I saw you today,"

"I assumed so because we were at school together" I say laughing.

"Well what I meant was, it was nice to see you today. You look different, it's nice. NOT that you didn't look nice before, but you look nice... yeah." He's seams stressed, kinda cute, no, remember Ruby.

"Ok, thank you," He looks happy now, "you look nice too." I'm still laughing. "Would you like to walk home or do you have something else to say?" I ask after about twenty seconds of silence.

"Oh, yes, would you like to walk with me? We could go straight to your house or around the forest for a while, it's so nice."

"Yeah ok, let's go for a walk." I smile.

We go on a nice walk around looking at the trees and the birds as he tells me about his trip with his dad. It seemed like a really nice trip, apart from the fact that his dad is really quite sick. I feel really bad for him, I want to change the subject but I also think he should maybe talk about it, if he wants to.

"Are you ok?" I ask, he looks a little down.

"Yeah... it's just I know it isn't going to get better. I wish doctors knew more, it seems they sit by while people get sicker. And I've already lost my mother, I didn't know her, but I do know my dad, he is all I have had. And now I think I'm really going to lose him soon. I- I don't think I can-" He breaks down crying, I just hug him, I can't say anything. I just feel so bad.

We stand there, just hugging for a little while until I also start crying, we both collapse on the ground, crying.

Then we see a fox, it is the most beautiful fox, it has a dark tail. Seeing it takes us back into the real world and we go our separate ways back to our houses.

At home mother is yelling at me for being late, I had no sense of time but now we need to get dinner ready. At the dinner table father tells me that now I am 15 we should begin taking Billy's courtship more seriously, I have never told them that I don't like him at all, because they wouldn't listen anyway.

My older brother Adam was supposed to marry Billy's older sister Prissy but he ran away to college as soon as he graduated. We haven't seen him in years. He and I used to be very close, he was my role model, but our parents became too much for him and instead of trying to talk to them, he ran away, leaving me with them. They can be quite scary.

Mother is convinced all that matters is beauty and to be a good wife one day I must know how to cook and clean although she expects my husband to have enough money to have maids and cooks. My father shows no emotion, except anger, he never yells at me or mother, but when Adam was here, he was always in some sort of trouble. Thats how I learnt to keep my mouth shut and just do as my parents say.