GIF Imagines [e.m]

04

Sitting at your usual meet-up spot, you wait for your best friend Eddie to arrive. You need to ask him a huge favour and can only hope that he'll agree.

"Hey Y/L/N." You hear his voice behind you as he ruffles your hair before walking around the bench to sit down.
"Hey Eds," you say giving him an anxious smile. "You okay?"
"Yeah?" He answers, confused. "I think the question is, are you okay? Why did you call me out here?"
"Is it a crime to want to hang out with my best friend?" You ask, nervously giggling.

Eddie scans your face, noticing that something seems different about you. "No, of course not," he finally says. "But, what's weird is you normally just turn up at my trailer or something, we never formally arrange a meeting." He throws you a smug smirk, knowing he's caught you there.

Holding your hands up in surrender, you respond. "Okay fine! Maybe I have a favour to ask."
"Then what's all this fuss about? Just ask me already." He tilts his head to the side, clearly amused.

Taking a deep breath, you recite the words you've prepared. "Firstly, just know that you can say no. It will just leave me in a bit of a predicament, but obviously put yourself first and-"
"Y/L/N!" Eddie interrupts, smiling. "Just get to the point."
"Okay, okay! Well you know what my parents are like and they're always bugging me about having a boyfriend, so I may have tried to shut them up by lying to them.... and long story short, now they want me to bring my non-existent boyfriend over for dinner."

He holds a straight face for a few seconds before bursting into laughter. Trying to regain his composure, he covers his mouth with his hands. "So I feel like what you might be trying to ask me is if I will pretend to be the non-existent boyfriend in this scenario?"
Groaning, you hide your face in your hands. "Yes, I'm really sorry, I don't know what else to do."

He lifts your chin up with two of his ringed fingers. "You could just tell the truth." You glare at him. "Okay... telling the truth is off the table I guess."
"So you'll do it? Please?" Holding his hands, you beg him.
Briefly squeezing your hands before placing his own beneath his face, he looks at the sky contemplating. "Why me? Tell me a good reason or two why you chose me and maybe I'll agree."
"Eddie," you elongate his name in a whine.
He grins, enjoying this. "I'm waiting."

Glaring at him once more, you fiddle with your hands, you know exactly why you chose him but you're not about to tell him that reason, so you settle for some slightly different, although not untrue, reasons.
"My parents already love you, they would approve of you being my boyfriend. You're around mine or I'm around yours every day anyway and we spend all our time together as it is, so it would be believable. And you're my best friend, so it's part of your job to help me?" You give him a huge smile, trying to tempt him.

"Hmm, not quite good enough Y/N." As he crosses his arms, his eyes twinkle, loving how desperate you are for his help.
Screw it.
"Maybe you're the only person I would want to be my boyfriend, fake or real. Maybe you're the only person I feel comfortable enough to do this with. Maybe I think you'd be the perfect boyfriend...for me," your voice peters out at the end as you lose your temporary bravery.

Looking up at Eddie, you meet his gaze. A small smile, this time not mocking, rests on his face as he reaches out to push a lock of hair out of your eyes.
Suddenly, almost like he didn't realise what he was doing, he quickly pulls his hand back and lets out an over-exaggerated sigh. "Well." He places one fist under his chin. "Flattery works with me."
"Is that a yes?"
He nods. "Yep. When is this dinner?"
"Tonight." You grimace.
"Tonight!" he exclaims.
"Sorry."
"It's fine. See you later." He gives you a quick smile, before running off behind you without another word.

You're left with only a small feeling of satisfaction at him agreeing, but mostly you feel unsettled. You felt something shift between you just then, and you're not sure what it means.

One thing you are sure of though, is you wish Eddie wasn't just going to be your fake boyfriend. You wish that one day he'll be your real one.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:
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