⤷ the one in which the quiet girl and the dorky new guy fall for each other and sing more than a few times along the way.
♫ [s2-s6] [sam evans] ♫
published: 09.18.2020
completed: 05.21.2023
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Late one April evening, Keilani was studying for her anatomy exam when she saw her phone begin to buzz. When she looked at her phone screen, she saw Sam's profile pic and grinned. She answered the Facetime call without really looking at the screen, beginning to say, "Hey, I was studying for anatomy, but I can totally take a five minute–"
Keilani faltered in the middle of her sentence when she saw his red-rimmed eyes and an expression she could only describe as devastated. "Sam, what happened? Is everything okay over there?"
"Everything's not okay, but you're studying right now and I know you probably have some quiz or exam coming up and–"
"No, no, sweetheart, this is way more important." Keilani went as far as to shut her textbook entirely and place it under her desk. The only thing she was focusing on was the boy staring at her through her phone screen. "What happened? You know you can tell me anything."
Sam took a deep breath and squeezed his eyes. This was the last conversation he ever wanted to have with Keilani, and the mere thought of the amount of pain he was likely about to put her through made his heart shatter into a million pieces. "I kissed someone."
Oh.
Keilani's mind went numb as she struggled to process what Sam had just admitted. "Okay," She eventually responded in a choked voice, trying her best not to let the tears spill out of her eyes. "You kissed someone else. What happened? I want to know how it happened."
"I was at this huge modeling audition, the one I was telling you about the other day. The lady running it chose me out of all the guys, and she had me come back for the shoot that night. Apparently, I wasn't bringing out my 'sexy side' enough, and she got me alone, and suddenly she was kissing me and I had no idea what to do."
Sam didn't bring up how he had been struggling with being sexy because he was so far away from Keilani and didn't want to get "too into it" with the other female models. He didn't want her to feel any sort of guilt or blame for the situation he had gotten himself into, and Sam was only proven more right when he saw the tears streaming down Keilani's cheeks. "And now you're crying because I'm a shitty boyfriend who kissed someone while in a relationship with the most incredible girl in the world–"
"Oh God, no, Sam, I'm not crying because of that," Keilani sniffled, wiping her cheeks. She took a deep shaky breath – Keilani hated the fact that she even had to have this sort of conversation. "Sam...that wasn't cheating. You didn't cheat on me. You did not want her to kiss you, but you felt like you couldn't say no because she controls your modeling job. What happened wasn't your fault. The reason why I'm crying is because I'm so upset and angry that something like that happened to you."
"So...you're not angry at me?"
"Sam, I could never be angry at you. Especially for something like this."
