Heartbeats 💕[Sebastian Stan x female reader]

[3] It is his job to be 'the nice guy'

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June 2022 – New Brunswick

Right after the party – Y/N's POV
Half an hour after Sebastian and Anthony left, y/n decided to head into her room, because she was tired as well. She looked for Christina to say goodnight to her and found her next to a few women – discussing about their next projects. She seemed kind of drunk while trying to convince y/n to stay a little longer. She refused, hugged Christina and went to the stairs to go to her room on the 2nd floor.

She opened the zipper of her dress and stored it carefully in the bag she got from the store she bought it. Then she changed into her pajamas: a black shorts and a red shirt with a comic cat on it. With a big yawn she crawled under her blanket, laying on her back – facing the ceiling. "What an interesting evening.", she thought. "I never thought Sebastian would be such a nice human being. He is so famous that I expected him to be more arrogant and aware of his fame. But talking to him was like talking to a normal person. I really enjoyed his company."

That night y/n had a hard time to fall asleep although she was very tired. Every time she fell asleep she saw Sebastian's face in front of her – laughing, smiling or winking at her. And every time she woke up again and realized that she couldn't clear her mind from that man and his steel-blue eyes. She knew that there are a lot of girls and women who have a crush on him, but she was never one of them. She admired his acting skills and heard a lot of stories from Christina about their time at college, but never though about him in a different way.

Somehow that changed this night, as she couldn't stop thinking about every word he said, every glaze they shared and every laughter that happened. "Stop being so childish. You are like a teenager having a crush on a celebrity for the first time.", she shook her head in disbelief what happened to her. She was sure this were the side-effects of the alcohol she had. She barley drank so that could be a possible reason for her strange thoughts.

As she still couldn't sleep she touched the golden ring on her left hand that was an heirloom from her Grandmother Charlotte. It was her engagement ring and she loved wearing it as memento of her. She was never a religious person but every time she felt lost or needed guidance, she touched that ring while asking silent for her grandma's advice. Obviously she never got a real response but most of the time she suddenly knew what to do or not to do.
While touching her ring she tried some breathing exercises she learned at a meditation class and both helped her to finally fall asleep – without dreaming about the guy with the blue eyes.

The next morning she woke up with a little headache caused by the alcohol she had last night. She stretched her whole body, rolled around to her bedside table and saw a message from Christina on her phone: "Good morning sweetheart. Breakfast is ready. Come downstairs when you're awake" The message was sent half an hour ago, so y/n changed her clothes into black sports tights, a sports bra and an oversized grey shirt and jumped downstairs to meet Christina in the kitchen.

The smell of pancakes and coffee reached her nose as she entered the kitchen. Christina's cook (yes, that woman has a cook that helps her to maintain that stunning body) smiled at y/n with a "Good morning miss" while preparing a plate with pancakes for her. Christina sat on a table reading the newspaper when y/n sat down next to her.

"Good Morning. How can you be awake this early right after your birthday party? When did you even go to bed?" y/n greeted her friend. Christina sipped on her coffee and answered: "You get used to not getting enough hours of sleep in my industry. I think I fell asleep around 4am and now it's (she turned her wrist to look on her watch) 10:30am. I had more than 5 hours of sleep. That's an average night!"
y/n sighed, because she would have been in a constant bad mood with only 5 hours of sleep. She needed at least 7 hours to be functional.

"I've seen you enjoyed your evening with Sebastian and his friend Anthony", Christina said teasing. "Okay here we go. What am I going to answer to her? How did she even realize what I was doing the whole evening? She was all busy talking to her guests." y/n though before she answered Christina: "Yeah, we met at the buffet and kept on talking. He is a really nice guy."

Christina raised one of her eyebrows, took another sip of her coffee before she answered carefully: "First of all: I said you were with Sebastian AND Anthony, but in your answer you only talked about Sebastian, I guess. You know that I know him for over 20 years and it is his job to be "the nice guy". He was always kind of a womanizer and he flirted a lot – having one-night-stands as well as short-term relationships. I mean he is turning 40 this year without being married or having kids. Think about it: There must be a reason for that." Before she could even continue on her rant about Sebastian, y/n laughed – making Christina raising her eyebrow even higher.

"I just said that he is a nice guy. I did not plan to marry him, Christina. No worries. Also you are turning 40 this year and you're not married and having kids as well. What is your reason for that?" y/n said also teasing.

She knew that Christina never wanted to have kids and had no plans to marry someone. She loved to be an independent woman and she had no need to change that. As y/n knew that (Christina was not secretly about that topic. She told everybody she knows that she's not gonna have kids or a husband so that they don't have false expectations) she thought she could risk that last joke. "Touché", Christina said smiling.

"Also I do not even have his number and he hasn't mine. So nothing to worry about, Christina. It was just a nice evening." y/n continued while eating her warm and fluffy pancakes.
Christina knew that she was lying. She saw her eyes sparkle when she mentioned Sebastian's name. "Poor girl. I hope she will not be one of his trophies", she thought.

A few of her former college classmates told her that he had changed over the years, but Christina wasn't sure about that. She promised herself that if he ever came to her and asked for y/n's number she would refuse his request. Y/n's ex-boyfriend broke her heart about a year ago and she never really got over that. Christina did not want her heart to be broken again by this womanizer.

After they finished breakfast y/n packed her stuff and decided to drive back to Brooklyn. Thankfully she had a few weeks off before starting with a new project. She was in the hair and make-up team for a movie that was filmed in New York. She was very grateful for that, because she was able to sleep in her own apartment every night – she was not a big fan of hotel rooms for a longer period.

A few minutes later she packed all her stuff in her car and wanted to say goodbye to Christina as she realized, that they didn't even tried the cake y/n bought from Carlo's bakery. "Christina, there is a little surprise for you in the fridge. I totally forgot about that this morning. Give it a try and let me know if you like it!" y/n said and smiled at Christina while hugging her goodbye. Christina looked very surprised, nodded and waved her goodbye as y/n went to her car.

On her drive back to Brooklyn y/n tried very hard to not see those steel-blue eyes in front of her all the time, but she still seemed a little distracted. "Let's go back home, maybe take a power-nap and then focus on the upcoming movie. That was just one evening and I will probably not see him again. Oh and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have sushi tonight. No Italian food!"