Chris Evans & Characters Imagines

High school sweetheart- Andy Barber

Summary: Andy and Jacob enjoy lunch, but a falling glass leads to a special high school reunion.

Pairing: Andy Barber x High school sweetheart!reader (Ft. Jacob and reader's daughter, Stella)

Author's note: Request made from an ask on Tumblr. Hope you all like it 💛 and mistakes will be corrected later!!

Also, I want to thank cevans1981 since she was the one who gave reader's daughter a name because I had completely forgotten to give it to her haha. But this person that I have known for a short time and that I have grown very fond of, saved me 🥰❤️

"And I'm going to order a hamburger and fries and," Andy looks at his son, who pauses to choose a drink from the menu. "A cola without sugar."
The waitress finishes writing down in her little notebook and smiles at them both, "Okay, I'll get them right away."
"Thank you," says Andy politely to the waitress before scowling at his son, who is sitting across from him.
"What?" Jacob asks, confused
His father scoffs, laughing, and doing a vague imitation of his son, he adds, "I will order a salad"
They both laugh, recalling Jacob's comment on their way to the bar a few minutes earlier.
The young man raised his hands surrendered "ok I admit it, the hamburger at the table in the entrance looked tempting and I just wanted to try it." He points with his head to the big hamburger, on the table on the other side, in front of a girl of about four, five years old, who's moving her legs from side to side, waiting anxiously for someone.
Andy turns his head to looks at the little girl but quickly his gaze goes back to his table, where the waitress leaves the lunch for both of them. "enjoy it". They both thank her with a simple nod and begin to eat. Andy is unaware that the little girl's companion is someone very well known to him.

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"God! It was delicious, but I think i will not eat anything for the next three days".
His father opens his mouth to say something but he cuts him off. "Yes. I know, you don't have to scold me again for not ordering the salad."
Andy laughs, leaves the pay on the table and gets up from the table, like his son, to leave the bar and start the walk home.
"Wait, I need to go to the bathroom first. Go to the car, I'll catch up with you in a few seconds ok?"
"Sure"
The noise of a glass falling to the ground alerts the young man.
"Oh my god Stel, Are you alright hun?"
Jacob walks over to help the little girl, and you. "Are you okay?" with a couple of napkins tries to pick up the pieces of glass. After a second, two waitresses arrive to clean the mess.
"Thanks for the help" you smile kindly at him.
"No problem. she's ok, Got hurt?" The latter addressing the little girl who is sitting, but the little girl doesn't answer.
"Stella, be polite please."
"I'm fine, but my ice cream. I Cant' eat it anymore" the little one answers sadly. Jacob catches up with her. "Well, Stella, right? She nods. "I have an idea, but first we have to ask your mother"

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The bathroom door opens, Andy getting out of it. Determined to go to the car, thinking that his son is waiting there, but it's not like that. He's sitting next to a little girl, the same one he had pointed out when they were waiting for the food, they're both sharing an ice cream.
And in front, there is you. He feels how time stops around him when he sees you. It's as if the years hadn't passed for you.
Your face, illuminated by your warm lips which curve into a beautiful smile. Your eyes, that color so unique, so...hypnotic. Your soft hair that falls on your shoulders...There, sitting opposite of the little girl and Jacob, is you. Her high school sweetheart.

"Dad. Dad, hey!"
Andy comes back to reality with the call of his son. You turn around, your curiosity explodes inside.
He slowly approaches the table. But you didn't expect to meet him.
"Andrew"
"Y/n"
Jacob doesn't understand. "Wait, You know each other?"

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"It's incredible how the years have passed"
Both are sitting on a benche in the park, watching as Jacob helps Stella on the swing.
"Not for you, you're still the same as when we were in high school" Andy immediately takes it back. Maybe it didn't sound as good as he wanted. "In a good way I say. I mean, you're still just as beautiful. I'm sorry. " he blurts out.
You laugh a little. The years have passed, yes, but you seem to make him nervous, no matter what. "It's okay, I get it. You too, well only now you have that-" She points to her chin, referring to his beard. Andy laughs at the gesture.
His eyes turn to the little girl who is playing animatedly with his son.
"So what happened to Andrew Barber's life, huh? you ask playfully, "Did you manage to fulfill your dream?"
Andy ducks his head at the sudden question. Andy nods, implying that he is. But fulfilling that dream required setting aside another. You were his other dream that he had to give up.
"Yes, I made it. I'm ADA actually."
"Oh wow! Congratulations. Your partner must be proud of you"
"I'm divorced actually" Andy mentally beats himself up. Not that he didn't want you to know, but-- maybe he shouldn't have been too direct.
You don't know what to say, well, who would want to divorce him. you wouldn't. You definitely wouldn't.
"She cheated on me. multiple times so-" he doesn't end because he feels the warmth of your hand on his. "I get it. Something similar happened to me only, well, i was carrying someone inside me" you tell him gesturing to your daughter. "His father, well... I was the other woman... I had no idea, I found out the same day I was going to break the news to him. we even got married, but after that I filed the divorce papers."
Now it's Andy who comforts you, imitating your previous action. But it turns into a hug when he sees that the subject seems to have touched something very sensitive for you. "I'm sorry, you didn't deserve to go through that"
After a minute, both break away from the hug. "Sometimes I would like to go back in time and have changed a couple of things but then, then I think that she would not be here if it were not for that, and, despite everything, she brightens my days. And I am, we are happy."
"I think the same of Jacob. he is the only reason for everything I do on a day to day basis." andy adds after you. Andy sighs, thinking carefully about what he is about to say. "And ctually There's only one thing that I regret, or well, I regretted it, at least until today because -well... I would have liked to have stayed with you, but, I Don't know... fate seems to have brought us together again. I don't know for what reason, but I'm partly grateful.
"Me too" you answer.
Both you and him, look at each other. Both of their hearts were beating very fast. The feeling. That feeling that they both had when they were teenagerss, that they later stopped having, and that they shared with another person, now resurfaces. That feeling that both believed lost. Seems to have reborn again.
Love.