Chapter 16

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"That's ridiculous Y/N" William crossed his arms the best he could with his cast.

"I'm telling you William, foxy-or Fritz attacked me in the back room!"

You turned to the side.

"Just look at what he did to my face!" You lifted back the bandaid to expose the puncture wound.

"Shhh, keep your voice down!"

William looked around. He then motioned for you to move in closer. You did so. He whispered in your ear.

"I wondering if you brought the remnant."

You pulled away.

"What? Are you not even going to ask me if I'm okay?"

"Why should I care! This discovery is far more important than both of us combined!"

As William continued his rant, you reached one hand sneakily into your bag. After feeling around, you couldn't locate the test tube.

'Come on where is it.' You desperately felt around. It was then you had remembered you had locked it in the drawer next to your bed so none of your cousins could find it.

"Well?" William asked, impatiently. "Do you have it?"

"I didn't bring it." You closed your bag. William sighed. "-and if I did, I wouldn't give it to you after acting like that!-"

"I ask you to do one thing for me and you screw it up! God, I should've known you wouldn't be good enough for this!" He snapped.

You stood up.

"Did you... just want me to work for you to keep yourself safe?" You took a couple steps back, tears building. up in your eyes. They stung as you blinked. They rolled down your face. "Did you even love me!?" The last sentence was more of a whisper, but he heard you.

He breathed in heavily. "That's not the point right now."

Your eyes widened in shock. Your stomach turned at that very sentence. You couldn't believe what you were hearing. You clenched your jaw and ran out of the room, trying to silently sob as you kept your head down.

Your purse hit against your side as you ran out.

"Y/N!" You heard.

You turned back and saw your cousins running after you. After all the drama, you had kinda forgotten they were there waiting outside.

You stopped and kneeled down. "I-I'm sorry, boys." You wiped your tears with your sleeve.

"Why are you crying, Y/N?" Archie asked.

"Don't worry about it hun." You sniffled.

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You had really hoped to get a car sometime soon since it was getting annoying to walk everywhere. It was raining today. Luckily, all of you had brought your umbrellas. Calvin and Archie liked to splash in the puddles, which annoyed Sylvester alot. You got them to do it at a further distance ahead so the both of you wouldn't get splashed.

"Y/N?" Sylvester squeezed your hand.

You looked down. "Hm?"

"I know you were crying."

You frowned. "Yeah... yeah I was, bud."

He tilted his head. "...why?"

You weren't sure how to explain it. "I just got alittle sad, we all need to cry sometimes." You looked back up towards the street.

Your other cousins squealing and laughing was drowned out every time a car passed. The rain made driving seem louder.

"Just like when we went home from Freddy's? You weren't crying, but you looked sad." Sylvester said.

Your face scrunched up thinking about that night. Thinking about William.

"Yeah." You finally spoke. "Just like that."

The rest of the walk, you two were silent. Only listening to your cousins' joy, cars, and rain falling.

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You had been completely down all day. You could barely respond to anything anybody said and there was no way you would even think about approaching the back room.

You mainly just sat in different parts of the pizzeria away from everyone when you had free time. This time, you were

'Did William really love me? Or was he just using me? God I can't take it..." you buried your head in your knees until,

"Y/N?"

You looked up.

Cassidy stood there infront of you.

"Hi Cass." You smiled weakly.

"Do you wanna see my tarot cards?" She asked, pulling out a deck of them.

"Oh- sure." You responded.

She sat on the ground.

After awhile, she was bored. She stood up and grabbed your arm to get you to stand up aswell.

"Let's play the arcade machines now." She began dragging you to a couple of the games.

"Agh! Okay!" You laughed.

Sometime after Archie ran in with Jerry playing tag.

"Oh! We should play airhockey and totally beat you guys!" Cass said

"You're on!" You yelled with excitement, finally feeling a bit better after this morning.

As you thought about it more, it was probably just a little fight and it wouldn't matter anyways. You knew William loved you deep down.

You and Archie were on a team against Cassidy and Jerry. Surprisingly, you two actually won.

Archie hugged your waist as you cheered.

"We won, mommy/daddy!" He yelled.

You stopped.

"Sorry! I meant Y/N." He let go of you and laughed.

You really realized how close you were to these boys. You were basically their mother figure since your aunt didn't take care of them well. You almost thought about crying again. Archie has a lot of trust in people. If you hurt him, he'll most likely forgive you. Kind of like a beagle.

Luckily, nobody has layed a hand on him in that way. You wouldn't ever let them either.

Archie is the only one of his sibling who didn't come from a terrible home. He had a loving family. The worst happened one day. Archie was called from daycare and told his parents got into a horrible accident. He wasn't allowed to see them before they passed on. He doesn't really remember any of the bad stuff since he was so young, that's probably why it didn't effect him very much.

"Y/N, could we go get some pizza?" Archie asked.

You snapped out of your thoughts. "Yeah, sure buddy."

All of you went to the main room. You sat them down and prepared a pizza for them. Luckily, you didn't burn it.

All the Boseman kids and your cousins had some. Even Phil had a piece. They all mentioned how it was really good and how you were an excellent baker.

"I don't really like pizza, but this is really good!" Phil said.

He seemed to be doing better after being reassured William was going to be alright. I heard Phil even thought he died. He was upset for a couple days and sulked around the restaurant.

This was the first time in a while you've seen him smile.

(Hey guysss okay so I'm thinking of writing an enemies to lovers Michael Afton x Reader sometime in the future. What do you think? I know I already have a Michael x reader, but I kinda wanna write an enemies to lovers cause I love that trope. Maybe also a William Afton x Reader [not bc] so lemme know what you think of that hehe)

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