The Test Of Love

Hailee stretches as she wakes up, the reality of what yesterday was begins to set in. She wonders how everything went so damn wrong?

December 11th 2022; She was awoke to Y/N's ringtone, her song Coast after they had both fallen asleep like every birthday. She watched him sleep before turning off his alarm before running her finger across his cheek to wake up him which made him pull her closer. 

She still remembers his warmth, his scent. 

"You need to be on set in an hour get up."

"Five more minutes. You're so warm." 

She remembers the sound of his morning voice, she wishes she could hear it again.

She remembers how they joked about him needing a shower, how he whined when he had to go shower when she was warm and outside the covers was cold.

How she pushed his head to the bed as they laughed. 

God she missed his laugh, it still rang in her ears like it was happening right then. 

She remembers how Y/N made her, Florence and Scarlett coffee and got them blankets before he left for work. 

She wishes he never did, she wishes she kept him in the bed that morning and told him how she is in love with him because now she never can.

December 27th 2022; Then a few weeks later they had their first and last ever fight. Where she told him he was stupid and talked bad about a tradition that meant the world to both of them. 

Now she can never massage him again, never hear his commentary of the movie they decided to watch or how he recited the lines of the ones he loves. They will never sit down to watch a movie again, falling asleep together. She won't have that feeling of safety again. 

January 1st 2023; Then just yesterday the funeral, the kind words everyone shared. 

She wondered if Y/N heard all of them, she hoped he did. Part of her blamed herself for his death. If she had told him how she felt when they were kids, if she had told him at any time before the call from her manager, if she hadn't got mad at him. If she had done one or all of these things Y/N never would've left the apartment to stay at his parents, he never would've gone to that store, he never would've been in harms way. He'd still be here in her arms like he is meant to be.

Hailee picks up her phone turning it on to see the time in the dark room, her eyes trying to adjust to the newfound light. 8am December 11th 2022.

What? That makes no sense. That is her birthday, the day she was going to tell Y/N how she felt. Its January 2nd 2023.

As Hailee is trying to figure out why her phone is saying December 11th 2022 on January 2nd 2023, a hand reaches up knocking the phone from her hand.

"Too bright." A male voice says.

Hailee freezes. This isn't happening. This isn't real. Yet no matter how much she tells herself it isn't real she slowly looks down. Instead of the hoodie she had fallen asleep with, Y/N lay on top of her. 

"Y/N?" Hailee says her voice breaking.

"Yes?" He mumbles against her neck.

"Can you look at me?"

Y/N lifts his head looking into her eyes seeing the tears in her eyes.

"What's wrong?" Y/N looks at her with a worried expression.

"You're here." Hailee says with her hands on his cheeks. 

"Yeah I'm here. What's going on? You're scaring me."

"Just had a bad dream."

"Come here." Y/N lays down on the bed pulling Hailee into him, her head on his chest as she listens to the steady beat of his heart. 

"Y/N?"

"Yeah Hails?" 

"I need to tell you something." They both sit up.

"What?"

She takes a deep breath, it's now or never.

"I'm in love with you. I have been since were 15."

Y/N looks at Hailee with a blank expression, the clogs in his head trying to process the information he's just been told. His best friend is in love with him?

"Y/N can you please say something?"

"You're in love with me?"

"Yes."

"Like wanna marry me, have kids and make love kind of in love?"

"Yes...."

"Um, can I be honest with you?"

"Please do."

"I don't like you that way......"

(JUST KIDDING)

"Please do."

"I've been in love with you since prom night, when Madison asked me to choose I knew it would only ever be you that my heart wants."

Hailee pulls Y/N in by his hoodie crashing their lips together. It takes Y/N a minutes to realise what is happening before he starts kissing back, his hands on Hailee's thighs as he kneels on the bed.

"You just kissed me?"

"Yes..."

"Do it again."

Hailee chuckles pulling Y/N in for another kiss. This kiss is interrupted by a squeal making them pull away from each other looking at the door.

"YOU KISSED!!!!! OMG SCARLETT"

"What?"

"THEY WERE KISSING!!!!"

"OMG" 

Florence and Scarlett begin jumping excitedly. Florence jumps on the bed.

"What does this mean? Are you a couple now? Are we telling everyone? When's the wedding? When am I going to be an aunt?-"

"Florence breathe." Y/N says as they all laugh.

"We just admitted our feelings for each other it doesn't-"

"Will you be my girlfriend?"

"WHAT?!?!" All three girls shout. 

"Well I love you and you love me so why waste time figuring it out we already know we work together. Plus we can kiss more."

"I'd love to be your girlfriend." They kiss making Scarlett and Florence squeal. 

A few years later, at Y/N and Hailee's wedding reception it is time for the first dance. 

Y/N takes Hailee's hand leading her to the middle of the dance floor. He puts his hands on her waist as she puts hers around his neck. They begin slow dancing as Y/N sings to Hailee. 

She rests her head on his chest as they sway to music Y/N still singing. It is like they are the only two people in the world. 

Every heartbreak, every failed relationship led to this moment. There is no else they are meant to be dancing with, no one else they were meant to marry. 

It was always meant to be Y/N Baxter and Hailee Steinfeld. No man could love a woman like Y/N loved Hailee and no woman could love a man like Hailee loved Y/N.

I bet you are wondering why Hailee thought they had a fight and Y/N died? Well it was a test. 

It was The Test Of Love......

The End