The choices we make (Brett x Reagan story)

confrontation

Reagan ran away from Brett ad fast as she could as tears ran down her face. "Ahh, why did I say that!!" She yells at herself. "Reagan, where are you?" She heard Brett call from behind her. "Shit!" She thought to herself. She quickly pulls herself into a janitor's closet to hide from Brett. she covers her mouth to try and quiet her breathing. "Reagan! Please talk to me.." she hears Brett start to sob as he runs right outside the closet.

She sighs and opens the door and pulls him inside. She sits down on the floor of the janitor's closet and looks away. "Reagan.. you didn't let me finish! I was trying to tell you that.. I like you too." He says while rubbing the back of his head while looking away embarrassed. "Huh? R-really?" She quickly looks up in shock. "Mhm," Brett nods. Reagan stands up and wipes the tears off her face. She slowly walks up to Brett who is looking away while blushing madly. She grabs his tie pulling him into a kiss. He opened his eyes widely from shock but then closed them and kissed back. They pull away and smile at each other. "So do you want to.. be my girlfr-" before Brett can finish his sentence Reagan grabs his hand and responds while pulling him out of the closet. "yes." "O-okay!" He responds happily.

Time skip ~a few weeks later~

At this point, everyone at cognito knew about Brett and Reagan's relationship. But that didn't make them stop being rude to Reagan and it only made them madder at Brett which caused more arguments between them all. Through all of it, Brett was just confused as to why everyone all of a sudden was acting like this so he decided to talk to them. Reagan was in her office and the team stayed in theirs so Brett decided now was a good time to talk. "Hey, guys why have you been so mean towards Reagan..?" He asks concerned. Myc immediately responds. "Because she's been a huge asshole lately!" Brett looks at him confused. Gigi sighs and speaks up. "Look we don't know what's up with her but she hasn't been acting right. I know she's always been kind of a dick but she started ignoring us a lot and got upset when we tried talking to her. So we're mad at her because we were her friends." Gigi explains upset. "Oh.. I'll talk to her! I'm sure I can figure out what's going on." He responds as he gets up from his seat to go find Reagan.

What no one knew is that Reagan has become extremely depressed. She started drinking more and more and taking more and more pills to try and make it stop but it didn't. And she didn't want to bother anyone. Especially Brett. So she hid it. She acted fine but she wasn't and it was affecting her relationships with the people around her.  Right now she's sitting at her desk crying. "Why am I such an idiot? Why can't I just smile like I used to.." she sobbed until she heard a knock at the door.

"Ah- um.." she quickly wiped her face and tried to smile. "Come in." She said trying not to let her voice crack. Brett walks in and looks at her. He could tell she'd been crying and crying hard. It made his heartbreak to see her like this. "Reagan, are you okay?" He says as he quickly walks up to her and hugs her gently. "Brett I'm fine I swear!" She puts on a fake smile.

"Reagan.. why are you lying? You know you can tell me anything!" He reassures her and holds her to comfort her.
"Brett.. I'm not fine." She says as she sobs in his arms. "Shh, it's okay hun." He whispers to her while rubbing her back. After a few minutes she falls asleep in his arms and he cuddles her until she wakes up. "Mmph.." she groans and sits up "oh I'm sorry! I fell asleep on you!" Reagan blushes and immediately gets up. "Hey, it's okay! You really needed some rest." Brett says as he smiles sweetly.

"Thanks.." Reagan says with a small smile. "I'll be fine." She reassures Brett trying to make sure he doesn't worry about her. "Alright but talk to me if you need to okay?" Brett says as he looks at her concerned. "I will.." she responds as she goes back to her desk. "Okay. I love you!" Brett says before he walks out of her office. "I love you too." Reagan smiles.
As soon as Brett leaves all Reagan can feel is guilt. She knows she just lied telling Brett she would be fine when she knew deep down she wouldn't. But she just can't stand the idea of the person she loves the most having to deal with her pain.

A few months pass and Reagan only got worse. She became addicted to drugs and her depression only worsened because of it. She started pushing people away even more. None of the team ever wanted to be around her anymore. The only one who stayed was Brett. He tried to do everything he could to help her but one night he finally realized she wasn't going to get better and she wasn't going to get help.

"Reagan please you have to get therapy or something! You can't do this to yourself..." he shouted in between sobs. The person he was in love with was destroying themselves right in front of him and he couldn't handle it anymore. "Brett I'm sorry but.. I can't stop.." Reagan cried as she looked at Brett. "Reagan.. I've tried everything I can! I tried helping you myself and I've tried getting you help but nothings working! I can't be around you anymore knowing that you're just going to let this get worse and continue to do this to yourself.. And for what..?" He cried as he responded and it hurt so much but he knew what he had to do next.

"Reagan.. we need to take a break.." he said sternly. "Wh-what? Are you... b-breaking up with me?" Reagan responded as she cried. "yes.. for now anyways.." he responded. He didn't want to do this but for the last few months he had desperately tried to help Reagan and she just wasn't accepting help. He couldn't handle it anymore. Reagan didn't respond. She just cried and watched Brett walk out of her life.