Chaz x Reader 😋

Home sweet home

•° cute little week or so time skip °•

Over the next days, to my surprise, Chaz has been playing it safe.

He's been thinking before saying things and acting much better. I guess when your life is in the hands of someone else you are kinda forced to change, but still, it was a breath of fresh air to me.

Not only that, but we've been slowly getting closer to each other. Now I genuinely consider him a friend.

His existence in my life in this place really helps me too, weather he knows it of not.

I've never had any glimpse of goodness in this house ever since mom passed. It was always gloomy and controlled, just living here was like walking on egg shells. But now, with Chaz, our conversations and jokes, everytime he taps me on the shoulder or mimicked my dad behind his back. It made me look forward to something in this awful place. He was the one that kept me sane, the one that made me laugh.

I'm just hoping I'm doing to same for him.

Yet, even with that distraction, with each passing day I worry more and more about my friends, and mostly Moxxie.

All I want is to get out of here and go back home, to hug Mox and tell him I'm fine. To have a conversation over dinner with Chaz without my dad listening in.

To live a normal life again.

I was sitting on the bed with my back to the headboard, suck in these thoughts. I knew we should probably be asleep by now but I just couldn't stop fantasizing of escaping.

"You good?" Chaz's voice sucked me back into reality.

"Huh, yeah," I looked up to him as he was leaning on the headboard. "Yeah I'm cool. Just daydreaming, I guess." I explained then buried my chin back into my knees.

"What were you dreaming about?" He asked and flopped onto the bed before me.

Though I didn't mean to, my face sank into a sad expression when I thought of the reason.

He quickly noticed and sat up. "Don't worry, you don't need to tell me. I already know." He said proudly.

"Oh, you do now?" I raised a brow at him.

"Mhm." He nodded and flexed his scrawny arms. "You've been thinking of this all day, haven't you?" He said referring to his muscles.

I snorted Into a chuckle at his proposal. "Yeah, right." I laughed and shook my head. "You wish."

He slowly put his arms down while looking at me, not responding back with words.

"What, what is it?" I asked as my laughter subsided at his complete silence.

"What?" He asked back. "I was shutting up to listen to you laugh at me. Duh." He shrugged off. I couldn't tell if it was a joke or sarcastic but I still took his words into thought.

I had no clue why, but that made my stomach float and my heart beat fast. "Listen to me? Laugh?" I nervously chuckled out. That act felt so.. unlike him. Thoughtful, almost.