Motionless in White One Shots

The More Things Change - Vinny

AN:  this one remained unfinished for awhile but Paige and Missy convinced me to finish it so here it is :)

Background: The band and their girlfriends all go on a mini vacation to a beach house, y/n is paige's best friend (Paige is Chris' girlfriend) and you always get included, tonight is the first night of the trip.

Paige = Chris' girlfriend
Shae is herself.

"Of course the first night of our trip would end with rain, so much for the bonfire on the beach," Paige says to you, as you both sit watching the rain and lightning come down from the covered back deck of the house. 
"I think its peaceful out here, listening to the rain and thunder.  The forecast shows good weather for the rest of our stay so everything planned for tonight can happen tomorrow," you say to her as you continue to watch the rain fall over the beach. "And hey, thank you for bringing me.  I really needed a step away from everything."
"I know, and you're one of us now anyways.  Everyone loves you so even if I didn't invite you I bet someone else would have.... If you catch what I'm saying," she says winking at you, immediately making you blush and turn away from her.
"Now I know you've had a drink or two too many, because I know you would never say that out loud where someone might hear you," you quietly respond, annoyed she'd dare bring that up when anyone else would hear what she was trying to say.
"Chris says hes interested in you too, like more than you both already are.  Besides, I don't get why you two won't just admit it.  You talk all the time, both of you constantly watch the other when you think nobody is paying attention, and I know you two have been spending some time together," she says.
"You mean like friends do? I spend time with you, and talk to you all the time.  That doesn't mean that we have a crush on eachother.  Vinny has just become on of my friends, that is it." you say with a groan.  "Besides they leave for tour in a couple weeks, and while you work for them and get to join them and see Chris, we wouldn't have that so it would be hard, really hard."
"Shae and Justin make it work despite him being gone a lot and they have a baby, if the two of you wanted to you could.  But fact of the matter is you are just scared, you don't want to try anything in fear of rejection or that something will go wrong but I can tell you that wouldn't happen.  Anyways, I am cold I am going inside.  I'm assuming you are going back to reading your book?" she asks you as she gets up, slowly making her way to the door.
"Yeah, its peaceful out here and I'd rather read than watch everyone battle eachother in whatever game the boys all broke out," you respond with an eyeroll as you put your reading glasses back on and open your book back up, slowly swinging on the porch swing that is out here.
Inside

Paige walks in the house, shaking her head annoyed that you still won't listen to her about Vin.  If the two of you would just finally admit it to one another then the problem would be solved.  And its not like much would change between the both of you, she knows that the two of you are texting all of the time, its obvious from the fact that when one of you sends a text to the other you sit and watch to see if the other one checks their phone.  The two of you are awful at hiding the fact you are into eachother, everyone knows it except you the two of you.
"Let me guess, she still didn't listen to you," Chris asks Paige as she takes a seat on the couch next to him.  She leans into his side, taking in the warmth she craved after being outside where it was chilly.
"Fuck, no.  She got all annoyed I would bring it up where someone else could walk in on the conversation and then tried to act like they don't talk all the time and everything, like we don't all know the truth already.  For being so smart she sure can be an idiot sometimes," Paige says rolling her eyes.
"They both are," Shae says laughing from her spot on the other couch. "We were trying to convince Vin that now is the perfect time to go make a move, and he has an easy opportunity but he refused to listen to us.  We kept telling him that it is chilly out there, he should take a blanket to her.  That you would figure out what was going on and would leave them to have their moment but he won't.  It's 'not a good time to make a move on her with everything going on'." She says using air quotes around his words.
"We even reminded him that it's never a good time when you are constantly touring, but he also ignored that." Ryan says, joining in the conversation about Vinny, everyone acting like Vinny wasn't there to hear them all talk about hi,.
"Sorry I don't want to screw up a friendship that I really enjoy having, no matter what her response to any of it would be things would still change." He says with a groan, annoyed that they have been on him about this for the last hour while you and Paige were outside, he finally got it to die down before Paige came back in.
"But who said it would change for the negative? I bet you would enjoy the ending," Ricky adds in, turning to look at Vinny who is now visibly aggravated at the conversation.
"Nobody is going to shut up until I just go and talk to her are you," he asks, annoyed when he sees everyone is nodding their heads.
Rather than answering Chris tosses the blanket they were trying to get him to take to you at him, which he takes as his answer. 
Giving up he stands up, making his way to the back door with a sigh, figuring that they won't know what you are talking about out there so he could probably get away with just hanging  out with you instead should he lose his courage to actually try and make a move towards something more with you.

Outside

You hear the door open and look up, smiling when you realize that it was Vinny, before putting your bookmark in place and setting the book down next to you and taking your glasses off.
"Paige said that it was chilly out here, I thought maybe you would like to have a blanket or something," He says softly, almost a whisper.  Feeling like an idiot he just sets the blanket next to you.
Except you gladly accept the blanket, wrapping it around your shoulders, and sliding over some on the swing so that there was room for him, holding one side of the blanket out as an invitation for to join you, hoping that he would.
He takes notice and takes a seat next to you, letting you drape the side of the blanket you held out to him over him as well. 
"Thank you that was really sweet of you, I was getting ready to go in because I was admittedly getting cold.  I just didn't want to because it's so peaceful out here.  I've always loved listening to rain storms," you say, turning to look at him with a smile.
"Don't tell the others that I am sweet, they'll expect me to start being that way towards them as well," he jokes, finally starting to relax now that he is away from the others.
"So you're saying you are only sweet towards me? I'll have to remember that next time I want something," you tease him, both of you going quiet. 
It wasn't an awkward silence though, rather both of you were just relaxed and enjoying the company.  That's honestly a big part of why you like Vinny, he makes you feel comfortable, like you don't have to try around him and you've honestly never felt like that before with anyone, friends or romantically with people.
Both of you just sit and watch the rain, not realizing that you have unconsciously moved closer to eachother until you are curled up in his side, his arm around you and your head resting on his shoulder. But that doesn't bother either of you either, it just seems right, like this is what you should be doing in this moment.
You look up at his face, trying to read what he was thinking, only to find that he was watching you already.  Blushing, you look out towards the water, embarrassed he caught you watching him. When he chuckles that just embarases you that much more, feeling like you just got caught doing something stupid.
A few moments later you glance back at him, to see if he is still watching you and you catch his eyes.  Both of you sit there, the eye contact drawing you both in but neither saying a word as the silence feels sacred between you, like if you broke it that you would lose the moment.
Finally Vinny chooses to break the silence with a question, "Hey y/n can I try something?" he asks quietly, suddenly feeling shy himself.
Somehow you have a gut feeling that you know what he is asking to do, you can't find the words to say yes so you pull your eyes away from his before you nod, refusing to look at him.
Neither of you move for a few seconds, both of you trying to figure out if this is a good idea or not.
Vinny cups one of your cheeks with his calloused hands and makes you look up at him, you both looking at eachother shyly.  He finally decides to take a leap of faith, hoping that you will be there to catch him, and leaves a soft but shaky kiss on your lips. 
Closing your eyes you lean into it, moving your own lips against his, relaxing into the moment that was finally happening before he slowly pulls away from you, a shy smile on both of your faces.
"Let me take you on a date before this trip ends, please?" he asks you, brushing a piece of your hair behind your ear.
"Okay," you say softly, both of you curling up into eachothers side, not ready to go face the friends that are inside, more than likely having watched what just happened and ready to tease the two of you.  You'd rather spend a little more time to yourselves enjoying the company before you go into the lions den.