Aris Jones X Reader One Shots

Our Paths (Part 4)

Aris's P.O.V

All day, I had been counting down the time until tonight. While a medic was cleaning me up my mind had been on her. While they gave me new clothes my mind was on her. While they showed me where I would sleep my mind was on her. Honestly, it was almost sad at this point.

I didn't care though. I just wanted to see her again. So a few minutes before sundown I was fixing my hair as best I could without a mirror and trying to smooth the wrinkles out of my clothes. Right as I thought I looked okay Harriet came in.

“Where are you off to?”She questioned.

“I’m meeting someone,”I vaguely answered.

“Who?”She asked, not letting me off the hook that easily.

“Just this girl,”I shrugged, pretending I wasn't sort of giddy.

“A date-”
“No, no, no, no. Not a date,”I rushed out. I mean I think so. I’m pretty sure it's not.

“Who's this “non-date” with?”She asked, using air quotes.

“If you must know, this non-date is with Y/N,”I gave in.

“Y/N? You're actually going on a date with Y/N?”

“It's not a date,”I insisted.

“Right. You're just in here looking extra nice to meet a “friend”. Makes sense,”She teased.

“Can't I just put a little effort into my appearance?”I pointed out.

“Because you definitely cared about that forever,”She deadpanned.

“It's just a little change. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go and meet my friend for our non-date,”I repeated, walking past her.

“If neither of you specified it's definitely a date,”She called. I didn't turn around or say anything as I headed to where we had met earlier.

Seeing as it was basically around the corner (and just a little out of sight) it took almost no time to be there. Heading back behind the building, I saw she was already there. Leaning against the wall, she was picking at her dark red nail polish. Between the ripped jeans, tank top, and brown boots, she didn't really look like anyone here.

That's cool though. She’s cool.

“Hey,”She greeted, glancing up.

“Hi,”I said back. “You look really pretty,”I added.

“You look nice too,”She nodded. As I stood there rocking back and forth she sat down and gestured for me to join her. Nodding, I did so for our non-date.

Your P.O.V

I don't know how long we have been out here. Just that it was enough for the stars to be shining in the sky and the Safe Haven to be almost dead silent.

“Do you want to go somewhere?”I offered.

“Where?”

“If I told you that would spoil the surprise, wouldn't it?”I pointed out. Standing, I grabbed his hand and helped him up. Not letting go, I dragged him to the very edge of the Safe Haven, then a little past it.

“Isn't this kind of dangerous?”He reminded me.

“Yeah. Probably,”I nodded. Still, he didn't object as I kept pulling him until I was finally there again. The very top of the mountain.

“What are we doing here?”He asked.

“Come on. I’ll show you,”I urged, letting go of his hand as I stepped forward. After a moment he did so as well.

“Look. Way past the Safe Haven,”I said, pointing at the bright lights that were an unfathomable distance away.

“Woah. What are those?”

“Scorch City. At night it was so dangerous yet if you knew where to be it could be so pretty. I would just walk the streets with my hood up and knife in my pocket as I took it all in. Eventually though, I would forget about the dangers, unless I had to defend myself. The rest of the time though, I enjoyed my home,”I explained.

“You miss it, huh?”

“Yeah. I guess that's kind of weird though. With all the bad memories it had,”I shrugged.

“No. Sometimes, I miss the Spring. It was a prison in a way, but it was my home,”He admitted. “I mean now that I say that it is kind of weird.”

“We can be weird together then,”I offered.

“Yeah. I’d like that,”He agreed, grabbing my hand. There, we stood side by side in a comfortable silence, holding hands.

For the first time in my life, everything was kind of okay.