One in 7 billion. Angela Giarratana x Fem!OC

Chanse McCrary: Love Doctor

Angela's POV: After Gwen and I kissed I unintentionally was avoiding her. I just had a lot to think about, my sexuality for one. I always thought I was straight but here I was fantasizing about Gwen and enjoying the kiss we shared at the Christmas party, I don't know what I'm doing or why I wanted to kiss Gwen again, and hold her, and talk to her. I feel like I'm going crazy but then I look up from my desk and I see her, I see her typing away on her laptop, editing some videos, I see her with a pencil resting on her lips brainstorming new lyrics in her notebook, I just want to talk to her about this and tell her it wasn't her fault, I know she must be blaming herself for my running away, I just didn't know what else to do. All I know is I really need to talk to someone about this, maybe Chanse or Courtney surely one of them knows what I'm going through. 

Gwen's POV: After Angela and I kissed two days ago she's been avoiding me, did I do something she didn't want? was I too pushy? I knew I should've given her her space when she walked away from the group. I just felt like that was the perfect time to make my feelings known, but maybe that's not what she wanted, maybe I was being selfish. I don't even know is she's into women. I was being stupid, I was in the wrong, I got too caught up in the moment, and when I saw the mistletoe above us it all seemed too perfect, but maybe it wasn't for her. I need to talk to Chanse, he and Angela are really good friends maybe he knows what she's thinking right now. 

After I got to the office the walk from my car up to the door felt like the longest walk of my life, I was so lost in thought as I walked in I almost forgot that I needed to talk to Chanse. As I headed towards the kitchen like I do every morning, I saw Chanse walk out of the conference room with Angela and prayed they didn't see me, but much to my dismay the kitchen was made of glass. Once I was done with my coffee Chanse walked into the kitchen and just stared at me.

"What, do I have something on my face?" I asked reminiscing about the day I showed everyone my song journal. 

"Nope. What's going on with you and Angela? I can feel the tension, how do you feel?" He asked seriously. 

"I think we both know how I feel, the question is how does she? I'm confident when I say I like women, but I don't know about her. This whole time I thought she was straight." I told him honestly, no more lying to myself, no more fudging how I feel.

"I think she just needs a wakeup call." He said sounding a little frustrated, I wonder why. 

Chanse's POV: Angela pulled me aside this morning to talk to me about the Christmas kiss, I could tell how she felt about it after listening to her talk about Gwen the whole time. All I wanted was to tell her how Gwen felt but that wasn't my place to tell someone how another person feels, I just wish one of them would speak up; that's when I got the idea. As Angela and I were walking out of the conference room I saw Gwen out of the corner of my eye walking towards the kitchen, and after talking with her I knew my plan had to be set in motion. 

Once Gwen and I were done talking I went to find Angela, I grabbed her wrist and headed towards Gwen's desk. After I had both girls by the wrists I walked towards Ian's office as I knew he was going to be out for the day, it was time to set my plan into motion. 

Gwen's POV: As Chanse grabbed Angela and I and started walking towards Ian's office I started to feel nervous because I didn't know why he was taking us to one of our bosses, did we somehow do something wrong by avoiding each other. Once we got there Chanse flipped a light on and shut Angela and I in the room, after going up to it I realized he was holding the door shut. 

"Could you let us out please? I have a lot of videos to edit for the day, and I'm sure you and Angela have stuff to film." I called out slightly annoyed by the act. 

"Not until you two talk it out, I know how you both feel now you just need to tell each other." He said from the other side of the door, that's when I turned around to face Angela and took a seat on the floor resting my back against the door.

Angela's POV: After we'd been 'locked' in Ian's office for at least 20 minutes I figured we'd better talk, and no time like the present. I looked over at Gwen who was staring off into space looking like she was thinking about something, I interrupted her thought to speak out.

"So..you wanna talk about it?" I asked her nervously awaiting her answer. 

"There's nothing to talk about, we both made our feelings pretty clear." She said sounding a little annoyed by my question.

"I haven't done anything to prove my feelings, what are you talking about?"I asked her clearly confused. 

"If we both felt the same way after the kiss, why'd you run?" She asked sounding a little hurt.

"I don't know how you feel, and I ran because I wasn't ready to accept anything about myself yet, but I am now." I told her, now it was my turn to sound annoyed.

"Oh come on Angela. Why would I kiss you if I didn't like you." She said sounding completely over it at this point. 

Hey, I am NOT the one to blame here okay, YOU kissed ME." I replied slightly losing my cool.

"I know, alright?" She raised her voice back. "Look it's just....I'm sorry." She apologized and I felt confused, why was she sorry? Did she regret it? 

Obviously you weren't ready and I'm sorry I pushed you to do something you didn't want to do, it was wrong of me and I hope you can forgive me." She said sounding genuine. 

"No Gwen you did nothing wrong okay? I wanted you to kiss me I just wasn't ready for anything else, but I am now. I talked to Chanse about it this morning and I realized I'm comfortable in saying I'm bisexual, Gwen. And I know one more thing, I really like you, I'm just not ready to admit it to anyone else yet." I said laying it all on the line. "That's why I ran." She looked at me a little shocked at first before speaking up herself. 

"I think you already know what I am." She said giggling a little I smiled at that. "And I really REALLY like you too." She told me: "So I'm willing to wait as long as it takes for you to be ready, because I've known for a long time that I was ready for you." She said slightly tearing up at the mix of our words lingering in the air.

"I can't ask you to wait for me Gwen." I told her. "It's unfair to you."

"I don't care about any of that, all I care about is you." She replied instantly. 

I really wanna kiss you right now" I told her.

"So what's stopping you." She shot back. 

And just like that our lips were on one another's once more, only this time when we broke apart for air, I didn't run away. When it was over I gazed into her eyes and got a little nervous because all I wanted was to be hers and for her to be mine, but if she wasn't ready I didn't want to tell her because what if she didn't feel the same and now I made everything awkward, I was so much in my own head I almost missed it when she finally spoke again.

"Well now that we know how we feel, I think there's only one question left to be asked here." She said tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. 

"I mean it when I say there is absolutely no pressure here, but would you be interested in maybe becoming more than friends?" She asked grabbing my hand comfortingly. And that's when I felt a sudden rush of courage flow through my whole body. I pulled her in for another kiss I felt her relax after the initial shock wore off, and when we pulled away it was my turn to speak again. 

Gwen, I would love to be your girlfriend." After speaking I let out a sigh I didn't know I was holding in, I know it must sound silly but when those words left my mouth I felt a rush of adrenaline about finally accepting who I was after a lifetime of ignoring it and holding it in. In those few moment in Ian's empty office I finally realized why almost every boyfriend I've had in the past never felt right, it's because I was never into them romantically. 

Gwen's POV: After Angela said yes we spent at least a solid 5 minutes in comfortable silence just taking in what had happened, when we stood up and opened the door Chanse, Courtney, Amanda, Anthony, Shayne, Arasha, Damien, Keith, Noah, Tommy, Spencer, and pretty much everyone else we worked with fell into the room cheesy sitcom style, leading us to believe they had been listening at the door waiting for us the whole time.

"Welp, it's official Angela said holding my hand up for everyone to see." Everyone smiled and congratulated us while Chanse gave me a knowing wink and mouthed an 'I told you so' which I shrugged off with an eye roll and turned back to my proud new girlfriend. 

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