aeonian | chris sturniolo

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"holy fuck," she mutters, "i fucking like chris,"

maddy cheers, jumping in the air as she high fives nick, "you and chris are literally the last ones to find out."

hayden whips her head around, "did he say something about me?"

"uhhhhh," nick drags out, pursing his lips, "of course not, i mean he's my brother so like triplet code but like he definitely didn't but if he did then-"

the brunette sits down on nicks bed, her face resting in her hands. she cant help the thoughts swirling around in her head.

there's no way she can like him. he hates her. she hates him. all they have done for the past 8 years is try to hurt each other.

what'll be different if they were more than friends? she'd just hurt him, or he'd hurt her- it'd be this whole thing.

not to mention the fact that he probably doesn't even like her like that. they were in a fake relationship- not a real one!

her phone buzzing interrupts her internal panic, looking down to see matt's name across her screen.

"um, matt needs to talk. and i need to think." zola runs a hand through her hair, exiting the room despite her friends trying to speak

she goes to the room next door, creaking the door open, seeing matt pacing around his room.

"sorry i didn't mean to pull you away from- are you ok?" he stops in his tracks, looking at the girl in the hallway, "you look pale."

she swallows, "yeah, i'll tell you in a sec. you first."

matt stands in front of her, looking down into her eyes, "i just have thought this for like a really long time- and um, i just like- should probably tell you."

hayden tries to squish down the thoughts of chris in her head, and listen to whatever her best friend is so stressed out about, but she struggles.

"i love you hayden."

that was it?

"oh, love you too matt. was that it?" her brows furrow

"no like," matt runs a hand through his hair, looking away before focusing back on his best friend in front of him, "i have feelings for you."

hayden's face falls, tracing matt's for any sense of joking. when she realizes there is none, she lets out a small nervous laugh,

"matt, we're best friends. wouldn't that be like, weird?"

"we're more than just friends and you fucking know it." he takes a step back, hurt now filling his eyes, "think about it. we're always together, we're always like cuddling, you sleepover here, doesn't it make sense?"

now added to her thoughts of chris, this atomic bomb blows up her brain. she bites her lip, unsure how to tell him.

she loves matt. so much. but as her best friend, nothing more.

"i need to go. think. um- i- bye." hayden stutters out, before scrambling out of his room, leaving him standing speechless.

quickly, she continues down the stairs.

"zola, what's-"

"it's hayden! and i don't want to talk to you right now chris!" she snaps, exiting the front door and retreating as quickly as she can back to the safety of her own house.

she thankfully dodges her parents, seeking her comforting room. beginning to do her habit of anxious cleaning, she thinks about what's happened in the past hour.

hayden has feelings for chris? the chris she's hated all her life, but maybe not so much? and matt has feelings for hayden?

the two have been platonic all their life, or at least to her knowledge. how could her world get so screwed up in the matter of a few hours?