Chosen Family🫶

Chapter 4: you can see it with the lights out

Chosen family 7:30pm

Evermore 🍂: everyone better get down to the cinema room fast, folklore started to read me her poems SOS

Red 💋: sos? You're sorry? What the duck does sos mean?

Red 💋: not duck, duck

Red 💋: 1989 I SAID STOP CHANGING MY PHONE SO I CANT TYPE DUCK

1989 🌊: 🦆

Reputation 🐍: she means S O S red, Save Our Souls, ••• - - - •••, it's morse code you idiot

Red 💋: well I'm sorry for not going to ducking army camp

Lover 🌈: rep and I will be right there Eve, we're just getting ready

Fearless 🫶: wait...lover, you and rep are together right now?

Lover 🌈: yeah...why?

Fearless 🫶: oh no reason

Fearless 🫶: it's just funny

Lover 🌈: ...ok?

Evermore 🍂: GUYS HURRY THE FUCK UP FOLKLORES PERFORMING A BALLAD, I CANT TAKE IT ANY LONGER SEND HELP

Fearless and rep private chat 7:50pm:

Fearless: girl you said you were going on a date before the movie

Rep: yeah well

Rep: maybe I am

Fearless: hanging out like besties in the room of the girl you like is not a date R

Fearless: you're lucky lovers clueless as shit

Rep: shut up I braided her hair and she painted my nails

Rep: did you know she has really soft hair? She died the ends pink today, it looks so pretty

Fearless: 🤢

Rep: she even let me pick her outfit, you have not seen true beauty until you've seen this girl in short pyjamas she's goddamn gorgeous

Fearless: REP FOR GODS SAKE IM 18 YEARS OLD

rep: OH PLEASE LIKE IT WASNT ME WHO SNUCK YOU INTO YOUR FIRST R RATED MOVIE

Fearless: whatever just don't do it with lover, girls too pure for you

Rep: I know, she's so perfect

Rep: I could stare at her forever

Fearless: I'm legitimately going to throw up

Lover was convinced there was something up with reputation, her friend was acting all cagey and she kept biting her nails and staring at lovers hair

'What's wrong reppy is my hair bumpy?'

'No no it's fine, you look...fine'

Something in reps voice told lover that the half hearted fine was not what she was going to say, but she didn't question because she wasn't yet sure if what she had been going to say was good

What if reputation didn't want to be friends with her anymore?????? Loved had always wondered why someone like rep, who was considered conventionally cool and attractive and liked to blast punk rock from her speakers would want to be friends with someone like lover who was responsible and quiet spoken until the opportunity came for her to fight for her political beliefs. In fact she and reputation had actually been introduced by 1989 at a pride parade and rallying together was a huge part of their friendship. Lover didn't know what she would do if rep had decided she wanted new friends or something, she was even more worried for how her kitten fionuala would react, fio loved reputation more than life itself and it would break her poor tiny heart to not see rep every day

Lover was not one to form plans or schemes, she preferred outright confrontation when something was going wrong and she knew that rep appreciated it too. She was just about to ask reputation if she wanted to move on friend wise and what that would mean for fio's pamper schedule when rep suddenly jumped up, mentioning something about the time and how late they were for folklore's movie night, grabbed her friends hand and sprinted down the halls

While they were running lover couldn't help but think how cute her friend looked in her Hamilton T-shirt and black pyjama shorts that for some reason had little pink detail embroidered on the hem (later lover would look closer and realise they were alternating devil horns, dice, angel wings and eyes)

By the time they eventually made it to the movie theatre they were no longer holding hands and the running was clearly a race, which reputation won easily. as she collapsed in the corner of the couch she caught lover round the middle after the shorter girl finally caught up and pulled her in so lover was sat on her lap and then started tickling her mercilessly

Folklore, evermore and red watched them and red pulled out her phone to record in one hand, the other slightly obscured by a blanket holding evermore's heavily ringed hand

'REP STOP OMG IT TICKLES!!!!!!!!!!!!' Lover collapsed into a fit of giggles and rep eventually subsided, lifting the smaller girl off of her lap and plonking her down next to her on the couch as fearless and debut burst into the room, smirking about something

Eventually everyone showed up and folklore loaded up the devil wears prada and speak now handed out popcorn and pick n' mix

Somewhere towards the middle of the movie, lover found herself turning towards reputation and admiring the way the girl was so intensely invested in the film, her eyes glued to the screen as she sucked on sour cherry gummies.

Eventually lover scooched down a little on the couch, lifted one leg to lay it over reps lap and wrapped her arm around her friends waist as she rested her head on her chest. She didn't think anything of it until rep started to play with her pink tipped braids and suddenly something in lovers chest started to flutter and she descended into a spiral

Lover had always considered rep as a friend, a best friend but nothing more than a friend. Of course she'd often catch herself admiring reps beauty and the way she treated her but she'd never thought of it as anything more than platonic but now she was suddenly so freaked out at the thought of rep leaving her and her heart was beating so fast as rep touched her and suddenly all the wanted to do was spend the rest of her life in reps arms where she felt so safe and she could almost feel herself falling and suddenly if hit her

Lover had a crush on Reputation