Chapter 18

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by Danigirlwritings

by Danigirlwritings

Y/ns perspective:

A few weeks later Mark, Amy, Matt, Steph, and Ollie (of course) flew to Portland to stay with us. It was cramped in the house but we made it work.

Currently, the boys (minus Ollie) were out picking up dinner for us while I was sitting in the living room with Steph and Amy as Ollie played in the middle. We were all sitting in a comfortable silence while we watched him play. Of course, that silence is eventually and this silence was broken by Amy. She looks over to me with a soft smile, "Are you enjoying living with Nate, Y/n?"

I look over at her with a soft smile and nod, "Yeah I am, it's been a lot of fun so far."

"That's good. I was wondering about something with you and Nate's relationship."

"Shoot," I say a little confused.

"Are you and Nate dating or planning on it?"

I look between her and Steph before saying, "No we aren't and we are not planning on it either. I have had some bad relationships in my past and I do not want one and Nate is totally fine with that. We are closer than friends are but we definitely are not as close as you and Mark are."

Steph speaks up this time, "I suppose after what the four of you went through you are going to be." I nod, look away from them, and take a deep breath. "Do you love him?" she asks after a moment.

I nod and quietly say, "In the only way my traumatized brain can, yeah I'd say I do."

We sit in comfortable silence again until the guys come back home with the food we ordered. All of us have a nice dinner and a nice evening playing a couple of games. Eventually, we retired for the night. Nate and I get into bed and lay there in silence for a little bit just coming down from the day.

Nate speaks up first as he turns on his side to face me, "You doing ok? You seemed a little off when we got back from picking up the food."

I turned to face him as well, "Yeah I'm fine I just had a strange conversation with Amy and Steph while you guys were gone."

"Strange how?"

"They were asking about our relationship which is not too unusual I guess. However, they did ask me if I loved you."

Nate raises his eyebrows and lets out a soft 'ah'. I nod and look away a bit embarrassed that I am telling him this. Our room is quiet for a few moments before he asks, "What did you say to that question?"

I look back up at him and sigh softly, "I said yes".

He smiles at me and says, "I knew you were going to say that"

Confused I ask, "How?"

"When we were there this last time she said something about that it would have surprised me more but I was a little busy being shown off to everyone."

I nod in understanding, "she probably knew it before I had even realized it. I know that even with that I still am not going to be a traditional partner like you might want, my offer still stands that if you want to actually date someone I do not mind.:

Nate lays on his back, pulls me onto his chest, and says, "Yeah I know but like I said before I'm happy with just you." I snuggle in and smile softly as I fall asleep knowing that this is his way of telling me he loves me too.