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↳ 44. 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸

second to the last chapter. but last chapter of season 2023. note that i will be posting the final chapter right after this one. so please make sure to read them both :) 

x Vi

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Somethings in life just made sense, like magnets drawn to each other, or how the horizon meets at some point in life. Or how Aelina and Oscar were just made to fall in an endless cycle of two souls beating for the other, but had she been asked this almost a year ago she would have given that person a black eye and cursed them in all the crudest words that existed in Spanish.

Now, those things were different. She still wondered how she went from not being able to be in the same room as Oscar to spending most nights cuddled up in his arms. From screaming words to comfortable silence, from being rivals who wanted to take each other out to being accidently married.

Aelina was cuddled up in bed with Oscar in her hotel room in Abu Dhabi. Tomorrow they would sit down with both of their managers and her press officer to see if there was any way the two of them could get out of this accidental marriage, they had gotten themselves into, but they are longer she laid awake in bed thinking about it the more she wondered if she really wanted to sign the annulment papers.

"You know I can hear you thinking," Oscar said before turning so he was facing her. "What's going on sweetheart?"

"Just thinking about how far we've come." Aelina smiled, "and."

"And?"

"About the conversation tomorrow."

"Yeah?" Oscar asked. "What about it?"

"Just everything." She wasn't sure she wanted to tell him what she really was thinking but at the same time she wanted to know what he felt about it all.

Oscar reached out, tucking a loose strand of her dark hair behind her ear. "Talk to me," he said softly. "What exactly are you worried about?"

Aelina hesitated, her fingers tracing the patterns on his arm. "It's just... I keep thinking about how we ended up here. It's like, this year was so chaotic and wild, and now we're suddenly tied to each other in a way we never planned."

"I know what you mean. One minute, we're rivals on the track, then we are falling in love and then suddenly waking up in Vegas married," Oscar let out a brief chuckle.

She sighed, leaning her head against his chest. "I don't regret it, though. I mean, I don't regret us. But I never imagined getting married like that. It feels... surreal."

"Yeah," he agreed, stroking her back gently. There was a pause before he continued, "But do you want to annul it?"

Aelina bit her lip, uncertainty flickering in her eyes. "That's what I've been trying to figure out. Part of me thinks it would be the sensible thing to do, to get back to normal. But another part of me..." She trailed off, not sure how to finish.