Guilty As Sin? (Nathan Prescott x reader)

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Y/n's pov:

I wake up with arms wrapped around my waist. I smile and turn around to facing Nathan so I can be even closer to him. We stayed  in bed for a while longer but when Nathan was finally ready to get up he tiredly said, "wanna go to the diner?" I nod my head yes and he gets out of bed. He doesn't change but he does put shoes on and puts a shirt on. I get up too and also put shoes on as well as Nathan's jacket.

He opens the room for me and we both walk out and he closes the door behind him. We walk to his parking lot when Warren stops us.

"Hey y/n!" He says cheerfully I smile and reply with, "hey Warren how are you?" Nathan stands there annoyed and I feel awkward about it and I can tell Warren does too. "Good, uh I was wondering if you had an idea on what we're going to do for uh our chemistry project?" He asks and he puts his hand on the back of his neck. I stare at him confused for a moment and then realize, "shit warren i completely forgot. I'm so sorry I'll work up something tonight and let you know tomorrow okay?"

"That's alright y/n cya later!" He says and me and Nathan continue to walk to the car. Except he doesn't open my door my he usually does and just angrily gets into the drivers seat. "Are you okay...?" I ask him as I buckle my seat belt and he does the same. He starts to drive and says, "just- ...tired"  he sighs and I do to and look out the window for the ride.

We walk into the dinner and sit at our usual booth. After a few moments Joyce walks up to us. "Y/n it's so good to see you again, I hope you're doing good." She tells me. Chloe had told me she told Joyce where I was as she had asked and I didn't mind if she knew. "Thank you Joyce, I'm good and I hope you are too" I smile. Nathan is looking at the menu while we're talking. "You know how it is, anyway what can I get you two?" She asks. "Regular pancakes and a coffee" Nathan says plainly. "I'll take the same" I tell her and she writes it down and says, "alright I'll be back with that in a few." And she walks away.

"How do you know her?" Nathan asks. I give him a weird look surprised that he doesn't know already. "It's Chloe's mom, her and I used to hang out a lot before r-" before I can say max walks up to us wearing a new outfit and Nathan looks at her and says, "Rachel?" But then notices it's not her. "What the fuck are you wearing? Playing dress up?" He says to her. I give him a look.

"Hey max" I say to her trying to brush past the shitty comment Nathan made. "Hey y/n, how have you been?"

"Good, you? How's Chloe?" I ask her. "Were both good, and I'm not playing dress up I stayed at Chloe's and she let me wear this" she explains and I smile. I hear Nathan whisper a word under his breath that starts with a D and I kick him under the table, "ow!" He whisper shouts and I give him a look.

"I'm glad you and Chloe are good." I tell her. "Thanks, Chloe told me you got tickets to that concert...by the old security guard I guess?" She says in more of a question. "Yeah skip, me and Nathan are going" "cool, Chloe got tickets too and we are going hopefully we get to see you there. Anyway I gotta get going bye y/n" she says and walks away. Right on time Joyce comes by and. Gives us our coffees quickly then goes to take care of other costumers.

"Everyone likes you" Nathan says quietly as he looks out the window. "I mean- shit i don't know. Warren, the waitress, max, Chloe, our old security guard, he'll even frank thinks your the shit." He says. I'm not sure what he's trying to mean by this. Was he upset? Jealous? Or just making a statement? "Not everyone likes me. The vortex freaks don't, and people used to only like me because they were scared of me. Or hate me because I was some junkie, or atleast that's what they called me..." I explain.

"You're too good for the vortex club." He says simply, but I feel like there's more he wants to say. "Is there something you wanna talk about Nathan?" I ask him. "I don't know. You're just- everyone gets a long with you, and those who don't it's only cause they're jealous." He rolls his eyes in annoyance.  "What did I do?" I ask. He grabs his takes a sip of his coffee and then scoots out of the booth. "Where are you going?" I ask. "I gotta go" he says and walks out of the diner as Joyce comes back with our pancakes.

I look at the door and through the window I watch him walk to his truck. "He's not someone I would've expected to see you with " Joyce says referring to me and Nathan. I look at her and give a sad smile, "yeah, we get that a lot. " I reply. I asked for a to go box and payed and gave her a good tip then left.

I took the bus back to Blackwell and walked inside to my room. I shut my door and layed in bed. I had school tomorrow but not any work to catch up on. It was still early I had the whole day ahead of me, which I thought I would've been spending with him.

I thought about what went down at the diner. Rachel? Was he hoping it would be her? I mean I had heard rumors in the past that Nathan and Rachel were hooking up, but i didn't think they were true. Maybe they were, or maybe they weren't.

Flashback to before Rachel went missing

"I'm surprised you and Rachel aren't friends" Chloe says to me. We ditched class to and were now just walking around the outskirts of town. "What makes you say that?" I ask her. "You guys are a lot a like, I guess" she tells me. I mean I guess we liked a lot of the same things and had similar interests but people like her more than anyone has ever liked me. She's the most popular girl at Blackwell and most of the people there hate me.

"I don't know, that's not really my kind of company." I tell Chloe and she shrugs.

End of flashbacks

Was that why Nathan liked me? Because I reminded him of her? Or was I just overthinking it? Is there anyone I could ask that would know? Ugh the whole thing gave me a headache. I decided to text Nathan.

Me: what's going on
Me: you can't just leave like that wtf

I put my phone over and turn over in my bed facing the wall. And drift asleep for a few hours. When I woke back up it was dark out. I checked my phone and it wasn't super late only 8:30.

I was still thinking about the whole diner thing. I decided fresh air would be good, so I put on my shoes and headed out the door. I walked over to the parking lot, where I just so happened to see the devil himself. As I got closer to him he says, "are you fucking following me? I could sue your ass you know that right?"

"Jesus what the fuck is your problem Nathan?" I say to him angrily. "I don't wanna talk about this shit right now" he replied as he takes in inhale of his cigarette. "Well too fucking bad. What is going on with you? I care about you Nathan and I know you care about me so tell me so we can work through this." I plead and step closer to him.

"For fucks sake can you stop being a cunt for once? Maybe I just wanna be alone! I don't need you, or anybody telling me what to fucking do!" He shouts. I step closer again, "are you onto with me because I remind you of Rachel?" I ask quietly. Nathan pushed me away from him and says, "get the fuck out of my face..."

"So now what? We're done? It's been like a fucking week since we worked things out and you're causing issues again already?" I ask. "Jesus y/n I- I want to be alone why can't you fucking understand that! Go away, go talk to your friends or whatever the fuck!" He says back to me.

"I- I just don't understand what I did..." I look down and say. "Im better off alone- I need a break." He says as he blows out the smoke from his cigarette and looks up. "Fuck you nathan"