Chattercups One-Shots

A Beautiful Surprise

Ray POV:

As we pull up to the house in Paleto, we can already hear the music blasting and the people talking amongst each other. I walk around for a bit just mingling until I see Hazel dancing on top of a car. I walk over to her and say, "Hi Hazel!'

"Hey Ray!" She says. I climb on top of the car next to her. "Dance on the car with me!" I ask her a few questions about what is currently going on. "I don't know honestly," she says, i laugh a little at her answer. She continues on by saying, "I'm just dancing." I watched her dance for a few more seconds before I decided to join in. Unbeknownst to me, there was someone watching me.

Chatty POV:

After walking around for a bit, giving random people a bunch of bullyuck, I finally spot Cups. She's dancing on top of someone's car with Hazel. "Holy yuck, she looks beautiful." I thought to myself. I didn't realize I was staring at her until Vinny came up to me.

"She's beautiful isn't she?" he asked me. Without thinking I immediately responded with, "More than anything I've ever seen before" I quickly realized that I accidentally said that and started stuttering. "I-I mean-" Vinny cut me off before I could continue.

"I know exactly what you mean, you genuinely love her, I won't stop her from being happy. She deserves someone that gives her all of their undivided attention. Even if that someone is you, I am still happy for her. Don't ruin her happiness." He tells me.

"I do love her. I've never loved anyone like this before, it's a little scary to be honest. I can't imagine my life without her. She really has changed me for the better and I am forever grateful for her. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I ever made her unhappy." I tell him as I continue to stare at her. "How did I of all people get this lucky to have someone like her?" I think to myself.

Vinny looks at me and says, "That's all I needed to hear, so long as I know that you actually love her and want her in your life, I'm fine with you Chatterbox. Don't fuck this up, understood?"

"Yes sir" I tell him without hesitation, I quickly glance over at him. I think to myself, "Wow...so that's where she gets it from. No wonder she's so scary sometimes." She continues dancing on the car with Hazel for a while longer. Once they cut the music, I decided to walk up to her.

"Hey Cups!" I look up at her. I'm still amazed by her beauty. She looks like she's glowing while standing under the northern lights. That reminds me of the time we were on the balcony of my bedroom at the funhouse.

"I've got an idea!" I thought to myself. "Hi Chatty!" She greeted me back with the most beautiful smile I've ever seen. I offer my arm so she can use me to help get down but ignores it. She jumps down and loses her balance. I instinctively grab her by her waist to help steady her. This seems to have surprised her as she looks at me wide eyed. I worry that I did something wrong but that thought quickly left my mind when she suddenly started smiling even more. We make eye contact and continue to stare at each other for who knows how long. It wasn't until we were brought back to the rest of the world that we realized the commotion that was going on around us.

"Let's get out of here, I have an idea" I tell her, I just noticed that I still have my arms wrapped around her waist. I let go and started to walk to the car. "Okay, I'll go get the others." She says. I quickly turn around and grab her hand. I tell her, "Don't worry about them, I only need you."

"But what about them?" She asks me concerned. "Ember is here with her car and the house is right down the road. They'll be fiiiiine cups." I told her. She reluctantly agrees and we walk to the car together. Once we're in the car, I send Twinkles a quick message telling him that Ray and I are leaving. Once the message is sent I put my phone on mute so we don't get interrupted by the rest of the clowns. While I was doing that, Ray turned on the radio. She puts it on her favorite station and starts bobbing her head while muttering "Wub Wub Wub".I glance over at her and think, "She's absolutely adorable."

I start driving and she asks me, "Hey Chatty...where are we going?"

"We're going to the funhouse Cups. I have a surprise for you." I told her. "Ohhhh okay, I'm excited." She says,

We continued to listen to her favorite radio station on the way there. I look over at her and see that she's looking out the window watching the sky while still bobbing her head. I go to put my hand on her thigh but second guess myself. As my hand hovers over her thigh I think to myself, "Come on Chatterbox, just do it! Don't be yuckin scared!" I decide to listen to my thoughts and rest my hand on her thigh. It wasn't too high nor too low. It sat perfectly right in the middle. She put her hand on top of mine and continued on with what she was doing.

"See...she doesn't have any problems with it!" My inner thoughts chastised me. I roll my eyes at myself.

A few minutes later, I am pulling up to the funhouse. I park the car on the side of the house where my bedroom is and get out to go open her door. I offered her my hand to help her out of the car. She accepts my hand and gets out of the car. "Wait here for just a second Cups!" I tell her as I lean back into the car. I changed the radio station. I finally found one that i liked. It was playing "Chasing Cars".

"Perfect" I think to myself. I turn the volume all the way up. I quickly turned back around to Cups where she was still waiting for me. I look at her and ask, "Cups....may I have this dance please?" She seems a bit shocked by my words but grabs my hands and wraps them around herself. Both of them are placed on her waist as she takes her own arms and wraps them around my neck and says, "Of course I would Chatty." As we sway to the song together, I can't help but think about how the song relates to how I feel about her. Ray suddenly rests her head on my chest and lets out a sigh of content. I lie my head on top of hers and we continue to sway to the music.

As the song is coming to an end she lifts her head and asks me, "What made you think of this so suddenly?" I stare back at her for a second. I tell her, "I saw you dancing on that car at the party. You looked beautiful dancing under the northern lights. I remembered us talking about seeing them together and thought about how we weren't able to dance together during the banquet. So, I brought you here so we can see the lights together and so we can finally get our dance. I hope this was a good surprise."

She looks at me with what I assume to be awe and tears began to well up in her eyes. "This is the sweetest and most beautiful surprise someone could give me....thank you Chatty." She says as she smiles at me, the tears now running down her cheeks. I use my thumb to wipe them and put her head back on my chest. "Of course Cups, I would do anything for you." They continued to stay just like that, swaying to the music with Ray's head lying on his chest and his arms wrapped around her, late into the night. They were finally able to fully be at peace with each other, finally alone. At least he thought they were alone. He didn't see it until after him and cups got back to the house later that night that Mumbles had taken pictures of them as they stood together. Some of them were of Ray and Chatty staring lovingly at each other and the others were of Ray with her head on Chatty's chest. It turns out that the clowns started to get worried since neither of them were answering their calls, so they started looking for them everywhere they could think of. Mumbles decided to check the funhouse and that's how he found them. He knew they didnt get much time to themselves so he left them alone, after he took some pictures of course.