Another World || Aiden Clark x GN!Reader

Episode 10

Y/N's POV

"Don't worry, it's nothing." I said, trying to cover up the fake accusations I put on myself. I am not in love with Aiden, and that's final.

"Oh yeah, my parents are coming back tomorrow. Along with Ben's family. I think it'll be his little sister's birthday in a week." Aiden said to lighten the mood of our failure, with Ben giving him a slight nod of agreement.

"Oh really? That's cool. We should have a BBQ (a/n: i'm stupid and don't know how to spell it-)." Ash's dad, Mike said. 

"Sure, we can ask!" Aiden exclaimed, with Ben nodding again.

"I'm sure my grandparents would like to come. They're pretty big BBQ fans themselves." Logan said.

"We'll ask." Tyler said, leaning back farther into the couch, while his sister just smiled at Mike. "Yea, we'll ask our parents." She replied. "Alright, and you, [Y/N]?" Ashlyn's father asked.

"Uh... I'll have to ask. But it's 50-50. If he's in a good mood, my dad will come. If not, neither of us will." I said. Finally, a truth in the pile of lies I made in the last month. I saw Mike nod at that response, taking it into consideration, while Emma, Ash's mother gave him a huge glare, as if she was silently scolding him for not asking for her consent.

"Ah, it's almost 5. You kids should leave soon." Mike said, taking a glance at his watch. "Sure you don't want me to drop you?"

"It's not too far of a walk, plus the jeep doesn't have enough seats." Ashlyn said, almost as if she was annoyed with life, she didn't want him to come.

"Actually, I made a small upgrade to the car-" Mike said, trying to cover up how proud he was with whatever he had done.

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"This is not ideal." Tyler retorted. The twins and Logan were in the back, Ash and her father were up in the front. Ben and I had the middle seat, on opposite windows, with a crackhead exploding with energy in the middle of us.

Mike dropped us off at the arcade we were supposed to be celebrating at. I mean, what were we supposed to celebrate? Our failed midterms? Or my revive? I noticed Ash put on some soundproof headphones, which were probably for her sensitive ass hearing.

We walked into the oddly quiet arcade, with no visitors. I mean, who would want to go to an arcade on Monday? Totally not us. It almost felt like a liminal space, just like some out of the Backrooms. I noticed a DDR machine, no, two. I've always wanted to try one!

I noticed Aiden eyeing the machine too, and I wanted to ask him for a challenge, but he eyed Ashlyn. "I bet I can beat you." He said with a smirk. And to my surprise, Ashlyn answered back. "How much?"

I felt my heart drop a bit when I saw the specks of red appear on his face. But he was looking at Ash. It made me feel... uneasy. So I just scoffed and went off to play another game, which I found one of those 'hey, come here and throw a bunch of red balls at a bunch of low quality clowns' games. I felt like I could take whatever thing I was feeling off there. 

So, remind me how I managed to hit all of them, and now my shoes were buried in a pile of yellow tickets. I didn't even know I could do that. But hey, more tickets means more prizes. I will take it. I looked back to see where the others were, and saw them over at the DDR machines. Logan and Taylor were on one, and Ash and Aiden were on the other.

That same uneasy heart burn feeling came back when my eyes landed on the two of them. Now that I noticed it, they did make a cute couple. I clenched the ball in my hand tightly at that thought. So much, it accidentally popped. Hopefully, they won't notice one singular broken ball that went missing. I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself, to find myself playing the same 'throw a clown nose at a clown' game. At the moment, it was the only thing that helped with this weird feeling in my chest.

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After a bit, I got bored of the same cycle of looking at those two and then playing the game. So without saying anything, I quietly dumped the tickets I had received into whatever pile they had themselves, and just left the arcade. I guess I just got tired of feeling the same thing every time I saw those two. And whatever lie I had told myself that I didn't like Aiden at all turned out to be a lie. That stupid psychology book really opened my eyes. I knew exactly what I was experiencing, but I didn't want to admit it.

Jealousy.

I was fucking jealous of Aiden being so close to Ashlyn. And I hated to admit it, but they looked better than me and Aiden did. Huh, maybe we would never be together. My mind drifted off to those make-belief fantasies about... us. But I scrapped them once I got home. I didn't see Dad anywhere, so I went upstairs and fell flat onto my bed. I don't remember when, but I eventually drifted off to sleep.

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A/N: Yay, y/n admits it and is jealous :3

sorry it's a little short. It was like 1:30 in the morning when I wrote this.

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