I Hate Him. {Gustholomule}

Chapter 16

Gus's P.O.V

"Bye?" I said as Luz pulled Willow out of the room.

"That was.. odd." Matt said, staring at the now closed door. "Is this something I have to be worried about happening in the future or..?"

"I hope not." I sighed as I got up off the bed. "That's never happened before. Granted I've never skipped hanging out with them twice in a row before, but, you know what I mean."

"They must care about you a lot, huh." Matt muttered, still looking at the door as he followed me off the bed. "Where are we going?"

"To get food, I'm starving." I replied as I opened the door. "And, yeah they do care about me a lot."

"Is that normal?"

"Uh, Yeah? Do your friends not care about how you feel or how you are?" I asked as I entered the empty kitchen.

Now that I said that out loud, that sounds like a stupid question. Bria didn't care what Matt thought or how he felt, she seems like she does most of the time, but earlier she certainly didn't. Boscha doesn't care about most people unless it's convenient either, I don't know her exact views on Matt, but I wouldn't expect them to be that strong. Skara seems nice though, so does Jerbo.

"Well, I guess they do, but not Luz level caring I guess." Matt shrugged as he grabbed a package of Hex Mix out if the cupboard. He held a second package up into my view, "Want one?"

I nodded and he threw me the package before opening his. "Thanks."

"No problem." Matt said between bites, his mouth half full as he spoke.

"You know, you could join my friend group if you wanted to." I said as I opened my package of Hex Mix. Matt looked over at my with a confused expression as I said that, his face still full of food. "It would take awhile for them to warm up to you, for sure. Given your past with me and Amity, and now considering you were basically trying to pick a argument with Willow... But after you prove yourself and they accept you, they will love you as if you've always been there." Matt's face looked like he was deep in thought. "That's what happened with Amity, and then Hunter."

"I.. don't know Gus.. I don't think they like me very much.." Matt muttered as he put the empty bag into the garbage can.

"They like you enough to not kick you out of the Owl House, and if Willow really didn't like you, she would've been yelling at you the entire time she was here earlier. So.." I shrugged as I made my way towards the kitchen door.

"She basically was yelling but whatever.." Matt rolled his eyes. "And what about Jerbo, Skara, Boscha.. Bria.. They're all I've ever really known. I don't think they'd let me hang out with them still if I was friends with you guys.." Matt said, following me to the doorway and then up the stairs.

"Oh, well you don't need Bria anyway, but if the others were truly your friends, they wouldn't care who else you hung out with. I really don't think Skara or Jerbo would care, Boscha is iffy, but I think she cares about you atleast a bit, no?" I said, opening the door to Matt's room. Matt followed me in, laying down on the bed, sprawled out so that he took up most of the space on it. I sat at the desk to eat my Hex Mix.

"I guess your right." Matt sighed. "But it would take a lot for your friends to accept me in the first place."

"I think you could get a boyfriend free pass, make it easier." I said with a sly grin.

"Boyfriend? I wasn't aware
of that.." Matt said, his tone laced with sarcasm. He sat up on the bed. "When did we agree on that?"

"I decided on it a few minutes ago." I hummed, checking my nails. "Why, do you not like the sound of it?"

"Well, I don't know.." Matt admitted, his face falling a bit. "I mean, yes, I like you, I'm assuming you like me, that's what it would make us, right? But it's just.. Unfamiliar, is all."

"Don't worry about it, I don't have to call you anything if you don't feel comfortable with it, just tell me if you don't like something, alright? Your comfort is my top priority, okay?" I say, my tone softening slightly.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Don't worry about me too much now, I'm not a baby." Matt said, his normal tone returning.

"Aww, but you're my baby." I laughed. Matt looked appalled at that comment, his face going red, I couldn't tell you for what, maybe embarrassment?

"Okay, never say that, or call me that, ever again."

"Okay, no problem." I said with a laugh.

"Thank you. Titan that sounded so weird coming out of your mouth." Matt shuddered.

"Okay, sorry, sorry, won't happen again, sorry. I was joking." I said as I finished my package of Hex Mix, that I had slowly been working on throughout our conversation.

*DING*

"Oh, who's that from?" Matt asked, looking at my scroll that was sitting beside me.

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Help idk what's going on here..

ALSO! Really sorry for the shit schedule recently, I know I dropped like 3 chapters last week at once, and that was the first time I posted in 3 weeks or smth crazy like that. I've been at camp for the entirety of July, being able to write but not post. And I happened to be in town and have access to wifi for an hour last week when I posted that. But when this chapter goes out, I'll officially be back in my city! Hopefully more consistency, but I will still be out at my other camp a few times before the end of the summer, but it won't be nearly as long.

But, I'm hoping you've enjoyed the story thus far, and it is crazy how much traction my stories have gotten, over 5k reads on my last one, and over 1.8k on this one?! I started posting like 3 months ago people 😣

BUT I DO WANT TO SAY, I LOVE YOU, DRINK WATER, AND YOU ARE PERFECT !! MWAH XOXOXO

-Em