red x chloe (descendants rise of red)

"love you"

the two girls were woken up by chloe's alarm clock at the crack of dawn. red turned over to face chloe's bed as she let out a loud moan. "chloe why the fuck did you make that so loud" she said messing. "i needed to make sure id wake up on time! i can't be late on my first day" chloe began to sit up to go turn the alarm off "stay here i'll get it" red said while gently pushing chloe back down onto the bed. chloe turned away to look at the wall so she could calm herself down before looking back at red. "did i really just cuddle with red last night" chloe thought while trying to wake herself up. red walked over to chloe's bedside table and turned off the obnoxiously loud alarm "chloe, it's 4:45am" red said seriously. "what? i wanted to make sure i had everything ready" she replied. "school doesn't start until 8:50... so we'd only need to get to class maybe 15 minutes earlier" red said. "okay maybe a panicked a little" she said letting out a small laugh. "just a little" red said. her voice was still quite raspy which chloe liked a lot. "here i'll set it for 6:30 okay? does that give you enough time for your lengthy morning routine" red said jokingly. "lengthy but very necessary! and yes that's enough time" chloe said. "no problem. now go back to sleep im sure you need your beauty sleep princess" red said rolling her eyes whilst climbing back into bed. chloe began to blush once again, red loved seeing chloe melt like that. red lay on her side facing chloe while chloe was on her back looking up at the ceiling. "chlo" red said softly. "yeah?" chloe replied. "um so you know what happened last night? the kind've panic attack thing... i just wanted to apologise." she said as a lump began to form in her throat. "what why?" chloe said turning to face red with a concerned look. "i mean like, it's my fault that happened.... like it's my fault your mom almost died and why you get these horrible dreams" red said. the words kept coming up like vomit and she couldn't stop herself. this wasn't like her at all. "stop it red" she told herself, being vulnerable was a sign of weakness in her eyes. "and i just hate seeing you upset because for some reason i don't totally hate you" she said as her voice began to crack. "oh red" chloe pulling the girl into a hug that was slightly awkward due to the angle they were laying. chloe pulled away and sat up, gesturing for red to do the same. red sat up and put her head down looking at her lap, "hey" she said lifting reds chin up. "you did nothing wrong, you would never do anything like that now... we both know that. your mom was pressuring you to be like her and do horrible things... like i've said before, you do so much good red" she said reassuringly. chloe didn't know what had come over her, maybe it was the fact she was still half asleep or just her feeling bold but she wanted nothing more than to kiss red. she leaned in once again just like what she had done last night, once again she chickened out last second and gave her an awkward kiss on the cheek before pulling her back in for a hug. red accepted, putting her arms around chloe and holding her tight and not wanting to let go. this was the first time red had ever experienced wanting to be hugged by someone, "is this what love feels like?" she thought, as a tear ran down her cheek. chloe pulled away slightly after a minute and whispered in reds ear "love you" red felt the warm air from her breath that sent shivers down her spine. she was so taken aback from this and didn't really know what to say. she pulled chloe away "you too, but we should probably go back asleep though" she said before lying back down facing away from chloe. chloe sat there in shock but then decided to just lie down facing away from red. her mind was racing "why did i do that? red probably hates me now" red was having similar thoughts, "why couldn't i have just told her i loved her back"

AN: hi guys!! hope you all are having an amazing day and enjoyed this chapter! i'll try update this everyday but with school coming soon im not sure how ill work it :) tysm for all the support you've shown me on this story, it means sm to me as a first time writer as i've never really done anything like this before. love you all so much!
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