Aris Jones X Reader One Shots

Worth It To Me

Aris’s P.O.V

If you love something, let it go. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you.

I should let her go. I know that. For her sake, I need to end things.

She’s outcasted now for daring to be with someone on the other side. She’s seen as a traitor, as someone with no morals. Her friends have left her, leaving her with only me.

It has to be isolating. I know it kills her on the inside, but she doesn't talk about it. She seems desperate to just forget about it completely.

I don't want to be the only thing she has. She deserves other people. She deserves to have her friends back. She deserves for people to see her as more than an extension of me.

It doesn't seem to be happening. Every day, she looks lonelier and lonelier. Every day, I wonder if maybe it's for the best that I stop this before it gets tangled to something that can't be undone.

“Are you okay?”She asked softly, pulling me out of my thoughts. Looking down, I met her eyes as she kept her head on my lap, her hand still firmly holding mine.

“I’m fine,”I promised.

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah. Just,”I trailed off.

“Just what, love?”

“Just wondering if this is actually worth it to you,”I admitted.

“If what's worth it?”

“Being with me. Is that really enough to make the isolation worth it?”I whispered.

“Of course it is,”She immediately defended.

“I’m just me though. You could have so many other people. You could be with so many other people and have so many other friends. Are you sure one person is worth that?”

“No. You are worth that.”

“Are you sure?”I couldn't help but question.

“My love,”She sighed, sitting up. As I looked at her, she wrapped her arms around me, pulling me into her. I couldn't help the stupid smile as I immediately nuzzled my face in her neck, too captivated by her divine softness to try not to fall.

“You're worth everything. Absolutely everything.”