NatePat One-Shots

Chasing Cars

song; chasing cars - snow patrol
warning; sad things but happy things
stephpat

we'll do it all
everything
on our own

Maybe it all started out because they wanted something to rebel with. Like "hey, dad, I finally got a boyfriend even though you said I had to be fifty before I got one." Only, there was nothing rebellious about dating Matthew Patrick. Dorky glasses, stupid hair and all. Still she loved him and they did everything together, because they didn't need anyone else to have fun. They never got bored of each other, because every day was a completely new page in the book they were writing together. Each step they took was a word and every late night conversation was a paragraph. Descriptive details were just what they thought of each other, and dialogue always meant something.

Nothing they ever said to each other meant nothing.

we don't need
anything
or anyone

Stephanie Cordato's friends started abandoning her left and right after she started dating Matthew. They said he had changed her, and they were right. He had changed her, of course he had changed her. Only, there was nothing wrong with the way he changed her. Matthew made her more confident in herself and her school work. She seldom second guessed herself anymore and she didn't ask for opinions on how she looked before she went out of the house anymore. He made her feel beautiful, so she stopped wearing make up. Her skin had cleared up and she was getting sick less frequently as a result. She was so happy all the time, much unlike how she was when constantly surrounded by the negativity her old friends shared. Of course, she still had people she kept in touch with but sometimes she just needed Matthew, and only Matthew. Nothing else, no one else.

if i lay here
if i just lay here
would you lie with me
and just forget the world?

Spontaneous dinner dates weren't Matthew's forte. He always forgot his wallet and felt awful about Stephanie paying, or they both wouldn't have enough. However, those nights were still fun. They would stay up till three in the morning scrubbing dishes and listening to the radio with the workers that stayed around the clock. Even employees thought they were cute, sometimes getting distracted from work and throwing suds at each other. One time Stephanie had slipped on a puddle, getting very close to slamming her face into the hard ground but Matthew literally swept her off of the ground, holding her close to his chest bridal style with no intentions of letting go. Of course, when they got home they would collapse onto the couch and snuggle until they fell asleep.

Since Matthew wasn't good with formal dates, he always made their stay-at-home dates special. He would clean up the house, setting up a pillow bed in the living space and putting on mystery movies that would make Stephanie furrow her brows together cutely as she tried to figure out what was going on. He always found her thinking face cute, but her face when she guessed something correctly was so much more perfect. Her eyes would light up and she would squeal, then get embarrassed and hide her face into Matthew's shoulder. He would just laugh, letting her lay on her side as he rubbed her back until she was asleep. Rubbing each others' backs was something they did often, it was simply a comfort thing that they both shared a liking too. If one of them had a bad day at work or during class, the other would rub their back in silence until they were okay.

i don't quite know
how to say
how i feel

After a few months of dating, the two of them both knew that this relationship would definitely last. For how long or what it would turn into was beyond them, neither of them had fully put together how they felt. Or, maybe one of them had but they were unable to put it into words. There weren't any words good enough to describe the feelings they felt for each other. Matthew and Stephanie both felt like soulmates, and were quite positive that they were. It was silly how in love they were with each other, how Matthew could get completely lost in Stephanie's eyes during a lecture or how Stephanie would practically melt into Matthew's embrace when he hugged her after a long day.