I Think I Love You || (festive) Leo Valdez X reader

Chapter Seven || The Call Pt. 2

(Y/n)'s POV

I sit quietly on my bed, after hanging up on Leo. I needed to see, I didn't know why, impulsive thing. He would just always... be there, I guess. Jace told me to meet him downstairs in the training room. He had a surprise. I walk out of my room, and trace my footsteps and make it to the stairs, which lead up. When I enter the first thing I see is not Jace. I inhale sharply. Someone. Tyler Ravenscar (picture above for reference). Oh my god. I knew him since I was 10 years old! "TYLER BY THE ANGEL WHEN DID YOU GET BACK?!" I exclaim loudly, making him swivel around gracefully. He had seraph blades in his hand, and a complex look on his face which melted away as soon as he saw me. I run and hug him, jumping up while wrapping my legs around him. He hugs back tightly, sighing in my hair. 

"I got back last night, I Portaled in," he says as I get off him. "The London girls where sorry to see me gone!" he chuckled.

"Oh no need to say such lies, They were glad to get rid of your narcissistic ass!" I laugh, making Tyler laugh. 

"Save some of that charm young lady, I'm taking you to Starbucks, my treat." He says grabbing my hand that didn't have a deadly blade in. 'Great!' I think, 'now Leo can meet Tyler, maybe they'll be besties?' I nod and he smiles. He makes me have butterflies in my stomach. Just a couple. 

TIME FOR A TIME SKIP

Tyler and I arrive before Leo, order and sit on a table. We talk about Tyler's trip to the London Institute, home of my favourite Shadowhunter story. The story of the Herondales and the Carstairs. Of Will Herondale, Jem Carstairs, and Tessa Gray. When I was young, my mom sent me to the Institute to stay after I started to walk. She wanted to get rid of the child that brought disappointment and shame upon her. You see my mom and my dad had me when my mom was only 20, like she had turned 20 that year. She had a child out of wedlock, just like her father, making him feel guilty, leading him to resent her for the rest of his life, making her resent me. Her father meant everything to her, especially his opinion. Whatever was said in her household, and whatever my mother heard my grandfather (her father) say, she would think that would be the only opinion in the room that mattered. That's how much she cherished it. Which made her despise me. I mean my grandfather was somewhat 'thrilled' to have me there, but he couldn't disagree more with the fact I was a mistake. He wanted my mother to find a husband asap. Before I got old enough to ask questions about where my dad is and who is he. So my step dad, Steve Goldblood, married my mother when I was 1. Except I knew that Steve was never my father. He didn't look at me as his own. He was an awkward mess around the toddler me. But I preferred Steve to my mother anyway, whether he be blood or not. Steve played and spent time with me. My mother, only nursed me and changed my diaper if she were feeling in a good mood that day. Otherwise, Steve would dress me, and play and occasionally feed if weren't on a mission. Anyways back to the current situation, Tyler and I sat across the table laughing and reminiscing. Suddenly the laughter dies and we're staring into each others eyes. Tyler leans in and it all happens so quick, and were kissing. Like actual kissing! But right at the moment our lips meet, Leo comes in, to see Tyler kiss me. I pull away, to see Leo looking angry, at Tyler, at me, just straight up frustrated. Oh gods, what had I gotten myself into?

Leo's POV

I walk into Starbucks because I saw (Y/n) was sitting in there. I walk in and next thing I know, the guy with her kisses her! She had a boyfriend? But she just broke up with Alex! I'm so lost in thought that I don't realize that the guy with (Y/n) and (Y/n) are staring at me. "Leo oh gods! It's not what it looks like" she tried to explain. "I-I don't know what this," she gestures to everything around her, "even is about. I just wanted to catch up with you and-" but the guy cuts her off.

"(Y/n), you don't owe him an explanation, but you owe me one. I kiss you and freak out? Is that what this is now?" He says frowning. (Y/n) looks from me to the other guy.

"Tyler, I don't know what we are," she says getting a bit angrier now. "And Leo, gods know what we are, and you have no right getting mad at me because you fell in love with Calypso and you knew I liked you a lot Valdez! So don't you come here giving me attitude because not everyone can be a goddam goddess!" Her eyes brimmed with tears, her voice shaking. "I'm going out now, and I don't want company." She says and runs out of Starbucks. Oh gods Leo you idiot!

Tyler's POV

I kissed (Y/n) and I'm felling really until she pulls away now staring at the guy who walked in who was staring at us. (Y/n) instantly shot up and started apologizing to the other guy, about the kiss and she had nothing to do with it- wait what? Was that her boyfriend? So I kiss her and she freaks out. I cut her off from the other guy, now getting angry. "So I kiss you and you freak out? Is that what this is now?" I could see the shock in her eyes, the pleading look, the look of that she was getting angry and bothered and was gonna run out soon. She turns to me and says "Tyler, I don't know what we are," then turns to the other guy and starts speaking, an angry tremor through her voice. "And Leo, gods know what we are, and you have no right getting mad at me because you fell in love with Calypso and you knew I liked you a lot Valdez! So don't you come here giving me attitude because not everyone can be a goddam goddess!" Wait, goddess? That scrawny imp scores a goddess? But my attention turns back to the girl I was here with, the one I wanted to tell that I love her. We had been together for five years now. FIVE BLOODY LONG YEARS. I stood through the thick and thin. She had grown with me. I mean, we were friends at first and then suddenly I look at (Y/n) and see her differently. I knew she was cute but she looked beautiful now in my eyes. She ran out of Starbucks because of some guy, Leo, who had come and ruin my chances with her. I had to find and apologize to (Y/n). By the Angel, why are girls so complex?