exonerate | a jonah marais x reader story

~ 12 ~

"JACK! I FOUND YOUR HAIR!" one of the many mischievous teenage boys shout across the grocery store holding a packet of 'INSTANT NOODLES' at 10:30 in the night. the staff of the grocery could honestly care less; the only customers in the store were the teenagers anyways.

"NOOO NOT MY HAIR!" jack yells at the package of instant noodles. zach filming his hysterical reaction to post on his instagram story. the group of three laughs with the curly haired boy.

y/n is the only one actually trying to find food to cook for the five boys. y/n can cook a damn good meal, she just needs the proper ingredients. which she had a hard time finding because she wasn't particularly familiar to the grocery store.

she pulls around a grocery cart full of ingredients to fill the boys' empty kitchen. she already planned out so many home-cooked meals for them so they wouldn't have to order take-out every night.

daniel and corbyn decided to follow her around, assuming she would need help with navigating the store, which she did. while helping her they would throw some random food and snacks in the cart, which y/n would question if they really needed it, they're response was always a 'yes'.

"really? hot cheetos? do you really need them?" y/n questioned the two boys while she looks in the fully loaded cart, holding the hot cheetos in her hand. they turn around to face y/n, vigorously nodding their heads while stuffing their faces with some cookie samples.

after daniel swallowed his food he replied, "yes! hot cheetos are delicious, and we need snacks!" she shook her head and simply laughed at the kids who were devouring the cookies. "c'mon we need to go find some more ingredients," she told the two boys.

"BUT THE COOKIES!" corbyn exclaimed, grabbing whatever cookies he could hold in his hands. she walked away, gesturing them to follow her as she pushes the cart. They ran towards her, holding the cookies in their hands as y/n walked away.

After fifteen more minutes of shopping, the cart was completely full, everything from snacks to vegetables, junk food to fruit, spices to candy, you name it, they had it in the cart. the teenagers regrouped at the check-out line, there was only one lane open so they went to that one. 

there stood a nineteen year old girl behind the cash register. she wore the staff uniform and an apron with a name tag that says, 'HELLO MY NAME IS: LINDSAY,' her bright blonde hair is tied up in a high ponytail and she wore heavy makeup. when she saw the teenagers pull in the cart she was shocked at the amount of groceries, but then she looked up at a specific blue-eyed, messy haired teenager and she fell in love at the sight of him. 

y/n saw the way she looked at jonah and she was furious, or at least she thought she was. she was more jealous then she was furious. But the young girl didn't realize that; she was in love with him and they weren't even a thing, but she felt something between them earlier when they kissed that she never she never felt with anyone else. she didn't want to lose that. jonah was completely oblivious of lindsay's presence, he just continued to scroll through instagram. 

she started to scan the items that the jack, corbyn, y/n and daniel started to unload from the cart and onto the conveyer belt. the girl at the cash register would continue to glance at the tall boy, as he was showing zach a funny video. y/n noticed every time she glanced at him, she studied her every move. 

after scanning all of the items, jonah finally looked up from his phone and spotted the girl in the apron looking at him. he was fully weirded out as she smirked at the boy. he forced out an uncomfortable smile and proceeded to help push the cart that was loaded with bags full of the groceries that they bought. the girl at the cash register stared at jonah until he was out of site. 

y/n was still jealous walking out of the store and into the why don't we van, jealous enough to not even realize that daniel spotted her jealousy inside the grocery store. he decided to sit in the very back of the van next to y/n. 

ever since y/n started to live with the boys at the why don't we house, daniel and y/n have created a brotherly-sisterly bond. a bond that y/n has always wanted since she was little.

 y/n was the only child in her family. her parents still hated her anyways, she was an accident. her parents never wanted a child in the first place, but once they had her they didn't want to send her off to an adoption center, but they didn't want to abort her. so they kept her but most of the time she would stay with her grandparents. her grandparents loved her so much. they would take her to the park, zoo, and so many other places. they wanted to give her the best childhood ever, but they sadly died when she was thirteen, leaving her to her parents for most of her teenage life. she fell into depression no just because her grandparents died, but her parents would repeatedly tell her how much of an embarrassment she is to the family, how she was such a faliure. she couldn't put up with it so she ran away with jason when she had the chance at eighteen. 

"is someone a little jealous?" daniel teased y/n while poking her cheek as she looked outside of the window, whispering so nobody else could hear the two. she shook her head and tried to hide the smile that was forming on her face from daniel poking her cheek.

"i know you were, you can't deny it," he told her off, in a teasing manner. she looked at daniel, who was hard to see in the dark, "fine, maybe i was a little jealous." y/n admitted. daniel smiled at her willingness to admit her feelings, "it's okay to feel that way, but jonah is way too in love with you to be focused on some other girl." daniel stated. y/n was shocked, she thought to herself, 'is jonah really in love with me?' for the rest of the ride home as she placed her head on daniel's shoulder and dozed off. 

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word count: 1092

idk how i feel about this chapter, it's so crappy but the next chapter will have some drama so get hyped for that!!!!!!!!

also can we talk about A Why Don't We Christmas EP like HOLY SHIT TALENT TALENT AND TALENT. ALSO THE MUSIC VIDEO AND DANIEL PLAYING THE CELLO WOW WOW WOW WHATTA STUD

ALSO thank you for 1.2k reads! i love each and everyone of you guys, you mean the world to me and im shocked that i even got 100 reads!