A Coincidence||Fionn Whitehead

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Dotty stood up, tearing her hand away from Fionn and running back inside and up to the bathroom leaving Fionn disheartened. He stared at his feet his heart swelling and his chest growing heavy. A tear slipped from his eyes and dropped onto his jogging bottoms.

The backdoor opened again and he looked up expecting it to be Dotty but it wasn't. It was Harry. "Fionn? Mate, what's wrong?" Harry sat down where Dotty has been sitting and placed a hand in his shoulder.

"I did what you all said." Fionn told him, his voice cracking. "I told her I liked her."

"And?"

"She ran off."

Harry gasped quietly and wrapped his arms around Fionn, pulling him closer. He didn't know what to say so he didn't say anything at all. Instead, he held Fionn who cried quietly into his chest.

"You guys said she liked me. You said she wouldn't say no. I really thought she liked me." Fionn sobbed, tugging on his hair.

"We thought she did. After all, she let you hold her hand, she cuddled up to you and there was obvious flirting. Fionn, we all really thought she did."

"Why did I do that?! WHY?!?" Dotty. Died to herself in the bathroom.

She regretted running away but in that moment she was frozen. Her mouth wouldn't stop drying up and words were not forming.

It was a fight of flight situation. And her initial reaction was flight.

But it was the wrong reaction.

The girl was pretty sure Fionn hates her now. She totally just blanked him and walked away without saying anything. God, she felt horrible.

Exiting the bathroom, she traipsed back down the stairs and entered the kitchen which over looked the garden. She saw Harry hugging Fionn and she felt even worse.

She quietly went out to the garden. Harry looked up and saw her, he saw the apologetic look in her eyes and nodded, letting go of Fionn and leaving the pair be in the garden.

Fionn continued to look down at the ground even when she sat down beside him. "I'm sorry." She muttered quietly. "I panicked. I just ran. I'm sorry."

Fionn shook his head.

"I...do like you too..."

"You have a weird way of showing it." Said Fionn, his voice cracking at the end.

Dotty grabbed his hand but he pulled it away. Kneeling down in front of him, she saw his tears. Feeling even more bad, she reached up and wiped her thumb over his cheeks to take away the tears.

"I really like you. I didn't know what to do. I'm sorry. Really sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry. Heck, I hated myself as soon as I entered the house leaving you out here." Dotty whispered, still wiping away his tears.

Unbeknownst to the pair, Harry was watching from the kitchen window, hoping that they would make up. But he was ready to intervene if it got ugly. He didn't know what either of them would be like if they were angry so he was ready to get between them.

Fionn didn't say anything as her thumb still ran over his cheeks. He touch was like a fire igniting inside of him but it still hurt that she had ran off.

"Fionn...please say something." She begged. "I really am sorry."

Leaning closer, he wrapped his arms around the girl and pulled her up onto his lap. Fionn buries his head into the crook of her neck and she wrapped her arms around his shoulders, holding him tightly.

"I really am sorry."

"Stop apologising..."Fionn mumbled. "I can't believe you actually like me."

"I could say the same thing to you." Dotty replied, adjusting herself on his lap so that her legs were either side of his body and not both on one side.

Fionn's hands rested on the small of Dotty's back and his thumb made circles. "I am really sorry for making you cry."

"I was being dramatic."

"Well you are an actor." Dotty snorted. "You're meant to be dramatic. But I do really feel bad. Seeing you cry, was just awful."

Fionn shushed her, "Stop it, Dotty. Let's forget that part and just carry on."

"Carry on as what? What are we?"

"What do you want us to be?"

"I dunno what do you want us to be?"

"Well what do you-"

"For fucks sake, do you guys want to be boyfriend or girlfriend or not?!" Harry called out of the kitchen window.

The pairs heads shot towards the window where Harry recoiled in, grinning, his dimples showing and he ran out of the view but remained in the kitchen.

Bursting out into a fit of laughter, Dotty and Fionn leaned on each other as they laughed at their friend. "He honestly hasn't changed."

"What do you mean by that?"

"In all of the tour diary videos and things, Harry was just as cheeky and stuff."

Fionn smiled and glanced at the window just as Harry ducked down out of sight. "So, Dotty, what do you say? Do you want to be my girlfriend? If you don't, I'll live with that as long as we stay friends, unless you don't want to be frien-"

"Fionn! Yes. I will be your...um...girlfriend." Dotty replied scratching her neck.

Fionn nodded and wrapped her back into a hug. Harry cheered silently, dancing in the kitchen until he tripped into a cupboard making the couple look at him.

He blushed and waved, holding his thumbs up. "That's my children!"

"I thought GC and Aneurin were my parents?" Claimed Dotty.

"You're my daughter in law!" Harry cried.

"So your my dad?" Asked Fionn.

"Duh."