Duet: an Avi Kaplan fanfic

Heat of the Moment

A/N: Hey. Shout out to forevertheatergeek because I would never have gotten this done without her. Also, this is going to get smutty, just a warning. So, Sammy, you better just skip this chapter. I can just put a summary in the author’s note of my next chapter. Hope y’all enjoy. Votes and comments are very much appreciated. Especially comments, guys. I would really like to see a few comments, please. Love y’all.

-Emmi

The day of the departure is drawing closer and closer and between that and my own job, Avi and I haven’t seen each other for more than a few minutes at a time in about three weeks. Every time I suggested we do something, Avi would get distant and make excuses to leave. “I have some stuff I need to get from Scott and Mitch’s apartment,” or “There’s been a scheduling change and so we have another meeting, sorry, Arya” there was always an excuse. I pretty much gave up after two weeks of no Avi, especially when he’d been doing this more gradually for a few weeks before then.

I told Livvie and Mel about it and they told me that, sure, everyone else is busy, but half of the time when Avi claimed to have a meeting, no meeting was happening. He was just at home. I even asked Scott about it when he was over, hanging out with Livvie.

“Yeah, he’s probably trying to ease away slowly. He does that. It’s really, really annoying. Just keep pushing it and he’ll probably break and spend time with you like he really should be doing anyway.” Scott assures me.

Finally, after a few more tries, he agrees to come over for dinner while my roommates aren’t there. “Babe, we need to talk.” I can feel my heart clench when the voice I fell in love with speaks those words.

“Why?” the edge of steel in my voice surprises me.

“You’ve just kinda been really…I don’t know, I guess distant is the right word,” he says, hesitantly. Something about that sentence pisses me off.

“I’ve been distant, Avi? I’ve been distant? That, sir, is very funny” I laugh, coldly, the anger barely hidden under the surface.

“I mean, we haven’t seen each other in forever and then tonight, we finally get to spend time together and you barely say a word. So, yeah, I’d say you’ve been distant.” That’s what breaks the shell of faux calm.

“I am not the one who’s been distant, Avi. For weeks I have been asking you to hang out or come eat with me, or something, anything. Weeks, Avi! And you would always find some excuse not to! I know that 50% of those ‘meetings’ never existed. You seem to forget that I talk to the rest of Pentatonix and that my sister and best friend do also. You seem to forget that I have ways to make sure that those ‘meetings’ are real. You’ve been lying to me! You have been intentionally avoiding me and I’ve had it! Either you stop lying to me, stop doing the ‘pushing her away so she can’t pull away’ thing, and actually act like you care, or we’re done!” I scream at the man that I am so in love with.

"You went and asked my friends about what I said? You didn't trust me enough to just take what I said as true? God, Arya, you aren't my mom. You don't have to double check everything for me. And don't you think I had a reason to act like that? Huh?" It's the first time I've ever heard him yell at me and it scares me, but I can't let him know that.