Joe Mazzello Imagines

Who are you dating?

"Holy shit. Joe!" I yell towards the bathroom connected to Joe and I's bedroom.

"What's up?" Joe asks, pocking his head out through the door frame.

"Why is there a cardboard cutout of Ben in the wardrobe?" I seriously cannot take my eyes off of cardboard Ben as Joe comes up behind me and wraps his arms around my waist.

"It's just a joke the boys and I had when Ben couldn't show up for the press tour in Japan."

"I know that, but what is he doing here in our wardrobe? Do you have an unhealthy obsession with him or something?" I ask, turning around in his arms and wrapping mine around his neck

"Yeah, I totally do." He sarcastically says, making us both laugh. "But the boys will be coming around this afternoon, so I'll bring cardboard Ben out then." He leans his head forward, placing his forehead against mine. "Don't worry, Y/N. Your still my number 1 obsession."

"I better be, since your mine too. But this is seriously creepy."

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When everyone arrived, Ben was surprised to see his cardboard doppelganger sitting on the lap of Joe as he laughed at something Rami said.

"What the fuck?" Ben says smiling, but through an angry voice. Those two emotions should not go together, but he does it anyway. "I thought cardboard Ben was only used for press tours. Are you replacing me, Joe?" Ben asks, pretending to be hurt.

"No, he's not replacing you Ben." I say with a smile, sitting beside Joe. "He's replacing the both of us. He's seriously in love with him."

"How did you know, Y/N?" I laugh, looking at Joe with raised eyebrows.

"How could I not?"

"Anyway, I'm not replacing you, Y/N, but I am replacing Ben. Sorry mate, but cardboard Ben is so much more high spirited and we just seem to have that connection and spark that you and I just lack, you know?" I start laughing once more with the others, anticipating Ben's remark.

"Whatever." He shrugs. Well, that is a major disappointment, he usually comes up with better wit than that. Something has to be going on. "I knew you would bring cardboard Ben, so I decided to bring..." Ben reaches around the corner and pulls out "a cardboard Joe." The room erupts into laughter and cheers. Joe is too busy staring at himself in Ben's arms in surprise to notice me getting up to head over cardboard Joe. Payback time.

"Well, hello handsome." I say, flipping my hair slightly flirtatiously, making Ben snort. Joe snaps his attention towards me.

"Please tell me your talking to me."

"No, cardboard Joe is very handsome. They managed to capture your good side and I'm really starting to feel a connection with him."

"He has a good side?" Ben remarks as Joe says;

"Please, there is a lot more that I can do that cardboard Joe cannot."

"Yeah, like what?" I ask, putting my hands on my hips.

"I can show you tonight." He smirks at me, wiggling his eyebrows.

"Dude, we're still in the room here!" Gwilym exclaims and Joe looks at him with an innocent expression.

"I know, and now you know what we're doing tonight." Shit, time to derail. My cheeks feel like they could start a fire any moment.

"I don't know Joe, cardboard Joe still peaks my interest." I smirk, knowing I'm getting on Joe's nerves. I'm definitely getting punished tonight. Ben walks over to sit with the other boys and he leans cardboard Joe beside him on the couch.

"Who are you dating, Y/N? Me or him?" He nods towards cardboard Joe.

"You, if I get to sit on your lap instead of cardboard Ben."

"Done." Joe tosses cardboard Ben over his shoulders, dropping him to the floor and pulls me by the hand to sit on his lap. He slides his hands around my waist as I move mine around his shoulders.

"Dude! How can you dis-guard my cardboard self like that?" Ben asks in shock.

"Because, Y/N is mine. Not cardboard Joe's, but mine. And I am hers." I look at Ben with a smirk.

"And that's how it's done, Ben." I say , snuggling into Joe before pressing my lips lovingly against his.

"You two are such dorks." Ben laughs before he wraps himself around cardboard Joe. "But I guess now I get cardboard Joe all to myself."

"Can I sit on your lap next, Joe?"

"Fuck off, Rami."

I have no idea what I just wrote 🤷‍♀️