is that cool with you? - zuckles x reader

chapter seven - 'can you smoke this?'

.. 5 days before christmas ..

"We're grabbing a Christmas tree today." Mason starts, turning his head toward the back seat.

"Oh yeah?" Swagger asks, zooming in on Mason's face.

"You excited?"

"I'm really excited."

"What going on, Mason?" Y/N asks behind the camera, her smile evident in her voice.

"I'm eatin' Shapes."

"Eating Shapes in Matt's car?"

"You better not be making a mess over there," Matt warns from the driver's seat, Mason whining in the background. "Clean up your crumbs, dammit."

"Dude, what crumbs?"

"I'm gonna use your head as a brush to clean them up." Matt growls, the rest of the crew giggling in the back of the car. Mason sticks his tongue out at Matt and turns up the music, the lo-fi beats flowing through the speakers. Looking out the window, Y/N sighs in admiration at the lush countryside of Victoria - the tall grass and wide open fields reminiscent of home. Mason takes a peek in the rearview mirror, a warm fondness in his heart for the girl he'd fallen so hard for.

"Do we get a tall tree or a scuffed tree for the house?" Matt asks, searching for a parking spot.

"We need one twice my height!" Swagger orders.

"Good thing there's a couple of four feet trees then." Jay says, laughing when Swagger flips him off from behind the camera.

Mason, Jay, and Y/N split off with Fitz and Toby for the tree truck, and the rest of the crew stays in the van, cackling when the van pulls off and almost dumps Swagger from the open back. Traveling down the winding road, Mason grabs Y/N's hand for support before standing up with the camera.

"Mason! Get your arse back in the car!" Toby orders, the tug on his hand from Y/N enough to reel him back in.

As the truck reaches the tree farm, Y/N and Mason start laughing before turning the camera back on.

"They're never gonna know." Mason whispers to the camera, a grin splitting his face.

"What?" Jay asks, his eyes going wide as Mason and Y/N both stand up. "No, No! Nohoho! Mason and Y/N jumped! They're gone!"

Pulling around to where the tree lies on the ground, Toby parks the truck next to the tree and leans out the window.

"G'day mate, how the hell are ya? Got any ciggy butts?"

"I got none on me, man." Mason replies, a dorky expression on his face.

Y/N laughs behind the camera. "Got no ciggies man!"

Mason pats his pockets. "Got nothing on me."

The duo laughs, Mason trotting over to help the other boys wrestle the tree onto the bed of the truck. Y/N whistles behind the camera at the boys, shouting words of encouragement.

Mason turns towards her. "Is this mint? Can you smoke this?"

"Don't tempt the others."

"Did you just ask if you could smoke this?" Matt asks, a bewildered look on his face.

"Can we smoke the whole tree?" Mason replies, giggling out of frame.

"Dude, we're gonna get so high off this thing." Matt jokes, dropping into his 'Shaka-brah' voice. "Man, you don't even know."

The boys joke around a bit more, Mason turning back to the camera every so often to crack jokes at Y/N.

"Where? Where Matt? Where?"

"Back there, dude! Back there!"

"Where?" Mason squeaks, pulling another awful face at the camera.

"You want me to take you back there right now? I'll do it!"

"If you can catch me - Nyoo!" Mason mocks, sprinting away from the camera with Matt hot on his heels and Y/N cackling behind the camera. The boys run back to Matt's car, the tree now secured to the top of the van. Matt sits back in the driver's seat with Jay in the passenger seat. Y/N and Mason climb into the back, Y/N scooting to sit next to Mason so Swagger can join them.

"You guys ready to go," Matt asks, everyone else nodding in agreement. "Alrighty. We are officially homeward bound!"

Y/N turns off the camera, passing it to Swagger before wrapping herself tightly in her jacket and leaning into Mason. Closing her eyes, she drifts off, the quiet lo-fi pulling her deep into sleep.

Running down a snowy street, Y/N's heart warms as the familiar buildings of her hometown seem to appear around her. Slowing down to take in the details, she hears Christmas music echoing from an open door on an apartment. Walking towards the door, she peers inside to see-

"Mason?"

He turns to face her, his thousand-kilowatt smile turned on full blast. "Hey babe, how are you? Just finished making dinner - I've been waiting for you."

She quirks an eyebrow but follows him inside. Her heart catches in her throat at how domestic the apartment is. Books litter every surface, a warm dinner sits on an aged table in the dining room, and a Christmas tree shines in the corner of the living room next to a television playing an old Christmas movie. Taking her coat off, Mason hangs it and her hat on a rack next to the door.

"You must be cold," He notes. "You were out there for hours!"

She shivers absentmindedly and moves further into the warm home. Walking into the dining room, Mason gives her a soft look, moving to join her in the doorframe.

"Look up, honey."

She peers up, her heart pounding as her eyes lock onto the mistletoe. She looks back at Mason, who tips his head down. She shifts onto her tiptoes, and -

"We're home!"

Y/N jolts awake, Mason's loud voice making her left ear ring like a bell. Shaking her head to clear the picture of Mason so close to her face, she slides out of the car after Swagger and darts into her room, closing the door behind her.

"Is she alright?" Mason asks, a concerned look on his face.

"I can go talk to her, hold on." Swagger replies, trekking down the hallway to Y/N's room.

Swagger knocks on the door, dropping his voice. "Y/N, it's Eric. Are you in there?"

Panicked rustling can be heard on the other side of the door before it flies open, a disheveled Y/N standing silent on the other side. She lets him in, shutting the door behind him.

"You feeling alright?"

She jerks her head up to look at him. "Promise you won't say anything to the others?"

Swagger goes cold. "I promise, Y/N. It's just you and me."

"I ... I had a dream about Mason on the ride home. It was hella domestic and cozy, and I..."

"You what?"

She takes a deep breath. "I almost kissed him. I was about to before I woke up."

Swagger raises an eyebrow, but grabs Y/N's hands and squeezes them tightly.

"Is there anything else you want to tell me?"

She sighs and looks him square in the eye. "I think I'm in love with Mason."