Star-Crossed Lovers Ben Hardy x Reader & Joe Mazzello x Reader & Ben x Joe

Intro

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Being friends with Joe meant spending almost all of our time free time together. Now as a huge fan of his I would have never expected to actually forge a friendship with him. He's older, an actor, and he seems really busy. Despite all this we had found a way to become really close friends.

"Move your legs." I was spread across his couch in his apartment when he had walked up to me holding a bowl of popcorn. Without looking up from my phone, I had lifted my legs and softly lowered them back onto his lap. I haven't known him for that long so I wasn't sure how he would react to this but he didn't seem to mind. He put the bowl between us and then pressed play on the movie. "I still don't believe that you've never seen Jurassic Park. I mean it's a classic." I leaned towards the coffee table to put my phone down. He held my legs so I wouldn't fall, but as I was on the couch again he didn't pull his hand away from my thigh. I blushed a little and I could feel my heart start racing. Ignoring the feeling, I look at the t.v. but i continued to watch him from the corner of my eye.

"I'm not shiting you. I have never in my life, seen Jurassic Park. Do you know who's in it?" I turn to look at him with a smirk as he playfully rolled his eyes. "Oh i'm not sure I remember, but my favorite character is this really smart kid." I laughed. Even though the movie started I couldn't tear my eyes off of Joe.

He notices me staring and touches his face, my smile falters for a second because of the lack if warmth where his hand rested. "What? Is there something on my face?"

"No, I just thought I saw a dinosaur behind you." Instead of rolling his eyes like I expected, his eyes went wide. He begins to turn around slowly. Once he fully turns around he pretends to get attacked and throws himself on me.

"Ahhhhhh, Y/N!! Save yourself!!" I burst out in laughter as thrashes around and tries to defend himself against the imaginary dinosaur. I try my best to hold the popcorn away from him. "Joe!! You're going to spill the popcorn all over the floor, stop!" He suddenly lays motionless on my stomach. His mouth is wide open and I try to get him to move. "Joe, cmon I know your not dead."

He still doesn't move so I start throwing some popcorn towards his mouth. I miss the first few but he moves to catch the last one.

He starts to laugh while chewing the piece he caught. "You have terrible aim," I rolled my eyes. "Like you could do any better."

"I'm sure I can." Joe rolls over onto his stomach, now resting in between my legs. He takes a hand full of popcorn and closes one eye to get a better aim. I open my mouth but I couldn't keep myself from laughing as I watched him. He throws one and makes it into my mouth. "See! I told you I could do it!"

"It was a lucky shot!" He takes aim again and waits for me to stop moving. This time I moved on purpose so he would miss. I did this one more time before he gives up. "Those don't count you cheated!"

I laughed at his pouty face, "What are you gonna do about it?" He smiled mischievously and before I could escape he starts to tickle me. "Joe!! Omg stop!" I was laughing loudly as I tried to pry his hands off me.

He suddenly stops and I look down to see him smiling gently towards me. I feel the butterflies in my stomach and I knew I started to blush. I look back at the t.v. and refuse to say anything.

I feel him move to get comfortable but he stays on my lap. We were both quiet for a while but I knew both of us would take glances at each other. Occasionally our hands would touch when grabbing popcorn but neither of us did anything after. When Joe was on screen I began to gush over him.

"Joe look at you!! You were so cute! Awww little baby Joey-" "Hey!" I looked at him, he was slightly offended, "I'm still cute!" I tried to hold back a laugh and instead I ran my hand through his hair.