5sos Imagines & Preferences

Rejection [Muke]

Michael(his pov):

I haven't always felt this way about y/n. We've all been friends with her for a couple of years now, but I just recently started liking her. I don't know what it is about her. Maybe it's the way she laughs at all my jokes or tells me how much she loves my singing voice. Maybe it was how she had the biggest smile on her face whenever she saw me or how she was always excited whenever I changed my hair color.

It's probably just a mixure of all these things that make me crazy for her. Her being beautiful helped me fall for her as well.

I wasn't sure if she liked me back or not. I was always too afraid to ask because most of the girls I liked ended up liking Luke or Calum and I got tired of dealing with that type of rejection. I was willing to risk it for her, though.

That's why I texted her and asked if I could go to her house and talk to her. She said that I could and asked if I was alright, which made me like her even more. She's always showed how much she cared for me and that gave me hope that she felt the same way as me.

I walked up to her door and it swung open before I could even knock. y/n looked up at me with worried eyes before pulling me into a tight hug. My entire body relaxed against hers.

"Michael, are you okay?" she asked me. I nodded my head.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine." I reassured her.

"Oh.. then what do you want to talk about?" she asked me. She came outside and closed her front door behind her so that we could sit outside. She always did that when her parents were home. They didn't like her having company.

We sat down on her front steps and I took a deep breath before attempting to answer her question.

"y/n, I-I know we've been friends for a while.. and this might be a-a shock to you, but.. I l-like you. I was hoping that w-we could go on a date or something." I said as I rubbed the back of my neck and looked at the ground. I was scared to look at her face and see her reaction.

"Michael.." she said before she sighed. A feeling of sadness came over me because I knew that wasn't a good sign.

"You know I think you're great, all of you guys are, but... Luke already asked me out on a date.." she said. My heart shattered as soon as she mentioned Luke.

"I-I'm sorry. I'd date you both if I could but that's obviously wrong and then I'd be hurting both your feelings. Maybe I just shouldn't go out with Luke so it won't be weird." y/n kept rambling on once she realized how quiet I was. I hated how she still cared about my feelings and how cute she was acting and how I still had these feelings for her, but I couldn't let her compromise her own happiness for me. I liked her too much to let her do that.

"No, y/n, it's okay. Go out with Luke. Have fun. I-I want you to have fun." I forced a smile so she wouldn't worry.

"No, you're sad. I don't want you to be sad. I don't want to make things awkward between you guys. I-"

"y/n. Please just go on the date. I can't be mad. He-he beat me to it." I told her. I couldn't be mad at her or Luke. I never told anyone about these feelings so it wasn't like Luke went behind my back. I just have to deal with the fact that I waited too long.

y/n wrapped her arms around my neck and hugged me as tight as she could. I did the same back to her. The thought of her possibly becoming Luke's girlfriend in the next few days made me sadder than anything ever has. I just wanted to stay in this moment with her forever, but I knew that I couldn't.

"y/n?" I heard a familar voice say. We broke our hug and I turned my head to see Luke. He stood there, looking between the both of us, with a confused expression.