🥀Crystallight 2: A Family Reunion🥀

🥀Chapter 3: I Can't🥀

~~~~~~~~~Noah's POV~~~~~~~~~

I was floating upside down above the couch playing COD. It was what I did mostly nowadays, since I didn't really have anything else to do.

Sage was mostly with Aiden, which I wasn't too happy about to begin with, and Alyse-... is just not the person I'd rather hang out with.

She's always yelling. Like, always.

Iv and I, however, have actually become really close. To my surprise, she's actually really good company to have around, and I enjoy spending time with her, a lot.

Maybe even a little too much...?

"What'ya doing?!?" I let out a yell as a sudden voice spoke, falling on the couch.

I heard Alyse's giggles as she walked over. Even after a year of living here, I still can't get used to her, always jump-scaring me left and right.

I sat up, looking at her with a small glare. "I was playing COD, until you scared the living daylights out of me."

"Sorry, force of habit." She replied with an innocent grin, making me roll my eyes.

She then sat at one of the ends of the couch, starring at me with wide eyes, as if expecting something. I stayed quiet, seeing if she would stop, but I let out a sigh after a few minutes, pausing my game. "Ok, what do you want?"

"Have you thought about it?"

"About what?"

"My plan for you, to ask Iv out."

My face quickly flushed red. "N-no! Alyse, I already told I'm not going to ask her out anytime soon!"

"Why not?!?" She said with a pout.

"I don't need to explain myself, I'm just not going to." I said, slightly gripping the controller in my hands.

She let out a huff, crossing her arms. "It's not that hard, Noah, it's only a simple question. And you won't know what she thinks unless you ask!"

I buried my face in my hands with a groan. "It's not that I don't want to, Al, that's what I wanted the most, but... It's a little harder when you've been such close friends for a while; I'm afraid if I ask her to be more, she could deny and we'd lose what we already have..."

She remained silent for a few seconds, thinking. "I know it's a nerve-wracking thought, but this is also stopping you from having something more amazing than you already have with her."

I looked at her, not knowing how to respond. She was right in a way, but I highly doubt Iv would ever want to be with me anyways..

We both heard the door open, making us look over. Iv walked in, quickly passing by and going upstairs. She didn't slam her door shut, so luckily she wasn't mad.

Alyse looked at me. "Aren't you gonna go after her?"

"I mean, I would, but she might kill me." I said with a shrug. Alyse kept staring at me expectingly, raising an eyebrow. I finally stood up. "Yeah, I should probably check on her."

Turning into my hawk form, I flew upstairs, seeing her door slightly ajar. I nudged it open a bit more before I flew inside, seeing her lying on her bed, her face buried in her pillow.

I landed beside her. "Iv...?"

She let out a small groan in response. "What's wrong...?" I asked, a bit worried.

She stayed silent for a bit, then raised her arm. "Pop exam, probably flunked..."

"I'm sure you did well..." What, I'm not good at this comforting stuff!

She sat up, her hair covering half of her face. "I left out like ten answers. I was so busy studying for Mr. Gomez's class that I completely forgot everything of Graphic Design."

"Can't you just ask you retake the test?"

"You clearly haven't been in school in years." She replied with a bit of an annoyed expression. "No, if you fail, then you fail, no changing that."

She softly blew a bit of her hair out of her face. "But it's fine, I still have a decent grade in that class."

I changed back to my human form, giving a small shrug. "That's good, then."

She looked down, a defeated look on her face. I knew she worried about school, but she was never this down about it.

"Are you sure nothing's wrong...?"

She let out a sigh, her head softly falling on my shoulder, making my face heat up. "I'm just exhausted, this week was really full for me..."

I thought for a while, a small smile soon growing on my face. "Do you have anything tomorrow...?"

"Not that I know of, why...?"

"It's been a while since we went to K's Place, with you being busy and all, so how about we go tomorrow for a cup of coffee...?"

She grew silent, and I felt myself grow nervous. Did I say something wrong...?

"Yeah, I could really use a break..."

"Alright, we go around 11, how does that-" I stopped as I heard a soft snore, looking down.

Iv was now asleep, leaning against me as her head resting on my shoulder. I felt my cheeks grew red, yet I couldn't help but smile, gently wrapping an arm around her as I rested my head on hers.

"Rest well, Iv..."

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