Imagines/oneshots Book 1

156. Vinny mauro - Cupid's aro

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Aromantic!reader ?
I just kinda wanted to put my feelings out there, I've always written for me and what I want to read and I guess I kinda needed this. It's not to disprove anyone or make them feel less for feeling differently it's just a comfort thing at this point. This is particularly how I experience love and I for sure don't speak for all aro's and not everyone feels this way. But that's how I personally identify and it took me a really long time to figure that out and understand that. So to any fellow aro's this one is for you!

Song: she had the world by panic! At the Disco
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I sat on the bus couch and scrolled through my phone. It had been a pretty slow day and I didn't have much to do. My attention was taken when Vinny walked up onto the bus and smiled at me.

"Hey beautiful."

I waved.

"Hey handsome."

He sat next to me and leaned back into the couch.

"Whatcha doin?"

I shrugged and show him the meme I was looking at. He laughed and shook his head.

"You better send me that one."

I smiled and did as told.

"...And sent."

I looked back at him and he had this sort of dreamy look on his face.

"Hey, can I talk to you?"

I sent him an odd look.

"Yeah, or course you can."

He sat forward.

"Like, alone?"

I turned my attention to Justin who just looked up from the table and raised his brows.

"Uh, yeah?"

I stood up with him and followed him off the bus. He grabbed my hand loosely and pulled me to the back of the bus, looking around to make sure there was no one around.

"Vinny, I'm super confused."

He faced me and held both my hands in his.

"Okay, here goes. We've been flirting with each other since tour started and I need to know how you actually feel about me. Cause for some reason I think this is more than a crush but I don't want it to develop if you don't like me back."

I raised my brows in surprise.

"Wait, you like me?"

He looked confused.

"Well yeah, do you not like me?"

I let out a nervous laugh.

"Of course I like you vinny-"

He sighed in relief.

"Oh thank God."

"But Vinny I'm not-"

He seemed concerned.

"Not what?"

"Will you just let me speak?"

He half smiled.

"Oh, sorry."

I squeezed his hands.

"Vinny, I'm aromantic."

He looked confused again.

"I don't understand?"

"Vinny I like you, hell I even love you-"

He seemed hopeful.

"But only really as a friend."

He looked like I just crushed his dreams.

"So you don't really love me back?"

I shook my head no.

"I don't really love anyone back if it makes you feel any better. I really only feel platonic love and half the time I don't even feel that. I just have like a really high tolerance level."

He let out a short laugh and pulled me into a hug.

"That makes me feel less like an idiot I guess. But what was all the flirting?"

He pulled back a little bit and looked down at me. I shrugged.

"I thought we were being friendly, I flirt with all my friends."

"Do all your friends know you're aromantic?"

I let out a nervous Laugh.

"No, just you."

He nodded once.

"Right. But do they ever get feelings for you?"

I thought for a second.

"Nope, that one's just you too."

He shook his head.

"Of course it is."

I hugged him a little tighter to me and dropped my head back so I wasn't straining my neck to look up at him.

"Just because I don't feel romantic attraction to people doesn't mean I can't develop romantic relationships."

He raised a brow.

"Wait, what?"

I laughed.

"I still feel like sexual attraction, and I definitely know when I'm close with someone. It's kind of like mock love, like I like you enough to want to spend all my time with you and do weird couple shit and still have a good time in bed. But like I have a hard time telling people I love them because it's a rare feeling for me to have."

He made an 'o' shape with his mouth.

"So you wouldn't be opposed to going on a date? Like a date date not a friend date?"

I smiled at him.

"I'd love to go on a date with you."

He let me go and took my hands in his again.

"I don't wanna get my hopes up though."

I sent him a 'really?' look.

"Vinny, I can see you as a potential life partner, there is no 'getting your hopes up', there's just us going on a date and doing cute shit together as more than friends and you accepting me for who I am."

He smiled widely.

"I think I'd like that a lot."

I squeezed his hand and stepped up to kiss his cheek gently.

"So would i."