Remington Leith One-Shots/Imagines/Headcanons

Why So Glum?

Today was a different kind of day, and it was odd. After telling my best friend, Remington, that I went on that date with a guy at my job and he told me he liked me, Remington had been acting differently ever since. Whenever I came around to his house, he would stay distant from me, or when I tried to make a joke or something, he'd stay silent as if I said nothing. Did I do something to make him hate me or something? It made me sad that I might have lost my friend, and he was too important to me.

After a while, I stopped coming around and keeping in touch with Rem, believing he just didn't want to see or hear from me at all anymore. I may have cried a few nights, and then when I was on another date with the guy from work, he noticed my behavior. "(Y/N), what's wrong?", he asked me when I started zoning out, and then I looked back at him and said, "Uh, yeah. Why did you ask that?" "Well, I mean, you're here, but your mind isn't. You know what I mean?" I was about to respond when I got a couple messages on my phone from Remington's younger brother, Emerson.

(Y/N), YOU NEED TO COME NOW!!!

REM IS LOSING IT!

HOW COULD YOU BE SO OBLIVIOUS???

REM DOESN'T HATE YOU

HE'S BEEN IN LOVE WITH YOU!!!!

HE GOT UPSET WHEN YOU STARTED DATING SOMEONE ELSE

DON'T YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY?

I stared at the messages, reading them over and over again to make sure they were real and I wasn't making it up in my head. Remington...has been in love with me? Why didn't he ever say anything? Wait a minute. Of course. I'm such a dumbass. He has said it before, but he tried to play it off claiming he's just saying it as a friend and I believed him. Why did I dismiss it?

Maybe it's because...I love him, too. But for the time we've always been friends, I didn't believe he'd feel the same way about me. I wasn't the prettiest or most glamorous girl, and I didn't think I would be good enough for him. But still, he's always been there for me, and whenever a girl tries to pick him up, he always rejects them with the excuse he isn't into dating random girls. Poor guy. He was waiting for me.

"(Y/N)? (Y/N)!" I was so lost into my own thoughts, I forgot I was on a date. As much as I wanted to be nice, I couldn't spend the rest of the evening thinking about Remington while I was with someone else. I stood up from the table and apologized, "I'm really sorry. You really are a nice guy, but there's someone else I need to be with. I hope you can find happiness with someone who really wants you." He was a little hurt and confused, but I had to leave and get a cab to the boys' house. I texted Emerson that I was on my way.

I was able to arrive in less than 10 minutes, and after paying the cab and knocking on the front door, Sebastian let me in and I made my way upstairs where Rem's room was. Em was standing in front of Rem's door which was closed, and he explained, "He won't let me or Seb inside. Maybe he'll let you in." I gulped before I slowly knocked on the door and said through it, "R-Remington? It's me, (Y/N). Can I come in and talk to you?" There was silence for a moment, then I heard footsteps walking toward the door, and soon enough, the door opened to reveal Rem with his eyes puffy and red and he looked like he didn't sleep either.

"What are you doing here, (Y/N)?", he asked rather coldly, "I thought you had a date tonight." I stepped inside and shut his door, he walked back and looked at me in suprise, I took a deep breath before I spoke, "I ended the date, Remington. It was good that I did because...I've been thinking about you a lot lately, and it felt like I was cheating on my date. I've noticed you've been rather distant lately and it concerns me. I care too much about you to lose you as a friend."

He seemed to flinch at that word, then I stepped closer and clarified, "No. Not just as a friend. As someone I care about deeply and feel comfortable being with whenever you're close and always make me feel like the most special person in you life." I took his hands gently in mine as I continued, "What I'm trying to say, Rem is", we were a couple inches from each other, "I love you and you're the only person I want to date."

He stared at me in awe as if I cast a spell on him, and almost as if on cue, we leaned into each other's lips and kissed each other for the first time in four years. He wrapped his hands on my back pulling me closer to him, and I wrapped my hands around the back of his neck, lightly tugging his hair as we continued kissing and melting in each other's embrace. "IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME!", we heard Emerson tell through the door, and we pulled away to laugh at his brother. He looked down at me and said before kissing me again, "I've always loved you, (Y/N)."