𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 - 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐜

Chapter 1 ~ Honesty & Defeat

He'd just told her that he thinks he wants to be more than friends. They've been best friends for almost 5 years now. They basically live together. They work together and are always at each other's place. They're in love she just doesn't know how to admit it. Shayne Topp and Courtney Miller. This is their story, weird, angry, upset, scary but romantic? It tries to be. I'll repeat it, he'd just told her that he thinks he wants to be more than friends. This is how she reacted.

'Wow, um, errrrr, I need to...um...think. I'm just gonna leave. I'll see you at work on Monday...' Courtney said, leaving with tears in her eyes. This left Shayne alone in his apartment, alone with his thoughts, not knowing what to do. He'd basically just professed love to his best friend and she walked out. He didn't know what to do...cry? Be angry? Call someone? No, he just sat there, thinking. About her, nothing else, just her.

Shaynes POV

1 Week Later

It's been a week at work and its Friday again. I'm walking in the parking lot and about to go home. Courtney and Olivia are laughing but Sam pulls up to take Olivia home, creating an opportunity for me to talk to Courtney in private. I place a hand on her waist and spin her round.

'Courtney are you gonna tell me or not, because you're in denial. You either love me or you don't,' I say, tears welling up, swallowing to force them back.

'Shayne of course I love you.' She smiles, looking down not daring to make eye contact yet.

'As a brother...or as a boyfriend?'

'I don't...know' she whispers.

'Well I need to know because I can't keep it up for much longer. Court, I've kept it up for five years now don't do this to me...' I trail off, looking to her hand, wanting to reach for it but I stop(p) myself.

'Kept what up? What have you been hiding?' She looked concerned, confused.

'THAT IM IN LO-...That I like you. I'm sorry, I just can't anymore.'

'Just give me another day, please,' she begged, locking eyes with me.

'Another day of staring at you being caught. Another day off trying to talk but no words come out. Another day faking a smile. Another day suppressing my emotions. Another of pretending I don't have a crush on my best friend.' I maintained eye contact, surprisingly, my eyes getting redder and my face getting hotter.

'Don't cry, I don't want you to feel hurt because of me and my stupid emotions,' she took my hand when she said this, I wanted to jerk away to prove my point, but I couldn't.

'You're not stupid. And neither are your emotions. They're trying to tell you the truth but you're not listening. You're lying and ignoring how you feel. Can't you just be honest with me? Do you trust me at all?' I questioned her, dropping her hand.

'Of course I trust you, Shayne, don't talk stupid. It's me I don't trust. And it's hard to be honest. I have trust issues, ever since Wahlid...' she looked at the floor in pain and I just lifted her chin up with my knuckle.

'Courtney, I told you that guy was trouble. He didn't want you for you, he wanted the fame and fortune. I'm not like that. I like the real you. Everything about you blows me away. You're funny, talented, kind, pretty and so smart. You just need to realise that,' I say softly, not noticing how much I'm complementing her.

'Thanks, Shayne,' she says nervously, pushing her hair behind her ear, 'How come you can never compliment me on camera?'

'Because I'd start blushing, fans would obviously notice, start shipping AGAIN and cause me to have an emotional breakdown on the living room floor of my apartment. I don't wanna do that or any of this anymore. I don't wanna know you wanna date me. Court, right now, I just want to, need to know where I stand.' I look at her deep in her twinkling green eyes, glassy with tears.

'Well, right now I have to go because...I...li...' She didn't finish her sentence. She just turned and left tears streaming down her face silently.

Courtneys POV

I couldn't finish my sentence, I wanted to say I like you too, but I just couldn't. I would've broken down, right there, right then crying out the River fucking Nile like a toddler who didn't get the Barbie she wanted.

I hopped in my car and drove away. As I pulled out of the parking lot, Shayne was still stood, and his face was wet. He clenched his fists for a second and then relaxed them ; he looked defeated. His poker face melted into a small frown as he started to cry again, silently. I turned the corner not daring to look back, scared to catch his eye in my rear view mirror. I went home and all I could think about was him. I went sleep thinking about him, wishing he was here with me. His strong but gentle and warm embrace around me. Maybe I was in love with him? I don't know, I thought. I drifted off into a dull sleep.

(A/N)

This is my first story, and my first chapter. If anyone actually reads this, comment what you think and vote if you like it!

Kitty x