teddy bear 🧸 (nick austin x reader)

(1) best friends

an: here's chapter 1 :)

y/n pov: 

"Y/n! Get your ass over here! You said you'd film this tik tok with me!" Ryland frowned at me from the window that he was standing in front of. 

"Dearest Ryland. I happen to be trying to catch up on Hamlet right now. Go film that stupid tik tok by yourself." I smiled looking back down at my book. 

"Books are stupid! Come on! I've got content to create." Ryland fussed at me. I looked up at him and giggled. 

"No thanks, Ry." I laughed. I watched as he ran over and started to tackle me on my bed. "Oh my god! Ryland stop!" I threw my book at him.

"Y/n. Get up." He stood up at the side of the bed and started tugging on my ankles, pulling me off the bed. 

"Ryland!" I rolled my eyes as I slowly was pulled off my bed. Just as I was about to fall off the edge, Ryland picked me up and carried me over to the window where his phone was set up. 

"There. Now don't move or we aren't getting taco bell tonight before I leave tomorrow morning." He said pointing his finger at me and slightly smiling. I loved Ryland. He and I have been best friends for as long as I can remember. We grew up together. I know everything about him and vice versa. However, he's always in LA with the Hype House. I miss him so much. I'm glad he's happy though. 

"Ry, I don't understand why you have to go back tomorrow. You've only been here for a week." I frowned up at him as I sat on the floor. 

He laughed. "Yeah, that's already way longer than I told Thomas I would be here for too." I looked down and pouted. He reached his hand down, offering for help getting up. "C'mon, y/n. Let's just do this tik tok and then we can go do whatever you want for the rest of the day" He said. 

I smiled, taking his hand and standing up. "Do we have to do a tik tok?" I asked.

"Yes! Or no taco bell, I already told you." Ryland said. "C'mon, we have been friends all our lives and you have never done a tik tok with me. You even have an account!" 

"I know. Ok, let's do it. What are we doing?" I asked.

"Renegade." Ryland responded, walking over to his phone and setting up the timer.

**time skip to an hour later**

"Ryland! Let's go! I want taco bell!" I called up the stairs as I laced up my doc martens and rolled my mom jeans at the ankles. 

We got into my car, Ryland behind the wheel. I put my feet up on the dashboard and scrunched my torso down lower in the seat. I turned on my phone and saw that I had a ton of notifications from tik tok and instagram. I clicked on instagram and saw that my followers jumped from 2, 345 to almost 35k. I showed, my phone to Ryland as we pulled into the taco bell drive thru. 

"Woah! You gained a lot of followers. More than I thought, tbh." he said, nonchalantly.  I looked at him, shocked. 

"What do you mean?" I asked. 

"Well obviously I knew that after I posted that tik tok you would gain a lot of followers both on instagram and tik tok. I just didn't think you would gain so many in an hour." Ryland laughed as we pulled up to the drive thru menu and intercom. 

"I jus-" I started to say before I was stopped by Ryland putting his index finger up to my lips.

"What do you want, y/n" He asked, pulling his hand away from my face and looking at me. 

I looked into his eyes. "What do you mean?" I asked. 

"To eat. What do you want?" He asked motioning to the menu. 

"Oh. Haha. I'll just have the usual.  A double, spicy tostada with Dr. Pepper, pleaaaaase." I smiled at Ryland. 

"Alrighty." We ordered and payed for out food and then drove to the near by lake and sat at the edge of a dock with our toes dipping in the warm water. 

I laid my head on Ryland's shoulder as we watched the sunset and ate our taco bell. 

"I miss this." I said looking forward. Ryland looked at me, giving me a funny look. "I miss being able to hangout with you. You're my best friend, Ry. I don't understand why you don't just stay here in Nashville (an: lol yeah, that's where y'all grew up btw) with me and your other friends."

Ryland lifted my chin so that we were both looking each other in the eyes. "Oh, y/n. You know I can't stay here. I'm too antsy and LA is exactly what I need. The only thing that has me coming back here every month is my best friend. My whole hype house family is in LA." 

I looked down. "I know. I know, I'm sorry for fussing. I just miss you. I know that you are happy and that's all that matters to me." I smiled, looking back up at him. Ryland pulled me into a hug and I cherished that moment. 

"Wait I just had a great idea!" Ryland said pulling out of the hug. I looked at him confused, wanting him to go on. "What if you came with me tomorrow to LA? You do online school anyway and I'm sure your mom won't mind. And you'll be able to meet all my amazing friends." 

I giggled at the idea. "Ry, that's ridiculous. Your flight is tomorrow morning at 5." 

"That's okay! I can pay for the ticket for you, no matter how expensive and I'll help you pack tonight." He said. I smiled and nodded. "Wait before you do anything, let me call up Thomas to ask if that's okay with him" 

"Okay!" I said, all smiley.  Ryland stood and walked to the beginning of the dock while he called Thomas. 

I checked my phone and I was still getting more followers on instagram. I was up to about 43k. I hadn't checked tik tok so I decided to give it a look. I had gained 150k followers on tik tok! I stared at it in shock.

People had commented on some of my tik toks about me being friends with Ryland. I was reading them and smiling. 

After reading some comments, I started scrolling through the For You page, looking at the new "trends". 

Ryland came back 5ish minutes later and offered me his hand, pulling me up into the middle of the dock. 

"What did he say?" I asked, smiling at my best friend. 

Ryland was so excited, he was basically shaking. "He said YES!"