teddy bear 🧸 (nick austin x reader)

(22) home

an: i'm just gonna keep putting songs from my "feels" playlist on spotify up here. 

they're pretty fire ngl. 

also y'all should try watching "Outer Banks"... such a good show!

anyway, on with the story. 

*two weeks later*

y/n pov:

Nick and I have been doing pretty well. We went on a few dates in the past few weeks. One to the movies, another to Disneyland and another to a drive-in. It had been about a month since I came here from Nashville. I had to start thinking about maybe going back to my mom. I didn't live in the Hype House, after all. 

I was out with Avani and Kouvr. We were at Target, shopping for some necessities for the house. Kouvr used the word "necessities" very loosely. It seemed that almost everything she saw/wanted was a necessity. 

"Kouvr. I really don't think we need a..." I started, grabbing the large box from her. "Hot pretzel maker?" I asked, looking at Kouvr, straight-faced. She laughed and nodded. 

Avani grabbed the box from me. "You know, maybe we do need a pretzel maker." She giggled. 

"See, Y/n? Avani agrees with me." Kouvr smirked, putting the box in the cart. 

"Well, if we're getting a pretzel maker, don't we need some pretzel mix, too?" I asked, smiling. 

"Y/n. You're a motherfuckin' genius." Kouvr said, pointing her finger at me. She pushed the cart to the food aisle and Avani and I followed, laughing. 

While Kouvr sped ahead to get the pretzel mix, I decided to talk to Avani about going back to Nashville for a bit. I told her all about my plan. 

"Oh. But why do you have to go back?" Avani asked, frowning.

"I haven't seen my mom in over a month and I kinda feel like I'm over staying my welcome at the house." I explained. 

Avani stopped walking and grabbed my hands in her own. "Sweetie, everyone loves having you here. But I get that you have to see your mom. When are you leaving?"

I looked down. "Tomorrow." I stared at my feet not knowing what else to say.

"What?! But have you told anyone yet?" She looked shocked. 

"Just you." I answered. 

"But what about Nick? He's gonna be heartbroken that you're leaving." Avani says, lifting my chin up so she could look into my eyes. 

"I know. I figured I'd talk to him about it when we got back from Target." I sighed, knowing I should have told Nick sooner. 

"Told who, what?" Kouvr asked, walking back over with the cart. "I got the mix by the way." She motioned to a bag in the cart. 

"Y/n's leaving tomorrow for Nashville." Avani replies, still looking at me. 

"Why? And when were you planning on telling us? Tomorrow when you got into an Uber headed for LAX?" Kouvr sounded a little hurt. 

"Look I'm so sorry. I wasn't thinking. But I need to go back because I miss my mom and I feel that I've been at the Hype House longer than I have expected." I say, starting to tear up.

"Hey, bebes. It's okay, don't cry. We aren't upset with you, we just wish you would have told us sooner." Avani pulls me into a hug.

We all walk to the self check out and start to scan all our items. It took a bit since Kouvr had quite a bit of "necessities".