love story (p.h.)

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i wake up and see ryland awake on his phone, he looks down at me and smiles, "about time your up, i wanna go swimming." he says getting up and grabbing my hand. "what time is it ryland?" i say walking up the stairs with him.

"four o'clock." he says. "am or pm." i ask. he looks at me smiles, "pm." he says intertwining our fingers. i squeeze his hand as we walk into there room. he hands me a box with a pretty pink bow on it. i look at him, "ryland, you've gotta stop getting me gifts." i say sitting down.

he looks at me, "yeah that definitely not happening." he says. i open the box and it's a very pretty baby blue top with matching bottoms. "look at the back." ryland says smirking. i turn the swimming pants around and look at the butt. "no freaking way." i say while my eyes light up and i read the butt.

he starts to laugh. the butt has rylands plastered in white right across the butt. "there's no way i'm wearing these." i say putting it back in the box. he looks at me with puppy dog eyes, "please, for me." he says. i huff, "fine." i say getting up and walking to the bathroom.

i put the swimming suit in and it actually looks cute. i walk out and rylands mouth falls open. i laugh, "your so cute." i say. he looks at me and looks away. he's in matching baby blue shorts. "c'mon let's go." i say grabbing g his hand and pulling us out of the room.

we walk downstairs and nicks in front of us. we walk past him and he laughs, "what and the." he say. i turn around and flip him off, "rylands just marking his territory." i say walking out of the house and to the pool.

"i can't swim." i say to ryland. he looks at me, "i'll teach you, it's not that hard." he says. he grabs my hands and puts me in the sallow end. "so move your arms like this and you feet like this." he says showing me hoe to move.

i copy his instructions over and over again and start to get the hang of it. "no me you swim to me." he says swimming to the other side of the pool. i look at him and start to swim to him. i make it to him and he wraps his arms around me. i wrap my arms around his neck and start to play with his curls.

he takes us to the sallow end and he sits on the steps with me still wrapped around him. he starts to play with my hair and i look at him. he's looking at me with big brown eyes. i smile and he lets a little smile back. it starts to rain and we walk inside.

he picks me up and carries me to their bathroom. he hands me a nick austin hoodie and chase hudson sweat pants. i change and put my hair into two braids. i walk out and see rylands in the exact same outfit as me. i smile and intertwine our hands.

we walk downstairs and sit on the couch. nick walks over to us and sits by me. "nick hoodie." he says. i smile, "thanks, it's my favorite tiktokers merch." i say. ryland looks at me, "wait, what about me?" he ask sadly.

i giggle, "you haven't made merch yet silly." i say resting my head on his shoulder. "hey big brother, do you have any blue phone cases left?" i ask him. "um yeah i'll go grab you one right now." he says getting up. "thanks." i say.

"i'll be in the kitchen." ryland says getting up and walking with thomas and alex. i sit on the couch for about ten more minutes and get up to go find ryland. i walk into the kitchen and see alex and thomas.

i see ryland standing by the icebox and i walk up and hug him. he hugs me back and i just hug him tightly. i turn my head and see his phone is recording on tiktok. i cover my face and and hold him closer to me. he chuckles, "the fans are gonna go crazy." he says.

i smile. he lets go of me and i let go of him. he walks up to his phone and shows me the video. it's the sound that goes, "i should love you and i swear i do." i look at me hug ryland without knowing he was recording and him smiling at me.

"you should post that. it's supper cute." i say getting on top of the counter and getting on my phone. "i will." he says coming and propping his elbows on the counter next to me.

i soon feel my phone buzzing off the hook. i open my tiktok and see me being tagged in a ton of stuff and people following me and liking my post. i look at ryland. "you tagged me?" i ask. "well of course i tagged you." he says. i smile.

i look at the video and save it into my camera roll. i look at the comments and see nice ones and some mean one. one of them says, 'she's probably just using him for clout.' i reply to it and say, 'actually i'm not, i'm not even dating him and i didn't even tell him to tag me. if i really wanted clout i would've had nick make tiktoks with me all the time and tag me.' i day posting it.

i check the times and it's 6 o'clock. i look at ryland, "i'm tired. can we go and lay down?" i ask. he nods his head and we walk upstairs. nicks playing fortnite so ryland gets in his chair and starts playing with him. i give ryland a kiss on the cheek and go and hug nick.

i go and lay down in bed in my spot and rest my head and watch the boys play. i fall asleep but am woken up by the bed moving. i look over and see ryland getting in bed. he cuddles into me and i see nick still playing the game.

i turn around and look at ryland. he bends his head down and cuddles into me. i pull him into me and start playing with his curls and shortly falling asleep.

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