Until Dawn Fanfiction: Matt X Female Reader

Chapter Eight

Y/N's POV

I wake up before Matt does, as he took the majority of the blow for me. I carefully get off of him, sitting next to his head. 

"Matt," I whisper, tears coming to my eyes, "please wake up." I hear a weird screech. "Matt, please. We have to get out of here! Matt! Oh no. Oh my gosh..." I start to cry. "Matt, please!"

A tear falls from my cheek and onto Matt's eyelid, causing it to twitch before finally opening.

"Y/N?" he questions, groaning as he sits up. "Where are we?"

I look around nervously. "We fell into some kind of mine. I keep hearing things. We need to get out of here."

He nods but then stares off into the distance. 

"Matt?" I try.

I hear him sniffle.

"Matt?" I repeat, turning his head gently to make him look at me. 

He avoids my gaze, looking down at the ground as tears fall from his eyes. "That shouldn't have been our last conversation."

"With Emily?"

He just nods. 

"Well, yeah... but you don't know for sure it was the last conversation. I'm sure you two will survive this and make up."

He shakes his head. "No. We won't."

"Survive or make up?"

Matt gives me a small smile, rolling his eyes, and giving a slight chuckle. "Make up. I plan on surviving."

"What do you mean?"

"I just... I just wish I hadn't said those things. I wish I'd listened to you. I shouldn't have done it like that. I might not see her again and that was the last thing that happened. It wasn't the time. I just... I couldn't take it anymore."

"Take what?"

"Being treated like that. I don't know. I... I think that I just liked her because I was scared."

"Scared of what?"

He sighs. "Scared of... I don't know... getting my heart broken by taking the leap. There were too many uncertainties. And being with Emily... I mean, there weren't many surprises. It was... predictable, in a way." 

I chuckle awkwardly in confusion. "Uncertainties? Leap? I have no idea what you're talking about... You..."

"I like you, Y/N. Like, really like you. I have for a while. But... you're not like the other girls. You're... different. It's a good different, but it's still different. So, I don't know, I felt like maybe I couldn't handle it. Like you're too good for me. And I wasn't even sure if you liked me back, so when the opportunity to date Emily arose, I just jumped on it without thinking. I mean, as a jock, it's expected of you to have a girlfriend, right? So I guess I just took the easy way out."

My head is spinning from the revelation in what I just heard. 

"Matt..."

"Dammit. I knew this would happen. I'm sorry..."

"Hey, hey, hey. Hold on there. For one thing, I thought you were too good for me. And two, I've liked you for years too. And three, we really need to stop making up excuses and beating around the bush."

Matt laughs. "Yeah. And... you're serious?"

I nod. "I'm serious."

Matt grins the widest I've ever seen anyone smile. We scootch closer to each other as we continue to share the smile. When Matt leans in, for a second I think he is going to kiss me, but then there's another ungodly screech and we realize that we're still in danger.