Kai Smith x Female reader

Chapter Twenty

Sunday Best - Surfaces 

Something's Got A Hold On Me - Christina Aguilera 

I woke up late the next day. I was supposed to be up by nine, but lately, I'd been sleeping through my alarm. It wasn't too stressed about it. I wanted to call Kai. I wanted to do something with him today. I'd spent the majority of the night daydreaming about what a cute couple we could be. We could go on those carnival dates. He'd ride every single ride with me. He seems like that kind of guy.

I smiled just thinking about it. Last night was way more romantic then it needed to be. He was so sweet.

I rolled over, slapping my phone down on my nightstand and dragging it over my face.

The sun beamed through my curtains. I lifted my forearm and lazily draped it over my forehead in a weak attempt to block it out. I unlocked my phone, scrolling through a few notifications I had received overnight from work. I didn't open the emails, however, I did open the few notifications from Kai.

He's texted me last night.

I rubbed my eyes as a giddy smile tugged at the sides of my lips. I unlocked my phone and opened up the message.

Hey, wanna go to a wedding?

I scoffed, my mouth quirking to the side. "First kiss and you're already asking me to marry you?" I muttered as I typed in the words.

Kai texted back almost immediately.

Do you want me to? He replied.

Rolling my eyes, I texted back. If this goes on for more than two years, then maybe. You insufferable goblin.

I could practically see him smiling through the screen when he texted me the address for the wedding.

I don't have a date for this thing, and it's important that I show up.

You would have ditched it anyways. I added a few silly emojis at the end to make the statement sound a little less mean, and more like a tease.

:( I'm not that bad

:) I'll be there tonight. How fancy is it?

Just the fanciest.

You trying to impress or intimidate me? In complete honesty, I was a little bit intimidated when he said that. I was not in a good place to buy anything fancy. What I could afford was probably peasant's clothing to the people at the wedding.

But if it was super fancy, then maybe there would be a lot of people there, and I would just blend in with normal-looking-fancy-ish clothing.

I have a few things. Don't worry :)

I replied with a quick flirty end to the message before swinging my legs off the bed and racing towards the bathroom in hopes that no one would notice I was a little late for work again.

My boss was always busy, but they seemed to catch me coming to work late. I just hoped that I would be able to get off early to meet Kai.

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My feet were aching terribly. I'd been wandering around like a mindless zombie at work today, my co-workers pestering me about the incident with Kai for seemingly endless hours.

You two probably slept together!

You're going to get cheated on, I know it.

Please tell me that you two are dating.

Is it toxic?

So did you guys do the diddly-doo yet?

"Y/N!"

I groaned, turning back to see my co-worker, Brandy, running out of the building, a stack of papers cradled in her arms. "Y/N! WAIT UP!"

I scoffed, rolling my eyes into the back of my head and turning towards her, plastering a smile on my face. "Yes?"

"So, uh..." She panted, leaning down towards me. Brandy leaned near my ear. "How big is it?"

My mind scrambled to figure out what she meant. When I did, I slapped her arm, causing her to drop a few of her papers. "Are you kidding me?" I snapped.

Brandy scowled up at me as she collected her documents. "What?"

"You never speak to me, Brandy. And now that I have a connection with a celebrity, you don't even get to know me subtly first, you just ask things that even I don't know? You're invading mt privacy, and his. Get out of my face."

I left her scrambling to beat the wind to her papers as I jumped into my car, setting down my bags in the passenger seat and driving off.

Everyone seemed to want to get to know me because they wanted to know Kai. It was tiring. It was stupid. I wasn't in the mood to deal with strangers chasing me around with cameras begging me to answer their questions.

I turned left, nearly hitting a car as I did. I watched the lines and lines of cars in front of me. Anger boiled in me. "Argh!"

I threw my hands up, honking madly at everyone in front of me.

You're going to be Kai's breaking point!

Stop thinking everyone is against you, Y/n, you're lucky you're getting all the attention.

I would die to be in your position.

"Everyone just needs to shut up," I muttered. I rested my forehead on the steering wheel, my eyes drooping with sleep.

"I can't do this." I slipped my phone out of my purse and started texting Kai that I probably wouldn't be able to make it to the wedding due to traffic. I mentioned to him that today was just exhausting, but I was sure to leave out the part that it was because everyone was pestering me about him.

I didn't know if he was going to take offense to that, but I didn't want him to feel bad. So I kept that to myself.

He sent me a text message a few minutes later telling me it was perfectly okay and that I needn't rush myself, or push myself past my limit if I was tired. The thing was that I didn't push myself past my limit. I wasn't rushing, or pushing, I was just tired because of him. Not of him, but being famous was hard. 

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UNEDITED! 

Hey all! I really wanted to apologize for the inactivity. I hope I didn't lose of my readers, and if I did, I hope they come back! I've been working really hard on a story I want to publish in real life, but I have a plan for Stardust and Burnt so expect updates for those books pretty soon! If the updates don't come, spam me :)