✨joshua bassett and ricky bowen imagines and preference ✨

🛁 imagine: deceived.

this was requested by someoneuloved_

The way you scrunched your face as Joshua plays with your face, made him chuckle and tighten his arms around you.

You've fallen adorably and silently asleep inside his arms, two small arms rests on his firm chest.

"Hey..." Joshua tried to wake you up, he fails when you covered his mouth.

" I need to leave." to be honest, he didn't want to leave you but he wouldn't want you to get scolded by the time your parents wake up.

"Just... two minutes." you moaned, nuzzling your nose to his side, Joshua gave up and planting a kiss on your forehead.

For the very first time, he didn't left you that night. Joshua leans to use every space to feel you, he could feel your heart beating fast—or was it his?

" I love...you."

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You woke up when Joshua's phone kept ringing. A smile escapes at the corner of your lips when you realized he didn't leave last night.

Joshua sleeps like an angel beside you.

You sighed, admiring every majestic view that your witnessing right now.

You were undeniably happy when he's around you, trying his best to make you know him whenever you tried to pull away.

"Joshua, your phone..." you didn't want to interrupt him sleeping, so you carefully grasp his phone and opened it. Revealing the messages to you.

But then, everything made sense—

How he made himself stupid from introducing himself to you.

How he perfectly and swiftly turn everything into perfect.

He lied, Joshua lied everytime—Everything was a lie, then.

You gulped trying not to cry, with a heavy heart you went inside your bathroom holding Joshua's phone. Staring at the message for a minute or two.

" Looks like Nayla fell for it. Damn, Joshua. I didn't think that this bet would go that far."

Damn, it didn't even crosses your mind that he was just playing you.

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Joshua alarmingly woke up after hearing the shower just went on. He looks beside him, realizing that you weren't there and was about to leave a note for you in case—

But something was wrong, then he frantically searched his phone on his pocket and on his side.

Then it hit him, the circumstances weren't giving him anymore favor.

You knew.

"Nayla? You there...?"

"I-uh... I'm coming in." you heard someone knock on the door. You didn't bother answering and with just a few second his eyes were full of guilt and regret as Joshua witnessed you.

"You didn't tell me this was just a bet." you smiled, bitterly. Joshua joined you inside the bathtub,soaking his clothes with water.

"Nayla, I—"

" Why?" you demanded, Joshua knew that it was tears wetting your cheeks, he wanted to hold you—

"D-Don't." it felt like he just punched you in the chest when he tried to explain his way out.

"Nayla, it wasn't just a bet—I mean everything what I said—" this was his fear as Joshua just realized before. He dreaded at this moment, hurting you with his past actions.

"At first, I thought I won't fall for you, but I did. I'm sorry—but I love you right now and what my motives before don't matter, right?"

" It didn't matter to me, Nayla." Joshua breathes.

" Well, we're different." that made him froze.

" Joshua... I'm hurt more than you could ever know and I think it's better if you just leave. " saying those words weren't what your heart wanted, but after knowing what he just did.

It just changes everything.

" No, I-I won't, I'm really, really sorry—"

" Just tell me what I can do to fix this. " you shook your head, tears streaming down your cheeks.

" What you did—I just can't..."you tried to finish a sentence to wave him off but you couldn't.

" Just look at me, baby. " he begged and followed you, grabbing the side of your face.

You frustratingly shove his hand away.

" Don't you dare touch me, Joshua. I don't know you—"

Joshua looks down guiltily and listened.

"You're the worst, playing with my feelings—are you even human? Why would you do such a thing?"

"I love you, Nayla. Just..." Joshua struggles because seeing you destroyed and broken, he couldn't bear it.

He just can't bear seeing you like this.

"You love me...?" you breathes, feeling numb.

"Yes..." Joshua tighten his grip on your wrist. Not wanting to let go, fearing that this would be the last time he could feel you.

" What you just did Joshua... it isn't love. You just love the feeling of hiding something to me that would end me up hurting. "

" You don't love me, Joshua." Hearing those words stab Joshua chest, because not believing your feelings by the person you dearest love the most was like shredding his heart into pieces.