𝙌𝙐𝘼𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙀, a. knight ✓

twenty-eight

he said yes!
july 13th, 2020

FOR TWO WEEKS, AWSTEN KNIGHT AND JUNE COLLINS ARE HAPPILY MAKING THE LONG DISTANCE THING WORK. Lucas cries when he hears the news that they're officially together, and Ivy starts talking about booking a flight to Seattle. (Though she ends up staying in New York because she doesn't want to get on a plane, and driving across the country would take way too long. Especially with a dog.)

 June tells Ivy about the chance at some sort of special Waterparks show, and the younger Collins sister says she'll ask Travis what he thinks.

 Everyone from the set of the Little Shop of Horrors remake are finally let out, and they're all called in for different interviews. June goes to the Buzzfeed one that she was telling Awsten about when she asked him to be her boyfriend officially, and then she's asked to come do a radio interview along with Emmy Evans.

 Since the interview is in Seattle, June is able to go in person, but Emmy has to join over a Zoom call. It's some small show that June doesn't listen to, and the hosts name is Michael, but she didn't catch his last name.

 Michael is fairly young, probably around her and Emmy's age. He's scrawny with these big ears that stick out.

 He asks the women some questions about their movie, and then the conversation turns a bit more personal.

 "So it was rumored that there was some romance on the set," Michael chuckles. 

 "Between who?" Emmy laughs over the phone.

 "We had Leonardo Rhodes over the phone yesterday,—" Shit, June was supposed to listen to that, wasn't she. "—and he kept hinting at a relationship between him and someone else, though he wouldn't say who."

 "I'm not quite sure what you're..." June trails off. Was he allowed to ask this? Well, obviously yes, he was, but couldn't he tell that he shouldn't have asked this?

 Awsten Knight tuned into today's interview. Hearing this host ask June and Emmy about Leonardo Rhodes made his heart pound. He was the one person on set that Awsten was most worried about making a move on June after the band left.

 Had something actually happened? They weren't officially together during filming, so what did that mean?

 "Leo's just a flirt," June assures Michael (and Awsten). "There might've been something going on, but it wasn't with Emmy nor I if that's what you're asking."

 Phew, Awsten sighs. He's not sure if he's strong enough to beat Leonardo Rhodes' ass if that's what it came to.

 Emmy and June try to change the awkward subject back to the movie, but Michael's stubborn. "Are you sure you're not just saying that to keep it a secret from the public?"

 Even if she was trying to keep it a secret from all the fans and paparazzi, what was he expecting her to do? Break down and tell him she and Leo were hooking up? That he got that secret out of her by being a dick?

 June clears her throat. "No, I promise you nothing's going on between Leo and us." She pauses. "I actually have a boyfriend of my own."

 Michael and Emmy both raise their eyebrows at her. Back in LA, hearing June say she has a boyfriend over the radio makes Awsten smile wider than ever before.

 "Would you care to share who he is?" Michael asks.

 She thinks for a few moments, should she say who it is? "Um..." She thinks for a few moments and Emmy clears her throat.

 And then June Collins tells Michael, and Emmy, and everyone listening that her boyfriend's name is Awsten Knight. And back in LA, Awsten listens to June — to his girlfriend — talk with the biggest smile on his face.

july 15th, 2020

Natalie Hawthorne writes an article about it. Lucas cries again.

 June Collins and Awsten Knight are officially dating, and the whole world knows it. The two of them couldn't be happier.

 "I'm waiting on my album, Knight," June tells him over FaceTime.

 "An entire album? Just about you? I don't even have a song yet!" Awsten laughs.

 "You don't?" she fake pouts. "I thought you had a crush on me though."

 He shrugs. "I guess not."

 "When are you coming back?" June asks.

 He shrugs again. "When do you want me back?"

 "Yesterday."

 "The second they invent time travel, I promise you I'll be there, Collins."

july 18th, 2020

"Who's gonna watch Kelso?" Lucas asks.

 Ivy Collins was currently on a FaceTime call with her sister and Lucas, and she was telling them that she was gonna drive to Texas to pick up Travis. From there, they were going to drive to LA where they would meet Awsten.

 June and Lucas were driving down too.

 "I wanna bring him with, but I don't know if I can," she tells them both. "He's prolly just gonna stay with our parents. I have to figure all that out." Ivy pauses. "Is Awsten actually gonna do the concert? I wanna see Geoff again."

 "Ivy, he has a girlfriend," June laughs. "And a daughter."

 "And I have a boyfriend," Ivy tells her sister. "And a son. I'm not making a move." She scrunches up her nose. "He's like my dad or whatever."

 June rolls her eyes. "He's only a few years older than you, he can't be your dad."

 Ivy shrugs. "Okay, okay, my dad who made some very poor life choices."

 "You're an idiot, Ive."

this is a terrible chapter, jesus

grammarly is fucked up rn so i apologize for any errors