A Family Friend From Florida (Dreamwastaken x Female Reader)

I Forgive You

Y/N POV

     Clay and I walk outside together. There's still a light hue left on my face from him grabbing my hand. I still feel hurt from what Jake said but the emptiness his words left in my stomach is now filled with a warm sensation. As we approach everyone else, I notice someone's missing.

     "Where's Jake?" I ask still looking for him.

     "I sent him home. He's already done his round and I'm sick of his attitude" Howard comments. I hope he's doing okay, Jake's like his only friend.

     "Let's get this last round going!" Nadia exclaimed.

     "Would you give us a second?" Howard asked while he pulled me away from the group. "I'm sorry I didn't try and get along with you earlier in high school. You're really kind and caring and pretty- I... mean pretty smart, and I shouldn't have said or done the things I did freshman year. I was foolish to think that tech/STEM classes were just for boys. And I hope you can forgive me, and maybe we could hang out some time." His face is a little pink and he's looking right into my eyes waiting for a response.

     "I forgive you. I appreciate you apologizing for everything, our whole group have some pretty cool things planned for this summer. Maybe you could tag along if your not busy" I say hopeful for this potential friendship.

     "Yea, I'd like that a lot, let's get this robot battle finished up," we walk back over to everyone and I step up to the robot controls and get ready for the final round while Nadia sets up the robots and counts us down.

     I charge right at Howard with the ram side of my robot and push him back a bit. He pulls back even more and charges straight at me with his pyramid shaped robot. I drive halfway up the ramp as he pushes me even closer to the edge. My back wheels are toeing the line of the circle. I need to think fast. I drive right over him and turn my robot to try and scoop his front wheels up and drive him out. As I charge at him he drives to the side avoiding my hit and one again almost driving me out of the ring. I chase his robot around the circle until I finally get his front wheels up on the scooper of my robot and start pushing him to the edge. He's using all the power the little motor of his has but it's not enough. I have the upper hand and use it to drive him straight out of the ring.

     Everyone is silent. The moment is still, until Clay speaks up. "Hell yeah Y/N!"

     I try and wipe the look of shock off my face. I didn't wanna tell anyone but I didn't know if I'd win. We all start cheering, high fiving, hugging. It was a good time, I couldn't stop smiling in this moment with my friends. That was until I looked past Thomas. I see Howard packing up his equipment alone, he looked left out. I walk away from the cheering group and begin to grab pieces of his set up to help carry them to his car. He looks up to me and smiles. "Where should I put this?" I ask holding his computer monitor.

     "Just follow me" He leads me to his car and I set it in his trunk. "That was a good game." He said and I held out my hand for him to shake. He grabbed it and pulled me into a hug.

     "I guess you're not the worst at this kind of stuff either." I giggle and looks up to kiss me. DID HOWARD JUST KISS ME??? He nice but I DO NOT like him like that. He ruined my first kiss. The kiss was so awkward I quite literally wanna shrivel up and die. I don't really know what a kiss is supposed to be like, but not that. Definitely not that. I can't believe he would just kiss me with out asking or anything. What do I say now??? "Howard... I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong idea, I just don't feel that way about you." He looks a bit disappointed

     "I get it. That kiss wasn't exactly what I expected it to be like." He looked to the ground

     "I don't think that's how it's supposed to be" I said trying to convey more of how I'm feeling.

     "I should go... have a good night" he shut his trunk, got in his car and drove away. I walk back over to start cleaning everything up and see that Clay's gone.

     "Where'd Clay go?" I ask Thomas

     "He went inside. He ran off looking a bit upset. I'd go talk to him after we're done here if I were you." Thomas seems concerned for how Clay is feeling. I rush through the cleaning process and send everyone home after thanking them for their hard work on this project. I wonder what Clay's so upset about. I guess I should go and sort this out before it gets any later.

     I walk inside to try and find him. I checked in the guest room but no sign of him. I walk up stairs and hear talking. Our parents are outside so I'm assuming he's up here. It sounds like he's on the phone in my room. I knock on the door. "One second" he shouted to me "I gotta go, she's here now" I hear him say to the phone. I open the door to see him sitting on my bed. I walk over and sit down next to him. He looks really upset, I wasn't expecting the sudden mood change, like 10 minutes ago he was laughing and cheering. I wanna be there for him like he was for me earlier. I begin to speak

     "Do you wanna talk, or do you just want a distraction?" This feels familiar...

A/N
So I've been wanting to start a new fanfic. And I want it to be like an AU that's a dark academia, secret society story set at an Ivy League. I'm not sure if want it to be about sapnap or George or other. Or if I wanna to an x reader or an x OC. Let me know what you'd want to read if you're interested in the AU.