Hollis x Reader <2 chapter 8
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You're in a fwb relationship with hollis, you're in love with him, but he doesn't reciprocate the feelings...or does he?
e/n: ITS BEEN 4 MONTHS I KNOW. And yes i know i said i was giving up on this story but i still got ppl in my asks and dms threatening me if i dont make a new chapter so i brainstormed for like a week on how i could do this...btw this isnt the last chapter..wink wink
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"You gonna eat those fries or just stare at them like they owe you money?" Hollis reached across the diner booth, swiping a crispy wedge from my plate before I could smack his hand away. He grinned, that infuriating, camera-ready grin that had launched a thousand magazine covers, and popped it into his mouth.
it had been 3 years since the miscarriage. I still miss my protentional baby every day. Today it was actually the anniversary of the day i had found out about my loss.
The fry hovered near my lips, cold now, the grease congealing in a way that made my stomach turn. Three years today. Three years since the doctor’s office, the silence, the way Hollis had stared at the ultrasound machine like it had personally betrayed him. I set the fry down. "You remember what today is?"
Hollis's fingers twitched toward my wrist, his thumb brushing over the thin silver bracelet I always wore, the one he'd given me after the hospital. "Of course I do, sweetheart." His voice dropped to that private octave, the one that never made it into his songs. "But every single day this comes round each year, you can't be miserable."
Hollis leaned back against the cracked vinyl seat, sunlight from the diner windows cutting across the sharp angles of his face. He'd always looked like trouble, not the kind that screamed from tabloid headlines, but the quiet, dangerous sort that slipped under your skin when you weren't looking. "You think I don't know what today does to you?" he said, swirling his straw in his soda. "Every year, you get that look. Like you're standing at the edge of something and can't decide whether to jump."
"I know… I'm sorry…" I whispered, my fingers twisting the bracelet around my wrist. The metal was warm from my skin, smooth in a way that felt like forgiveness. Hollis didn't sigh, didn't roll his eyes, just slid out of the booth in one fluid motion and tossed a crumpled fifty onto the table.
"It's okay, come on, follow me." Hollis's voice was low, the kind of tone that didn't leave room for argument but wasn't unkind, just certain, like he already knew I'd obey. He didn't wait for me to agree, just turned and walked toward the diner's door, his boots scuffing against the linoleum in a rhythm I could've mapped in my sleep. I followed, because I always did, even when I didn't want to. Especially then.
Hollis's fingers wrapped around mine as he tugged me toward his car, an obnoxiously sleek black thing that looked like it belonged on a movie set rather than a dusty diner parking lot. His grip was firm but not tight, the way you'd hold something precious but not fragile. The setting sun glinted off the polished door handle as he popped it open with his free hand, never letting go. "Get in," he said, but it wasn't an order. It was the same tone he used when he'd whisper breathe against my neck during the bad nights, when the walls of our apartment felt like they were closing in.
The engine purred to life beneath us, a low growl that vibrated through the leather seats. Hollis didn’t turn on the radio. He never did when it was just us, like the silence between us was its own kind of music, something too intimate to interrupt. His fingers tapped the steering wheel, not to any beat I could hear, just the restless rhythm of his thoughts. The diner shrank in the rearview mirror, swallowed by the sprawl of the town we’d both outgrown in different ways.
The tires crunched over gravel as Hollis pulled onto the overlook, that same jagged slice of mountain road where the pines leaned away from the wind and the whole valley sprawled beneath you. He killed the engine but left the headlights on, cutting two bright swaths through the gathering dusk. I knew this place, the way the passenger seat leather had creased under my nails that first time, how his laugh had sounded against my collarbone when I’d called him an arrogant asshole mid-thrust.
Hollis’s hands stilled on the steering wheel, his knuckles pale under the dashboard lights. He didn’t look at me, not yet, just stared out at the valley below, where the town’s lights flickered like distant stars. "It’s okay to feel this way, you know," he said, voice rough as gravel. "I may not feel as shitty as you do when this date comes around, but…" His throat worked. "They were my baby too. And that means the whole world to me. One of your own, y’know?" He finally turned, his eyes dark and unguarded in a way they never were onstage. "I never really dreamt of having a family. But when it comes to you? I want everything I can have."
The words tore out of me like a dam breaking. "I dream about them," I said, my voice cracking on the last syllable. Hollis didn't move, didn't interrupt, just let me unravel in the dim glow of the dashboard lights. "Not just today. All the time. I dream they're a toddler now, running through grass with those stupid little shoes that light up when they stomp. And I—" My fingers clawed at the bracelet, the metal biting into my skin. "I wake up and for half a second, I forget. Then I remember, and it's like losing them all over again."
Hollis's hand moved from the steering wheel to my knee, his fingers pressing into the denim like he was trying to anchor me to the present. "You don't have to know what to feel," he said, his thumb tracing idle circles through the fabric. "But i can help you…"
I looked at him, really looked, as his fingers found the top button of my jeans. His touch was practiced, effortless, the way he could undo anything with one hand while the other kept me steady against the seat. The denim gave way easily, his knuckles brushing the dip of my hipbone, and for a heartbeat I wondered if he remembered the first time he’d done this, years ago right in this spot, when we were both too young to know our future.
The button popped open with a quiet snick, the sound impossibly loud. Hollis’s fingers didn’t rush, they never did, just traced the exposed skin beneath my waistband with the same deliberate slowness he used when tuning a guitar backstage, like he was testing the tension of something vital. His thumb hooked into the denim, tugging it down.
I whimpered slightly, my breath hitching as his fingers moved with purpose. "Mh… Hollis…" His name came out strangled, caught somewhere between a plea and surrender. He looked up at me then, eyes dark and steady beneath the dashboard's faint glow, and for a second, I saw that same intensity he reserved for the rare moments when the stage lights died and the world shrank to just us. His fingers traced lower, slipping beneath the waistband of my panties with an ease that spoke of years of knowing my body better than I did some days.
Hollis’s fingers moved in slow, deliberate circles, the pad of his thumb dragging over my clit with just enough pressure to make my thighs tense. "Mhmm… lemme hear you, sweetheart," he murmured, his voice low and rough like gravel under tires. "You’re so beautiful." The words curled around me, warm and familiar, the same way his hands were, knowing exactly where to press, where to linger, where to pull back just enough to make me chase the sensation.
"Fuck, Hollis—" The words tore from my throat as his fingers slid inside of me, curling just right, the heel of his palm pressing against me in a way that made my hips jerk off the seat. The leather creaked under me, the scent of it mixing with his cologne and the pine sap bleeding through the cracked windows. His free hand clamped over my thigh, holding me down as my back arched. "I know, baby," he murmured, his breath hot against my ear. "I know."
Hollis’s fingers curled faster, hitting that spot inside me that sent sparks shooting up my spine. His breath hitched when I clenched around him, his lips brushing the shell of my ear as he murmured, "Let me make you feel alright, baby." His voice was wrecked, the way it got when he’d been singing too long, raw and honey-thick. I moaned, the sound swallowed by the press of his mouth against my temple, his free hand tightening on my thigh to keep me from squirming away. "Mhm… there we go," he breathed, fingers working me open with a rhythm that had my hips rolling against his palm. "That’s my good girl."
His fingers didn't slow when my breathing turned ragged, when my thighs trembled against the leather seat. Hollis knew, he had always known the exact moment before I came. His free hand snapped up, fingers tangling in my hair as he wrenched my face toward his. "Look at me doll," he demanded.
My vision blurred at the edges as I shattered against his fingers, Hollis’s name tearing from my throat like a prayer. "Hollis—!" The sound was ragged, half-muffled by the way his other hand still gripped my hair, keeping my face turned toward his. And for a moment I thought I saw something like reverence in his gaze, the same look he got when he nailed a high note live, sweat dripping down his temple, chest heaving.
"Mmh… there we go," Hollis murmured, pulling his fingers free with a slick sound that sent heat crawling up my neck. He raised them to his lips, sucking them clean with a slow drag of his tongue, his eyes locked on mine the whole time. The sight shouldn’t have wrecked me as much as it did, not after all these years, but something about the way his lips curled around his own fingers, the way his throat worked as he swallowed, made my pulse stutter. He smirked, wiping the back of his hand across his mouth. "Still taste like how you did in the backseat of this car, right here 3 years ago," he said, voice rough. "Sweet."
I raised my eyebrows, the leather seat creaking beneath me as I shifted. "You actually remember that?" My voice came out huskier than I intended, still thrumming with the aftershocks of pleasure.
Hollis’s smirk softened into something private, the kind of expression he never let photographers catch. His fingers, still glistening faintly, traced the line of my jaw with deliberate slowness. "Like it was yesterday," he murmured. "You bit my shoulder so hard I had to lie to my stylist about where the bruise came from." His thumb brushed the corner of my mouth.
Hollis’s thumb lingered at the corner of my mouth, calloused and warm, and for a wild second I thought he might press it inside, make me taste myself on his skin. Instead, he traced the shape of my lips like he was memorizing them all over again. "I’ll never forget our first time," he said, voice dropping into that rasp that used to make teenage girls scream but now existed solely for moments like this, raw and unpolished. "You wore that stupid fucking dress. The one with the buttons down the front that took me ten minutes to undo because my hands were shaking so bad."
The smile tugged at my lips before I could stop it, small and private, the kind that didn't make it into the candid paparazzi shots. Hollis saw it anyway, he always did, and something in his expression shifted, that rare, unguarded flicker before the smirk slid back into place. He popped his door open without another word, the mountain air rushing in as he stepped out, boots crunching over gravel.
I fumbled with the button of my jeans, my fingers still trembling slightly from earlier, the denim warm from where Hollis's hands had been. The leather seat creaked as I shifted, the scent of it mingling with pine sap and something faintly metallic, the car, the mountain, him. By the time I got the button fastened, Hollis was already at my door, swinging it open with that practiced ease, one hand braced against the roof like he'd done this a thousand times before. Because he had.
Hollis’s fingers tangled with mine as he pulled me from the car, the gravel crunching beneath our shoes in uneven sync. His grip was firm, the kind that said I’ve got you without words. The mountain air was sharp with pine and the faint tang of gasoline from the valley below, where the town’s lights flickered like scattered fireflies. He didn’t stop until we were at the very edge, where the ground dropped away into nothingness and the wind tugged at our clothes like impatient hands.
The birdsong was distant, interrupted only by the occasional honk from the highway snaking through the valley, someone late for dinner, maybe, or a trucker signaling a lane change. Hollis’s arm slid around my waist, his palm pressing warm against my hipbone through the denim. “I really do love you, y’know?” he said, voice low enough that the wind nearly stole it. His thumb traced idle circles against my side. “And I know that when it’s the right time for us, you’ll be a great mother.”