Warnings: Alcohol, sadness overload, cuteness aggression, kissing, that's all i can think of lol
Ashley, not surprising to you, didn’t show up for her shift and you had to stay a bit long at work then you wanted to. You figured she’d call at the last minute since she texted you at 4 in the morning. ‘Oh well’ you thought. You hadn’t gotten a text from Leon yet and you were starting to wonder if he was just not that interested anymore now, that half the day is gone. You kept yourself busy trying to not get your hopes up. This was someone that you were actually interested in and hoped he’d feel the same. If he didn’t you weren’t going to press on it, the last time you did it ended in you getting your heart broken. You were finally feeling better, you started socializing, and you were feeling like a whole new person that you could be proud of. and that’s something no one can take away from you.
After your boss got someone else to come in and cover Ashley, you went home and relaxed. Your feet hurt, your head hurt especially from how tight your ponytail was. You slowly took it out and rubbed your scalp, giving it a much needed breather, you know you look crazy especially since your hair was in front of your eyes moving around. You went to pick out some clothes in your closet, choosing some shorts and an oversized shirt and a towel. You took a nice relaxing shower. When you got out you had a couple messages on your phone.
-Hey girl, barely waking up, I’m sorry about today, Let’s meet up for coffee?
You smile a bit and text Ashley back agreeing to coffee.
After setting up a time and place with her you got ready.
You guys met up at a coffee and dessert place, ordering coffees and Ashley getting a cheesecake. You both sat down waiting for the coffee.
“I’m sorry, truly i am —-“ she says with a sad tone, “I would’ve been there but, I-“
you cut her off, “ It’s okay, no It’s okay I got a bit more money because of you,” you chuckle, “ it was like 10$ more but whatever, you should be saying sorry to Maria, she’s the one that came in and didn’t look exactly happy to be there on her day off.” you shrug and ashley nodded, saying she will when she sees her.
Your drinks came and you both got up to walk back to your apartment.
“Well, how was your walk home with your charming man?” she nudges you and teases you a bit.
A smile slowly creeps up on your face, you feel yourself blushing and tell her to stop.
“it was nice actually, he walked me all the way to the doors, didn’t ask to come in, asked for my number, and uhm,” you glanced at ashely, everything you told her her mouth got wider, and you know this would be the breaker,” He kissed me,”
“OH MY GOD! Girl, that is so cute oh my god! “ she squeals, gasping, “ Is this the one for you?!?” she says excitedly, grabbing your arm and shaking it.
“Ash, don’t say that, I don’t know what that was or what’s going to happen.” you say.
“So has he said anything to you? What's going on now?” she asks.
“ Well, he actually hasn’t called or texted me.” you look away not wanting whatever reaction she was going to give, good or bad.
“Oh girl, text him first, take initiative." she tells you.
You’ve thought about it, but that’s not what you want. You want him to reach out, try and see what happens between you. So you tell Ashley, hoping she wouldn’t question it but she does.
“Well it’s just…with my ex, I realized and felt like I had to do everything to make sure we were both good. You know like, asking him about himself, caring for him when he was struggling, trying to sort through our issues and he just…wouldn’t try.” you tell her.
“uegh, okay yeah I know your reasons, but don’t let him slip through your fingers ——“ she says.
“Yeah, I'll do my best.” you say rolling your eyes a bit then looking at her.
“I'm serious —-, this could potentially be good for you.” she says, nodding her head.
you laugh it off, you don’t know what to think right now.
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You waited outside with Ashley until her ride got to your apartment building. And once you got into your apartment, you threw on your lazy comfy clothes and laid down on your bed. You scrolled through your phone for a bit before you got a text from an unknown number.
-Hey, It’s Leon, from the club last night?
You got the biggest smile, grinning ear to ear, you replied.
-Hey Leon I remember you lol
-Okay good I was worried lol
Turns out Leon was looking for his phone everywhere and found that his roommate Luis brought a girl back to the apartment from the club, took his phone thinking it was hers. He thought it was deep in the couch, his bed even checking his roommates bed too. Then randomly she showed back up with his phone. He told you he was a bit sad he had no messages from you, you told him you wanted to but you were busy, telling him how work went, how your friend didn’t show for her shift and took you out for coffee as an apology, not that long ago.
-yeah, but what can you do, right?
You spend the rest of the day texting each other, asking each other. ‘what’s your favorite color?’ ‘What’s your favorite song right now?’ ‘What do you like about your job?’
and you come to find out Leon's a soon to be government agent on break right now. You also found that he went on break the day before yesterday, his roommate Luis originally wanted to go to the same club that night, to celebrate him coming back after a successful mission, but Leon declined. The next day Luis begged and bothered until he said yes. He said he was glad he did now because he got to meet you. That made you think of how Ashley was doing the same to you too, and how glad you are that you met Leon. What a coincidence.
Leon told you he was having a few beers while cooking some food. You were doing almost the same thing except with wine. And Leon had asked if he could call you instead of texting since he’ll be busy with his hands. as nervous as you were, you agreed. telling him to give you a minute, you guzzled down the full glass you had and poured another, before you went to take a drink Leon called you. You felt your stomach jump, the butterflies swooshing around, your heart was beating fast and you ran to another room and sat down holding your phone. you answered and heard him “Hey,” he simply says.
with a bit of chuckle, “ Hi” he answers back.
“So am I in your headphones?” you ask
“yep, i might look crazy to my roommate like i’m talking to myself but it’s whatever.” he says laughing and you do too.
Leon seemed to have everything together; he knew what his main goal was. To help people and to make them feel like they have somebody. They'll always have him as their go-to person. He doesn’t mind it and it actually gives him hope that they’ll do the same for others, to pay it forward. and you really liked that about him.
he eventually finished cooking and ate, he kept drinking his beers and even thought of walking to a nearby store for more. You told you’d stay on the phone with him so it would be like you were walking together and that made him laugh, saying you were cute. He decided to go and had you the entire way. He tells some deep things on his walk alone to the nearest liquor store. When he made it back from the store your talks got a bit deeper. You hear his side of things, how sad he actually is, of certain things not working out for him and how he couldn’t do anything to make his mind stop feeling guilty about all of it. For most of it he kept it vague, just telling you, “ I just wish I could make more of a difference.” he sighs.
you didn’t know what to say, and the most you could was, “ nothing is ever gonna go the way you want it to be Leon. As much as you fight, it can’t happen..some things just are not supposed to align with each other, and that’s okay. You just have to accept and do the best you can, just try to breathe easier as you go...”
Leon had no response at first, probably thinking about what you said. you don’t say anything else just feeling like you made no sense and probably said something dumb.
“Yeah you’re right,” he responds, “ I usually just sit with it, but I think maybe acceptance and knowing I do my best is enough.” He says, “ Thank you, I feel somewhat better now.”
you continue talking, you hear him lay down on his bed, sighing and then getting up to crack another beer. You laid down on your sofa pretending Leon was in the same room as you. giving you a false sense of hope that maybe he can be more to you. and you want it to happen now.
Why do you get this feeling, this sense of urgency to be with this man as soon as possible? What good would come out of that? You feel like you don’t have enough time in the world and you want to be with him every second you could. You're not even with him and just talking on the phone, but yet you still feel this way, doesn’t make sense. You just want him to hold you and tell you everything is going to be okay, and you want to do the same for him. He brings some peace in your chaotic mind that you can’t seem to keep quiet.
you snap out of it, realizing you spaced out,” hey i’m here,” you say.
“Okay I thought I lost you there,” he chuckles a bit.
You continue on talking, for three more hours. just laughing, getting sad and giving each other the pick up you needed. you had a lot more insight to things that you didn’t have before. You realized how late it was, 4:45 am. And even though you didn’t want to end the call you had to tell him.
“Yeah, I’m out of beer and I know you’re tired..” he says sadly, not wanting to hang up the phone.
“Well you can call me tomorrow…or I guess later today.” you tell him
“Well, if you don’t mind I think I will,” and you grin, and you know he’s smiling too.
“Goodnight beautiful.” he tells you.
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You woke up around 11:30 a.m. not being able to sleep in like you thought you would. Your body naturally wakes you up early, still on a schedule regardless of the bad sleep pattern you got going on right now. As you got up and ready for the day, finally having a day off to actually relax, you got a message from Leon, asking if you wanted to go out for dinner later that evening. You told you had the day off, and that you’d love to. He said he’d pick the place, surprising you where he’s going to take you and to be ready by 6 o’ clock.
As excited as you were, you were feeling very nervous to be around him again. “It’ll be good, I’m sure…It’ll be like how we were on the phone right?” you ask yourself out loud.
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It’s almost time for Leon to pick you up, and you were finishing up with your hair. You kept thinking about what it was going to be like, wondering where he’s taking you. If you’re overdressing or underdressing, “damnit I should've asked him.”
You kept thinking of Leon, maybe he’s nervous too, you hope he is but who knows, maybe he’ll have the confidence for the both of you. You went to the kitchen to drink some water, when you heard your phone ping from the bedroom. You went to go look at it, you opened up your phone and it was Leon telling you he was there at your building. You sent an ‘ok’ and grabbed your stuff and took a deep breath before you locked your door, went to go meet him.
When you get down to the doors you see him standing there, looking handsome as ever, making you smile and blush. He turns around looking right at you, a grin creeps up and you see him bite his lip, his eyes sweeping you up a couple times, and once you're out the door, he says, “ you look so beautiful.”
“Thank you, I uhh-” you look down at your outfit and shoes, “ I didn’t know what to wear so I threw this on.” you tell him. You look at Leon and you can see the adoration he has in his eyes. The little glimmer in his eyes telling you you're the most beautiful person he's ever seen.
“Doesn't matter, you still look beautiful.” he puts his arm out to you, and you reach to put your hand around it. You start walking to a car and he opens the door for you, letting you in first.
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You couldn’t wait for what Leon has planned for you. You noticed he was going a little out of the city and he slowed down to take a turn and you see a small lake. When you pull in you see a sidewalk wrapping around the lake. There was a little bridge with a gazebo overlooking the lake .
“This is beautiful.” you tell him smiling, looking around trying to take in as much as you could.
“It is yeah, I like to come here sometimes,” he says, pulling out a basket and bag from the backseat.
The two of you walk over to the gazebo, and you hear the water rippling, in the distance cars driving, the birds flapping their wings in a frantic manner. You felt you were here before. You stand in the gazebo watching the water ripple. You look up to see the sky, the clouds in front of the sun that's about to set. This is beautiful.
The basket was full of some grapes and four sandwiches for the both of you, along with some wine. You both ate, clearly hungry after the long drive. You both laugh at how fast you scarfed down the sandwiches. All that was left was some grapes. You fed them to each other, throwing up into each other's mouths trying to catch them. The last one Leon caught and you both celebrated. Laughing and you were also surprised half those grapes went to waste. “Well the fish or birds will enjoy them now.” Leon says to reassure you.
“I come out here when I have the time to since I’ve moved here, it’s one of my favorite places.” Leon says.
You look over at him, and you can tell he's enjoying the view, he closes his eyes and breathes in deeply. “Thats good to know, taking me to your favorite places I guess?” you ask.
Once his eyes open you sit closer to him. “Yeah, I guess I am, I don’t usually do that.” he says, almost like he’s realizing that to himself. You lean your head on his shoulder, and he lays his on yours.
You watch the sun go down, “ I feel like I’ve been here before…”
“Maybe you have, you just don’t remember.”
“Maybe.” you say, wondering about if you did or not.
Leon puts his head up, “How are you feeling right now?”
“I’m good, calm and relaxed.” you tell him, “How about you?” you ask.
“I am getting tired but I don’t wanna leave yet,” you say.
“We can go, I just thought you might wanna enjoy it out here a while longer,” he tells you.
“No, nonono I like it here…maybe when the sun is fully down we could.” You lifted your head, and nodded before putting it back on his shoulder.
He chuckles a bit,” okay if that’s what you want.”
You sat there, content. Basking in the last bit of sun for a while before Leon suggested taking a walk around the lake. You agreed. As you walked, Leon picked a sunflower out for you, the biggest one of the bunch sitting there.
“You think we’ll get in trouble for that?” you ask him a little curious. Those sunflowers were clearly planted by someone around the area.
Leon looked back and forth, “uuhhh, I’m sure it’s fine, “ he said, waving it off. He grabbed your hand and walked a little bit faster than before, making you laugh a bit.
When you got a little more than halfway you turned around, going back to Leon's car.
“Hey Leon, This was really fun, it was nice.” you tell him.
He smiles looking at you, looking a bit tired himself, he says, “ I’m glad —-. I had a nice time with you too.”
You lean your head against the head rest and Leon drives off to take you home.
You made it home, and Leon walked you to your doors. You stood there a bit deciding whether to ask him to come in or not. Before you over-thought it you quickly asked him, “Do you want to come in?”
He looked at you shocked, “yeah.” he says slowly smiling and walking closer to you. You open the door and head to the elevator.
When you unlocked your door you put your stuff down, and you turned the light on. Leon looked around seeing how clean and full of color your apartment was. “Welcome Leon, to my little slice of heaven.” You look around gesturing forward.
You turn back to him, and he’s staring at all the art that you have. You decided to give him a little tour of them, showing him a vase you made once when you tried taking up pottery as a hobby. Or a little painting you did of a jellyfish, another of the full moon and stars. You tried to appreciate the art did, even when you weren’t too proud of them, you still put them up on your wall or found a place for them. “They deserve to be loved too, even if they aren't as good.” you tell leon, holding one up that was clearly messed up. “Maybe one of these times we could try it out.” you tell him.
“Oh, hell yeah i”m down.” he continues looking at all of the displays, even noticing little figurines of cats and dogs hiding behind things and sitting on top of a movie dvd, or a cd collection you have.
“This is so cute —---.” he chuckles, covering his mouth with his hand. “Your art is beautiful too, You should have a gallery somewhere.” he tells you seriously.
“I do, it's right here.” you tell him, chuckling.
“No —- i meant-” you cut him off, “ Leon I know what you meant, I was joking. But no, I don't want that. At least right now, this is for me. My little pieces I made.” you tell him.
“Alright sorry, it’s just, you could do it and make a good living off of it.” he shrugs.
You’ve thought about it before but, right now just wasn’t the time for you. Although you would love to. You wouldn’t have to do double shifts at the diner.
“You want some more wine?”
“Of course I do.” Leon says.
You both sit at your table, drinking wine. You played some songs on speaker, showing the parts you liked most about each song, after you leon showed you some of his favorites. Some you wouldn’t expect him to listen to, surprising you with almost every song. You could tell you were getting drunk, you felt your face heat up and your eyes felt heavy, you looked over at Leon and saw that he looked drunk too. Leon laughed a bit, smiling and looking at you.
“ Just crazy, I don’t know, I really like you.”
You put your hands under your chin, and grinned, “ Aww I like you too Leon.”
“Youre so beautiful, it’s crazy to me that I haven’t met you before until now a couple days ago.” Leon says sadly. Making you a bit sad too. “When did you move here again, I know you told me before but I’m just checking.” Leon asked.
“Uhh, like two years ago now.” you think about it, and confirm that it was two years ago.
“For two years we've lived in the same city and not once did we meet until now. How crazy is that?” He says, “ And we don’t live that far away from each other, it’s a couple blocks from here to my place.”
“That is yeah, I guess we just weren't meant to be in each other's lives until now.”
“What perfect timing..” Leon says as he goes to take another drink. He gets up and asks to use your bathroom and you tell where it is. As you sit there alone, you think about how drunk he is, how drunk you are and how Leon's eyes were so blue and big, his perfect hair, and his lips full and all you could think about kissing them. When leon gets back you stood up and slowly wrapped your arms around him, letting whatever songs play next on your phone. Leon’s shocked but he doesn’t say anything, just slowly grabbing onto your waist. You move back and force,
~ this road, is gonna take us back now ~
Leon’s with you, following your movements,
“You don’t dance much do you?” you ask him, giggling a bit because how cute he’s being.
~ I don’t know how to act now, They say my child, don’t stroll off easy, ~
“No, not in a long time, no. “ Leon says quietly, a bit embarrassed. Still moving the way you do, softly swaying back and forth
~ Cause when it’s time, you gonna hear what she said ~
Leon gently pulls your arm up, spinning you then pulls you back by the waist.
If you ever leave me alone,
I’ll be cryin’ wishin’ you’d
You dance there in your kitchen leaning against his chest, hearing his heartbeat and breathing. You dance like you would if you were by yourself, except you would hold yourself. All those times spent alone, crying yourself to bed, not moving an inch sometimes because of how depressed you were. waking up crying, and drinking to ease that pain and making the loneliness less lonely. Now, you have Leon. and Leon doesn’t let you go. He doesn’t want to let you go, the whole evening he didn’t want to over step and touch you too much. He wanted you to feel safe with him, the way he does with you. There’s just something about you, even if he can’t pinpoint it right now, he knows that you’ll be there for him, the way he will for you. He sees more in you than you see in yourself.
You feel Leon nudge you and you pull away from his chest, and he tucks his fingers under your chin, pulling you in for a kiss. The one thing you’ve wanted. You relax into the kiss, your mouths moving against each other, you put your hand at the back of his neck pulling him in closer. He leans in, then breaks from the kiss. You feel his hands go from your waist to your ass, and thighs and lifts you up, surprising you, you try to stabilize yourself as you lean back a bit to look at Leon and he’s already looking at you. He kisses you once more before asking you where your room was. You tell him and point in the direction, and carries you over to your room. He lays you down gently before moving away to look at you. He moves his hands from your thighs up your body, feeling you up and you lay there breathing, panicking a little inside and then he leans back down to kiss you. Your heart beating fast and you love how he gently touches you, you realize how a bit touch starved you were, and you wanted more and more. You reach your hand out to him pulling him by his shirt and getting further into the bed, not breaking the kiss. He hovers over you, and you slowly lift his shirt off. You see his 6 pack, and his glowy skin, you touch him wherever you can making him sigh and lean in more to your touches.
Leon slowly starts giving you lil pecks before he stops and looks into your eyes, and whispers,” You’re so pretty.”
-Hope this is good and worth the read:) lmk what you think:))) p.s I added a bit more at the end lol i couldn’t find a good stopping point.
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