āSomewhere Betweenā
Cairo Sweet x fem!reader
Summary: After the note, time has passed, you were just trying to graduate and disappear as you start hearing the scandal of Mr. Miller and Cairo. After two years, you return to the place you swear to forget..
Warnings: slow burn, ANGST, happy ending?, Mr. Miller, grammar, idk what Iām doing to be honest, first time writing this so it might suck but I hope you enjoy anywayā¦.
[A/N:]
Sorry, I took a while to write this part, my job has keep me busy this past few days but finally, here it is! I wanted to be as good as can be. Anyways, hope you guys enjoy! Also I apologize if thereās any errors!
Part 2 of āWe were Almost Somethingā
As time goes on, I try not to say her name anymore. Not because I have forgotten it ā Cairo Sweet is carved too deep into my soul for that ā but because it still feels dangerous. Like speaking it out loud could drag all the rumors, the whispers, the ugly headlines, right back to the surface.
I still remember the day it all broke ā the scandal with Mr. Miller. The creative writing assignment. The story that expose a possible affair between them. A student and teacher relationship. Everyone talk about it in every hallway conversation, that the story was a love letter, that she did it for attention, she fuck teacher and many others that I havenāt heard yet.
And me? I was collateral damage ā āthe girl who was always hanging around herā I learned quickly how fast pity can rot into suspicion.
After Mr. Miller got suspension. She left before the semester ended. No goodbyes. No letter. Just absence, heavy and sharp.
Weeks blur into months. Then, one rainy night, it happens.
I was walking home when the streetlights flicker ā not in the way old bulbs do, but like the world is glitching. The air thickens, humming, and suddenly, it wasnāt my street anymore.
I was back at her house. In her room. The light outside the window is strange ā neither day nor night. The kind of light that feels like itās holding its breath.
And Cairo was there. Sitting on the sofa. Leaning against the wall. Holding her laptop on her lap while holding a cigarette on her fingers. Wearing the same guarded expression I saw the last time we were alone together.
āYouāre not real,ā I said as her eyes meet mine, steady. āNeither is this. But itās the only place I can see you.ā
āWhy here?ā she ask, her voice smaller that she probably meant to.
āBecause itās where we still make sense.ā
The world outside the window seems to warp and bend, the buildings dissolving into streaks of color. I can feel my heart pulse in my throat as water drip down my forehead.
āYou left,ā I said āYou didnāt even tryāā
āI had to.ā Her voice is raw, like the truth is cutting her throat on the way out. āAfter Miller⦠they would have chewed you up too. I thought I was protecting you.ā
āYou thought you were protecting me by vanishing? Everyone was talking about how you fucked Miller, and I have to keep my mouth shut and pretending nothing happened??!!Seriously Cairo!!⦠I canāt even look at you right now..ā I said as I shake my head and turn around to leave
āI didnāt fucked Miller, Y/n. I promise you that! I was confused! But please understand, I vanished to make sure no one could link you to us. By making sure they only aimed at me.ā she yelled as my hand stop at the doorknob. I want to scream at her. I want to tell her it didnāt work, even tho she disappeared, I still felt the heat of every stare, still heard the whispers. But I also want to close the distance that we both have and never let her go.
But I know I canāt, because this Cairo is not her⦠Because all of this, its all my head.
āI canāt change what happened,ā she said, softer now. āBut I want to change what happens next. So please, donāt goā¦ā You turn around and look at her as she stands in the middle of the room āYou too late, Cairoā
Two Years Later
Life moves on without asking permission. I finished school, moved away and have started to build something on my own in Oregon. Iām finishing writing a book. I havenāt met anyone, I have try but it hasnāt work out. Even after two years, I have almost convince myself that I had imagined her ā the real Cairo and the twilight Cairo.
But one day, a call came ā my momās voice on the phone, telling me sheād found an old box of my things. She asked me to come pick it up before she cleared the attic. A small reason, maybe, but enough to bring me back to the town I have swore Iād never return to. Just for a weekend.
Itās raining when I arrive. Warm, heavy drops that make the streets shine like theyāve been painted in silver. I keep my head down, my hands in my pockets as my mind already telling me that this is the most stupidest thing I have ever done, that I turn back and get fuck out of here again.
Until I hear my name. I stop and turned slowly to direction to that familiar voice, the voice of that person that has consumed me against my will. Cairo Sweet. Standing in front of me ā in a long sleeve black dress, black heel boots, and her hair in a messy bun ā holding an umbrella.
After two years, she still has the same ability to take my breathe away, still have those same eyes, though now they look at me like theyāve been waiting and searching for me in every face for two years.
For a moment, neither of us move. ā Me? I havenāt moved cause I donāt know nor sure if this real or just like last time ā āYou came back,ā she said, snapping me out of my thoughts as she takes a step forward ā and it feels like stepping out of the twilight, into something solid. Real.
āFor a box in my momās attic,ā I replied, my voice is softer than I mean it to be, pointing behind me as if my house is behind me. She laughs under her breath, like sheās afraid the sound might break whatever this moment is. She steps closer ā not enough to touch, but enough that you can smell her perfume and the faint hint of coffee and cigarette on her breath ā and holds the umbrella over both of our heads.
āI didnāt think Iād see you again,ā she admits. āI thought⦠Iād ruined any chance we had.ā āYou did,ā I said, but thereās no heat in it. āAnd maybe I did too. But here we are.ā
āIām not the same,ā she said. I swallowed. āIāve spent two years trying not to be the girl who walked away from you.ā
āAnd who are you now?ā I asked. She steps into my space, slow and certain, until our chests are almost touching as she let go the umbrella. My hand hovers, then rests lightly on her jaw, my thumb brushing the edge of her cheekbone āSomeone who wants to stay.ā She said as she grabs my neck and leans in.
The leaning is slower than I have expect ā not rushed, not desperate. Itās a question, not an apology. A quiet can I? that I answer by kissing her.
Her fingers slide to the back of my neck, her forehead pressing against mine when we pull away. I can feel her breath against my lips, steady and warm.
āYou donāt owe me anything,ā she murmurs as she plays with my baby hair on my neck. āBut Iāll spend as long as it takes proving Iām not going anywhere this time.ā
I smile ā small, but real. And for the first time in years, I believe her. The secret kiss, the note, the scandal, the whispers, the years apart ā theyāre still there, part of your story. But now, so is this.
The rain doesnāt stop. But the air feels different as we embrace each other. Lighter. Brighter. Like maybe the storm was just making room for the sun. Like maybe, this time, itās finally sunrise.
The End..















