49. love album- imgonnagetyouback: SOPHIA LAFORTEZA SMAU
synopsis: when sophia laforteza drops her debut single “drivers license”, the media and fans begin to point fingers at yn and a rivalry grows between the two singers.
pairing: sophia laforteza x fem!reader
lots of writing <3 ily !!
Y/N's gut was all over the place. No pun intended. Every lyric from every song from the new album ran loops in her brain like clockwork. Every second she wasn't thinking about what she was talking about- it was Sophia. It was all Sophia.
The bar was tardis-like, smaller on the outside, looking like it could only serve a handful of customers at a time; but once Y/N and Megan had walked past the first few stools at the bar, it opened up into a much larger area. Strangers were dancing to the bass of the song the DJ was playing- mostly Sophia's music. Every person Y/N passed by, heads turned and a few would whisper something incoherent.
"I've texted Dani asking where Soph is for you." Megan whisper-shouted over to her best friend. Y/N's eyes scanned across the wave of people on the dancefloor. She couldn't see her yet. "Do you want a drink? You seem a little... on edge?"
She nodded silently, following the actor over to the bar. She couldn't even look at her phone, too worried she'll see a text that she didn't wanna read right now. She just wanted to talk to Sophia. That's all. And a few other things...
"THERE YOU ARE." Y/N jumped at the familiar voice shouting behind her. "I WAS WONDERING WHEN YOU WERE GONNA COME!" The singer put on a brave face as she turned around to face a very, very drunk Lara Raj.
"Hi, Larz!" The girl said with a smile, pulling her friend into a hug. "Are you... drunk by any chance?"
Lara pulled away from the hug and made a face at Y/N, "Noooooooooooo. I don't get drunk!" She lied, making her laugh.
"She's wasted." A second voice piped up, handing her girlfriend a clear glass of something Y/N could only assume was water. Y/N gave Manon a hug as she spoke, then reaching over for her cocktail at the bar. "Which is what your girlfriend-to-be also is..." Manon then added on.
She choked on her drink at Manon's words, "My future.... what?"
The girl pulled a face at the singer, "Don't pull that bullshit with me. You kissed her at Lara's party; she was too drunk to realise what was going on and didn't kiss you back- so you've began to self destruct. You distanced yourself from her, from Dani, me and Lara. Everyone that reminds you of Soph you've kept a distance from for your own sanity." At each word that came out of Manon's mouth, Y/N was left more speechless. She kept hitting the nail on the head it was almost annoying. "But, now she's released basically an entire album saying she likes you and NOW you've mysteriously turned up here? Yeah right you're one makeout away from making it official."
The four girls sat in silence for a few seconds, soaking in Manon's words. Y/N lifted the cocktail back up to her lips, "Yeah..." She murmured quietly. Another minute or so passes. No one says a word. And then- "Do you know-"
"Where Sophia is?" Manon asked, finishing Y/N's own question. She nodded quietly. "No, I think Dani knows where she is, though." Megan had already texted her girlfriend telling her she had arrived with Y/N, and had been spaced out until the very moment she'd heard her girlfriend's name be mentioned.
"She's on her way!" She said, and almost automatically after that- Dani herself appeared. For a split second, Y/N's body tensed up, expecting Sophia to appear behind her. But she didn't.
"THERE SHE ISSSS." Dani practically screamed, rushing into her own girlfriend's arms. Dani melted into Megan's embrace, kissing the top of her forehead and holding her for a moment, smelling her perfume and the shampoo in her hair. "Missed you, baby." She murmured quietly, making Megan blush on her stool at the bar. Daniela then turned her head away from her girlfriend, arms still wrapped around her. "And you." She said to Y/N, "took your time..."
"Do you know where-" She doesn't even get to finish her question.
"Dancefloor. Like, right in the middle of it." No one else said a word, they just all looked at Y/N, waiting for her next move. Every second she didn't spend on the dancefloor was another second she was wasting not kissing Sophia, right? "Are you going or are you waiting for Christmas?" Dani joked, getting a nudge from Megan in response.
Y/N stood up from the bar stool, taking one final sip of the cocktail and finishing the glass entirely. A few of the girls in the group cheered for her as she then turned towards the crowd of people dancing. She was going in. This'll be easy, right?
It got even louder as Y/N went into the hordes of people on the dancefloor. Every step stank more and more of sweat and alcohol, with some people she passed by exchanging spit like it was their last day of living.
The lights were dim in the bar and dancefloor, with the only main source of light being the strobes the DJ had set up. It was going to take Y/N forever to find her. She tried to call out for Sophia, but it was no use. Only a few heads around her turned, only momentary, before they turned back around and ignored her.
"So-" The name got stuck in her throat as she then found the girl she so desperately needed. She was stood on the side of the dancefloor, leaning against a standing table as she typed away at her phone. She looked immaculate. Y/N felt herself begin to smile as she walked towards the Filipino, trying to get her attention in some way. It was difficult for anyone to see anything in this light, anyways.
She was only a couple feet away when she then stopped. Her eyes widened. Oh.
There, at the other side of the table, Izzie stood- handing Sophia some kind of alcoholic drink. For a moment, she tried to not overthink it. Maybe they were just friends. Then Sophia leaned in slightly closer, listening to some kind of joke Izzie was making; and then she laughed. Oh fuck no.
Y/N's heart sunk on that dancefloor. She felt as though her entire world was shattering right there in front of her eyes. It was no use. Sophia didn't like her.
Maybe her friends were just making it out that way so she didn't feel so bad. Maybe it was all just some test to see how far she'd go before enough was enough. Maybe she should just leave.
She kept staring from her spot on the dancefloor, people moving around her like she wasn't even there. Sophia didn't notice her. Why would she, anyways? It wasn't like she was expecting her.
She felt as though if she stood and watched any longer, she'd throw up from the feeling twisting and growing in her stomach. She had to get out of here. She had to get home. It was tiring her out from just watching and thinking. The courage she once had with Sophia was well and truly gone.
The singer turned on her heels, and walked. She didn't stop walking until she reached the other end of the bar where her friends were- all wearing expecting facial expressions. "Soooooooo..." Dani had a smug face as she spoke, but it broke the moment she took a look at Y/N's face.
"I can't do this. I'm going home." Before anyone could stop her or tell her otherwise, she was walking towards the door. Whether someone followed her or not, was on them.
A beat passes between the two couples as they all exchange nervous glances. "What the fuck...?" Lara doesn't even get to the end of her question before Dani sees a snippet of what Y/N had seen from across the bar.
"Motherfucker..." She muttered under her breath, turning to her girlfriend, "Stall Y/N in the parking lot. Do your best impression of Tori for all I care. Keep. Her. There."
"Leave me alone, Mei Mei." Y/N said, walking at a fast pace. She didn't want to be spotted outside right now- let alone have to deal with any of this shit right now. "I'll be fine."
"You had a drink, I didn't!" Megan was coming up with every possible excuse she could think of. Anything to hold her back that little bit longer. "I can drive you, okay?"
"I don't want to talk. I'm fine. It was one drink." Y/N kept insisting as she walked towards the parking lot.
"We don't have to talk... Just- CAN YOU SLOW DOWN? I'M WEARING HEELS AND YOU'RE WALKING... REALLY FAST." Megan suddenly shouted at her best friend. Y/N stopped dead in her tracks, turning to face her friend who was practically running to try and keep up with her. "Thank you." Megan then said, catching her breath back as she finally caught up. "I'm just worried about my best friend, Y/N."
"I'm fine." She was anything but fine.
"You don't look fine." Megan replied. Y/N couldn't meet her best friend's eyes. "Come on, you can tell me."
"Let's just go home." Y/N was done with the night. Done with the week, month and year. She was tired of trying and just wanted to go back to how things were before she even knew Sophia. Maybe that was for the best, right?
The duo walked in silence until they reached Megan's car in the parking lot. It was a pretty large parking lot, with barely any cars parked in it. Y/N beelined towards her best friend's car, while Megan slowed herself down, hearing her own girlfriend's words in the back of her mind. Keep her there.
"I'm not driving you home." Megan shouted out to her. Y/N's head turned back to her best friend at the entrance of the parking lot. Megan had an unreadable look on her face, which just pissed her friend off more.
Y/N let out a snort as she started to walk back to her friend, "Why...?"
"You know why." She insisted to the girl, arms crossed.
Y/N stared at her, as if it was going to somehow help in a way of her getting a ride home. "I'm not doing this right now, Meg."
"I can't have you bottling this up again, Y/N." When the singer tried to look away, Megan pulled Y/N's arm to get her attention again, "It's not okay that you keep doing that when I'm here to listen. You deserve to be listened to."
And in that moment, her best friend broke. That's all it took. Her vision blurred as she felt her throat burn and her stomach twist. "Meg..." Y/N fell into Megan's arms as she cried into her shoulder. "I don't know what to do, Meg. I thought I was ready to tell her, I thought- I don't even know what I thought."
"It's okay, Y/N. It's okay." Megan whispered to her friend, as if anyone could hear. "What happened in the bar? Did she say something? Do I need to go back and fight her?" She then asked, pulling her best friend away from her embrace slightly to see her facial expression.
"No... No she didn't say anything. I didn't get that far." The girl confessed, "I saw her... She was with Izzie..." Megan's face dropped a little at the name drop. "She looked happy. She was enjoying herself and I don't even know what I was supposed to do. To drag her away again and say; oh Sophia by the way I'm in love with you? And I've been in love with you for months? I couldn't, Mei." Her best friend was silent. She just listened. "I couldn't look her in the eyes on that dancefloor. I couldn't after all the shit we've gone through. She's gonna hate me when she finds out, Mei."
"Are you sure this isn't the cocktail talking?" She quietly asked the singer.
"This is me talking. No matter how much this eats me alive, I can't tell her that, Mei. She liked me all that time ago and she's found someone who cares for her just when I've come to terms with my own feelings. I can't win." She sounded exhausted. Megan had never heard her speak about past girlfriends like this. Sophia was different. "I can't go a day without my mind wandering to her. I can't stop myself from thinking how great we could be. I'm so in love with her it makes me sick to think about her for too long."
Megan's eyes drifted off for a second to a figure at the other end of the parking lot. She opened her mouth for a second, about to tell Y/N to perhaps walk with her to the car after all to keep the privacy. Then she closed her mouth again. Her best friend continued.
"I could go the rest of my life trying to find love, but none of them will make me feel the way Sophia does." Y/N might as well have shouted it. She meant every word coming out of her mouth and anyone in earshot could feel it. Everyone. "And you know what the best part is, Meg? She's gonna have a lovely time with Izzie. They're probably gonna have the best relationship the internet has ever seen. She's probably gonna release a love album about her stupid ass fucking smile and it'll win album of the year at the grammys. Every step I take and every scroll on the internet will be haunted by her and the fact that I'll never be brave enough to tell her the truth. I'm fucked, basically."
Megan nodded along, trying to find the best way to bring up a certain topic... Or so a certain someone. "Are you... sure?"
Y/N almost lost her mind at the question, furrowing her eyebrows at her. "Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I'm in love with her, Meg."
"NO NO NO." Megan then said, cutting her best friend off, "I worded that wrong. I meant like... are you sure that you're.. entirely fucked?" Y/N pulled a face, trying to understand what Mei Mei was saying, but getting nowhere. A few moments passed between them, but Megan just sighed, gesturing with a nod for Y/N to look behind her.
There, at the other end of the lot, Sophia stood. She'd heard everything. Every word Y/N had cried and confessed in those last five minutes had been heard. A few feet behind her, Daniela stood, thanking god that this may be finally happening.
Y/N went to speak, but when she did her mind came up blank. "Is that true?" Sophia asked, starting to walk towards her. "What you said?" Y/N's stomach was twisting again, the feeling of what might as well have been a rock settling in her throat. She couldn't find any words in her. She only nodded slightly, trying her best to keep her vision clear. "Y/N... It was never about Izzie." Sophia told her, stopping no more than a couple of steps from the girl. "It was never even about Kate, or Jyn, or even goddamn Tori... Years ago, I fell in love with a singer," Tears began to swell in Sophia's own eyes as she confessed, but didn't stop. She smiled widely as she spoke, even. "Probably one of the horniest songwriters I know, actually." She then said, making the other girl laugh.
Y/N was a mess opposite her, smiling from ear to ear as she tried to fully even comprehend what was being said. She worried that in a few seconds she'd wake up from the dream that was taking place.
"But you know what? She's probably one of the best in the industry." Sophia went on, "And I really, really fucked up with how I first handled interacting with her. Every day since I released that song I've beat myself up for how it all went down-"
"Don't." Y/N put simply, "It wasn't your fault, Soph."
"I know." The Filipino agreed, "But I've spent every day trying to make it up to you. I still am." She wasn't referring to this singer in third person anymore- she was being direct. "And in the process of that, I fell in love with you. My friends would tease me but I couldn't even deny it." She took a few steps closer to Y/N as she hopelessly stood in the parking lot, trying to not bawl her eyes out right there and then. "You said to Megan about me releasing a love album... But I've already done that."
Y/N entire face softened in realisation of what Sophia meant. The album. It was all for her. "It's for you, Y/N. It's all for you."
And that was the last straw for her. Y/N reached for Sophia in an instant, grabbing her hand and pulling her in. Cupping the girl's face, she pressed her lips onto hers. Unlike the one up in the bedroom at Lara's party- this kiss wasn't rushed. It didn't feel as though the two had to get it all out, now. They had all the time in the world. Their lips slotted together perfectly like two puzzle pieces that had desperately been missing each other the entire time.
A tiny final tear fell from Y/N's eye as they kissed, with Sophia's hands wrapping around her neck. It was perfect. It was everything they'd both been wanting. Finally.
Dani slowly walked towards Megan with a smile on her face, doing her best to not interrupt the two girls makeout. Megan rushed herself away from where she stood, grabbing her own girlfriend's hand before the two ran back to the party, leaving the other two alone.
They didn't separate for what felt like hours- but was no more than few minutes in reality. Sophia leaned her forehead against Y/N's, silently giggling to herself. "Y/N?" The girl in her arms was a mess, "Do you wanna take me home?" As if the answer wasn't obvious.
a/n- and thats a wrap :) thank you so much bbys for all the love and patience. i had quite a few mini breaks writing this fic but you were all so patient with me and i truly appreciate that. i love you all so so so much. i cant wait to see you guys soon in my future fics !!! my next fic will be a dani gamer fic if you're interested !! lots of love bbys <3
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