summary: after being caught by the paparazzi after a date night, marcello briefly mentions you during an interview.
requested by anonymous. marcello x f!singer reader.
“are we still on for tonight?” marcello text you one afternoon. you were finishing up at the studio, and you and marcello were putting together dinner plans for the evening.
“yes! i’m almost done here, and will head over to your place.” you replied to him.
“perfect. i’ll see you when you get here then.”
you and marcello had been seeing each other for just a few months. after becoming mutuals on instagram, him reaching out and telling you how much of a fan he was of your music, and you told him you’d been a fan of his work on saturday night live. the two of you messaged back and forth for a few weeks, before you finally settled on plans for a date. a few dates later, marcello asked if he could be your boyfriend, and you accepted without hesitation.
the start of your relationship, you and marcello kept things pretty quiet. with you both being in the public eye, the last thing you wanted to let into your relationship was public scrutiny. however, that was easier said than done. living in new york, you both had paparazzi following you unfortunately closely.
after leaving the studio, and arriving to marcello’s building, you made your way up to his apartment.
“hey beautiful.” he said with a smile after answering the door. he pulled you into his arms, hugging you tight and pressing a soft kiss to your lips.
“you ready to go? i’m starving.” you said, marcello nodding. the two of you made your way downstairs and out to your car. you drove to a nearby restaurant, having a wonderful meal and enjoying your evening. after you finished eating, you and marcello stepped out of the restaurant, immediately being met by paparazzi. the flashes were bright in your faces, you and marcello waving to a couple of the cameras as you quickly walked back to your car.
“least favorite part of living in the city.” you sighed as you buckled your seatbelt.
“i know, mine too.” marcello said. the next day, the paparazzi photos were appearing on your social media pages. as much as you disliked being stopped by the paparazzi, you did sort of enjoy having candid photos of you and marcello.
a few weeks later, marcello was on a bit of a press run in promotion for his new netflix special. he was in the city, heading to NBC studios for an interview on the tonight show. he’d been out all morning, and by the evening, was heading over to your place so you could watch the show together when it aired.
“now, before this starts, i just want you to know that you came up in the interview.” marcello said to you as you turned the tv on.
“oh, really?” you asked, raising an eyebrow at him.
“just watch.” he laughed.
you sat through the first half of the show, nervously awaiting marcello to appear on your screen.
“our next guest is a very hilarious comedian, who you all know from saturday night live. his new stand-up special, “american boy,” is now streaming on netflix. please welcome marcello hernández!” jimmy fallon announced.
“woo hoo!” you cheered, clapping along with the audience as you watched marcello walk out onto the stage.
marcello began his interview, the first part him mainly talking about snl and his new standup special. later on in the interview, jimmy turned it to something else.
“now, we saw some pictures of you and a special someone out recently.” jimmy began, holding up one of the paparazzi pictures of you and marcello from your night out.
“oh, here we go.” you laughed.
“yeah, don’t we all love y/n here?” marcello said, turning to the crowd, immediately met with cheers.
“we love y/n, she’s the best. we had her on the show a few weeks ago, her new album is phenomenal.” jimmy said, marcello nodding in agreement.
“it is. and she’s worked so hard on it.” marcello said, and you felt heat rise to your cheeks as you watched.
“is it safe to assume there’s something going on here?” jimmy asked marcello, and you watched as he blushed, nodding slightly.
“it’s a new something. but it’s been going very well.” marcello laughed. “and that’s all i’m going to say about that.” he added.
you watched the rest of the episode with marcello, him finishing his interview, and performing some of the jokes that were in his netflix special. you’d heard him tell these jokes a million times before, but they still made you laugh as hard as they did the first time.
“are you mad?” marcello asked once the episode ended.
“no? why would i be mad?” you asked, running your fingers through his hair.
“because we agreed on keeping this relationship between us while we were still starting out, but i just blabbed about it on late night television.” he sighed.
“marcello, it’s fine. it was bound to happen, with the two of us being in the jobs that we’re in. but i think you handled it very well. you didn’t awkwardly avoid the question, but you didn’t give away too much either.”
“and we’re okay?” he asked, and you nodded.
“we’re perfect.” you smiled, leaning in to press a kiss to his lips.
the rest of the night, marcello spent it at your place as you watched tv, eventually calling it a night and moving to your bedroom to go to sleep. sure, you loved living in your own little world with marcello, but you didn’t mind that your relationship was now public information. you loved the relationship you had with him, and even though you still planned on keeping most of it between the two of you, you were still excited to share it more with the world.
summary: while giving an interview with your best friend, you admit to having a celebrity crush.
requested by anonymous. marcello x f singer!reader
“y/n, thank you for doing this with us today.” one of the producers said to you as you arrived on set. you were filming an interview with buzzfeed, partaking in their “BFF test” with your best friend, sabrina carpenter.
you and sabrina had been friends for years, and had been by each other’s sides throughout putting out music and finding your way in the industry. you were thankful that you had her in your life, because she was one person that you could truly count on and someone that always understood your qualms when it came to issues with the industry.
“of course! thank you for having us.” you said to the producer just as sabrina was joining you on set. you took your seats and began answering questions, having a good time, laughing and spending time with each other. you’d both been doing pretty well, getting most of the questions right.
“alright, my turn again.” you said with a smile as you picked shuffled your cards to the next question. “who is my celebrity crush?” you read aloud.
“oh, this is so easy.” sabrina said with a laugh. you both wrote your answers on your white boards, revealing them at the same time.
“marcello hernández” you said in unison, flipping your boards towards the camera. the chimes sounded around you, signaling another correct answer.
“she hasn’t watched snl live in years, but as soon as marcello started as a cast member, we were watching it every week.” sabrina teased.
“has she introduced you to him yet?” the producer asked you, referring to sabrina.
“no! she’s met him like, four times, but i’ve been too nervous to ask her to introduce us.” you said awkwardly.
“and, for what it’s worth, i’ve offered to introduce them.” sabrina laughed. “so, marcello, if you’re watching this!” sabrina said directly to the camera. you hid your face behind your white board, feeling the heat rise to your cheeks.
you finished the interview, answering the rest of the questions, and making jokes with each other. once you were done, you wrapped up the video, and headed out of the studio. you and sabrina grabbed a bite to eat at a nearby restaurant, before going your separate ways for the evening.
a few weeks passed since your interview, and today was the day it was finally being posted. once it was finally posted, you watched through it, your heart fluttering at the remembrance of you admitting to your crush on marcello. a few hours after it was posted, you were starting to get tagged in clips online, mostly fan accounts of yours and sabrina’s posting clips of the two of you and saying kind words about how much they loved your friendship. you were then tagged in another one, that was a clip of your admitting to your crush. you noticed that the caption of the clip also mentioned marcello. you felt your face flush, immediately nervous at the thought that he may see it. you decided to stay off your phone for a while, as your nerves were taking over, and you needed to refocus on work.
you were in your apartment, strumming on your guitar, trying to come up with some new melodies, when your phone started vibrating on your coffee table in front of you. you watched as numerous text messages came in back to back. you took a closer look at your screen, sabrina’s name flashing on your screen.
“YES!” sabrina replied, attaching a screenshot of the texts marcello sent to her.
his first text was a nice exchange, him telling her that the interview came up in his recommendations on youtube, and he thought it was a good interview.
“Your friend is cute, by the way.” his second text read.
“OH WHAT THE FUCK” you replied, fully forgetting how to form sentences. “this is not what i was expecting to come of this.”
you and sabrina text back and forth for a bit longer before you both had to tend to some work.
about a month later, you were hanging out with sabrina when she got a call from one of the producers of saturday night live inviting her to take part of the big 50th anniversary special. she immediately accepted, and you celebrated together. you accompanied sabrina to the studio while she was rehearsing for what would eventually become the opening performance of the show, as well as a sketch appearance.
you sat in the studio chairs, watching them run through the sketch. you were giddy, watching some of your favorite cast members do their thing on the stage. you couldn’t believe that you were watching them work, but you couldn’t wait to see the final product. your glance flashed to the side of the stage, marcello getting ready to make is grand entrance as domingo. as he stood with sabrina, running through their lines, you began to zone out. marcello looked so cute, and you couldn’t believe that you were finally in the same room as him.
once they finished the run through of the sketch sabrina came and sat with you while they were taking a break.
“you’re doing so good! you’re so funny in this sketch.” you said, clapping for her.
“thank you! i’m having so much fun.”
“i can tell.” you laughed. just then, marcello came over to you and sabrina.
“marcello, hey! i don’t think you two have officially met yet.” sabrina said, motioning between you and marcello.
“no, not yet. hi, i’m marcello.” he said with a shy smile.
“y/n.” you said with an awkward wave. marcello sat with you while sabrina was rehearsing another part of the sketch that he wasn’t in. “i can’t believe they’ve got you doing domingo again.” you laughed.
“not a fan?” he asked with a laugh.
“i’m not not a fan, but i just think you’re funnier than this one character.” you admitted to him. “but, for what it’s worth, even though these are just rehearsals, i do think this is my favorite of the domingo sketches.”
“that’s fair.” he laughed. “wait, you’re sabrina’s friend that she did that video with buzzfeed, right?” he asked, and you nodded. his words replayed in your head, and you felt your eyes widened.
“uh, yeah. that was me.” you laughed awkwardly.
“hmm, good to know.” marcello said quietly before getting back up to rejoin rehearsals. you sat there dumfounded, barely registering what had happened. sabrina’s eyes landed on you, a confused look on her face.
“what happened?” she mouthed to you. you just shrugged and shook your head.
“nothing.” you mouthed back. you sat there alone while you watched the rest of rehearsal, laughing at the end of the sketch as pedro pascal and bad bunny also made appearances in the sketch. you were doubled over, laughing harder and harder as the sketch ended.
once they were done with rehearsals, you stood with sabrina while she gathered her things and got ready to go.
“hey, y/n. can i talk to you real quick?” you heard a voice call. you turned in the direction of the voice, finding marcello walking towards you.
“i’ll wait for you outside.” sabrina said, squeezing your shoulder as she walked off.
“what’s up?” you asked him.
“sorry i just left you hanging earlier, i didn’t mean that.”
“it’s okay. you were working.”
“anyway, i thought i recognized you from that video with sabrina, and i wanted to talk to you about it. but when you confirmed it, i got scared.”
“oh, really?” you said with a smirk, crossing your arms over your chest.
“admittedly, you’ve become a bit of a celebrity crush of mine as well. i’ve seen you online, and i think you’re so talented, and funny, and very pretty.” marcello said, a light pink color rising to his cheeks. “that being said, would you wanna go out sometime, grab a drink or something?” he asked.
“i’d like that.” you said, nodding with a smile. you swapped phones, exchanging phone numbers. the two of you walked outside together, and met up with sabrina outside of 30 rock.
“sabrina, it’s always so good to see you.” marcello said, hugging her. he then turned around, smiling at you. “y/n, i will text you later, and we can set something up.” he said, hugging you as well.
“i’ll be looking forward to it.” you said, waving as he walked off.
“oh my god, are you going out?” sabrina asked, and you nodded.
“yes! we exchanged numbers, and we’re gonna set something up this week.” you said excitedly. just then, your phone buzzed in your pocket. “oh my god, he’s texting me already.” you said, opening his messages. he was sending you a few restaurant and date options for when you wanted to go out. you picked a place, and set a date, excitedly texting marcello back.
“oh i’m so excited for you! you’re welcome, by the way, for finally introducing you.” she teased.
“i owe you for life.” you said, wrapping your arm around her shoulders and resting your head on hers. once you got home later that evening, your phone was ringing on the couch next to you. you looked down, marcello’s name flashing on the screen as he was facetiming you. you fixed your hair before answering. “hey there.” you said with a smile.
“hi! i hope you don’t mind my calling. i just enjoy talking on facetime than i do through text.”
“no, i don’t mind. i actually prefer facetime as well.” you said with a smile.
you and marcello were on facetime for most of the afternoon and into the evening. you loved talking to him so much, as he made you laugh so hard, and you loved getting to know him. you were already hitting it off so well, and you couldn’t wait for your first official date.
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