Ordinary
Pairing: Eddie Diaz x Reader
Word Count: We ain’t gotta talk about that
Notes: I just watched someone give me 99 notifications so thanks I’m crying that was so nice of you to like my work that freaking much.
P.S: You’re probably like Rhys do you even WRITE anymore. Anddd the truth is no, I do not. Well, not anything post worthy. It’s all half finished (like this was) and it’s just not anything substantial you know? Like I want to put out fics but they’re all half done or missing a scene or two and it drives me crazy. So I just half assed the three scenes I needed in this and was like you know what we’re gonna do our best even if it’s not enough.
P.P.S Leave me ALONE I did not edit SHIT okay
Eddie looks up from his salad that Buck forced him to eat by giving him the biggest puppy dog eyes and literally getting on his knees and watches you walk in. He always knew when you were coming up those stairs, even if you weren’t making a sound.
Cotton candy cloud.
“I am not eating your stupid salad” You roll your eyes and Eddie unconsciously inhales as you walk by.
“He got you to eat it??” You grab the leftover Chinese from last night and throw it in the microwave and Eddie watches you lean against the counter and pull out your phone.
Who the hell you’re texting he doesn’t know but he doesn’t like the way your eyes light up and you stifle a giggle. He’s about to make a “playful” comment when his phone lights up with a notification that you liked the instagram post he sent you with a dog getting a bath.
Oh.
His heart flutters in his chest and he smashes it down as he looks at you purposefully this time and totally not spying like he just was.
“Yeah, he threatened me.”
“I did not! That didn’t happen!” Buck launches a roll at him and he catches it and throws it back right in the center of his forehead making you choke on your fried rice.
“And I quote “If you don’t eat that salad I’m going to expose your deepest darkest secret.” Unquote.”
“What’s your deepest darkest secret? Do I know it??” You come over to the table and sit at the edge of it right next to him, instead of on the perfectly good chair on the other side of him and god he’s not mad about it.
“No”
He and Buck say in unison, because there’s no way you do. You would tell Buck and Buck would tell Eddie and Eddie would have a heart attack and he’d be on the floor.
So no, you don’t know his deepest darkest secret that he’s head over heels in love with Athena Grant’s niece.
You.
“Caaan I know it?” You drag the word out and Buck shrugs and reaches out, shoving your butt off the table so you stumble down into Eddie who catches you. His heart stops in his chest (It does that when you’re around) and he holds you against his chest.
“O-oh! Shit. Buck!” You crane your neck to glare back at him but you don’t move and Eddie doesn’t move you because he’d be a freaking chump bro if he did.
“Get your fat butt germs off the table you freak”
He’s taken the role of “big brother” very seriously since you’d come into their lives. It was an accident that you had in the first place. Athena was worried about you, said you were troubled and she couldn’t get you to straighten out after your mother had died and you’d come to live with her and the kids, you took May’s room when she moved out. You hadn’t known her well, just knew she was an important friend to your mother and you’d met her a couple times as a kid.
Your mother made you promise her that you’d go to Athena when she passed and you did what she asked, you didn’t have much to leave behind anyway. As soon as you were in LA you were out at all hours, burying your feelings in parties and alcohol. The second you snuck some whack ass dude home and she caught you? You were in the firehouse where someone would be able to keep an eye on you.
It was mostly you and Ravi hanging out at first. He felt out of place and the two of you sort of bonded over that. He was the reason you even started hanging out with Buck, when you were all at his place watching movies and you all had a random yap session and they finally got it out of you how broken and lost you were feeling and for the first time in a long time you felt like maybe you could belong somewhere.
That’s when Eddie came into the picture. Buck constantly reminds him that he knew Eddie was in love with you before he even knew himself.
“What does that even mean” He scoffed, shoving a bite of pizza in his mouth so he had time to come up with a way to deny things. But this was sleepover Saturday and there was no lying allowed.
“You gave her your jacket when you gave her a ride home. The one Abuela gave you.” Buck finished painting the mask on his face.
He’d never let anyone touch that jacket and everyone respected that. But you were running in the rain to his truck, laughing and splashing, and he handed it to you without thinking. Your teeth were chattering, how could he let you freeze like that?
“Hello? Earth to Eddie?”
He finally comes back down to his body. You’re still in his arms and he’s wrapped them around you even tighter, content to just hold you while you and Buck bickered like siblings but he didn’t realize you’d stopped.
Buck is staring at him with a shit-eating grin and you’re looking at him strangely.
“Oh, fuck sorry-“ He releases you and you turn in his arms, staying in his lap and leaning to the side so he can still reach his salad.
“Anyway, Did you still wanna watch The Young and The Restless together tonight? Eddie you said you’d join us right? I can fill you in on everything that’s happening lately!”
Eddie is too busy short circuiting and willing his boner to not appear. Buck clears his throat.
“Hey! We’re all gonna be heading out at the same time! Why don’t you two drive over to my place together? You can tell him everything!”
“That’s a great idea! You cool with that?” You turn a little to look at Eddie and he shrugs nonchalantly.
“Sure”
Buck slams his locker shut and leans against it, giggling.
“And then he just goes, “Sure” like she’s not right over his-“
“Are we seriously still discussing this? You think you could maybe not tell our entire team about what’s happening? Which by the way is nothing!”
“Nothing my ass,” Chimney scoffs and finishes tying his tennis shoes. “You walked into the truck yesterday because Emery made her laugh and you were busy glaring.”
Eddie rubs the sore spot under his slutty curl.
“I told you, I accidentally slipped!”
“Accidentally slipped my-“
“Your ass, I know.” He rolls his eyes and shuts his locker, slipping on his jacket. “Can I go now? Are we done talking about my completely nonexistent love life?”
“Yeah the one you won’t let happen because you’re afraid.” Buck puts his hands on his hips and Eddie puts his hands up in defense.
“Oh we are so not touching that with a 10 foot pole!
“You’re too afraid to tell her how you feel because you don’t think you deserve her or happiness because you’re punishing yourself for some stupid reason that no one knows.”
“La la la la I can’t hear you!” Eddie covers his ears.
“And she’s just gonna walk into the arms of some equally as hot guy with an even better ass than yours because you won’t man up!”
“I don’t think anyone could have a better ass than he does” Chimney points out and Eddie drops his hands.
“I’ve actually been adding more squats to my workouts.”
“It’s really showing” Buck pats his shoulder and Eddie blushes.
“Aww you guys really think so?”
“We should measure it, like we should see how big it’s getting.”
“I’ll go get the tape measure” Chim jogs off to the office.
A few minutes later you come spinning over to the lockers, Ravi had dared you to spin the whole way there without falling over for five bucks.
“Hey Eddie! Are you ready to- what are you doing?”
Chimney adjusts the front tape while Buck is on his knees, face leaned in close to see the numbers.
“…Measuring the circumference of Eddie’s ass for science.” Buck blinks up at you and you plop down on the bench and hold your spinning head in your hands and nod slowly.
“Yeah okay. Let me know.”
Okay so Eddie is mortified you now know how big his ass is but like, you know? And you were definitely impressed and if he could have he would have been kicking his feet.
He nearly had an aneurysm when you got down with Buck and helped him do it properly because he felt like Eddie’s jeans were a little too loose which lead you into the conversation about how that helped enhance jiggle. All while Chimney was trying his best not to scream laugh because he was absolutely helping Eddie hide that boner.
Thank god for 24 hour shifts and that one time Chimney definitely had explosive… anyway Eddie covered for him and now he was repaying the favor.
“So you guys have plans?” Chimney tries to distract you as you stand up and put your hands on Eddie’s waist, fixing his jeans to make sure they’re out of the way. His eyes nearly bug out of his head as Buck finishes measuring.
“Yeah! We’re gonna catch up on The Young and the Restless and maybe have a sleepover!”
“A sleepover?” Eddie’s eyes shoot down at Buck who grins up at him sheepishly.
“Uh yeah!” He stands up and tosses the tape measure into his locker. “You’re a certified GYAT by the way.”
“Thanks. A sleepover?” He puts his hands in his hips and Bucks eyes dart to you.
“Yeah! It was my idea, I know we have a lot to catch up on and it’s gonna get late so I thought we could all crash at Buck’s and he said you wouldn’t mind….. you don’t mind right? I’m sorry if you do!”
He can hear that uncertainty in your face and Buck looks back at him with a little smirk on his face before shutting his locker and leaning against it.
“It’s truly up to you if you wanna sleepover.” He tells him honestly “We won’t force you. I mean at least she won’t.”
Eddie watches you playfully slap Buck’s arm and pointedly ignore his face like you don’t want to know if he wants to stay the night or not. He sighs deeply and leans against his locker, letting his head fall back.
What an absolute snack.
“Yeah I’ll stay the night you freaks. I’ll stop by my place and get a change of clothes.”
“Oh Edmundo, silly, silly little Edmundo. I went and got them this morning! I’m gonna go pick up the pizza see you guys at my place!!”
Eddie could throttle him. He should throttle him, but Buck runs away before he can do that and even if he’s proven the fastest runner he doesn’t want to leave you behind.
So instead he takes your hand, an incredibly bold move for him and one that makes you blush and leads you out to his truck. He hopes that blush is for him and not because you feel embarrassed, because god if you felt embarrassed?? He’d launch himself into oncoming traffic literally immedi-
“Eddie?” You tug on the handle and he snaps out of his spiral and unlocks the doors.
“Shit- sorry-“
He helps you into his truck and shuts the door, he takes his time going to his side instead of jogging over because he just needs space to get his head on right before he makes a fool of himself.
“Are you okay?” You ask as soon as the door shuts and he takes a second, staring at his steering wheel and trying to remember where his keys in his hand are.
“Uh- yeah. Yeah no I’m- I’m fine I’m good.”
Did you spray your perfume while he was walking around or do you literally just smell that good all the time.
“Are you sure? Is this okay? I can always take an uber there, we shouldn’t have really sprung this on you…”
Please for the love of god get it together before you ruin this, he literally begs himself. He takes a deep breath, pushing the start button (he didn’t- he didn’t need his key to do that) and shrugs.
“So, catch up on Young and the Restless?”
“Oh okay. So.” You get comfy in your seat, turning toward him. “Buck told me about the last time you watched. Anyway, Victor and Nicki made up and had another freaking vow renewal and whilst I was like are you for real, Nikki looked beautiful! She looked like Cinderella!
“And she has her sight back?” He makes a smooth turn out of the station with one hand and you bite your lip before going on.
“Yeah! And so Nick checked out of rehab to go to the vow renewal but is missing.”
“Gotcha” He mutters, doing that stupid sexy one hand driving shit that has your heart pounding. “What about Victoria and Kyle?”
You squeal a little and he snickers “They’re playing too much. We think it’s gonna happen! That’s legitimately his ex girlfriend’s mother and ex wife’s aunt.”
“Are you shitting me?” His jaw drops and you squeal again and kick your legs.
“Yes!! They almost fucking kissed, Eddie I need them to do that so badly oh my god I need this.”
“I think Buck was saying the same thing. He said he noticed they were letting his hair go grey on the sides”
“Because they freaking are! You should have seen him holding her oh my god and-“
Eddie suddenly swerves and it’s not hard or anything but it’s enough to jostle you and you reach out for him immediately grabbing his arm. He holds onto you and flicks on his hazards. You’d been so wrapped up in your story telling you hadn’t realized just how hard the rain was starting to come down. There’s a little shake in your hands and Eddie shushes you, holding you tighter before letting go to hold the wheel with both hands.
“It’s seriously coming down… maybe we should-“
“Yeah, definitely.” He’s already getting off the highway and pulling into the first lot he can find. You look anxious and he reaches out, holding your thigh and tracing it lightly with his thumb.
“Hey, we’re good okay? don’t worry. We’re parked and I think this place is open if we need to run in. I’ve got you.”
He looks at the rather empty AutoZone, but there’s lights on from what he can tell. You place your hand over his and he turns it, so you can hold onto him. His heart is absolutely in his ass but you seem to calm down easier and he’s thanking god his hands aren’t sweaty.
“We should probably call Buck.”
“Probably.”
You reluctantly let go of his hand to grab your phone, setting it up on his little phone stand and hitting the FaceTime button. Buck answers with a towel in his hair as he’s shaving in the mirror.
“Hey what’s up? Everything okay?”
You turn the camera to the buckets of water being poured on the car and then back to you two.
“It’s comin’ down hard. Eddie pulled over in an AutoZone.”
“We’re not too far from your place but I couldn’t really see so guess we’re just gonna wait it out.”
“Yeah okay sure. I can just put the pizzas in the oven to stay warm. Make sure you guys don’t start again until it’s lightened up. Drive safe”
“We will, mom” You roll your eyes playfully and he flips you off before you can hang up.
“Welp, I guess we’ve got some time on our hands” You awkwardly rub your thighs and Eddie wishes you’d stop drawing attention to them. Not that you even know you are or that he’s thinking that even if he was just rubbing them himself earlier. Actually he really can’t even blame you probably, how could you possibly know how deeply you entice him constant-
“Eddie? I said did you want me to continue?” You’re looking at him and he doesn’t know when you turned toward him and Jesus he needs to freaking stop losing himself in you but how could he not?
“Oh yeah sure, We were at Kyle and Victoria?”
“Oh! Yeah and then Jack came in and ruined the moment and I was so-“ you suddenly perk up, looking at the radio.
“Oh I love this song! Can I turn it up?”
“Yeah, of course.” He turns it up for you and you lean back, letting the music wash over you. He can’t help but stare at you, now his hands are getting hot and sweaty, his heart racing. He awkwardly rubs them on his jeans before looking out the window.
“Dipper was right, top 40s songs are in the top 40s for a reason”
“Oh my, my”
“Oh my, my love”
He turns back to you, listening to you sing along in that pretty alto voice that makes the music sound somehow more magical? You match the fairy like beat of the background and he can’t take it anymore.
“Hey, Y/N?” He thinks about his talk last week with Buck, who had gone on a date and was raving about kissing her in the rain and how romantic it had been.
“The angels up in the clouds are jealous knowin’ we found”
“Yeah?” Your voice stops in your throat as he leans across the cab and kisses you.
The rain roars heavily against the roof, matching the thunderous beat in your heart as you move into him, tilting your head and taking his breath away. He cups your face, pulling away just a little to run the pad of his thumb over your cheek.
“Absolutely beautiful.” He mumbles before leaning back in. You smile this time as your lips meet and he gently pushes you back against the window, like he just has to have his body pressed into yours. He melts into you, his tongue wrapping around yours and making your toes curl. You place one hand behind his head, tugging the soft curls at the base of his neck he can’t get to calm down and hold his shoulder with the other, like you’re trying to draw him closer.
He finally pulls away, panting softly and nuzzling his nose against your cheek and you hold him in your arms.
“I knew” You blurt out after a few quiet moments and he pulls away to look at you.
“About what?”
“Your… our? Crush.”
Our.
“Why didn’t you say anything?” He backs up to sit back in his seat and you feel the intense loss of his warmth, of having him in your arms and you wonder if you shouldn’t have said anything.
He reaches out for you, like it’s your turn to be in his arms and you crawl across the seat to him.
“Because, Buck told me not to.”
“He what?!” His arms wrap around you automatically as you climb into his lap and start kissing his neck. If he turns into any more of a puddle the ground is going to soak him up.
“He said you needed time to figure it out yourself. That I might scare you away if I were to move too fast?”
Okay so yeah sure the asshole knew him but he could have clued him in. His hands roam over your skin under your shirt, feeling over the dips and curves and bumps he loves likes as you kiss him slowly. The passion making his head spin and his car start to fog up.
“He was right. And if you ever tell him I said that I will literally choke you.”
“It can be our deepest darkest secret.”
