Best Friend’s Brother - Chris Evans x Reader (Part 7)
Summary: You and Scott have been best friends ever since you were 10, meeting at summer camp. Being best friends with Scott means you know his family very well. Especially his older brother. After a failed attempt at dating Chris when you were 18, when you move to LA for a job will you and Chris grow close again? What would the world think? and most importantly what would Scott think?
Word Count: 3.1k
Warnings: Angst, swearing, slowburn
You were walking through the grocery store trying to find everything on the list Scott had given you.
“Scott on the list you just wrote alcohol, could you possibly be more specific?” You ask him balancing your phone on you shoulder as you looked at the list.
“Um well I don’t know what people want exactly but it’s a BBQ so mostly beer I guess, I’ve already got spirits and mixers if people want them so maybe some wine too” Scott answers as you start grabbing a couple cases of beer.
“Any brands in particular?” You ask.
“Uh no the usual should be fine, unless your boyfriend has any specific tastes” Scott says.
“Ah yeah about that, Jake can’t make it” you mutter.
“What! How come?” Scott asks.
“Space in the labs is tight at the moment so when space opened up last minute he had to take it” you explain.
“Aw that’s such a shame! Everyone was looking forward to meeting him” Scott sighs in disappointment.
“I haven’t told anyone about him, the only people that know are you, Steve and potentially Chris” you point out.
“I may have mentioned it to mom and Carly and Shanna, I got excited alright” Scott says sheepishly.
“Well it’s your fault they’re gonna be disappointed then, if you hadn’t of mentioned it they would be living in ignorant bliss” you laughs heading over to the check out.
“Whatever just hurry up with all the stuff” Scott says making you chuckle as you pass the cashier Scott’s credit card he’d given you.
When you pulled up outside Scott’s house you beeped your horn a couple times to signal you were here and they could come help you bring everything in.
Soon after the door opens, and all the Evans clan comes out to greet you. The boys heading straight to the car to help unload it. While Lisa pulled you straight into a tight hug.
“Oh goodness it’s so good to see you! How are you? My boys looking after you?” She asks making you chuckle.
“They’ve been great made the transition much easier, I better help them unload” you say turning to go help.
Carly stops you linking her arms in yours taking your car keys from you.
“No leave it to the boys, we’ve not seen you in months. Chris catch” she says tossing your car keys over to Chris who caught them easily, looking over at all of you slightly confused.
“Finish unloading the car, we’re gonna catch up” Shanna tells him linking her arm in your free one before leading you inside.
“So where’s this boyfriend we’ve heard so much about” Carly asks as you all sat down in the garden.
“He couldn’t make it last minute got caught up in the labs, he sends his apologies though” you tell them making them all groan in disappointment.
“So how did you meet?” Lisa asks.
“Um well we’d seen each other on campus briefly but we met I guess on Santa Monica beach” you tell them.
They continue to question you about Jake but then another voice and the sound of high heels interrupted you.
“Chris? Chris you out here?”
You turn around to see Circe walking out. You couldn’t help but raise your brows at her choice of outfit. Everyone had decide on a casual look of jeans and T-Shirts, but she had decided on an outfit fit for the club. A tight skirt that barely covered her ass, and a skin tight top with a v shaped neckline so low it practically came down to her naval. The entire ensemble was topped off with stilettos so tall they could be considered a crime against feet.
“He’s helping unloading the car, so try the kitchen” Lisa says with a slightly forced smile.
“Oh (Y/N) I didn’t see you there, I didn’t realise you were coming today” she says ignoring Lisa and turning to you.
“Well I am Scott’s best friend so” you tell her having to bite your tongue slightly.
“Yeah but this is a family thing” she says smiling innocently at you as if she hadn’t just told you that you shouldn’t be here.
“(Y/N) is family dear” Lisa points out putting a reassuring hand on your shoulder.
“Yeah and we’d rather have her than you” Shanna mutter under her breath, making Carly snort and Lisa give her youngest daughter a warning slap on the knee.
“Chris is probably looking for you in the kitchen” Lisa repeats.
“Sure” Circe says turning away quickly.
“So you’ve already met Circe” Carly says once Circe was out of earshot.
“Yup” you say popping the P “she’s an interesting one to say the least”
“You could say that again” Shanna snorts.
“Alright let’s play nice, she is still a guest, Chris’ one at that, so behave” Lisa says giving all of you a look of warning.
“I’m gonna go grab a drink, anyone want one?” You say standing up heading inside when they all said they were fine.
As you stepped into the kitchen you could see Steve and Scott preparing the meat for the BBQ. Chris was stood against the counter beer in hand, Circe pressed against his side, her hand running up and down his chest.
“Oh (Y/N) here’s your keys” Chris says when he sees you, grabbing your keys from his pockets and tossing them over to you.
“Cheers, thanks for unloading the car for me” you smile ignoring the subtle but dirty look Circe gave you.
“Need any help with anything?” You ask Scott when you grab yourself a beer.
“We’re fine thanks” Circe says before Scott even managed to get a word out.
You glance over your shoulder at her, ignoring her and turning back to Scott.
“You can make the slaw if you want” Scott says nodding over to the cabbage and carrots.
“No problem” you smile grabbing a chopping board.
“Sorry I just need to grab a knife” you say turning to Chris and Circe who were stood in front of the knife block.
Chris steps out the way but Circe barely moves meaning you bump shoulders as you lean around her to grab a knife. You hear her scoff slightly but ignore it, turning back to the task at hand.
Once the food was all ready you went outside sitting with Carly and Shanna while Scott and Steve cooked. You all caught up, them telling you all about the gossip back in Boston. While you told them about what you’d been up to in LA.
Once to food was ready you all gathered around to pile your plates full of food.
“So have you seen a mountain lion with you own eyes yet?” Lisa asks you.
You go to answer her but Circe interrupts before you get the chance.
“It’s so cool how we have mountain lions isn’t it? Don’t have to go all the way to Africa to see a lion” she says.
You see Scott eye you knowing what Circe had just said was completely wrong.
“Well actually they aren’t actually lions, or even related to lions” you tell her “it’s a pretty common misconception though” you say giving her the benefit of the doubt.
“Yeah they are lions, it’s in the name” she retorts, you shake your head and go to explain again.
“They’re actually different species a mountain lion is actually a Puma, Puma concolor, and an African Lion is a lion, Panthera leo” you explain.
She furrows her brows at you clearly not pleased that you were correcting her, no matter how politely you did so.
“What made you the lion expert” she scoffs under her breath.
“My PhD in Zoology probably does” you tell her trying to keep your face neutral.
You see her face fall slightly before she huffs moving off to go sit down with Chris who had missed the entire exchange. Scott moves over to you and holds his hand up for a sly high five, which you gladly provide.
Once you all sat down you all chatted amongst yourselves as you ate. You’d notice how Circe was keeping Chris to herself not allowing him to socialise with his family. You tried to ignore it, but you couldn’t help but feel distain towards her. You barely knew her, but you had a gut feeling she was bad news.
You excuses yourself to go to the bathroom, pulling out your phone once the door was locked. When you searched up her name you quickly found an interview she did where she said she wanted to break into acting as well as a bunch of pap photos of her with Chris. You pull up her Instagram to find it littered with posts about Chris. While none of the posts explicitly featured a picture of Chris, they all referenced him in some way. By her either wearing an item of clothing that was clearly his like his NASA cap or his knives out jumper. Or is was a photo of herself with the caption ‘date outfit ❤️’ where she’s wearing the same outfit she was wearing when she was papped with Chris. You could see Chris wasn’t actually following her on Instagram, meaning he didn’t know about all this. He didn’t see how she was using him to get media attention.
You could feel anger rising within you, and a sick feeling in your stomach. She didn’t deserve him, he was too good for her. He deserved better. You knew you’d never treat him like the celebrity he was because he was always just Chris to you. You’d respect his privacy and not flout him on social media for attention. You caught yourself. You weren’t jealous. You couldn’t be. Because it was made painfully clear to you that he wasn’t yours. You made it clear to yourself that him and you would never work.
You take a deep breath composing yourself. Chris wasn’t yours. He was happy. You were in a relationship with Jake. You were happy. No matter how much you didn’t like her, it wasn’t your place to say anything. You plaster a smile on your face before heading back out to everyone.
For the rest of the day you kept your distance and acted like there wasn’t a single problem in world. On the occasion you did glance over to Chris you saw him looking over at you with his jaw clenched turning his attention back to Circe when you caught him. You made sure that it didn’t ruin your time with the Evans clan, laughing along and chatting as normal. Happy to catch up with everyone and have a good time.
When you got back to your house you headed straight for the shower to help you unwind. You sighed in content as the hot water rushed over your body. You took your time giving yourself a full on pamper leaving you fully relaxed by the time you stepped out. You quickly dried your hair getting dressed in shorts and a vest ready to relax in bed. You had just gone to the kitchen when you heard a loud pounding on the door, startling you.
You hesitate for a moment debating whether you should open the door or not. When the loud knocking didn’t stop you slowly walked to the door, grabbing your baseball bat on your way. As you open the door you see Chris glaring down at you angrily his chest heaving.
“What the hell is your fucking problem!” He demands storming into your house.
You look back at him shocked and astounded by his outlash.
“What the hell are you going on about Chris!” You ask him following him into your house, watching as he paced back and forth.
“You! These fucking games you’re playing!” He shout pointing over at you accusingly.
“What games? what the hell are you on about Chris?” You ask trying to keep yourself calm.
“You do and say one thing and then completely flip and do the opposite. I can’t keep up its driving me insane!” Chris shouts running his hands through his hair.
“Chris seriously what the fuck are you on about!” You shout quickly losing your cool.
“You say you care for me, then treat Circe like a piece of shit! Don’t you want me to be happy!” He shouts.
You look back at him shocked and slightly guilty. Okay maybe you hadn’t been as discrete as you thought.
“Look Chris I tried. I tried to I really did, but she isn’t right, she’s just using you for publicity” you tell him trying to keep your voice level.
“You don’t know that!” Chris shouts but you could see the hint of doubt in his eyes.
“Yes I do Chris there’s interviews saying she wants to be an actress and her entire Instagram is showing you off” you explains.
“She doesn’t have Instagram” he retorts shaking his head.
“She does look, all her posts reference you in one way or another, she’s using you Chris, I wish she wasn’t because I do truly want you to be happy, but she is” you sigh passing him your phone so he could see for himself.
He scrolls though her feed and you watch as his shoulder drop.
“Chris I’m sorry, I really am” you say moving to take a step closer to him.
He takes a step back “this doesn’t explain all of it” he says looking back at you.
“What do you mean?” You ask confused once again.
He shakes his head pacing back and forth again, but he doesn’t answer you.
“Chris you need to explain to me what you’re on about so I can help” you say moving to take a step closer to him, but he steps back holding his hands up. You could see the conflict in his eyes, that were slowly becoming red.
“The signals you’ve been sending ever since new year’s, the song that felt like it was aimed directly at me. Whenever we’ve seen each other since you came to LA, when you kissed me that night” Chris says his voice breaking slightly.
You could feel your heartbeat increasing as he spoke. You feel tears pricking in your eyes as you remembered that night.
“You said you wanted to forget that kiss” you mutter shaking you head hoping it would stop the tears.
“No, no I didn’t you did” he said looking back at you with tears in his eyes.
The realisation hits you like an asteroid, followed by a spaceship, followed by a truck. It had all been one big misunderstanding. Everything that had happened ever since had been caused by a simple misunderstanding.
“Oh god” you mutter, your hands shaking as you cup your hand over your mouth.
“Shit, shit, shit, no” you says slowly sitting down as you felt your legs grow weak.
“(Y/N)?” Chris questions taking a step closer.
“I- I- I meant that I wanted to forget about the vomiting not the kiss” you tell him.
He looks back at you shocked as he has the same realisation that you just had.
“Fuck” he mutters beginning to pace again.
“My sentiments exactly, I thought you wanted to forget the kiss, that it was a mistake” you tell him voice breaking as tears fall slightly.
He turns to face you, quickly moving to bend down in front of you. Cautiously putting a hand on your knee.
“God no, I was so god damn happy that it happened. I’ve been having these feelings for you for a while now, I didn’t think you felt the same way so when you kissed me I was over the moon” he tells you looking up at you with a smile.
You search his eyes to see if he was lying but saw nothing but adoration.
“Me too...” you mutter quietly making his smile grow.
Your mind instantly moves to Jake and the horrible position you found yourself in.
“Oh god” you groan dropping your head into your hands.
“What? What is it?” Chris asks rubbing your knee soothingly.
“I have a boyfriend” you sigh looking over at him.
You see his shoulders drop again as he realised what situation you were in. Unlike Circe, your boyfriend was actually a decent guy.
“Right well um” he says quietly moving to stand up, but you grab his hand to stop him.
He looks at you waiting for you to say something, but you were struggling to find the words.
“Look- Chris- I um” you start but you struggle to find your voice.
You take a shaky breath, decide to just tell the truth.
“I like you Chris, I really do, when I thought you wanted to forget the kiss it hurt, it really hurt” you say voice breaking as you choke back a sob.
“I tried to move on, so when Jake came along I took the chance thinking I didn’t have one with you, and what I have with his is good” you continue.
“Do you have the same feelings towards him, as you do towards me?” Chris asks moving to sit beside you.
You shake your head “I don’t know, Chris I don’t know” you admit.
You hear him take a deep sigh before taking you hand.
“Why didn’t we just talk, all of this could have been avoided” he sighs.
“Because people do stupid things when it concerns people they care about” you sighs looking over at him.
“I care about you Chris, a lot, and if this whole miscommunication hadn’t happened I would happily be with you, but it did and now I have to contend with my relationship with Jake, who is so sweet and kind” you tell him.
“And you don’t want to hurt him” Chris says looking over at you
“I can’t just up and leave him, I need to think this through because he doesn’t deserve to get hurt” you continue, Chris nodding his head in understanding.
“Look it’s okay take your time, and I’m sorry, but if it helps Circe is out of the picture for me, I want you” Chris says turning to face you fully “and I’ll wait for you, just come by my house if you decide if you want me. If I haven’t seen you by next Saturday I’ll know that you’ve chosen him, and I’ll hope the two of you all the best because you deserve to be happy” he continues before standing up and walking towards the door.
“But I do hope you choose me, because I choose you (Y/N)” he says turning to face you before he steps out the door.
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