Best Friend’s Brother - Chris Evans x Reader (Part 8)
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: 3.5k
Warning: mature themes, language, fluff.
It had been a couple days since that night with Chris. You were sat at your desk bouncing your leg in thought. You hadn’t been able to think straight since that night. You’d seen the news that confirmed Chris and Circe’s break up. She didn’t and wasn’t taking it well. So you knew Chris was waiting for you to make your decision. A decision that got harder and harder every day.
Each time you thought you’d made a decision something happened that completely made you doubt yourself. It was starting to drive you crazy. You groan to yourself dropping your head in your hands and running you hand up and down your face.
“Bad time?” You hear someone say.
You look up to see Jake stood in the door to your office smiling down at you.
“No just tired what’s up?” You lie, not wanting to have the conversation until you made the decision.
“A bunch of us are gonna go grab coffee wanna join?” He asks you with a kind smile.
You glance at your pile of work that had grown since you couldn’t focus properly.
“Uh no I’ve got lots of work to do so I better crack on” you sigh looking back up at him apologetically.
“It’s fine I’ll see you later” he says walking over to kiss you on the cheek before he left.
Once the door was shut and you knew he was out of ear shot you dropped your head to the desk with a loud groan. You pick up your phone and decide to scroll through Twitter for a bit to give your brain a break. As you scrolled you say photos of Chris from his most recent photo shoot. As you looked through the photos you could feel yourself smiling because wow he looked incredible. Knowing that he liked you made you feel like a teenage girl who just been asked to prom by the guy on the football team. You had what a lot of women around the world wanted.
Stopping yourself from getting too caught up in daydreams you turned back to your work and the assignments you were trying to mark. You jumped slightly when your phone started to ring, without looking you answer.
“Hey, do you want me to pick you up a coffee?” You hear Jake ask.
“Oh Jake, um no I’m good thanks” you say trying not to sound disappointed, even though you didn’t know why you felt disappointed.
When you put the phone down you see the photos of Chris again and you realise that you wanted it to be him calling you. Even though he has absolutely no reason to call you, you wanted to hear his voice. You wanted him.
When you made that realisation you realised the decision had been made. You weren’t entirely sure why it took you so long. The feelings you had for Chris were much stronger than the feelings you had for anyone else. And like the song that you had sung on New Year’s Eve, you always wondered what it would have been like if Chris was the one. Secretly wanting him to be the one.
You look at your calendar and silently curse. You were giving lectures and were in meetings for the rest of the day, so you’d have to wait until tomorrow to talk to Jake in person. That was fine though because it gave you the perfect amount of time to plan what you wanted to say.
However it just so happened that the universe decided to fuck with you this week. Every time you went to go speak to Jake something cropped up. Whether it was a student having a breakdown about an assignment in your office or you getting pulled in to cover a lecture with only 5 minutes warning. Heck on Friday the whole building had to be evacuated because Dr Cooper in the physics lab had caused a minor explosion. Meaning it was now Saturday and you still hadn’t spoken to Jake and you were running out of time.
You were struggling to get hold of Jake too, you’d spent pretty much all day trying to get hold of him but with no success. You were starting to think about just going to Chris’ but telling him nothing could happen until you had spoken to Jake. Thinking that the reason Jake might not be answering his phone was because he could be in the labs again, you decide to have one last ditch attempt and drive to campus hoping your hunch was correct.
When you got there the campus was quiet and you couldn’t see his car in the carpark. You decided to head in just in case though. You swung by his office first hoping he was there, but it was empty. Meaning if he wasn’t in the labs, you were out of options.
You knock on the lab door before entering breathing a sigh of relief when you saw him sat at a microscope on the other side of the lab.
“(Y/N) what are you doing here?” He asks surprised when he turns around to see you.
You take a deep breath before walking over to him.
“Hey Jake, I wanted to have a talk with you if that’s okay” you asks him.
“That doesn’t sound good” he sighs a small smile playing on his lips.
“Look I just want to be honest with you, you’re a very sweet guy and I’ve had a great time with you” you start looking down at your fiddling fingers.
“But-“ Jake says making you look back at him.
“I just don’t think this is working out, and I don’t want to string you along unnecessarily and cause a bigger problem, especially since we work together” you admit, you decided to leave out the bit about Chris, not wanting to kick a guy when he’s down.
“I mean I can’t say I’m not bummed, but I get it” Jake admits with a long sigh.
“You do?” You ask him, surprised at how easy it was going.
“Yeah we’re adults we know what we do and don’t want, and I have to respect that, I hope I can still be your friend though” Jake says with a grin.
“Yeah that would be great, thank you for being so understanding, this is the smoothest break up ever” you sigh smiling back at him.
“No problem, I wish you all the best in your future endeavours” he says standing up and pulling you into a tight hug.
“You too, see you Monday” you smile before heading out the labs.
When you left campus it had started to rain and by the time you’d gotten to your car your hair and clothes were already soaked. You debated going back home to get a change of clothes, but you knew you were short on time. You has already made Chris wait long enough.
When you got to his house the rain had become torrential, you were glad to see his car on the drive. You run over to the door and knock loudly so he could hear you over the noise of the rain. When he didn’t answer you knocked again even louder.
“Chris its (Y/N)! I’m sorry it took so long” you shout.
He didn’t answer again, you take a few steps back from the door so you could see if he was stood in a window or something. When you couldn’t see him your mind starts to panic. What if he changed his mind? What if you were too late and he thought you didn’t want him.
You run your hand through your hair as you started to pace back and forth. You knock on the door one last time desperately hoping he just didn’t hear you the first two times. When he doesn’t answer again you we’re pretty sure you were crying, you weren’t sure with the rain.
“(Y/N)?” You hear someone shout behind you.
You turn to see Chris getting out of a car.
“(Y/N), why are you out here in the rain?” He asks running over to you.
“I left him” you tell him having to shout over the sound of the rain.
He looks back at you shocked but doesn’t say anything.
“I choose you Chris” you reiterate, you were definitely crying now.
He starts grinning down at you before cupping your cheeks, crashing his lips onto yours.
You wrapped your arms around his neck pulling him closer as his hands move to rest on your hips. You couldn’t help but sigh in content into the kiss.
“I was starting to think you weren’t gonna come, that you’d chosen him” Chris sighs resting his forehead against yours shaking his head slightly.
“I’m sorry I decided pretty quickly but between being busy and a student breaking down, and an explosion in the lab I only got to speak to him today, but I came straight here” you tell him making him laugh pressing another kiss to your lips.
“C’mon let’s get inside before you catch a cold” he chuckles grabbing your hand as the two of run inside out of the rain.
When you both get in from the rain you couldn’t help but chuckle.
“Let me go find you find you a change of clothes, we can chuck our clothes on the dryer” Chris says taking your hand and leading you down the corridor into his bedroom.
You watch smirking to yourself as he takes off his jumper and shirt leaving him topless as he looked through his closet. He turns back to you clothes in hand and catches you.
“Enjoying the view?” He smirks walking back over to you.
“Would it be a problem if I was?” You say biting your lip slightly.
“Not at all” he says bending down to whisper in your ear as he passes you a change of clothes.
“Thank you” you smile taking a couple steps back so you could take your wet clothes off.
As you do so you see him turn his back on you making you chuckle.
“You don’t have to do that you know” you tell him.
“I know but-“ he starts.
“You’ve seen it all before, and you’ll hopefully see it in the future too” you says with a smirk making Chris laugh.
“Well I look forward to that” Chris chuckles.
He keeps his back to you while you change so you chuck your wet clothes at him making his back hunch slightly. He turns around raising a brow at you playfully.
“Now what did I do to deserve that?” He asks taking a few steps towards you.
You shrug your shoulders playfully “Making me wait in the rain” you suggest.
“You made me wait all week” he points out playfully tickling you.
You squirm away but he grabs you around the waist lifting you up and throwing you onto the bed.
He starts tickling you again pinning you down on the bed so you couldn’t escape. When you tried and failed to grab his hands you grab his cheeks pulling his lips down into yours. He instantly stops tickling you, focusing more on his lips on yours.
You wrap your arms around his shoulder as he ran his hands up and down your sides. As his hands slips under your top your stomach decides this is the perfect time to demonstrate a whale call.
Chris starts laughing into the kiss.
“You hungry by any chance?” He laughs brushing some hair out of your face.
“Yeah, I kinda forgot to eat lunch today” you admit laughing.
“Well lets fix that shall we?” Chris says moving to get up grabbing your hands and pulling you up.
“You head to the kitchen while I chuck this in the dryer” he tells you moving to pick up the wet clothes that were left on the floor.
While you waited for Chris you grabbed a couple beers from the fridge and gave dodger a bit of fussing.
“I’m not usually a jealous man but” Chris smirk making you look up to see him stood in the doorway hands on his hips. Now wearing tight white tank and grey sweatpants.
“Not usually? When have you been jealous” you asks standing up and passing him his beer.
He shrugs his shoulders “well I don’t think I knew I was jealous at the time, but I didn’t like that ex you had when you were 21” Chris tells you and you realise he was talking about the guy he beat up.
“Is that why you beat him up?” You ask taking a sip of your beer noticing that he paused for a moment.
“Scott told you about that?” He asks cringing slightly.
“Only recently but it sounded like he deserved it so thank you” you tell him walking over and pressing a sweet kiss to his lips.
Chris smiles kissing you again before moving to the fridge to start getting food out of it. You sit down at the kitchen island and watch as he starts preparing all the food. You couldn’t help but smile as the domesticity of it, anyone else would just order food.
“What you smiling at?” Chris smirks grabbing your attention as his stirred the pot on the hob.
“It’s just nice you cooking for me” you smile.
“I didn’t realise the bar was so low” Chris chuckles as he starts to plate up and you notice that he’d cooked your favourite meal.
“Yeah you’ll have to do something pretty bad to seriously fuck up” you chuckle as he passes you your plate and sits down beside you.
“I’ll take that on board and hope I don’t fuck up that badly” Chris says with a lopsided grin.
You turn your attention to the plate of food in front of you. Taking a large bit you instantly moan at how delicious it was. You hear Chris snort beside you, but you take no notice, going in for another bite. The two of you eat chatting about what the two of you had been up to the past couple weeks. You notice how Chris had a hand touching you in one way or another, whether it be your hand or your back.
“That was the best thing I’ve eaten ever” you say once your plate was empty.
“Well I’ll definitely cook it again then” Chris smile, he goes to grab your plate, but you stop him.
“I’ve got it” you smile grabbing his and your plate and standing up.
“You don’t have to do that” Chris says placing a hand on your hip to stop you.
“It’s fine. You cooked though so it’s only fair” you say moving out of his grasp towards the sink.
As you start rinsing the plates you feel Chris’ arms snake around your waist, his lips pressed against your neck. You couldn’t help but smile at the simple domesticity of this all, and how easy it all was.
“I missed this” Chris sighed pressing a kiss to the top of your head.
“I missed it too, I didn’t realise how much” you say turning in his hold to face him.
Chris bends down to press a kiss to your lips, and you decide that you could easily do this for the rest of your life. You feel his hands run down your back resting on your thighs, squeezing gently telling you to jump and wrap your legs around him. He turns gently placing you on the counter as he continues to kiss you. You feel his tongue run across your bottom lip and you instantly respond allowing him to deepen the kiss. His hand rest on your hips pulling you closer so you could feel his growing erection pressing up against your covered core making you moan into his mouth. Your hands run down his torso until your fingertips reach his waistband. You go to slip your hand under, but his hand grabs yours.
“Wait” he whispers pressing his forehead against yours.
You look up at him through your eyelashes as you wait for him to continue.
“I don’t wanna mess this up, I wanna take it slow because I want this to work out so so much” he admits looking down at you.
You cup his cheek and gently rub it with your thumb. “That’s okay, I want this to work too, we can go as slow as you want” you tell him.
He smiles down at you before pressing a kiss to your lips.
“Good and we can keep it on the downlow too, no media nothing, no prying eyes just you and me, no one else’s input” Chris says taking both your hands in his to stress his point.
You nod your head in agreement, while you knew it was inevitable that the press would find out. Being able to build the foundations of a relationship out of public view will help it last when it eventually goes public.
“Just you and me, I won’t tell a soul, not even Scott” you affirmed.
Chris raises a brow at you surprised “I thought you told each other everything” he asks.
“Yeah but last time we dated, there was an air of awkwardness between me and Scott after we broke up, I want to make sure this is right before I tell him, last thing I want is to become between the two of you or lose both of you” you explain, while your friendship with Scott survived the first time you weren’t sure if it would again.
“You’ll never lose me, I can promise you that” Chris says squeezing your hands reassuringly.
“Good, you won’t lose me either” you smile as he kisses you on the forehead
“So what do you wanna do?” He asks.
You ponder for a moment before telling him.
“Watch a movie? In bed?” You suggest.
“Disney marathon?” He asks smirking.
“Oh definitely” you agree as he take your hand and leads you to his bedroom.
The next morning you wake up, your head on Chris’ chest. His arm wrapped around you, fingers running absentmindedly up and down your arm. You sigh in content nuzzling in his chest some more.
“Sorry, didn’t mean to wake you” Chris mutters quietly, pressing a kiss to the top of your head.
“It’s okay, you didn’t” you say moving so you could see his face, his hair was dishevelled but he still looked incredible.
“What?” He chuckles when he sees you starting at him.
“Nothing, just happy that’s all” you tell him, he smiles down warmly at you before going to kiss you.
You hold your hand, pressing it against his lips stopping him. He raises a brow at you confused.
“Morning breath” you explain, Chris rolling his eyes at you.
“I don’t care” he says moving your hand out of the way, moving to kiss you again.
You move your head out of the way sitting up, laughing at his insistence.
“I care though!” You laughs pushing him away making him laugh.
“Alright princess, why don’t you go freshen up while I make us some breakfast, and then can I kiss you?” Chris suggests sitting up next to you.
“Only if you make pancakes” you tell him making him chuckle.
“It’s a deal” Chris smile getting up to put on some grey sweatpants.
You quickly freshen up in Chris’ bathroom, when you emerge you find you now dry and folded clothes from yesterday on the bed waiting for you.
Once dressed you follow the smell of pancakes through the house and into the kitchen. Walking in you find a stack of pancakes waiting for you.
Taking a bite you couldn’t help but moan slightly at the fluffy pancakes making Chris snort with laughter.
“You could quit acting and become a professional chef” you tell him pointing your fork at him.
“I’ll keep that in mind, so what do you have planned or wanna do today?” Chris asks as he plates up some pancakes for himself.
You quickly run through your mental calendar, realising it was Sunday and you’d agreed to meet Scott in the afternoon. Making your shoulder drop when you realised you wouldn’t be able to hang here with Chris.
“I’m meeting your brother later” you tell him, and you see him sigh slightly clearly disappointed as well.
“Well I better get used to sharing you again” Chris says with a small grin.
“Yeah but I look forward to seeing what you have planned for our second date” you smirk making Chris raise a brow at you.
“Second?” He asks.
“Yeah well last night was pretty much a date, dinner and a movie and all that, plus takes the nerves away for the next date” you explain making him smile.
“Very true, plus if you count all the dates we went on before it would probably be the 100th date so we’re pretty used to this now” Chris points out.
“I expect something good for our 100th date then” you joke making Chris laugh clutching his chest.
“I’ll try my best, I promise” he says walking over and pressing his lips to yours.
(For the account owner) hey can you draw ship art of 8x9?
((Ooc// Glad you asked. I LOVE this ship im pretty sure most 9x8 art you find online now were made because of me (gifts, requests, original posts) I’m obsessed ))
Hey what did you think about fours object show bfb and your frist time hearing about it?
”Bfb was the name of the show was it? I believe I’ve seen it, it wasn’t so terrible. Seeing the progress was great now seeing some of four’s softer sides is also nice. And my first time hearing about it? I believe it was when Seven, or was it Nine… well one of them told me I sounded like one of Four’s contestants snowball. When I saw it I noticed four hosting and well decided to watch what Four had been making.”
