#f2f: dylan

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F2F | Dylan + Stevie

Stevie landed on her feet with a small thud, surprisingly agile since jumping out of her two story window (with the aid of her mother’s trellis) was a move she did on the daily, at least a couple of times. Adjusting the waistband of her ever dropping jeans, she started a light jog on a very familiar direction: Dylan’s house. The sooner she could leave the sound of drunk yelling behind, the better. 

Her metallic backpack held her clothes for the next day, since she already had a pair of pajamas at the brunette's, her stuff for school and some other random trinkets, like a dog leash (A dog walker should always have a dog leash). The night air was crisp and refreshing, perfect temperature for Stevie. She couldn’t help but smile as she shook her unruly blonde locks to the side, revealing her best friend’s house. She could see Dylan’s outline, a well-known sight by the window.

Quietly, Stevie started climbing the tree, and in the last second, boosted herself up to the older girl’s level. “Boo.”, she said abruptly. “Early trick or treat for your best friend?”

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@dylantheobrienx

“It’s getting much better already, I know I’m being a big baby, you can say it, I can take it” He chuckled, eyes crinkling. “Keep talking chicken to me” He laughed out loud, amused with the silliness of it all. “My addiction to chicken should be looked into, really. It’s not normal” he shook his head at himself. “All kinds. I will take all kinds!” He added as a response. “We can order some take out for you, you don’t need to starve yourself over me” he suggested, mentally thinking what does he have in his fridge that he could possibly turn into a decent meal. “Or we can raid my fridge. I’m only good at baking though, so unless you have a sweet tooth and are up for some brownies or some shit, it won’t be no use, we better off ordering in” he added tilting his head. Gazing back up with his head still making a pillow out of Hailee’s legs, he found himself reaching up to poke the tip of her nose as she got into a thinking face, retracting his hand away just as fast as, not really knowing why he felt the need to do just that. “I don’t think I’m doing that. When I’m out there hanging out with friends I am enjoying myself, I truly am. It’s when it gets quiet, like this past week by myself, we get all this thoughts getting to you harder then usual I guess.” He shrugged, clicking his lips. “Keep talking food to me, you are killing me here!” He rolled his eyes to the back of his head in a silly way, joining in her laughter, reaching for her hand and placing it over his own eyes, as if to hide himself from her. “Yeah? I mean we did have chats about it before. I know that it was something that scarred you for life, and for good reason. You are still at that point in life where you self sabotage yourself over what you’ve been through. Which I can understand, but-” he let himself opinionate a little, now holding her hand between his, laying it over his chest and fidgeting with her fingers whilst he kept going “I also think you are only being unfair to yourself at this point. It’s been a while. And you are such an amazing, sweet, intelligent, talented and beautiful woman, you deserve the world Bumble. I hope you can move past it soon. Somewhere out there there’s someone that will show you why everyone else didn’t work out, like they use to say.” 

"You're being a big baby." She remarks back with a loud laugh escaping as she playfully rolls her eyes, knowing how silly this conversation would sound to other people, but with Dylan, they could be talking about the randomest things and he'd still manage to put a smile on her face or make her laugh, a quality that she had always loved about him. "Keep talking chicken to you, got it." She snorts and grins down at him. "No, it's okay, really, I'll probably go and get something when I leave, but I appreciate the offer, wait did you say, brownies?" A hint of excitement is clear in her expression as she bites her lip. "Excuse you, do you not know me at all? I always have a sweet tooth, it's my greatest weakness." Hailee says as she crosses her eyes at his sudden movement, causing a giggle to escape as she pokes the top of his nose in response. "What was that for?" She questions, blinking a bit to focus back on him. "I get that, once you're on your own, the mind likes to think about things that we subconsciously bury away instead of having to deal with that shit, we're usually distracted with our friends or family to care about it then. I wish there was more I could say or do to reassure you though, that you're not alone in any sense of the word, and I'm sorry! This isn't helping any of us really." She admits with another laugh, throwing her head back in laughter as he hides his face with her hand. "You're such a dork, oh my god." Her breath catches as she watches him take her hand to his chest, absentmindedly fidgeting with her fingers as she also listens to him talk. "But..?" Hailee muses as she waits alongside him in that pregnant pause. "Yes, it's been a while, but that doesn't mean it still doesn't hurt every now and then." She points out, resisting the urge to scoff at the idea that her feelings could be invalid, she knew he wouldn't intentionally mean something like that. The compliments cause a dark red blush appear on her cheeks as she chuckles. "There's someone.." She murmurs in a soft voice, aware that he may have even heard it as her eyes look back down into his instead of where they had been before on their hands. "Dylan..I uh, thank you, it means a lot, more than you know."

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@dylantheobrienx

Dylan couldn’t help but finding her extremely cute as she stumbled into her words, the two of them seeming to be a little out of it that night for some reason. He made a mental note to not focusing too much on it as of for now at least, knowing himself, he would overanalyze every little thing once he finds himself alone, but for now he would make an effort to just enjoy his best friend company, and have a good time, so he didn’t commented further on, letting her, our well both of them, off the hook. Dylan faked a pout, nodding in agreement when she backed him up on not being able to have chicken over his illness. “It is the worst, you know how chicken is basically a personally trait I have at this point. I’ve been in pain this last couple of days” He whined, like all men does when they are sick.  “You can ramble about chicken with me any day!” Dylan chuckled, ending with a found expression on his face, as Hailee spoke, and he dared to gaze up into her hazel eyes, letting out a breath he didn’t realized he was holding as no matter how hard he was looking for it, he didn’t found even a little tiny bit of pity as she went on validating all he just said. “Yeah. It’s just- You know me, I am the fun dude, loves to go out and get together with everyone, looking from the outside, looks like I’m living live. And I guess I am, but I’m not on the exact track I wish I would already be by now…” weirdly he found himself willing to share a little more, the soft feel of Hailee’s fingers still going through his locks of hairs giving him a sense of security, where he felt like he could be honest with himself out load, and to someone that wasn’t his therapist. It felt really good. “Thank you” he whispered, smiling up at her. “Your turn, same question” he challenged. 

Running a hand through her hair, Hailee offers him a warm smile when she looks up, ignoring how much her cheeks burned at the entire conversation, not knowing how her internal thoughts managed to slip out and become verbal ones, but in that moment of pause, she was relieved at the change in subject, deciding that she could panic and overthink about it much later. "I'm sorry that you've been dealing with that much pain, like I said though, hopefully your body will be able to readjust later on with it, just maybe stay away from fried chicken for now, which I know is a lot easier said than done, but you'll survive, I promise!" Hailee reassures him with a smile as she grins and chews on her bottom lip. "What kind of chicken are we talking about then, the animal, breaded chicken, nuggets, tenders, I'm just making myself hungry with mentioning all of this.." She laughs at her own words and covers her face with her hand. Taking in a deep breath, she focuses back on him and presses her lips together in thought. "I do know you, and whilst I can't say that I fully know how that feels because everyone experiences things differently, I do want to say that it's okay to not be on the right track, life is unexpected, you could plan every single detail and something will always fall out from the plan. I don't want you to feel like you're pushing yourself into this golden life that I doubt anyone else has, what would it be anyways?" Hailee questions with furrowed eyebrows. Even if they hadn't said a word, she would have felt just as comfortable in their shared silence, her eyes glancing back down to his every now and then as she paused in thought with his next question. "You're welcome and..a cheeseburger." She responds, trying her best to not even smile at the answer until she finally breaks and laughs. "That would be amazing actually, no, but uh..to be able to let people in. I've known you for so long, it feels natural to be with you..i-in this place with next to no personal bubble, I mean, but my heart's been broken and I've shut myself away from really trying to let anything serious happen with anyone."

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@dylantheobrienx

“You totally mom’d me” Dylan repeated after her, completely amused and endeared by her reaction as she realized what she did. “That is absolutely correct, I totally would. Or more like I would be dadding you” he tilted his head only noticing how that sounded after it was out of his mouth “-not like daddy dadd- oh fuck me- moving on!” he made himself shut up as she checked his temperature, his eyes naturally closing as a reaction to her gentle touch over his forehead, softly open them back up after a few seconds, “Thanks” he whispered smiling fondly at the brunette. “Nah, not disappointed, if anything I’ll fall in love with all of them, the human being is not suppose to be flawless anyways, there’s no fun in that.” Dylan dismisses her worries, taking his mug for a first sip, checking if everything was as he pleases with his coffee, taking him a full minute until - again - realizing his choice of words. You don’t fall in love with your best friends flaws, for fucks sake Dylan! Sure you must still be on a fever?! “I don’t think I push my coffee addiction into other people... is that a thing? Well I hope I don’t. Heeey, don’t hate on my weirdness! It’s called being unique, and it’s good! Is like when I’m having a toast and then dip it in my coffee, but without having a toast!” He explained further is peculiar taste on how to take his coffee. “Best mug I own right there” He proudly claimed, chuckling. Following suit behind Hailee, he took one more long sip into his coffee before placing it on his coffee table, letting himself lay on his couch, taking advantage of Hailee as his personal pillow, silly smile on his face. “Hi” He winked her way. “Are we going deep? Or I can be funny about it?” He raised a brow her way, buying time to think about his answer. 

"I'm sorry, I'll try not to do that again, even if it was hilarious." She says with another laugh, blushing from embarrassment and just from being around him, though she wouldn't mention the latter, it was an unfamiliar thought, feeling this way around your best friend, right? As Hailee blows on her tea to cool it down a bit more, managing to get a few sips in, she realizes too late just how bad of an idea it was because she sputters and nearly chokes on her tea at the realization hits her of what Dylan had unintentionally implied. "I mean, if you're offering.." With her free hand, Hailee quickly clamps her hand over her mouth in genuine shock over her own lack of filter as she snickers and turns away. "I'm so sorry, I have no idea where that came from!" Hailee admits as she takes in a deep breath, returning the warm smile once she finishes checking his temperature. "You're welcome." She whispers back, eyes slowly moving back up to look at him in both awe and slight confusion as her brain registers his next statement. "You..would fall in love with all of my flaws?" Blinking quickly, Hailee has to shake her head to try and focus on anything but the way her heart raced when she was this close to Dylan, he was her best friend, and she was aware that this wasn't a normal reaction when just hanging out with a best friend. "A-Are you sure you're not running a low fever?" She asks with a small laugh to try and break the tension. "It can be a thing, depends on if you have friends that push you, though in my case, they try to do it lovingly by pushing me out of my comfort zone. Unique is one word for it, babes, but I will say that the coffee and toast analogy isn't a bad one, I've never tried it to know, but it sounds good." She remarks, her fingers holding tightly onto the cup even more now as he tells her that it's his best mug. "I'm honored then that you decided to bestow this one on me, thank you, kind sir! I'm surprised it's not a Mets one though." Hailee muses with a giggle, and once they had both been fully situated on the couch, she can't help but run her fingers through his hair with him laying on her lap, the smile on her face never once leaving. "Hello there." At the wink, she beams and slightly tilts her head to the side. "Well, can both be an option? Because now I'm genuinely curious as to what a funny and deep wish would be."

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@dylantheobrienx

“Nope, not taking even a teeny tiny bit of the blame” Dylan playfully assured, laughing with Hailee. “Okay, MOM!” Dylan titled his head, finding amusing Hailee’s way to walk him through everything he should be doing. She really was there to take care of him, and he couldn’t be more thankful, but he would still tease her about it. “But you’re right, I shouldn’t go to back to bed tonight before changing everything…” He gave in, going about his kitchen getting both their drinks ready, the smell of coffee filling the room making him feel better already. “Shhhh, don’t ruin the fantasy.” He chuckled, “It is definitely addictive. I’ve fallen down that hill long ago, no turning back for me now.” He confessed. It was indeed a long lost battle, no point in denying. “Sugar is the best invention, I couldn’t blame me even if I didn’t put butter in my coffee. And don’t hate on my coffee preferences if you don’t even have coffee!” He faked indignation, finishing off with her tea, giving it to Hailee in an I love NY mug. “All set.” He declared, closing the dish washing machine after putting away the utensils he used to prepare their drinks. “The mask sounds perfect, fun enough, and it allows us to indulge in side conversation since we both already saw it before, I’m assuming?” 

"The rudeness! Can't even take one for the team." She teases with a grin and shake of her head, his next words causing her a fit of giggles to escape as she covers her face with her hands, a blush making its way onto her cheeks. "Oh god, I did totally just mom'd you, didn't I?" She asks despite his obvious statement, finally putting her hands back down as she turns her head away slightly to conceal her blush. "Hey, you can't blame me when I know that you would be mom'ing me too if our roles were reversed." Hailee jokes, bumping her hip softly into his as she reaches up to feel his temperature on his face, a gentle hand laying on his cheek. "You definitely feel alright." She muses, her hand momentarily lingering as she smiles up at him before quickly putting her hand back down and letting him make their beverages. "The fantasy of me having one flaw? But then when you saw the other flaws, you'd be disappointed, so I might as well point out that I'm not perfect now!" Hailee explains with a laugh as she takes in a deep breath. "Thankfully at this point, people don't push for me to try it as much anymore so, I don't have to worry about that, I'll just stick to my tea. Hey, I'm sorry but butter in coffee is so weird! It'd be like if I tried to put it in my tea." She scrunches up her nose in disgust at the thought and chews on her bottom lip nervously as she takes the mug with a small 'thank you.' "I'm really embracing the tourist vibe with this mug and I love it." She remarks as she sits back down on the couch and pats the spot beside her as she puts the movie on. "Your assumption is correct, I've seen this one a few times in the past." As the movie started, she sips on her tea and licks her lips, momentarily glancing over at him. "If you had one wish and it could be done right now, what would it be?"

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F2F -> Dylan

@dylanobrienxglam

“You’re very welcome” Dylan chuckles, falling into a soft smile as Hailee kisses his cheek, throwing all his worries on getting her sick, he reached holding her face between both his hands, placing a soft kiss on her forehead. “I appreciate it, and it’s 100% your fault, I don’t have a clue, let’s hope that’s some what accurate” he replied to her theory on how contagious he might be, or not be in this case. “No bed, I can’t stand any more bed time, couch will do just fine. I wouldn’t put you through the maze that is my room currently.” He confessed with a scrunch of his nose just with the thought of it. He praises himself as a quite tidy person, but not cleaning up after himself for 2 days straight left some damage on his room, his mom was kind enough to tidy the kitchen quite a bit, dealing with the pile of dishes he also left behind. “I am absolutely over crackers, give me the good stuff. “Of course, my passion for coffee almost made me forget you don’t like coffee. Might be your only one flaw, coffee is just the best human invention ever, I don’t cope without it” He pointed gesturing with his pointy finger at the singer, with a tilt of his head, making their way to the kitchen, and even with his body moving rather slowly, he was able to get the kettle going, moving to his coffee maker to start on his coffee while waiting for the water to boil. “How do you take your tea? Sugar or you proper English about it and you add a splash of milk?” the teasing of his voice was unmistakable, as he gather everything he needed for his own personal take on how to make his coffee, raw sugar, coconut oil, and butter. Yes you read it right, butter. “Oh I don’t know, I’m not picky, maybe something funny? Do you want to make the honors and chose for us?”

A warm blush appears at the soft forehead kiss as she tilts her head to the side slightly when looking back up at him, momentarily lost in thought until she hears him talking again. "Aw man, you won't even offer to take some of the blame after I flew all the way over here? The rudeness!" She teases with a laugh and shake of her head. "Alright, I can understand that so, couch it is, besides, once you have enough energy, you'll need to wash your sheets and pillow cases to get those germs off after being sick." Hailee comments with a small shrug as she takes the crackers out of the basket and sets them aside. "I don't blame you whatsoever, but I might have some with some of the things that I got from the store before I made it here." She muses, popping a cracker into her mouth. "I've got the good stuff! Wha- you think that's my only flaw??" Hailee asks despite having heard the answer as she laughs and covers the top of her mouth. "Oh no, I have plenty, I promise, but yeah, I can't do the caffeine, I know that I'll become addicted and that's terrifying so, no thank you! You're the sweetest for thinking that's my only flaw though." She muses, following him to help out if possible. "Oh, I could totally pretend to be all fancy about it, but I just take lots of sugar, and you can't judge when you put butter in your coffee." She teasingly points out and nudges him with a grin on her lips. "How about The Mask?"

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F2F -> Dylan

@dylanobrienxglam

“You are absolutely ridiculous!” Was Dylan’s brightest response learning that she actually flew in just to come and check on him. “I have no doubt quality time will do wonders to raise my spirits, I have been lowkey going insane being on my own… I just really don’t want to get you sick” He added the last part making a funny face, his mind still trying to make sense of it all, but he was extremely happy with the surprise, and he was sure the girl could tell my the permanent smile on his face. Raising his hands in surrender, he shook his head “Alright, seems like I have no other choice but to let you stay” he could pretend like he even put up a fight on that one, but he really did not. “You are too good to me, you really didn’t have to! Look at all of these!” He pointed at the care pacage, as she kept on listing everything and then more of what she brought along. “Snacks, tell me more! I’m getting some of my appetite back, I was actually debating with myself on making some coffee, do you want some? Or tea? Or a beer, I’m afraid that’s everything I’ve got to offer, and then maybe we can decide on a movie to watch” 

"I'm taking that as a compliment because that's what I aspire to be so, thank you!" She remarks with a scrunch of her nose as she reaches out to put a hand on his arm so she can lean in and press a gentle kiss to his cheek. "You're one of my best friends, of course I'm going to come and try and make you feel better if I have the time, which I obviously did. If I get sick, I'll one hundred percent, take the blame, but isn't it when you don't have the symptoms, you're the most contagious?" Hailee questions as she claps her hands, putting the items down so she could nudge him. "Aside from that though, we need to get you back into bed, mister! And good, I don't want to have to fight a sick person." She teases with a laugh, nodding her head in response. "I know! I might have gone a little overboard, but it's fine, we're fine! With the snacks, I assumed you might be over crackers, so there's other foods, I think there's even dried fruits in there." She snorts as her eyes lighten up at the mention of tea. "I'll take some tea, please! I avoid coffee at all costs and not really in the mood for a beer, what movie genre are you feeling right now?"

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F2F -> Dylan

@dylanobrienxglam

The frown on Dylan’s face grew deeper as he read through Hailee’s texts. “Open the door…” he mumbled to himself, taking all his power of will to actually get into a seating position. Thumbing on his phone starting a text questioning the actress what the hell did she meant with open the door, he heard the bell going off. “No fucking way…” He cursed in disbelief, he didn’t even knew Hailee was in New York, so his mind was taking a while to process what was happening. With a blanket still over his shoulders, slightly falling off and half of it dragging through the floor as he slowly made his way to his front door. And there she was, in the flesh, biggest smile on her face, her laugh alone making the man grow a stupid smile in his face. “Bumble?! What the fuck- How?” his arms were slower to wrap around the brunette over the shock of having her there, but eventually he caught up to it, properly hugging his friend, even though he probably shouldn’t over how sick he was. He told her that much “This might be contagious, you shouldn’t have!” Yet he was already closing the door behind her. “Make yourself at home, you know how it is… what is all this? Oh my God, I can’t believe you” at this point he was starting to repeat himself, but he really was surprised to see her. 

The look on his face causes a burst of giggles to escape as she shakes her head. "Bee! What the fuck is right and a long ass plane ride, that's how! I had some time off and knew this was a good time to go and surprise you! I hope quality time with me is a good healing source!" She says with another laugh, pulling away from the hug after a moment, her smile never fading. "Oh, I don't care! I've come here to help take care of you and you can't decline the offer for I will not accept it, nope!" Hailee says as she walks into his place, setting the care package down carefully on the table. "Just some things to help you feel better, silly! I would have felt horrible if I hadn't brought anything when you're feeling under the weather." She muses, taking out some of the things she brought. "There's a heat pack, ice pack, over-the-counter medication, movies if you want to just lay back and relax, some more tissues for your nose, snacks and canned soup if you have an appetite, the usual when one is sick!"