saw it coming- drew starkey
drew starkey x ex!girlfriend
drew starkey x singer!reader
warnings: kinda angst, mentions of infidelity but it doesn't actually happen, drew not being a good partner with someone else. fluff. this is all fiction.
summary: she knew she wasn't the one for him, they all saw it coming.
she knew she had known for years she wasn't the one he'd marry. maybe it was because she tries so hard to be cool, to fit in his life and family, to get along with his mom even when they both know the older woman didn't really like her.
maybe she should've been less cool, less chill maybe if she had drawn the line. if she had asked to be displayed in public not as a company, not as someone he wouldn't hug for a picture but exposed for once and for all as his girlfriend. if she asked him to not keep everyone guessing.
it was funny at the start being "secretive" and all, it was funny to read the theories but it wasn't funny anymore and the lamp was being turned off.she was quite young when they started dating, freshly twenty and he was already pushing into his late twenties.
maybe she should've known, there were all so many songs about it but he was so tall and handsome as hell. everyone and their mother would've ignored the age difference too.
almost three and a half years together when she started to ask for more.
"so i was thinking about posting this picture, can i?" she showed him a picture that showed her resting against his chest with a small bouquet of flowers in hand.
"isn't it too intimate to show? like I love it but for us." he replied and she nodded.
"no yeah you're right." he hummed and kissed her cheek. she didn't include anything about him in that photodump.
"i have a netflix event next week, want you to come with me." she watched him as he prepared to leave her house. "you free on friday?"
"is there a dress code?" he laughed.
"as if you'll ever follow them baby." she smiled at him and welcomed the kiss he pressed to her lips.
when friday came along she already knew the drill.
"what's up?" one of his cast mates hugged her. "it's been a long time since i last saw you."
"finished filming last month." the one's beside her nodded as they remembered what drew had told them.
"heard it's quite a big project." she felt so comfortable with them, they included her in pictures and gatherings.
"it's pretty cool. one of the things i've enjoyed the most to make if i'm being honest." the conversation didn't last long as the cast was called to go on stage.
the pictures the next day looked the same as always, his hands inside his pockets never touching her waist, shoulders or any part of her body.
"why can't you just hug me for a picture? everyone already knows we're together." she had every right to be as angry as she was right now.
"don't want anyone going on and about on our relationship." he shrugged his shoulders, they both knew that was a lie.
"everyone knows about us, everyone talks about us." she ironically laughed. "are you ashamed of me?"
"god no baby no." he rushed to her side and placed his hands on her cheeks. "i love you alright?"
"i love you too but sometimes you make me feel awful drew." he sighed.
"i'm sorry for that but i'm not ashamed of you." she believed the lie he told her.
he did love her in his own weird way but she sometimes made him feel embarrassed of how she acted in public.
maybe it was on his thirty-first birthday when he realised, without actually letting the thought come through, it was probably time to start settling down as if having a girlfriend for the past three years wasn't serious enough. she didn't feel the shift on him.
she should've.
she saw it coming but not in the way it unfolded. schedules, as usual, got busy this time of the year, she was doing promo and he was filming another movie and a music video.
that music video was the shift, not for her but for him. when he met the singer he would be working with it was like a light ignited inside him that said 'this is the one'.
she was so pretty, nice and genuine. there wasn't a show around her when the cameras weren't on, down to earth and extremely similar to him.
both born and raised in a big family, tons of siblings and extended family. she had just received her degree as a kinder-garden teacher when her career blew up.
that was the one for him, he knew it. such a particular thing doesn't really has an explanation on how he felt.
and she hadn't said anything because she knew he had a girlfriend of some kind but she felt it in her gut. he was the one for her too.
"hope to catch up sometime." she said, giving him a hug. "thank you for being part of this."
"it was a pleasure to work with you. maybe we'll coincide in the same city." he smiled back before they said their goodbyes.
he went back to his apartment in los angeles with a clear thought in his head. it was moment to end his three year long relationship, the girl he had been stringing along all this time and he knew he was an awful person for not releasing her sooner but she was never the one for him.
for the plans of a family he wanted to have someday. she wasn't the one he saw as the mother of his kids.
so when two days after she came back from the promo of her movie three weeks from the last time they had seen each other, he sat her down.
"what i'm going to say isn't easy and i don't expect you to be alright with it but this is how i've been feeling for a while now, this isn't working for me anymore." he sighed as he looked her eyes lose the sparkle they'd whenever she looked at him.
"what do you mean?" it was obvious what he meant.
"i want us to break up. this isn't what i want for myself anymore." he knew the conversation wouldn't end in her agreeing just because even if he wanted it to be that way.
"is there someone else or what happened in the past three weeks?" he denied with his head.
"there isn't anyone else. it's about me and what i want for my future." she scoffed.
"three years drew. three and now you realise that i'm not the future you want?" she stood up. "you can actually go fuck yourself."
"hey i'm not being mean to you." but he was being mean to her. "i know it's fucked up but it's what i feel and i'm sorry i'm hurting you because i love you even if this isn't what i want anymore."
“drew shut up.” her voice raised a bit.
he tried to say something else but she didn’t let him.
"don’t say my name. i j-just go, please leave." he sighed but followed her orders.
“I’m sorry.” he wasn’t.
they met a week later at her place to give eachother their things back.
"was there someone else?" she sighed. "at any point, was there someone else?"
"no, there wasn't. i can promise you there wasn't." at least he was honest in what he was telling her.
five months later she was still mourning what they had been. what they could've been if she hadn't been so permissive from the very start.
five months later he was having dinner with the singer from that music video, he had taken his time before going out again. didn't want to rush it, to fuck it up by starting something with someone else fresh out of his relationship.
they were playing some game that ended with them asking random questions and losing the train of how it had started.
"so old man" it made drew laugh. "you were in a relationship last time we saw each other. six months ago?"
"yeah."
"what happened?" it was normal for her to be curious, she was interested in him but wasn't interested to get herself into a threeway kind of mess.
"wasn't what i wanted for me anymore, couldn't see the future i want with her." he sighed. "she's a great woman but not the one i wanted to have a family with." he looked at his glass of wine.
"I get it." his sight shifted towards her this time. "ended my last relationship for the same reason."
"how long ago?"
"a year, we were together for two and a half i think." he nodded signaling for her to continue. "realised a bit late that he didn't really had a brain in his head and only wanted me for the ibiza nights i could get him into" her shoulders bump up for a second. "so i decided i won't ruin my life with some lowlife who would in the long run."
"different goals" he said and she agreed.
"already have my career, my success and i want more in my private life someday too, he wasn't the one to create that with."
they locked eyes without saying anything, there was like a secret moment of understatement there weren't any words to be said. their night continued, laughing and chattering as if they had known each other their whole lives.
“so drew listen i had a great time but i don’t want to dive into anything if you aren’t over your last girl.” they stood on the front door of her house. “because i’ve been there, hung over a guy that used me to get over someone else.”
“I get it and you don’t have to trust me because you don’t really know me but i know i’m over her.” she gave him a small smile. “I would like to keep seeing you if that’s alright with you.”
“yeah i’m alright with that.” he didn’t expect the kiss on the cheek she gave him, lingering there for a moment. “ ‘night starkey.”
“goodnight sweetheart.” he walked back towards his truck. “see you soon.”
many coffee dates in deserted places. late night drives by the beach, secret kisses in the privacy of her home and oh if it didn’t feel like love.
‘he keeps a picture of you in his office downtown’ taylor swift’s lyrics as the background of their lazy sunday morning. drew still in bed while she stood in his kitchen making breakfast wearing the shirt he discarded on the floor when they came back from dinner last night.
“hey pretty girl.” a sleepy smile on his face as he saw her walk inside the bedroom.
“the toasts are a bit burned.” he chuckled. “but the rest it’s alright, I think.”
they ate in silence, the birds could be heard outside the window.
“I’m going home next friday for my mom’s birthday.” drew said placing his plate on the bedside table.
“are you gonna drive or you’ll be taking a flight?” she didn’t think much about it they’ve been dating for almost five months only and they didn’t met the other one’s friends yet.
“I’m gonna drive but i wanted to ask you something.” she gave him a nod. “I want you to come with me, only if you want of course.”
“isn’t really a question.” she smiled at his soft laugh. “you want me to meet your family? like for real?”
“yeah for real.” he smiled back. “I want them to meet you.”
“I want to meet them too.”
right there they knew what it was, love, true love.
the days before the upcoming trip she wrote three whole songs.
“do you think i’m going too fast?” she asked her best friend on the phone.
“nah honey i think he loves you so good it was inevitable for you to fall in love so quickly.” vic saw the glimmer in her friend’s eyes, the smile in the pictures she sent her. the look in his eyes when he looked at her in some silly video.
she was nervous to meet his family, one of his sisters was still close with his ex-girlfriend, what if they didn’t like her and they missed the girl from before?
back in new york city a brunette received a message which content broke her heart. from his younger sister.
text
b ‘i wanted to tell you before you found out via instagram or somewhere else.”
b ‘he brought a girl home. It’s pretty serious, i’m sorry’
he took a girl home when he said he preferred to spend time alone with his family most of the times he went back home, an excuse to not bring her along. now she knew what she should’ve realised all those years back, she didn’t know how to get clean even after more than ten months later.
his family adored her, their interaction seemed straight out of a christmas movie.
“I hadn’t seen him so happy in ages.” his mom said in a moment they were left alone right before everyone would say their good night to go to bed. “thank you, he’s my boy again.”
“you’ve done an amazing job with drew, i’ve never had a boyfriend as amazing as he is.” the older woman involved her in a tight hug.
“he’s never had a girlfriend as genuine as you.” it felt so real, the possibility of a future together.
two weeks later when her family found out she had gone to north carolina to meet his family, they insisted of having a reunion to meet him. the man on the screen who was making her come back straight home to him.
“I’ve never seen him like this.” his friend madelyn said, the group of outer banks castmates watched as the couple who had reached their year anniversary, they had met her a small number of times but she had grown in all of them.
“It’s like a light is around him everytime you see him with her.” jd added. “I’m happy for him.”
they had managed to keep it as lowkey as possible, people were already talking about them running in the same circles but nothing about them actually being together had come out.
“I want to play you something. I’m writing the new album.” her music room was a big representation of who she was. the things adorning the walls, the little details on her guitars.
he loved everything about her. so he sat down on the floor, right in front of her.
‘you are everything to me and I, I would die for you’
she tilted her face up a flicker of light on her cheeks.
‘I'd give up all I have, in exchange for who I love more than anything’
he was trying so hard to not let a tear fall.
‘how could I never let you know? I would die for you’
and he failed terribly.
“Baby?” she said softly in the same way she always talked to him.
“I love you so fucking much.” she laughed at his words.
“I love you so fucking much more.” he pressed a firm kiss to her lips.
maybe he had been a shitty boyfriend to someone else but she couldn’t say the same. he was the best man she had been with, he felt as a forever kind of love.
“I want to stop hiding.” she didn’t expect him to say those words. “just want to hold your hand in public and all that romantic shit people do.”
“I’d like that.” a fight of kisses unfolded in the instruments filled room.
but a walk wasn’t their ‘hard lunch’ it was him posting a photo dump, the first one of them both on the backstage of his new movie.
drewstarkey
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drewstarkey ‘life lately. pretty girl spotted’
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ynln ‘love you pretty boy’
shit blew up on twitter real fast and a girl who he had now forgotten still wondered what it was that she was missing, what the beloved singer had for him to choose her.
“it doesn’t matter anymore, we told you for ages he didn’t love you in the same way.” one of her friends said and she knew he was right, it had only taken him a year and a half to post his new girl.
It only took him two years to marry her. It’s true when they say a man always knows, he knew from the start she was the one for him and the forgotten girl knew from the start she was never the one.
drewstarkey & ynln
song beauty and the beast by celine dion and peabo bryson
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drewstarkey & ynln something happened… two and a half from our very first day with the very first movie we ever watched.
tale as old as time
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If you see it coming baby, just run. It’ll never be you.
It’ll be the one who fits he’ll actually love, don’t settle for someone who won’t settle for you.
the singer and the actor had found eachother, fate working in their favor even when they felt bad karma would be coming for them it never did.
fate and soulmates can't be stopped from finding the other.
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