#kc:004

[oliveryoung]

karacavanaugh;

Taking her phone out of her purse, she quickly snapped a few pictures of Oliver in his suit and in every angle possible before putting it back inside. Nodding her head, she smiled at Oliver when he informed her that his grandparents also wanted a picture of her and Matt. “I’ll take one when I can. Don’t forget a picture of you and Maddie, I think that’s what Grandma is more excited about,” she teased and winked at him. Grinning even more when he kissed her forehead and told her that Matt was lucky, she fixed his hair a little. “Oh he is very lucky. Maddie’s probably dying of thirst at the sight of you.” Kara moved closer to him and kissed him on the cheek. “Now go find your lady and tell me all about it tomorrow when we’re both home okay?”

Putting on a cheesy smile, Oliver stood there as Kara took the pictures before he retrieved his own phone. His tongue poked out from the corner of his mouth while he took a couple of photographs of her just like his grandma wanted. He chose to ignore what she said about Maddie, placing his phone back into his pocket. “Cut that out. You’re like an annoying mother. Maddie doesn’t care. She’s seen plenty of men in suits.” Smiling softly when she kissed his cheek, he placed a hand on her shoulder and continued to ignore what she was actually saying. “I’ll see you tomorrow. Don’t have too much fun. I don’t want to wake up to you crashing into everything or puking. Bye, Kara. Stop being annoying,” he said, playfully pushing her away.

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karacavanaugh;

Rolling her eyes, Kara couldn’t help but laugh when he brought her attention to how he looked. Licking her lips, she moved closer to him and started to fix tie. “Just this morning when you woke up you looked good too,” she teased and winked at him and patted his tie when it was fixed. “You look incredibly handsome, I need a picture of you so I can send it to grandma and grandpa. Grandma would swoon.” Kissing Oliver on the cheek, she took a small step back before turning in a circle to give him a good view of how she looked. “How do I look? That’s the more important question.”

Looking down when Kara began to fix his tie, he soon smiled up at her at the compliment. “Thank you. You should take one now before we part ways. The grandparents want a picture of you too. Well, also a picture of you and your date, but I’ll leave that one up to you,” he said before he chuckled while she moved in a circle to show off her outfit. Once she was done, he leaned down a little to kiss her forehead. “You look beautiful. Matt is very lucky.”

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karacavanaugh:

She definitely wasn’t expecting him to say so much about Maddie, especially when he acted as if he had no idea how he felt about her and that it was only a small crush. To her, it sounded like a lot more than that and she wondered if he knew it too. “Then maybe you should start believing the things she says about you,” Kara suggested with a raised brow. “If you won’t believe the things I say about you, believe it from her, she’s saying things that could make you worthy of her, start believing it.” Kara ran a hand through her hair, glancing at her boyfriend for a moment before turning back to Oliver. “Okay well, you’re going to lose out if you don’t make a move already. Girls don’t like waiting forever,” she said, even though Kara knew that she would have waited for Matt to come around for a long time. She just wanted Oliver to get on with it already.

“Can we… I don’t know. Can we change the subject? Can we talk about how good I look right now? When was the last time you’ve seen me look this good? Never,” he began to joke. As much as he appreciated Kara’s efforts, he really wanted to move on to something else. It was like they were running in circles. It wasn’t like he was trying to forget what she was saying (he was a little bit), Oliver only needed a change now. It was too much. “I look presentable for once in my life.”

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karacavanaugh:

Listening to Oliver as he talked about Maddie, Kara couldn’t help but smile to herself. As he continued to talk, she wondered if he noticed at all that the way he talked about the girl was the very definition of someone liking someone. He spoke so fondly of her, the way she treated him and the way she made him feel, she felt happy for Oliver. A huge part of her was happy that there was someone out there that he liked that treated him so kindly as she remembered the way Gwen treated him. When he finally stopped talking, she let out a small chuckle. “That’s a lot Ollie. I think it’s safe to say that you’re officially smitten with this girl,” she informed her best friend. “The way you talk about her, it’s just… wow.” Kara was at a loss for words for a moment. Sure, they rarely discussed his love life but she was sure that he’d never felt this way about someone before. Brushing back some of his bangs from his forehead, she smiled fondly at him. “When you say she makes you believe all the kind things she says about you and that you believe them, when someone before that you liked said them, did you ever believe them?” she wondered. “You’re not out of her league. Not at all. The way you make her sound, it seems like she returns the feelings.”

When Kara commented on how it was all a lot, Oliver simply nodded, knowing full well that he had just spoke a ton. It was very much out of character for the boy to speak so much about himself to someone that wasn’t his therapist, but Kara just opened that floodgate right up. Once he started, he simply could not stop himself. Eyes gazed back over to her when he felt her push back his bangs. “I didn’t say that believe every nice thing she says about me. I said she makes me feel like maybe I could be worthy of her. Huge difference,” he corrected her, chewing on his lower lip for a moment. “How? That–No. You’re just saying that. I didn’t even… Look, Kara. Don’t do that. All I talked about were things from my perspective. There’s no way that any of what I said could imply even the slightest that she feels the same.”

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karacavanaugh:

Narrowing her eyes at Oliver when he refused to be honest with her, Kara just shook her head and sighed. “Oliver,” she said in a warning voice. “Tell me the truth.” Kara took his hand and made him look at her, trying to get him to see that she was more than serious. “How does she make you feel? Does she make you feel different from everyone else?” Kara wanted to know more about Oliver and how he felt for Maddie.

Eyes moved from her grabbing his hand to her very serious blue eyes. It almost made him move back a little. “I don’t know what different means. You’re asking the wrong person how people makes them feel. All people make me feel differently. I have a strange relationship with people. So, yes. Maddie makes me feel different. She makes me feel… Nice. She makes me feel relaxed and calm and like I don’t have to worry about… Myself, but then at the same time I do? Because she hangs around all these very good looking and very muscular men who are–Well, they’re a lot better than me. And I worry about myself because I want to stand out. I want to… I want to mean something because there’s this extraordinary person hanging out with ordinary me and going to work with all these other extraordinary people and I just want to stand out to her. I’ve never stood before so I am like, way out of my league here but I still stupidly try. Like getting a stupid gym membership and actually working out. Me, working out. And I told myself it was because I was jealous of how good the male models looked, but I was jealous because good looking men like that get to basically drape themselves all over her–O-over someone like her. I feel so insecure around her, but not because she makes me feel insecure, but because I am so not worthy to be in her presence. Yet she’s kind and says all these nice things that make me believe that maybe I’m worthy. That maybe a guy like me can hang around a girl like her, but what if that’s just it? What if it is just her being kind because believe me, she is very kind. She’s kind and funny and very cute and the thing is that she doesn’t even know she’s any of those things and that kind of only makes her even more of all those things. And… That’s it. That’s all I’ve got.”

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karacavanaugh:

Kara just shook her head when he told her that she should go back to Matt. “Matt can wait, he’s not going anywhere,” she muttered. “How do you not know it’s real?” Kara couldn’t help but wonder as she stared at her best friend. “Does she make your heart race? Does she make you nervous? Do you like her the same way you like me?” Kara wanted to know more about Oliver’s feelings towards Maddie. Maybe if she knew more she could find out more about his crush on her, he would figure out his feelings for Maddie exactly and she could figure out what it is about her that he liked.

“A lot of things make me nervous. I’m a pretty nervous dude in general. You should know that,” he told her, shrugging his shoulders and already feeling nervous by that question. “I don’t even like you,” he muttered, feeling all shy answering these kinds of questions. He wasn’t used to answering these kinds of questions. Not even his therapists asked him these things. “Are we playing twenty-one questions now?”

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karacavanaugh:

“You’re just… so stupid,” Kara finally muttered after he finished speaking. Kara chewed on her bottom lip and sighed. Oliver really wasn’t getting it all and it was frustrating her too much.She was so close to slapping Oliver and making him see that everything he was saying was wrong and that he wasn’t some loser that he made himself out to be. He was a good person and that anyone would want him. Not wanting to upset him even more, Kara just kept her mouth shut and decided not to talk about it further. “You keep believing your not good enough you’re going to miss so much,” she said sadly and shook her head. Looking up at him when he asked her if she was getting tired of him, Kara shook her head and placed the palm of her hand on his cheek, “I could never get tired of you. You’re my best friend, I would never get tired of you. I know that my relationship with Matt has made it where we don’t spend as much time together but I will always be here fore you, I promise. You’re family to me.” Taking a step back, Kara nodded her head. “Okay we won’t talk about it anymore but I am always here if you do want to talk about it.”

Crossing his arms, he exhaled deeply and kept his gaze at his feet while Kara basically scolded him. He could tell that she was just as frustrated with this whole thing as he was - of course, for different reasons. It wasn’t until he felt her hand at the side of his face that Oliver finally looked up, lips slightly pursed as he did so. “I know,” he said quietly, forcing a small smile towards her. “There’s nothing to talk about. I’m not even sure if my crush is real or if it’s just… You should get going. I’m sure your boyfriend is waiting for you.”

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karacavanaugh:

Quickly shutting his mouth when she heard his tone of voice, the last thing she wanted to do was upset him more than she already was. She wanted him to understand that he was an amazing person and that anyone would be lucky to have a chance with him. Kara hated knowing that he thought so badly of him all thanks to the girl’s in his life that he liked and used him. “I just don’t want you to give up,” she admitted, biting the bottom of her lip as she looked away from him, finding it so hard to look at him with how sad he looked. “You have a chance to be happy this way and I know it could happen,” Kara explained as she felt her heart tighten a little. “Maddie might not be like Sarah or Gwen. She could be different and sweet and kind. She could genuinely like you and really want to be with you.” Stopping her argument, Kara sighed and gingerly ran a hand through her hair. “You never know until you take a chance and I know you’re scared but you can do it Ollie. I’ll always be here to fall back on if something does happen, but Maddie doesn’t seem like the cruel type.”

“It’s not about her being cruel,” Oliver began, releasing a deep breath even though that didn’t help the tightness in his chest. “A person doesn’t have to be cruel to not be interested in me. You’re not interested in me. You’re not cruel. Phoebe wasn’t interested in me and she’s not cruel. The chances of Maddie being not interested in me is pretty high. It’s not because she’s cruel, it’s because… Well…” He didn’t finish the sentence, knowing that he didn’t need to. Kara’s well, but wrong, intentions were beginning to weigh on Oliver, another sigh escaping his lips. He wished he were more articulate to be able to convey his point of view because his roommate really wasn’t getting it. It wasn’t just him being scared. It was him being tired. There was only so much hurt a person can handle. “Or we can skip all that and you can be there for me now. Why do I need to get hurt for you to be there for me? Are you getting tired of me? Is the little time we have getting in the way of you and Matt? Because I honestly still don’t even know why we’re having this conversation still. No means no.”