“I just want to fall in love.” w/ Santa Fe and Pidge and mayhaps mutual pining
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The penthouse was the best place to be during summer nights. A cool breeze that cut through the warm, humid air, sending a chill up your spine as it passed. Watching people walk home from a long day’s work, all dressed up in their nice suits and fancy dresses. It was even better with your best friend next to you, the two of you sitting and enjoying the hustle and bustle of the streets below while the sun slowly set behind the tall buildings.
Pigeon was sitting on the edge, leaning against the railing and looking down while Santa Fey had taken to watching stars slowly pop up in the sky. The heat of the air had left Pigeon with no other option than the roll up the sleeves of his shirt as much as he could and unbuttoning it.
Okay, so maybe Santa Fey wasn’t just watching the stars. Maybe she was taking the occasional glance at her best friend and feeling her cheeks heat up whenever she remembered that he was practically shirtless.
And maybe when Fey wasn’t looking, Pigeon would look her over and just take in how pretty she was in the last remaining rays of sunlight. How her green eyes shone and how badly he just wanted to move that one piece of hair that had been in her face since she got to Manhattan and how badly he just wanted to kiss—
No, no, no. That was never going to happen. They just friends. That was all. It would never be nothing more. Pigeon wouldn’t risk his whole friendship with Fey over some dumb crush… but maybe a conversation about dumb crushes wouldn’t hurt?
He sighed, looking up at the sky. “Hey Fey?” After he spoke, he turned to her.
Fey looked back at him. “What’s up, Pigeon?”
“You eva’ get these like… feelin’s? They ain’t bad but they also ain’t good? Like— they kinda sorta make you feel guilty for havin’ ‘em?”
Fey blinked at him. “What, like a crush?”
“Yeah, I guess. I dunno. When I had a crush on Race, it wasn’t the same as this…” Pigeon sighed.
Fey felt her heart break. Pigeon had a crush on someone else. She knew that he would never feel the same way. He was too good for her anyways.
“I guess my crush on Racer wasn’t really anythin’ though. I was just a dumb kid.” He went quiet for a beat and looked up. “I just wanna fall in love.”
“You could fall in love with me,” she signed while he wasn’t looking.
Pigeon looked back to her. “You sign somethin’?”
Fey shook her head, eyes falling to the streets below.
Pigeon studied her expression, eyebrows slowly knitting together. “Fey, what’s wrong?” She shook her head again, but he put a hand on her arm to stop her. “No, there’s somethin’ wrong. You’se upset. What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing, Pidge. Don’t worry about it.”
“You know that ain’t gonna work with me, Fey. We’se been friends for too long for me to know that it ain’t nothin’.”
She sighed. “I just thought you would have told me if you had a crush. You know, since we’re best friends and all.”
Pidge started to bite as his lip. “I… I wanted ta’ tell you’se eventually… ”
“Then why didn’t you?”
He went completely quiet, looking over the rail down to the street. His heart was racing in his chest, his thoughts wild with everything that could go wrong right now. She put a hand on shoulder, drawing his attention to her.
“You don’t have to tell me. I’m sorry.”
“I didn’t tell you cuz it is you, Fey. An’ I didn’t wanna ruin our friendship by tellin’ you cuz you’se the only best friend I ever had an’ I really don’t wanna lose you over somethin’ stupid like this,” Pigeon said, not looking at her as he spoke.
Fey’s eyes widened, just staring at him. She fought to come up with the right thing to say, blinking at him. “Pidge.” The sound of her raspy voice made Pidge look at her, surprised. She took a shaky breath, like she was going to say something, but instead just pulled him into a hug. He hugged her back, arms tight around her. They pulled apart after a moment and Pigeon realized Fey was shaking. “You’re an idiot.”
“I know, I know… Listen, I get if you-”
“I feel the same way. If you had just told me sooner, we could have avoided this. I thought you didn’t feel the same and I was too afraid to tell you,” she signed, a smile on her face.
Pigeon laughed softly. “I guess we’se both idiots then, huh?”
2. Homo & Nomo Icon –– an impulsive blog a friend and I made. Funny sexuality stuff we’ve encounter, talk about, and doodle to. (2/24/17)
3. Santa Fey –– Newsies OC that started off as a joke and then suddenly became a serious character. She’s from Brooklyn.
4. Alexa Parks –– a PJO OC I used in an rp for a bit. She was blessed by Hera and was, technically, fully mortal.
5. Eliza Goranski–Heere –– one of two fan children for Richard Goranski and Jeremy Heere. Spicy Bis kid developed in the @be-less-singledatingsim discord (seriously, check out the game/discord!). She takes after her Seriously Cool Uncle Michael. Rich jokes that she’s more of Michael’s kid than his own.
6. Me, upon entering the twoplayergame discord for @twoplayerstates (which?? won’t let me tag, smnth) run by @cipherdoodles and @lovedsimon (again, won’t let me tag?) and is hella fun
7. Bruno –– a WIP RWBY OC to be further designed after I finish watching the show again. Her name means ‘brown’. I’m not sure on her weapon yet, but she’s a transfer midyear due to an incident that brought her (unwanted) attention and has her shipped off to Beacon.
