#40 from the love prompts with Pope thanks I love you you deserve 500,000 more
ahhhh i love you so much 🥺
side note: do the kids even burn mixtapes anymore? let me and @anxietyandtacos know if u do, i listened to jack’s mannequin heavily while writing this!
40. “I made this for you.”
pairing: pope heyward x reader
warnings: its a lil sad, pope leaving for college
word count: 725
To say you were sad would be an understatement. After a perfect last summer together, Pope was heading off to college on the other side of the country, and you were stuck in the OBX finishing up your last year of high school. Though the summer had been full of boat days and keggers and as many quiet moments as the two of you could carve out with each other, you couldn’t help but feel the weight of his upcoming departure hanging over your heads the whole time. And now that departure was right on your doorstep.
You were lying beside Pope on his bed, limbs haphazardly intertwined and your head resting on his chest. It was his last night in the OBX, tomorrow he would be heading to the west coast in his car and leaving you behind. You were trying not to think about it, attempting to focus on the steady beating of his heart and the way his hand felt, rubbing soothing circles on your back. As if sensing the inner turmoil going on in your brain, his hand left your back to tilt your chin up, causing you to look into his eyes. “You okay?” he asked quietly. All you could do was shrug, tears carefully gathering in your eyes, dangerously close to falling.
“Don’t want you to go,” you admitted into his chest, quietly.
“Can I be honest with you?” he whispered back and you nodded, “I don’t want to go either.”
Tightening your hold on him, a part of you wanted to ask him to stay. But you knew that wasn’t fair of you, knew he was meant to get out of the OBX and make something of himself and you would never keep him from that. Besides it was just eight months, and then you would be off to college too, hopefully somewhere a little closer to him. And he had promised to come home for Christmas and spring break, so it’s not like you wouldn’t see him at all. You had just never been apart for more than a couple weeks, and you were hoping your relationship would last long-distance.
Trying to push your sad feelings down and enjoy one last night with Pope, you tilted your head up and kissed him, getting lost in him.
Far too early the next morning you stood by quietly as the pogues surrounded Pope. John B was enthusiastically hugging Pope, Kie was encouraging him, and JJ was giving him some truly terrible advice about putting the ‘party scene’ ahead of his academics. You couldn’t find it in your heart to put on a brave face, trying not to cry was taking up most of your energy.
Throwing your arms around him, you held him tightly to you, burying your head in his chest and breathing in his smell. You focused on the way his arms felt around you, trying to memorize the feeling. Reluctantly you pulled away, pressing your lips to his multiple times as you did so. “Will you call me on the drive?” you asked him. His returning grin told you he would.
“I love you,” he told you, kissing you again. Your lip wobbled as you repeated the phrase back to him. “I better get going,” the regret was written all over his face, but it was a long drive ahead of him. As he got into his car, you remembered the item in your backpack.
“Wait!” You called, running to the driver door. Pope looked at you confusedly as he rolled down the window. You pressed your lips to his again, wanting to feel his lips against yours another time. “I made this for you,” you shyly told him, pulling a burnt mix tape out of your bag with the words “Y/N LOVES POPE” written in big block letters in sharpie.
“What is it?” He asked, rather dumbly in your opinion for some hot shot headed off to college.
You giggled nervously, “It’s a mixtape genius. It has our song and every song that makes me think of you and us burnt on it. You better appreciate it, I had to use the library computers to burn it and Mrs. Jenkins got really mad at me for it.” He laughed, knowing you were terrified of the mean, old librarian. “You can listen to it when you miss me.”
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