Try Again | Alex Law x GenderNeutral!Reader
“hi, I have a request for you. I wanted to know if you could write a story where alex and reader break up, but I live in the same apartment and therefore they are forced to see each other every day, but somehow for this reason they get together” @readwritestory
notes; GenderNeutral!Reader; On-Off-On-Again-Relationship; Past Break-Up; Getting Back Together; Roommates; Domestic; Heart-to-Heart; Love Confessions.
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When you two had moved into the apartment, you’d already been dating for a couple of months. Unfortunately, only few months later, you both decided to break it off with each other – it just didn’t work for either of you anymore. Since it was a mutual decision, nobody’s feelings were truly hurt; but it still made it really awkward to live with one another after the fact. As your situation had it, though, neither of you could actually afford to move out; so you were both stuck with each other for the foreseeable future, still.
Avoiding Alex only worked so well, since you would all eat dinner together and he would often spend his time outside of his own room when he was home at all. That meant you had to stay in your room for the most part in order to not have to sit through awkward silences and awful small talk.
It was weird, though, wasn’t it?
Alex and you had been a couple just weeks ago. You had shared a bed with each other; had been intimate; had talked all day and night long – especially Alex. But now you could barely even look at each other without it feeling strange. It was as though you’d suddenly regressed from partners to complete strangers all over again. And in a way, it really frustrated you.
After all, you still liked him.
Perhaps that was the problem. Breaking up with him wasn’t easy on you; even if you weren’t crying over it or anything; you still felt a great loss. What had actually hurt you was the fact that Alex didn’t seem affected by it at all. Yes, it had been a mutual decision, but it must have stung a little for him, too, right? If it meant anything to him at all, that was.
No, you couldn’t and wouldn’t go down that road. It would only cause you to hate this version of him in your mind and project it onto his real self. That certainly wouldn’t be helpful whatsoever.
In the end, though, it was a reason why a relationship with him didn’t work for you.
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