I will never say no to an Edmund Pevensie fic 🙈🙈
pairing: Edmund Pevensie x fem!reader
other stuff: we're just going to pretend that the boys and girls go to the same school and it's not a boarding school; also, WWII isn't happening in this; B/n means boy's name
description: edmund watches as his best friend catches feelings for a guy who doesn't reciprocate them
"Hurry up, Y/n, we're going to be late," Edmund called to his friend.
"I'm working on it," she called back, struggling with her books as they walked across the lawn towards their school building.
"I offered to help you," Edmund responded, laughing, "but you were all 'no, I can hold my own books. I'm a strong, independent woman who doesn't need a man blah blah blah.'" Y/n rolled her eyes in response. You see, Edmund and Y/n have known each other for as long as they can remember. They've been friends for what feels like forever. They grew up together (their moms were both friends in school) and they were always in the same classes. Y/n was friends with the rest of the Pevensies, of course, but it wasn't the same as with Edmund. She and Edmund had always clicked.
After school that day, Y/n was sitting at the Pevensie's kitchen table doing homework with Edmund, when Lucy and Susan came into the room to grab a snack.
"What about you, Y/n?" Lucy asked as if Y/n had been a part of their whole conversation.
"What about me?" Y/n responded, glancing up from her homework. Edmund tuned his sisters out (as he usually did), and continued his homework.
"Do you fancy any of the boys at school?" Lucy clarified her question. This got Edmund's attention and his head shot towards Y/n. She had never told him about any crushes. Then again, that's not the sort of thing the two of them would talk about. Y/n looked away, smiling, and Susan and Lucy gasped, rushing towards the table.
"Who is it?" Susan demanded.
"It's B/n..." she replied with a smile. B/n was in the same grade as Edmund and Y/n. However, Edmund knew that B/n liked a different girl and not Y/n. Edmund didn't have the heart to tell her, though.
At lunch a few days later, Y/n was sitting across from Edmund telling him a story when she noticed that he was looking past her.
"What is it," she asked, turning around. "Oh," she said, her voice barely a whisper when she saw B/n. He was sitting with a girl, his arm around her shoulder and she was laughing.
"You alright?" Edmund asked her as she turned around to finish her lunch.
"Yeah, I'm okay." She finished her lunch in silence.
After lunch, the two went back to class, where their teacher announced a project where they would be working in pairs. Y/n and Edmund glanced at each other and gave each other a look that meant "let's work together." The teacher must've noticed this silent exchange because the next words that came out of her mouth were "and I've already chosen the groups."
There was a collective groan around the room as it seems many others had had similar ideas as Y/n and Edmund. The teacher ignored this and began reading out the groups. Y/n and Edmund waited in anticipation as she read out more and more names that weren't either of theirs, hoping that she had paired them together (though it wasn't likely).
"Y/n and B/n," the teacher read. Y/n looked at Edmund as if to say "sorry." She wasn't really very sorry at all though. She didn't really know how to feel. Should she be excited? Nervous?
Her thoughts were cut short, however, as the teacher finished reading off the names and announced that they could find their partners and begin brainstorming.
"That's me," she looked up at B/n who was standing by her desk. "And you're, B/n?" She knew the answer, but still asked so as to not seem like a stalker.
"Yep," he said, pulling up a chair to sit down.
"Right, so do you have any ideas so far?" Y/n asked him.
That day, Y/n and Edmund decided to walk home, as it was a nice day and it wasn't very far. Y/n, of course, was ranting all about her conversation with B/n.
"He's just the perfect guy, you know? He's kind, and funny, and creative."
"And he has a girlfriend," Edmund reminds her.
"He doesn't actually!" she informed him, "he hasn't asked her out yet! Isn't that wonderful?"
Edmund muttered some response but she paid him no mind and continued her rant.
A few weeks later, the class was working towards the end of their projects.
"Can I ask you a question, Y/n?" B/n asked her. Immediately, she began coming up with all sorts of questions he could ask her.
"Yeah, sure!" she replied.
"If I wanted to ask a girl out, how do you think I should go about doing it?" It wasn't the question she was expecting, but it wasn't the worst case. He hadn't specified any names so he could be preparing to ask her out.
"Yeah, cause I have so much knowledge in that area," she stated sarcastically and he laughed.
"Well if you wanted to be asked out, how would you want them to go about doing it?"
She proceeded to give him a couple ideas, which he thanked her for, and the two went their separate ways.
Edmund caught up with Y/n in between classes and asked her how it had gone with B/n.
"It was good," she answered him. And it had been.
The two decided to walk home again that day. They hadn't gotten too far out of the building when B/n came running after them calling Y/n's name.
"Y/n!" He called and she whipped around. "She said yes! Thanks for all of your help!"
"That's great! I'm really happy for you!" She said with a fake smile.
He nodded before giving her a small "goodbye" and leaving. She turned on her heel and began walking away quickly. Edmund took a few steps to catch up with her.
Y/n felt tears begin to well up in her eyes. She had no one to blame but herself. She couldn't blame him for having feelings for someone else. It still hurt, though. They walked in silence for a while.
They had gotten nearly halfway home when it began raining.
"Great," Y/n muttered, "it's raining."
"It's alright, it's only drizzling." They walked in silence for a little more until Edmund said, "penny for your thoughts?"
"I guess I just don't really understand why he would go through all of that trouble when there was a perfectly decent girl right in front of him."
"Will you stop doing that?" Edmund exclaimed, freezing in his steps and startling Y/n a little with his tone.
"Stop selling yourself short! You're more than decent. You're bloody amazing and if he can't see that then too bad. But you need to stop putting yourself down so much, okay? You're one of the best people I know, okay..."
Y/n realized that she had spent so much time trying to be the girl that B/n wanted when in reality, she already had Edmund and he was a better man than B/n would ever be.
"And I'm not just saying that because you're my friend or because you had a crappy day. You are kind and funny, and any guy would be lucky to have you…"
"Shut up," she said, cutting him off with a kiss as the rain began to come down harder.
"Now we really have to go," she giggled at the sight of Edmund soaking wet.
Edmund grabbed her hand and the two began to run home.
"Watch the puddle!" Y/n yelled at Edmund.
"You mean this puddle?" He asked, running right through it and splashing her with water.
"Edmund!" She shouted, giggling.
Finally, the two got to the Pevensies' house, where they had to wait on the front porch until Mrs. Pevensie fetched them towels. Once they got towels and were able to go inside, the two sat down at the table as Susan began making them some hot cocoa.
"Edmund, I told you this morning that it would rain today and that you shouldn't walk home," Susan scolded him.
"Did you? Must not have been listening," Edmund smiled at her cheekily and she sighed.
"I heard about what happened with B/n today, Y/n. I'm sorry." Lucy said to her.
"It's alright, I'm over him." She smiled knowingly at Edmund.
