Your Freckles Lead the Way

by IamJustLadyD

Summary:

⭒ Season 1 - Compilation/Rewrite ⭒

You’ve been friends with Alex Walter for a long time now, not best friends like Kiley, but close ones. And instead of encouraging him to pursue a relationship with Jackie, you take the veil from his eyes and show him that interfering between her and Cole would be a mistake that could only bring him but pain.

In the meantime, he starts to notice that he enjoys your company, maybe too much. Maybe he has always found happiness on it. But thinking that you might be secretly crushing on his brother, he says nothing until everything blows up on his face.

And when he gets drunk after a certain opening horse show, he confesses his innermost feelings.

Notes:

Hello, again! I'm writing the second Alex Walter fic because he's rooted in my brain and I can't stop showing my love for him, this is the first one if you like to read it Here

This one is like a mixture of the content of most episodes, like, if Y/N|Reader was during the whole story but it shifts because Jackie gets with Cole instead of Alex. Lets say y/n helps him realize, sooner than later, that he's acting dense, and that is WRONG.

1st chapter is short but it sets the story from y/n perspective and her feelings. So, enjoy this :)

Chapter 1: 𝖦𝗋𝖾𝖾𝗇-𝖾𝗒𝖾𝖽 𝖥𝖾𝖾𝗅𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗌

The warning signs have always been there since the beginning of their story. And you’ve been just waiting for Alex to catch them before he starts to fall for the new yorker girl who happens to be living at his own place, with his brothers and cousins, and in close proximity with his least favorite sibling, Cole Walter.

There’s been a diatribe between the brothers, trying hard to compete with one another. But the heart wants what it wants. And at the moment, what both of them want is not just a piece, but the whole cake with the name of Jackie atop.

 

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THE THRID CLASS of the period hasn’t even started and he’s already thinking about how to ask her out. Jackie is seated next to Skylar and Grace, like usually. Not a single furtive look from hers has grasped Alex during all that time, and you’ve already heard Grace saying the name Cole once or twice, with Jackie grimacing, but then smiling to herself.

“You seriously need to stop staring at her, Alex,” you mutter to him. After beholding his twenty sighs of the day, he’s getting irritatingly ridiculous, “like, now.”

You’re obviously jealous. You clearly have a soft spot for him, and you don’t feel aversion to Jackie, but the way he’s lost on her, it gives you the strongest pang in the stomach. And you can barely take it any longer.

“And why would I do that?” he says, playfully. Partly interested in your comment, partly messing around with you.

He is used to your lectures. He even enjoys them. Maybe too much, he’d say. But he keeps messing up, so you keep reproaching him about his attitude.

And he lets you.

“Because she’s clearly not looking at you,” you answer.

He turns his head toward your side, and that smile has become a pout on his lips. His freckles looking light brown at this range between you two, and the willow green of his irises… Even if you’ve admired them before… you’d never seen them so close. It makes you shiver.

A soft warm is coloring your cheeks due his attention lingering on you now. Just as you wanted. But you’d never admit that out loud, so you continue with the lecture where you stalled, “And that is humiliating.”

He snorts, any trace of his smile falling to the ground. “Maybe you’re right.”

“I am always right,” you reply, pride in every syllable you speak.

But are you? Aren’t you speaking with the green-eyed monster of jealousy crawling from your guts? Is this fuss about him or about your inability to bear with your own feelings?

You’re still trying to discover that.