A couple of hours go by, you’ve been talking and chilling with Elizabeth and Evan for a while. You haven’t seen William since earlier and you don’t really know what you did wrong still… Pushing it aside, you realize you’re hungry and decide to get some pizza.
“You two want something to eat? You ask, accidentally interrupting their conversation.
“Oooh, yeah! I’m hungry!” Elizabeth announces, her grin wide while Evan just nods slowly, he really is a shy kid.
“Alright, want me to buy you guys some pizza?” You ask, smiling.
“Oh daddy lets us eat for free, the cooking guys know us. Just go with us!” Elizabeth says, clearly happy with that fact.
You laugh and nod, “Oh alright then,” you follow the two to the ordering stand. It makes sense they get free food, their father literally co-owns the place. Plus who wouldn’t give free food to these sweethearts?
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Once you have your food, the three of you begin to eat at a table. You decide against soda this time since well, you drank a lot of it earlier… It’s a little quiet as the three of you eat, for obvious reasons. Once you finish, you check your phone, and once again, no messages. You put it away, looking around, smiling as you make eye contact with Scott from across the room. He only smiles back before going on with his business, you’re kind of feeling useless right now…
You look over to your right when you hear a chair being pulled out, to your surprise it’s Michael, you recall. He sits down, not making eye contact with anyone. He just seems bored and decided to sit down really, reasonably.
“Hi!” You greet him.
His eyes meet yours, disinterest obvious in them, and he blatantly ignores you. Ouch. And this is why you would never have kids, you like them when they’re small and sweet but would not be able to stand that “whatever” to everything stage.
“Michael! This is Y/N!” Elizabeth chirps out, grinning.
Michael huffs, “I don’t really care,” he bluntly says, his arms crossed. His clothing style also gives that “rebel teenager” vibe, ripped sleeves, half untucked shirt, and ripped jeans. Plus he has a bandage on his cheek and some on his arms. You’re so happy you didn’t have that stage…
“Oh but he’s really nice!” Elizabeth continues which only makes Michael roll his eyes. He really wasn’t interested in anything involving you.
“Woah woah, who’s having pizza without me?” A familiar voice speaks up, you turn around and see William. His smile slightly falters at you but he turns back to his kids, “Why didn’t you guys tell me you were here?”
“They got distracted,” Michael mutters.
“Hey! We were making new friends, you should try it, Michael. Instead of hanging out with bullies…” Elizabeth says bitterly, this only makes Michael glare at her.
“Both of you, stop. Also hi, Y/N.” William says blankly, the way his hi sounded was very emotionless, it sounded like he really didn’t want to acknowledge your existence…
“H.. Hi,” you mumble back, not really knowing what to do or say.
You kind of block out their conversation as you get lost in your thoughts. Seriously, what happened? A few hours ago, you swear he was about to kiss you and now, he can barely muster a hello to you. You swear you did nothing wrong! So why is he acting like this? Just say something, damn it, William!
Your attention is brought back when you hear your name, “Huh?”
“Y/N? Can we talk?” William asks, he doesn’t even look at you when he does so.
“Sure…” You mumble, not really wanting to because well, now you’re mad at him. But you ignore that as he grabs your hand, guiding you to Parts and Service for some reason?
Once you’re both inside, you awkwardly look away from him, not really wanting to stare at his stupid… smart attractive face right now… You blush when you feel him grab your chin, guiding you to look at him.
His usual smirk forms on his face but you jerk away, not really in the mood to be his little game… He looks surprised at your reaction, you refuse to look at him again.
He clears his throat, “Sorry. I just…” He trails off.
“You just what? Wanted to see if I’d fall for your tricks again?” You huff out, clearly unhappy with the fact that he tries to tease you again literally right after treating you like you were a fucking bother in his life!
“What?” is all he musters out as you walk to the other side of the room, not wanting to be near him yet not wanting to leave the room…
“Just… Just say whatever it is you need to say, I wanna go home already.” You mutter and flinch when you feel tears forming. Why did you let this fucking tease play with your emotions…? I mean, of course, it was a game. You’re just fresh meat to him, free to manipulate…
“I’m sorry? Did I do something wrong?” William mutters out, annoyance clear in his tone.
You let out a small laugh, does he really think you’re stupid? What a fucking jerk!
“Don’t act dumb,” you mutter out.
“I’m genuinely confused about what I did wrong, Y/N,” William says, leaning against the door.
“Fine, you wanna play this game?! You… You literally walk away from me, with no explanation, leaving me clueless! I felt so stupid, I kept thinking about if I have done something wrong! And I seriously can’t handle feeling like this today! Oh, and then you come back only to treat me like my fucking existing was bothering you then you try and act like nothing happened?!” You almost scream out, those tears now running down your face. You really do cry a lot… Over stupid shit too. William takes a second to answer, you can only imagine the lies he’s planning…
“I’m sorry if I came off like that. What you said reminded me of… something. It’s a little personal and I needed some time, it sort of put me in a bad mood but I promise it wasn’t directed at you.” He says, really sounding genuine…
Your expression softens, did you really blow up over a misunderstanding? “You should have said something instead of leaving me sitting there like a fucking idiot…” You mutter softly.
“Again, I’m sorry. I’ll try and communicate more next time if it bothers you that much.” William firmly says.
“O… okay. What did you need to tell me?” You ask quietly, walking back to your previous spot. You feel a little embarrassed for overreacting like that.
“Well, I was going to excuse my sudden exit just to avoid confusion yet it seemed as if that confusion beat me to you.” William chuckles bitterly.
“I… I’m sorry.” You apologize, blushing.
“No, no. It’s fine, you’re right, you opened up to me first. I should open up to you too…” William says, a gentle smile on his face. You seriously fall for that smile every time…
You look away, “You don’t need to if you’re not comfortable just yet,” you mumble.
“I want to.” He simply says, smirking at your slight blush, “Oh, so you said you wanted to go home? Were you serious, because you can. Today was a little much…”
You blush more, “I sort of said that just to try and get away… I was upset.”
“Ah, okay. Well, good. I’m not keen on quitters,” William says with a sly smirk.
You can’t help but laugh at that, “Yes sir.” you respond, jokingly saluting.
William chuckles, “Good boy.” he says. That really did it, your cheeks are bright red now from those two words. And he definitely knows it.
William looks around, “Well, we should go. Don’t wanna be suspicious now do we?” He teases once more.
You roll your eyes, and he opens the door so you both can get out. You barely realized how much the crowd thinned out. It’s around 4 PM now, which really isn’t late but it might be because the animatronics have turned off for the night. You follow behind William as he approaches his kids again, who seemed to be arguing. You catch a bit of their conversation, something about Santa Claus? Oh no, was Michael breaking the news to his younger siblings?
Your suspicions are confirmed when Elizabeth yells out, “Santa Claus is real! Who else gets us Christmas gifts?!”
Michael only laughs at this, “Are you actually this stupid?”
William sighs, looking at you for a second, smiling as you only laugh at the situation, “Okay, you two. Calm down. Michael, apologize.”
“Pfft, why would I do that?” Michael says, a laugh escaping his lips.
William only glares at Michael, which doesn’t really change anything. Elizabeth huffs at Michael.
“You’re just mad that you’re on the naughty list this year, Michael,” Elizabeth announces, sticking her tongue out at her older brother. Michael rolls his eyes before talking more shit, this is kind of entertaining…
The chaos between these two is unreal, Evan just says there between them all while everyone else can hear them. William sighs when Michael and Elizabeth both stop after what felt like forever, you smirk at him when he meets your eyes. He only mouths, “Kids.” and you chuckle at that. Your happy things are back to normal, even if this normal has only existed for two days. It’s nice…
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