Zerobaseone Imagines seok matthew – awks

seok matthew x reader
you’re sure you have no chance with matthew after an embarrassing incident at the gym but you end up piquing his interest instead.

you don’t think you had ever wanted to be with a boy more than you did seok matthew.

he was a dream in every sense of the word.

you had had a grand total of zero conversations with him due to the fact that just like any sane girl did with the guy they liked, you completely and utterly ignored him.

that was until the most dreadful, embarrassing day of your life.

you had been going to the gym much more often recently. you made a vow to yourself to stay healthy throughout the year in january and you had seen that through. also the fact that matthew was a frequent gym goer may have had a little something to do with it too.

you would come up with the cutest outfits you could muster, well the cutest athletic wear could get and get your workout done but you almost never saw matthew.

so nobody could blame you for not caring about your surroundings when your best friend calls.

you’re on the treadmill walking at steady pace and an incline of 12 when you pick up the phone. you ensure your airpods are in and you press answer.

your phone is propped up on the little phone rest infront of the treadmill controls and your screen is immediately overtaken with your best friend tsuki’s face.

she waved widely. “y/n.”

“hey.” you smiled at her, you could practically feel her excitement and it made you giggle.

“why are you so giddy, what happened?” you asked curiously, placing your hands on the hand rests to keep yourself steady as you grew tired.

“guess who just got us invited to an alpha zero frat party?” tsuki folded her arms, mouth pursing into a tight lipped smile to contain her excitement.

she pointed at herself two seconds later not even allowing you to guess. “me! i did!”

you’re in disbelief and your stomach is already in knots because that was matthew’s frat and he would for sure be there.

tsuki is expecting you to hop off the treadmill and do a happy dance but you just keep walking, your face remaining in a neutral expression whilst lost in thought so she frowns.

“where’s my ‘thank you tsuki you’re the best friend ever i love you the most in the entire world?’.” she sighed dramatically and you could only gulp.

“okay excuse me for not falling to my knees and trying to virtually kiss your feet but i’m nervous! matthew will be there.” you said.

tsuki picked up her phone and walked to her kitchen and all you could see was the neckline of her sweater as she spoke.

“well duh that’s exactly why you should be excited.” she dropped her phone on the counter and started rummaging through her pantry.

“it’s your chance to finally try make a move on matthew and win him over with your y/nie charm.” tsuki explained, suddenly coming into view again with a kit-kat.

you didn’t say anything and she frowned breaking off a piece of her kit-kat and biting into it.

“have you seen his new instagram story by the way?” she asked out of the blue.

“no, he posted? show me.”

your reply is frantic and tsuki smiled to herself. she knew you just needed a little spurring on, some reminding of how much you liked matthew to get you as excited as she was for this party.

tsuki looked so cute as she reached for her ipad, excitement similar to that of a kid offered candy displayed on her face.

she flipped the ipad screen around to you and your knees went weak. you leaned closer to your phone.

“he is crazy. there’s no other explanation. why would he post something like that. tsuki i feel faint. tsuki..”

you were so dramatic tsuki couldn’t stop herself from giggling behind her ipad screen.

the mirror selfie of matthew in a compress black tee mid workout was enough to make a victorian woman die on the spot.

you fully have to pause your treadmill session to take in the picture.

“so.. enough motivation for you to get the balls to go to the party?” tsuki asked cheekily.

“more than enough.” you nodded eagerly to assure her.

“i will for sure be at that party and i will capture the heart of seok matthew.” you said.

“atta girl.” tsuki smiled, nodding with you. “okay i’ll leave you to finish your workout because i need you back sooner than later so we can start talking outfits.” she waved a hand dismissively towards the screen.

you gave tsuki a thumbs up and then bid her goodbye.

“bye-bye.” she kissed her fingertips and waved at you before ending the call and you’re still smiling when the call is over.

you don’t think you can even finish your workout you need to start mentally preparing for this party.

you take out your airpods and look to your right and then over your shoulder. the gym is still as packed as when the call had started. edm music is blaring loudly and you wonder for second who decides what they play.

your playlist was much better.

it’s when you look over to your left that you think you actually die for a second and then come back to life.

on the treadmill right beside you is none other than seok matthew himself.

your heart is beating about 200 times a millisecond.

you discreetly move your phone closer to you as you look at the instagram story and realise it was posted only 10 minutes ago.

you prayed to every god you could think of that matthew didn’t hear a word you said. he had headphones on so you held out hope.

you were about to switch from praying to thanking god as you nearly left the crime scene without so much as a glance from matthew.

then as you’re directly behind him he swivelled around a bit.

“see you at the party.”

you froze and looked at matthew like a deer caught in headlights. the lump in your throat felt permanent and it was beginning to feel like it was blocking your airways to breathe.

you couldn’t bring yourself to speak even when seconds started to feel unnecessarily lengthy.

matthew had already swivelled back around and brought the speed up to swiftly switch to a jog.

you couldn’t move. you wanted a portal to appear magically and swallow you whole.

after a minute of legitimately being frozen in place you leave without saying anything back. the embarrassment too much to ever even consider it.

you think that instead of searching your wardrobe for the best possible dress for the party, you would be surfing the internet for the least painful way to die; then backspacing all that and switching out least for most because you deserved to suffer for putting yourself through this.

you don’t dare look back at all.

if you had, you would have seen that matthew was smiling to himself trying to catch your eye again.

***

“i’m not going.”

tsuki groaned at your statement pulling your hand with all her might to try get you out from under the covers.

“yes. you. are.” she yanked harder with each word she said, ultimately succeeding.

you come collapsing onto her on the floor.

tsuki is about to jump up with triumph but you stay there, resting your head on her stomach, unmoving and she thinks it might have been better when you were on the bed.

“y/n.” she shuffled into a sitting position and your head fell into her lap.

“tsuki.” you replied shortly.

she pat your head comfortingly and spoke softly to try convince you. “you are going to that party. c’mon do it for the plot.”

tsuki paused her ministrations to lift you up. she held you by your shoulders and you flop your head down theatrically.

“think about it y/n, if he wasn’t interested he would have just kept his mouth shut but he didn’t and he wants to see you at the party tonight.” tsuki urged.

“is it worth it though. his first impression of me is an insane, thirsty, rabid girl frothing over his gym pictures.” you sighed, rattling off the adjectives with a scowl on your face.

“maybe he’s into that.” tsuki joked, finally getting a chuckle out of you.

“you have his attention now. he will be waiting for you to get to the party and capture his heart.”

you cringed at her repeating your words from the call but her convincing was beginning to work as much as you hated to admit it.

“i guess.”

tsuki stood up happily and started sifting through your closet. you watched from your place on the floor as she pulled out dresses and placed the hanger to her in attempt to picture what the dress would like on.

“you need to wear this one.” she gasped at the black dress she had just picked up.

you had never worn the dress before, always deciding to save it for a better occasion.

what better of a time than now.

you finally stand up and you take the dress and tsuki squeals so loudly your eardrums nearly pop.

she had already brought her outfit with her so in a matter of seconds she’s ran into the other room and getting changed. you sighed but not before letting out a chuckle at how happy she is.

you just hoped you wouldn’t regret this later.

***

you had never been to a party so boisterous.

honestly you don’t know what else you’d expected of a literal frat party.

you had been there for about an hour and there was still no sight of matthew.

tsuki said something that you couldn’t hear and you leaned a little closer. “let’s just dance.” she repeated into your ear and you take the alcoholic drink away from her.

“you sure you can dance.” you chuckled at how much of a lightweight she was as she twirled around clumsily and beckoned you over.

she nodded and shouted. “we might see matthew on the dance floor.” she swung your hands around and you had half a mind to slap her upside the head.

you glanced around you. “scream that a little louder why don’t you.” you scolded sarcastically.

“WE MIGHT SEE—.”

you clasped your hands around her mouth and she giggled loudly.

tsuki pulled your hand away from her face and ran, disappearing into an array of bodies.

you cursed under your breath and pushed into the crowd to find her.

when you do spot her she’s chatting with a girl you vaguely recognised from other outings. you sighed in relief and as you turned around a hand was placed on you waist and you yelped.

“who the hell..” your loud tone drowned down into a softer one as you looked behind you and were met with the face of shen ricky.

you chuckled nervously, confused as to what he wanted.

you didn’t know him that well, but you knew he was friends with matthew.

he was undeniably handsome, that was for sure. he was known to be rather quiet though so you were shocked at his tactlessness.

“y/n right?” he lifted his hand away from your waist but leaned over to ask the question. he was so close his lips brushed against the shell of your ear.

you blushed from the sheer closeness and the smell of alcohol coming from him made you wipe your nose subconsciously.

you nodded and he smiled, his eyes closed as he gestured behind him aimlessly.

“my friend is looking for you.” he shouted over the music.

“who?” you asked warily, despite having an idea.

“matt.” ricky smirked boyishly.

your heart stopped beating for a second at the thought of matthew talking to his friends about you, mentioning he wanted to see you. it all feels like a dream but then it’s quickly turned into a nightmare when ricky keeps talking.

“i heard you want to jump his bones? be careful okay, he’s more fragile than he looks.” ricky laughed at his own words and you groaned loudly face palming.

“i don’t. he’s got the wrong idea. i swear.”

“you didn’t say that?” ricky teased and you couldn’t lie his tone put a smile on your face. it felt like joking with a friend you had known for ages, despite the number of conversations you had had with the boy or lack there of.

“he thinks i’m a freak doesn’t he?” you finally allowed yourself to laugh with him.

“well not exactly.”

the new voice in the conversation had your mouth clamping shut immediately. you blinked in shock as matthew appeared from behind ricky. he wrapped an arm loosely around his friend’s shoulder.

you felt like a fish. your mouth opened and then closed again as you tried to think of something to say back. luckily ricky spoke.

“you think she’s the other kind of freak.” ricky asked suggestively, wiggling his eyebrows and it diffuses the awkwardness of the situation. you wondered if sober ricky would apologise to matthew later.

you laughed at his comment as matthew spluttered while trying to rebuttal.

“man, don’t put words in my mouth.” matthew covered his face with his hand, his cheeks were flushed and his smile as bright as always.

his flustered expression feel’s like cupid shooting another arrow into your heart. you are completely enamoured by him. now that you were actually talking to him you realised he acted cuter than you expected, adorable even.

matthew dropped the hand covering his face. “can i steal y/n away for a second.” he stretched to match ricky’s tall height and say it closer to him due to the loud party, but you hear.

“of course, i’ll leave you two.” ricky winked obnoxiously and you take a sip of the drink you had taken from tsuki, to hide your shy smile.

“bye matt.” ricky messed up matthew’s hair a little, “bye y/n.” he sang wiggling his fingers around before running off.

you’re left alone with the guy you’ve been ogling since freshman year of college and you have no idea what to say.

“i was afraid you weren’t gonna show.” matthew pat down his hair a bit and then ran a hand through it.

“of course i did. yes, i got so embarrassed after the gym thing that i contemplated running into traffic on my way home but i mean who doesn’t have those days.”

matthew let out a little gasp after your words which made you laugh and the atmosphere became lighter.

“i probably shouldn’t have said anything, but put yourself in my shoes. a pretty girl is beside you, speaking as if she has just witnessed the second coming of christ. you’d be crazy not to try catch a glimpse.” matthew explained, hands moving around wildly as he told the story from his point of view.

you facepalmed and your face heated up at how he retold the story. you also couldn’t help but focus on the fact that he thought you were pretty.

“if it makes you feel any better you’re already doing a great job at capturing my heart.” matthew said.

you bit back a smile and held back from cringing this time at the echoing of those stupid words.

you glanced to the left and caught tsuki’s eye she gave you a over exaggerated thumbs up. knowing he was into you despite everything filled you with a newfound confidence. you nod at tsuki and shoot her a smile.

matthew couldn’t see who exactly you were looking at but he was suddenly so aware of how packed the place was. so loud and distracting.

he found himself wishing he had asked you out on a date earlier. it was hard to focus on only one another in the midst of a party.

“wanna talk outside?” he asked when you turned back to look at him.

you agreed almost immediately because there was no point in hiding your eagerness now.

matthew chuckled and nodded his head towards the door.

you walk over the discarded plastic cups and side stepped past the crowds of people.

you were shivering the second you stepped outside. you’d almost forgotten the time of year due to how stuffy it was in the house. goosebumps erupt on your arms and you rub at them in a fruitless attempt to gain some warmth.

your eyes were focused on your shoes when matthew pulled off his denim jacket and draped it around your shoulders.

when you look up he’s tightening it around you, his lips curling up into a smile. “better?”

you were suddenly engulfed with his scent and he was so close as he ensured you were warm.

you nodded, humming cutely and matthew grinned.

he smiled a lot. you liked that, he was so comforting to be around.

“sorry for asking you to come out here..” he trailed off a bit, looking away sort of shyly.

“i just wanted to talk to you. properly, without all the noise y’know.” matthew bit his bottom lip and finally returned his gaze to you.

it was still noisy, the music booming through the brick walls of the house, but it was much better than actually being in there.

matthew’s heart swelled at how pretty you looked under the moonlight and he wanted to slap himself for it taking that incident in the gym for him to properly talk to you.

your eyes were focused solely on him and you felt as if your heart would beat out of your chest. you hadn’t had a crush like this since middle school.

“your hair looks especially cute today.” you brushed the hair in his face away without even thinking and it fell right back.

you laughed and matthew tilted his head, “does it?”

you nodded and bit back a smile at his mannerisms. “yeah,” you paused for a second.

“talking to you for real is kinda fucking with the idea of you i had in my head though.”

matthew raised an eyebrow in confusion so you kept going.

“your instagram is so.. but in real life you’re more cute.” you can’t think of a word to truly encapsulate the matthew you knew from instagram so you let yourself trail off and hoped he could fill in the blanks.

matthew chuckled, he didn’t know how to react.
he kinda preferred you freaking out over his gym pictures.

“hey, we need a healthy balance. i can do both.” he frowned a little, playfully of course and you giggled.

“fine, fine.” you raised your hands up in surrender.

you clicked your tongue and then poked his bicep.

“what do you think of me then?”

matthew thought about the question for a couple seconds.

“i think you’re pretty, sweet and that i have a lot of self control for not asking you out the second i spotted you today.”

you felt the heat rush up your neck. warming you up even more than his jacket had.

“that last part was about you.” you replied in a smart aleck tone, matthew rolled his eyes.

he leaned back against a car parked outside and took a hold of your hand to pull you closer to him.

“if i don’t kiss you by the end of tonight, i think i might cry myself to sleep.”

you smirked at his words leaning towards him and although matthew is the one who made the bold statement his breath hitches as you move closer to him.

it feels like time is moving in slow motion and your heart is beating embarrassingly fast but you try and keep your cool.

matthew’s hands move to caress your cheek and bring your lips up to his.

your lips are mere inches away from his and then you giggled and placed a hand over matthew’s hand on your cheek. you wrapped your own hand around his and your eyes flickered over his face.

“i need you to grovel for a bit longer.” you stated.

you dropped your hand down, taking his with it and squeezed a little. matthew had to snap out of the daze all that teasing had left him in before replying.

“you’re evil.”

“how did you do this pining thing for so long?” he added, a pout resting on his lips and you bursted into a fit of laughter.

you walk backwards leading him back inside and although matthew wanted to spend more time alone with you he followed reluctantly.

“i think the alcohol is properly getting to me now because i want to dance.”

“okay but don’t be surprised when i steal the spotlight, i’m the best dancer i know and i’m not gonna go easy on you.” matthew joked.

“we’ll see.”

you pressed a quick chasté kiss to his cheek and his face grew rosy.

you let go of his hand to skitter back in, giggling and matthew had to stop himself from smiling too much before joining you.

he probably would end up going easy on you.

***

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