Prompts: B38. "Because I love you, you idiotic mufflehead!" + B63. "Don't worry, you look beautiful/handsome."

Word count: 795

It was partly your idea - a competition to gather money for charity and the prize was a dinner with the band. Their screaming fans who were obsessed over the boys were ecstatic in buying tickets, so it was a perfect idea.

It was a good idea, until some of the winning fans requested if they could have dinner with only Reggie. Reggie was flattered as expected, but you had a bad feeling about it. What if those fans would seduce your long-time crush?

"Why it concerns you if I'm going to hang out with some of our fans?" Reggie asked and you fell silent once again. "Guys, why is Y/N like this?"

Alex lifted his hands up when he passed you, Luke in tow. "That's not our case to say but... I agree, you shouldn't go out with those fans, but you should talk with Y/N about it..."

"Y/N?" Reggie asked again, trying to hunt for your gaze. You didn't look at him, you couldn't. You loved him, always had, but he didn't love you back. It wasn't possible. "Y/N, talk to me."

"Leave me alone," you muttered, trying to leave the scene but Reggie took a hold of your hand.

"No, tell me what's wrong, we've been best friends since-"

"I don't want to be friends with you anymore." you thought, but accidentally said it aloud. That thought had been so intense for months, ever since Reggie started to gather fans who had a crush on him.

Reggie was taken aback of your words. "Wha- what? Why? What did I do wrong?"

You cringed internally by just imagining how bad that must have felt. "Reggie, I didn't... I didn't mean it like that."

"How else can you mean it? Y/N, I've been your friend for all these years, and now you're treating me like this?" his voice was now broken and you tried to keep your tears in, which was a bad decision, since to Reggie that seemed like you don't care.

"You don't own me, Y/N, I can do whatever I want, have fun with whoever I wan't and-"

"It's not that!" you interrupted him and he swallowed.

"What is it then? Jealousy that I don't spend all my time with-"

"I don't want you to go because I love you, you idiotic mufflehead!" you screamed, not believing he wasn't aware of that by now. You had been flirting with him for months, trying to get his attention and his bandmates sent pitying glances at you and sometimes you saw them muttering something to Reggie, trying to usher him at you, but he was the most clueless person ever when it came to this.

"You- what?" Reggie's eyes were wide open now, a perfect contrast to the confusion and hurt he had been feeling just moments ago.

You must've looked silly and a bit scary, your eyeliner all over your face, and you started wiping your eyes to a tissue, taking some deep sighs in to calm yourself.

"I know what those fans are after. One of them will seduce you and you'll fall in love with them. I know I'm selfish, but I don't want to remember you as the guy who unintentionally broke my heart... if you dated someone else than me, I'd leave the band. I'm sorry, I couldn't bear seeing you cuddling with anyone else." you sniffled and wiped away your eyeliner with your hand as it was making its way to your eye, but only smudging it to look more messy and ugly and you groaned. "I look terrible."

"No, you don't." Reggie told you and made you look at him. "You're beautiful."

You scoffed. "You're just saying that to calm me down."

"I've been in love with you ever since we met. I just didn't know how to approach you. And don't worry, you look beautiful." he smiled, taking a hold of your hand and helped you to clean out your eyeliner, and he muttered, "Actually, you're the most beautiful person I've ever seen."

You blushed at that, and let out a nervous laugh. Alex looked like he was going to faint from exhaustion as they finally accomplished their mission, the three had tried to get you two together for the longest time. They had tried to get you to confess it straight to Reggie's face, tried to get Reggie confess it straight to your face, they had tried to set you two up for a date, but both of you were always clueless what they were doing.

But now their work seemed to finally pay out as they watched you two sitting side by side on one of the larger speakers. It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship - and so worth all the effort.