𝟬𝟮𝟵. . . taylor swift coded
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE !
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- ❝ TAYLOR SWIFT CODED ❞ 💌
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astoria sits cross-legged on her bed, her eyes focused on her annotated book as she works on her english homework. the rain outside beats loudly against her window in a steady rhythm, casting a peaceful ambiance over her room. the soft patter of raindrops on the roof and the occasional rumble of thunder in the distance provides her with a soothing background melody that fills the room.
astoria's room is cozy, with muted colors and plush blankets. her bed is tucked in the corner, and she's propped up a few pillows to support her back as she works. the lamp on her desk casts a warm glow, illuminating the pages of her book and the pens and pencils scattered across the surface of her blanket.
her concentration is broken briefly when a particularly loud clap of thunder booms in the distance. she glances up, watching as the raindrops raced down the windowpane, tracing patterns that seemed to dance in the light. she smiles, appreciating the beauty of the storm outside.
returning to her homework, astoria's finds herself lost in the material for once, the outside world fading away. she scribbles notes in the margins of her book, her pen moving fluidly across the page. the rain continues to fall, its calming presence encouraging her focus.
as she works, astoria feels an unfamiliar sense of contentment settle over her. for once, she's grateful for the peace and quiet of her room, the gentle patter of rain, and the time to focus on her studies. despite the storm outside, she feels cozy and secure, surrounded by the warmth of her bed and the familiarity of her belongings.
astoria's mind begins to wander, her focus slipping away from her homework. she stares out the window, watching as the raindrops create tiny rivulets that run quickly down the glass. a memory of her father surfaces in her mind, unwanted and unexpected.
it had been a rainy day, much like this one, and astoria and her dad had been sitting in the living room, reading comic books together. he had always loved them, and had encouraged her love of the dumb little cartoons. they had spent hours together that day, lost in the pages of their favorite comics. it was what had sparked her love for marvel, though it's not like she ever talks to her friends about things like that that.
a pang of sadness sweeps through her, as she realizes how much she misses her dad. it's already been almost a year since he passed away, but the pain still lingers. she closes her eyes, allowing the memory to wash over her.
the sound of the rain on the roof seems to grow louder, and astoria can almost hear her dad's voice, comforting her with his warm, deep tone. she lets out a soft sigh, longing for his presence.
slowly, she opens her eyes, her gaze still fixed on the rain outside. she blinks away the few tears that had gathered in the corners of her eyes and takes a deep breath, feeling a sense of calm settle over her.
for a moment, she sits in silence, lost in her thoughts. then, with a determined shake of her head, she returns her attention to her homework, determined to finish it before the day is over. but she's distracted as her eyes drift over to the small box sitting on the edge of her bed. she'd ordered a new pair of headphones a few days ago, since her airpods have gone through hell and back and aren't really working anymore. they'd arrived this morning, but she's been determined not to open them until she's done with her homework. she shakes her head, turning back to her homework.
her phone then vibrates, pulling her attention away from her homework once again. she knows she really shouldn't, but she can't resist as she picks up her phone to see who the text is from. her eyebrows raise to the top of her head as she sees it's from chris.
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rory👎 ; astoria
christopher👹 ; chris
christopher👹
are you at home?
rory👎
yes...
christopher👹
okay good
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astoria's eyebrows raise even further, if that's even possible, as a facetime request from christopher👹 appears on her screen. reluctantly, she presses the accept button, pushing away her english homework so she can sit more comfortably on her bed.
chris is in the dark and is, of course, drinking a can of pepsi. astoria bites her bottom lip to stop herself from smiling at the familiar sight, and sighs. she honestly can't believe she's at a point in her life again where seeing chris actually makes her smile and not frown. she hates that almost as much as she hates him.
but deep down she knows that she doesn't actually hate him anymore, and that's probably the worst part of it all. she's accepted that hatred isn't the only feeling she holds for him.
"hey," he says, breaking her out of her trance. she sets her phone down in front of her and reaches for the package with her new headphones inside.
"hi," she replies, beginning to tear open the brown box. she hears him rustling with something on the other side of the phone, but astoria chooses to ignore it, her focus remaining on her package.
"hi, rory," he says slowly, her name rolling delicately off of his tongue. she looks up at her phone, making eye contact with him through the screen. she gives him a small smile and his mouth curves into a wide grin. she's staring at him like a lovestruck idiot, and she should most definitely not be doing that, so she decides to speak instead of giving him enough time to realize.
"so, why'd you call me?" she asks, watching as he clears his throat and moves the camera away from his face, so she can't see his reaction. she sees the camera moving and raises her eyebrows.
"i'm bored," he says, his face coming back into frame. he shrugs, before he speaks again. "matt and nick are being lame as fuck and doing their art and geography homework, and i don't take either of those subjects so i'm kinda just sitting here."
astoria makes a mental note to ask nick for the answers to the geography homework because she hasn't done it. she lets out a slight chuckle at chris' words. "shouldn't you also be doing homework?" she asks him, and he just shakes his head.
"shut up, astoria," he snaps, rolling his eyes. she laughs, then focuses on what's going on in the background of the facetime.
"what the fuck are you doing outside, christopher?" she says, purposely using his full name in return as he's just used hers.
"i'm on a walk," he replies nonchalantly.
"a walk?" she repeats, raising an eyebrow in suspicion. "you don't take walks."
"i do now," chris says. "i'm a changed man."
"it's pouring outside," she says, briefly glancing out of her bedroom window. "you're fucking crazy."
"gotta get my steps in, you know?" he says, not seeming to care, though he does pull his hood over his head.
"alright..." astoria hums, a little weirded out but deciding to turn her attention away from chris' strange behavior and places it on the unopened headphone box before her. "i got these sick new headphones," she tells him randomly, taking them out of the box and putting them on.
chris smiles as she shows them to him, before she hears a quiet clicking sound. "did you just take a screenshot?" she asks.
"nope," he shrugs, then squints his eyes and moves the phone closer to his face. "they look like elf ears," he points out.
"yeah, that's kinda the point," she deadpans, rolling her eyes. "bozo," she adds, unable to help herself.
"alright, nerd," he responds quickly, making her smile. he shuffles around a little more before pulling off his hood and running his fingers through his hair. "wait, rory," he says, catching her off guard.
"yeah?" she responds, now taking out her headphones and placing them on her bedside table.
he furrows his eyebrows. "there's...i think there's someone outside your house," he says, a hint of a smile playing on the corners of his mouth. "you should probably go see who it is."
she rolls her eyes at him, but obeys, getting up from her bed and walking over to her window. at the same time, mason walks past her room with a bowl of cereal, peering in and giving her a weird look when he finds her looking out of the window. astoria uses her free hand to brush her curtains out of the way, but she can't see anything.
something hits her window, and astoria jumps, dropping her phone. mason raises his eyebrows, still hovering outside her window to see what's going. there's a thud against the window again, so astoria decides to open it, peering out.
it's then that a small rock comes flying through the window, narrowly missing her and landing on her bedroom floor. astoria turns around to pick up her phone, eyes wide, but mason is still looking out of the window, and when he catches a glance of what she's also looking at, he nearly chokes on his frosted flakes. he coughs, before walking away and closing his sister's bedroom door behind him. she furrows her eyebrows in confusion and looks out of her window again.
"um," is all astoria manages to say as she stares at chris, completely drenched from the rain but grinning at her nevertheless from down in her garden. she looks at her phone, but chris hangs up, leaving her staring blankly at her phone.
before she can say anything else, chris begins climbing the tree outside of her window, moving from the branch to step onto the ledge of her window. astoria steps back, shellshocked, allowing him to climb through her window into her bedoom.
he stands opposite her and rakes his hands through his wet hair, and little raindrops dribble off of the ends as the strands fall carefully back into place.
"hey, baby," he says casually, choking back a laugh as he watches her eyes widen at the pet name. "what? did you finally realize that you actually like the nickname?" he teases.
astoria snaps back into reality at his words. "okay, fuck you," she says, before crossing her arms. she prays that her brother didn't just hear chris call her baby. knowing him if he did, being a dumbass sophomore and all, he's probably texting matt about it right now. she grimaces purely at the thought.
chris takes a step closer to her, putting his hands in the pockets of his sweatpants, which are utterly soaked from the rain. astoria looks him up and down, using every ounce of her strength not to sigh, because why the fuck did he walk to her house at like 10pm while it's raining outside?
"what the fuck are you doing here?" she asks, the words coming out a little harsher than she intended. his smile doesn't falter though, it actually grows at her bewildered expression.
again, he takes a step closer, his fingertips grazing the hem of her shirt. "remember when i said i only called you because i was bored?" he asks her, to which she nods.
"it was literally like five minutes ago, so yeah," she responds. he chuckles, then rubs the back of his neck awkwardly.
"well, yeah, so i lied," he says. "i was actually just thinking about you. actually, i couldn't think of anything but you."
astoria's heart beats faster when the words register in her mind. she cocks her head to the side, not daring to break eye contact with him as his blue eyes pierce into hers. "i was thinking about when we kissed at kali's house, actually," he adds, making her heart beat so quickly she thinks it might explode in her chest. she nearly rolls her eyes at how much of an effect he has on her by saying such simple things.
"you're insane," she tells him, and he shrugs.
"if wanting to kiss you means i'm insane, then i'm about as crazy as it gets," he says simply.
"i feel like you're asking to be put into a mental hospital," she says sarcastically.
"what i'm asking," chris says, his tone now dripping with annoyance. "is if i can kiss you."
astoria rolls her eyes. "you're insane," she repeats, getting under his skin.
but chris just leans in, his lips dangerously close to hers. "come on, baby. you don't need to pretend to hate me anymore, you know?"
astoria narrows her eyes, but before she can respond, chris closes the distance between them, kissing her softly. his lips are cold but she doesn't care, too many thoughts running through her mind to think about that, one of them being the fact that she's literally kissing chris sturniolo in her bedroom after he threw pebbles - well, rocks - at her window.
his hand moves up to cup her face, his thumb resting lightly on her jaw and using his other to brush some of her hair from her eyes. she smiles onto his lips, cursing herself for it because she hates how much she likes this, hates how much she wants to do this again, and hates him for making her want to throw up at the thought of her being with anyone else.
though just as quickly as it had started, the kiss ends. chris pulls back, a smirk on his face. "i love being insane," he says, a proud expression on his face as he rests his hands on his hips.
astoria just glares at him, her cheeks flushed and her heart racing. "stop doing that fucking peter pan looking ass pose. you look goofy as fuck."
but chris just chuckles. "i know," he says. "but you love it anyway."
as they stand there, astoria can't help but admit that he was right. despite his smugness and arrogance, and him standing like a literal clown, she can't help but be in awe of everything he does. she always has been.
"that was like, so taylor swift coded," chris says to himself proudly.
"what?" she asks, and he turns to her, grinning.
"you know, i miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain, and it's 2am and i'm cursing your name...so in love that you act insane..." he says, quietly singing the lyrics. she rolls her eyes but smiles nonetheless, thinking about how she literally called him insane not long before.
"the fans were right," chris continues, still talking more to himself than to her. "i am taylor swift coded."
"that is the dumbest thing i've ever heard," astoria deadpans, chuckling to herself as his face drops. "but you do you."
"well you love her, so i need to be taylor swift coded, you know?" he shrugs.
astoria's jaw drops, but she forces herself to keep it together when he sees her reaction and smiles smugly at her. she doesn't say anything, just leans forward to kiss him quickly again, before she walks over and closes her window. he stands there, giving her a weird look, then walks over to open it again.
"oh my god, you fucking bozo," she says in disbelief, grabbing his sleeve and pulling him to her, away from the window. "i'm not gonna let you walk home in the rain."
"oh, alright," he grins, pressing a small kiss to her lips as he sits down on the floor. astoria frowns at his sodden clothes, so she goes over to her closet to get him his sweater she borrowed from him after mal's party, then opens her bedroom door to steal some of mason's sweatpants for him. it's only when she finds mason standing outside her bedroom door that she realizes her mistake.
she turns back to chris, and when he sees her reaction, chris looks past her to what she was looking at, furrowing his eyebrows before his eyes widen.
"oh, hey chris!" mason says from the hallway, smirking. "didn't see you there!"
chris looks at astoria, then back to her brother.
"oh fuck."
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mattsboyfriend OKAYYYY ELF ERA ?? 😍😍😍 🧝🏼♀️🧝🏼♀️
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user WHAT THE FUCK
user WHAT
masonsant so this is what happened...
↳ storyofstori shut up u stupid fucking bitch nobody cares about what u have to say u silly cunt pls shut the fuck up before i rip my hair out go die u rat
↳ mattsboyfriend mas! fancy seeing you here...
user HUH
user CHRIS????
↳ user RORY????
↳ user RORY AND CHRIS????
↳ user CHRIS AND RORY????
↳ storyofstori waves
whoisdante !!!
whoisdante ???
whoisdante ~~~
↳ mattsboyfriend can you stop doing this pls
↳ mattsboyfriend use letters i beg
user there are tears
lunareclipse so what's going on here haha!
↳ mattsboyfriend ahaha!
user i'm lowk surprised rory even picked up the phone
↳ minisourgummyworm same 🤔
designateddriverasf the rizz goes crazy chris
↳ storyofstori matt...
↳ designateddriverasf oh hey rory! hows it hanging ❤️
↳ mattsboyfriend it's hung.
user literally what is going on
lilskyes this is some rick and morty alternate universe shit bc why am i looking at a screenshot of chris and rory on ft
↳ user SKYE LMFOAKOKFIJOS
user the way i actually had to do a double take
therealkaliuchis @mattsboyfriend u had me thinking i needed glasses for a second there
↳ mattsboyfriend ah my bad gang!
maleficentcore what if i told you i'm a mastermind 🤩
↳ user once upon a time the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned 🤩
↳ user they ended up on ft...at the same timeeeee 🤩
↳ mattsboyfriend what the fuck
↳ storyofstori ofc u wouldn't get the taylor swift references 🫤
user i'm just.
user i dont think i've ever been this confused in my life
user rory acting so nonchalant abt this while chris is all nervous responding to all his friends comments is so funny
↳ storyofstori thats bc chris is a loser 😂😂
↳ mattsboyfriend alr nerd
minisourgummyworm @storyofstori the way you casually asked for homework answers like this wasnt happening while i was doing said homework is CRAZY ur actually insane i hate you what the fuck
↳ storyofstori looks around awkwardly
↳ minisourgummyworm i'm going to need an explanation immediately.
↳ storyofstori lmfaoooooo 🤣🤣
↳ mattsboyfriend hahahaha what are you talking about????
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mason is so annoying i love him
no diggity is such a silly song okay anyway bye
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