Unexpected (James Phelps x Reader)

1.19

"Calm down or I might also drop you." He chuckled. "Yeah, that'd be nice, at least I'd be on the ground!" I started kicking some more while James was climbing the stairs.

"How does it feel now, when the tables have turned?" He teased. "Tables haven't turned, James, you're taking advantage of my small size!" I gave up and just hung there on his shoulder.

"You aren't really upset, are you?" He asked in a softer way but still with a hint of sarcasm after placing me on the bed, which I, by the way, made before going downstairs in the morning.

I sat up immediately and started putting my hair back where it was supposed to be. "Maybe I am." I glared at him angrily.

"You literally just used violence to get me to your bedroom." I pointed my finger at him. For a second I saw a hint of scare in his eyes.

"You owe me some good cuddling." I said quietly and watched him exhale with relief.

"I knew you were playing." He said.

"No, I'm not playing. I'm dead serious. I want cuddles!" I started hastily patting the blanket beside me. "Come on! Give me cuddles!" I reached my hands in his direction.

Finally, he rolled his eyes and joined me on the bed. I moved to the top of the bed onto the pillows and made James lay down there so I could rest my head on his chest.

"Thank you." I said. "For cuddling? You emotionally blackmailed me." He acted offended and gently brushed his fingers through my hair. "No." I looked at him. "For the weekend. I had a great time." I cooed. "I've had a great time too." He replied and kissed my forehead.

"Wanna finish the Friends from yesterday?" I asked pointing my head at his laptop on the desk. "Sure but you'll have to let me go so I can set it up." He said. I puckered up my lips and rolled away from him to face the bedside table.

James got up and brought the laptop closer to the bed, putting it on the chair. For a while, he was doing something on it and then I heard the Friends theme song.

He moved back up to me and hugged me from behind. "Wanna watch or are you gonna sleep?" He asked sarcastically. I frowned and turned around to get into our original position, just half-sitting so we could see the screen.

I felt three words on my tongue wanting me so bad to say them.

But I didn't want to go too far too fast. Even though it wouldn't probably freak him out, I knew that it would do that to me.

Thinking about being in love with someone was one thing. But saying it out loud would make it official. I wasn't ready for that.

I was scared to admit it for multiple reasons.

One was that we literally just met. How could one know something like that so quickly? I was even a little freaked out from how close we got physically in such a short time, but ironically, his closeness would soothe that weird kind of anxiety the facts and numbers gave me.

Another reason why I was scared to say that I loved him was because of the long-distance existence that was ahead of us. He told me not to worry about it. But I couldn't.

After this experience, I couldn't imagine not being able to hug him for several weeks, possibly months. We haven't talked about how and when we'd manage to meet.

Then it was that basic fear of commitment and stuff that everyone goes through at the beginning of a relationship. It wasn't as big of a deal for me as I wasn't much of a dating person. But I guess society has taught me to fear relationships over the years.

I hugged James tighter and placed a little kiss on the fabric of his t-shirt that was closest to my mouth. "You know I'll have to go eventually?" I smirked as he left another episode to begin.

"That's why I wanted to practice that activity we just got into most recently. But you gave mixed signals so I gave up."

"Most recently? Washing the dishes?" I furrowed my eyebrows. "If you wanna call it that..." He sighed defeatedly.

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So this is what I ended up with.
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Anyway, how have y'all been doing?
Also, I figured out where I got my end formula from... It's from Dr Mike. 😭 And I thought I came up with it myself. You know... The stay safe (that's mine), happy and healthy (that's Mike's). But the fact that it's sort of stolen doesn't mean you can't not do it! 😗
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Theressa

Here's a photo of James jumping off an aeroplane.