invisible string • Gracie Abrams

018 do it again

gracie's lips curved into a smile, her chest rising as she fought back more tears, but also that warm feeling she was suddenly getting.

"and if you don't believe me just look at those millions of people who listen to your music and watch you like a type of god," charlotte smiled, getting gracie to laugh.

"still hurts," gracie rasped, her thumb rubbing over charlotte's. "it's better when you're here though. i probably would've never left that fucking stall at the party if you didn't come in." gracie smiled softly, watching charlotte's lips part and her eyes widen, not in shock but like she was experiencing something she's longed for. "you're a really good person."

charlotte felt the swirl in her chest and her hand fight the urge to lift up to gracie's cheek, all while the puffy eyed girl was struggling to take her eyes away.

"gracie..." charlotte said, her hand slowly moving off of gracie's hand and hovering just in front of her chest. but gracie didn't notice, she was too busy trying to figure out what she was feeling, and why it felt so good.

her lips were now only an inch away from gracie's, but she didn't pull back, push charlotte away, ask what the hell she's doing. she just redirected her gaze to those soft lips. and she did that until charlotte's lips came into contact with hers, and her hovering hand was now lightly pressed against her chest. it was sweetly unexpected, but gracie kissed her back before quickly pulling back and her eyes flashing open.

it felt like it wasn't real. charlotte savoured that taste on her lips as her eyes widened in shock of what she just did. was she that dumb that she did that? she ran a hand anxiously through her hair, eyes still on gracie's lips as she fought back the urge to do it again. she then felt a hand on the one she pulled away from gracie. those cold fingers intertwined with hers, before guiding them up to gracie's neck. charlotte's hand now laid delicately on gracie's neck, her fingertips just brushing the curve in her jawline.

"do it again," gracie breathed.

charlotte blinked, still unsure if this was actually happening and if gracie was actually taking this as serious as she was. maybe she caught gracie at too fragile of a moment and she couldn't realize what was going on, maybe she's on some drug and has no idea what just happened. maybe by morning gracie will be blocking charlotte all over the internet and pretending she never existed—

"charlotte," gracie whispered.

and like all of her overthinking that was just going on never existed, charlotte was reconnecting their lips and her hand traveled up to weave through gracie's hair. just like that, she was back in the clouds, floating in the scent of caffeine and cherry lip balm.

she moved from sitting beside gracie to her legs seining overtop, straddling the singer who's breath hitched as her own hands traveled up to charlotte's neck where the delicately shaped around as goosebumps were rising on the back of charlotte's neck.

charlotte pulled away for a moment, causing gracie's eyes to flutter open, "are you sure... this is okay—"
gracie nodded repeatedly and just before anything else could happen, charlotte's phone began to vibrate. "shit," she mumbled, only now remembering that jude was literally just out in the apartment hallway outside, probably confused as hell.

she answered his call, still sitting in gracie's lap facing her, "hey j."

"are you guys okay, it's been like fifteen minutes," he replied, sounding annoyed.

"um, yeah we're fine." she made eye contact with gracie before saying, "thanks for the ride here, um you can leave now if you wanna."

"are you sure? if you need a ride home—"

"i'm going to stay here for a bit," charlotte replied. "i'll call you later."

"yeah, alright. bye," jude said, hanging up on charlotte.

charlotte put her phone aside, mentally cursing out jude for interrupting what was going on because now whatever was happening previously was clearly lost. gracie was looking at anywhere but charlotte's face, her eyes showing utter confusion in her self and a hint of something else charlotte couldn't see.

awkwardly enough, charlotte moved out of gracie's lap and sat leaning against the sink cabinets, facing gracie. she stared at her hands, still feeling the tingling sensation it had when her hands were travelling all around gracie, and wondered what to say now. but it was too complicated for her to form any words, given that she had no idea what gracie was feeling or what this meant.

they sat like this, quiet and in their own little worlds for two whole minutes that felt like twenty, until gracie's stomach growled, breaking the silence. the two made eye contact before breaking into laughter at the awkward moment and finally killing the tensions in the room.

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soph!
FINALLY updated this yay! even though i feel like this is just a word vomit chapter, i kinda wanted to make it much longer but this already took way too long LMAO

anywaysssss i told u guys you'd probably like this one which u HOPEFULLY did😀

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