Imagine That: Multifandom Part Two

moving on【four】| alicia clark

She was grinning when I stopped beside her, eyes bright as she placed the medal around my neck.

"Seriously?" I muttered, quirking a brow.

"Seriously," she confirmed with a wink, and the strange feeling from earlier returned.

I gave a final awkward smile to the crowd before waiting for the clapping to stop so I could speak. "For the record, we lost the three-legged race because of Alicia's elephant strides, not because of me. Thank you."

Everyone began to laugh as Alicia shoved me off the stage in disagreement. I couldn't help but smile.

Alicia wrapped up the awards with a final thank you before everyone got back to celebrating, remembering what today was all about. I waited for Alicia to join me, arms crossed as I gave her a half smile.

"I can't believe you did that," I told her when she approached me. "It was very cute."

She shrugged like it was nothing. "I was just being honest."

My teasing dispersed when I saw how genuine she was being. "You know, with all of those awards, you deserved one the most for setting today up. It was a lot of work."

"Seeing it play out was reward enough," she assured me, glancing out at her handiwork. Then, she added jokingly, "Though the trophy might have been nice."

I laughed, shaking my head. "There was no way you were winning that."

"Shut up," she mumbled lightheartedly, nudging me in the side.

I couldn't look away from her profile as I admired how happy she looked tonight. "It's not a trophy, but I have an award for you."

Surprised, she glanced at me. "Really? What?"

"Just wait here," I told her, leaving her standing there confused as I went to find the others.

Not long later, I returned with Madison, Strand, Nick and Luciana in tow, the five of us holding a big bouquet of flowers and a wrapped up present. When Alicia spotted us, her eyes widened with amazement.

"Like I said, it's not a trophy, but hopefully you still like it," I said to her jokingly.

"This is all for me?" she asked, still not quite believing it.

"It is, sweetie," Madison confirmed with a proud smile. "You did such a great job with planning everything today and bringing it all together."

"And we know you don't like too much attention, so we thought we'd give it you now rather than onstage," Strand added with amusement.

She was smiling widely as she accepted the flowers and looked down at them with adoration. "This is beautiful, guys, you really didn't have to."

"Don't forget your present," Luciana said, shaking it slightly in her hand before holding it out. "We think you'll like it. It was actually Y/N's idea."

"But we all went through the effort of finding it," I added when Alicia glanced at me questioningly. "I'm definitely not taking the credit."

"Oh, quit being modest, loser," Nick sighed, wrapping an arm around my shoulder in an annoying brotherly way.

I shoved him off as he laughed and Alicia passed the flowers back to her mum so she could open the gift. She'd barely unwrapped the top before she saw a glimpse of the box, and then she tore through the wrapping eagerly.