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he’s doing it, he really is
Ok, ok here it goes nothing, its simple greg, in and out.. Greg tried telling himself that but inside he was overthinking like hell, feeling like hes walking on eggshells
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The door is opened up by holly’s older sister, heather. Surprisingly she doesnt have any makeup on her, which greg hasn’t seen her without some makeup and two bottles of perfume ever. She looks pretty suprised
Greg just looked up at her nervously obviously shaking a little, heather gives him a look and he felt as if she was gonna slam the door right on his face. She then gave an annoying sigh and rolled her eyes
“Yeah?..”
He almost thought about running and not saying anything but he asked
“is this holly’s house” looking away slightly from her demeaning face.
“Well she lives here, doesn’t she?” yeah what the hell was that question are you stupid thats obvious you shouldve just- greg thought but paused and asked
“can i see holly?”
Heather gave the most intense eyeroll in the history of plainview before grudgingly letting him in her house, forcing him to walk the same path as her and not venture anywhere in the house. Greg did look around seeing portraits and all that.
He soon walked up the stairs and nervously followed to holly’s room. It had a cute childish poster saying “holly’s room” like she made it when she was 7 and didn’t feel like taking it down he thought to himself.
“Hey brat, this kid wants to see you” she worded it like i was a elementary kid. Greg nervously looked at her bed
“DAMNIT HEATHER, I TOLD YOU I DIDNT WANT TO SEE ANYONE-”
Greg stayed slightly petrified, he’s always done that when someone is yelling.. But she paused when she seen him and gave this look of fear, either scared of greg or hurting him and he couldn’t figure out which one it was. She looked a bit embarrassed and
“Let him in..”
Greg slowly walked over to her bed, sitting on it very slowly, like he’s scared if he did it way too fast it might result in something bad or being yelled at. He looked at her, she was sad and clutching a cute teddy bear
He didn’t know what to say so he awkwardly ruffled his own hair and thought of something random
“Uh heather seemed fine today actually… hasn’t she been to many parties..”
“You hadn’t come here to talk about my sister right” Holly responded,
he remembered that one talk where she talked about ‘our siblings’ and he somewhat defended rodrick… but hey atleast that ended good right? This could end swell! 100%
He tried to come up with a response “No! Not at all, i came here. I came to see how you were! At school… you just walked away…” a little pause “i got worried for you..” he can’t believe he said that.. Then it felt like he was slightly pushed closer
“I just needed to be alone..” holly murmured
“Wanna talk about it… if your comfortable..” greg replied softly staring into her eyes and teddy bear
She sighs “i dont know it just happened all of sudden!”
Her eyes moved to… a broken frame it was her and… that bitch that fucked her over. He can’t even
“I knew he was angry i-i just didnt think that he would act like this” she panicked
“Maybe i should just listen to him.. If i had just stopped talking to you he would’ve-” she stopped herself and seen greg that looked like a trembled rabbit
Holly immediately regretted what she said and turned around, reassuring him
“Ah i- im sorry. I didnt mean to say it was your fault, it wasnt greg”
Greg spinelessly says “oh no its ok!”
“I th- think i was a reason. Maybe i got in the way somehow.. I hope you can forgive me for tha-”
Holly randomly stops him “you know what.. Its way better this way..”
Greg looked surprised like thats the last thing he imagined
“He was so jealous… that happened to like any guy who ever got in a 6 feet radius of me and besides he was a jerk he didn’t-”
“Deserve you”
he randomly murmured like he was randomly jolted to say it :3
Holly smiled
“exactly..”
Then out of nowhere holly put her arm around him, poor greg the butterflies in his stomach were dancing like it was prom. “And besides…at least i got a good friend here..”
“Yeah yeah of course!” he looked at the ground blushing, his heart was racing a while. How did holly not know
“And when you need someone you can call me! And spend time together!”
“Of course!!! And rowley as well”
Dumb jealously in greg
“Yeah him too i guess” (he’s my goat) he almost added but he though she might’ve been confused on what that meant, those seconds of explaining might overstay his welcome
Then a nuclear bomb was launched, well something more impactful.
Holly reached out to hug him, whole arms wrapped tightly around greg with her long hair tickling his chin and ear.. He felt like a weirdo when he accidentally inhaled her perfume. The butterflies in his stomach exploded right there
“Yeah no worries thats what friends are for-” and the plot tripped him onto the ground
Holly got up and helped him up, something about not only being reassured, validated as a friend and being hugged but now being helped out it was too much
“Th- thank you holly you always try help out-and-and i really like you-”
And ladies and gentleman, in that moment he wished he had a nuke in his brain soon he could die instantly, because he basically did
Holly, he looked up at her face and seen her blush, and that made him a tomato fresh from the fields from california.
“I- i- im sorry i meant that as in a pla-“
Holly interrupts him “no- its fine… im doing a little better but need to be alone for a bit..”
Yep you screwed up big time..
“But you know… sometime soon but not now lets hang out…”
“Oh! Ok, did i share my number..” he gets a piece of paper, instinctively doodling himself then writing down his number
Holly then seen that drawing “hey- are you fine with drawing me like that, let me just add your number while your doing that.”
“Oh OH! Sure! Why not!”
He spends a bit drawing her in his usual style and gives the paper to her as she adds his number as one of her contacts
She doesn’t say anything but she smiles, a genuine smile and calls it cute
(a panel of greg flustered here)
“D- do you need a photo for that phone contact”
“I mean i could use your drawing of yourself but yeah” she does the wrap her arm around his neck and gets ready to take a selfie, greg tries to not be flustered to look normal.”
“I’ll see you at school, sorry if i wasn’t that open”
“NO- NO its shocking you were that open.. When i murmured that i was expecting you… to kick me out” he smiled “im glad your taking time for yourself.. Continue it” he felt so awkward saying all that”
Holly giggled “dont worry! Ok for real this time see you at school..”
“Byee holly!” greg runs out and sees heather coming upstairs probably to tease her brutally for talking to him.
He walked home thinking maybe it was a failure, maybe he “fumbled it” but when he was in his room chilling, he couldn’t get his mind of that genuine smile and blush
Then a familiar area code texted him with a picture, the number being (i was originally gonna put the rickroll number but thats too cheap)
“Hi this is holly!” alongside was that picture of him and greg
Greg typed a response fast “hi! Make sure to get a good nights rest 👍” he has barely texted a girl and it shows
Holly looked at her phone, seeing the awkwardness but knowing its genuine “thx, i’ll make sure. Ttol”
Greg searched that up and learned it meant for “talk to you later” he felt stupid for not knowing and gave her a thumbs up as a response
At the same moment two people were smiling at their phones but didnt push it too much
Holly though did move that picture of her and bryce out of it the frame, moving it to the side where it was nothing, then get a small towel to ripe off the “+ B” put the drawing greg made of her (NO she isn’t replacing it with a +G yet)
And with that they both smiled, knowing change isn’t gonna happen tomorrow but sometime soon.