Mal finally worked up his courage and went over to Natara, still feeling mildly awkward.
"Hey Nat, w-what's new?"
"Mal, can I ask you a question? And you'll answer honestly?" she continued in reply to his loud sigh. "What happened…last week? You've been acting so…Different."
"I told you Nat, I just comforted you. You told me how Oscar broke up with you and I tried to make you feel better. I didn't mind, honest."
"That's a lie Mal. You're leaving something out. You know it. I see the guilt on your face. What'd I do? Tell you why he broke up with me?"
"No," said Mal a bit too innocently. "Care to share?"
"Yeah I would," she replied, overly-harsh, "He told me he didn't want to be in a relationship while I fell in love with someone else." And she stormed off.
This would be a seriously perfect time to tell her, thought Mal. How mad could she possibly be? She already seems pretty angry.
"Nat," he called following her.
"Don't call me that!"
"You love it when I call you Nat."
"Shut up," she said bitterly. "I don't need your sympathy for something that I don't even know about Mal. Whatever I did to make you feel so awkward I'm sorry but how bad…how…" She trailed off, realization dawning on her face.
"Oh no, Mal. You didn't. Please Mal, please tell me we didn't."
"No Nat…it wasn't…anything like that."
"Then what the hell Mal? What did I do that's making you hate me? You don't think I hate you?"
"Oh Natara, I know you don't hate me." Here we go, he thought. Now or never I suppose.
"Nat, tell me why Oscar broke up with you."
"He said…he said I fell in love with someone else. And he said he could tell. And that I knew it too, deep down."
"And did you?" Mal asks quietly.
"Y-yes. Mal I-" He cuts her off.
"You told me." There, you think, now she knows..part of it.
"You."
"Yes, me."
"Mal," she whispers urgently, "Mal when I came over, I was drunk, I-"
"Oh?" Now or never. Now or never. Just say it, Mal. She'll hate you either way. Just say it. You're going to lose her either way. "Is that why you..you..begged me to kiss you?"
(And then the world explodes. Lol jk. Okay sorry, on with the story..)
"Oh my God. Mal, I'm so sorry," she says, tears streaming down her face. "I'm so sorry, it's all my fault, I'm so stupid."
No wait, it gets better, he warns her mentally, Allow me to announce the fact that we did kiss. And I'm now in love with you. That'll be quite the treat.
"Oh but wait, there's more," he says, making her freeze.
"Mal you said we…"
"No, it's just we did kiss. And I realized-" she cuts you off.
"Mal Fallon, you big IDIOT!" she screams. "YOU…YOU…JERK!"
She slaps him, crying harder than ever, and he lowers his head.
"I knew you'd hate me. But it made me realize how much I love you too. Just so you know."
"Mal," she lowers her voice, probably aware the whole precinct is tuned in to their current argument. "Mal of course I hate you. I missed our first kiss!"
AWWWW. Lol I'm so lame. I know I said I'd make this good and I guess it turned out alright, but then I had another story idea and I'm much more excited about that one so I just finished this up. Sorry! :(
