prompt: "But I want to hear you sing" , for kokinu09
pairing: Addison/Zed
words: 254
original publication: October 6, 2019
rating: T
~rockstar pt 1~
Zed stopped, the last note of his guitar hanging in the air. He stared at the wall, not knowing where to go from there.
"Keep going." He jumped, whipping around to see Addison Davis standing in the doorway. She's dressed in her white cheer uniform, a quizzical look on her face that made his heart pound.
"What are you doing here? Isn't there a football game you should be at?" he asked. 'With your rockstar boyfriend?'
She shrugged. "I heard you and I got curious. You're really good."
He shook his head. "No I-You should go. It'd not even finished or anything and it's all really stupid and—"
"But I want to hear you sing."
He froze, unsure what to say. Mostly because the song he was working on was, well, about her. Because he's been hopelessly in love with Addison Davis since the seventh grade, and she's had a boyfriend since the ninth grade, who he could never compete with. And singing a love song that was about her, to her, made him want to vomit.
"Are you sure?"
"You have a really nice voice," she told him. She walked into the room, pulling a stool with her until she was sitting in front of him. She pouted, batting her eyelashes at him in a way that melted his heart. "Please?"
So he sang for her. The smile on her face when he finished was worth the mortal embarrassment of singing a love song, for her, about her, confessing his feelings to her.