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This is, sadly, the last chapter for this story. In a few days I will be posting another one shot set at Christmas time before starting the next multi-chapter story. So don't worry, this is at a close, but there will be more.
I also have another story that I'm starting the outline process for, for a Miles/Charlie fic, where they aren't related...so be on the look out for those.
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Charlie had a great time spending the evening with her friends the other night, and she had a wonderful time last night at dinner with Bass, but one thing had been glaringly obvious to her. He missed Miles. Throughout both nights he had mentioned Miles multiple time, because he was involved in all of Bass's stories. From the time they were five years old until a few weeks ago, Miles and Bass did everything together, and Charlie wasn't going to let her relationship with Bass ruin that now. Especially now that Rachel was ok with it.
So she was going to go home and pack, because there were only a few days left before school started, and she was going to have it out with Miles. Because if he wanted to shut her out that was fine, but he wasn't going to throw away his best friend because he fell in love with a girl that Miles didn't think he should be with.
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"We need to talk."
Miles looked up and sat his book down; he hadn't expected to be confronted before he had the chance to let them know he wanted to talk. "What do you want Bass?" Miles asked.
Bass walked into the living room of the Matheson house and sat down in the chair, turned slightly, so that he was facing towards where Miles sat on the couch. "You have to talk to her." he said.
Miles furrowed his brows but remained silent, wanting to hear what Bass had to say.
Bass shook his head. "If you don't want to talk to me, that's fine, I can deal with that if I have to." he said. "But she's getting ready to leave again, and after not seeing her for months already, do you really want to let her go like this?"
Bass stood up, pacing back and forth in front of the coffee table. "I get that you don't like what's happened, and I'm not saying that you have to, I'm just asking you to try, for her, to find a way to at least be ok with it." He said.
"I love her." Bass said, stopping his pacing to look at Miles. "I am in love with her, and you of all people should understand how huge that is for Me." he said and then shrugged. "And for some crazy reason she loves me too and I'm not going to just throw that away." He said.
Miles sighed and looked away from him, not able to meet his gaze because he knew that Bass was right.
"But she feels like she broke us, me and you, and she can't believe me when I tell her she's wrong, because you barely look at her when she's here. And you go out of your way to not speak to her." Bass said and Miles finally looked at him.
"I know you love her." Bass said. "And so does she, but she's having a really hard time believing it right now, so you need to get your head out of your ass and let her know it."
Bass walked out of the room without waiting to see if Miles would say anything back.
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Charlie zipped her bag closed after making sure she had everything ready to load into the jeep to take to school on Saturday, and then she sighed. "It's now or never." She said to herself as she headed for her bedroom door.
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"So I'm leaving in a couple of days, school starts on Monday." She said when as she stood in front of the couch where Miles sat, still silent after his 'talk' with Bass.
"I know." He finally said.
Charlie sat down beside him. "OK just listen to me for a minute, because I need to say this and I really need you to hear me." She said, and Miles nodded. "OK." He said, knowing she deserved to get whatever she needed to off her chest after the way he had been treating her.
"I need you." She said and Miles turned to look at her. "But," she continued. "he needs you too." She said. "And if you can't ever accept the two of us together, if we can't all get along and be happy," she said as she reached for his hand, holding it between her own. "then please pick him."
Miles raised his brows, surprised. This isn't how he thought this conversation was going to go. When she sat down he expected yelling and maybe tears. "What?" he asked, needing her to be very clear on what she was saying.
Charlie shrugged. "I love you, I do. You are one of the most important people in my life." she said. "But for most of my life you were just my cool uncle who I saw for a couple of days every few months." She shrugged again. "But for Bass, you've been his best friend and his brother forever.
"I can live without you in my everyday life if I have to." she said, the tears stinging her eyes. "That would be the hardest thing I've ever had to do probably, but I could figure it out, if that meant that he got to keep his family."
Miles reached out then, surprising her, and pulled her into his chest, his arms wrapping around her. "I'm sorry." He said into her hair. "I'm so sorry."
Charlie let the tears come then, not trying to stop them. "Me too." She said.
Miles pulled back and placed his hands on her face, framing it. "You have nothing to be sorry for." He said. "You fell in love." He said and shrugged. "With a really good man. What more really, could I ask?"
He chuckled. "Especially now after seeing for myself how perfect you are for each other." He said.
Charlie furrowed her brows even as she laughed a little. "What do you mean?" she asked.
"You literally just missed him; I'm surprised you didn't hear him in here letting me have it." Miles said.
Charlie looked surprised. "What? Really?"
Miles nodded. "Yeah, he basically said the same thing you did, only the opposite, and angrier." He said, making Charlie laugh.
Charlie sat back on the couch and looked at him, one brow raised. "You're really ok with this? Bass and I being together?"
Miles shrugged. "It's gonna be weird for a while, but I'm willing to try to get used to it." He said. "For both of you."
He placed a hand on her shoulder. "I love you kid, and I've always said I would do anything for you, it's time I showed you that I meant that." He said. "And I never want to lose either one of you."
He chuckled. "And since you're both so willing to sacrifice me for the other one, I guess I'll just keep you both."
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Charlie walked into Bass's house and dropped her bag onto the floor by the front door. Bass walked out of the kitchen, where he had been cooking dinner for the both of them, and raised his brows at the bag, noticing it was larger than she normally brought for overnight.
Charlie smiled and nudged it with her foot. "I thought I would go ahead and bring some stuff to keep here." She said.
Bass nodded and picked it up. "Alright, I'll just drop it in the bedroom." He said. "Dinner will be ready in a few minutes." He said as he headed down the hall.
Charlie walked into the kitchen and saw a bowel of salad sitting on the counter. "Hey," she called out. "do you think it'll keep?" she asked as she heard Bass come back into the room.
"Why?" Bass asked.
Charlie smiled and shrugged. "Miles thought that maybe we could all eat dinner over there tonight, he's going to make some steaks on the grill." She said, sounding like it was a request that was made every day and not the break through that it really was.
Bass nodded and smiled. "Yeah." He said. "That sounds really good."
So Miles got his head out of his butt where he had it jammed pretty good...lol
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