#i could deffo edit this more but also i cant im drained and need to pack for my holidayyyy

[riosnecktattoo]

What Spring Does with the Cherry Trees

Part Three / Read on ao3

“Hi.”

“Hey,” Rio mumbles, voice slightly hoarse. She shivers and for a moment neither of them says anything else. His presence, even in silence, surprisingly comforting.

“You didn’t say goodbye,” he says.

“Oh, I know, I – I couldn’t find you, so—”

That’s a lie. She had looked for him, but he’d been talking to Diane in the garden and it made her blood boil. All her nerves too raw to deal with the weird stab of pain it made her feel.

“Hmmm,” he huffs, tired, and she’s not sure he believes her.

He goes quiet again, the only sound his soft breathing through the speaker. Warm and peaceful, it makes the skin at the base of her neck tingle.

“You okay?” she asks.

“Can’t sleep.”

“How come?”

“Keep finding bits of fuckin’ confetti for one thing,” he tells her and it makes her laugh. Makes him chuckle too when he hears her. “And….”

He pauses for a moment and she holds her breath.

“My bed smells like you,” he purrs. But he says it like it’s a good thing and her eyes fall closed at how content he sounds. “And….” he continues, but falters. Seems to think twice about what he wants to tell her.

But Beth’s desperate to know.

#my fic #my writing #What Spring Does with the Cherry Trees #nbc good girls #brio #brio fic #beth x rio #this is so long im so sorry #i could deffo edit this more but also i cant im drained and need to pack for my holidayyyy #i need it after this chapter cause it has KOd me trying to get it done haha