The Loser In The End (Joe Mazzello x Reader, Fluff!)
Part 14 of The Queen Repertoire
WARNINGS: Language a bit.
Notes: Hey guys I know it’s been forever since I posted a story but these last three months have been an emotional hell for me, and I just needed a mental health break. I’m doing better now but am not yet 100%, nevertheless I am getting back to writing because dammit I need it. Thank you for your patience it was much appreciated. Now onto the story...
She's ma on whom you can always depend.
Everything I have, everything I am...I owe it all to her.
For as long as I can remember my mom has been my own personal super star. She's fought for me, stood by me when no one else would, and always ensured that the sun would come out on a rainy day. In baseball terms (because lord knows I can't live life without them now) if I couldn't go up to bat she would bat for me.
Like on the day of my sixteenth birthday party.
Mom had prepared invites a few days before but I told her there wasn't really a point. Sheila Gearheart, a popular girl at school, was having her Spring Bash ( a party she threw every year during Spring Break) on the same day so while my close friends (two awesome chickadee's I've known for most of my life) would come no one else will.
Finally the last day of school before spring break arrived. Mom picked me up that day and as I made my way to the car I couldn't help but notice that Joe looked over and smiled at me. I smiled back and continued on walking to the car, my cheeks burning.
I'd known Joe since kindergarten. He was the kind of guy who was sweet for the sake of being sweet. Everyone liked him and he was actually the only guy who treated me like I was human. Mom loved him and wanted to make an invite for him but...I didn't want to set myself up for disappointment.
Once in the car I turned to greet my mom and found her looking at me curiously. “What?”
“I don't see why you won't ask Joe to the party,” she said.
I groaned. “Mooom!!! I told you Sheila has her party the same day and he...well he's probably already planning on going there.”
“Y/N/N, sweetie, you don't even know for sure,” she said. I was about to retort when she was suddenly rolling down the window on my side.
“Wait what are you―?”
“JOEY SWEETIE CAN I BORROW YOU A MINUTE?!” To say I sunk down into my seat, burying myself in my hoodie in the process would be an understatement. Kill me kill me kill me... I silently chanted as Joe approached the car.
“Hey Mrs. Y/L/N,” he greeted like the fucking peach he is. “Hey Y/N.”
“Hey,” I muttered nervously.
“I was wondering if you could give this to your mom,” My mom said handing him her recipe for pull-pork chili.
“Sure,” he said stuffing it in his pocket.
“Also we were wondering if you wanted to come by tomorrow,” mom continued. “It's Y/N's birthday and we're having a small party.”
“What? Y/N you didn't tell me your birthday was so soon,” Joe said.
“I-I thought you might already have plans so...”
“Oh no way,” he shook his head. “Consider me in for tomorrow.”
“What? Really?” I looked at him shocked. He laughed.
“Of course,” he said. “See you ladies tomorrow.”
“Alright see you sweetie,” mom said before pulling out of the (now backed-up) pick-up line.
“Did that really just happen?” I asked convinced it was nothing more than a dream I was about to wake up from.
Mom laughed. “Sweetie you really need to have more faith in yourself.”
The next day the party started as expected. My two girlfriends showed up and we all gathered in the backyard by the pool. Mom and dad started taking turns manning the grill, and a table was set up for the gifts. For a while it was just us...no Joe or anybody. I'd almost given up hope when...
“Hey birthday girl,” Joe appeared behind me. I turned and smiled nervously.
“Hey,” I said. There were two other guys with him whom he introduced as his brother John, and his buddy Rami. “Well barbecue is over there, and you all have access to the pool so I hope you brought swim trunks. Cake won't be until 5 o'clock, and...” I put on my thinking face. “Nope that's it.”
“Hey Y/N/N,” one of my friends called out to me. I looked over and saw her holding a Super Soaker and aiming it at me.
“DON'T. YOU. FUCKING. DARE!” I shouted at her.
“Oh I won't but I'm sure your boyfriend won't feel the same. Right Joe?” She smiled at him. I looked over and saw him pick up another Super Soaker from the pile in the corner of the yard.
“JOSEPH FUCKING MAZZELLO DON'T FUCKING EVEN..!” He looked over at me and smirked before letting loose on me. I gasped and ran for the bucket of water balloons. I picked one up and threw my arm back.
“You wouldn't...” Joe said a little too cocky for his own good. I smirked and gave my best fastball pitch. The balloon smacked him in the chest. “OH LET'S GO!”
It was full on war after that.
An hour later we were soaked and our friends were in their own water battle to the death. At one point Joe thought he had me cornered...near the pool. He was about to shoot me when I ducked and dove into the pool. I swam with a water balloon still in my hand to get away from him only to have him jump in after me. I swam until I reached the edge in the shallow end. I was about to climb back out when an arm wrapped itself around my waist. I turned around and found Joe in front of me aiming the Super Soaker at my head with one hand.
“Got you,” he muttered.
“Do you really?” I smirked at him. He looked at me curiously.
“What's that supposed to―?” I leaned forward and crashed my lips onto his.
Have you ever had a moment where you felt like this was where you were supposed to be? A moment so perfect it seems like a dream? That's how I felt with Joe. His lips lingered on mine and as they did I felt everything. He was my person, my everything, he was...he was my life. And judging by the way he kissed me back (wrapping his arms around me and wrapping my legs around his waist) it's safe to say he felt the same.
“Y/N, sweetie,” someone called out for me. “Y/N!” Joe and I jumped apart to find my mom standing by the pool looking down at us. “It's almost time for presents!”
“Oh-uh-okay,” I said climbing out. Joe followed me out blushing tomato red.
“Joe?” Mom caught his attention making him slightly nervous.
“Yeah?”
“You take care of my girl alright?” she smiled.
Joe sighed and smiled. “I will.”
He made good on that promise. We dated throughout the rest of high school and during college. A few years later he asked me to marry him. My mom, who was always there for me, sat in the front row during the ceremony.
I was shaking like a leaf with nerves as I made my way down the aisle. Then I looked over and locked eyes with my mom. She smiled and gave me a single nod, her silent way of telling me, Have faith in yourself sweetie. It relaxed as I finally met up with my husband to be.
When I became pregnant a year later she was there to help me through it all, and as my daughter grew I suddenly found myself in my mother's place.
“Did you invite Freddie to your party?” I asked when I picked her up from school a few days before her thirteenth birthday.
“Moooommm!” she groaned. She and Freddie Malek had known each other their whole lives and lately I'd seen them share certain glances with one another. It was the cutest thing. I laughed.
“Sweetie you really need to have more faith in yourself.”
I took her home and continued to do my duty as her mother and sent an invite to Freddie. She'll probably lose it at me but in time she'll see that I am ma whom she could always depend.
And I always will be.
~In Loving Memory of my Nana Maria
July 26, 1929 - February 16, 2020~
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Crowd Pleaser is country rock retro futurism by Swamp Music Players
Crowd Pleaser ⛽☢ country rock “retro futurism” by Swamp Music Players.
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Featuring and co-written by Virginia Americana artist Joseph Gearheart. The Swamp Music Players are an international collective of artists with a passion for swamp music and Cosmic Americana. ‘Crowd Pleaser’ is so retro it’s now!
Special guest on backing vox, Hollywood’s “Sugar Parks”. Produced and mixed by Wynn Gogol. Mastered at 1 Ton Studio.
Transistorized Southern Roots Rock with authentic plate-reverb, retro tech synth inspired by John Carpenter and customized effects.’Crowd Pleaser’ is a fun retro track of Swamp Rock and Cosmic Americana. The song was inspired bythe literature of Hunter S. Thompson and Philip K. Dick as well as mirroring of events between the 1970s and current day. The new cold war, the rise of populism and the cry for freedom. We live in interesting times.
Swamp Music Players
Copyright Swamp Music Players Inc.
Written by Joseph Gearheart and John Kayden
Executive Producer John Kayden (Don Danger Jon)
www.swampmusic.info
LYRICS for ‘Crowd Pleaser’
Looky now baby see the rockets in the sky
Somewhere there’s someone steady
Staring upwards as they die
Some folks is frownin’, doubtin’,
But we never play around
Spike a holy ball of fire
From the heavens to the ground
They’re all looking for a crowd pleaser
Rockets in the sky
A crowd pleaser
Lit up like the fourth of July
Beautiful and deadly like a devil femme-fatale
Got people cross all nations screaming
“Can you hear us now?”
No stranger propaganda
We’re all suckers for a show
Grab a weapon at the door
And leave behind your moral code
Yes we’re all looking or a crowd pleaser
Rockets in the sky
A crowd pleaser
Lit up like the fourth of July
Yes the waves have all crested
And we’re all in a daze
We’re all down in the valley
Just living through the haze
Seem’s history has ended
Time to cash in those chips
But you ain’t seen nothing yet
That fuse has just been lit
It’s a roadrunner, air-grabber
Out on a cruse
A workin’ man, ridge runner
Burnin’ the blue
She mah kissing’ cousin, wild hearted
But her aim is true
Top up, window flashing
My babies howling at the moon
Yes we’re looking for a crowd pleaser
Rockets in the sky
A crowd pleaser
Lit up like the Fourth of July
Looky now baby see them lights up in the sky
Looky now baby see them rockets in the sky
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