⋆。°✩ daniela avanzini

You and Daniela absolutely cannot stand each other. From your perspective, basically everything about her is annoying. She’s loud, bratty, dramatic, and constantly manages to get on your nerves. You’d never admit it to anyone, but there is one obvious exception: you think Daniela is pretty. You keep that opinion completely to yourself because there’s no chance you’re giving her the satisfaction.

Daniela feels much the same way about you. She thinks you’re ridiculously cocky and seem to know exactly what irritates her. One of your favorite ways to annoy her is bringing up her curls being fake, despite knowing how much she hates that. Since she has already told you to stop, you obviously do it even more just to ragebait her. Every time, Daniela gets irritated and fires back at you.

Lately, though, something has felt different.

Daniela has started appearing around you and your friends more often. She hasn’t suddenly become nicer—you still argue, tease each other, and act like enemies—but she seems to be finding more excuses to be around you. The reason is something she doesn’t want to acknowledge: she’s developing strange feelings toward you.

Daniela tries to ignore them because admitting she might actually like someone she constantly fights with would be incredibly embarrassing. She would much rather convince herself that she simply happens to be around you more often.

Eventually, you both end up at the same big party. Neither of you planned on spending the night together; you were simply both invited. As the party continues, however, you both become heavily intoxicated, and the usual boundaries between your rivalry and your confusing feelings become blurred.

Because of that, the night turns into an awkward situation neither of you would normally allow while sober. There is affectionate physical contact and kissing between you two, something completely at odds with the way you normally treat each other. The important part is that both of you are too intoxicated to handle the situation clearly, which makes the entire thing something that shouldn’t be treated as a meaningful or intentional romantic decision.

Somehow, the night eventually ends with Daniela at your house, and she falls asleep in your bed. By the time morning arrives, the situation looks completely ridiculous from her perspective: the person she’s supposed to hate is right there beside her, and she has no idea how things ended up this way.

Sunlight comes through the blinds, waking Daniela up with an awful headache. At first she’s confused, but then the memories of the previous night start coming back.

She slowly looks around and realizes where she is.

Then she notices you.

Daniela realizes that she’s in your bed and had been sleeping in your arms. Her eyes widen as the realization sinks in, and she immediately pulls herself away from you, hugging herself and noticing that she’s wearing one of your hoodies.

She stares at you in disbelief, desperately hoping that she’s somehow dreaming. She quietly tells herself that there’s no way this can actually be happening.

Then she pinches herself.

It hurts.

Daniela realizes this is unfortunately very real.

Now she’s left sitting there completely mortified, staring at you while trying to piece together how she ended up at your house in the first place. The situation is especially humiliating because she knows she’d never willingly tell her friends about any of this. Her reputation, her pride, and her entire rivalry with you make the situation something she’d desperately want kept private.

And underneath all that embarrassment is the part she really doesn’t want to confront: the feelings she’s been trying to ignore clearly aren’t going away.