TEMPTATION ✶ DANIELA AVANZINI
Daniela and y/n jones have known each other since they were little because their moms were best friends. Where you would find y/n, Daniela would be right by her side. Soon after, during their shopmore year of high school, their duo turned into a trio when Christian joined. After some time y/n realized Christian and Daniela would leave her out of hangouts, and not too long after, y/n would find out they were dating through social media. Daniela unfollowed y/n everywhere, leaving y/n confused and hurt. Fast forward to their senior year of high school: Daniela's on the volleyball team, and y/n has a new group of friends. What happens when an incident involving one of them not paying attention brings them back into each other’s lives?
Y/n was peacefully sleeping when she was jump-scared by loud banging on her door, followed by her momma busting into her room, making her jump up in bed.
"Rise and shine, sweetheart, time to get up," her momma told her, walking over to her curtains and opening them, making the room go from dark to sunshine and filling it with a warm amber glow, making y/n shield her eyes.
Y/n groaned and rubbed her eyes. She could feel the crust from when she was drooling in her sleep on the corner of her mouth. She started looking around her room, too tired even to comprehend what was going on.
She started searching around her bed for her phone with her eyes half open, hand patting places she thought it might be. When her hand finally landed on it, she picked it up and was immediately blinded by the phone's brightness. She quickly lowered it and checked the time, seeing it was 8 o'clock.
She rubbed her eyes once more. "You were actually serious about waking up at 8?" She asked, voice hoarse.
"Sure was! There's no time to waste, and we're on a schedule, so go get situated, put your suitcase next to the door if you haven't already. I'm giving you thirty minutes so we can go pick up Ana and Daniela."
Y/n was still in a sleepy daze, sitting up in her bed, apparently not moving quickly enough for her momma's liking.
"Chop, Chop, child, get a move on!" she clapped loudly, making y/n cover her ears and get out of her bed to search for some clothes to put on. Once she found something to put on, she made her way to the bathroom, with her mom following behind her, clapping until she closed the door on her.
"Don't spend too much time in there, I'm timing you!" She shouted, making a smile appear on y/n's mouth.
"You're weird!" y/n responded loudly, getting a laugh from her mom.
"That's all I've ever wanted to be, I'm being serious though, don't stay in there too long."
"Your wish is my command, I promise you, Fairy Godmother, I won't stay in here long, now please get away from the door, you creep."
y/n heard a loud gasp through the door. "My own child calling me a creep, I'm deeply wounded, my hand is over my heart if you couldn't tell!"
Y/n giggled, shaking her head in amusement. "Bye, momma, get away from the door now."
She heard one last chuckle from the other side of the door, before hearing the sound of footsteps getting fainter away from the bathroom door.
Y/n got out of the shower after fifteen minutes before her momma could come and tell her she needed to get out. They both made sure they had everything they needed packed up into the car, y/n's mom making her double-check. Once they were sure they had everything, they were all set to make their way to the Avanizins' house.
Y/n would be lying if she said she wasn't nervous. She hadn't been to Daniela's house ever since they had stopped being friends. She wondered if it still looked the same. Was it different?
"What are you thinking about over there?"
y/n was caught off guard by the question, looking over at her. "Huh, I'm not thinking about anything."
Her mom scoffed, "That's a whole lie, y/n. You're my kid, I know you, and when you're thinking about something. You start twirling your thumbs, you start to look constipated, and you're bouncing your leg triple times."
Her mom analyzed the look on her face; she could tell there was something y/n wasn't telling her. "I'm not going to force you to tell me anything, but if it's something that you would want to talk about, I would gladly like to hear about it."
y/n took a breath. "It's just… I haven't been to their house since me and Daniela fell out, and it's just like, I don't know what to expect. I'm honestly nervous."
"What exactly are you nervous about?"
That was a good question. What was she so nervous about? Was she worried about how being there might set off old memories? Was she worried about being around Daniela for too long?
"I think I'm nervous about Daniela, She admitted.
Her momma stayed quiet, took a second to think about how to respond, "In what aspect of nervousness? like… being around her makes you nervous, or in general?"
y/n hummed and bit the inside of her cheek. "In general, I think. I don't know."
Her momma nodded slightly in understanding and asked her a question she had never given that much thought to. "Did you feel that way when you two were still friends?"
oh. Did she feel that way?
"I- I honestly don't know."
Her mother nodded, acknowledging how both of y/n's legs were now bouncing, deciding to leave it at that and not push more. "It's okay to not know."
"There's going to be moments in life where you're going to be confused about something and not know the answer to it, and that's completely fine." Her momma reassured. "At your age, you're not going to have everything figured out, and that's normal. Hell, even at my age, I don't have everything figured out, and I'm still learning new things day by day."
"Don't let people who say they have everything figured out fool you because they don't," she continued. "Live in the moment and don't let anyone dictate what you know or who you are."
Her mom was right. She didn't have to know everything right now; she could just be herself and live.
"Thank you," y/n muttered, giving her momma a tight-lipped smile. "I needed to hear that."
"You're welcome, honey." She reached over and rubbed y/n's cheek quickly before returning her hand to the steering wheel. "I'm always here if there's something you want to talk about or if you just want an ear to talk off."
After some time, they finally made it to the Avanzini's house. Y/n was a little less nervous than she was before as she and her mom were standing in front of their door.
"You ready?" Her mom asked, turning to look at her.
"Definitely not, but I'll get through it."
Her mom held up her hand for a fist bump, and they happily bumped knuckles. Her momma then knocked on the door three times.
"coming." They both heard someone yell on the opposite side of the door.
A minute later, they were face-to-face with Daniela's mom. "Oh, girls, you're here! I thought we had a little more time to get ready. Come in!" Ana said, moving aside to let them in.
"I made us get here a little early so we could help put y'all's stuff in the car," y/n's mom responded as they stepped into the house.
"Ahh, I see. Well, y/n, Dani's upstairs taking a shower. Do you mind going and bringing some of her stuff down? I asked her to do it last night, but that kid doesn't listen."
She looked over at her mom, who gave her a nod, letting her know it was her choice whether she wanted to or not. "Um… yeah, sure, I can." She responded hesitantly.
"Great! Also, don't tell Daniela I told you this, but she's missed you coming here," Ana whispered to her. She talks about you all the time, even though I don't think she realizes that."
Y/n was a little taken aback by the statement but decided it wasn't the time to overanalyze, shrugged it off, and flashed Ana a smile, not knowing how to respond.
Her mom and Ana started to strike up a conversation, so that was her cue to go upstairs. She paced herself as she walked over to them, and once she got there, she stood for a minute just looking up.
She hasn't walked up those stairs in so long. She was getting nervous again. She took a deep breath, trying not to psych herself out. She held on to the ledge and started taking small steps up.
A lifetime probably had passed when she finally reached the top. Before she could give it a second thought, she walked towards Daniela's room. The door was open, so she assumed Daniela was still in the bathroom and walked in.
Everything still looks the same. She thought to herself as she looked around the room. She would've at least thought Daniela would've changed it up after they stopped talking. She still had the posters she had given her up on her wall alongside the vinyls she brought her.
She ventured over to Daniela's desk, and her heart stopped when she saw a framed picture strip sitting on it.
It was of them. She still had the photos from the day they took photos in the photobooth.
"She framed this?" y/n muttered, picking the frame up from the desk and started examining it like it was a test subject.
In each one, she paid attention to Daniela, nothing seemed out of the norm until she looked at the last picture.
Daniela was full on staring at her, not like one of those pictures where one friend tells the other one to stare at them and make a face, no. Daniela was smiling, looking at y/n, who was obliviously staring at the camera. She let Daniela have the photostip and never really gave it much thought until now.
So many thoughts were racing through her head that she couldn't even begin to grasp what she was trying to think about.
"Y/n?" Daniela questioned, startling y/n and making her drop the picture frame, which thudded to the floor.
She hurriedly picked up the picture frame off the floor and put it back on the desk, turning around with a swiftness and clearing her throat. "Sorry… your mom told me to come up and help you put your things in the car," she explained quickly.
Y/n looked up at a star stuck Daniela, who had on a sports bra and was holding a towel that was wrapped around her waist. standing in the doorway, staring at her with her eyebrows raised like she was surprised and didn't hear a word she just said.
Daniela shook her head and snapped herself out of it."Uhh, yeah, my suitcase and bag are over there." She pointed to the side of the room. "Sorry for the mess. I went on a rampage when I was packing last night." She apologized, scared to even move further into the room.
Y/N didn't mean to stare, but she noticed that Daniela abs was on full display and she noticed she was playing with the lobe of her ear, and she only did that when she was nervous.
Y/n probably was overthinking it, instantly putting the thought to the back of her mind.
"Oh, no, it's fine, I don't mind it. It's nothing I haven't seen before, I mean James's and Alysas look like a pig's stable."
Daniela pressed her lips together at the mention of the names. She didn't know them well, but all she knew was that they had something she used to have with y/n.
She fucked up big time, and she knew it, but she was determined to fix that, and she was going to use the trip to do so. She had it all planned out on a piece of paper, timed and dated, with 10 bullet points.
Tuesday, December 23, 3:02 AM
Apologize and explain (the hardest part)
Answer any question she has.
try to make this the best trip she's ever had.
don't start shit up again and fuck it up.
don't pester her, don't hover.
try to prove to y'n she's sorry.
phone on dnd the whole time, no distractions
BECOME FRIENDS WITH Y/N AGAIN
She didn't know if she was going to follow through on all the points, but she had to at least try.
She must've been thinking too hard when y/n started to speak again, bringing her out of her thoughts.
"Well, I'm going to go take your stuff down so I can put it in the car before our moms start shouting for us."
"Right of course." Daniela cleared her throat, rubbing under her nose, looking anywhere but y/n's direction.
y/n walked over to the side of the room where Daniela's suitcase and bag were and hunched over to scoop them up. Daniela's eyes watched her the whole time, quickly looking away when she leaned back up.
Daniela forgot she was still standing in the doorway, blocking y/n from getting out.
"umm… daniela." y/n said.
Daniela turned her head to look back at her. "Yes?" she murmured.
"You have to move out of the doorway so I can get out."
Daniela's eyes widened. "Yeah, right, I'm sorry." She quickly moved over to the side. "kinda forgot I was still standing here." She rubbed the back of her neck with her free hand that wasn't holding the towel.
A small smile started appearing on y/n's face as she shook her head and walked past Daniela out of the room.
After y/n was gone, Daniela looked around her room, eyes landing on the picture frame on her desk.
She walked over to it and picked it up, rubbing her thumb across it, a grin slowly appeared on her face.
All of them were in the car after gathering Daniela and Ana's belongings and putting them in the trunk. The moms were in the front, of course, with y/n and Daniela in the back, with space between them.
Y/n mom turned around in her seat to face both of them. "We're going to stop at Chevron so we can load up on gas. You guys can get snacks or use the bathroom if you need to before we get on the interstate."
Both of the girls nodded in response.
She turned back around in her seat, then started the car, the radio coming on soon after.
Y/n had already started her staring out the window habit while Daniela took glances over at her. This was officially the start of operation: cabin trip. She had already put her phone on dnd, getting rid of any distractions early on.
She put her headphones on and went to Spotify to see if y/n added any songs to the playlist. She smiled to herself when she saw that about 10 new songs had been added. She clicked out of the app and went straight to messages to y/ns contact.
baldwin park by sonder really?
She sent the message, and soon after, y/n's phone buzzed. Y/n picked up her phone from her lap, saw it was from Daniela, and turned to look at her with raised brows. She unlocked her phone, clicked the notification, then started typing.
it doesn't even have lyrics 😭
so? a good song doesn't always have to have lyrics
I'll delete the songs I added if you're going to be like that
Daniela turned to look over at y/n, who was already looking at her with a smug look on her face. turning her attention back to her phone, she typed quickly.
No, no, you don't have to do that.
She looked back up at y/n, who was already typing her response.
Y/n looked back up at Daniela with a cocky grin, making Daniela shake her head and smile. For some strange reason, in her chest, Daniela didn't know whether she could survive the trip with the teasing.
She knew she had to one-up y/n with her music choices and went on a deep dive into song searching, adding songs she knew y/n would enjoy.
Fifteen minutes had passed before she realized, while indulging in looking for songs, that they were parked at the gas station next to a fuel pump.
Y/N tapped her leg, which made her shift her attention and take off her headphones. "Huh?" she muttered, confusedly furrowing her eyebrows.
Daniela turned her head back to her side to look out the window. "That was quick," she murmured.
"Alright, you girls get ten minutes to get what you're going to get and use the bathroom, even if you don't have to go right now, try," Ana informed them.
"Yes, ma'am," y/n and Daniela replied in unison.
The girls got out of the car, closed the doors, and walked side by side to the gas station entrance. Daniela walked a little bit ahead and held open the door for y/n.
Daniela walked in after y/n was fully in the door. " So what are you going to get?"
"Uhh… probably some candy, and a slushy. what about you?" she asked, gazing her eyes over to Daniela.
"Um- probably the same thing. I'm going to use the bathroom first, though. You coming?"
"Oh nah, I don't have to. I used it before we left, so I'm good," y/n explained.
"Oh, okay, well, can you come stand outside the bathroom and wait for me until I get out?"
"Yeah, sure, I can," Y/n agreed.
"Thank you." Daniela smiled as they both headed toward the bathrooms.
Daniela suddenly spun around before walking inside. "I'm being serious, don't leave me. As a matter of fact, pinky promise on it." She held up her pinky finger.
"pinky promise?" y/n let out a small laugh. "You're being childish now, Daniela. What are we ten?"
Daniela didn't respond, still holding out her pinky for y/n to latch onto. Y/n rolled her eyes and huffed, taking out her hand from her jacket pocket, connecting their pinkies.
"I'll be that if it means you'll wait for me," Daniela said in a soft tone.
Y/n doesn't know why, but that made her heart jump. There have been too many coincidences going on over the past couple of days, and it was messing with her brain. Daniela was being too sweet, and y/n was still deciding whether she hated her guts.
"Daniela, I promise you I'll wait for you." She unconnected their pinkies and pointed towards the door. "Now, please go use the bathroom. We don't have that long."
"Right, I forgot about the time limit. I'll be right back."
Y/n gave her a thumbs up, "and I'll be standing right here in the same place, not moving, waiting on you."
Daniela gave her one last glance before she turned around, opened the door, and walked into the bathroom, leaving y/n alone.
Okay, that was weird. What the hell is going on with her? First, the playlist, and now this. so weird
If this was a reflection of how the trip was going to be, then lord, please save her sanity because she was going to need it.
Daniela came out of the bathroom a few minutes later, and then they both proceeded to look for snacks.
Daniela got to the counter first and put her stuff down, while y/n waited behind her so she could pay for hers.
Daniela turned around and looked at her, confused about why she was standing behind her. "Put your stuff up here," she told her.
"Put your stuff up here," she repeated. "I'm going to pay for it."
"You really don't have to do that. I think you've bought enough for me already this month."
"you're being stubborn again, just put your stuff up here."
A line was starting to form behind them, and Daniela wasn't going to take no for an answer, so she abruptly scooped all of y/n's things out of her arms into her hands and put them on the counter.
"This'll be all, thank you," Daniela told the cashier with a smile as she pulled out her phone to pay.
y/n was stunned and speechless. Her stuff was basically just ripped away from her against her will. "Really daniela? I was going to pay for myself."
Daniela grabbed the bag from the counter, turned to look at Y/N, and smiled while shrugging her shoulders. She started slowly stepping back before turning around to leave the store.
"Hey, wait!" y/n shouted as she followed after Daniela. "Now you're the one who's leaving me. Is this the thanks I get for waiting on you while you were in the bathroom? You literally made me pinky promise."
Daniela stopped in her tracks and turned back around making y/n crash into her. she was a bit taller than y/n so she was sort of looking down at her.
y/n crossed her arms, pretending like she didn't just crash into Daniela at full speed. "you do know I'm capable of paying for my own things, right?
Daniela smirked at her. "Yes I know that."
"okay, so why did you just pay when I told you that I could do it on my own?"
"I know you can pay for yourself, but I paid because I wanted to. Is that a hard concept to grasp or…" Daniela asked, tilting her head.
y/n realized how close they were standing infront of each other and took a step back, clearing her throat. "you are such a pain in the ass avanzini like the sharp kind that goes up your ass when you’re on your period type kind."
"I wouldn't want to have it any other way."
Y/N rolled her eyes and started walking back to the car, leaving Daniela to quickly follow behind. When the two reached the car, they opened the door, got in, and shut it with a loud slam.
"Girls, just in time, ready to go?" y/n's momma asked.
"Yep." Daniela replied, looking over to y/n who was already looking at the window.
"Alright, let's get this trip started," y/n's momma announced as she started up the car for the third time today.
After a couple of hours of bad mom music and laughter, they finally made it to the cabins. It was four twenty, and their check in time wasn't until four forty, so they were right on time.
Y/N didn't know when she had drifted off to sleep, but she was suddenly awakened by the car stopping. She slowly blinked her eyes open, and the first thing she saw was Daniela's face. Then she noticed she wasn't sitting up in her seat anymore; her head was resting in Daniela's lap.
She quickly jolted up off of Daniela, scaring her from the abrupt movement.
"Are you okay?" Daniela asked.
Y/n looked around at her surroundings. "Ye-yeah, I'm fine," she said as she moved her braids out of her face. "How… How did I end up… there?" she questioned, pointing to Daniela's lap
"You fell asleep, and you started leaning over, and I didn't want your neck to hurt when you woke up, so I just let you lie in my lap."
"Yeah… uh, um- our moms went to the lobby to see if we could check in early since check-in time is literally in twenty minutes."
"Alright," y/n murmured, still panicked.
Why are things always happening between them in cars?
After a few minutes, both of their moms returned to the car and told them they could check in early. They both gathered their trash and got out of the car, looking for a trash can to throw it in.
"Oh, we forgot to mention that the cabin this year only has three rooms, so you two have to share. There's only one bed, and it's a queen-size.
"What?" y/n deadpanned, her face dropping. How do you forget to tell us something like that? That should've been the first thing we were told about."
"Well, don't make it sound like sleeping with me is the worst thing in the world," Daniela said.
y/n facepalmed, shaking her head, "Please never phrase it like that ever again."
Daniela raised her eyebrows. "Phrase it like what?"
Y/n took her head out of her hand and stared at her. "I'm not doing this with you right now."
"I'm not even doing anything, you're just in a mood."
"In a mood? she scoffed. Are you serious?"
"I mean, that's what it seems like because I have literally done nothing to you."
"You know what, you're a pain in my a-"
"Hey!" Ana scolds, clapping to get them to stop bickering and turn their attention to her.
"Ustedes dos paran." She gritted her teeth together, pointing at them. " No peleen."
"¡No quiero oírlo! We didn't plan to come on this trip for both of you to be arguing."
"Tú estabas," Ana remarked. " Since you like to talk so much, both of you can unpack everything out of the car and bring it to the cabin."
Daniela groaned agitatedly. "But mami-"
"Don't but mami me, we are not starting this trip off on a bad foot."
Y/n looked over to her mom, who was standing there watching everything go down with wide eyes.
"What is even happening?" y/n mouthed, eyebrows furrowed, perplexed.
Her mom shrugged her shoulders. "I have no clue… just go along with it," she replied, no sound coming out of her mouth.
y/n knew she should've run away before the trip, so she didn't have to deal with all of this.
"Why are you two still standing here? Go!"
Both girls, aggravated, made their way back to the car before they could be lectured again. y/n was ahead of Daniela, stomping with every step as Daniela trailed far behind.
The first mistake. Two more strikes and she's out.
It took the girls all of twenty minutes to get everything out of the car. Neither of them spoke to each other, making the walk back and forth tense and awkward.
It had been a couple of hours, and it was pitch black outside. They all got everything situated and sorted in the cabin and were burnt out. Ana had cooked them something for dinner with food her and y/n's mom had gotten when they went back out.
Y/n and Daniela still weren't talking to each other; in fact, they were back to pretending like the other one didn't exist, putting them back to square one.
Okay, so the operation cabin trip was starting on the worst possible note, and Daniela already messed up on number four on the list.
She was the first one out of the bunch to go ahead and get ready for bed, tired of being surrounded by all the awkwardness.
Her and y/n still hadn't discussed the sleeping situation, and they probably weren't going to, so to soften the blow and not start another argument, Daniela was making a pallet to sleep on the floor.
She asked her mom if she could just sleep in the room with her, but her mom shut down quickly. Then she suggested the couch, but her mom thought it was a dumb idea, said no, and said she would be fine in the room with y/n.
So here she was about to sleep on the floor while there was a whole bed next to her.
She paused on making her make-shift bed, turning her head when she heard a loud creaking from the door, seeing y/n walk in and close the door behind her. She had her bonnet on, a big t-shirt, and, Daniela believed and hoped, shorts on.
Y/n hadn't acknowledged Daniela's presence or questioned why there were layers of covers on the floor, walking straight to the bed.
Daniela watched as she pulled the covers up and got onto the bed, fluffing the pillow before fully lying down facing away from her.
"Turn the lights off when you're done," y/n mumbled as she tried to get comfortable.
No goodnight, just a "turn the lights off when you're done."
Daniela didn't respond, not having the words, and didn't want it to sound like the situation was getting to her. She had speedily finished up with the pallet, turning the light off as soon as she was done and laid down.
She was thankful for the extra covers her mom had brought because she could barely feel a hard floor, but she still knew that she was going to wake up with back pain either way.
She knew it would take a while for her to fall asleep and that she'd be up replaying the entire day in her mind, how she messed it all up in the end. Now, y/n was going to bed mad and not speaking to her.
"i'm an idiot" she whispered, disappointed in herself.
hearing the faint soft sounds of y/n breathing, wishing she had apologized before the night was over, and there was no telling how tomorrow was going to go.
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