#maloski

@southsidebuckey: “Maybe a skate x reader where the reader is Derek's younger sister and has a huge crush on Nate since she went on the Skaterade tour with them. Nate overhears her talking to her friend and shows her he feels the same?”

“Y/N” I hear, as my brother, Derek, taps me on the shoulder. I shake my head and roll over a little as he tugs on my blanket. It’s only when my face hits Swazz’s shoulder do I realize that I’m on an airplane and not at home in my bed. I rub my eyes and look over at my brother, trying to smooth out my hair.

“Hi Princess,” John teases as I finally sit up a little and stretch. The plane is just about to land. We finally made it home to LA. I flip him off, throwing my messy hair into a high ponytail and working out the knots with my fingers. I joined my brother for the last leg of Skaterade’s European tour. Their photographer found out his wife was pregnant and had to go home. My boss at GQ’s LA office told me it would be alright if I took a couple of weeks off to help out, so I packed my bags and headed to Amsterdam. I thought it was going to be a little annoying and very exhausting. My brother’s friends can be a lot. But, I actually had a really great time and became a lot closer with everyone.

I tuck my legs up underneath me before leaning forward to get my baseball cap out of my bag. I catch a glimpse of Nate sleeping in the seat in front of mine and and look back at my brother. “How come you didn’t wake Nate up?” I say, with an eyebrow raised. I glance over at the sleeping boy again and can’t help but smile. Nate was the biggest surprise on this trip. I had been to a few parties with him when the boys were just starting out and had always thought of him as a huge playboy pot-head, but we hung out more this tour and he’s so sweet and works harder than anybody. Plus he is sooo hot.

“Oh yeah true” Derek laughs and throws an empty water bottle between the seats. It bumps off of Skate’s head and lands in his lap before he stirs a little. I watch him stretch in his seat and slowly open his eyes. Groggy Nate was quickly becoming my weakness.

He finally sits up completely and turns around and subtly flips of Derek. “Not my fault you clearly don’t care about beauty sleep” he says, looking my brother up and down. Derek shakes his head.

“Are you doing to let him talk to your brother like that?” Derek looks over at me. I look over at Nate and he winks with a smile, his dimples coming out full force.

“I’m still mad at you for waking me up” I smirk

“But you did mention that Nate was still sleeping” Derek says, turning the tables on me.

“Wow can’t believe you would do me dirty like that Mama” Nate says shaking his head. “Luh’s are nothing but trouble” he says turning around with a smile. The plane descends and I slip my headphones and slides on.

As we are walking up the aisle of the plane, I realize that my time with the boys is sort of over. Sure, Derek hangs out with them all the time, but I need to get back to the office and we won’t all live together again. I can’t believe I am actually going to miss these clowns.

“One more picture?” Derek says as we all stand around at baggage claim. I nod, grinning and whip out my camera from my bag. The boys all grin, climbing on top of each other as I snap away, getting great posed shots and candids. I meet Nate’s eyes as I’m shooting and get a little lost when he grins at me. Everyone gets their bags and I slip my camera into my backpack as my phone rings.

“Y/L/N we need you at the Bowl by 5, Mitchell got the stomach flu and was supposed to shoot with the Franco brothers tonight. Also we need your mock-ups for the summer fashion issue by tomorrow night so that we can run them by Joanna”

I sigh, “Okay, I’m at LAX baggage claim. I’ll run my my apartment and grab some trainers. Be there by 4:45”

“You’re my star” my boss says in his South African accent. “I’m so glad you’re back.”

“Gotta go boys” I say, picking up my bags. I wrap my arms around my brother. “I’ll see you at Mom and Pop’s on Sunday!”

“Bye!” They all wave their hands around jokingly and I laugh, running outside to catch a cab. I look back at Nate and he grins, waving a little longer than everyone else. Ugh dimples.

A week or so later, I am making pasta in the kitchen with my friend Sophie when I hear a knock at the door. “Sistaahhh,” Derek calls from the hallway. I hear dog tags jingling.

“Kilo” I smile, opening the front door. My brother’s dog comes bounding into the room and falls at my feet, happily looking up at me.

“I am going to the studio and then have a date, can you watch him?” Derek says, running a hand through his hair. He looks over at Sophie and winks.

“Derek you just said you had a date tonight, and Sophie is way too smart for you. She just got her law degree from UCLA. And yes of course I will watch my nephew tonight.”

“I love that you never have plans” Derek grins and kisses my cheek. I flip him off before shutting the door behind him.

“You know I did have a sex dream about him once, Sophie says, popping a cherry tomato in her mouth.

“I will make you leave” I say before laughing. Kilo follows me into the kitchen.

Several hours later, Sophie and I are in my bed, ¾ into a bottle of red wine and at least a season into Narcos. I have my head in her lap and have been telling her all about the tour (aka my developing crush on Nathan Montgomery). “I don’t know what it is about him, Soph. I just completely relax when he looks at me now. He’s so sweet and sexy. God damn is he sexy. He got a new tattoo while we were on tour and I had to help him change out the bandage once before a shoot and the way he looked up at me while I was doing it was so fucking hot. My god”

“I thought you hated Derek’s friends. You said they were big boozy blunt babies.” Sophie laughs.

“Well I guess he changed my mind.” I say, not noticing the keys jingling slightly in the lock. I gave Derek a set for emergencies a while ago. We were being quiet so he must have thought we were asleep and came in to grab Kilo. “Yeah I just have a huge crush on Nate and I don’t really know if he feels the same way but sometimes when we look at each other, I’m sure he does.”

“Girl you have got it bad” Sophie laughs as I sit up a little.

“Hello?” a familiar voice echoes in the living room. Shit. That’s not Derek. That’s Nate.

“Nate?” I say, fixing my hair a little as I come out of my room. I wonder if he heard me. He doesn’t look like he heard me. It’s probably fine.

“It’s almost one AM, what are you doing here?” I half smile, looking him up and down. He was wearing grey sweatpants and a black t-shirt. I think he just woke up.

“Derek called me. His date went very well”

“Shocking” I interrupt. A date that didn’t end in sex was rare for my brother. Nate smirks.

“And he sent me to come get Kilo because he knows you have to work in the morning.” Nate says, rubbing his eyes.

“I can’t believe he woke you up and couldn’t just come over here himself” I laugh.

“Classic Derek” Nate smiles.

“True” I say, gathering up Kilo’s leash and toys that Derek sent him over with. “Kilo” I call down the hall and he comes over, snuggling into Nate’s legs. “That’s right, uncle Nate is going to take you home” I smile.

“Hi buddy” Nate says, scratching the dog’s belly.

“Well thanks for taking him. I do have to work in the morning”

“Sure thing Mama” I grin when he says Mama and our eyes meet for a half a second. “It was good to see you. Had been a minute” He says softly, still groggy from sleep.

“Yeah it had.” I say. “Now go get back to bed, sleepy” I say and he nods, yawning.

“Will do Boss” he says, before turning around and heading out the door. He tosses me my set of emergency keys. “Not sure if you want Derek having those” he says and I laugh.

“Goodnight!” I call down the hallway and he waves behind him before disappearing into the elevator.

Sophie comes out of my room. “Umm so that was ridiculously cute and he definitely likes you”

“What? No that was just friend stuff. He’s nice to me because I’m Derek’s sister”

Sophie raises an eyebrow at me and smirks “Okay, sure Honey”

The next day I am going over some shots from a Guess campaign that I am doing on the side when I get a buzz on my office phone. “Y/N?”

“Yes, Kendra?”

“There’s a model here to see you” she says and I hear a voice over the phone say

“Oh I’m not a model”

“Okay a not a model is here to see you” Kendra says sarcastically.

“Uhh send him in?” I say, a little confused.

“Hi I’ll be with you in one second, sorry” I say, filing the photos away. “Alright, how can I…” I stop talking when I meet Nate’s eyes. “Oh, hey. What are you doing at my office. How do you even know where my office is. Do you want coffee, water?”

“Your brother told me” Nate says, looking around my office. “Coffee would be good actually”

“Okay…” I say, still confused as to why this guy is standing in my office. “Kendra can we get two coffees to my office? Thanks” I say into my phone. Nate picks up the latest issue and flips through, setting it back down on the table where it came from. He scans the pictures on the wall.

“Nate…?” I say, amused to see him just looking around. “Did you want a tour? I can’t get you free clothes, people ask me that all the time.” I say meeting his eyes.

“Oh uh no I uh just wanted to talk to you.” He says leaning against my desk. His tattooed forearms flex and I get a little distracted.

“Yeah go ahead” I say, sipping my coffee. “Is this about work? I’ll have the mock-ups for the tour photos by next week. Things have been swamped since I’ve been back”

“No” he shakes his head. “Nah that’s Johnny and my publicist’s concern. Though I’m sure they’re dope and I’d love a copy” he smiles and looks down at his hands.

“Nate are you asking me for money? Are you dying? I’ve never seen you this quiet” I laugh.

“No I. I uhh. Uhm. I heard you talking to your friend last night.”

“Sophie?” I say, blushing. Fuck fuck fuck.

“Yeah” he says, scratching the back of his head. I sit back in my chair for a second and am about to say something when Kendra walks in.

“Two Coffees for the not a model and my lovely boss” Kendra says and I smile.

“Thank-you” Nate says taking his coffee. We are silent until Kendra walks out again.

“So you came here to tell me that you heard me last night”

“Yeah”

“You heard me say that I have a big crush on you”

“Yeah”

“Well, I guess I wasn’t lying” I say sipping my coffee, scanning Nate’s eyes and trying to get a read on how he is feeling.

“That’s good. Lying isn’t good.” Nate says.

“So is that it?” I say, looking up at him.

“I’m sorry,” Nate says, finally sitting down at the chair in front of my desk. “I just really respect you and you’re my homie’s brother and also have become a bit of a homie as well and I can’t believe you actually want to be with me because got damn, but I don’t want to fuck this up. And I’m super good at fucking things up.”

“What?”

“I want to take you to dinner. Can we go to dinner? Kendra says you’re already working late.” I look down at my watch, I guess it is 5:00 already. I never leave at 4:00 when everyone else does.

“Dinner? I thought you were a bed and head only kind of guy” I smirk.

“I am a classy man. I don’t just give it up on the first date, jeez” he jokes offering up his arm.

“Wanna bet?” I smirk, getting up from my desk.

“Kendra?” I say into my phone.

“Please leave, Honey. We already made you reservations and everything.” Kendra says, smiling. I look over at Nate.

“Well that was cocky, wasn’t it?” I smirk as we leave my office.

“I already knew you had a crush on me so it wasn’t that risky, now was it?” Nate smirks and kisses the top of my forehead.

“Does Derek know?” I ask as we get into the elevator.

“Shhhh, one awkward conversation at a time, Mama” Nate laughs and I grin, shaking my head.

“A wise and very sexy man once said that Luh’s are nothing but trouble” I lean into Nate’s chest a little as the doors close in front of us. Nate looks down and me and nods before starting our date out with a long awaited kiss.

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