For Schermionie's 5, 10, 20, 50, 70, 100 Fandoms Challenge.
Wade knows the Zoe likes him, because Zoe isn't the sort of girl to sleep with someone who she doesn't like.
It's terribly satisfying.
Firstly, because it feels like he's finally beat George at his own game and secondly, because he finally gets to sleep with the girl he's been crazy about for the past few months. Overall, the whole situation is, for Wade, pretty fantastic.
Nothing much has changed. They spend the nights together and, just as they always have, they see each other during the day. They still poke fun at each other and Wade still spends the majority of his time trying to get her to do something crazy or obscene.
The friendship to friends with benefits transition is going pretty darn well, really.
Wade likes that, he thinks. He's fine with just being friends who occasionally have sex. Sure, he'd be curious for a little more, but just for now, friendship and sex is enough for him.
Well, at least, it should be enough.
Only, every time he sees Zoe around Bluebell, he can't help but notice that she always seems to be with George. She's talking to him, talking about him or staring at him from across the room. And because Zoe's just a friend he sleeps with (and nothing more, honestly), this shouldn't bother him too much. In fact, it shouldn't bother him at all. He should be able to brush it off and it most certainly shouldn't cost him a moment of sleep.
He shouldn't want to break George's jaw.
It's just infuriating. He's finally got the girl. He knows he got the girl. And yet, it seems like that in the end, she's not his at all. It's like after everything they've been through, she's still George's girl...not his.
It's not as if he doesn't try. He tries extremely hard not to notice that Zoe spends a significant amount of time either with George or thinking about George.
It doesn't work.
Everywhere he turns it's Zoe and George. Zoe and George...pretending that they've got their own little fairytale that's about to be written. They pretend that they can talk and flirt without hurting a soul because they believe that they, one day, will be together forever. They never say it outloud, but even Wade knows that that's what they're thinking. They're thinking that maybe it's not right now, but that doesn't mean that they can't have their happily ever after later.
It's unfair.
George doesn't have the right. Hell, Zoe doesn't have the right. Neither of them have the right to do this to him.
They're not together. George is dating every other girl in Bluebell and Zoe is sleeping with him. They're not allowed to pretend that they're madly in love with each other and that it's just the timing that's off.
Zoe and George aren't a fairytale. They're never going to be, not if Wade has anything to do with it. Zoe and George had their chance; they're done.
It's Wade's turn.
It's Wade's turn to get the girl (properly, not just sleeping with her while she's thinking of someone else). It's Wade's turn to get the fairytale. Zoe's going to stop looking for George whenever she enters a room and one day, she's going to be looking for Wade. Eventually, he's sure, Zoe and George will stop being the talk of the town.
If Wade gets his way, he and Zoe'll end up being a little more than friends with benefits and maybe, just maybe, they'll get the happily ever after.