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𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞: 𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐲 
𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐭.

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"Fuck you, Kelly Severide!" Maddie yells, panting.

Finally, she stops her jog and she settles on the ledge of the sidewalk. Maddie could feel her head pounding and her heartbeat quicken and it didn't seem like it would calm down for a while.

Maddie was a lot of things──architect, painter, wife, your go-to friend if you needed an opinion about building a house──but she was not an athlete.

"Hey, babes." Kelly is in front of her with a wide smile on his face and Maddie wanted nothing but to slap it off. "Don't stop now. You're doing great! Come on!"

"I feel like my heart is going to burst and my brain is going to fall out of my head." 

"I think you look like a snack."

Maddie narrows her eyes. "I think you look like a cocky son of a bi──"

"Kelly?"

Maddie looks for the source of the high-pitched voice. Her vision tunnels on a tall, thin girl who looked like she could be a Victoria's Secret Model.

The model was in workout gear yet she didn't look like she was breaking a sweat with her hair in a neat braid and her breathing perfect. Looking at her didn't help Maddie's self-esteem.

"It's been so long since we last saw each other!" She expresses, a hopeful tone in her voice.

"Hi, Nicki." Kelly greets back, swallowing thickly. "How have you been?"

"Oh, I'm doing great!" Nicki answers with a smile, "Since we bumped into each other, do you want to grab breakfast?"

"That's nice but I really can't." It was an umbrella term for he didn't want to.

"Ah, I remember you preferred dates in the evening. Drinks then?"

"Hi, I'm Maddie!" She pipes up, jumping to her feet and standing beside Kelly. It would be a lie if Maddie didn't say she was intimidated by Nicki's tall height compared to her five foot and four inched stature.

Nicki Rutkowski's blue eyes shift from the lady's forced smile to Kelly's arm going around her waist tightly. 

"Oh. Hi, Maddie. I'm Nicki." The two shakes hands but the tension was palpable.

"How do you know Kelly?" Maddie asks, keeping the smile on her face. "Did you two grow up together or?" 

Nicki tells her that she used to work at Firehouse Fifty-One as a clerk though she did fail to mention her steamy short-lived romance with the Squad lieutenant.

"How long have you and Kelly been dating?" Nicki queries, genuinely curious on how she managed a Casanova like him. "Not that long, I guess. Given Lieutenant Severide's impeccable reputation." 

She catches the way he squeezes Maddie's hip.

"We're married."

"She's my wife."

"Oh, wow." Nicki was shocked. Kelly was a married man──seriously? "Well, congratulations."

"Thanks." Maddie replied dryly, going back to her spot on the sidewalk.

Soon enough, they part ways with Nicki feeling like an idiot and the couple ready to chow down on some pancakes and place caffeine in their systems to forget about the awkward encounter.

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TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN KELLY
SEVERIDE AND MADDIE SEVERIDE

wife 
kelllyyyyy!!!!!

bebot
hello babes 😽 how did
your interview go?

wife 
it went well
like TOO well

like YOU'RE LOOKING
AT BRIGHTON BUILDERS'
NEWEST ARCHITECT
KIND OF WELL

bebot
aweee i knew you
could do it 💯💖

guess that morning
exercise worked huh?

wife 
which exercise?
the one in our
bedroom or that
jog 😏

bebot
a little bit of
both maybe 😜

wife
for the eleventh time,
i don't recall asking you
to help me be more fit

bebot
yeah you wouldn't
because you were
drunk on your ass

wife 
good thing my LOVING
husband took care of me

and why is your
contact name bebot

bebot
that night you got drunk
in miami was also the
night i discovered you
are a horrible singer

you wouldn't stop
singing that black
eyed pea song

wife 
BEBOT BEBOT BE
BEBOT BEBOT BE

IKAW ANG
AKING BEBOT!!!

bebot
what does
that even mean

wife 
bebot is like slang for
"babe" or "hot chick"
in filipino

bebot
okay you can
continue calling
me that 😌

wife 
you should change my
contact name to the one
 (1) person who makes the
best pancakes and owns
my heart

bebot
are you still worked up
about what happened
this morning? 🤔

wife 
no

YES 
ERASED

AND OH MY GOD I HAVE
NEVER FELT MY SELF-ESTEEM
GO DOWN SO FAST SHE'S
SO PRETTY SHE COULD
BE A MODEL 😩
ERASED

bebot
you know that what
nicki and i had was
just for fun, right?

wife
o H

what did you
and nicki have
then? 😳

bebot
HISTORY

wife 
that's good
to know

bebot
ah, we'll talk about
this when i get
home, alright?

love you babes

wife
love you
 too, bebot

AUTHOR'S NOTE
a birthday update woot 
woot!! 21 feels noice