ok i just wanted to close this up for you guys :-) i really liked writing this and i'm def gonna do more artist!reader x ian stories in the future. 

also this is dedicated to jarvisdropmyneedle07 bc she's a great friend of mine, a wonderful artist, and she is ian lightfoot's soulmate ok <333

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You had never been so excited to go to school on a rainy Tuesday morning. Ian took your hand as soon as he met you by your locker, and he held it every chance he had to see you. He passed you notes in class. You wore your hair pulled up in a scrunchie again, and wow, did he think you looked gorgeous.

"So what did you want to do after school?" you asked during lunch, stealing a cheese puff off Ian's tray. 

"What is this? We start dating and you just steal my food?" 

"What are you talking about? I stole your food before we started dating, too." 

"Yeah, I guess you're right," he said. He pushed his tray towards you and you grabbed a couple more cheese puffs.

"But what did you want to do after school?" 

"Um..." He took a long drink from his soda and then sighed. "I don't really know. Did you have anything in mind?"

"We could hang out with Barley," you said, "you know, just go get something and drive around. Maybe rent a movie."

Ian's nose scrunched up. "You want our first date to be with my brother?" 

"What --- no." You burst into laughter. "That wouldn't be our first date. It would be us hanging out. What's so wrong with that?"

"I don't know, it's weird," Ian said. 

You gave him a look. "What's weird is that you don't want to hang out with your brother. Like we used to."

"I'm just afraid that he'll make things weird," he said, shrugging his shoulders. 

"Why? Because we're dating?" you teased. He flushed purple and you laughed and kissed him right on the cheek. He blinked at you in shock. "Nothing has changed, Ian. Except now I can do that and not seem like a total weirdo."

Ian smiled. 

"I gotta go to study hall," you said. "I want to study for that test tomorrow."

"Okay," he said softly, his eyes half-lidded as you squeezed his hand. "I'll see you after last period?"

"Uh-huh." You stood up out of your seat and suddenly swooped down to kiss his cheek again. While you did that, you stuck a post-it note on the front of his flannel shirt.

"Why do you keep doing that?!" he asked, his cheeks flaming more. 

You laughed and hurried off, holding your books to your chest. Ian watched you disappear through the cafeteria doors and then he peeled the piece of bright yellow paper off of his shirt.

It was a doodle of him done in pen. Right beside his head was a filled in red heart. He smiled and tucked in his binder. He mentally reminded himself that he would pin it up on his cork board when he got home from school later.

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After school, Ian sent Barley a text reminding him that he didn't have detention today. Barley was already waiting at the front of the school, the windows rolled all the way down and music blaring from the speakers. Ian gave you a nervous smile as he walked you up to the van and opened the passenger door. 

Barley stopping singing mid-song as his eyes locked on your intertwined hands. He turned the volume all the way down. "Whoa there," he said, "I take it detention yesterday went well."

"Yeah," Ian said breathlessly, "I guess it did."

Barley nodded in approval, watching his little brother open the back door of the van and holding your hand as you stepped in. He got in the passenger seat and shut the door. 

"Hey Barley," you said, putting your bag down. 

"Hey," he said. "So... when did you guys start dating?"

"Yesterday," Ian said, and then he jabbed a finger at his brother's chest. "And don't you make a big deal about it, Barley. I'm serious!" 

Barley's hands flew up in surrender.  "Alright, alright... I'll lay off." He pulled away from the curb. "So am I taking you home, ___, or are you two planning on hanging out..."

"Actually, I think we just wanted to all hang out together," Ian said, "if you wanted to." He glanced back at you, making sure that was what you wanted. You gave him a thumbs up in response. 

Barley smiled. It wasn't often that his little brother wanted to hang out with him. It seemed that the older Ian got, the more distant he became. Not that Barley blamed him at all; he was still a kid. He was still growing up.

But he couldn't hide his obvious excitement at the invite; it took everything in him not to genuinely thank his brother. "Uh, yeah. Of course I do. So what's on the agenda? A grand quest full of adventure and danger?"

"Well," Ian said, "it's Tuesday afternoon and we have a test in the morning so... I'm thinking no, we'll just stick with something simple today."

"Alright, your loss," Barley sighed.

"Dang, that quest sounded really cool," you mumbled. 

"Another time, dear ___," Barley said. You laughed quietly. "But what did you want to do?"

"I was thinking we just get tacos," Ian said. 

"That sounds great," you said. 

"Then tacos it is," Barley announced. 

Ian unzipped his backpack that sat at his feet. He pulled out his binder, opened it, and pulled out the sticky note he had stuck on the front page just before final bell ended. 

When Barley parked at the taco place and you and him stepped out of the van, he grabbed your hand and yanked you in for a quick kiss on the lips. Now you were blushing, your eyes wide as he smiled down at you and he stuck the sticky note on your shoulder. 

"Ian," you hissed. 

He laughed softly and kissed your cheek. You peeled off the note and looked at it. Much similar to your doodle of Ian, he had doodled you on an orange sticky note, heart and all. You smiled and took his hand. 

"You're cute," you said. 

"C'mon, lovebirds!" Barley yelled from the front doors of the taco restaurant. 

Ian jerked his head and you slipped your fingers between his. You mentally reminded yourself to stick the doodle on your wall, right next to the polaroid pictures of you and Ian that you kept over your desk. 

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also if anyone attempts to do the little ian on a post-it-note doodle, please send it to me or tag me in it or something bc i think it would be the cutest <333

p.s idk how to talk about this but i made a redbubble account. you can find me if you just look up my same username as my wattpad :-) so just look up spiderneds

 i will probably make masks and stickers with quotes from time to time 

stuff like this :-))) anyway ok thank u all for reading idk how to advertise stuff like this