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seventeen: midsummers

edited april 2025

"I got my red dress on tonight
Dancin' in the dark, in the pale moonlight
Done my hair up real big, beauty queen style
High heels off, I'm feelin' alive"

chapter seventeen: midsummers

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"Hey!" Blake shouted "Topper!"

"Blake" he stopped right on his tracks when he heard her there "What are you doing here?" he asked her as the last time they had seen each other was at at Midsummers

"I should be the one asking you that" she replied

"Nothing" Topper replied quickly

He was nervous and anxious, Blake could see the tears starting to form into his eyes.

"Nothing? It didn't look like nothing to me when you almost killed John b" Blake said

"I didn't" Tooper shook his head anxiously

"Oh, so he threw himself from up there?" she asked him again sarcastically

"Look Blake, I didn't mean it. The railing just failed it must have been rotten or something!" the boy exclaimed, the smell of alcohol coming from his mouth

"Wait. Are you drunk?" Blake asked the Kook who just stepped back from her, therefore confirming this "What's wrong with you Topper?" she asked him now actually concerned about him

"I...I just don't know okay! Everything is falling apart, Blake. Everything!" Topper exclaimed clearly drunk.

He would never say something like that sober.

"What?" she asked him

"I knew Sarah was cheating on me. I fucking knew. Ever since that night I told her I loved her and she left" Topper said now starting to cry "I saw them together at Midsummers and it fucking broke me, Blake you can't imagine. I just wanted to see for myself where would she go this late at night. I wanted to confront him but not kill him!" he admitted

"How did you know Sarah was here?" Blake asked.

Only the Pogues knew about Sarah meeting John b out there that night, if someone else knew they could also know about everything else.

"I went to her house to apologize about how I spoke to her at the party and Wheezie was covering for her" he replied "She told me"

"Wheezie?" Blake frowned "Look Topper I-" The girl cut herself off.

She was mad at Topper, of course she was. But he did have a point though.

It wasn't the first time Sarah had cheated on her boyfriends and that was something Blake hated about her, but now she actually had a boy that loved her because Topper did and she cheated on him. She couldn't bring herself to yell at Topper because she knew he was actually just a heartbroken boy and what happened was an accident.

But still, John B could be dead because of an stupid mistake of a drunk heartbroken boy.

"Give me your keys" Blake said

"What?" Topper asked her confused

"There's no way I'm going to let you go back home in this state" she said and the blonde then gave her his keys and together got into the car.

The ride was silent. There were not anymore words needed between the two of them, of they did it would be for worse.

"Do you want me to bring you home or do you want to go to mine and be with Jack?" Blake broke the silence