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~She asked me "Son when I grow old will you buy me a house of gold,

and when your father turns to stone, will you take care of me?"~

MATTYS POV

I cannot explain to you the amount of joy that astonished me, when I heard her speak that one simple word. 'Yes'. I can see her lips forming the simple word, that made my heart flutter. It felt so good to love someone this much. I could describe to you the way her smile formed and how she wrapped her arms around me, left then right. I can remember the entire moment pefectly, and I knew I would forever. It was one of the best choices I had made in my life. My life was full of regretting things and decisions, I'm proud to say this moment was never added to that pile. I could only hope she was thinking the same.

It was a week later, and she was sitting in my car waiting for me to come drive her to Sam's house. I offered since the boys and I had an interview in the same city. I told her I would pick her up the next day and I would just spend the night up there with George. We figured since we'd be out we should just make a night of it.

"Ready to go?" I asked her as I got into the car and turned it on.

"Yeah." Lately she had been quieter, I figured it was just because she was tired or something. I hadn't really asked her since it was a short amount of time she had been quiet.

We drove up to Merrill, where Sam lived, in almost silence. Eventually I turned on the radio to break the silence. It felt so awkward and... unknown. It was very uncomfortable. Some pop song came on and after one verse she plugged her phone into the aux input.

I looked at her and she just said, "I was tired of main stream." This was such a Skylar thing to say, which was weird since she wasn't being much like herself. I felt this weird sense that something was wrong. No, she would tell me if something was wrong, right? By now, all we've been through together in this past month or so, she had to. Right?

All I could do was keep trying to reassure myself that I was right. She put on 'House of Gold' by Twenty One Pilots, which I was pretty content with. I didn't listen to them much, but I knew she did and they were a really good band.

She sang along to the folkish song until the end. She paused the ending and went to find another song to listen to. We had about an hour to go still. I kept thinking about the lyrics the song.

"She asked me 'Son when I grow old will you buy me a house of gold?
And when your father turns to stone, will you take care of me?'
I will make you queen of everything you see, I'll put you on the map I'll cure you of disease.
And since we know that dreams are dead and life turns plans up on their head,
I will plan to be a bum, so I just might become someone."

"I would." She looked up when I said this, a look of confusion on her face. I assumed I should explain. "I would buy you a house of gold."

She smiled. I hadn't seen her smile in a long time. It was a cleansing feeling, as if I needed her smile to be a better person.

"I would do the same for you, Matty." A grin crept onto my face as I heard her voice. She tapped her phone as 'Trapdoor' by 21Pilots started to play through the speakers. This was one of their songs I liked the most. It explained so much about humanity, and how the world functions. It made an amazing analogy to bullying, and plain life. How so many innocent people, boys, girls, men, women, people of all shapes and sizes are teased and bullied in so many different ways. The main point of how these by standers just sit and watch all these good people start to slip into depression and other disorders, because of these humans who have to knock everyone else down to feel like they're the bigger and better person. We all see people everyday getting hurt, we even are the people hurting others at times. We witness, or pursue this lifestyle that's called humanity, when really it's anything but civilized. It's the touch of anarchy that's so 'necessary' to living. So many people are slowly falling through their own trapdoors and no one even knows they're alive.

We made small comments about the towns we drove through but nothing much more than that. I was pretty content knowing she was still able to smile at me and know that I cared about her. I didn't want to lose her, ever. She was my best friend, with a touch of girlfriend.

We got to Sam's where he hugged me, manly of course, and I kissed Sky goodbye. She seemed to be okay as I left so I didn't feel as uneasy with leaving her here, as I had been on the ride up.

George and I met up about a half an hour from there and busted open a bottle of red wine. I was nervous about leaving her. I mean she was my new girlfriend, and she had been acting so unusaully. I knew it must all be in my head, though and I just needed a break.

It was going to be a long night.

A/N-

hey guys sorry this short chapter took so long, i literally have like zero spare time at the moment. I will be having lots of down time at practice though so I promise I will be updating more often!

I'm beginning to have more and more trouble with ideas for this story. I know how it will be ending, i actually have the last couple chapter written out (extremely long took me a month!) but i need some more inspiration to get there. I hope youre all still enjoying this, I have to thank my best friend Alyssa for motivating me through all this, and giving me the encouragement i needed to keep this story going and keep me writing. I could NOT have done this without her.

i promise i will start working on the next chapter right now, and hopefully have a FULL chapter out by Sunday (2/29/15)

thank you all i hope youre all still alive from all this cold weather!

love, jordan xx