My Serotonin || Completed

Chapter 2-"She just stopped."

-Present-

2 weeks ago

I heard my mom faintly yelling from the kitchen, "RHYS WAKE UP YOU'VE GOT 10 MINUTES LEFT" it took my just awake brain a little bit to process that and I shot up. Never in my life have I been late. I liked being early. Scrambling through everything I made it to my school at record time. My jet black hair sat tousled perfectly and my grey eyes looked somewhat exhausted. I got through the school day for the most part. Ever since we shifted here out of the blue, it's been weird. I miss her, but I've made friends here and almost completely settled down. That is until later when mom decided to tell me the great news she's been hiding. She practically yelled in excitement as she said "RHYS we're going back, we're going back home". 

A whirl of emotions passed through me. Happiness, excitement, relief and nervousness. I was happy to go back but I did make some solid friends here and going back means having to face the reality and mistakes I've been trying so hard to run from. My mom broke my thoughts by saying, "C'mon Rhys be more excited you're going back, you're gonna go back to her" she said. Little does my mom know that she is the entire reason I'm so nervous to go back. I put on my usual fake smile and nodded as I went back into my room.

 My thoughts were a mess. Most of them were "HOLY SHIT I'M GOING BACK", "oh no it's gonna be bad", "what if she hates me?". Dismissing all of them, I texted Rowan, my only contact back there and told him not to tell anyone.

Earlier in the day.

We've finally moved everything back here. Everything seems to look the same as I've left it. The house, my room, the neighbourhood. I doubt anything's changed much since I've last been here. I called Rowan over to help me out a little and so we could catch up with everything. We were having a calm convo when I decided to ask how she  was doing. His blue eyes clouded with concern as he  said "You leaving, without telling and cutting all contact broke her  Rhys. She's lost almost any hope she's had. She's drinking it all out, throwing her life away partying every other day. Look at this clip of her  yesterday and tell me if she is even close to how she  was. She got into a toxic relationship to make matters worse. He never treated her well. I heard her crying once. Asking for you to come back. To help her and to be there for her." Saying this he showed me a clip from a party last night. 

She looked so different. Her  short wavy hair 2 years ago now fell in waves till her  hip, her eyes covered with smokey eyeshadow, her dress fitting her so perfectly. But the changes after that are what concern me. Her hand holding a giant bottle of alcohol and chugging it down and reaching for another. Her brown eyes show no emotion as she does so. I watched as she drank up the entire bottle and headed for another and she started singing and dancing and then throwing up. The clip ended with that and Rowan saw as my eyes shifted from confusion to concern and fear. Fear of what happened, of what I had done to her. 

Rowan managed to convince me to meet him at the local amusement park later on so I could see the place better and I agreed, after all, I can't hide here forever no matter how much I want to.

Presently

I eventually reached the amusement park, it's got more rides since I was last here. The rides are much bigger. She would love this wouldn't she. I  found Rowan and we went on a few rides and talked around. I met a lot of people who I haven't seen in a long time. That's when something caught the corner of my eye. 

That familiar brown hair. She was here. She looked so much prettier than she already did. That cherry white cardigan and jeans looked amazing. Her eyes though, that's what concerned me. They looked exhausted, tired,  hopeless and sad. So much sadness that it broke me when I looked into them. That's when I noticed the people next to her.

I saw Aria. Aria and I were pretty good friends before I left, I'm glad she had Aria. Two more girls were there. I didn't recognize them, they were probably new here. I shifted my attention back to her and as much as it broke me to see her so hopeless and fragile, I was glad she's still got Aria and all. 

I watched as our eyes met for a few minutes, so many emotions running through her eyes, reflected on mine. I wanted to run. Run, give her a hug and twirl her around. I took a step forward, she took one back. She turned around and ran. Ran away.

That's when Rowan turned towards what I was staring at and said, "She stopped talking to me, to the rest, she only talks to Aria now, and even Aria's barely talking to us. I miss them, you know. I tried talking but Poppy was so angry that she just stopped. She stopped doing almost anything. That toxic relationship she was in made matters worse." 

That's when I knew that I've gotta fix this mess that I made. For her, for Aria, for Rowan and the others. I told Rowan that I felt a little sick because of all the rides and went back home.

A/n ello humanss, I have returned with a prolly late update but but I edited the chapter.

(basically added a para but whatever)

Hope your day's good if not i don't mind if you wanna rant in the dms, its always open :)

But anyway I hope you like Rhys' introduction, 

Fair warning, you might hate him in the start but but I had my reasons and so did he. Don't be shy, show him some love. :)

-With love yours truly