sweets || bryce hall

Chapter 69: All These Bags

This is the last chapter that was previously published in the sequel before being moved into the book. If you were up to date on the sequel, you should skip to Chapter 70!

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Rory POV

"C'mon, Bryce, we're going to miss our flight if you don't hurry up!" I yell down the hall, anxiously checking the time on my apple watch again.

"Calm down woman! I'm all packed, I'm just fixing my hair!" I raise my eyebrows, waiting for him to add onto his comment, "And I didn't mean woman, I meant my amazing, wonderful, patient Sweets!" I just roll my eyes now, at least he knows to fix it. I pace, and, as I turn, Bryce's arms sneak around my waist. I smile, relaxing just slightly into his shoulder, "Can you believe its Thanks giving?" I turn around, raising my eyebrows, "I mean that it's November. We were half broken up this time last year Rory. And so much has happened in 2021 alone," I nod, reaching up to play with Bryce's hair in the back,

"A year ago I still thought Inwas going to be murdered in my sleep because I was posting on social media," I giggle and he glared jokingly, pulling me in tighter while his head falls into the crook of my neck. I can feel his chest move up and down as he breathes, my arms wrapping around his torso in return, "Hey but you initiated a several million dollar boxing fight that you all but willingly lost just for a 30 year old man that annoyed you." I keep my voice firm, him knowing. I'm still just lightly mad he didn't initially tell me back when everything started. His head shoots up and he laughs,

"Well okay fair, but I didn't disappear with Tana to Miami for a week this summer," I bite my lip, fighting laughing,

"Okay but I didn't fake date Tana last month for Youtube!"

"You and Charli tell people you're dating every time you make anything together."

"Okay but Charli is the love of my life! And at least I didn't make us move out and away from our friends because I was done with Sway and caused a bunch of problems!"

"Sweets, you still talk to them every day. And I'm not the one that keeps posting shit on TikTok about wanting to meet every single influencer or celebrity and existence because you know everyone loves you and somehow you'll end up hanging out with them within the week." He raises his eyebrows with a smirk and I blush,

"It's not my fault I have amazing friends who are all super connected. Actually, that's your fault because most of them were your friends first. You're just mad I'm more like able than you. Plus, I'm not the one who cut my hair into a mullet because I had a man crush on Anthony and every dude on TikTok with one."

"You died your hair black last year when I couldn't say anything because we were separated bub," I purse my lips, searching for something to fire back with before widening my eyes,

"Fair... but you cheated and that's why we were separated and intimately you can't say anything about my dying my hair without you being involved," I raise my eyebrows with a smirk now, knowing I just won. I was talking really fast because I kept watching his mouth open to defend himself but he's just looking at me now with total defeat across his face. I smile softly at him, pushing up on my tiptoes to press my lips against his. He watches me carefully, as if he wants to ask something, "What is it Bryce?" I give him a slight push,

"You know I don't deserve you right? I always say that, but Sweets, I would be such an idiot without you. I still am, but I'd be so lost and I don't even know why you're still here. I was sure I'd lost you last year, and if I had, it'd have been for some damn good reasons." I lean into him, hugging him so tight,

"I know I could've left Bryce. When I left that house that night, I did something I never thought I could do again which was leave, but that time it was the normal I had actually built. But I did it, and I got so independent and I took everything you gave me while we were together and I used it to build a better Rory myself. So while the mistake you made was huge and not okay, everything else you've done in the total time you've been my boyfriend, and more importantly my person? That all is what I think is important. If you weren't good enough for me, or who I needed, I wouldn't have come back. Okay? So I make that decision for myself," Bryce's smile grows as I speak, his hands slipping to grip around my waist with his hands, "Plus, the past 11 months since we've been dating again? Everything you did to end everything finally with my family? Our anniversary? National Girlfriend Day? My birthday? The halloween parties we went to this year? Everything has been so amazing and it's not just because of the material things I got or we did, it's because of how amazing those memories have been to have and how amazing you are to have given them to me. We got to do everything we didn't when our lives were so insane last year. And hey, I haven't gone into a massive, multiple month long depression yet this year!" I jump up and down and Bryce laughs,