217 days. Juniper Maddox could account for everything that had happened to her in the last 8 months, by remembering an event that happened 217 days ago.
217 days ago, she had met Alex. Now, she didn't know whether her birthday party was supposed to be a wonder event, but it was something she could certainly account for.
Her eyes should've been drawn to the insane amount of richness within the building, but in a way that was too true to herself, her gaze landed on the ceiling.
It's intricacies shadowed the extra depth of life that had grown around her the past 217 days. The new people she had met, Alex, George, Lando, other drivers too. She'd met Max at George's party, she'd become better friends with Pierre too. Other drivers clustered around her as she entered the building too, like Daniel and Lewis, who Juniper remembered stories of.
She couldn't help but smile up at Alex as they got a moment to themselves, it had been a little overwhelming as she had walked into the building to be met with confetti cannons and the shouting of "Surprise!"
"I can't help but think about how if Lilia was here, she'd have a total field day." June said to him with a laugh as they leant against the bar behind them.
"Look a little closer." Alex replied, and her face portrayed confusion for a moment before he gestured to a group of people stood in the corner.
To her surprise, the best surprise, Lilia and Kamri stood among a group other drivers. Juniper wouldn't tell anyone this, but she swore she saw Kamri looking more interested in a particular driver than she had ever seen her in anything.
She turned back around to him quickly now, shaking her head at him though the smile on her lips betrayed how she really felt.
"They're here. You brought them here." She whispered, stating the obvious in her haze of disbelief. "You're the best." She mumbled, her voice dropping lower now.
She wasn't sure why she had spoken so quietly, maybe hoping that nobody else would hear what she had said to him. If someone had heard, though, it wouldn't have made the statement any less true.
Alex was undeniably the best person she knew -- and she had the friends and the sisters she had. It was a title he should've held, and did, in the highest esteem.
She hadn't even realised at what point she had wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him into a hug, but she was glad he had reciprocated.
"Go to them. They're here for you, June." He said to her, and she thought that with the music blaring in the background, she wouldn't have heard him if he hadn't been so close to her.
+
The Maddox sisters were as close as they had ever been as they swayed back and forth to the sounds of George Ezra playing over the speaker.
(George argued he was a better singer than someone with the same name as him.)
And whilst her arms remained firmly around her friends and her sisters, who had since become new found friends -- with Lilia finally meeting the Charlotte who she had been jealous of too many times, she had noticed Alex's absence from the room.
He'd slipped outside not long after he'd told her to go see her sisters, she assumed. She also guessed that her running into his sisters was also part of his plan to stall her for a little while.
George and Lando were clearly a part of whatever Alex had schemed too.
She wasn't sure if the value of the songs had decreased or if the need for fresh air had increased, maybe it was the need for his presence rather than the air, but she still sought out an exit.
YOU ARE READING
CAPACITY FOR WONDER. | alex albon
Fiksi Penggemar"every time you try to fill the other with wonder, you give a piece of yourself to them, with how you attempt to do so." (IN WHICH!) june maddox decides to teach alex albon there is more wonder in life than ju...
