Ghost of You (5SOS Song One Shot)

"Ghost of You"

He opens his eyes the sun shining through the room warming and lighting up the room as if it was saying good morning, but he lays there staring at her side of the bed with a cold heart against the warmth of the sunny room. He still can't sleep on her side, he stays on his side, waiting, hoping that he will wake up and she will be there.

He stands up and slips on his slippers, and walks to open the bedroom door leading to the rest of the house, his feet slide across the floor slowly as he stares at the pictures on the wall, the pictures of her, of the times they had together that are now gone. As his feet lead him to the kitchen, he thinks back to the times that they sang and danced in the kitchen while making breakfast, he thinks back to when he was happy. Pushing aside these thought he enters and walks to the cupboard opening it to grab a mug, he stops halfway to reaching to his blue mug when his eyes wonder and land on the white mug with a red lipstick stain on it, it's faded but only a little it's faded since the last time she used it, he remembers back when he teased her about it. His eyes get foggy as he turns away and grabs his mug and pours himself a cup of coffee. If only he could dream long enough she'd tell him that he would be fine.

He reaches and grabs the half empty bottle of whisky that sits on the counter and pours some into his cup and downs the cup in one go, the hot coffee burns a little and hurts but not as much as his heart.

A few hours later he is walking around trying to tidy up the house when he comes upon an old shirt that was hidden under a blanket on the floor, he picks it up to see what it is, but to see the Led Zeppelin logo on it he has flashback of when she wore it when she ran away, they were to young and dumb to know things such as love, but he knows better now.

He puts the shirt down and grabs the bottle of whiskey from earlier and brings it to his mouth taking a swig. He drags himself over to the couch, drops down and takes another swig. He chases down a feeling of anything but the emptiness he feels right now in this moment alone stuck with only the memories he has. He thinks about how he isn't the same without her, he not happy like he used to be, the happiness of his lives is gone forever.

He drowns his sorrows with alcohol hoping maybe this is all a dream and he is in reality asleep with her next to him in bed. He looks up and for a moment think he sees her but when he blinks it's gone, he stands up and pulls out his phone and hits play on her favorite song and starts drunkenly dances around their house, chasing down that feeling of how he felt when they did this not that long ago, but he takes this with a shot of truth. He falls to the ground when he trips over his feet when he realizes that she's really gone and isn't coming back. Tears fall from his eyes as he sobs a pool of tears surround him as he lets out the pain that he's been keeping in, he baths in this torment. He realizes in this moment, that his feet don't dances like they did with her.

Fin