𖤐⭒๋࣭ ⭑ this side of paradise

Chapter 5

—Are you lonely?

That week was terrible.
He officially felt like the loneliest person in the entire universe, and still hoped it wasn't true.

Everything got so boring and unsatisfying, the small amount of motivation he had slipped away.

They hate you.
They want to kick you out.
Your friends are all fake.
You're such a lazy little sh*t.

Emil already felt like something was wrong, that day, when walking into the kitchen he found out their grandmother died. He wasn't much affected, since he didn't see her much...and she was pretty strict, for some reason. To make it worse, Lukas and Matthias left him home alone. Again.

Maybe they left him a note on the fridge like they always did...
He approached it and looked for a new note. There were many, at the moment. Most were from Matthias (he could recognise his calligraphy), but sometimes Lukas' fancy handwriting peeked out.

Here, the new one; now he had to decipher Lukas' handwriting.

"I'll be back soon", it said.
Emil sighed, as he put the note again on the fridge. He looked around the kitchen, but he didn't feel like eating. At all.

So he grabbed his phone and scrolled on Instagram. It was surprising people were still making fun of him, and at this point he felt the urge to de-install Instagram.

But he didn't. At this point, who even cared anymore?
There were even people who wanted to celebrate about his 'disappearance'...rude.

Y'all @EmilBondevik disappeared, i'm so happy
Finally we will not hear @EmilBondevik 's weird stuttering again! Hooray!
@EmilBondevik is finally gone. Let's celebrate!
I may say I'll miss @EmilBondevik, but that would be a lie

He bit his lips, trying not to cry. He kept scrolling through the posts he was tagged in.

@EmilBondevik must die! :D
@EmilBondevik is so ugly a swine looks better lmao
@EmilBondevik's existence is the reason why my cat died
That might sound weird, but @EmilBondevik fakes his stutter

Goddamn, f*cking sh*t!
How he hated when people said stuff like that. How could he fake a disorder? That's just what cringe people who want attention on Tik Tok do.

GUYS! I found out that @EmilBondevik actually killed his parents...and he keeps insisting they died in a car accident. Ugh...

Emil had a strong will to yeet his phone at the wall after reading that.
How...why?

He sat on the cold floor, leaning his head on the fridge. Why did so many people hate him? What did he do? Why did they spread fake news? It felt so damn bad.

He heard the door opening.
«I'm back» his brother's cool voice said from the entrance.

Emil stayed silent, looking at the phone with his eyes full of tears. He didn't want to cry...

«Em? Are you there?»

He entered in the kitchen, probably Emil left the door open.

Lukas sighed as he grabbed the younger's phone and scrolled down.
Emil didn't even try to get it back, and didn't even avoid his brother's unexpressive gaze.

«Em...stop reading these.» Lukas said tossing the phone at Emil, «it's not good for you»

Then he ruffled his brother's silvery hair and walked out the room.

He wasn't much reassuring, but Emil was used to it; Lukas and social interactions were like enemies.
At one point Emil thought he was schizophrenic. But that was his imagination running too much.

Emil grabbed his phone again, noticing Lukas actually de-installed Instagram. That made him smile, somehow...at least someone still cared about him.

Then he stared at the Whatsapp icon, internally begging Leon to send him a message.

So he waited.
And waited, and waited, and waited.

No message.
He looked at the hour and it was already half-past twelve in the morning. He placed the phone on the floor and left it there, as he got up and walked to the living room.

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this is probably the shortest chapter in this story lmao. Hope you liked it tho