surprisingly, billie ended up breaking up with matthew. i didnt even ask her to, she just did. "i dont need him as an excuse to come to your place anymore", was what she said when i asked her why she did it. "im all in. all you, no one else". this kind of shit from her made me smile like a child.
i was.... soft? like, always-smiling-for-no-reason, thinking-of-her-when-i-saw-couple-costumes, speaking-in-a-baby-voice-on-the-regular, soft. maybe that kind of took my credibility as a leader away, but fuck it. i was happy. i finally had a future, and it looked like a blue eyed angel.
she lifted me up in a way i didnt know i could be before. she made me dream things i didnt allow myself before. and i didnt know how i was gonna do it, i just figured i'd find a way, because i felt invincible with her.
i know, i know, too much. maybe a little annoying. but it really was how i felt.
we were happy and everything was really chill for weeks... almost felt like the universe was playing some kind of prank on me.
i was mindlessly scrolling through my phone one night, lying on the couch with diego while the tv served as background noise. but something caught my attention and made me turn away from my phone and look at the tv.
-laura angél was found dead yesterday... - went the news reporter before everything became muffled in my mind. i couldnt focus on anything and it felt like i was underwater.
you could barely recognize a human there. the image on the screen was of a girl shot in the middle of the forehead, right between her eyes. it was a violent crime... it wasnt an accident.
the angeles hadn't been a problem to us in a long ass time. they had their block, we had ours. i knew none of my mates had broken the truce. first, they aren't stupid. second, they would've told me. but i knew this would fall on us.
we would be the first obvious suspects, not only to the police, but also to the angeles. truce had been officially broken and it was only a matter of time til they showed up here looking to avenge the death of someone we didn't even kill.
i looked at diego, my eyes starting to tear up, with a desperate look that silently asked him, "what the fuck are we gonna do?". i don't care that much about myself but i couldn't afford to lose someone else i loved. i couldn't. i couldn't. i can't. i won't.
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Fanfiction"i didnt plan on falling for her. but at this point, it was already way out of my hands."
