Had To Be You

Money | Ch: 35

"Liam, No." I speak with much difficulty "don't do this to me." He pulls away and tears start to threaten me.

I turn around to face him, wrap my legs around his waist and hold his face. I look him in the eyes and it's filled with confusion and fear, which I'm not sure is real or not "You need to stop. PRETENDING." Tears fill my eyes, I can't believe I said that.

"You think I'm pretending?" His voice, laced with regret and fear.

"Yea-"

He cuts me off "Hey, I'm- I'm sorry. Evelyn. Everything I said the other day was a mistake. I have.... some things going on right now." huh. You bet. He holds my face and rests his forehead on mine. "But it didn't take me long to figure out that I can't. Live. Without you." He puts a strand of hair behind my ear.

I wrap my arms around his neck and rest my head over his shoulder. He pulls away and looks me in the eyes. "Why's there tears in your eyes? You're not leaving me right?"

Why is he doing this? Why can't he just say the truth instead. I look at him so intensely and still. Nothing! I sigh.

I stay there for a minute or so, my heart running as fast as it possibly can. He calls my name a few times but I don't respond "I need to leave, Liam. if you want me to be happy, don't come back."

I sigh and leave. He sits there not moving even a limb.

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I wake up with a heart wrecking pain in my neck. I fell asleep on my study table. ugh.

I haven't been feeling very cheerful lately. For obvious reasons.

It's a weekend, Leo and Chloe are going to meet me at the Party. It's the town's 149th fall party. The theme is the 90s. I still wasn't very sure of what to wear.

I drag myself to the bathroom with a palm on my neck. Damn it. I take a long warm bubble bath with lavender flavoured essential oils. After finishing up I wrap my towel around and walk out of the bathroom, feeling all good and fresh.

I open the closet to look for an outfit, I finally select a white tank top with little pink floral designs and a lilac mini skirt. I brush my hair and put on a bandana handkerchief, after a little 90s make-up I hop my way downstairs.

Mum has left home early today, she's helping with the decoration in the town hall. I saw the breakfast on the table. I grab a few pancakes and scrambled eggs before leaving. Good thing that I did my breakfast, it's really difficult to get hold of anything good and tasty.

After a good 20 min of walking I reach the town hall. The field in front of it is beautifully decorated. I look around in amusement and appreciate the decoration. A few children were running around giggling among themselves.

Everyone looked so different yet pretty. I look around and find a lot of familiar faces. I see Chris and some of my other classmates. Jasper's helping out some of the guys with a table. He sees me and waves me a 'hi'.

I look around to find Chloe and Leo, but they're nowhere in sight. "Miss Bay." His familiar yet disgusting voice enters my ears from behind. "Where are your friends?" says Hyde while looking around "where's.... Leo?" He gives a creepy smile.

"You're truly shameless." I say tilting my head a little and not being able to stop the urge to just slap the shit outta this guy. "Don't you DARE think about any of my friends. Keep Leo and Chloe's name OUT of that filthy mouth."

And I leave, I walk straight out of his reach and go inside the town hall building. I try to find mum but she's nowhere in sight. I ask a few people around but no one saw her. That's strange, she told me last night that she'll be here the whole day.