𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍

𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒

𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘, 𝗔𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗘, 𝗔𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗛𝗢𝗟 𝗨𝗦𝗘

𝙺𝙸𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙻𝚈 𝙲𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙳𝚈

My eyes fluttered open to the harsh sound of rain pattering against the glass of Eddie's window, feeling his arm around my bare waist and smelling the fresh scent of sweat and sex. As I tried to flicker my eyes open fully, I remembered everything from yesterday and instantly smiled to myself, my heart booming against my ribcage. I'm sure it still hadn't settled in that I was no longer Eddie's girlfriend but rather his fiancé, and I knew that this period of time before our marriage would be testing for sure, but I was okay with that.

We had endured a lot of shit since being together, but Ninety percent of that shit was either the actions of somebody else or petty shit that as I look back on now, wasn't worth any of the hassle we went through because of it. We could be strong, and those arguments were my proof.

I wasn't sure still if I wanted to tell people just yet, the events too fresh in my head to hear the solidified opinions of everybody else and truly, I didn't need them.

If you hadn't noticed by now, which you definitely should've, I wasn't okay in the head. I was mentally unstable and exhausted and my day to day life was harder than the average because of it. There were things people didn't know that I chose to keep to myself due to trauma and there were things people did know that I had modified so that they didn't see me as a monster, but deep down I was. I lied to save my own skin, I've beaten up my own friends because I couldn't control my temper, I've broken up with the love of my life because I'm pretty sure i was on the road to becoming addicted to drugs and I've ruined so many friendships because I couldn't chose between them and myself. This road I was going down wasn't one I was proud of, and I just hope Eddie was the angel to save me because if not, I'd be dead by this time next year.

However, in only three days Eddie would be turning Nineteen and I needed to sort something out for him. I didn't want it to be big considering Eddie wasn't the most popular even with me hung to his side, and even if he didn't want to admit it, he had severe anxiety. At Steve's parties he'd stay with me for as long as he could until I disappeared and left him for drugs or Steve and when I would come back he would be in the exact same position I left him in, his finger nails digging into the skin of his wrist until he sees me again. It's not noticeable to a lot of people and it wasn't to me for a long while but the second I saw it was when I realised, because that's exactly what I did with the skin of my fingers.

You don't want to see what the surrounding skin of my fingernails look like, trust me.

Once my eyes had fully adjusted to the surroundings of myself and Eddie, I slowly and carefully got out of the bed and picked up Eddie's top and a pair of grey sweats from his floor, dressing myself and being careful not to wake the boy as I left his room to make some phone calls.

Now, I knew Eddie liked a lot of shit: heavy metal, D&D, his guitar, a ridiculous amount of sweets etc, but the one thing he loved out of all of them was his friends who just so happened to be even more obsessed than him. So, the idea came to mind and that's exactly what I would go for.

"Ed!." I heard Wayne call from his bedroom, obviously thinking i was his nephew considering he had no clue that I was here. I diverted my direction to behind me and opened Wayne's door slowly, peaking my head around to see his eyes already on the door. "Kim! Oh, how lovely.." he smiled at me and coughed a little. "How did the date go, Darlin' ?." He tried to sit up with his question, his eyes looking down to my hand and not seeing the ring considering it was on my other hand.