the love you give

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no ones pov:
Since the age of ten, Luella loved the sky. She would spend hours at night staring and the stars. She memorized every constellation and every planet her eyes could see. That was her escape from reality, her escape from her mind. Luella was diagnosed with severe anxiety and panic attacks when she was six. She was placed on medication but recently was taken off of it. now Luella has to learn to manage it by herself.

juilen's pov:
I never thought that I would be back in my home town but here I am. Phoebe, Lucy, and I were all in our car driving to my apartment. As I was watching the familiar building go past, I could hear Phoebe and Lucy having a conversation about a new clothing brand that had launched. Yet, all I can think about is what might have changed in this small town I used to call home. I see my small apartment come into view as we slow to a stop. Pheobe and Lucy run out of the car not bothering to grab any of their stuff. I turn off the car and slowly get out to get all of our stuff from the trunk.

"JB come look at these flowers they are so pretty!" Phoebe says while Lucy hums in agreement.
"Guys I would love to but, can we please at least unpack the car first?" I question all ready feeling the effects of driving for five hours. Thankfully we are able to unpack the car pretty quickly seeing as Phoebe was starting to get quite hangry. I knew a few small places we could order dinner from that could be delivered to our house due to the fact none of us even wanted to step foot into a car for the next month. We settled on Chinese food from a small local shop. As we were waiting for the food to be delivered each one of us silently unpacked our items, seeing as we would be here for a while. I silently hummed a song I had been writing while I started to unpack my photos, I was quickly reminded that I needed to pick up my dog from my parents early tomorrow. As I wandered out into the living room I saw Phoebe and Lucy fighting over what movie to watch.

"JB please tell phoebe that we should not watch The Conjuring because that is a dumb idea."
"Hey! The Conjuring is such a good movie!"
"Yeah but Phoebe I don't need to hear tomorrow morning how you couldn't get any sleep because you were too scared." I let out a laugh when I watched Pheobe sigh and cross her arms like a little kid.

Our food had arrived and while eating we finally settled on just watching Big Mouth instead of fighting over a movie. When we finished eating we all were exhausted and each one of us retreated to the comfort of our bedrooms. As I was getting into bed I rolled over and looked out the window. Soon I saw a shooting star fly across the dark sky. I sat for a couple of hours watching the stars twinkle until I could fall asleep. I wasn't going to tell Phoebe or Lucy that my cravings had gotten stronger and that I could barely sleep. We all already had so much on our plates that I wasn't going to add another thing to theirs.

I woke up around eight and made each one of us a cup of coffee. I texted my parents asking when I should head over to pick up beans. I got Beans when I was struggling a lot with recovery and these past few months without her have been hard so I am super excited to finally be able to see her. I was going to head over around ten to get Beans so I thought now would be best to wake up Phoebe and Lucy.

As we are heading out into my car Lucy was able to call aux first before Phoebe so we listened to some calm music. As I pulled into my old driveway, the front door flew open and beans came running out. Phoebe was the first out of the car being tackled by my dog and I could hear her laughing while Beans gave her plenty of kisses. My parents walked outside as both Lucy and I went to go say hello.

"Aw sweetie, I feel like I haven't seen you in years and Lucy my you are looking so pretty!" My mom hugged both Lucy and I while Phoebe was finally able to escape Beans kisses.
"Hi dad," I whispered to him while he gave me a big hug. I am close with both of my parents but my dad has a special place in my heart from when I came out to him.
"So Julien, Beans is all out of food so you will have to go pick some up. There is a cute pet shop off of Walter Street." My dad told me while Beans started jumping by my feet.
"It was so good to see you guys" Phoebe said as she gave both of my parents hugs goodbye. She was able to grab bean's leash and get him inside of my car. Lucy said her goodbyes as well while I stayed back to say goodbye to my parents.
"So, hun any development in the relationship departement?" My mom asked with a sly look on her face. I laughed and quickly hugged both of my parents goodbye.
"Bye Mom and Dad. Love you both." I said while pulling out of the driveway.
"Did they ask the relationship question again?" Lucy question from the backseat.
"You know JB we love you, but you really got to start opening up." Phoebe said while looking over at me. I glanced towards her and towards lucy and sighed. I knew they were right but it is so hard. I am a basket case full of problems, I don't want to put that on anyone. We pulled into the small parking lot in front of this pet shop my dad recommened. I grabbed Bean's leash and let her lead the way into the store.

LUELLA'S POV:
Today was like any other day. I sat in our small shop waiting to see if we would have any customers today. I sipped on my pink lemonade which I had every day while I started my new astrology book. I went to take a sip of my lemonade when I heard the bell ring meaning someone was entering the store. I went to say hello until I froze when I saw what they looked like.

authors note:
This is my first chapter and I am so excited. Please let me know how you like it!
best wishes,
c