perfect storm | bobby skeetz

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my bedroom door swings open with bobby, angel and eli rushing in with a speaker blaring out 22 by taylor swift. i sit up in the bed, stretching widely as a raging headache suddenly rushes to my head. i drank WAYY too much last night.

eli drops the speaker on the bed and tackles me into a hug.
"happy birthday loser!!" he yells, making my head hurt even more.
"eli i love you so much but PLEASE my head." i laugh. bobby walks over with a water and pain killers and hands them to me, i smile at him as i take them off of him remembering how he would always look after me when i was hungover. bobby always knew how to take care of me.

"everyone's downstairs waiting in the garden so just come down when you're ready okay?" bobby says softly, taking a pain killer out the package for me as i start to chug water. i put it in my mouth and swallow before nodding.

🪽 angel's pov

"i'm just gonna take a quick shower and i'll be right with you." mags tells us slowly getting out of bed.
"don't tell my dad about yesterday, i still don't remember a thing." she scrunches her face up laughing before walking out the room to the bathroom.

as soon as she walks out bobby turns to the two of us.
"mags tried to kiss me yesterday." he says, eyes widened.
"WHAT?"
"but she was really drunk and told me she didn't want to be friends anymore and now she said she doesn't remember anything so i'll never know if she meant it or not!" he rambles on.
"bobby, you are THE most oblivious guy i have ever met in my entire life." i tell him, places my hands on his shoulders.
"she definitely meant it mate, even if you did drag her like a rag doll out of the club yesterday." eli says, i glare at him.

"it was nick, how did you expect me to react?"
"okay i am seriously missing a chapter you seem to really not like this guy, who the hell is he and what did he do?" i question, sitting down on the end of mags' bed.

"us lads went to high school with him, proper jerk, we ran into him on a night out back when mags and i were still together. he knew we were together, he fucking knew, and he still tried everything he could to get it on with her. he wouldn't leave her alone he kept touching her and making her uncomfortable and well the night ended with mags holding a pack of frozen peas to my busted lip."

"you got in a fight with him?!"
"yeah and i lost miserably."
"that doesn't matter, you're a really good boyfriend bobby." he starts to get flustered.

"bobby's a boyfriend?" sophie walks into the room uninvented.
"no soph we were just talking about when i was with mags." he explains. she bursts out laughing. we all look at her confused
"oh you're serious?" she laughs to herself.
"that explains a lot."

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"this is AMAZING thank you so much." i laugh giving josh a large hug as i opened his present, he had got me a t shirt with a photo of me and taylor swift on saying 'therapists hate them'.
"okay me next." bobby smiles mischievously, he had left my present upstairs so i couldn't work out what it was which it something i had done for many years on my birthday.

he sprints upstairs to get it, leaving me giggling in my seat in excitement.
"close your eyes!" he yells from inside. i close them tightly and hold out my hands.
"i'm shit at wrapping gifts so i didn't even attempt it." he says.
"i know i remember the vinyls you got me for my 17th." i laugh, i can't see him but i knew he was rolling his eyes at me.
"shut up! anyways, i hope you like it." he says, a smile in his voice.

he places a heavy object down onto my lap and i slowly open my eyes, they widen as i look at what it was. on my lap was an acoustic guitar, covered in stickers of all of my favourite things and my name embroidered into the guitar strap. my mouth hung open as i admired it.

i had told bobby months ago that i had lost my acoustic guitar my dad bought me years ago after my dublin show and didn't have the heart or time to buy myself a new one as i'm always playing my electric one. it made me emotional that he remembered after all this time that i wanted a new one.

he looks at me nervously as i trace my fingers along the stickers that he had strategically picked and placed on himself. i look up at him with tears starting to fill my eyes.
"are you fucking kidding me right now?" i say, my voice cracking as i start to sob. placing the guitar on the table, i walk over to him and wrap my arms around his neck continuing to sob.

i forget that everyone else was there and it wasn't just the two of us, i sob into his chest as he holds my back.
"do you like it?" he asks. i laugh at his stupidity.
"noooo i hate it, of course i do are you serious?! this is the best present i've ever been given bobby." i lean back, my arms still around his neck but so i could look him in the eyes.

i wanted to kiss him right there and then more than anything.

"come on we're gonna set up just dance let's go!" flo grabs my arm and drags me into the living room, i giggle and look back at bobby. he stands there smiling to himself, looking proudly at the gift on the table.

flo and ryan fiddle with the tv trying to set up the game will i continue staring into the garden, watching as bobby picks up the guitar and starts strumming it as everyone else walks off to engage in socialisation.

i was in complete awe of this boy, i had been for over 10 years and i don't think i'll ever stop.