The Life Of A Franz Ferdinand Reference

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I looked up from my phone. Alex was shoveling ice into the sink.

"Glasie..."

I didn't move.

"Come on, you have to cool your hands down... We don't want anything burning..."

"No water."

"Whatever then." Alex started shoveling ice back into the freezer.

I dashed back to our room and flopped onto the corner of the couch bed. This silence was strange. There was always the hum of something electrical. And now there wasn't.

//GLASIE//: please come back soon I miss you so much

//NICK//: Rowan is still gone smh

//GLASIE//: :-(

I decided to text Rowan.

//GLASIE//: yo where r u!!!

//ROWAN//: HQ why

//GLASIE//: Nick needs u n he said you're not responding to him

//ROWAN//: I'll be right there

//GLASIE//: ok nice

I smiled in the darkness. I fell asleep to the sound of ice being shoveled into a freezer.

I woke up before Alex. I didn't burn a hole in the couch. Nick wasn't back yet.

4:08 //NICK//: yo Rowan is here!!! thx Glasie!!!!

//GLASIE//: :-)))

//NICK//: I still can't leave tho
//NICK//: at this point my entire life has been reduced to texting you

//GLASIE//: shhh it's alright

//NICK//: everyone says that Glas... I'm definitely not alright.

//GLASIE//: well yeahhhh but

//NICK//: exactly.

I didn't know what to say next. I realized I was staring at the wall for 5 minutes.

//GLASIE//: honestly... you're being so negative...

//NICK//: why not though?

//GLASIE//: bc I'm here and Alex is here and Strawberry is here and

//NICK//: they don't care. you don't care.

//GLASIE//: listen bro I texted first if that's not caring idk what is

//NICK//: you just feel bad yep

//GLASIE//: no I just

//NICK//: I get it I'm gonna die here and you just wanna be nice

//GLASIE//: I'm being nice bc I care about you and who ever said you were gonna die??

//NICK//: I know things.

//GLASIE//: yeah sure

//NICK//: just accept it. its easier than whatever you're trying to prove.

//GLASIE//: I'm not trying to prove anything
//GLASIE//: where's Rowan

//NICK//: she left
//NICK//: again

//GLASIE//: brb

//NICK//: have fun on your adventures, I'll still be here, dying slowly haha

//GLASIE//: shut up ur not dying

//NICK//: leave ok

//GLASIE//: I don't want to but I will I guess