You & I・❥・(Graham Coxon)

Black and white・❥・

Graham POV

i hold my gaze down at the buttons of the telephone as i am restricted in this glass booth. i take a sip from the alcohol bottle that i have in my hands clutched tightly. i prepare myself to make a call but it isn't working. the sight of this telephone and my own cynical assumptions of the future are intimidating me. 

i walked aimlessly thru the cold streets after my altercation with damon and alex. on the way, i spotted this telephone booth and it made me want to call violet but i can't. it's evening time, she is probably with liam. they must be chatting, laughing and shagging each other too probably. there's no point in reaching out to her. 

i exit the booth and take myself home. i feel awful, my floor is flooded with clothes. they need a bit of washing up but instead i walk all over my clothes to head to the bedroom. my sight is unclear, all i see is a hazed up version of my bed and it's unmade. 

i throw myself onto the bed and feel it sinking beneath me. i look at the alcohol bottle in my hand. i was going thru an intense hangover about 3 hours ago now i am drunk again and tomorrow i will be hungover again. god, fuck me.

i doze off to sleep and that's where my day ends.

No one's POV

violet isn't actually spending the night with liam as graham thinks, she is sleeping in that night and when the sun rises and a new day caresses the city of london, violet's sleeping in session gets disrupted by her own manager and half boyfriend, liam walking into her room.

they are talking while standing above her bed. this makes her wake up and rub the sleep out of her eyes.

"she has woken up!" her manager announces.

then liam's walks over to her and puts a newspaper in her face. she takes it from him and inspects it and on it, she sees the expected. it's a picture of her and liam walking together, hand in hand. and their 'relationship' has officially been made public now.

everyone in the room shares a look of satisfaction.

though, it doesn't last long as liam reveals to violet how alex has said something about her in his most recent interview.

"we've done it violet! even blur is talking about you more than they are talking about their own upcoming album!" her manager exclaims.

"well in that interview, alex- he basically twisted the story and called you desperate. he said you threw yourself onto him and he rejected you but you didn't take it well and he said how i am a lovely bloke and you should stay with me." liam adds on.

this sprouts many emotions within violet, she has always been someone who never bothered to look at articles about herself. she chose to ignore it all and mind her own business but today liam fed her with this information when she didn't really ask for it.

"i get why you call him a fucking twat now!" violet states and liam chuckles.

"the opposite of what he said happened! oh for fuck's sake! now i have to reply to this."

her manager looks at her, "no violet! you need to be out and about regarding your relationship with liam, go on vacation, get spotted more! and you've also got that new movie project coming up." he sits down on her bed.

"you do your thing, i will take care of this alex bloke." he places his hand on her shoulder and assures her.

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the next 8 days go over by a woosh, these 8 days for graham and violet are contrasting. black and white. the higher she flies, the harder of a hit to the ground he takes.

violet starts shooting for her new movie project, goes on 'secret' dates with liam, gets more pictures taken by the paparazzi of her and liam after those dates and oasis begins working on their new album.

every magazine, every tv show and every newspaper is talking about their relationship. all eyes are on violet and liam, their managers plans have worked out perfectly. so much so that the managers are confident to send violet and liam on a little 3 day vacation to paris.

it garners a lot of attention as well and on that trip violet and liam actually became mates. this makes it easier for them to execute the rest of this 'relationship' and it gives a boost to oasis's new album. 

noel is fuming about oasis becoming more about liam than him but they have to make it work regardless.

on the other hand, is it morning, evening or night time? graham doesn't know. all he does is wake up, feel awful, drink, get a hangover, feel awful and repeat that again the next day. he misses violet dearly and deep down he is waiting for her to show up thru that door to save him and get him out of this mess. he will never admit to feeling this helpless though. he is too out of it to contemplate his own feelings, actually. 

he gets many missed calls every single day but he ignores them all every single day too because he knows the calls are from damon and most of them are and the rest are from alex, dave, blur's manager and sometimes family members of graham. 

graham has isolated himself from his friends and family unknowingly. 

he has forgotten what the sky looks like and what happiness feels like. he sometimes listens to music he likes and speaking of music, blur has started working on their new album as well. damon tried his best to reach out to graham and notify him but he never picks up his calls.

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(present day)

graham wakes up to his landline buzzing which is a daily occurrence at this point. he lets out a groan and slams his hand over the bedside table to find his glasses.

they fall on the floor, "fucking hell! " he yells out of annoyance.

he picks them up, puts them on and engages his hearing sensation to the fullest. someone is here.

the landline keeps ringing and ringing but something is different. graham can hear the noise of the door bell going off blended into the ringing of the telephone.

he walks to his front door....

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(A/n) : hey! sorry for the short-cliffhanger chapter today but tomorrow i'm going to post a long one, something interesting is about to happen ;)))

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