𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐎𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 // (𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫)

Part 20

Laurel, Belly and Steven are all together and Jeremiah, Conrad and Susannah are too.

I am sat alone on my bed.

I can't bare to talk to anyone right now.

'You're being selfish.' I tell myself, deciding to go and see my siblings and mum.

I walk in and stop in front of them.

"I'm sorry I didn't say anything." I sob.

"Don't be sorry." Laurel tells me. "Come here."

I lay with them, she comforts Belly the most, while Steven and I have an arm each over each other.

After nearly ten minutes, my mum leaves to cook dinner, Belly and Steven stay with each other and I walk off to find Conrad.

I see him sitting in living room alone.

"You knew too huh?" I sigh, sitting by him.

He nods in reply.

"I'm so sorry."

"Why?"

"I've treated you awfully all summer, using it as an excuse when, you had the exact same one."

He puts his head in his hands and I move closer to him.

I place one arm under his stomach and one around his back, leaning my head onto his.

I stay there for a while, stroking his hair, finding ways to comfort him.

"Everyone get over here, we still have to eat!" Laurel yells from the next room.

"Lets go." I hold his arm and we walk into the dining room together.

~~

The next morning, Conrad and I sit on the beach together, a pinky-purple sunrise flooding the sky.

"I can't believe she said yes."

"You did it. You changed her mind." I say.

"It was Jere he did it." We sit in silence for a few seconds. "Y/N I'm sorry I was so shitty this summer."

"I mean you were going through everything alone."

"You were too."

"I wish you told me, so we didn't have to suffer."

"I wanted to." He sighs. "But poor you, I heard how long you've known. It's fucking awful, you went through nearly a year of this shit."

"Yeah. Anyway, we should go inside."

"There's so many things I want to say to you." He smiles.

"Not now." We both stand up.

"Why?"

"Because you need someone right now."

"You do too and I don't just need somebody. I need you."

"I don't want you to need me, I want you to want me."

"I want you y/n Conklin."

He cups my cheek with his hand.

He leans closer to my face.

"I love you."

"I love you." I reply with no hesitation.

He presses his lips onto mine.

We kiss back and forth for a good thirty seconds.

He pulls away and smiles, our foreheads pressed together.

He places one last long kiss onto my lips.

'If this can happen, maybe anything can.'

"It's like there is one single thread of gold, tying me to you." He tells me.

We walk away, holding hands, as 'Invisible String' plays into my left airpod, that I sneakily left in my ear.

One Single Thread Of Gold.