𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑑 - 𝒋𝒐𝒂̃𝒐 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒙

➶ nove

joaos pov

I get out of bed in the morning and freshen up. After I come out of the bathroom I go stand by the mirror to flex but I step on something squishy.

"put a shirt on and get off me" Hugo mumbles

"eww what are you doing here" I kick him

"there's a really big bee in my room" he says. I roll my eyes and open the door and drag him out. I close the door and lay back in my bed.

I wonder what evora is doing right now. Its 10, she always wakes pretty late when she doesn't have to.

All of a sudden I hear a knock on my door. 

"Joao we are going out for brunch get ready" my mum says opening my closet and searching.

"wear this" she throws me a shirt.

"I can dress myself mae" I say

"no you cant you look homeless" she says closing the door behind her. I get out of bed and start changing.

I wear the clothes that she gave me and fix up my hair.

"rat we are going" Hugo opens my door after a while. I shove him as I walk behind him downstairs. 

"where are we going?" hugo asks

"evoras mums place. not sure if you boys know but shes going through a lot so be nice to both of them. evora AND her mum." she says.

"I'm always nice"I mumble, sitting in the backseat like a little kid. This reminds me of every time we would go to their house for a weekly dinner, and then the next week it would be our house.

We pull up to the house, it looks, different. Its the same house, but- I'm not judging but its just- looking like it hasn't been taken proper care of.

But I don't judge that, I don't know the whole story.

I'm behind my family as they ring the doorbell. So many memories here. And this also means I'll see evora.

"oh hello!" her mum smiles opening the door. She looks put together, except her eyes. You can tell alot about someones current mental state by their eyes.

Evora greeted my family but once our eyes met, she left to her room.

We all sit down at the sofa, like we all used to before and talk. My dad and her dad used to be talking about work, but her dad died a couple years back, I heard from my mum.

"Joao Evora is in her room go" her mum says gently patting my back and pushing me towards her room.

Id act like I don't know where it is but really this house is one of the places I don't think I can ever forget.

I knock on the door after a while of standing there and Evora opens it.

"hi" she says keeping the door open as she sits on her bed again.

"hi" I close it behind me, taking a seat on her bed beside her. Shes not doing anything. She was just sitting down and staring at the ground.

"you okay?" I ask

"yep" she nods "so uh how are you?" she asks

"good" I say. Its really awkward for a while. A long while. She stands up and opens a drawer.

"I have snickers, you want?" she asks. I smile, they were my favourite. She throws me some and then brings some for her self before sitting back beside me.

"what's this?" I ask noticing drawing on her hand.

"oh I got bored" she shrugs showing me her palm. I know she draws on her hand when she is bored.

I put her hand down and then it goes awkward again.

"Evora" I say "can I ask you something"

"yep" she nods.

"are we still friends?" I ask. I know its a dumb question but I want to know what she thinks.

"I want to say yes but Joao, we aren't" she says "we used to be, but then you know we stopped talking. so no we are not friends- you're just someone I used to know now"

"what do you mean used to know?" I ask

"I've changed you've changed, we aren't the same 16 year old selfs that used to tell each other everything" she says

"no I haven't changed- you haven't either" I shake my head

"you ghosted me how do you know I haven't changed-" she scoffs

"because I know that you know my favourite chocolate is Snickers, and I know that you always wake up really late when you don't need to be up." I say

"so? snickers are like default chocolate and who the hell doesn't wake up late when they don't have to?" she says.

"bu-"

"why are you asking Joao? why are you trying to get back in my life after you were the one who left me?" she asks

"I'm not I just- I -i miss you" I mumble.

"why? if you liked me enough even as a friend maybe you wouldntve left me" she says, looking quite mad now. 

"no I did I -" I go quiet 

"you?" she asks

"I love you and I miss you" I say, at almost a whisper. She goes silent.

"it was my mistake leaving you evora" I say holding her hands in mine. 

"I love you, I love you not just as a friend, as more than that" I say.

"actual?" she furrows her brows. I let out a laugh. What does this girl mean by actual. I've loved her since I saw her in that classroom. 

"why are you laughing?" she says

"can I just kiss you yet?" I ask. She smiles, I cup her face and gently pull her in. I kiss her and then hug her.

We both lay in the bed, wrapped around each other.

"I want to make things right, I need you back and I'll do everything I need to for that to happen" I whisper kissing the top of her head.

As we lay in bed, I look up at her ceiling.

"remember that one time I broke that part of your ceiling" I chuckle pointing up at a little patch of a different shade of white.

She doesn't reply, I look down at my shoulder and see her sleeping. I smile and kiss her forehead before looking back at her ceiling.

🗝

very long awaited chapter

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