One of Your Memories |Ruby Da Cherry|

New Message (RE-WRITTEN)

TRIGGER WARNINGS: This chapter contains talk of drug use and self harm, continue at YOUR OWN RISK! :)

~*Flashback ten years earlier, in Sky Blu's P.O.V*~

"If you could stay like this forever, would you?" My best friend Aristos mumbled into my ear, his voice soft yet still so damn deep. I twirled a lock of his curly brown mess in-between my fingers, a smile tugging at my lips as he held me tightly in his arms. "You know if I could, that I would. Being with you is all that I could ever need, you're my little piece of paradise in this fucked up ass city-" 

"Aww yo hey stop with all dat lovey dovey shit. Fuckin making me wanna throw up and shit. Man that's cold Sky, already forgettin bout liddo ole me and Manny like we ain't been here the whole mothafuckin time."  Leave it to Scott to ruin a perfectly good romantic moment. I peered over to the side briefly, seeing he was currently resting against Manny (Amanda) with his eyes tightly shut as she played with his blonde mess of hair. "Shut up asshole, you know damn well I'm gonna miss all of you, even though you do annoy the fuck outta me most the time."

I was getting ready to leave for college in the next twenty four hours, so excited that I had gotten accepted into my dream school of USC out in Southern California for writing and journalism. Now this was my going away party, laying outside in the grass of Scott's house, smoking weed and drinking down cups of Sprite mixed with codeine, with my three best friends. Manny, Scott, and Aristos. My sister from another mister, my outlaw, and my Greek God of the Underworld. I was internally tore up, I really didn't want to leave any of them, but I knew I had to do what was right for me, and not for anyone else.

"Yeah yeah so you say..pass the damn blunt will ya! It's practically dyin in yo hands." I took one more long puff off of it before lazily passing it over to him and Manny who hadn't said a peep all night. "I know I'm going to miss you so fucking much." Ari spoke more sadly this time which made me roll over onto my stomach so I was facing him. His lids were heavy, clearly from the weed and lean, but I could still see his beautiful brown eyes looking down at me. "You know I'm going to miss you the most Ari. But it's not forever, it's only for a year, that's pretty much nothing. You and Scott are working on your demos and shit, you'll be able to pass time quick, then before you know it I'll be back. Plus I'll come out to visit on holidays and shit, so it won't be that bad. I promise." 

His lips curled into a halfhearted smile which I took the opportunity to peck at, the thick syrupy glaze glossing over them, savoring the cherry flavor. Aristos and I weren't together, but everyone damn well knew that we should be, including us. But it was mutually agreed that we wouldn't become anything official , seeing as it would only make shit complicated and worse especially now that I was leaving. "I love when you kiss me, you do it so fucking gentle, like you're afraid you're gonna break me or some shit." I did it again, this time a little more forceful. He kissed me back just as rough, his hands cupping my face as we deepened it. My head was floating in the clouds, I never wanted this night to end.

"Bro if y'all are plannin on finally fuckin' you can go in the house. Ain't tryna watch no porno right now besides my own." Once again, thank you so much Scott Arceneaux Jr. for ruining everything. I didn't dare to look in the direction of him and Manny, who were more than likely already going at it themselves. They didn't give a fuck if anyone was watching or not, they had it bad for each other even though neither of them would ever fucking admit it. "Mmm shut the fuck up and leave them alone Scott, before I leave you with blue balls again." Gross, I definitely did not want to know anymore than I already had.