𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬

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"Change of Events"

Y/n

I was either swallowed by a black hole or a meteor just hit earth because I could have sworn he was in Europe not less than 24 hours ago. Romeo walked towards me and kissed me on the cheek. "Surprise. I missed you."

I was indeed surprised, don't get me wrong I missed him like crazy but this went totally unexpected, why would he just give up France all of a sudden to come to this crappy state college in the US? Maine of all goddamn places.

"I missed you too but, should you?—" "change of plans, I wanted to be closer to you." I blinked, I could basically feel sights glare pierce deeper and deeper into my skull. "Ew." A voice squeaked. Romeo rolled his eyes and turned to face Ette.

"You'll understand when you get a boyfriend." She glared at him. "Or girlfriend, whatever you prefer." Evette rolled her eyes, mimicking Romeos earlier behavior and nudged ziggy who was glaring at Romeo, which caught his attention and now they were both glaring at each other.

"I didn't know she was the one you were dating." she said slightly looking back at ziggy then back at us. A black hole swallowing us all up would actually earn my greatest gratitude if it would appear right now.. shit is more awkward than when I had my first period during, ironically, first period of high school. "Surprise little sis." My boyfriends eyes were still glaring into ziggy face as he spoke to his sister.

"So. You're the one she shares a room with?" Ziggy took a while to respond but he eventually did. "Yup."
Romeo grinned. "And what, you invite guys over or? Do you two like share each others makeup routine?" I elbowed him in his side only a little to make him stop. "He's actually not gay, well, not fully but he and I used to date."

Evette was already gone. Only God knows where she went and ziggy was just kind of, standing there like a statue. "And pray tell, why did you exclude that from our last video call? And why'd you lie?" Because you'd probably fly over and beat his ass, oh wait.

"Because I knew you'd get like this."

"Babe I'd rather you just tell me—"

"Ahem."

I slowly but surely turned my head around and stared at ziggy. "Do you mind? I kinda need to go too." I sighed and moved out of the way, romeo shoulder bumped ziggy as he walked past us. But he paid it no mind and just kept walking away. I turned back to him and crossed my arms.

"You know I hate surprises." "And you know I hate it when you lie to me." My chest tightened. "I wasn't lying technically." Romeo sighed and came closer to me, placing both hands on my shoulders. "Y/n, I love you, but you need to trust me enough to tell me things like these. Otherwise how am I meant to trust you?"

"He's harmless, Ro. Him and I... what we had is over." My eyes fell down slightly to the carpeted floor until he pulled my chin up with his thumb. "Y/n, I mean it. No more lies."
"I won't."
"Good."

Silence fell between us until he spoke again. "Can you switch dorms? Maybe you can share a dorm with ette or something? Or at least a girl." I chuckled and took his hand off my chin. "Dorms already paid for. Can't exchange it until sophomore year."

His eyes slightly widened. "I have to share a room with that weird kid who worships fucking Satan until next year?" I shrugged. "Pretty much." He cursed under his breath and I laughed. Still I was confused on how he got here so quickly but he was here. And that was enough for me.

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When I walked into my dorm after Romeo and and I went on a walk to one of the campus's many outdoor parks, I immediately kicked off my shoes and fell face flat onto the couch. I could hear ziggy streaming in the other room and I didn't want to disturb him, let alone frustrate him.

As if living together wasn't awkward enough, God just had to send over my boyfriend. Who also happens to be the brother of ziggys close formed. Yeah. Nothing about that radiates good energy. I inhaled the lavender scent of the couch until I slowly but surely rolled over and laid on my back.

I don't know how long I was just laying there but I woke up to the smell of roast chicken and fried rice. I knew ziggy could cook. And his cooking was always delicious but I just hope he didn't burn down the kitchen. And he saved some of that roast chicken for me.

When I sat up, I saw him sitting there with his headphones in, with a bowl of cereal, why wasn't he eating the food he made? Until I turned to the glass coffee table and saw the food right in front of me. "You were asleep for a while, thought you might want something good when you wake up."

I closed my eyes and wondered to every single version of myself in the multiverse why I ever let this absolute chef of a man leave me. As I thanked him and took a bit of the roast. It was like I tasted heaven. Until he had to ruin it with a question that  almost made me fucking choke.

"Was he in the picture right after our breakup?" I remained silent for a little bit, not wanting to give into the temptation of saying yes and rubbing it in his face. But my heart hurt because I once loved this man more than Ive ever loved anybody in my entire life.

"Not right after, I'd say about 3 months after."

"Ah."

He didn't say much, because his head was down, he grabbed his bowl of cereal and walked towards the room with it. But stopped in his tracks to look at me.

"I saw the bruise that night."

That's all he said before he put his headphones back on and went into the room. I thought to myself as my appetite slowly faded away.

"He knows."

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