IT HAS BEEN 2 days since joey lilac and colby brock haven't talked and they weren't planning on breaking that steak.
although one singular occurrence can change all that.
it was joeys 27th birthday today.
and colby brock doesn't remember the last time him and her weren't arguing on her birthday.
wether it was her 17th birthday and they were fighting over who to invite, or her 20th birthday when they were fighting over where they should make it.
and this year their big time argument was over the fact that they were so confused of their own feelings that they found anything to fight about.
he called her a bitch during the heat, and she couldn't see that he was trying to protect her. both in the wrong and both so stubborn to realize it.
joey lilac walks down the stairs of her house, it was still 2 in the evening and her party didn't start until 10 pm.
"oh she's here!" she hears cassie scream as she shows her face in the living room.
being met with cassie, jackson, tilly, sam and... colby.
all sprawled out on the couch with smiles on their faces except for him.
"gift time!" she hears tilly clap but joey couldn't stop staring at colby.
her mind going angry yet also weirdly self conscious at the fact that the baggy sweatpants and even baggier hoodie on her didn't make the girl look so flattering.
"oh my god." joey groans jokingly sitting next to sam.
"every year i tell you i hate this tradition."
it was something they did since highschool, before every birthday of hers they would sit in the golbach living room and give her a meaningful gift. they did it for everyone of there's birthday.
"and every year we tell you we love it." jackson wiggles his brows making her laugh.
and while she did so colby watched. as much as it sounded creepy it was true.
his eyes got tired of staring at her direction for so long but his body never did.
everytime he saw her, he was literally overwhelmed that she exists.
joey scoffed lowly and shook her head, how dare he look at her like that when he was coming at her throat just 2 days ago.
joey lilac knew. she knew colby brock too well to take things to heart.
he was a bolted door, nothing goes in or out. he is a mystery just like he liked himself to be.
she knew his tendency to break off a relationship that was going well not because he can't love, it's that he thought he was unlovable.
she knew how he wanted to see the people who he calls friends happy.
and she knew damn fucking well that he didn't know how to care, it was that he was afraid to.
he was afraid to show josephine that he truly did care about her in high school and to this day.
he was afraid to let his guard down, show her the boy behind the rage and yelling mind.
but she saw right through him, unlike the others she saw that fragile boy.
she saw his sad eyes, his forced smiles, his rising temperature.
she saw how when anyone asks him about love he tells them about violence.
joey lilac saw him.
that girl was his only weakness, the one who made him want to confess everything building up by just a glance. the kind of girl you couldn't talk to because you know she will hold you to her chest so delicately that it makes you feel wanted. the kind of girl that saw the fucking war going on in your mind and loves you anyway.
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GLITCH. colby brock
عاطفية"are you thinking of me?" "why would you think that?" "you look annoyed and pissed off." IN WHICH... colby brock and joey lilac leave everyone they have ever met and all of the internet asking one question , "why aren't they together?" ( COLBY BROC...
