We leaped off the boat. Figuratively, as we would have broken all our bones if we actually had. It just felt like it.
"Alex, I just want to say, I love you. Even though your pub behaviour made me break up with you, it was my own stupidity that drove it. Ever since it happened, I convinced myself the whole thing was my fault. I replayed everything I remembered I said to you; analysing it for something that could have pissed you off or confused you. I can't put my finger on what, but it was my fault. I'm sorry".
I ran away from Alex, cutting him off immediately, towards the bins in the alley. I found a spot behind a bin and froze.
Alex's POV
I was stunned. I ran towards Annie as briskly as I could, quickly confusing a few bustling roadies and the other band members.
"Annie!? Annie? What happened? What can I do? What have I already done?"
I burst out in tears and held her as tightly as I could without hurting her. "I love you, you should know this is all my fault! You've done nothing wrong, or even remotely negative! Everything you've ever said and done to me makes me fall deeper and deeper in love with you. What's happening?".
I'd never seen someone else suffering a panic attack. I've only ever suffered a few, and that was based on circumstance, not anxiety.
"I don't know what to say. When I was younger, I was manically depressed and anxious. I spent multiple days a month or even week out of school because I hated everyone so much, not because I was evil, but because I didn't understand why they got to be 'appy when I was there suffering my parents and own mind. I always was he perfect kid though, all top marks, no incidents on my discipline record. And that's why no one ever noe 'iced why I was constantly absent, they just assumed it was the perfect girl's only flaw; all her 'sick days'. My parents put my on anti anxiety meds and sent me to top behavioural specialists, but they never cared. They just wanted me to look better. It all came in a new way when I left you though, it was change that provoked it. So I think, if you stick with me, I'll be alright." , Annie cried.
"You know what?", I said, carrying her out back to the luggage area of the ferry.
"There is one thing you did wrong in our entire relationship. You ruined the last portion of today's plan", I continued carrying her.
She was very confused.
"ANNIE WHATEVER THE FOOK YER MIDDLE NAME IS THAT I SOMEHOW DON'T KNOW AT THIS POINT, I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE".
I set her down right in the centre of all the happenings around the ship. I had managed to attract the attention of everyone in the area around us. I naturally fumbled around through my pockets, being the unprepared wreck I always was. I took it out.
"It might seemed rushed, but to my credit it was planned for tonight. If you hadn't reminded me how much I love you, this would have been painfully, and barely, delayed. Will you marry me?".
Annie's POV
"OF COURSE! Just please don't kill yourself because of your love for me or I will too."
I cried, provoking both of us to happy-bawl our way to a passionate kiss.
"I love you so, so much, and I hate myself for this but I really can't beat that Romeo and Juliet reference.", Alex screamed.
In a distant corner of the dockyard where I could barely hear anyone speaking over the roar of cheers surrounding Alex and I, a small, chubby Italian man whispered something I could read on the lips of someone lightyears away,
"L'amore prevale sempre."
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Love always prevails.
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That Band Guy
FanfictionAnnie has just graduated university as a historian. She lives with her best friends, Mia and Emily. But one day, she bumps into the one and only, Al...
