M I C H A E L
The next morning I woke up to a shit ton of tweets about what I posted on Instagram the previous night.
This is the first time I've really made a relationship public since before the band. I'm glad that the fans like Ryan, although their opinion doesn't matter about our relationship, at least she's not getting a lot of hate.
Although Ryan acts like she doesn't, hate really does get to her. She doesn't physically show it, but I know it messes with her. I wish I could help her. I wish I could tell everyone to stop because I hate seeing my girl upset about these ignorant people.
Instead of worrying about people's opinion on social media, I roll over and wrap my arms around Ryan making sure she has someone to wake up to.
"Good morning, babe," I mutter, looking up at my beautiful girlfriend.
"You're so cute," she smiles, playing with my hair,
"I could say the same to you,"
"How many people thought their opinion mattered and tweeted you this morning?"
"I don't know. It doesn't matter anyway," I say, not wanting her to think about the negative people out their.
"What are we gonna do today?" She asks.
"What do you want to do?"
"Starting a new Netflix show sounds pretty awesome right now,"
"We gotta do more exciting things, Ryan,"
"You, Michael Gordon Clifford, don't want to lay in bed and watch tv?"
"We have all the time in the world for that. Let's go on a little weekend road trip!" I suggest, hopping out of bed.
"Where do you plan on taking us?"
"Santa Barbra sound good?"
"Anything with you," She smiles.
"Such a fucking cheese ball," I pinch her cheeks and walk out of the room.
~*~
We decided to take her car since it's big enough to hold all of our shit. As much as she loves to sleep in the car, she absolutely hates other people driving her own car. And as much as I insisted on driving, she wouldn't let me.
As she brakes at the stop sign, looking left and right, I look over at her. Damn she's so gorgeous. She looks so relaxed and calm.
~*~
"My innards turned, your eyes, they roll, I'll be there to take the fall
I can feel it now, oh no!"
"Oh my God Michael! You guys need to cover this song!" She squeals.
I took a little nap but I eventually woke up and now she's showing me a ton of her favorite bands and songs.
Seeing her talk about these artists made me grin so hard. She gets so giddy when she shows me a song and sometimes she freaks out and her voice goes lower than usual.
"Why are you smiling?" She asks as the song comes to a stop.
"You're just so happy when you talk about music. It makes me really happy,"
Ryan leans over and gives me a sloppy, wet smooch on my cheek.
"EW!" I joke, wiping off my cheek.
She turns on some more songs from one of her new favorite bands, Bad Suns. I'm growing to like them! They have such a unique sound and not to mention the lead singers voice is absolutely incredible.
"How much longer does the GPS say we have?" She whines, slouching down in her seat.
"Half an hour,"
"That's too long!"
"Play some more music and it will fly by."
~*~
the song at the beginning is cardiac arrest by bad suns
it's been so long since i've written anything... those previous chapters were from awhile ago it feels so nice to be back
and now i'm on winter break so i have all the time in the world (kinda)
tell me your opinion on this chapter pls <3
