basorexia || matt daddario au [completed]

30. saying goodbye.

a/n; this is gonna be a long ass chapter (literally, over 5k words) cuz y'all deserve a detailed, long last one. i hope you like it!!

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"can we look now?" alex whined as she walked without sight. vanessa rolled her eyes and kept guiding her forward, which cassie did to matt.

"no, not yet. jesus, so impatient." cassie laughed and entered the juice café with matt beside her. she smiled and took off his blindfold, raising her hands beside her head and shaking them lightly.

"why are we here?" alex asked confused, examining the place that looked a little extra nice and clean, with some more decorations here and there.

"because, you two are leaving soon, so we wanted to hang out here." vanessa explained, glancing at some of their close friends from the college.

"and don't worry, emmett isn't here." cassie quickly butted in, motioning behind her shoulder with her thumb. "just katie and i."

"this looks so cosy." matt grinned and wrapped his arms around her, pressing a kiss on her head. "thanks."

"i also made a playlist with songs that both of you enjoy, which is basically the same music." she added once she heard the background music.

"... and here are your juices for now." katie, another co-worker with black hair, approached them, handing the siblings their drinks.

"thank you." matt laughed, feeling a bit overwhelmed — by happiness of course — over it all as he processed it.

"he's so cute." katie whispered to cassie before going behind the counter again. the brunette rolled her eyes stupidly and sat them all down by a table with multiple things on it.

"okay, so..." she started, sweeping her hair behind her shoulders by shaking her head. vanessa, mason, alex and matt all looked at her with expectation. well, except for vanessa since she knew what was planned for the day. "this is going to be really fucking hard, but we wanted to do something fun today."

"cass...?" matt questioned with a weak frown, already noticing the shift in her voice and body posture. he absolutely didn't want it to be even harder than necessary for her.

"we wanted to make this special. we can't just say goodbye without doing something creative." vanessa explained for her, tucking some of her blonde hair behind her ear. "so, we've made different things. first, we made you each a big, framed collage each with our favorite pictures of you."

cassie grabbed the first two things on the pile of items, turning them around while simultanously handing the siblings each. the two studied the frames, examining each chosen picture with a sad, yet happy smile. some of the photos were just silly, rememberable ones that they could laugh at. then there were some more "serious" ones, most likely unaware ones, where there was a deep memory behind it.

for example, on alex's there were one picture of her with cassie's family during one christmas. it was a lovely memory, because those were a few days where she really got to know cassie and her family, when she discovered cassie's extremely goofy side and also her vulnerable one.

on matt's, there was a photo of him and mason, during the time when matt got accepted in the football team, and scored a hell of a lot touchdowns on his first game. the picture was taking right after that game, the two boys standing with one arm around the other one's shoulder, smiling so big and whole-heartedly it nearly put matt in tears watching it. he remembered and adored what a great friend mason actually was; kind, believing, sassy when needed, honest and realistic. but most of all, he had always been by matt's side (and vice versa).