What Happens In Vegas (Miniminter / Calfreezy)

Part 24 - Empty

Your fingers tingled.
Your hand was empty.

The cool breeze you'd been comforted by just moments ago was now bitter and biting against the empty space in your palm where his hand had been. The world seemed to slow down as his feet shuffled out of their original place, his warm strong presence moving from your side was noticeably empty, suddenly being filled with darkness and cold, making you realise you were totally and completely alone.

The world was still and the darkness seemed to be beckoning you into it, to disappear and never return. Vegas, the fangirls and now Simon; everything was a fantasy turned to a nightmare, a firework shot into the sky and lighting up the night, reaching for something great and powerful, but reaching its peak and never actually exploding, catapulting to the ground with no where to end but in destruction. The world you had known, of scoping out Tumblr images and writing teasing comments from the safety behind a keyboard seemed like a distant dream, one that you wanted back. You wished you'd remained in the shadows, so you weren't just here in the nothing, feeling empty.

Out of the cold, unexpectedly, arms wrapped around you; one around your waist and the other across your chest. They pulled you backwards into the tall, warm figure, that felt like safety and when you looked up to see him you noticed all of the stars shining in the sky and the moon cascading light down onto the ground and it wasn't so dark anymore.
"Now see, this is why I don't do relationships, the fans are a little bit...intense, sometimes I guess" he giggled, "And you're not wrong, it'd be easier to end it here, but I think there is more for us to do together yet - and outside of San Fran, it wont ever be easy - even besides the fans, I'm kinda always busy and not overly clean so that's a bit of insight" he laughed again, "but something tells me if this stopped now my life would be a little bit more empty without you in it" his voice spoke seriously with his last phrase, audible only for you to hear, his chin resting on the top of your head.

"This is crazy" you said
"Everything about this has been crazy, but doesn't mean it's any less fun" he said, as you turned around and faced him, burying your head into his chest, his head remaining on top of yours.
"Alright" you finally said, "what's the plan then?"
"Well I was thinking food first, because we didn't get to eat at that restaurant" he replied, "and then sleep, I'm sure you need it"
"And then?" you smiled up at him, wiping the remaining tear stained residue from your face
"Not going to lie, that's as far as I've gotten" he said, looking awkwardly away
"It's a great start though" you responded, bringing a smile back to both of your faces

His hand wound back into yours and as crumbly as the rest of the world was around you, at least you had something to make you feel less empty for the moment, even if it was only temporary.

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A/N:
Thanks for getting this far and sticking with it!
Don't worry - Freezy will be back, I've just gotta get the story there first.

Happy reading,
Bunny xx