This Love - Emblem3 FanFic

Epilogue

I was graduating today. After four years I had finally done it. I was going to New York in a week as well. I had a new job working for a magazine.

"What will you miss the most?" My room mate Julia asks me while I'm sitting at my clean and organised desk.

The question surprised me and made me smile. "The campus" I chuckle.

"Yeah me too" She agrees.

"Are you going home after the ceremony?" I ask Julia who is still packing her suitcase up.

"Yeah," She sighs. "Back to Alaska where your dad is the post office owner, the bar tender, the local store owner and the town sheriff" She throws her hands up in fake delight.

I burst out laughing. She had told me about her dislike for her very very small town on more than one occasion. "It'll be fine, don't worry" I say to reassure her.

She rolls her eyes "Whatever, so are you going back home?"

"I think I've decided I will. I mean I haven't been there since freshman year so I think it'll be nice" I say.

"That'll be good, then you can catch up with all your old chums" She teases.

I shoot her a scowl. I rarely spoke of my old friends back at home. I had hardly spoken to them since the beginning of sophomore year. The only friends I really had now were my friends here at Princeton or at my part time job at the mall which by the way I would be ending today to go to my new job in NEW YORK.

I hardly ever spoke to anyone at home. I closed them all off. I didn't want constant reminders of what could have been. But they all stopped trying eventually so it kinda works out.

"Don't even go there" I say.

She continues laughing. "You might even see that famous ex boyfriend of yours" As soon as the words leave her mouth her hand covers it and a look of shock appears on her face. Her eyes go wide and so do mine. "Ella I.. I didn't mean that I swear" She stutters.

I laugh it off to show her I don't really care. "Dude it's fine, we haven't spoken in years and I'm pretty sure he has a girlfriend now. At least that's what E news said" I say giving a believable laugh.

"So if you saw him again you wouldn't care?" She asks the daring question. I can't blame her, I'm pretty sure she's wanted to ask this for ages.

"Since freshman year, He hasn't even crossed my mind"

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Things had never been the same for Ella. Or Wes for that matter.

She studied, stayed in school, got a part time job while he, played his music, sold out concerts and tours and became a teenage heartthrob.

Ella wasn't even bothered now or that's what she made herself believe. She secretly hated the fact that she wasn't his anymore. She hated that he never called, she hated that he had moved on. But it hurt more that she couldn't have expected any less.

She couldn't sleep, couldn't eat most days. She was so broken. She snapped at one point. She called him, but it didn't go through because he had changed his number and he deleted his Facebook.

Those times she went home he was never on her front porch waiting for her to jump into his arms like she had wanted. He was rarely ever home now.

After she left Wes lost it. He trashed everything in his room and then stormed out of the house. He used to spend night after night, out and away from the house. He walked and walked and sometimes he didn't stop till the sun came up. His mum got so worried when he came home with a cut on his lip and bruised knuckles one night, But Wes brushed it off like he always did when his mum tried to question him.

When Keaton came into his room and told him he had to stop, he saw the pain he was causing him and he swore he'd stop.

"Wes.." Keaton said.

Wes looked up and saw the pain and destruction in Keaton's eyes and he realised he caused it.

"Please.." Keaton continued.

"I miss her.." Wes whispered.

"I do too,Wes" Keaton stopped and contemplated whether he should touch his brother. Comfort him in some way, but he decided against it. He knew his brother well enough to know that he wouldn't really appreciate the comfort. "You're not the only one hurting, so don't pretend that you are and don't pretend that we don't know how it feels. She was my friend too" He let out. He had never felt so free in his life. He'd wanted to say that for weeks and he was carrying it around like a bag of bricks on his back.

"I'm--" Wes began but Keaton cut him off.

"Don't say you're sorry because you're not. Just don't say anything and just be Wes again. My brother"

As much as he didn't want to admit it, his life had to go on and the thought of Ella was holding him back. She wouldn't want him to sit at home and screw his life over because of a decision she made. He had things he had to do and the sooner he realised they didn't include Ella, the better.

Things changed as time went on. It was a while before either of them was happy again. She started focusing on what she was supposed to be doing and that was her education and her photography. He became famous and sold his music. They were both living their dreams just not with each other.

Days turned into months and months turned into years and time made it easier to forget.

But maybe after all the time they spent together, the things they shared, the memories they had, maybe they didn't want to forget. Maybe after all this time of trying to forget they realised they didn't want to, so they held onto whatever they had left of each other and it stayed in the back of their minds and they knew, no matter how small it was, they knew that they still loved one another and that was never going to change.

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A/N:

and thats it.

i've spent over a year on this fic and i cant believe that this is the last thing i'll be writing for this book. You guys have been absolutely amazing. I love writing because i love knowing that someone appreciates what i do. I just cant believe this is really it. Wow i just want to thank each and every person thats read this to the end, even you ghost readers. You all are so special to me like you dont understand.  (Very quickly i am sorry it's short but i thought it was fair since im writing a sequel and the last chapter was so long) 

I am writing a sequel as you know and it is called Unwritten, I am posting the first chapter now so yeah and i hope to see you all reading it :) The link to it is in the External Link :))))

Dont forget to keep reading my other works too please! like my five seconds of summer fic and my Drew fic, they are both on my profile :) 

Wow i just cant get over this, you're all so amazing you dont even know. You all make me so happy.

Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart, for reading this. I love you all so so so so much!!

Stay rad,

~Kiri