She's still standing.

The Beginning of the End

Chapter 48

after two weeks, summer was finally discharged from the hospital. everything seemed good for once. my family was a family. noah and i were great, even though we actually haven't had time to spend together. and school wasn't as much of a living hell as it used to be.

it is saturday. also known as my favorite day of the week. also known as Noah and I's 7 month anniversary. he told me he had something planned. but he seemed different, and very distant on the phone. he's probably just been busy. but i cannot believe it's been a whole seven months. it seems like just yesterday i screamed in the driveway about how we were "dating".

i woke up at 10.15 ish and woke up to five texts and two calls from Noah: get ready ill be there to pick you up at 12. he texted me.

i didn't know what to wear. what. the. hell. do. i. wear?

i ran into summers room and badgered her.
"SUMMER WHAT DO I WEAR??" i jumped onto her bed. she groaned and her raspy voice asked
"To what?"

i stared at her for about a minute.
"MY ANNIVERSARY!" i shouted "WITH NOAH! i've only been talking about it for the past two weeks." i glared at her.

"right." she said with her eyes still closed and her back turned to me.

i waited ten seconds before shouting again

"WHAT DO I WEAR?!?"

"damn shay. okay okay i'm up." finally. she rubbed her eyes and licked the corners of her mouth which looked crusty. she got out of bed and i grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her to my room.

"HELP ME NOW!" i yelled in her face "HES GONNA HE HERE IN-" i checked my phone for the time "AN HOUR AND A HALF!!" summer looked at me with a blank expression. her eyes seemed to pierce through my body and sent shivers down my spine.

"can. you. calm. the fuck down." summer said clapping her hands between words.

"sorry" i said sheepishly. "please help me."
she walked into my closet and took a long look at my clothes. it was almost like i could read her thoughts "black black and more black clothes." she said out loud.

"i knew it." i said flopping onto my bed. "i knew you would say that." she turned to me and flopped onto my bed as well.

"here" she said "follow me." i followed her into her room. she opened her closet, which is like twice the size of mine. "pick something. anything." she said.

i didn't say anything just walked in and looked all around. im not the type of girl to gawk over clothes, but this was sick as frick. it took me 15 minutes to find something that i thought noah would love, and that made me feel good.

at 11.45 i was finally ready. hair combed. face washed. teeth brushed. i grabbed the present for noah id picked out about a week ago. and i stood by the door waiting for noah. he's usually early, but he showed up late and didn't pull up into the driveway like he usually does. something seemed off with him today, but i didn't want to bring it up.

"hey." i said getting into the car and closing the door.

"hi." noah said quickly clicking his phone off before kissing me on the cheek. he smelled weird, and so did his car. i sniffed the air a little heavier.

"umm noah?" i said furrowing my eyebrow

"yeah?" he said not looking at me but keeping his eyes on the road.

"it smells weird in here." i commented uneasily.

noah shifted uncomfortably in his seat looking around for a second. i could tell he was uncomfortable.

"uh yeah sorry about that..my dad made me take some stuff to the dump in here." he said opening up a window. "is that better?"

"umm yeah. it's getting better." i said lying to him.

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we sat in silence for most of the way to where noah was taking me. it was unusual. we always talk, now he hasn't even asked me how i've been.

"we're here." noah said in monotone.

"great." i said unbuckling my seatbelt and opening the door. i looked around. it was a park. we were at a park, for our anniversary? noah pulled a picnic basket out from the back of the truck. he grabbed my hand and led me to where we were going.

xxxxx

yikes. kinda not feeling this story anymore.

but it's okay.

there's a lot of band puns in this chapter. lol. if you get them, i love you.

if you don't get them, i still love you too.

anyway thanks to everyone who still reads this. y'all are amazing.

- T

stay alive.