Walking Straight

Chapter 24

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Songs-

A Wake by Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis

Neon Cathedral by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Ruby by Twenty One Pilots

You're Gonna Go Far Kid by The Offspring

Isle of Flightless Birds by Twenty One Pilots

Drown by Tyler Joseph

Figure 8 by Ellie Goulding

Bombom by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

It was a Macklemore & Ryan Lewis kind of day ;)

 

 

RHETT'S POV: 

Taylor and I drifiting  farther and farther apart, we haven't communicated in any way shape or form in over one week. It was beginning to take a toll on me. Though winter break was right around the corner, I worked hard on my school work, trying to make up for the time lost chasing after Taylor. Writing essays and taking photos gave me something to focus on besides her. 

She was officially erased from Steamboat Springs. The girls who had been giving her a hard time had now moved on to another victim. Her parents had finally transferred her out of the school, because the teachers discontinued marking her as an "unexcused absence". I hadn't erased her, though. To me, she was unforgettable. 

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Christmas would be interesting. New. Hopefully better than the sucky ones we've had for the past 5 years. Nicole seemed excited though, and that was the only thing that really mattered at this point. She was looking better, her skin had a new and healthy glow from spending time in the sun, and her body was looking fit and thin. I began taking her on runs last week, and we go up to the falls sometimes, but it's hard for me to stay up there even though she loves it. All I can associate with them is the time Taylor ran away from me. 

When I think of her, all I do is try to imagine that she misses me and wants to come home. Maybe she already has a new home. Maybe she has a boyfriend. Maybe she is alone, cold, scared. I don't know for sure, but I do know that I can hope for the best and hope she calls sometime. 

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TAYLOR'S POV:

About a week and a half into my stay with Jacob, and it feels like I never even went to Steamboat. LIke that part of my memory is gone now. Even though it happened just a month and a half ago. I do think of Rhett, my mother, the falls, but I don't long for it because I am already happy in another place right now. 

In just over a week we have our routines figured out. Every morning I wake up to the smell of burnt coffee. Jacob can never get it right. I drink it anyways, though, just to make him happy. For dinner, we try to cook in the apartment rather than eat out, although I never let Jacob touch the stove. He cannot cook, clean, and espcially cannot do laundry for his life. So I do all of that, while he does whatever grocery shopping we can afford. My little savings and his new part-time job at The Buff restaurant as a waiter pays for most of it.

I only see him mornings and nights. During the week, Jacob mostly had classes all day except Fridays. Nighttimes were my favorite, when we would go out to dinner or I would make dinner at the apartment, teaching Jacob the simple tasks of cooking while I was at it. He would always try to screw the meal up on purpose, but I'd catch him trying to add too much salt or turn up the temperature too high in the toaster oven.   

Today is  a Friday, the day Jacob disapears in the morning until 9am at the campus gym. He comes home sticky, most of his clothes still damp from the sweat. I make him peel off his shirt and I throw it in the overflowing basket of dirty clothes we will have to take to the laundromaut soon to clean. He jumps into the shower and I start making breakfast, including the coffee so Jacob wouldn't burn it. 

I am finishing up, when the shower turns off and Jacob comes out a few moments later, dressed in sweats, neglected the option to wear a shirt, as usual. He stits across from me at the two-person kitchen table, devouring his food. I've learned this past week he is always starving after a workout.

"What do you want to do today? " I ask, picking at my pancakes with a fork.

"Well... actually..... there's this mini music festival going on right off campus I don't know if you would want to go to that, tickets are like eight bucks."

"Yeah, sounds fun! Let's do it, I'm excited!" I haven't been to any sort of concert since my freshman year, and I wasn't suppose to go, I snuck out with Will and it was the best night of my life.

"Cool, I'll tell Matt you're coming and he'l get the tickets for us." Jacob has been talking about Matt alll week. How they are starting to write a new song, (although he complains that Matt only knows drums) and recites memeories of their highschool days to me. I'm excited to meet Matt, he makes Jacob happy.

sorry filler chapter

TEASER----> Taylor meets Matt, christmas preparations start. 

NEXT UPDATE---->  sunday