castles → lil peep (completed)

Downtown

Chapter seventy nine

"Welcome back!"

I stood outside of my apartment, using my suitcase to keep me standing from how jet-lagged I was as Emma came bounding out and wrapping me in her arms. Spending a week or so all the way over in Europe and back again without sleeping really sucks the life outta you; believe me.

"So you're no longer.....?"

"Yep"

"But you and Gus are.....?"

"That is correct"

"And you are.....?"

"Tired and fed up of playing 20 questions? Couldn't be more right if you tried"

"Sorry it's just I'm so happy you're home, I want to know everything!"

"Can this wait till after I've slept?"

"It's 9am"

"Shit, jeez how does Gus do this for living?"

Leaving my suitcase by the bedroom door I slumped onto the couch, allowing my oversized hoodie to swallow me hole. Obviously I love the apartment but I already miss not only Gus but Europe; everyone was so chill and cultural over there.

"So I arrived, preformed on stage, went to a party, got drugged, got an abortion, hooked goth up with a friend of mine, and just went sight seeing with Gus and goth"

Emma just looked at me blankly as she absorbed the information until it registered in her mind and her eyes widened.

"YOU GOT DRUGGED?!?"

I began to retell the story, making sure to not leave out a single detail...which was hard seeing as some of my memories of that particular night were fucked. Trying not to laugh at her over exaggerated facial expressions was hard, very very hard; that's Emma for you though.

"What did you say his name was again?"

"Justin....or was it Jason?"

"If I ever meet him ima beat his ass"

"It's okay Emma, I'm just still a bit cranky from the abortion thingy so can I please go to bed?"

"It'll mess up your sleeping pattern though! Come on let's just go out to brunch and if you're still tired when we get back then you can go to sleep"

"Urhhhhh fine, where we going?"

"What about that cute place down on 5th?"

"Never been there"

"Then we're going, I'm driving"

"Good cause I'm gonna be drinking"

"It's only almost 10"

"So? My time it's 10pm, I'm allowed to drink"

"Fair point, lets go"

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"One BLT with fries, one pint of beer, one eggs with toast and one lemonade. You guys enjoy"

Our waitress walked away as we dug into our food greedily, me taking a gulp of my beer with Emma staring at me disapprovingly.

"Pfft stop judging me, I'm allowed this!"

"Aye I'm not judging anyone it's just....are you supposed to drink alcohol this soon after an abortion?"

"I have no idea but I don't care"

"Alright if you say so; where's Gus right now?"

"Probably in Russia right now but after that it's back home"

"Has it already been 3 months?"

"Kinda, seeing as tour stared earlier than supposed to in late January and its early March so yeah"

"Holy shit, oooh and you two's anniversary's coming up"

"I can't wait but I have no idea what we're going to do"

"I'm sure Gus has something romantic planned, he's always been a hopeless romantic"

"I can tell"

"When we were 8 and he asked me out, he made me this necklace and made me promise to wear it everyday"

"Awwwwww that's so cute"

"He then told me I had cooties two weeks later"

We burst out laughing as we continued eating together; Emma told me all these other stories about their childhood together. I couldn't help but start to feel jealous at what must've been an amazing time in their lives, I never had that as a kid, I didn't really have anything actually.

What I had now though was all that I needed...all that I've wanted.

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Okay so a few things I want to say :

•Y'all have been so active in the comments it's made me so happy so thank you all so much💕

•can you guys tell this book is coming to the end? ;) I'm not gonna tell you when but I've already made the cover for a new book and more information will be coming out about that soon.

Enjoy💫