When We Were Young - George Daniel

CHAPTER TWELVE (fall out boy)

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Hey friends!

Our babies are reuniting after 3 years. So emo rn! 

And in other news just seen this fic is #1 in the #georgedaniel tag. WHATTTTTTTTT that is so wild thank you all so much so glad people are loving this.

love you all and enjoy xoxo

February, 2007

I really thought that I was imagining it. I thought that I had spent so many years cooked up in this fucking school that my imagination had conjured up the people I missed most in this world.

But I didn't, they were stood right in front of me.

Lauren, who I had only seen at Christmas, had cut her brown hair to her shoulders and put some pink bits through it. Her face was wide with a huge smile and I knew it was her who'd come up with this plan.

Matty. Oh my Matty. He was so handsome, so much older looking. He was nearly eighteen but he was still my Matty. He had tears in his eyes, the ones that matched mine. I couldn't cry. He was a bit taller now with his hair cut a bit shorter than it had been last time-I later found out he had just cut it all off as it had been quite long and was bugging him. 

And George, the boy whose heart I had taken and recklessly broken without even realising it. He was taller than Matty, seventeen now. His hair still the same colour, only it was longer. The same eyes that glistened when they looked at me and yes he was looking at me making eye contact. That mole on his cheek still as prominent as ever. He had a beanie on, making him look so damn cute.

"WHAT!?" I screamed once I'd processed the scene in front of me.

I ran over to my loves and they embraced me in a hug all three of them with their arms around me. 

Dammit, I shouldn't have worn makeup today since all I'm gonna do is cry it all off anyway.

"Three years," I cried. "Three fucking years."

"The longest three years of my life," Matty cried, pushing the other two out as he hugged me tighter around my neck, my arms tight around his waist. I could barely see his face but I knew he was crying, I could feel his tears drop on my scalp.

He held me for what felt like a lifetime before pulling away and looking right at me. "Evie, God, you are so beautiful, you always were." He wiped under my eyes that no doubt were black from all my running mascara. "I have missed you more than I could ever tell you."

I'd missed him too. His smell, it was still the same after so much time. Cigarette smoke mixed with cheap cologne, weed and just Matty. 

"I've missed you too Matty, so goddamn much." 

Matty laughed, wiping his own eyes. "Your voice is so different, you sound so much older."

"It's coz I am older Matty," I giggled, shoving him playfully on his shoulder.

I turned to Lauren. "I can't believe you!" 

She laughed loudly, hugging me and wishing me a happy birthday again.

"I was so pissed at you for cutting our conversation short!" I told her matter of factly.

"I know! I felt terrible!" She laughed.

George was just standing there, taking everything in no doubt.

"Hi George," I said weakly, my hand finding its way into my hair like it always seemed to do when I was around him. My stomach was going out of its mind. It was amazing how after so long he still created this reaction from within me.