Peterick Oneshots

now

TW: 3rd person suicide mentions (nothing graphic at all) and one for mentions to a toxic relationship.

In America, is realise spelt realize?

It was beautiful, it really was.

Like a boulevard of broken dreams cast aside by those too tired to fix it.

This was the world they lived in... and no, it was not some distant dystopian society found so frequently in novels that people eat up because it seems so realistic yet so impossible. No. This was now.

People buy sad stories the same way people buy sex. It sells. There's something missing in their life, and this is the filler for one crack out of a million. They can relate to it, enhance their feelings of self violation while they see it as self preservation. But when they look back, they realise how messed up the shit they were reading and writing were. 

But you only realise when it's too late.

And, I understand this a completely overused phrase, but it's true.

And right now it's too late for a boy who decided to use this to a disadvantage. The misery of other people weighing down on his own.

"I can take it." Had left his lips too many times in the past year.

"I'll kill myself if you leave me." He had also heard too many times.

When Pete will look back at the many times he had said it, he will hate himself as much as Patrick hates himself right now. 

He will also realise that Patrick may have still been alive now if his own selfishness and self-loathing hadn't blinded his judgement, because he really did believe he would disappear if Patrick left him.

But in reality, it would never happen.

And this is the cold truth that so many of their fans refused to believe: Pete and Patrick were not meant to be.

They brought each other down, made each other sadder.

Patrick, in the end, could not stand to be around Pete, even on stage; and Pete could not stand being away from Patrick, never giving him a breath.

And may nothing but death do us part.

wtf was that lmao