Eden's POV
It was the next day and after a hard night full of tears and exhaustion, I just wanted to forget about my parents for a while so I began to pack up my wardrobe as it wasn't long until I'd be leaving. Although the rail rack was full of clothes, most of the space was accommodated with random boxes and tubs of crap I've kept over the years.
I began to pull a plastic bin down from the top shelf and go through it until I remembered that John was supposed to be coming over shortly to help me pack and I looked like a mess. Although he'd seen me bare faced and in messy clothes, he hadn't seen me with puffy eyes and makeup smudges all over my face, so I quickly ran to my bathroom and splashed water around my eyes before applying a slight amount of mascara to hide the bags under my eyes. I quickly changed into a white T-shirt and a pair of black flared leggings which I knew John liked (and quite frankly so did I because they were my most comfortable trousers). I threw my hair into a ponytail, and with that I was slightly more presentable. I had an excuse for my house looking like a junkyard so I didn't bother to tidy, I just continued to sort through the box I had pulled down which was filled with old photos.
John's POV
It was soon my birthday, something like 3 or 4days to go but I hadn't really considered doing anything. Freddie wanted to throw a party but parties aren't my thing to be honest, and plus I'd want Eden to go but I'm sure she'd feel uncomfortable around some of the people Freddie would've invited. I thought about maybe taking Eden out for a day and then properly asking her to be my girlfriend as I'd been saving money from gigs, tips from work to do something really special for us two.
I knew she'd been stressed with her moving and everything, so I thought I could help her get her things packed up to take some of that stress away. Every time I go down to see her I have to get a bus down to tooting and then walk a mile to her apartment. She offers to pick me up from the bus stop sometimes but I like walking. Today I wore a white and navy polo shirt with jeans and a bomber jacket, and had my hair as usual. After about and hour on the bus and a 20 minute walk, I finally got to Eden's apartment at around 12pm and was invited in with a warm hug. I noticed she wasn't wearing much makeup but to me I thought she looked so naturally beautiful, I was so confused at times why a girl as amazing as her would want me. But I could never take her for granted, because I felt as thought she'd be hard to replace.
"I was just starting on my clothes, could you help me pack some of it up bubba"
I loved it when she called me that, she gave me a lot of nicknames for some reason but that was my favourite. "Of course my love"
We made way into her light and breezy bedroom which usually looked well decorated and colourful but today it was fairly empty apart from her mattress and armoire and boxes all over the floor. I took off my jacket as it would've been uncomfortable to lift everything and went to her turntable (which she still left out) and put whatever track she already had playing which just so happened to be the Billy Joel album. I noticed she knew a lot of the lyrics to most of the songs which made me smile because it meant that she listened to them a lot.
After clearing the top shelf, we moved down to the floor of the wardrobe which had tubs and tubs of her things, which she was sorting through to get rid of anything she didn't want or need.
"Are you excited for your birthday then?" She asked me sounding excited, "well I'll only be excited if you're free that day." I replied
"Hmm, I'll have to clear my really busy schedule but I spose I could make some room for you" she said sarcastically while pulling pulling more and more out of her box. "Seriously, I want to go out somewhere special just with you"
"Of course, I'd love to"
I pulled a guitar out from the far back stood up by the support of the hanging clothes on the rack. "I didn't know you played" I said, to which she replied with a shocked face. "Gee, I forgot I had that. I don't play it's not mine it's", her reply suddenly came to a halt which confused me. "Who's?
"Oh um, I meant someone bought it for me ages ago"
"Oh" I replied.
I looked at the guitar neck closely and noticed a small faint engraving on the neck it looked like it said KT at first until I recognised the writing to look very similar to Rogers, maybe it was RT I thought. I put it down towards behind me, slightly upset or maybe overthinking, I wasn't sure and quietly continued to open yet another tub to reveal Polaroid's of Eden and another boy, Roger. But instead of them looking like co-workers like she said, they looked an awful lot like a couple, holding each others waists, smiling at the camera, some were at the beach, some at a house. My heart literally sank. She didn't notice what I was looking at until I stood up and grabbed my bomber jacket and walked out the room. That liar, I thought to myself.
Eden's POV
Crap. I thought to myself as I looked over to the photos that John quite angrily dropped before storming out. How could I have been so stupid keeping those pictures of us, I quickly jumped up and ran to John who was now putting his shoes on at a fast pace.
"John, listen to me"
"No Eden, you lied to me"
"No I swear, I just. John wait please"
"Don't bother clearing your schedule for my birthday" he said slamming the door in front of me.
Typically this would be the cliche moment that the girl chases after the boy and runs after him but not me, I was in utter shock. I hadn't ever seen him so upset, and I didn't intend for him to be. But now every part of my body completely trembled until began to feel the tears escaping my eyes rapidly. I fell to the ground and began to kick and kick at the floor and punch it and scream until I grew tired. I banged my head on the floor eventually until I felt dizzy which took a while. Why was I making such a big deal out of nothing, just go chase after him, I kept telling myself. But i couldn't physically escape the fit I was having which was making me want to smash my head open and scream as loud as I could.
'GET UP AND GET HIM' I kept shouting, but nothing happened, just more and more noise escaped from me. It was almost like I was angry at myself and I was being taken over by someone else, an out of body experience really.
John's POV
I felt awful for leaving so abruptly but my natural instinct was so cry me eyes out, which I didn't want to do in front of Eden. I stood with my head against the wall next to her door, debating whether to go back in but my eyes just couldn't control the tears. I thought I heard a bang noise against the wall I was stood out I just left. So I decided to go off somewhere, where no one else would be but I was in London, everyone was everywhere. It felt like Eden was everywhere to me
