Palaye Royale Fanfic

Chapter 4 - Making amends

Chapter 4 - Making amends

I felt awful after dinner last week. Steve was so rude to Remington and I couldn't even say anything because Steve was gripping my leg so tight. Then Remington left and I hadn't seen him in a week. I really wanted to be there rehearsing but Steve had made a point of coming round every day to make sure I couldn't see anyone but him.

Ryan rarely saw Steve and Steve always acted nice around my family anyway, so I couldn't tell anyone about how he was treating me. When we first started dating a couple of years ago, he was so sweet and kind to me but he'd changed since he became more popular at school. He was so possessive over me and sometimes even got violent.

Today was the first day Steve wasn't coming round, because he had football practice all day, so I was grateful to finally have some freedom. Mum and Ryan were out at one of Ryan's orchestra performances so I decided to go next door.

Part of me expected them to ignore me, because I hadn't been round in so long, but Emerson opened the door with a smile.

"Great to see you Elodie! Come in!"

"Thanks Em. Sorry I haven't been here in a while. I've just been busy."

We went down into the basement and I saw Sebastian writing some music while Remington was on his phone.

"Oh," he said, looking up at me.

Sebastian didn't even meet my eyes and gestured for him and Emerson to leave the room.

"Hey, erm. How are you?" I asked awkwardly.

"Fine. What are you doing here?" Remington said harshly, not even looking up from his phone.

I sighed and sat down next to him.
"I'm sorry about what happened at dinner the other night. Steve just gets a bit protective."

Remington scoffed and put his phone down to glare at me.

"Protective? That's what you call it? The guy's a straight up douche and you didn't even say anything! And you haven't been round in a week so we couldn't rehearse properly. Clearly I see we don't matter to you."

"No! You do matter, of course you do. I've just been busy. I'm sorry. I'm here now aren't I? Please can we just rehearse?" I said quietly, wanting to tell him everything but I knew Steve would kill me because the guys were bound to get involved.

Sebastian and Emerson returned and suggested they play the new song they'd been working on. I listened and it was great - I also had a clear idea of what the bass should sound like so I wrote some music to show Sebastian.

"Yeah that should work. But before you play, can you and Rem please just make up? We can't play well if you guys are arguing."

I nodded and Remington sighed. I extended my hand for him to shake and panicked when he just stood there glaring at me, but he soon broke into a smile and pulled me into a hug.
"Don't leave us again, we need you."

I nodded and we got to playing, a few hours later the song was complete and we all collapsed onto the sofa. We stayed there for a while, on cloud nine because it sounded great and we'd been working really hard.

"Can we exchange numbers? Just in case you're busy again and we need some help," Remington asked, handing me his phone. I entered my number in all their phones and got theirs too, when I got home that night I got a message from Remington:

Great work today! Couldn't have done it without you x