Trust // KELLIC

Chapter 17

I was having a bit of a low day today. You know that feeling when you wake up and you just don't feel quite right and you get pulled into a sort of depression but you have no idea why? That's what I felt like that morning. I just felt down but for no specific reason why, that's just how I felt. It was okay though because this happens every now and again and I know I'm always better the next day, but for today it kind of sucked.

I moped around the store with Vic for the first half of the day. I was trying to keep it from him that I wasn't feeling too great because I didn't need him to worry about me. I think he was starting to catch on though because he was being extra sweet. I was standing at the counter when he came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist tightly. I felt protected in his arms, so I smiled a little, feeling more content rather than sad.

"Are you okay? You seem a little off today," he said. He placed a kiss on the back of my neck.

"Mm, yeah. Just, I don't know," I said with a shrug.

"What don't you know?" he asked. I sighed and turned around in his arms, placing my hands around his neck.

"I don't know what I don't know. It's just a whatever day," I told him.

"Is there anything I can do to make it better?" he asked suggestively. I smiled and rolled my eyes at the comment but he still leant in and kissed me deeply. Who cares if it was the middle of the day and we were supposed to be working; if I want to kiss my boyfriend in the middle of the store then I will. We stopped though moments after we heard someone walking into the store. I turned around again to see just a random customer.

"You want to take this one or shall I?" Vic asked me quietly.

"Um, you can. I think I might take my break now and go for a walk," I told him. He frowned a little, looking concerned and then nodded.

"Alright, see you when you get back. I'll miss you," he said sweetly and pecked my lips. I pulled away, gave him a reassuring smile to tell him that I was fine, and I left the store to get a bit of fresh air. I walked along the street, not exactly knowing where I was headed. It wasn't a very busy street I guess so there weren't many people out. I made a left turn and went towards the beach. The store was only a couple of streets away from the ocean so sometimes I would go and sit and watch the waves because it relaxed me a lot.

So that's where I headed, to the beach. When I got there I leant against the fence that separated the beach from the sidewalk. I noticed there weren't many people out today; probably because it was a little too cold for the beach. I stood there for a couple of minutes until I heard the sound of an acoustic guitar playing. I turned and saw a man on the corner of the street I was standing on. He wasn't singing, he was just playing a song that I didn't recognize. Every now and again someone would walk past and drop some money in his open guitar case. Being in a band I was naturally attracted to music so I found myself walking over to the man. As I got closer I noticed he had long, messy-looking ginger hair.

"Hi. You're good," I told him.

"I know," he said, grinning cockily. "I'm Jesse, you're that Kellin guy, right? The one from that local band?"

"Yeah, that's me," I said, blushing a little because I always thought it was weird when people recognized me.

"Sing something," he said. I frowned and shook my head.

"I don't know this song," I told him.

"Make it up," he said with a shrug. Freestyle? I guess I do that a lot but just in my head when I'm walking along the street or something, but I've never actually done it out loud though, but the tune he was playing was good and I hadn't sung in such a long time, so I gave it a go, singing about completely random shit, but it was fun anyway. We even had a few more people stop and listen to us. It was amazing how much more confident I feel when I'm performing something. I had been so closed off lately that I hadn't even realized just how much I had changed in a few weeks.