away; b.e.[rewritting]

Chapter 23

Sunday night

Billie is leaving for South America at 3 in the morning. It's 8 PM right now. We're chilling in my room and I'm helping Billie write a new song while having The 1975 play lightly in the background.

Billie gets an idea for the next line and writes it down. I study her features once more, and how she's just perfect. She's biting her bottom lip as she writes down the lyrics. I move closer to her. I was wearing my pajamas which were old sweatpants and a shirt. Billie turns her head to look at me.

She giggles, "What?"

"Nothing, you're just so fucking beautiful," I say, connecting our lips. It gets more heated. I swipe my tongue across her bottom lip, asking for entrance. She denies so I let my hands travel down to her hips and I lightly squeeze, causing her to slightly moan.

As soon as she does, I push my tongue in, fighting for dominance. She submits and I crawl on top of her. I travel my lips down to her jaw and kiss there, sucking lightly. I go to the corner of her jaw and kiss down to her sweet spot, leaving a mark. I continue to go down until-

RING!!

"Ughhh," Billie exclaims as she reaches for her phone. "It's Finneas. Fucking cockblock," she whispers before answering.

She hangs up after talking to him for 2 minutes. She looks sad.

"Emilie, I have to go. I have to finish packing," she whispers. I'm so pissed that Billie has to leave. I can't be without my girlfriend for about 2 months.

She gathers her stuff and I follow her downstairs. I hug her with every ounce of strength I have left. I kiss her passionately and she leaves. Only a few people know about me and Billie.

We told her manager, Danny, yesterday. He took it very well But said that we should wait to do anything until after I finish 11th grade. I only have about 2 months left I'm dreading for it to be over.

Finneas and I planned for me to fly out to Berlin when they're playing in Berlin to surprise Billie and it's after school ends. But what kills me is that Billie won't be here for the championship game against South Crenshaw. The Eagles beat them last year, and we have to beat them this year.

I haven't talked to Lauren as much since the drop of the song on Thursday so I decided to call her and ask if she wanted to hit up a skate park or some shit.

She said yeah so I went up to my room and changed into one of Billie's hoodies that I stole from her and into some oversized sweatpants. I put on my vans and grabbed my board along with my phone. I head out to the skatepark by Lauren's house.

~

I get to the skatepark and see Bryana and Lauren arguing. I've never seen them argue, they're always extremely lovey dovey with each other. I hop the fence to get to them faster.

"...Lauren, I cant with you anymore. You're never home, and when you are, you reek of alcohol. When you get back home, my side of the room will be empty. You call me when you're sober and want to talk," Bryana says, storming off before Lauren could say anything.

"What was that about?" I ask.

"Bryana and I got into a fight. We haven't had a single fight our entire relationship," Lauren says, falling to the ground. I catch her and sit her up.