I Took a Sip of Something Poison (A Foster the People Fanfiction)

A Year

"Calliegh, we have to talk." Drew came into the coffee shop, his dark Ray Ban sunglasses hiding his dark eyes from me.

"Drew? What's wrong?" I asked as he walked across the shop and to my little table. He sat down and took off his glasses, revealing his red eyes. "Have you been crying?" I asked, leaning over the table to see him.

"No..." He looked away from me, not wanting to look me in the eye.

"Come here, you shouldn't let anything hurt you! You're not as cute when you cry! Come on, sit here next to me." I pulled a chair next to me so he could sit.

He wearily stood up and heavily dropped himself into the seat next to me. As soon as he was sitting, he hid his face in his hands, keeping me from seeing it. "Calliegh, I don't want to do this."

"Drew, just tell me what's wrong! There better be a good reason as to why you're acting like this. You never act like this. And it just makes me sad to see you like this." I sighed as I rubbed a hand on his back in a effort to comfort him.

"It's because of my mom and dad." He shook his head.

"What? Is there something bad between y'all?"

"They don't want me dating you."

"Why?" I asked, fear bubbling up in my heart, this conversation was taking a nose dive for the worst possible topic.

"They don't like you because of the whole kidnapping thing, they think that you're ruined and not worthy of my love." He finally sat up and looked at me.

I stayed silent as a stared into his eyes. My throat was closing as I could see exactly what was happening.

Drew grabbed my hands and held them close to him, gripping them tighter than he ever had before. "Calliegh, I love you, and you know that. I love you with all of my heart. I really just want to be with you for the rest of my life, but my parents... they're..." He stopped and shook his head, unable to continue.

"They're making us break up?" I squeaked as a tear rolled down my cheek.

"Not just that, they want to make sure that I never see you again. They're making me move with them to Maine." He bit his lips and blinked slowly.

A sob escaped from me, all I could see in my mind were the times Drew and I had spent together; Homecoming my freshman year, all the times we went to the movies together, dancing around the empty Infinity Club listening to what Drew had dubbed "our song," which was that version of Waste we had danced to at Homecoming. I remembered how he would come to all of my school events, even if he had one for himself that night. He would skip those for me, even if it was his senior year, he just wanted to see me happy. When my story aired on the local news, I remember how he held me in his arms as I sobbed on his chest because I couldn't listen to how the media told my story. They had clearly gone to Ben, or Ben came to them, to hear it. It was all wrong. I remember Drew taking me up to the news stations the next day and talking to them about it, and making sure the next time they told it, it would be right. I remember laughing on my roof as we listened to music and watched the stars in the middle of the night.

"T-They're really going to go through with this?" I whispered, staring down at my shoes.

"I've waited for as long as I can to tell you, I've known for about two months now. I just really didn't want to tell you and send you into a panic. I hate procrastination, but I can't help it on this one. Plus, I didn't know how to tell you." Drew pulled me into his lap and I wrapped my arms around his neck and held my head against his shoulder. "I'm so sorry. I don't want to do this, but we both know how bad secret long distance relationships turn out."