Lost Without You

10

Thank you 80s-luvs for Jasper Steven's aesthetic board!

    The next few weeks go by as uneventful as you could expect. I'm not entirely sure how all the schools in books are so eventful. Like we have fights here too, but it is only two girls swinging each other around by their hair.

   Then class is just boring, you take notes, pray the teacher doesn't call on you and then spend the rest of the period on your phone.

   Me, Jade, Jasper and Eliazer have become quite the group.  We all have the same tastes in tv and movies. Jade and Jasper both love horror books and I found out through Jasper that Eliazer loves highschool romance books.

  "What do you mean Lip is better than Carl Gallagher?" Jade and I yell at Jasper. "Carl doesn't do anything but follow a different girl every season!" He exclaims and we both scoff.

   "What about the time that he shot a goddamn eagle because his family didn't have a Turkey for Thanksgiving! Or when he stole a fucking wheelchair from a paralyzed person so he could pretend to be crippled to get head!" I yell back. "Yeah exactly, what has Lip even done anyways?" Jade asks making me laugh

  "Well eliazer, who are you siding with?" I say. "Uhm, Ian is the best character." He replies. "First off I've gotten Ian on every shameless buzzfeed quiz I've taken. Also why Ian?"

  "Well I guess he's always been there for his family more than every other Gallagher. Frank was technically there for them, but it almost hurt to only have Frank on their side." He says and we all nod in understanding. "Ok but the real question, why Carl?" He asks making us gasp all over again.

  "Isn't it obvious, hes hot" we say blankly. "Let me guess you like toxic men?" He says back. "You sit in your room fantasizing about Carl Gallagher, Hardin Scott, Draco Malfoy and obviously Damon Salvatore" he says and we both start laughing hysterically.

  "You were so close." I say still laughing. "First off we don't fantasize about anyone, we stalk. Two I've never seen a Harry potter movie because I always fall asleep. Draco is more Jades thing." I say. "Damon salvatore is really fucking ugly, I don't see the appeal." Jade and I both say.

   "Now, I am in the after fandom. I don't know how I got there. But I'm going to continue stalking Hero." I say and the boys nod in understanding.

  We continue to fight over random characters when my phone rings. "Its Owen" I tell Jade, the smile falling off my face immediately and start walking away.

  As Jade and I walk farther away from Eliazer and Jasper, we hear a low voice say "who the fuck is Owen". From a distance.

  As soon as I answer the phone, I put it on speaker so Jade can hear everything too. "Uhm hey Owen" I say into the mic and wait for a response.

   He lets out a small sigh before speaking. "Hey dear, I know you never wanted to hear what I'm about to say. But your family has been sitting in a funeral for over a month now." He says and immediately start crying. "I know you will be ready to do this, but it's time to make funeral arrangements, so we can let them rest." He tells me and I squeeze my eyes shut, trying to form some words.

  When I sit there unable to say anything, Jade speaks up. "Thanks for letting us know Owen, we'll start working on that soon." Jade says and hangs up the phone immediately.

   Jade wraps her arms around me and I cry onto her shoulder. "When the funeral is planned they'll officially be gone, they won't even be above ground anymore!" I sob as Jade tries to comfort me.