Matty and Eloise were ships in the night, passing closely but never quite finding each other. That is, until now. "There was a pause in the conversation. I wasn't sure what to say. So I simply didn't say anything. Instead, I stared down at my hands and picked at my chipped red nail polish. When I looked up, Matty wasn't engrossed in his coffee or back asleep like I'd expected. His deep brown eyes were trained on me."

Fan fiction // Matty Healy The 1975 // Book 1 // "We're not a love story, darling, we're a cautionary tale." Cover by @21duns

"i'm not 18 yet," i said, despite my hormonal urges. "it's only illegal if we get caught," matty smirked at me. i didn't realize all of the trouble i would be getting into. *lowercase intended * - ** in progress of editing and adding to it ** { age gap, mental heath, drug use, & smut. }

both endlessly denying what's wrong to make each other right. **contains smut, some violence and swearing, drug use (lower case intended)

//COMPLETE // ---- " Look at him" I chuckled with a wide smile as I studied Matty and Adam dancing around in circles with their guitars, practicing a guitar solo for tonight. " Yeah, he's been really happy the last couple of weeks," George said as he looked in the same direction. Matty and Adam were spinning around each other as they played with big grins on their faces. Honestly, it was quite cute. " Yeah, counter to popular believe he can be a nice person if he wants" I laughed seeing as he waved at me from the stage. " I know. All this time I thought he had just tired himself out from being a pain, but turns out his motivation to improve walks on two legs and has long brown curls." --- Rosie studies phsycology and moves to London to live with her cousin George to finish uni. She quickly finds out that George's flatmate Matty struggles with drugs, sleeplessness and moodswings - all of which she tries to help him cure. He needs an anchor. She's his anchor. --- If you want to follow my writing process, be able to influence my story choices, and maybe get the chance of having your own character in the book, please follow @mrserotonin.man on instagram :) Rankings: #1 in mattyhealy - 18th of August 2019 #4 in the1975 - 18th of August 2019 #1 in The1975fanfic - 30th of July 2019 #1 in Robbers - August 4th 2019

#7 in Matty Healy and The 1975. about a cynical boy who makes inappropriate comments at the worst of times, and a girl who wishes he kept his mouth shut but doesn't mind when he wraps his arm around her shoulders each morning. © alienharrry 2016