#but I’m giggling because they deadass skipped so many steps

[lu-dao-writes]

Me when Xiao Chiye and Shen Zechuan are still supposed to be hating each other but now they’re acting like they’re married-.

[evolsinner]

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tomorrow morning arrives.

i did my best attempt at covering up the bruises from yesterday night with some concealer and foundation... if my dad knew what that sick kid did to me, he wouldn’t have a healed bone in his body to rely on.

i stuff some essentials into a backpack and take a final glance around my room. don’t know if i’ll miss it, to be honest. i shut the door.

*ding.*

my phone lights up and i stop at the top of the stairs.

daddy🔐 good morning, love. how’d you sleep?

terrible.

me great xx

daddy🔐 you in any pain, babe?

heaps.

me none.

🎶my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and they’re like, it’s better than yours damn right it’s better than yours

i sigh and decline his call twice. if i pick up, i know i’ll burst into tears and i know he’ll get mad at theo all over again.

*ding.*

daddy🔐 this is just a moment, and we’re gonna get out of it, i promise. got you some oxycodone just in case. x

doesn’t feel like a ‘moment’ to me.

daddy🔐 eat your breakfast, take your time with your family. i’ll be waiting for you under the sycamore as usual. (:

i head downstairs to them sitting at the breakfast table. this will be difficult. i sit in my usual seat.

“hey, rosé,” maxi smiles with breadcrumbs sprinkled around his mouth.

“school’s coming close to an end,” dad picks up his cup, reading dailymail on his phone. “isn’t it?”

“yeah, yeah,” i reply, eating from a bowl of oats. “just a few more weeks.”

“excited?”

“since when did anyone like school?” i make a valid point.

he takes a sip of his coffee, chuckling, “class of 2018.”

“yeah, has a ring to it, aye?”

“sure does, mate.”

“hey, maxi,” i nudge him, “imma miss ya.”

“yeah, whatevs,” he downplays it, thinking i’m referring to when i’ll stay in the dorms for uni or something.

“oye!” i playfully punch him.

“you’ll come back, yeah? to visit?” the concern is quick to wash over his small pale face.

that was like a punch in the guts, an ache in my tear ducts and a beat skipped too quick. “of course, i’ll visit! i’ll need as many doses of ‘annoying you’ as i can.”

“pinky promise?” he looks up at me with these sad, sad eyes.

i was never one to break promises... “i um.. i promise that i’ll try my best!”

we lock pinkies.

“..y’know, rosé, i’d step on a lego for you..”

“no way? deadass?” i feel incredibly honoured.

he giggles adorably, “deadass.”

i pull him into myself one last time.

“stop, rosé! you’re messing up my hair again!”

“am i now?”

“quit it!”

“hun, c’mon now, don’t do that. you know how much he hates it.”

“yeah, soz, mum.”

-ˋˏ ༻🍷༺ ˎˊ-

“call me right away if you’re in trouble, alright?” in the teachers’ carpark, mr killian waits for me in some comfy clothing in his car. he texts away on his phone, making last~minute arrangements.

“yessir,” i shut the car door after myself.

people are already swarming inside the building which means that the day has started much quicker than i had anticipated. through all of the shouting, i could have sworn i heard theo’s voice echoing my name in the way my mum always says it and that’s just plain creepy!

wasting no time, i think to myself, what the fuck does larissa have first? c’mon, think! oh my god, yes, that’s right. she has history in block 326!

i slide open the door quietly and crouch to stop myself from blocking a boring BNW film the class is following, well, half of them dozing off. with the teacher too busy telling a student off in the back, i quickly sit down on the free desk next to larissa.

“what the hell are you doing in here?” she hisses. “don’t you have health or something?”

“i wanted to see you…” i reply.

"huh?”

“…because it may be the last time i’ll be seeing you ~ in a while, at least.”

“what?” her eyes pop wide open.

“i’m running away,” i inform her, my phone vibrates in my pocket. “with him.”

she rolls her eyes and heaves at the last two words. “rosé, do you have any idea how stupid that sounds?”

“i know, but~”

“but you need to think about this. you can’t just leave.”

“theo found out already so it’s not like we have a choice. and i could not stop thinking about this and, honestly, at this point, i don’t care about my brain anymore. the heart wants what it wants.”

“you’re being unreasonable. you’re just young and in love~”

“larissa,” i stare at her blatantly.

she sighs, her onyx eyes getting watery. “what the heck am i supposed to do without you? everyone here is fake as fuck. i need my best friend by my side so we can laugh at how dumb they all look.”

“awh,” i pout sadly, “stopp, you’re gonna make me cry.”

“ro?”

“yes?”

“i... i love you.”

“naw, la, i love you too.”

“no, i mean, like..”

my phone vibrates again and this time i look at it.

daddy🔐 we need to go. now.

“hey,” i slide off my seat, crouching next to her, “you’ll figure it out like you always do, okay? you’ll be fine without me,” and i hug her tightly. “promise.”

“but i lov..”

“you’ll be fine, i swear.”

“..there’s no changing your mind is there?”

“i’m sorry,” i cringe.

“and to think you were going through that ‘student x teacher wattpad’ phase. ugh, i’m dumb as fuck.”

“if it comes to it, just say you had no idea what was going on, say you didn’t know shit about sir and i, ight?”

“you know?” she pulls away. “i loathe him for stealing my bestie.”

i purse my lips apologetically.

“you better fucking call me every night! and if he ever tries to fucking hurt you~”

“yes, alright, alright! you’re my go~to. love you, best friend.” as i am about to get up, i remember something. “hey, one more thing. stay away from theo. just trust me, okay?”

she frowns, “why?”

i get an incoming call from mr killian and i quietly answer it.

“rosé, babe, you need to get out of there now,” he says with haste. “the security cameras outside my flat just alerted me. the police are at my place; they know.”