[written august 29, 2021]
a tale based on the 5sos song 'lie to me'
this song's pretty heavy, as will be the case with this. nothing graphic.
there will be a lot of flashback sequences in this story. have fun getting [flashbacks] from that damn jily fic.
[and that joke is the reason i'm not a comedian]
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pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. pa-the-tic.
"i don't know which one of you needs to hear this, but you are not dave grohl, so quit it with the pencil tapping."
sage leigh stopped tapping her pencil to the syllables of the word 'pathetic.' she did not, however, raise her head. she though she might cry if she did. or break the pencil. the professor continued to drone on about the thing sage used to love. the thing he made her fall in love with.
that fucker who she could only weakly insult in her head was in this class. positively beaming.
the lecture broke and sage looked up, head twisted far, far away from him. romeo aven.
it had been one fucking day. maybe not even 24 hours. and there he was beaming, laughing conversing with adoring and indistinguishable friends. he was smiling, something she had been able to cause him to do with ease. no, she wasn't looking.
yes she was. and to sink her misfortune deeper, her doe-eyed, slightly tear-brimming eyes met his shining one. for an incurably painful moment. romeo didn't look twice.
well, he looks happy, sage affirmed as she walked out of her final class of the day. perfect, now she can shut herself in her dorm and wallow in every emotion she had concealed all day.
so happy. sage began to continue her train of though once she was in her dorm. once, he told me i made him happy.
see, what's weird about being sad is that once you're already sad, you do things to make yourself sadder. her phone buzzed and, slightly shaking, she saw the notification.
[━━━━━━ 2 years ago, today ━━━━━━]
attached to it were awkwardly cropped photos of something. and dear god, did she regret clicking that notification. it brought her to sea of photos and lead of sea of water to finally break and cascade down her face.
[flashback]
"babe, you know how we're going to new york city tomorrow?" romeo asked, voice deeper than usual due to the fact he had just woken up.
"yeah?" sage responded as she was cutting a loaf of bread.
"i had to get us two different flight tickets since the flight i'm on sold out really fucking fast."
"i've already called the airport, i got a ticket for that flight. i know you don't like flying."
"that's incredible, how'd you do that?"
