𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙖 ꨄ︎

ꜱᴛᴜᴘɪᴅ

Anastasia's pov:

why the f*ck did I come here?Did I really expect him to remain the same?Nobody could imagine my disappointment when I walked in and saw him with her and with all those drugs,clearly rehab hadn't worked as well as he said it did.
I couldn't help but think all off this was because of me,and I couldn't help but hate myself for making me re live all of it.It felt too real,I stuck a pill into my mouth and swallowed the lump, pissed with myself for letting curiosity get the best of me.His girlfriend was pretty,like really pretty although her eyes were a little wide apart,which I picked up on while she was devouring his face until he turned it to a peck on the cheek.

I felt sick to my stomach and so so awkward,Luckily I used Duff as my excuse to leave but I didn't actually want anything,but I couldn't leave straight away because then he'd know that I was lying to come see him and to check if he'd actually moved on,Which he has which pissed me off even more.

"Ana?"I heard a very familiar voice call out as I winced turning around to be faced with Gilby much to my surprise.

"What are you doing here?"I said walking up to him.

"I'm with Duff."Gilby said leading me to the recording room where Duff sat hunched over a mixing board.

"Ana,hey I thought we were meeting for dinner Friday?"Duff said confused. "Friday isn't today is it?"He panicked looking down at his watch.

"no,I was just in the area and wondered if you wanted to skip friday and just go for dinner today!It's Tuesday by the way."I giggled as Duff looked to his side at the blonde guy seated next to him.

"yeah sure,let me finish up."Duff said "This is Matt by the way Ana,new drummer.That's my sister,she used to hang around here all the time,now not so much."Duff said nudging the guy as he put his headphones on and began working.

"Nice to meet you,I'm Matt."He nodded to me.He seemed nice enough,He was no Steven but I'd read about him several times when it was first announced he'd be joining Guns.

"I know,I'm Anastasia."I smiled.

"I know..I've seen you in rolling stone...hey are you on that billboard across the street?"Matt said squinting at me.

"uh huh."I murmured as Duff nudged Matt to put his headphones on as they began doing whatever rockstars do as I was left to talk to Gilby again.

"you never said what you were doing here?"I said turning to him.

"helping with the new album,Axl is one of my closest friends."Gilby said.

"you must not be very close with your closest friends then."I mocked him.

"I consider you one of my closest friends."Gilby ushered with a smile as I rolled my eyes.

"exactly my point."I muttered.

"well why aren't we very close?We used to be."Gilby said behind persistent as always.

"when we were kids."I reminded him.

"And I'd like to change that,So if you were busy with Duff Friday but you're changing that to today,that means you're free on Friday to have dinner with me m?"He asked catching me by surprise but then again it was Gilby,I felt this coming when he laid his eyes on me.

"maybe."I shunned. "Does Slash know you're here?"I asked curiously.

"Does Slash know your here?"Gilby exaggerated. "From what I hear,you haven't been together in months."Gilby said rubbing it in.

"We haven't."I nodded.

"So then I presume you're single and therefore good to go for dinner Friday night,without Slash showing up and acting all crazy around you."Gilby said hopefully.