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A = Alex
Y = You
[texting] December 29th
a: So what's your plans for new years?
y: sleeping probably
a: nooo babe that's not happening
y: why not?
a: you said something about a hill that you and your friend use to go to look at fireworks
y: we've only been like three times and as you know I wasn't even there last year
a: Make it four then so you don't get left out of the tradition
y: its gonna feel weird tho
a: babe I know it wont be like last year and I'm as bummed about it as you but I promise I'll make it up for you, ok?
y: no alex its fine it's not your fault it's just i don't think it'll do me any good spending time with people who can kiss their boyfriends and girlfriends at 00:00 while I can't even tell them about you..
a: I know it's shit and I'm seriously seriously sorry
y: no like literally you don't need to be sorry, I get it 100% but it still sucks you know
a: yeah, still sucks:(
y: so what'll you be up to?
a: ugh don't even... obnoxious event party thing where you have to behave
y: weren't you gonna perform with miles at midnight?
a: yeah but thats at ten, after that
y: oh. well, tell harry styles and mick jagger and whoever the fuck that I said hi
a: hahahaha those are your celeb crushes?
y: ugh totally, mick's chicken dance makes me so wet
a: shut up
y: at midnight I'm gonna be dreaming about mick and harry and you cant do anything about it back in LA
a: you're going to that hill if it requires me to hire a fucking kidnapper
y: kinky
a:...
y: i'll think about it
a: ❤️
December 31st
Everything was packed; blankets, booze, fireworks and fire crackers. Some kind hearted soul had even popped a pack of condoms in there, just in case. Not that the idea of fucking in a bush on on some hill exited you terribly. And not that you had anyone to fuck there either. Still you were secretly glad that Alex had convinced you to go. It was quite cozy when you and your friends giddily tottered up the hill with candles lighting up the path. The sky was still dark and splattered with stars because it was yet too early for the big firework show. only a few families with small children were setting off fireworks this early.
When you got to the top you found the rest of your friend group setting up the bonfire. Your heart was feeling lighter than you'd been expecting, actually really enjoying yourself despite everything. The thing was, you had met Alex on new years last year in Sheffield. You got along like old friends despite the short time you'd known each other, and at 00:00 he had taken your hand in his while you watched the fireworks together. So no new years kiss, but more of a promise that this was going somewhere. This year you'd hoped to get one, but alas he had a fucking performance in fucking LA at some fucking new years celebration for some fucking late night show. Those kind of things were usually pre-recorded which was what made it even more frustrating that this had to be live. Alex and Miles were gonna play a new song and you thought you knew which one; aviation. It was a great song and you completely understood that it was good publicity and all, but still. It was at 10 pm in LA so that made it midnight in Nashville. As they say, great minds think alike and a lot of your friends were fans of the monkeys and the puppets too, so you had all agreed on watching the performance as it went live.
[texting] December 31st
a: dreaming about chicken mick?
y: deffo
a: so at least you're up little miss sweet dreams
y: *picture of the bonfire*
a: !!! I'm so proud you dragged your ass over there!
y: me too, and I'm not even crying. feeling jelly?
a: yes there's nothing I want more than for you to cry. damn it
y: sorry, i'll bring an onion next time.
a: fantastic. you go have fun now so they don't get suspicious who the handsome stranger you're texting with is
y: bye and good luck handsome stranger<3
The evening flew by as you sat around the bonfire, chatting and jamming. Nobody had suggested wonderwall or I'm yours yet, so it was all good. Hotdogs always taste so much better over a bonfire, even when you burn it pitch black. You usually found s'mores disgustingly sweet, but these were somehow delicious. You had such a good feeling about the night, still there was a slight fear inside of you that you'd start crying, watching Alex. Therefore you tried not to drink a terrible lot, because that would just make you an absolute total mess.
Midnight wasn't far away now and a couple of your friends got up to prepare the fireworks as the rest of you were setting up a computer to watch the last shadow puppets performance. Suddenly you felt your phone buzz.
[texting]
a: the song is about you by the way
y: what???
a: try not to get too horny
y: omg alex fuck
y: we're gonna watch the performance together and I'm gonna start crying this is not okay
y: ALEX
y: they're gonna think I'm pathetic
y: I am pathetic
y: AALLEEXX
With the computer at the center of the blanket, you all cuddled up as a sketch was just about to end. When the fake laughed ceased, the late night host introduced Alex and Miles. You felt your cheeks reddening and thanked the night for covering it up.
"Hello everybody, it's an honor being here tonight" Miles began.
"We are absolutely thrilled to be playing at midnight two hours before LA" Alex added with that tone that I in the beginning had a hard time detecting as sarcasm, but that now made me giggle.
"This is a song off the new album" Miles said but was interrupted by cheers from the audience.
"It's calles Sweet Dreams TN!"
You gasped quietly. Alex was quite secretive usually, both in his speech and his lyrics, so the title alone was quite uncharacteristic.
I just sort of always feel sick without you baby
I ain't got anything to lick without you, baby
You really had too fight back a whimper there, how dared he.
Nothing seems to stick without you, baby
Ain't I fallen in love?
And for the 7483819387464834th time you got it confirmed: Alex had the sexiest voice in the word.
And as your shrinking figure blows a kiss
I catch and smash it on my lips
You wiped away a discrete tear. When he hopped into a taxi after taking you to the airport last time you were in LA, you had blown him a kiss and he had literally started making out with his hand as the car drove away , making you laugh away your tears. That was the last time you'd seen him for over a month now.
Baby, we ought to fuck
Seven years of bad luck out the parlour room mirror
Could I have made it any clearer?
You held your breath. How dared he make you want to have him right here right now so fucking bad. He was fingering you with his voice in a way you didn't think was possible, even for Alex fucking Turner himself.
It's love like a tongue in a nostril
Love like an ache in the jaw
There were only seconds left till 00:00 and everyone else began counting down to the music, but you were afraid your voice would break if you did.
You're the first day of spring with a septum piercing
If you hadn't been so spellbound you would have heard the footsteps slowly approaching behind you, before going quiet a bit away from the blanket where you were gathered.
five four
Little Miss Sweet Dreams,
And as the song reached it's climax on the last word, you hear a familiar voice singing along to it with all his heart.
three two one
"TENNESSEE"
Your eyes shot wide open and as in slow motion you jumped up, threw your champagne glass on the ground and ran towards him as fast as you could with open arms and tears in your eyes.
"ALEX!"
And as the double zeroes proudly fired it's first fireworks and with the outro of the song still playing, you jumped up in his arms and he kissed you so passionately in your mind nothing existed except that kiss.The surprised reactions of your friends didn't bother you and the consequences were unimportant. At that very moment you knew this was someone worth giving the world to, someone worth all you had to offer and a bit more.
When the song faded away you buried you head on his shoulder.
"thank you, I needed this" you whispered and Alex hugged you even tighter.
"Believe me, I needed it just as much" He hummed softly.
"That song was so sexy" You continued when you'd collected yourself a bit. You could feel his smile on your cheek and a soft laughter in his chest.
"You said I hide behind nonsensical metaphors, that I don't show my thoughts as they are. And you're right, I don't. But now I did." Alex confessed. You couldn't help but kiss him again. The amount of tenderness you felt for this man was bottomless and you'd drown if he hadn't been holding you like you were made out of gold right now.
"Wanna introduce me you your friends now?"
You straightened your neck and looked him in the eyes, opening your lips slightly, but you didn't know what to say. He had been so keen to not let anything get out to the public, even your friends, just in case.
"It's not like there's another option now, is there" he continued, making you both laugh at this to say the least peculiar situation
"Happy new year idiot" You said softly as you ran your hand through his beautiful brown hair.
"Happy new year little Miss Sweet Dreams"