A realisation in five months
‘Everything ends badly’
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February
They go home eventually because she Effy and he’s Cook and they can tell themselves they don’t give a fuck but a lie is difficult to uphold when there’s no one around to tell it to.
And nothing’s really better, because in the end she hit someone with a goddamn rock and that’s not something you can apologise for. But life has a way of going on and the first time Freddie smiles at her again she thinks perhaps being sorry is enough. The first time he kisses her again they’re at college, leaning up against the lockers where they first met and she wants so much to want him again. He tastes of redemption and that at least is something she wants very much.
Effy Stonem doesn’t do love. She does drugs and drink and random strangers. But you can’t lose yourself when there’s someone right there with you and even lying in her room with Freddie asleep next to her it’s Cook she hears breathing.
Because she’s Effy and he’s Cook and in the end it’s always going to be them.
‘It’s you and me babe. It’s always gunna be you and me’
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February
They go home eventually because she Effy and he’s Cook and they can tell themselves they don’t give a fuck but a lie is difficult to uphold when there’s no one around to tell it to.
And nothing’s really better, because in the end she hit someone with a goddamn rock and that’s not something you can apologise for. But life has a way of going on and the first time Freddie smiles at her again she thinks perhaps being sorry is enough. The first time he kisses her again they’re at college, leaning up against the lockers where they first met and she wants so much to want him again. He tastes of redemption and that at least is something she wants very much.
Effy Stonem doesn’t do love. She does drugs and drink and random strangers. But you can’t lose yourself when there’s someone right there with you and even lying in her room with Freddie asleep next to her it’s Cook she hears breathing.
Because she’s Effy and he’s Cook and in the end it’s always going to be them.
‘It’s you and me babe. It’s always gunna be you and me’