Despair.

Ch.26: Teenagers In A Car.

Hello loves! This chapter includes both POVs, you can read the chapter with Oliver's music or Ian's. You can also read it twice, and see how it hits differently. Either way, do not miss the music.

As always, enjoy.

Oliver's POV: What Love Can Be by Kingdom Come.

Ian's POV: My Eyes Adored You by Frankie Valli.

Oh no.

Seeing Oliver again is already quite a lot to take in when it's been this long. To my demise, he's still taller and gorgeous, of course, but he's also wearing... what is he wearing? He's never worn that before and did he cut his bangs, too? He looks so good... Wait, what am I wearing? This?! The oldest t-shirt known to man and the first pair of pants I found because I wanted to keep things friendly, and... still want to, yes.

Focus.

"Hey," he says, shooting me a smile I've never seen before, either. And now I need to hold onto this door frame not to fall on my aunt's wooden floor, and if you've never heard Oliver's voice before, it's so throaty and low when he's calm and much higher when he's not. He sounds right in the middle now.

I can only stare at him. He's also... real. It almost felt like I had made him up.

"Hi! I... need to change, just give me a minu—" Oh, okay, he's close. Definitely not as close as he used to be, but still so much closer than lately.

"What? You look..." he says, his eyebrow lightly raising and his gaze taking a small tour of me. "—great," he murmurs, and it suddenly feels like I do. I need somewhere to hide again because I still...