the balcony above - memeulous x oc

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A/N: 1k reads what the frick this is insane, i love you all so much! i'll try and update as often as I can. Also sorry George dating Tess happened so quick i just wanted to progress the story so just pretend after the restaurant they texted alot and dated. Hope you enjoy this next chapter and make sure to comment your thoughts so far x

Alex's POV (damn this is new)

I woke up, rubbed the sticky sleep from my eyes and headed into the kitchen. I looked across the counter to see George on his phone in the conjoined living room . He was with his new girlfriend, who was daintly led in his lap - I think her name was Tess.

It had been three weeks since they'd been official and I felt bad for her in a way.  I was almost certain George just wanted her to distract himself from Grace, which was somewhat working. It was obvious his feelings for her still remained but no one else had seemed to realise. With Tess, it wasn't anything like how he acted with Grace, i'm pretty sure he had no attraction to this waitress whatsoever. It was mainly sexual, all they seemed to do was kiss, shag and that was pretty much it.

 Around others, George acted happy about this decision to move on from Grace,  yet I've seen him upset and angry when the party dies down. He missed her and in dealing with thatvhe started to push her away. Full conversations turned into small talk and small talk turned into brief hello's exchanged in the corridors. The only time they'd really see each other was when Grace came to record with or visit me. 

And I could tell she was hurt too, it was expressed on her face and in her almost silent sighs when she saw him. I'm pretty sure George could see it too but maybe he did like Tess and I was all wrong. All I knew for a fact was Grace and George's feelings were still mutual and that wasn't going to change no matter how hard they tried to avoid each other.

Back in my reality, I started to make breakfast - omelettes to be exact and by the time I was done, Tess was leaving. "Bye babe" George grabbed her waist and kissed her before she reached the door. I gave her a polite wave as she smiled and left our apartment. 

George's POV

I pulled out a seat at the table and let out a small sigh. "Voila! I've made a spanish omelette!" Alex dished up an omelette for each of us and joined me on the table. I had no clue why Alex called it a 'Spanish Omelette' It clearly didn't look very spanish. But never having been to Spain, I couldn't speak to the validity of his claim so decided to ignore it and just eat.

An awkward silence lingered, which never usually happened between Alex and I. We were usually discussing video ideas and planning things for our channels yet something seemed off.

"George, how long are you going to keep this up for?" Alex's voice broke the silence,  sounding slightly disappointed.  

"Keep wh-what up?" I confusingly stuttered. I don't know why I stuttered, I honestly had no clue what he meant but I had a feeling it was to do with Grace.

"pretending you love that girl" Alex looked down, taking a large mouthful of his breakfast. 

"pretending? i'm not pretending, Tessie is the love of my life Alex" I did like Tess i really did but I couldn't help but realise Alex was right in some ways - I liked her but I didn't love her.

"the love of your life? are you serious? the love of your life is the girl downstairs you have been ignoring since you started dating this random blonde!" He looked me in the eyes, seriously.

I knew where he was coming from and yeah I did crush on Grace but I was over that now, at least I thought I was. The only reason I pushed grace away was to stop regaining feelings for her, I was happy with Tess. Couldn't he see that? "Can't you just be happy for me at the moment, i've found someone i really like ok? Just because you can't." I mumbled angrily, Alex looked at me in shock. 

"I'm sorry I-I didn't mean to come off like an asshole" 

"Whatever George, go around breaking hearts and dating girls you have no interest in. Why should it concern me? It's not like anyone will ever fucking like me, right george?" Alex stood up and slipped on his trainers.

"Alex you know I didn't mean it like that" I got up and walked towards him.

"I'm going out" 

"Alex I-"

"I said I'm going out!" he insisted, pulling his hood up and leaving, slamming the door behind him.

I watched my roommate walk out of the door "Fuck" I whispered under my breath. What have I done?

-time skip-

Grace's POV

I got distracted from netflix by my phone buzzing. I picked it up to a crackly, drunk voice down the line. 

"I've fucked up Grace, I've fucked up" George's voice came out as a sob which caused me to panic.

"George?? Are you okay?" I paced up and down my living room waiting for a response 

"Yeah well no grace not at all, I've been drinking and I-" 

"I'm coming over"

"No-no i'm a mess"

"too late" By the time I had ended the call, I had already rushed upstairs to his apartment. 

At last the door was opened by the messy haired, drunk boy in his usual joggers and hoodie. As soon as I saw him, I hugged him. Tears were already running down my face and I was unsure of the cause, I guess his sadness made me sad. 

We ended up sitting on the couch as he explained what happened with Alex. At least he said that they had an argument about Tess and he hadn't come home in a while. I reassured him Alex would be okay.

"And I-" he added, looking down

"Yeah George?" 

"I-I love you Grace, always have"

 At least that was what I wanted him to say.

Instead... "i have to get up early tomorrow for a date with Tess, sorry" was what he said. I nodded in agreement but I couldn't help but notice even he seemed slightly upset about it.I missed talking to George, since Tess showed up we had been so distant and I think she might be the reason. I really liked him which made it sting that i had to leave to benefit him and Tess but I agreed and left - as long as George was happy.