MAY 2ND 2024

"You're not fucking listening to me." Eli seethed as Grace stood before him, her lip pouted. "I can't keep dealing with your fucking temper tantrums, I have a kid to think about now, and her mother to consider, I can't suddenly fly you to fuck knows where it is you fancy going." Elijah continued.

"You're being a cunt." Grace told him plainly.

"Oh just fuck off." Elijah scoffed. "Fuck you." Grace yelled.

"You're always fucking whining, you never shut up." Elijah hissed, "If you hate me so much, why are you even with me?" Grace retorted.

"I don't fucking know anymore." He yelled back.

"Fine then, we're done, grab your shit and leave." Grace yelled.

"This is my fucking flat." Eli scoffed.

📍DOLLIE'S HOUSE.

"Baby?" Declan asked Dollie from the kitchen. "Yep?" She replied.

He comes to stand behind her rubbing her shoulders, "so I was thinking" He paused, watching Dollie stall. "We should make this official, me and you — girlfriend, boyfriend"

"Oh." Dollie muttered hesitantly. He immediately pulls away, and furrows his eyebrows as he faces her. "What's the matter? Do you not love me?"

"It's not that, it's just, that's a big commitment for me to make Dec, especially with a daughter, and you've not met my father yet, or my uncles, and it's all a lot to take in." She explained, Declan's expression soured.

"Whatever, I'm going out with Donnacha and some pals." He said turning and grabbing his jacket as she sighed.

"Fucks sake." She muttered.

Six hours had passed, it was nine pm, and Dollie was sat by her phone, waiting for a call back from Declan, it began to buzz and she immediately picked it up.

"Hello?" Dollie asked, Elijah paused, almost thinking that he was imagining her voice. "I did it." He stated. "I broke up with Grace."

Dollie paused for a moment. "Oh." She said softly. She wasn't quite sure what Elijah was expecting her to say.

"Can I come and see you? I know you and Declan are.. whatever you are, but I want to see Bonnie, and you Dol." Eli told her.

"Fine, but you can sleep on the settee or in Bonnie's room." Dollie sighed.

Within an hour, Elijah Hewson was sat next to her, a glass bottle of Heineken in his hand. Dollie had just been sent a photo of Declan kissing a girl he'd been friends with since he started Uni, she had even met the girl before.

"He's a dickhead." Elijah told her as he toyed with her hair.

"You're not all that much better." She told him. "It's different, you and me weren't together when I got with Grace." He told her, Dollie shook her head. "She was still one of my close friends Eli." She reminded him, he just sighed.

"Want a fag?" He asked, grabbing the packet from his jean pocket, Dollie nodded and got up from the sofa. "Not in here though, the fire alarm will go off." She told him.

"What was her birth like?" Elijah asked Dollie as she took a drag from the cigarette. "She was premature, so she was tiny, I had to give birth to her vaginally cause she was too far out for a C-Section, my dad was there, and so was Ferne. She was in the NICU for a little bit, but then she got better and she was out of hospital by the end of the month." She explained as she handed the cigarette to Eli who took a few drags as she spoke.

"Shit that must have been traumatic." Eli said as he handed Dollie the cigarette, she took a drag and nodded. "You can guess what the old midwives must have thought of me." She said dryly.

Eli grimaced. "If I'd known." Dollie shook her head. "You blocked me Eli, you didn't want to know, subconsciously or whatever."

Eli took the cigarette from her and just sighed. "Fuck sake Dol, I am sorry."

"I think you should go home Eli." She told him softly.

He looked into her eyes, and shook his head, before signing and turning them walking down the street back to his car.

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this is so short IM SORRY