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valerie casablancas x elijah hewson
chapter fifteen || 🎬🤍🦢

❝ my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder! ❞

valerie's first impressions upon walking into an apartment that held four men in it was, it was shockingly clean — there was only one bottle of water in the hall way when she first came in — and the second was, the love of her life was here.

"grace!" valerie yelled, walking straight past elijah who just stared at the girl as she strutted in as if she owned it, to collapse on the sofa with the brunette girl.

"valerie, my lovely!" grace wrapped her arms around the girl, letting out a huff as valerie dropped her whole weight on her, "i missed you!"

"i missed you, too." she pouted, snuggling into the girl, "i haven't seen you in freaking weeks!"

"five, but who's counting." grace smiled, "can't breath here, val."

valerie immediately pushed herself off her, "oh, right." she lay her head on the sofa and looked at the girl, love written in her eyes, "where the hell have you been?! you stood me up last week."

    grace scrunched her nose up, "i missed my flight! it's not my fault. i promise. i would never do that to you." she booped valerie nose, which made the blonde laugh.

    there was a chorus of throats being cleared, and valerie suddenly felt very uncomfortable. realising that she did walk in and immediately start being herself, should've been a good thing, but she had a reputation to uphold.

    she closed her eyes, before opening one of them and peaking to the side, when she caught a glimpse of elijah and ryan stood over the two, their arms crossed she gulped, which in return had grace bursting out laughing.

she was 100% sure, ryan was only there to piss elijah off, but it put her at ease a bit, especially when his act dropped and he smiled at her, "valerie."

"ryan."

"how are you?" he asked, still ignoring his friend stood to his right.

val nodded, "i'm good. how are you? your hair is growing back really lovely."

    "val..." elijah mumbled, shaking his head as she looked at him.

    her eyes went wide, "touchy subject?" she asked and he nodded, "oh... well you look amazing. don't change... or do! i don't know." she shook her head shamefully and looked across at grace who just smirked at her, "you're not helping."

    grace placed a kiss on her cheek before jumping up and grabbing ryan by his arm and forcefully dragging him away, which left valerie and elijah to just stare at each other.

he kept his arms crossed until she smiled at him. that damn smile. he dropped down on the sofa next to her, a smile of his own dancing across his lips, "hi."

     "hello." she covered her mouth as she yawned before resting her head on his shoulder.

    "why are you so tired?" he asked, playing with the ends of her hair.

    she shrugged, "i had a shoot and it went on for way too long."

    "i wouldn't have asked you to come over if i had of known."

    "it's okay." she said, "i wanted to come. and i couldn't have you dying on me so soon. could i?"

    "that would be a shame."

    valerie didn't know how long they sat in silence. all she did know was she was drifting off to sleep, elijah was playing with the ends of her hair that she was sure crunched under his finger tips, but even if they did, he never said a word about it, and that there was a small speaker in the corner that was playing music softly and if she was to focus on it for another twenty seconds, she would definitely fall asleep.

    every time a strokes song would come on she would cringe internally and elijah would laugh to himself as he watched her face contort. it wasn't until "fake plastic trees." came on that she jumped up.

    "jeff buckley mention?" she said, her eyes wide as they adjusted to the light.

    elijah stared at her as if she was insane before standing up and grabbing her hands. it wasn't hard to pull her up, but she did groan very loudly as he did, "do you wanna go meet josh and bobby?"

    "i want to meet josh — he's a cutie, but i fear my life with bobby." she mumbled as he led her into that kitchen where everyone else resided.

    "don't. they're amazing." he walked behind her, placing a kiss upon her shoulder, which made her shiver.

    "you can't flirt with me." she stopped, turning around to point at his face, "i have a reputation to uphold and grace will never let me hear the end of it if i start blushing because you of all people."

    he put his hands up on mock surrender, "i, elijah hewson—"

    "say the full name or it doesn't count." she beamed  as he glared at her.
   
    "i, elijah bob patricius guggi q hewson promise to not flirt with you, valerie lettie casablancas. and i especially promise to not ask you do you want to spend the night in front of grace mckenna burns."

    "it's the lone 'q' that makes me giggle everytime i hear your name. but i, valerie, would love to stay over."

    "amazing."

if you saw my message board, valerie is that annoying person

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