epilogue.  to be loved  !
social media & real life...

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(6 months later)

♫ • name in the sand, lil skies

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christophersturniolo  senior year. wow. im so thankful for everything that happened to me this year, especially my girlfriend. idk what i would have done if you didn't move here. happy 6 months my love 🥰

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edenbaxter  6 months?!! it's been like ten years it's time for us to get married 🙂‍↕️☝️
⤷ christophersturniolo woah there i need to be able to afford a ring first 😞
⤷ edenbaxter we'll get married with paper rings!
⤷ christophersturniolo  now that i can do
    ⤷ genevieveadams  stop it. you guys are
going to make me sob

edenbaxter  i'm in love with you
⤷ christophersturniolo  and i'm in love with you.
⤷ edenbaxter i just fainted fyi

edenbaxter  this post is killing me ur adorable
⤷ christophersturniolo  never more adorable than you though 😊

edenbaxter  i actually can't stop staring at the first pic 🙉
⤷ christophersturniolo  just for you 😙
⤷ edenbaxter  gimme moreee. 😩🙏
⤷ christophersturniolo hey we know this is a trade for trade system.
⤷ edenbaxter okay ik 😞

edenbaxter  ok ill admit. i sobbed when i read the caption.
⤷ christophersturniolo  so so so greatful for you, i don't think you understand.
⤷ edenbaxter  oh i understand plenty 🙏

matthew.sturniolo  we did it! (fina-fuck-lly)
⤷ christophersturniolo  yeah we did! 🎓🔥

nicolassturniolo  we are high school graduates guys 🙊
⤷ christophersturniolo  we are 🙉

nicolassturniolo  i can't believe you two have been together that long.
⤷ christophersturniolo better believe it brudder

nathandoe8  have fun being free fam 😢
⤷ christophersturniolo  i feel like im leaving you behind in war bro
⤷ nathandoe8  a whole year bro
⤷ christophersturniolo  it will fly by i swear🙏
⤷ author unfortunately chris is right
#ripsenioryear

♫ • love story, taylor swift

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edenbaxter  the last day of senior year is over??? but more importantly happy 6 months to the one person who i honestly don't think i can live without. i love you i love you i love you i love you 😚

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christophersturniolo  i wouldn't want to spend my entire life with anyone else.
⤷ edenbaxter  i hope we die at the same time
⤷ christophersturniolo we will ☝️
     ⤷ genevieveadams  romeo and juliet?
     ⤷ edenbaxter  YES! EXACTLY! U GENIUS!

christophersturniolo ill let the taylor slide just this once cause this one's kind of a banger 🫤
⤷ edenbaxter good bc this is our anthem now.
⤷ edenbaxter ACTUALLY I TAKE THAT BACK ITS PAPER RINGS 🤭😋💞
⤷ christophersturniolo i like love story
⤷ edenbaxter but paper rings ☹️
⤷ christophersturniolo i guess ill add ONE more taylor song in my library for you. what are you doing to me?!!! 😣
⤷ edenbaxter YIPPEEE U THE BESTEST
⤷ nathandoe8 never thought id see this
day if im being honest
⤷ christophersturniolo she's doing
things to me nate. and idk if i should be
scared or not IM LISTENING TO TSYLOR
SWIFT RN 😭
⤷ nathandoe8 you gotta do what you gotta
do brotha.

genevieveadams  i love you guys, please don't die 😣🙏
⤷ christophersturniolo not planning on it☝️
⤷ edenbaxter  lmao 😭

nicolassturniolo  IM GONNA SCREAM I HATE LOVE YOU GUYS ARE DISGUSTING (im crying so bad rn 😣)
⤷ edenbaxter  i love you nick 🫶💕
⤷ nicolassturniolo i love you too eden 🙈

matthew.sturniolo i wouldn't want anyone else to be my future sister in law ❤️
⤷ edenbaxter  this is like the sweetest thing ever, and i hope 🙁
⤷ christophersturniolo  no need to do
that 💍 oh shit you wanted paper rings 📄
⤷ edenbaxter woah there. i do.🧎‍♀️

nicolassturniolo  im gonna steal you 😩
⤷ christophersturniolo everybody wanna steal my girl 👎
⤷ edenbaxter  one direction? 🤯
⤷ christophersturniolo yk it 😉

nathandoe8  i remember when we first met bro 6 whole months ago 😢
⤷ edenbaxter  rip the lunch table 😞
⤷ nathandoe8  lunch will never be the same
⤷ edenbaxter  ☹️

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(the last day of classes)

"I'M SO UPSET THAT THIS YEAR HAS finally come to an end." eden listened as mrs. walker gave her end of the year speech to her senior class. she had tears in her eyes and it made eden's heart break. she had found such a comforting space in this classroom and she couldn't have asked for a better teacher to teach it.

"but we're not exactly done. if you remember today we have a chance for a bit of extra credit. which some of you need to pass this class..." she accidentally flickered her eyes over to where chris and eden sat, knowing chris was barely passing the class. "so if any of you wrote a poem, please don't be shy and share."

despite the deep connections all these students had to mrs. walker, no one was just going to volunteer themselves to read their poems.

after a bit of silence, she locked eyes with chris and he immediately knew what was going to happen. he had this coming with his grade in the class. eden has been able to help him concentrate on the class more than he did but it apparently wasn't enough to help him unquestionably pass the class.

"christopher, would you like to go?" chris heard the dreaded words fall from his teachers mouth, wondering why he had to read his first. he was sure that a lot more of these kids in the class needed the extra credit just like him. why him?

not wanting to argue though, he slowly stood up in his spot. "um... i guess." he shrugged slightly holding up his paper away from eden. "it's kinda stupid though," he said with a quick look at eden, warning her more than mrs. walker.

"nonsense, as long as it came from your heart, im sure we'll love it." the smile on mrs. walker's face and her reassuring words were able to help chris start. he felt eden's eyes on him, making him feel a little more comfortable in her gaze.

"okay... uhh... i titled it to be loved. i guess, here it is." he then took a deep breath before he proceeded to read off his poem for the whole class to hear, including eden.

"that was actually very good christopher!" she snapped along with her words, as she clearly enjoyed the poem. it was full of love and attention to detail, and what she didn't know, was that his muse was right in front of her.

eden was holding back tears from how much she loved his poem. it made her want to jump up and kiss him until they couldn't breathe. she wanted nothing but him to feel his love physically after hearing that poem.

when chris finally decided to stare back at her, her smile grew twenty times bigger, and her heart most definitely stopped beating.

chris immediately noticed the drops of tears building in her eyes, and he was quick to bring kisses to her forehead. it was eden's favorite kind of kiss, and he tried to sneak it anywhere and everywhere he could, even in the middle of class (which they wouldn't have to worry about much longer...). the look in her eyes after he laid a kiss upon her forehead became his favorite thing in the world, therefore made it worth it every time, this one included.

eden didn't listen to whatever mrs. walker had to say from that moment on, she just couldn't. not when she had chris right behind her, messing with her legs from time to time, and playing with random strands of her hair. she had to admit that she loved it whenever he would twist strands of her hair together and carefully separated them. he did it multiple times before eden couldn't pretend to care about what her teacher was saying.

she pulled chris' hand in front of her, placing a quick kiss upon it before fiddling with his fingers.  he watched as she did so, a huge smile spread across his face. if this was how it was like for her when he played with her hair, he understood everything now.

the next thirty minutes flew by in the matter of minutes before the bell rang for lunch. it suddenly hit eden that they were about to leave their third period poetry class for the last time. the same class that brought her chris. it was such a weird feeling and she almost didn't want to leave.

she sat at her desk while crowds of kids got up and left. chris stood up after a bit, wondering why eden wasn't making an effort to get to lunch. they were even having her favorite today.

"you okay?"

eden took a second before answering, trying to process all that she was feeling. "yeah... i'm just... i'm gonna miss this class so much," she said looking around at all the little aspects of the room. from the chalkboard to mrs.walker's desk, which she sat at scrolling through something on her laptop.

"me too. and without it, we probably wouldn't even be talking to each other right now." his sentence made eden think, and she just couldn't believe it. there was no way that a universe exists where eden doesn't meet chris at this school.

"there's no way, i would have found you." eden looked up at him with all seriousness, not wanting to believe in that possibility.

chris let a quick smile slip across his face before saying, "i know."

suddenly they weren't the only two people in the room, like they made it feel. mrs. walker spoke all the way from her desk, "with a poem like that, i know you guys would have found each other." despite looking like she was working, she was actually eavesdropping on their conversation.

the two laughed at her sudden presence, but took her words to heart. she always knew what to say and eden knew she would miss her the most. "bye, mrs. walker!" she seriously almost burst into tears.

"bye, guys! i'll miss you," she replied with a wave, causing eden to run over and give her a big hug.

"we'll miss you too." eden now had a few tears falling down her cheek, and mrs. walker wasn't too far behind. chris also came up to give her a small side hug which only made mrs. walker cry worse.

"i don't know how you did it, eden, but you got this boy to pass." instead of getting heartfelt, in fear of crying even more she attempted to crack a joke, successfully making all three of them laugh.

"i don't know either," chris said inbetween a laugh.

"well, go have lunch!" she started to physically shoo them out of her classroom before they were going to be late. "i'll see you guys at graduation."

the two immediately winced at the word, before nodding their heads and walking out of the classroom, chris' arm hang over her shoulder.

"next time you write a poem about me,
try to make it less obvious, okay?" eden told him, a hint of sarcasm in her voice, and he knew that she wanted just the opposite.

"it's just so easy to write poetry when you have a very poetic person to write it about." he placed multiple quick kisses on eden's cheek, causing an eruption of giggle from her. that was when chris knew that he would be stuck writing poems about her forever. 

the end.

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nat's notes !

yeah. im actually gonna cry.
mrs walker reminds me of my english teacher and i can't. it makes it all so much worse
I MISS HERR
anyways I MISS THEMMMM wdym no more writing eden and chris?!!?!!!