I don't own anything you might recognise - just another one shot for you.
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Ross Shor Lynch is astonished when his band and his almost ex-girlfriend drag him down toward the band room. He can barely look at the beautiful Laura Marano. He made a terrible mistake and he lost the best thing that ever happened to him. Her. His friends push him into a chair and arrange themselves into their usual positions with their usual instruments, only where he usually stands, Laura instead looks at him, an obvious pain in her beautiful eyes. He gulps and looks down at his hands in his lap. They begin playing the intro sequence to their hit 'Repeating Days'. Ross' heart sinks to his feet, it's all he's able to do to watch as his friends give Laura encouraging glances and she smiles a tiny but grateful smile back at them.
Her beautiful voice rings out across the room.
He almost begins to cry, but not quite.
She looks to the side of him, as if she can't even bear to hold his gaze.
Climb the stairs to your apartment
Her eyes flick to him.
Just to see you holding her
Oh god.
You try to tell me that it's nothing
So I keep coming back again
His heart sinks, if possible, even further. He had no idea she'd come back and seen them again. She looks at him as she sings and the pain and betrayal in her eyes are things he wishes she would never feel. He hates himself for being the one to introduce her to those feelings.
You're looking right in my eyes
And I know that you're lying
When you say that you're mine
And there's nobody else
She looks at him and goes through stages of an unbearable hurt in her eyes and gaining control of herself. He knows that she has to get through this song. It's the closure she needs and every time she's on the verge of breaking down she pulls herself back together and continues in her heartbreaking voice.
But even when we fight
I can't stop from loving you
She can't look at him. She looks to the side and appears equal parts frustrated at her inability to hate him and plain heartbroken. It's breaking him. She holds his gaze ferociously for possibly the first time since she began singing.
You know we can't be friends
I guess this is how it ends
Things that you say
She loses herself in the melody of the chorus and it's all he can do to watch her in awe.
I can't erase
Repeating days
It's all the same
Driving home I'm empty hearted
She's soon brought back to earth by the lyrics. Oh God. He feels as if he's broken her irrevocably.
Broken pictures on the floor
When I thought that it was over
I see you standing at the door
I'm looking right in your eyes
And you know that I'm lying
When I say that I'm fine
She almost loses control at this, he knows it must be exactly what she's feeling. After all, the song was written about Rocky's experience, he remembers the writing process. Rocky's tears and the brutality of the lyrics when they first wrote them. They couldn't help but ring true.
There'll be somebody else
But after all this time
I can't stop from loving you
You know we can't be friends
Can I taste your lips again?
She hasn't looked at him for a few lines but reconnects with him at this, showing him this mixture of resignation that they'll never kiss again and a forlorn wish that they could. He's feeling every thing with her by now. And he knows his verse is coming up soon.
Things that you say
I can't erase
Repeating days
They're all the same
He's lost in her voice.
We're all afraid of loneliness
She nails the high notes. She's positively flawless and he remembers exactly why he fell in love with her.
We're all afraid to die alone
And even when you broke my heart
I'd do it again
But it doesn't escape him when she lowers her microphone at the end of the last line and he knows it's his turn. He takes a deep breath and really sings, putting everything he has into it.
You're looking right in my eyes
And you know that I'm lying
She looks at him. She's searching for repentance. She wants to know that he regrets it. Well, she'll find it. She'll find all the goddamn repentance she can imagine. He's crying now. The tears stream down his cheeks but he doesn't stop to wipe them off.
When I say that you're mine
And there's nobody else
She drops her microphone and runs out of the room. She's walking out of his life, but he can't let her go. He follows her out to her car. She's leaning against it, shaking. He finishes his verse softly.
But even when we fight
I can't stop from loving you
She tenses as soon as she hears he voice, but she doesn't turn immediately. Not until she hears his voice shake at the words 'I can't stop from loving you'. She watches him, broken and hurting and heartbroken. He takes a step closer and changes the next lyric.
I know we can be friends
He takes yet another step closer to her at his last line and he doesn't miss her intake of breath.
Can I taste your lips again?
Neither of them move. Neither of them speak. Finally, he can't take it anymore and he breaks their silence.
"I can't even begin to say I'm sorry."
Her voice shakes. "I can't even begin to forgive you."
His heart breaks. "Do you mean that?"
She stops. There's a pause. Then her whisper.
"No."
He sighs in relief. Then there's still hope.
"I don't deserve you."
She doesn't smile as she says: "That's probably about right."
He gives a small smile and leans toward her.
She meets him halfway.
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