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12. 2024

"I'm drunk," Gus announces, as he rest his head on the closed door, listening in for her heartbeat on the other side. "I'm drunk, and I'm in love with you, and you dumped me the day before my birthday, and I just. I just. I want to know why."

Molly's sitting on the floor, back against the door with her head in her hands, feeling awful in her decision. She doesn't need him to whine about it. She knows she's a terrible person.

But this was never- he was never a part of her plan.

And right now, she just needs some space.

"You know what's embarrassing? Telling your parents for weeks that you've met this really great girl, who's like super awesome and older, and has like her own career. Her own apartment and shit," he says, stopping for a moment to take a swig from his bottle of dark liquor. "You were supposed to meet my family. You were supposed to meet them as my girlfriend."

"We already talked about this Gus," she whispers back, too low for anyone to hear. "Just go home."

He bangs his head against the door a few times and Molly can't help but to liken their relationship to his ominous knocks. Empty and hollow and nothing left to give.

"Are you in love with someone else? Is that why?" Gus asks. She can hear the desperation in his voice, yearning for a simple reason for the ending of their relationship, the end of the Molly and Gus chapter. But things between them have never been simple. Always complicated, streaked with chaos and a hint of disaster. Simple is antonym used against them.

"I bet it's that pretty boy hot shot from your job with the muscles and the asshole haircut. It's him, isn't it?"

Molly shakes her head.

And Gus goes quiet. Stops talking. Stops moving, for so long that Molly's stomach takes a turn and she begins to think that he's given up and gone home. That is until he says, in a tone full of defeat. "That's okay, you know? It's really okay, everything's a-okay. Because-because I can live with being second best, but I can't live without you, Molly."

Chapter End Notes:

:( This is the end of the Molly and Gus saga. I can only hope that someone else writes a very long and lovely fanfic about them.

I know this is a crappy way to start off your day, but I hope it's good nonetheless. Enjoy!