#happy b'day jessie

[misssophiachase]

Happy belated birthday @helpfulfairy (I’m extremely fashionably late as usual). The talented and brilliant @sekretny13 did this beautiful mood board (on time) and I really hope I’ve done it justice. 

Based on the song That’s When by Taylor Swift and Keith Urban from Fearless 2021 (AKA Taylor’s version). 

They’ve broken up but not because they don’t love each other or don’t want to get back together. 

Did You Ever Think of Me?

And you said, "Honestly...when you were gone, did you ever think of me?”

Tuesday

He’s trodden the path to her house too many times to count but today is different. 

It’s Tuesday for starters. The very day he fell in love with her two years ago, albeit a very rainy one in early September.

He can still remember the loud thud that echoed around the room and interrupted class as the wooden door slammed shut.

Klaus would have been happy for any distraction given the monotony of the lecture. Although, it was only when he turned that he saw her for the first time.

She was wearing a clear raincoat, the water droplets spilling liberally onto the floor while madly trying to shrug it off and avoid any extra embarrassment.

For Klaus, it was the memory of just how adorable she looked, scrunching up her nose. Even from that distance he could make out a smattering of freckles across the bridge and immediately wondered what it would be like to place a kiss right there. 

Turns out she’d forgotten her text book too and Klaus was more than happy to share with the mystery girl. She’d briefly glanced in his direction but barely engaged, clearly attempting to focus on class. 

He couldn’t blame her but was struggling to ignore her enticing, floral perfume and the way her blonde waves fell loose and carefree around her shoulders as the breeze tickled them from the open window. 

It was at that exact moment Klaus knew she was the one. 

Fast forward two years and, although largely inseparable, their relationship isn’t as perfect as he’d envisaged. A mixture of inexperience, immaturity, impatience, misplaced jealousy and everyday frustration. 

Difficult, yes, but not unsalvageable in his eyes. 

When she tearfully told him weeks earlier that she couldn’t do this anymore it broke his heart. Not only because he knew she was the one but because he couldn’t imagine life without her melodic laugh and those lively, blue eyes.

Since then, all Klaus wants to know is whether she’s thought about him as much as he has about her. Something he didn’t think he’d ever find out until her unexpected call asking to meet today as he waits nervously and impatiently outside her front gate.  

“And that's when I'll be waiting at the front gate.” 

Tuesday

She’s incredibly nervous, not expecting the short walk from her very familiar front door to the gate to be so confronting. Even with all that fresh air she is struggling to breathe properly. 

It’s Tuesday and the very day they met years earlier. So coming together to discuss their fractured relationship seems nerve racking but also fitting. 

Caroline was unusually late, her alarm had failed and she had to rush to class across the rainy quad dressed in yesterday’s clothing. 

Being the ultimate perfectionist, Caroline was mortified by her late and clumsy entrance. Most students failed to interact until she spied some messy blonde curls and a pair of warm blue eyes from the front. 

Then he’d offered to share his book.

Caroline had reluctantly agreed but decided looking into those eyes was counterproductive to studying.  

Unfortunately, those eyes weren’t going anywhere. 

Now looking around her front yard, she knows those eyes are still very much a fixture in her life. 

From being so madly in love, it’s a struggle to realise that nothing is ever perfect, even their relationship. 

Amidst the struggles of college life, it’s not unexpected but for Caroline, the perfectionist, she felt like a failure. Until they broke up and she realised that Klaus is the only certainty in her life. 

“You came?” 

It’s out of her mouth before she can stop it. He looks as handsome as ever in a navy henley and fitted, dark jeans, a combination that only brings out those eyes she’s always trying to ignore. 

“Of course I did.”

“Did you think about me?” They both ask in unison, not expecting that their first thoughts would be the same, so too their response. 

“Everyday.”

“I'll let you in, and baby that's when.”

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