I'm Here [Elizabeth Olsen]

19. Give me love.

Soundtrack: Give Me Love - Ed Sheeran

And it's been a while but I still feel the same
Maybe I should let you go
You know I'll fight my corner
And that tonight I'll call ya
After my blood is drowning in alcohol
No I just wanna hold ya

Give a little time to me or burn this out
We'll play hide and seek to turn this around
All I want is the taste that your lips allow
My, my, my, my, oh give me love

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IRL

Elizabeth again enters Grace's house and waits for her. Grace doesn't arrive till 3:42am.

Elizabeth looks around the house. It's filled with empty bottles and pizza boxes laid around all over the kitchen and lounge room. She peered into Grace's bedroom and noted how all her clothes had been thrown on the floor and her makeup vanity had foundation and eyeshadow spilt all over it. It was an absolute wreck.

She then grabbed a plastic bag and began cleaning the house. She tossed away the bottles and mouldy food that had been growing for what seemed like weeks. Then wiped down the entire kitchen to the point where you could actually see the grey marble bench top. She threw all the dirty clothes in the laundry bin and vacuumed the carpet, and at a last attempt to make the place a living space again, she sprits her perfume in every corner of the room.

Elizabeth then sat down on the lounge and waited for Grace to return.

***

Bella and Grace entred the house. They were loud, bumping all over the place and clearly tipsy with the amount of drinks they had consumed.

"Did you hire a maid? it's fucking clean in here" Bella blurted out noticing the cleanliness.

Grace, sniffing the area and based on the scent alone, she knew that Elizabeth had been there. She felt her heart begin jumping in her chest as she called out "Elizabeth, where are you?". She ran to the lounge room leaving Bella to follow and found a familiar face sitting on the couch. "We've got to stop meeting like this".

Elizabeth turned her face to see Grace's skinny body, mascara smudged under her eyes and the smell of alcohol imbedded into her clothes.

"Who's your new friend?"

"ah, Bella. Can you please give us some privacy?", Bella, with an attitude, walked into Grace's bedroom and shut the door.

"Why did you come?"

"why wouldn't I. Look at you, you're a mess"

"wow, pleasant way to start the conversation"

"Okay, okay, I miss you and after alot of thinking, I do want to be your girlfriend"

"too little to late, I'm with Bella now"

"you don't even know Bella and if she was good for you, you wouldn't be acting like this"

"Look Elizabeth, I gave my heart and soul to you without even noticing, and when I realised what I had done, you broke it into a million pieces. I'm still trying to pick them up"

"then let me help you. I want to be there with you, doing whatever we need to do to put you back together"

"Elizabeth argh... how do I say this? I do not, want to see you anymore"

"What do you want me to do to change your mind? because I want you in my life and deep down you want me to"

"How would you know that I want you? huh?!?"

"because look at yourself!, You're a fucking wreck and you weren't like this when we were together. Jesus, you came running in here the second you smelt my perfume and I know what you told Scarlett!"

"that was a private fucking conversation, and I don't feel that way anymore"

"yes you do! that was 4 day's ago! Why are you acting like this?"

"like what huh!?", Grace was getting so wrapped up that she beggan shaking.

"like a fucking brat that has no regard for anyone else's feeling, let alone your own!"

"don't you dare call me a brat because there is a whole list of things I can say back"

"like what?!" Elizabeth's eyes started to fill with tears.

"like you're a spoilt little bitch that doesn't understand the value of money"

"yeah and you aren't? you're the one who's going out every night and getting drunk"

"so now you're calling me an alcoholic? at least I'm not constantly living in my sister's shadow. Always being called the 'third Olsen twin' and never being able to find a name for yourself"

"at least my family cares about me, unlike your's"

"Wow, just wow. You know, at one point in my life, you were the only family I had and the only person I needed... you need to go."

Elizabeth grabbed her bag, wiped the tears from her eyes and left out the door.

Bella then came from hiding in the room. "Jeez--"

"-- don't Bella, just go too", she left right behind Lizzie.

Grace, still standing where the fight had just happened, could no longer take the amount of quivering that was going through her body. She felt a volcano of emotions erupting as tears exploded from her eyes, her chest tightening, her throat throbbing and her knees giving way for her to fall to the floor.

She could not beleive what had just happened because the truth was, Elizabeth was right. She needed her.

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A/N

okay, so the reson I chose 'give me love' as the song was because it starts off heart wrenching, then gets really chaotic, but the type where you're so frustrated and angry because you don't want to give up on someone, despite them continuesly failing you. It's the same as Grace and Elizabeth because they truely don't want to give up on each other but they keep failing to show that they're in love, dispite their miserble attempts - hopefully that makes sense.