Fifty Six

June 23

Santa Monica Pier

"Best!" I look up to see Iris rushing over to me making me instantly run towards her and pull her into my arms. She jumps on me and I spin her around with a laugh.

"Best I missed you!" I tell her and she smiles at me.

"I missed you more." She then punches me in my shoulder making me wince. "Come fucking visit me the fuck"

I roll my eyes and lead her to where Billie and I set our towels and things down. Billie ended up wanting to have a beach day with everyone so of course I invited the bestie. Finneas and Claudia are currently in the water with Zoe while Billie and I just been chilling, tanning.

"You know I been busy best." I wrap my arm around her shoulders and smile over to her. "How you been though? How are you and the ole dude?"

Iris smiles and looks behind her. I look up to see Amir walking over with a little girl in his arms. She looks to be at least three or four. I glance at Iris to see her give me a nervous smile.

"Uh whose baby is that?"

"His." She replies and my eyes widen. Amir comes over to us and pecks Iris' lips. "Hey baby you found good parking?" She asks him and he kisses his teeth.

"Yeah. It took me a minute though."

Iris then looks at the little girl and smiles over at her. "Hey Malia, how you doing?" The little one looks up and smiles over at Iris.

"Hii"

Oh wow

Iris glances at me and back at Malia. "Mal this is my best friend Halley. Halley this is Malia." I smile at her and she shyly looks at me before smiling.

"I'm going to go get her some ice cream. I'll be right back." Amir tells Iris who nods and pecks his lips. They walk off and I'm left looking at Iris with my jaw dropped.

"So when was you going to tell me that piece of information?"

She laughs and shrugs her shoulders. "She's mostly always at her mom's house so I barely see her. Amir introduced her to me a little bit after Christmas. She was so shy Halley. She was more nervous than me."

I smile and bring her into a hug. "Are you happy with him?" I ask because one thing I know, Iris always ends up getting hurt in relationships and I want to make sure she's happy.

"I am. He makes me so happy Hals."

"Baby!" I look behind me to see Billie finally up. Her ass fell asleep when she was tanning but I just left her there. I made sure she was coated in sunscreen and applied some more to her a little bit before Iris came.

"Hey mama." Billie stands up and stretches before walking over to me. She stands in front of me and I smile wrapping my arms around her from behind. Turning her head, she pecks my lips softly.

"Hey Bil" Iris smiles and Billie instantly smiles over at her. "Hey Iris how you been?" They begin to fall into their own little conversation but I just smile as I watch my girlfriend and best friend interact.

Iris is damn near the only I got beside Billie and them. We been inseparable since the beginning and I think of her as my little sister, even though we only a few months apart. Having a girlfriend who gets along with my day one is always going to make me happy. Iris and Billie are the best of friends and I love it.

"...We should get in the water though. It's calling my name" Iris exclaims and Billie laughs as Iris does her little happy dance.

"You have fun with that. I'm about to write some more lyrics." Billie is trying to work towards an album and she has been working nonstop for the past few weeks. Today is suppose to be about finally relaxing and taking the day off which Billie can't seem to do.

I shake my head and share a look with Iris. "Nope you not doing that today. We having fun and you can write later." I say making my girlfriend turn to me. Iris nods and decides to leave, heading over to Amir who is coming back with two ice cones in his hands.

"I need to finish this album Halley."

I shake my head once more as I look at her. "You can relax for a few hours Bil. It's just a couple hours and then you can continue working on the album." I take her hand in mine and kiss the back of her hand. "Come on I want to have fun with my fiancée."

I love that I can call her that now. Being engaged to this woman is amazing and being married to her will be the highlight of my life.

We still haven't told anyone about me proposing. Billie wants to wait it out as long as she can, especially with her fans. We decided to keep our engagement a secret and will only tell the ones closest to us.

Billie wants to tell everyone on the Fourth of July after the fireworks. I don't mind keeping everything on the low for now because I know as soon as Iris is made aware, she is going to be on my ass with wedding planning. She loves celebrating so birthdays and weddings are her favorite.

Billie sighs but nods her head. "Fine but tonight I'm going to Finneas' to record some tracks." I smile and peck her lips.

"Perfect! Come on!" I start to pull her to the water but she quickly snatches her hand from mine. "What's wrong?" I ask her and she shakes her head.

"I'm not the biggest fan of the ocean." She says nervously as she scratches the back of her arm.

I smile at her and bring her into my arms. "I'll never let anything happen to you Bil. I'll protect you."

She hesitates and looks over at the water to where our friends were swimming and laughing with each other. Claudia is on Finneas' shoulders while Zoe is on Drew's playing chicken.

"Okay but I don't want to go too far out."

I grin and lift her over my shoulders before running to the water. Billie laughs at my excitement and holds on to me as much as she could.

"Halley!" Iris swims over to me as I shift Bil from my shoulders to into my arms. She wraps her legs around me and I hold her tightly as I swim over to my best friend.

"We're playing marco polo with Mal." She tells me just as Malia yells out Marco!

"Polo" We all shout and swim away as she swims towards us. Amir swimming behind her just in case. Billie laughs when Malia almost tags her if it wasn't for me quickly moving away, she would've got her.

"Marco!"

As everyone shouts back Polo!, I look down at Billie with a small smile. "I can't believe I'm marrying you." I tell her and she blushes. "Eu te amo." I love you

"I love you more."

—

"Okay okay I'm coming." I hurry over to the living room as Billie calls me for the millionth time. "What's up?"

"Come on we need to do that sit down video."

I sit down beside her as she sets up the camera. "I thought you were going to Finn's house to record." She shakes her head and presses record.

"He said he's taking Claudia out tonight."

She sits down beside me and looks at me. "We really need to figure out an intro for them." She says in reference to our youtube channel.

"What do you think we should say?"

"What if we call ourselves the Eilish Comets." She says as she thinks it over. I frown but tilt my head as I think the name over.

"Eilish Comets sounds good but not for our youtube name."

"Well how about The Eilish Comet Family?" I shake my head no and shrug my shoulders. "How about we just ask them for some names to comment below." I say and she smiles nodding her head.

"Yeah they probably better at that than us." We then look at the camera. "Then once they give us a name, we can make our intro."

I pick up my phone. "Alright come on let's get this over with." I say and she nods. Sitting up, Billie smiles. "What's up guys I'm Billie" she then looks at me.

"And I'm Halley." It's giving Disney channel

"We are still working on our intro and a youtube name for us so if you guys have any suggestions, comment it down below."

I run a hand through my hair and speak. "We asked you guys to send us questions that you guys might have." I look through my phone and shake my head as I read some of the questions. "You guys definitely did not hold back that's for sure."

Billie peeks over my shoulder and her eyes widen. "Why do you guys want to know about our sex life?" She laughs making me wonder the same thing.

"Anyways we are going to take turns picking out questions to answer. If we don't get to your question, We apologize." She then adds while I look for a question to start us off with.

"There's over three hundred questions in here so bare with us guys."

How are you guys mentally and physically?

"Do you want to answer first?" I ask Billie who nods her head.

"Honestly I'm the happiest I ever been." She then looks over at me with a smile. "I'm in an amazing relationship. I have a great support system with my family and friends. Everything is great. I'm just happy honestly. I don't know what else to say.

"Yeah. I feel the same way. Mentally I'm in a great place right now. Hopefully that doesn't change." I say and lean back on the couch, man-spreading, as I read the rest of the questions. Billie picks up her phone and starts looking for questions as well to ask.

What are your toxic traits?

"Oooh how about we say each other's." I suggest and Billie nods. "Well Billie's toxic trait is probably how if she gets mad, she tends to shut down. She becomes almost like emotionless and doesn't want to talk to anyone for a while."

"I'm working on it though guys!" Billie quickly says as she looks at the camera. "Halley does the same thing though. Just not as much as me."

I nod my head in agreement. "Yeah but you just go radio silent. I still try to talk to you."

"Yeah I know." She holds my hand and kisses the back of it before answering the question. "Halley doesn't really have any toxic traits that I think of."

I think it over for a moment as I try to figure out if I have any. "I don't know either." I laugh and Billie decides to ask another question.

Halley, what's your favorite song of Billie's?

"Oh that's easy. The one named after me." I shrug my shoulders with a smile. "I just think it's crazy that you made a song with my name and I meet you just a few months after that."

"Yeah that is crazy weird guys." She rans a hand through her hair and huffs. "I never though that after releasing that song that I would meet my own Halley's Comet."

"Your own Halley's Comet I like that."

I then look at the camera. "But yeah I just like that song. It's so soothing to hear her voice y'all don't understand. Billie has a way of captivating people with just her voice and I admire that."

"Aww stop you're making me blush." Billie says in a silly voice before mushing my head making me laugh. "Thank you though baby." She pecks my lips and I wrap my arm around her as she leans into me.

"Okay next question."

Halley when are you going to start putting out more music?

"Guys I'm not a singer." I laugh and shake my head no. "I don't want to be one either. It's never been my thing. That song I release is probably the only one I'm going to release for now at least. Maybe sometime in the future, I'll put something out for real but for right now I'm good off that music shit."

Billie then sends a smile to the camera. "Don't worry guys. I'm going to definitely have her on some of my songs."

"Really?"

She nods her head with a small shrug. "Even if you only want to do a little bit, I would like to have you on the album at least for one song."

"I'm fine with that."

Do you guys argue or fight?

"Of course we do." Billie quickly says as she scoffs. "Guys I feel like any relationship is going to have their problems with each other. Of course we are going to argue over things."

"Yeah I mean not every relationship is perfect and ours definitely ain't. Every couple has things to work over." I say adding onto her words. "You got think about it. You're spending all your time and energy with one person eventually you are going to find things to argue over." I continue

"I mean Halley and I don't have real major arguments and fights but when we do, we talk through it. Communication is one of the most important things to have in a relationship. If you don't communicate with your partner then what's the point in being in a relationship with them." Billie says and I nod my head in agreement.

"Exactly."

Do you guys plan on getting married at some point? And if so if are kids in the future?

"Of course I want to marry Billie." I smile over at her making her blush as she grins. "We aren't ever going to get married for a while of course. I mean if we get engaged, it probably be a long engagement."

"Yeah, I would want to be engaged for at least six months to a year. I feel like a lot of couples rush into marriage without properly talking about everything that comes with marriage like kids." Billie replies.

"As for kids of course they are in our future. I don't know about Billie but I want at least two." I say as I look at her and she nods.

"Yeah I want at least two but four is my limit."

"You would carry or adopt?"

"Why can't you carry?" Huh

I look at her like she is crazy. "Girl ain't no babies coming out of this shit right now. Lost ya mind on that one baby girl."

"I think you look really cute with a little pregnancy belly." Billie grins and I roll my eyes.

"Fuck no."

What would you guys name your kids if you have any?

"I kinda want to name my son Billie. Maybe not his first name but at least his middle name." Billie says before shrugging her shoulders. "For a girl I have no idea."

"I would name my daughter's middle name Malaysia. I haven't figured out for the first name yet but her middle name is definitely going to be Malaysia." I reply and Billie smiles at that.

"I like that. Little Malaysia."

I smile and peck her lips. "Guys we are going to do a few more questions for you then we have to go."

"Where are we going?"

I shrug my shoulders as I look through the questions. "I just want to take a drive. We haven't done that in a while."

"I think we should race again." Billie smirks and I roll my eyes. "You cheated last time."

"I did not. I won fair and square. You just a sore loser." She waves me off while I laugh and she smacks her teeth at me. "You did not." She mumbles and I chose to ignore her, asking another question.