My Beloved Friend

11. Adventure

Everleigh's P.O.V

1 Month later.

     It's summer break and my parents decide they want to stay in America till my grandma is recovered from heart surgery which could take up to a month or 2. I've barely talked to Will or Tom. 'Wanna do a vlog with me and Will?' Tom asks through text. I think about it for a minute. 'Sure let me get dressed.' I send. I get up and change into acid washed jean shorts, a black arctic monkey shirt and tie a black flannel around my waist before putting on a grey beanie. I go outside and over to Tom who's sitting on his porch steps. "What's up giraffe man." I say. "Hello king." He says. "King?" I ask. "Forgot you were a girl for a second." He says. I look at him annoyed. He giggles stands up as Will pulls out. "Hi I'm Phil." a man says. "Hello, I'm Everleigh. It's nice to meet you." I say shaking his hand. "Don't fall for it Philza she's a real prick." He says. I punch him in the arm and he immediately rubs it."Ow!" He yells. "I think I like her already." Phil says smiling. "I think I've never wanted to hit a woman till now." He says. "Tom, what did I tell you about sexist and domestic jokes." Phil scolds him. He sighs. "Sorry Eva. Sorry Phil." He says sounding defeated. "Haha you got in trouble." I say mocking him. "Jesus, am I going to be adopting another child." Phil says jokingly. "Would you? I need a dad." I say jokingly. "That was dark man." Tom says laughing. Will just giggles. "Oh my goodness I've just met you." Phil says laughing.

    We get out of the car as we park. "Parking garages are so creepy." I say as we walk. "The fuck did you call it?" Tommy asks. "Um a parking garage." I say chuckling. "It's a fucking car park." All of them say. I cant help but laugh. "Parking garage, Jesus what's wrong with Americans."  Tommy says jokingly. I roll my eyes as we continue walking. I'm so used to them recording now I just don't care and never notice. Me and Tom run over to a cute little gift shop. "Phillll." Tom says. "No." He says. We both give him puppy dog eyes. "See at this point you're just heartless if you say no." Will says. Phil sighs and says yes and me and Tom both run in. We look around and make tons of jokes for the vlog. Tom jokingly pushes me but I actually lose my balance and fall bumping into some one. "Oh sorry." I say before looking up and seeing him. Everything stops and the only thing that happens is flash backs playing on repeat. I'm used to this at night but not during the day or around people.

   "Hey Eva, long time no see." He says smiling. I just look at him terrified. "We should hangout soon sometime, last time was a lot of fun." He says. His words fucking disgust me. "Excuse me." I say turning and walking out quickly. I feel like my chest is caving in, my head feels like it's on fire, my lungs feel like they're collapsing. All I can think about is that night. I sit down in an ally way and pull my knees to my chest. "Breathe fucking breathe." I say panicking. "Stop being over dramatic." I whisper to myself trying to snap out of it. I pull my hair and put my head back. "Eve, what's wrong?" Will asks walking into the ally. "Nothing." I stutter. "Are you having an anxiety attack?" He asks. "I don't know!" I say clearly frustrated. "What's happened?" He asks. "I just have social anxiety okay, please leave me alone for a second." I say annoyed. "Is that what helps you?" He asks. I nod and he sighs and walks away. I start scratching my wrist and begin to calm down. 

   Once I can breathe I stand up and take one more deep breath before walking out as I'm still scratching my wrist. I turn the corner and see him and Tom standing there. "Hey sorry." I say giving them a small smile. "No need to apologize." Will says smiling. I look and see him leaving. He starts to walk our way and I get behind Will. He looks at me confused then looks at Chris. His changes from sincere to disturbed and worried. As Chris walks by us he goes to smile and wave at me but Will turns around pointing me in the opposite direction. "Hey, we should go get Phil." He says. We walk back into the store and see Phil at the checkout. We wait till he's done and he walks over to us. He hands me a panda. "Welcome to the family." He says jokingly. I smile and thank him. We continue to venture around before going back to the car park. "Are you okay with going to Toby's for a little while?" Tom asks. "Yes, I miss him and Ranboo." I say smiling. He nods and we start driving to Toby's house.

   We walk in and him and Ranboo are sitting on the couch. "Hey." We say. They look over and wave. We all sit and talk for awhile. "I was just about to go live, would you guys like to join?" Toby asks. We all nod and decide to do a try not to laugh. We're all sitting around and the first video comes on and I try not to laugh. After a few videos I start laughing. "Seriously Eva!" Tom yells jokingly. "Fuck off!" I yell back. He pushes me off my chair and I can't help but laugh. "Oh no...our Eva." Toby starts. "It's broken." We both say laughing. "Ah!" I scream as Tom shoots me with a nerf gun. Everyone laughs as I curse him. "Bloody hell." I say sitting up. "You've hung out with Tom to much." Phil says. I start making jokes and make everyone laugh. I sit back up and start reading the chat. 'She's so annoying.' I mainly see hate comments but I don't care until a dono. "Eva is annoying and stupid. Her jokes aren't even funny and she's an attention whore, off yourself." It says out loud. "Blocking." Toby says and blocks the person. I don't stop smiling no matter what. "People are rude, I don't understand how you get so much hate when you do nothing wrong." Ranboo says. "I think it's just the way I come off, I do seem annoying and loud at times and it could make people assume i'm doing it for attention." I say shrugging. We continue on and I try to stay quiet as much as possible.