Loving Lars

24. Loving The Reunion

*the outfit elza wears to the party i picture as the one cassie wore to the new years party (euphoria)*

It was finally time for us to leave and say goodbye to my dad and Mrs Bloom. I never wanted this time to end. I loved having Lars to myself and being surrounded by the warmth of my home. I knew I was going to miss my dad tremendously and after his trip to the hospital, I knew I was going to be in a constant state of worry. He had promised me multiple times throughout the years that he was taking his medication and look where he ended up.

"Are you alright?" The sound of Lars's voice snapped me out of my thoughts.

"What? O-oh yeah, I'm fine." He placed a comforting hand on my knee and gave a slight squeeze.

"We're almost back to real life." He lets out a sigh.

I gave him a weak smile and turned the music up indicating that I didn't want to talk anymore.

I had hardly spoken a full sentence today and I could tell Lars was worried. If he asked me why I didn't know what to tell him as I didn't even know myself. All I could understand is that I was feeling  terrible and all I wanted to do was curl up in a ball underneath the covers of my childhood bed.

Lars turned the music down. "Have you spoken to any of the others, since we've been away?"

I shook my head, hoping he could see it from his peripheral.

"Well I spoke to Knox today and by the sounds of it everyone wants to go out tonight. But if you don't feel up to it we don't have to go." He said sincerely.

I noticed that he said "we" when referring to me not wanting to go and it did weird things to me. As much as I didn't want to go and have him stay with me, I had missed my friends and I knew it be good for me to go.

"No, no. I'll go. It should be fun?" I replied.

Right?

"Yeah." He mumbled.

I looked out the car window and let the world fade into a blur.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

We had finally made it to my dorm and Lars could tell I wasn't in the mood so he dropped off my stuff and left, whilst I curled up in my bed and attempted to sleep the day away.

I don't know what was up with me, I guess I was just so worried about leaving my dad alone and what was going to happen to me and Lars now that we're back. 

I realised that I liked him a lot more than I thought I had on this trip and I didn't know what to do about it. 

I looked at the time and realised the girls will be around soon to start pre-drinking. I invited them round to my dorm as I knew they would cheer me up instantly. 

I decided to step outside if my comfort zone and wear a tight fitting blue dress and white strappy heels. I knew the girls would be surprised and hopefully they would approve of my outfit. 

I was finishing applying my mascara when I heard a knock at the door. 

I opened the door to 3 beaming faces. 

"Omg Elza! I've missed you so much." Anna squealed first, wrapping me in her arms. 

 Harley eyed her up and down, "this outfit! What happened to you on this trip?" She joked. 

"I just wanted to look sexy tonight." I shrugged. 

"Well you definitely do." Alexa whistled. 

Anna turned serious, "how was your dad?"