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Y/N WAS DOING WELL ON HER, own now, but that didn't mean she was keeping her guard down. Infact, she's gotten so well aware of her surroundings that even the perpetrator their-self had to admit that they sometimes held back on stalking her from time to time. They didn't want to risk being caught, but the way they told her that was over text. She had been talking to this anonymous person for a while, actually attempting to interrogate them and learn more about them, but obviously to her dismay, she couldn't get much out of the person. They were just so secretive it was actually unbearable.

It was like she hit a dead end everytime she asked about them, sure there was little parts of themself that they mentioned, but it was usually about psychotic tendencies they had in order to freak her out, or daily routines everybody followed. She had gotten used to the death threats of her loved ones and even random people, but it wasn't as if it didn't scare her anymore. She had to sleep with the lights on, and majority of the time she was never alone.

Everybody started to notice how genuinely paranoid she was getting, but in her shoes, they assumed they'd probably be the same way. Still, all of her friends were worrying about her, seeing her more worried than usual.

"Are you alright, Y/N?" She felt a large hand being placed on her right shoulder, and that made her quickly turn her face before she jolted backwards, landing into the chest of her other friend Stu. There was loud laughter heard from him, and that only made her freeze.

She blinked for a few seconds straight before she straightened herself out and realized it was only Billy that had touched her. The thought of it being literally anyone else made a shiver crawl down her spine, but she tried not to mention the feeling. She already knew they thought she herself was going crazy, "Oh..! Sorry about that... I just.. I hate being touched these days."

Billy tilted his head to the side and analyzed her odd behavior, some worry growing over his face once he did so. He also didn't know why, but he felt almost offended by the fact that she didn't want him touching her even though he knew her circumstances, "Ahhh... It's alright, I understand. I used to be that way too, isn't that right Stu?"

The taller man nodded his head up and down at his friends words, his goofy giggles eventually slipping past his mouth. She could only turn on her heel as she rolled her E/C eyes, finally glad that her knight and shining armor was there to save her.

"Hey guys!" Tatum announced as she came up behind the blue haired man that raised his eyebrows at the familiar voice. He then turned around and widened his arms, quickly engulfing the blonde in a tight hug that caused a groan to come from her lips, "Jesus, Stu! What did I say about you holding me so tightly..?"

Y/Ns annoyance from before was gone, and all she could do was pull a soft smile as she watched the little couple bicker, but then all of a sudden, an immense feeling of sadness overcame her, and she even began wondering if she would be able to date again. Her eyes lowered towards the ground, and the brunette man that stood not too far beside her noticed this.

Walking up to her as the couple still continued to speak amongst themselves, she felt his presence, but this time instead of flinching, she just turned her eyes over to him, and looked his way with a sorrowful grin that was gently returned by the brown haired man. Letting out a sigh to her, he pushed his hands into his pockets, "You know. You could have something like that too."

"You really think so? You don't think that maybe the person that's out to get me will figure out who they are as well..?" There was a hint of attitude in her voice, but he found that understandable so he dismissed it and let it off the hook for now.

"You're right... Maybe after all of this that you're going through is finished.." Billy chuckled out the suggestion, his own eyes wandering towards the couple before he snapped them back to the woman that stood next to him.

Watching the way she analyzed the couple, a sad glint in her face, he couldn't help but feel nothing but pain for her. Just as he was about to speak out to her once again, the couple turned their attention back of their other two friends and they beat him to it, "So, we have something to tell the two of you!!"

For some odd reason Billy couldn't understand why he was so annoyed by the fact that he didn't get the chance to tell Y/N what he wanted to, or even by the fact that he didn't get the chance to even speak that much to her, but he just brushed it off, hoping this would be nothing but a one time feeling, "And what is that?"

"We're having a party tonight!! It's gonna be Halloween themed, I swear everyone's gonna love it!" Tatum seemed so excited about this, that it almost made the H/C haired teen guilty since she knew she didn't want to go, but as if on queue, the blonde turned to her closest friend with pleading brown eyes, "Please tell me you're coming, Y/N!"

Y/N pursed her lips and casted her face down towards the floor for the second time, her thoughts running slow through her mind. After a few more seconds of thinking, she tilted her face back up to her friend and nodded, noticing the shock and happiness that overcame all three of her friends faces. They didn't think she would be down, but she was. She needed a distraction from all the issues she was going through anyway. Plus, it wasn't like she wanted to be all alone by herself.