Evan (CC) Afton X Fem. Y/n

[C18] Decent Morning

A few hours after you had finally fallen asleep, you woke up from the fact you couldn't sleep any longer with burning questions, it really was suffocating with all these questions left unanswered and just lying around. Of course you tried to fall back to sleep as you deemed it too early to be awake even though when you glanced at the clock on the nightstand it said 2:28pm, hours of sleep already acquired.

Grudgingly, you rose from the bed, stretching your arms out to wake up more. Then you remembered you in fact have to go to Evan's room to get your pills, which haven't been touched in a while- "Finally you're awake, i thought you died or something before you moved again in your sleep" Liz exclaimed. Still in the spot she was last night which made you wonder if she ever moved at all.

"Sorry, i must have been really tired" you chuckled, rubbing the back of your neck awkwardly, the ginger looked at you for a moment before pushing past the awkward silent, "Well since you're awake now, wanna go eat?", "Not really hungry" you answered shortly, sliding to the edge of the bed and getting up. She got up as well and walked over to you, "What? Come on, eating is amazing!", "Maybe for you, miss addicted-to-vanilla-ice-cream" the silence from her after you said that made you confused.

You looked at her to see she was frozen, as if she saw a ghost or something. Which is ironic since she herself is a ghost sorta. "Uhm- Liz? You okay?" you asked, waving your hand in her face to see if she would react, "Earth to Liz?" you called out again, after a moment she came back to her senses, "Sorry- spaced out.." she shrugged off. "And this long time spacing out is common for dead souls?" you asked skeptical, must've said something that triggered her if that's not the case, "Not like you space out as bad" she retorted.

Back to her normal self at least, "Sure, whatever you say, i need to get my pills before everything starts kicking my ass" you chuckled, "Alright, you go do that while i retrieve something to eat!" you followed her out to the hall and watched her go down the stairs. Then you turned the opposite direction and started your steps towards Evan's room, opening the door to see he was in there.. Staring at the ceiling.

"Yeah, and even when he wasn't having a book in his face he would just sit in his room for hours and hours, just staring at the ceiling"

He was like this before I arrived? You thought, maybe he would snap out of his thing if you made your presence more known besides the door opening, not that you were completely avoiding him, you just need to take your medication before going to throw dozens of questions at him. But as you walked in more and went to the nightstand and grabbed your pills, he didn't move once, no reaction at all, you can't tell if he's being dramatic or this whole thing is hurting him more than you thought..

You walked over to him, poking his shoulder to see if he was just awake while sitting up- with his eyes open. . . but still no reaction, "Evan" you called out, no reaction. This can't be how he really was like before right? You sat on the bed next to him, taking your pills and swallowing them, "Emo again" Elizabeth's voice nearly startled you since the room was dead quiet, "A warning that you entered would be nice" you mumbled as she walked over, sitting next to you.

"Not sorry- anyways, as i just said he's being emo again" she repeated, "Your mom told me this, but i didn't think it was- this bad", "It's not that bad, i think hes just in his mindscape, it's a sorta dead soul thing we could do" mindscape? "Like going inside your head?" you asked, Liz nodded and poked Evan a few times, "Usually he does this to escape my annoyances and to just avoid everyone before, but i think he only stuck around now because you were here"

"What's it like in your head?" you asked, she looked at you for a moment before looking away awkwardly, "Depends really, sometimes it's calming, sometimes it's the only way to escape reality.. Sometimes it's just to look back on memories, I try to avoid my mindscape since-..." her pause made you a little nervous and worried. "Well- uh anyways, Michael told me that he got an email that we've been missing school for a few days without a reason and he needs to meet with the school or something"

She changed the subject quickly, jumping up from the bed, "Come on, the emo will wake up soon enough" you stood up and nodded, Elizabeth wasted no time into leaving the room, you walked over to the nightstand and opened the drawer, taking a sticky note and pen, quickly writing a note on it before putting the sticky note in Evan's hand. Then you left the room to catch up with Liz- wherever she went, sighing, you went down to the living room, hoping she was in there.

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