Dysphoria /1/

Chapter 17

"That's it," Alice growled and took Tyler by his shirt collar. "If you say anything else, I will not hesitate to kick your fucking ass."

For the past few hours, Tyler would not stop shouting. Usually, that wouldn't bother her but today was much different. Her head hurt like a bitch and no matter what she did, the pounding wouldn't stop.

She let go of Tyler's shirt and walked upstairs to her room where she hopefully wouldn't be bothered. Grabbing the sketchpad Brock had given her, Alice began drawing. There wasn't an ideal picture in her head so she just started out with little marks, waiting for a picture to pop in her head.

After about fifteen minutes, the marks slightly resembled an outline of a face, so she began working with what she had. It was a simple sketch at first, only drawing the outline of the face and its features lightly. After that was done, she moved to the details like the eyes and the shading. Then came the hair, which took quite a while but in the end, she looked at the picture lovingly.

The picture was drawn only from memory, but it actually came out very well, one of her best in fact. Evan wasn't smiling in her picture, mostly because she could barely remember his smile.

"Ally?" Delirious knocked and poked his head in. "Sorry, just wanted to check on you after what happened. Tyler was scared shitless."

Alice smiled at him and patted the spot next to her on the bed. "I'll have to apologize later, huge headache, but its dulled a bit when I started drawing."

Jonathan sat next to her and looked at the sketchpad. "You want to talk about it?"

It's been about a month since they were informed of Evan's passing and a month and a half since Alice last saw him. She certainly hadn't forgotten him, but after learning about his death, the constant worrying about him was gone.

"No, he's gone and that's the end, but its nice to think about him every now and then," Alice sighed and out the sketchbook down. "My headache is almost completely gone."

"That's good," Delirious felt her head lower down onto his shoulder. "Alice, I have to tell you something."

Alice didn't exactly like when Jonathan acted serious. She lifted her head up from his shoulder and moved her body so that she was facing him. "What happened?"

"Nothing bad. Its just-its something stupid. Forget I said anything," Delirious stuttered. "If your head doesn't hurt anymore, why don't we go downstairs and enjoy some mac n cheese?"

The green eyed girl was curious about what her best friend was going to say, but she went along with him downstairs, forgetting it. Everyone was downstairs enjoying their video games and bowls of mac n cheese, which Brock made tons of.

Her eyes landed on Tyler and she sat next to him. "Sorry about earlier. Migraines bring out the worst in me," Alice apologized with a small smile.

"It's fine, Alice. How about you make it up to me by a quick kiss," Tyler laughed, turning his head so his cheek was facing her.

Alice shoved him and laughed. "In your fucking dreams, Tyler. I'm gonna go get some food."

As she walked into the kitchen, she found Craig and Brock sitting on the kitchen stools and talking. They looked to her after she walked in and continued their conversation after saying hi.

Taking a bowl from the cabinets, Alice filled it with mac n cheese and went back to the living room, leaving the two boys to talk.

"Are you really going to eat all that?" Terroriser scrunched his face up seeing the huge amount of mac n cheese in Alice's bowl.