Searching for A Paradise

That Boy Over There

It's been 7 years since then, and I'm doing great.
My therapy sessions are really helping me get past the trauma that I experienced. It will never completely leave, but it's a part of me, and I have accepted myself for me.
I will never really get the pictures out of my head. The experience definitely left a scar in my brain. Ever since that I had been having panic attacks when I feel alarmed. I guess that's not too bad, though, right? Anyway, the point is, my life's been screwed up since.
Other than that, I have been living life normally. I have a job that pays well, a house all to my self and my dogs, and plenty of money for food.
      As I was deep in thought, thinking of ice cream(I love ice cream) I had been interrupted by a loud ring on my phone. I picked up, responding to my friend, Skyland. "Hey! What's up?" I asked, pretending like I wasn't mad at her for interrupting my serious thoughts. "Hey, Aves! Want to go to the mall?" I had nothing else to do. Literally, nothing. So I said yes, seeing no reason not to. "Sure. What time are you picking me up?" I asked, half joking, half serious. "Uh... Ok I guess I'll pick you up at three. Is that good?" "Works for me," I replied. We then said bye and hung up the phone.

      She picked me up at 3:13, looking fancy as usual. "You know, it's past three." I said, a smirk on my face. "You know, I could leave you here," she snapped back. She put on a bold face, but started laughing as soon as I fake pouted. She was easy to crack.
      As we entered the mall, JCPenny was to the right, and ice cream was to the left. It's pretty self explanatory which one I picked.
      Sky land wanted to go to JCPenny, but I dragged her to the ice cream stand with me. We ordered 2 small bowls of chocolate, but I got sprinkled on mine.
As I ate my ice cream, I got this feeling that someone was watching me.
I managed to keep my cool, but sky land gave me a questioning look. I faked a smile.
Then I heard a bang. I saw it happen, it was just someone dropping their phone on accident, but I couldn't help but to freak out. I started start breathing super heavily, and shake really badly. People shot me quick dirty glances, but I couldn't stop. Skyland saw a person staring at me, then quickly turned to see me freaking out. "Oh my god, Avery, what's wrong?" She said, obviously concerned. I started to hyperventilate and my eyes teared up. It was getting hard to breath now.
"Avery, look at me." I looked at her, and you could she saw the panic in me. "I need you to take deep breathes. Can you do that for me?" I nodded, not breaking eye contact. "Breathe in, breathe out." Skyland said. I obeyed. Saying those exact words in my head, I did it. I struggled, but I over came it. There was a crowd gathered around us now. More people than I could count were watching us.
Once I calmed down, there was a round of applause, breaking my focus. It was directed towards Skyland, of course. It was obvious she felt under pressure, because she nervously smiled. Once we got out of that, we rushed to the other side of the mall, hoping the people over here missed all of that drama.
Occasionally a person would walk up to us, congratulating Skyland.
"Do you want me to take you home?" "No." I said. I gave her a small smile, to reassure her. We walked around the mall for a bit.
I saw this boy staring at me. He looked around 20, which was my age, so I wasn't to weirded out by it. Even Skyland noticed him. "This boy is staring at you, and I don't think it's because of the thing that happened earlier!" I nodded in agreement.
I guess he saw me looking back at him, so he smiled, and, me being me, I smiled back. He was actually really pretty and cute, with bright green eyes and dark brown hair. He was built up, but I'm not the type of girl who cares about that. I'm a personality person. I'm not shallow.
Skyland must've saw this, because she quickly blurted out,"I'm going to the ladies room real quick." She shot me a wink, and I knew she was hoping he would walk up to me. I gave her a questioning look, but gave her a nod.
He saw that she went away, so he looked around, stood up, and started walking in my direction.
Things were going just as the Skyland planned it to happen.

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NOT FINISHED, and I feel awkward writing romance stuff but IM TRYING!! Btw, it'a not full out romance okkkk!!! XD