Paper thin // Joe Sugg au

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Before;
The cheery sound of my doorbell rung through my house. I instantly shot up and ran to the door, opening it with such enthusiasm.
"Mills!" Zoe squealed as i embraced her "How have you been?"
"I've been great, what about you? How are you and Alfie?"

Zoe was my sworn friend, an unbiological sister. We've been friends since we were little as her brother, Joe, and I were in the same class. Our parents became friends which resulted in all of us spending a lot of time together.

"I'm fine, I've waited so long to be able to see you! Alfie and I are fine, still stable. How's your..." She cut off then, mouthing the word mum. She knew it was a sensitive subject. I fell silent, looking down. I didn't mind talking about it, not to her at least, but my mum was getting somewhat worse. "It's alright, you don't have to talk about it" Zoe gave me a reassuring look.

"She isn't any better, to be quite honest she's worse" I murmured, wanting to digress. Zoe nodded, waiting for me to speak again. "My blog is getting quite a few views now. How's yours doing?"

"Mine's doing well. I'm really proud of you Mills! Your blog is getting loads of reviews. I might have even caught Joe having a look at it" Zoe giggled as I blushed. Me and Joe were distant. We both knew I didn't want to be distant with him but I didn't want to admit that.

"Seriously, Joe was looking at my blog? How's his youtube channel going?" Like Zoe, Joe had a youtube channel. He wasn't as big as Zoe but he was still huge, having over 6 million subscribers.

"Yeah, he was! His channel is great, I thought you watched him though?" Zoe looked slightly confused. In all honesty, I did watch him. I just don't want Zoe thinking I'm addicted to her brother. I opened my mouth, ready to speak, but Zoe spoke before I could. "Speak of the devil".

I got up as an impatient Joe knocked at my front door.

"Hey" I said as I opened the door, stepping out of his way to let him in.

"Oh, er, hey" He shuffled in, waving to Zoe.

"I wasn't expecting to see you" I said as cheerily as I could, trying to kill the awkwardness "Not in a rude way, I don't mind you being here" I quickly added on. I didn't exactly want him to leave, either.

"Sorry, thought I'd pop over to see both of you. I haven't seen Zoe for a while either" He smiled.

"Oh, well, did anyone want a drink? I can make a hot chocolate if you want, Zoe? Joe, did you want one?" They both nodded and I wandered off to the kitchen.

Moments later Joe walked in, just leaning against the counter in silence. It stayed like that for a few minutes, him just watching me. It felt awkward but I didn't want to say anything either; that would be awkward too.

"Zoe's panic attacks are getting worse" He spoke quickly, hints of sadness in his voice.

"What? She hasn't mentioned anything th..."

"She doesn't think they're getting worse" Joe interrupted. He was being serious, I could tell. He didn't have that usual, happy glint in his eye.

"Do you know why?" I asked, concerned for the well being of my best friend.

"I think it may be her and Alfie" He whispered, explaining how her and Alfie are becoming a little distant and aren't as close and that she is always bringing up things about the future, "I mean, what if she is having panic attacks because she doesn't see herself with Alfie? What if her future is worrying her too much?" I could hear the fear in his voice. He was worried about her.

"Don't worry" I said, pulling him into a hug, "I'll see what I can do"

A/n- I'm super excited to kick-start this fanfiction. I will probably make parts a bit longer than this but I felt like this was a good place to stop. I'm this fanfiction will be good and that you'll enjoy it!