Notagain. Not here. Not now.Melissa rushed out of the classroom under the glares of all of theother students. She quickly made her way to the girl's toilet. Heybreathing was heavy and fast. She felt like she was about to lose it.Just put your hands on something flat. She lookedaround but her vision was getting blurry and she felt some tearsstreaming down her cheeks. She tried to calm herself down as much asshe could but everything was way too confusing. She suddenly feltsome hands on her shoulders and the sound of a voice which seemedvery far away. She couldn't hear the words straight but after a fewseconds, she finally managed to hear the voice clearly. "Melissa,just count to 10 with me, okay?" The voice said and she knew itsounded familiar but couldn't find out who it was still. She noddedslowly and started counting along with the voice. 1. 2. 3.4. Her vision was becomingclearer and her breathing was calmer. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.The countdown was done and she could finally put a name on this sofamiliar face. Archie.She felt his two strong arms wrap around herself and she held ontohim as tight as she could. "I thought your panic attacks weregone!" Her best friend exclaimed as they pulled away from eachother. "I just thought it was all over but a silly thing happensand I just lose it." She sighed and Archie took her hand in his."It will be fine. It's almost spring break and I'll be here." Hesmiled and she simply looked down. "Thank you, Arch." She repliedbefore they both headed out of the toilet.
Itwas one of the many times it had already happened this year. Herthird and last year of college had been the worst she had had to facein a while. Melissa was almost 22 years old and was very close toachieving her goal in life and it had been one hell of a ride. Therewas only 2 weeks left but some current panic attacks were ruiningeverything. Every time. She luckily had an amazing group of friendsthat she was thankful for, she couldn't probably get througheverything that happened in her life without them. She had met themin their art college which contained a lot of different activitiesbut Melissa was into music. The fact that they were all interested bydifferent types of art only brought them closer. The school waslocated in the lovely city of Edinburgh, in England, and it probablywas the best place to live in the entire world. But the anxiety madeit harder than that for her. It was like standing in between two lanes of traffis and not being able to move. The thing was that she never had any trouble with anxiety when shewas younger but this year, it was different. Something feltdifferent.
Melissa, including her friends,had no idea what they would do after their last summer break togetherbut they would for sure make the best of it.
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FanfictionMelissa Evans and her lovely group of friends are about to end college. This might be their last spring break together but it might also be the best or worst. They were all grown up adults and knew they had to leave each other but who would have tho...
