Not Dead

Chapter 2

Connor sighed, put his hands on his knees and pushed himself up off the couch he'd sat down on. He walked towards the door and whispered a good night to Riley, even thought he knew she couldn't hear him.

He walked down the pavement, taking in the crisp night air, hands in his pockets and making his way towards Evan Hansen's house. Boy was that guy going to be in for a surprise.

Connor stopped outside a relatively small house, well compared to his old house, and figured out Evan's room buy the fact that he was sitting buy the window reading some book. He chose to climb up the tree outside Evan's window, which he remembered that fucktard Jared mentioning that Evan was a Tree Nerd, with little difficulty.

"Hey Hansen," Connor said, climbing through Evan's luckily open window and startling the boy in question, "how's life been for you?" Evan just stared at him in disbelief. "Don't scream!" Connor whisper yelled, holding his hands up in the air. "B-b-but y-you're dead!" Evan stuttered out, "this can't be happening again!" he whispered to himself, running his hands through his hair.

"Woah, woah," Connor said walking over to Evan, "I'm alive, I'm here and I didn't die," he reached out to Evan, putting his hands on the other guys shoulders, "now copy my breathing," he then took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly, realising Evan was starting to hyperventilate. Evan copied, "Good, now another few times," Evan complied and finally his breathing levelled out. "Good, now you probably want to know how I'm alive, right?" Asked Connor, Evan nodded. "I faked my death because in reality I was afraid of death, my family had a thing in place which means we can just disappear. I was with my cousin in England, she did the same thing and I just hope my parents will be glad to see me, unlike her's..." he trailed off, "don't get me wrong Hansen, I know what you did and I'm impressed."

Evan looked at him in disbelief, "You're not weirded out by it?" He asked, "Nope! It's cool how you managed to pull it off, I mean you did get with my sister which was a little creepy, you still with her?" "No, not anymore, are you homophobic?" "Nope, too gay to be, also sorry to hear that but why did you ask?" Connor looked at Evan confused, "Well.. I'm bi and so is your sister, I helped her get her now girlfriend." Evan explained, Connor patted him on the back, "Well do you still like her?" "Nope, we're better as friends."

They sat there for a minute, Evan taking in the fact that Connor Murphy was sat in front of him. "Why did you do it?" Connor looked at him confused then a look of realisation crossed his face, "Because my family was shit and I was shit to them, I thought I'd give them and myself a break. I was always disappointing them, it got to the point where they always thought I was high, I mean I was high a lot to just block them out, but not always. I said horrible shit to them-" "Zoe said you banged on her door saying you'd 'kill her' a lot," Evan interrupted, Connor chuckled, "She never told you that whenever that happened she'd done something herself, like stolen a CD from my room or broken something of mine, or lied to our parents about how I was 'sucking dick for meth' that type of shit, did she?" Evan shook his head, thinking about it no one would really say they'd kill someone without reasons. "Thought not, I mean no ones perfect, you've probably realised that by now." Connor stood up, "Would you be so kind as to provide me with some food?" And just as he asked that Evan's stomach rumbled, "You've not eaten either, have you?" Evan shook his head, "My mom's at her classes and I'm supposed to order take out but I don't like doing that.." "I'll do it for you, means we both eat then, okay?" "Okay."

"Pizza or Chinese? I'm in the mood for either." "Pizza, please." Evan replied politely. "What type of pizza Ev? And if you say Pineapple I will leave." Evan laughed at this, "Never! Pineapple pizza is an abomination, I'll just have a margarita pizza," he paused, "with extra cheese."