The Dysfunction Of Evan: Books 1-3 Collection

6. Green means go. No going back now

"Well, look who decided to join us for breakfast!" Natalie said as I sat down at the table. I rarely made it to the canteen to eat with everyone, but today, I felt pretty damn good. Tom fell in a habit of staying over most nights, and I was sleeping really well. Not a single nightmare or upsetting dream when he stayed.

Maisie and Liam gave me tired smiles as they poked at their food. I squeezed in between Peter and Natalie. They all ate breakfast together every day, minus Jaden and Holden, who sat across the room. I had noticed that they didn't interact with us, no matter how hard we tried to include them.

"So, it's July forth tomorrow," Natalie said. "I was, and I'm sure Tom was as well, invited to Sam Jackson's for a party tomorrow night. He throws quite the shindig, and I'm positive I could rope him into extending that invite to everyone."

"That sounds fun." Maisie said. "I mean, I don't care for the holiday, but any excuse to party is cool with me."

"Miley is visiting her dad this week, so I'm down. Plus, I'm sure Chris will be in town, he never misses Sam's parties." Liam added as Tom sat down across from me next to Maisie.

"What's going on?" He asked looking around.

"Nat's telling us how she could sneak us into Sam Jackson's party tomorrow night." Peter said.

"Oh, I already got you all in. I talked to him last night." Tom said as he put jam on his toast. "He's expecting us around seven."

"Well, it's settled then." Nat said with a smile then. I looked over at Jaden and Holden.

"What about them?" I nodded in their direction.

"Jaden's parents throw a party every year, so they'll probably go to that." Nat said. "We could invite them to Karaoke tonight."

"Oh, is that the plan tonight?" Maisie asked.

"Might as well. No work tomorrow and its an early quit day today." Liam said.

"Venues should be pretty empty, since everyone will be saving the parties for tomorrow." I added. I poured milk into my fruit loops. Tom kicked me under the table.

"We haven't all gone out together since the cast party. It'll be fun." I said kicking him back, much harder than he kicked me. He grimaced a little. We'd planned on staying in and running lines, something I was tired of doing.

"Loads of fun." He said in a strained voice. He pulled out his phone and messed around on it. moments later my phone buzzed. I looked down at it.

---I'd hoped to have you to myself tonight. I was thinking dinner.

I mouthed a silent no to him and jumped back into the conversation. I was feeling great, I wanted to be social and leave the lot and feel like a normal functioning human being. My phone buzzed again.

---No worries, I'm already thinking of how to work this to my advantage.

I glanced up at him and made eye contact, trying to figure out what was going through his head.

"Okay, that's a wrap for today. Astrid, Tom, you guys have Ellen on the 5th, don't forget. You need to be there at nine A.M. sharp. Everyone else, you're with B Unit." Ray announced as the bell rang, signaling to the crew that we were done. I gave a thumbs up and got my phone from Andrea.

"Enjoy you're day off, Andy." I told her.

"You as well, Miss Long." She gave me a warm smile as I walked away. I chased down Natalie.

"Hey, hold up." I said grabbing her arm. She spun around.

"Whats up?" She asked.

"I wanna wear something, I don't know what, but I don't own it, and I don't want to borrow it from wardrobe." I said.