There's more to life (Adopted by Brendon Urie) | #2

#1

Song of the Chapter: That Green Gentlemen by Panic! At the Disco

Anna's POV

"A come on! You're going to be late!"
"Coming dad. Sorry!"
I rush downstairs and follow dad to the car. He drives me to school. Yes school. I had finally gotten my anxiety under enough control to go to school, I still have no control over it some times but for most the part, I was ok. I was now 16 and I had an amazing group of friends; Layla, James, Peter and my best friend Abigail.
"Bye dad. Love ya."
"Bye darling, don't forget Pete is picking you up."
"Ok."

I hop out of the car and walk to my locker; Abigail was at hers next to mine. I tap on her shoulder and she turns around.
"Hey Anna."
"Morning."
"How was your weekend?"
"Pretty alright just hung with dad and jammed."
"Did you do the essay?"
"Uh sort of? I mean it's done but not the best. You?"
"Yeah same as you as long as I pass."

"What's up guys?"
"Oh hi Peter and James."
"Have you guys done the essay?"
"What?" Peter stares at us and James laughs.
"Oh Peter, the history essay."
"Fuck. No I haven't done it."
We all shake our head at him.

"Oh look it's Anna and her emo friends." We hear a voice snarl.
"Oh isn't it Georgina and her bitchy friends." Abigail says back. I lower my head. I wasn't very good at standing up for myself and that made me a target. They laugh and walk away.
"Don't listen to them Anna." James whispers to me and I force a smile. The bell rings and signals us to got to our first class. I had economics with James and Abigail.

"Good morning class! Today I'm going to give you a task/assessment to be completed in two weeks. If you have any questions, ask." Our economics teacher says and hands us a piece of paper.

Presentation task: The Business Cycle
Present a 10 minute presentation to the class about; what the business cycle is; why we need it; how do we use it and the factors of the economy.

A presentation. I can't do this.

"Anna? You ok?" James whispers to me. I shake my head and mouth 'presentation' and he nods his head understandingly. Last time we had a presentation, I had a bad panic attack that caused me to run out the room and Abigail and James both followed me to try and calm me down but they couldn't. They had to get Pete to come get me because dad was in a meeting and had turned his phone off.

We spend the class researching and likewise. I tried to ignore the fact that it was a presentation and just get the task completed. Abigail glances at me a few times, worried. She knew about how bad my anxiety could get, the others didn't know as much. Abigail has witnessed many of my panic attacks.

I walk to English and meet up with Layla along the way. We walk to English together talking about the English story we were going to have to write. We had been given a picture and had to create a short story based on it.

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Lunch time rolls around and we all meet at our usual table and take a seat. The others have a tray of food but I don't. I had basically gotten over my eating disorder but when I was anxious or sad, I struggled.
"Anna? You eating?" Layla asks and I shrug. Abigail whispers in my ear, "Anna please eat, you know you have to." She hands me a granola bar and I take it, knowing she would probably tell mum or dad.

We spend the lunch hour talking and hanging out. When the bell rings we all walk together until we reach a certain point where Peter has to go in a different direction. Layla, Abigail, James and I all walk to music, my favourite class except for the fact that Georgina was top of that class and always boasts about it. Like, I'm sorry that I'm not the best at the theory part and I focus on the practical side more.