RANDOM QUESTION:

Xavier's POV (chapt 2, 3, 4).

Skylar widened her eyes in shock too, not expecting me to not deter. She then quickly composed herself, did away with the glare, and nodded at me with a grin, impressed.

Jamie was the quietest of the lot. There was no other way to describe him. He was just.... Well, quiet.

Then I turned towards the last person sitting and got a shock of sorts. I knew Veronica was friends with Austin and I should have expected her to be here, but it just slipped out of my mind for some reason.
Weird. Things never just 'slipped out of my mind' like that often.

She had that look on her face again. The scared one. But I kept quiet and tried to figure her out myself. When she raised an eyebrow at me in challenge I realised that she might have been on edge because I saw those pills of hers. I wasn't going to ask her about it though... She will tell me if she wants to herself.
Disregarding me completely, she turned to Kells and said, "And I am the ringmaster of this group.Veronica Silverstone. I love chocolates, ice creams, chocolate ice creams, food and sleep!"
Of course. She was Chocolatelover@123, right?

All in all. The group was a pretty strange one. All of them had completely different personalities but I guess what they say is true. Opposites do attract.

While I was eating my pizza, I saw Veronica and Jennifer talk about something with worried expressions but I shrugged it off.
I looked up when I heard Austin's concerned voice though.

"Jen, what's wrong?"

Jennifer didn't really give him a reply so he leaned across the table and snatched a phone out of her hand. Veronica's phone.

Austin was still from shock for a while after which he said with pure hatred, "You didn't think it was 'important enough' to tell us, to tell me, that Ryan was coming back?"

Who the fuck was Ryan?

The reactions of everyone on the table, except mine and Kelsi's of course, got me worried for Veronica. This Ryan was definitely bad news.

"When is he coming back?" Austin asked.

"I'm not sure. Maybe a month or two."

"And when did you get this 'joyous' news?"

"About five days ago."
Veronica was almost shivering from what I assumed was fear and guilt. She was very obviously just a few seconds away from a meltdown.
I wanted to ask Austin to calm down but I knew I couldn't when I didn't even know what was happening.

"And for five days, you didn't bother telling any of us about this? You didn't bother telling the people who made sure you got out of depression? The depression you went into because of this VERY SAME GUY?"

Of course. Depression. That explained the anxiety pills. Anxiety could sometimes lead people into depression. But why did she still have them if she was now out of it?

"I- I didn't want to bother any of you."

"I can't take this bullshit anymore," Austin muttered and got out of his chair with a loud screech.

Maybe it was because I knew she was in a lot of pain. Maybe it was because I new she still wasn't over what happened, considering the anti anxiety pills. Maybe it was because I didn't know why I was doing this. But one look at her broken form and I knew I had to do something.

I gave her a reassuring nod, silently telling her I'll try to talk to Austin and walked behind him to fix this mess up.

***

Three days and Austin still wasn't talking to Veronica. I could tell she was a little better since the others decided to forgive her today but she was still clearly very sad.