We walk up to the door and a tall guy who is really good looking greets us.
"What took you so long? You're the last one here." The tall hot guy says.
"My mom was being annoying." Nico states.
"Ya right, I heard you were doing it with Lyndsey this morning." The guy says while chuckling.
"Shut up." Nico says while shoving the other guy and walking inside. I follow him, but an arm stops me.
"Who is this beautiful lady?" The tall guy says while looking me up and down. Before I can say anything Nico interrupts me.
"She's an old friend staying with us."
"Old friend huh." The tall guy says.
"Don't you get any ideas now." Nico says while pulling me by the arm to follow him.
"Garret just wants to get in your pants so just avoid him." Nico says to me and I just nod.
I follow Nico and he sits with the girl from this morning. I sit on a couch that is empty. Right when I sit a guy jumps from the back of the couch and sits right next to me. And then a girl sits on my other side.
"Hi!" They both say at the same time.
"Hey." I say quietly.
"I'm Sydney and that's Jackson." She says excitedly.
"I'm Maya." I say.
"Guys stop bothering Maya." Nico says to Sydney and Jackson.
"We're just talking to her." Jackson says innocently. "We're not bothering you, are we?"
I shake my head no.
"See we're just being friendly." Sydney says.
Nico looks at me and just says whatever and goes back to the girl sitting in his lap.
"How do you know Nico?" Sydney asks me.
"I used to live next door to him." I tell her.
"Used to? Did you move?" She questions me.
"Ya I moved to Pennsylvania; I just moved back." I say.
We all sit and talk for a while and it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Nico's friends are pretty nice unlike Nico. Someone brings in snacks and we all eat some while watching a movie. The guys choose a horror movie so all the girls would get scared and come to them. The movie is about how these dolls kill a little girl's parents and then tries to kill the girl but doesn't succeed. I really don't wanna watch it because it could trigger some stuff from my past and then I'll start having a panick attack in front of all these people. This movie is basically my life: both our parents died and someone tried attacking us, for me it was Phill. Ever since my mom died I've been getting severe panick attacks and I can barely breathe and a lot of things trigger it.
We're about half way through the movie and I haven't started crying or anything yet which is a good sign. If I can make it half way I can make the other half. I got this, I can watch this without crying.
The girl in the movie screams when she sees the doll coming towards her. The girl is stuck and can't go anywhere. There's no hope left for her. I can't help the tears from coming. It starts getting hard to breathe and my mind is going back to all the times Phill would beat me over and over until I was a pulp compared to him. I put my head between my knees and try counting back from 10 and taking deep breaths. I think someone is talking to me but I can't hear them or anyone, all I hear are my silent screams at night begging Phill to stop. No one can hear me and I can't hear them I'm invisible.
Someone's sitting in front of me trying to calm me and telling me to look at them, but I don't wanna look up and face all these people. They probably think I'm some weirdo crying over a stupid movie. I'm so embarrassed.
"Hey it's ok. Just take a deep breath in and then out. Look up at me and name 3 things you can see." A familiar voice says to me.
I do as he says and look around and name the table, bowl, and lamp. My breathing starts slowing.
"Ok, now name 2 things you can touch." The same voice says.
"The ground and the couch." My breathing is getting back to normal and my tears are mostly gone.
"Now name 1 thing you hear." The voice says again.
"You're voice." My breathing is normal now and the tears are gone. I look up and see Nico sitting right in front of me.
"How did you do that?" I ask him.
"Its just something I learned from my mom." He says while getting up. "Come on, let's go."
"Where are we going?" I ask.
"I'm taking you back home, you're not feeling well." Nico says to me.
"But I thought you wanted to hang out with you're friends."
"I hang out with them all the time, besides I'm gonna see them tomorrow." He tells me.
"Ok." I say as I get up from the couch. We walk towards the door and say bye to everyone. Once we're in the car it's pretty silent for most of the car ride.
"Sorry I was rude to you earlier. I was in a bad mood." Nico says.
"Its fine."
"Do you mind me asking what happened back at Garret's house?" Nico questions me.
I think for a moment while looking out the window and decide to tell him.
"The movie reminded me of my parents and Phill." I say blankly.
"Phill? Who's that?"
"My step dad."
"Oh. I'm sorry about the movie I wasn't thinking about how you would feel or how it would affect you." He says guiltyly.
"It's fine. You're not supposed to take care of me, I can do that myself." I was about to say I have been for a while but I decided not to because then he would just ask me more questions I don't want to answer.
"It is my job to take care of you. Remember my mom told me to. Even if she hadn't I still would've because you're my friend." Nico says.
"We're friends?" I ask.
"Of course. Does childhood friendship mean nothing to you?"
"It does, it's just that ever since I came back you seemed like you didn't want me there."
"I told you I was in a bad mood. I had a bad week."
"Why did you have a bad week? I bet it's not as bad as mine was." I say.
"You wanna bet?" Nico says.
I nod.
"$10 to whosoever week was worse. Even though I'm pretty sure mine was way worse than yours. I'll go first."
"Ok."
"Well on Monday I woke up late and got late to class so I got a detention. And then I had a test Tuesday and got an F. Then I had a project due that was worth 20% of my grade that I forgot to do. Then my friend was mad at me because I was talking to his girl friend. And then my girlfriend broke up with me and then got back together with me just to break up with me again so I could 'feel the pain.'"
"Wow you really did have a bad week." I say to him.
"Yep I told you I had a worse week than you." Nico says.
"No you didn't." I state.
"Really? Worse than that? What happened?" He asks.
I wasn't really sure if I should tell him because he might think of me differently but for some reason I feel like I can tell him without him judging me.
"Well on Monday I got into a fight with this girl and then I got suspended. And since I was home for a couple days I had to take care of the kids and do all the chores. And then my foster parents told me they didn't want me anymore because I was too much trouble and they locked me outside all night until my case manager came to pick me up. And then she told me that I was living with Fiona and Manny and I was happy at first but then I was kinda sad cause I had to move again and I had to go back to the place my parents died. But atleast now I can visit them. And then there was this morning and then I just had a panick attack."
"Oof that sucks. I'm so sorry you had to go through all that. And I just kept making things worse for you." Nico says.
"Well atleast you tried making it better, you helped me when I had my panick attack." I say.
"Ya I was worried I did something wrong to make you cry and I didn't want to get in trouble with my parents. My mom did say I had to bring you back in one peice."
I just chuckle.
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