CHAPTER 18

I hear a phone drop on the floor as Luke goes blank for a moment and just stares at me. 

I sit up and look at him repeating my words, "I think I'm being followed again." 

This seems to snap him out of his trance and he shoots up throwing questions, "WHAT?! Who was it? Did you see the number plate? Or the drivers face? Are you okay?"

I take deep breaths before answering, "I'm not sure who it was and I don't remember his face. I did ask Sally to jot down the number plate so ask her and um yeah I'm okay."

He stares at me with furrowed eyebrows for a very long time before pulling me into a hug, "it's okay not to be okay you know?"

I hug him and try ignoring the sinking feeling in my stomach. I hug him tighter as tears start forming in my eyes, "I'm fine Luke, we need to tell mom and dad and call Mr. Wilson."

"Soon Eve, soon," he says patting my back and slowly rocking me. "Just calm down okay? I'll call Sally to ask for the numbers and let her know everything."

I nod into his shoulder not ready to let go yet, "Okay but can we stay like this for a bit?"

He nods with a sad smile, "Of course."

After a couple minutes I let go of him and wipe my eyes. I look at him and smile, "I think I'm okay now."

He smiles back and gets up grabbing the phone from the floor and facetiming Sally. She picks up on the first ring and bursts, "WHAT HAPPENED?! I WAS SO WORRIED!"

Ricky's face pops up from behind her and he looks at the camera with the same worried expression as Sally, "Who followed who?" He yawns.

Luke runs a hand through his hair and sighs pulling on it's ends, "Evelyn thinks she's being followed again."

"I don't just think Luke, I'm positive I was, I mean why else would someone follow me all the way to my house, it's not like we got neighbours." I say scooting closer to him so I can get a better view of the phone.

"Wait what? He followed you to the house?!" Sally asks frowning.

"Oh fuck," Luke curses, "He must know where you live now, this isn't safe E."

I furrow my eyebrows panicking, "Ah shit, now what?"

Luke groans pulling on the ends of his hair, "I don't know..." he says frustrated.

I grab him by his shoulders and make him look at me, "Hey, hey we got this." I gather courage to smile, "let's talk to Mr Wilson okay? he'll tell us what to do."

He nods wishing Sally and Ricky and quick goodbye before handing me my phone back and grabbing his own calling Mr Wilson.

I look at him as he waits for Mr Wilson to pick up. 

I'm so grateful for a wonderful brother like him, he's so caring and always there when I need him.  

"I love you Luke," I smile, showing him truly how grateful I am for him.

He smiles back before kissing my forehead, "and I love you Eve."

The moment is cut short when Mr Wilson pick up his phone, "Hello?"

Luke greets him back and quickly cuts to the chase. I grab my phone from my lap and dial Dad's number but as expected it goes to voicemail. I sigh leaving him a quick voice message before calling my mom.

She picks up on the third ring, "Evelyn! honey what happened?" she asks worry lacing her every word. I rarely called her so she must know it's something serious and important.

The worry in her voice makes me choke on my words, I want her here with me so bad, I take a deep breath before filling her in on everything that happened.

When I'm done explaining everything all I hear is silence at the other end, "Mom? you there?" I ask.
She sobs, I actually hear her sob. "Oh Eve, I'm so so sorry I wish I was there with you right now. I can't believe you went through all alone honey."

"Mom I wasn't alone, I had Luke and my friends with me through out," I tell her, "I know you and Dad are busy with work so I wouldn't ask you to be here with me. I just needed you to know."

"Are you kidding me?!"She yells, "I'll talk to your Dad and we'll be there by tomorrow night at most. Both of your safety comes first before anything else."

I breathe out deeply.
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I changed into my pyjamas and was about to head to bed when someone knocks on my door, "Come on in."

Two seconds later the door slowly opens and Lukes head pops out, "Hey," he whispers walking in, "I hope you weren't sleeping."

I shake my head 'no' and pat on the bed beside me, "I was just about to sleep, what's up?"

"Umm... wanna watch a movie?" He says showing the laptop in his hands.

"Why not?" I smile scooting over to make place for him to adjust.

We start playing a random comedy movie. Half way through the movie, I stare at the screen zoning out.

The text I got from Will.

What if I get more from him, he even showed up to the party in LA.

He's obviously not going to quit anytime soon.

"Eve?" Luke calls softly.

"Hmm?" I reply trying to focus on what's happening in the movie.

"You're still thinking about Will aren't you?" he asks looking at me.

I look back at him and before I can try denying it, he continues talking, "It's fine to worry, but don't let it push you into a cycle of paranoia -" He looks at me dead in the eye and says, "- I can't bear to see a repeat of last time."

My heart sinks at the words and I shakily breathe out, "It's not going to happen this time, so don't worry about it Lukey."

He ignores the name and nods solemnly. He stretches his long limbs and yawns.

"Let's hit the hay, we got school." He says putting the laptop away.

"Look at you being concerned for school," I tease poking him.

"Pfft, where did that idea come from?" He replies laying down and pulling the sheets over himself.

"Hey, this is my room!" I kick his leg trying to push him off, "You're so fucking heavy, move!"

"Shush, I'm too lazy to walk back, just deal with it why don't you?" he murmurs getting comfortable on my bed.

Understandable.

I shrug at that and lay down too. I shut my eyes close forcing myself to fall asleep fast. He puts an arm around me and I push it off, "Go away!"

He puts his arm around me again holding it firm, "I don't want you having nightmares so shut it and sleep."

I breathe, lighter this time.

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So sorry for late update x