Chapter 4: Chris

     !!TW!!There is a panic attack is this chapter. Although I myself have never had one I know this can trigger some people and I did my research to make it a little more real. I will put a TW where it starts and tell you where it ends.

     When me and Tony woke up the next morning we were no longer on opposite sides of the bed. Our bodies were smushed together and we were fighting over the blanket, giving up I let go and let him have it. He gave me a smug smirk and rolled over to face the windows.

I sat up and got out of the bed, walking over to the windows I pulled his blinds open and let the sun shine in. "Wakey, Wakey, Tone." I said in a sing-song voice. He groaned and rolled over again. Rolling my eyes I walked over to him and yanked the blankets off of him then his pillow from under his head. "Mm. Five more minutes Xan." He mutters.

"Fine, five more minutes then you get up and you walk me home, because I'm not going back alone."

"Mhm, yeah, okay."

My phone starts buzzing from its spot on Tony's desk. I walk over and flip it open to see that Chris is calling. Once I answer I greet him "Hey Chris, what's up?"

"Xan, come over to mine in 25 minutes. And if you could stop by Tony's and bring him too, that'd be great."

"Uh, yeah, okay. May I ask what for though?"

"I tell you when you get here." He says and hangs up.

I put my phone down and turn to Tony. "Oh, looks like your five minutes are up. Get up Tone." I say to him while dragging his body off the bed. He hits the floor with a soft thud and groans

"Really, you had to drag me out of the bed."

I just smile at him and go to grab my clothes from the day before off his chair along with my backpack. "Hurry up, get dressed, Chris wants us to meet at his in 20 minutes and we have to stop at my house so I can change clothes." I say and leave the room to let him change.

He comes out two minutes later ready to leave. We walk down the street to my house and when we get there I unlock the door. The house is a mess, there is glass on the floor, the painting on the walls are broken, books and chairs are everywhere and so much more. I gasp at the sight and so does Tony, I don't say anything but just go up the stairs and to my room, the tall boy following behind.

When I get in there I go to grab a set of clothes for the day and go into the bathroom to change quickly. Once I'm done I throw the two outfits I wore yesterday in my laundry pile and grab my phone charger, wallet, and a chapstick. Tony and I leave once I'm done and head to Chris' place. On the walk to Chris' house I put my hair in two braids while me and Tony made light conversation and raced the rest of the way when I was done with the braids.

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     When we got there Chris told us that his mum left him money and he made Tony count it. I was sitting next to Maxxie at the table while Tony was slowly counting the money and when he got to the end Chris asked "How much is there?"

"1000 smackers." Tony tells him.

"I'd put it in premium bonds." Sid says to Chris from his spot by the fridge. "See, it's low rate with a steady return and it's tax free." He adds when Chris looks at him not knowing what premium bonds is.

"Are you sure you didn't just forget?" Tony asks Chris.

"Forget what?"

"Well like she said she's going on Holiday. You said "Yeah" , dropped a couple of pills and then forgot about the conversation."

"Look, I dunno, man. It says she's gone for a few days, but—" Chris gets interrupted by Anwar walking in.

"Is it true?" He asks as we all look at him. He looks at the table and sees the money, grabbing it "I'm money baby. I'm money. Yes!" He exclaims while throwing the money in the air making it fly everywhere.

"Oh, that's fucking great, Anwar." Maxxie and I say in unison.

"Cheer up you fucker, you're home alone and you've got an important question to answer. How you gonna spend this money?" Tony says to him.

"Please be responsible with this Chris." I tell him while he has a smile and this glint in his eyes.

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     A party. He spent the money on a party. I don't know how many people were in Chris' house but I was staring to get very claustrophobic by how close everyone was getting making it a little hard for me to walk. I made my way to the kitchen where Maxxie and Anwar were hanging out on the counters.

"He doesn't even know how many Viagras he's popped, man. He's holding it down with sellotape." Anwar tells Maxxie as I walk up to them

"Sellotape." Maxxie laughs

"Yeah, I don't know how."

"How what?" I ask when I make it over.

"Chris has had an erection for 15 hours." Maxxie tells me. My mouth falls open and I start laughing while jumping up onto the counter by Maxxie.

"But he sellotaped it to his belly or his balls. I don't know. He's sellotaped it to something." Anwar tells us

Just then Chris walks into the kitchen to grab a beer and the three of us notice his erection, which is quite big. With all share amused smiles with each other. "All right." He says to us then leaving.

"Still hasn't helped then." Maxxie nudges the two of us, "Must be the sweat." I say and we laugh.

Later on I find Tony and we stumble upon Sid talking to a girl who's falling asleep. "I'll call you tomorrow. What's your number?" Sid asks her.

"Sid?" Tony and I say and he looks at us then does a couple hand gestures, he looks at the girl questioning whether to lay her down but then sighs and gets up, her head making a thump when she hits the floor.

The three of us go back into the party and have a few drinks although I took tiny sips so my bottle was basically still full. After a while I disburse from the two to go to the toilet. Once I'm done I can't seem to find the two anywhere when I get back, so I decide to try and have a little fun. With all the people surrounding me and squishing pass me it was hard for me to. I know this was a party but I needed to make sure that everyone I knew was going to be safe and the only way to do that was to be sober.

!!TW: PANIC ATTACK!!

I got claustrophobic again and I could feel the air get lost in my lungs, making it hard to breath. All the people dancing and making it so hot in the room and I suddenly started to feel all sweaty. I tried my best to make it through the crowd without knocking anyone or anything down but I was getting very dizzy and couldn't see straight. I ended up running into someone, who just so happened to be Maxxie.

"Xan. Xandria?  Xan talk to me, are you alright." He asks his face contorting into worry.

My breath starts coming out in low pants from the lack of air and my heart was racing. I honestly felt like I was losing my mind. Why was this happening I'm at a party. I should be having fun, not having a fucking panic attack. I shake my head to answer Maxxie, my words not able being to come out.

Maxxie nodded and grabbed me by the arms, dragging me out of the party to the front of the house. As soon as we got out there I felt the fresh air, but it was still hard to breath, my breathing was just shallow breaths.

"Alright, Xannie, just breath okay? In and out." He tells me while taking deep breaths and exhaling, I copy his actions and my breath slowly comes back, the dizziness and heat I felt earlier slowing going away because of the cold night air. "Yeah, that's good. Calm deep breaths." He says.

Once I regain my breath I look at him with a smile "Thank you Maxxie." I say to him.

He looks at me and pulls me into a small hug "Anytime." He says and presses a small kiss on my forehead and I hug him back and pull away after a few seconds.

!!END OF PANIC ATTACK!!

"Now, shall we go back in?" I ask while standing up from where he sat us on the floor.

"You wanna go back in after that?" He asks

"Yeah, I'll be fine. I'm sure I will be fine."

" Xan."

"I'll be fine Maxxie." I say in a reassuring tone. Although I'm not if I'm trying to reassure him or me.

"Alright. But if you feel like that again I want you to go to a space where no one is really at and call me, so I can find you in there, okay?"

"Okay." He smiles and stands up walking me back into the house.

Walking back into the house Angie ran past us and outside, Chris following her. I didn't even know Angie came.

Me and Maxxie looked at each other and shrugged going to party.

After dancing with Maxxie for a while we split up and I found Chris sulking.

"Why the long face, Chris?" I ask while sitting next to him.

"Angie left, thought I had a boner cause I was dancing with her." He tells me while taking a sip of his beer.

"We'll cheer up. Lets dance, hm? Have a little fun before the night is over." I say while getting up and extending my hand out to him.

He looks at my hand then up to me, shrugging he takes my hands and gets up.

"Fuck it." He says and we walk to the little dance floor in the living room.

That's how I spent the night, dancing with Chris and Maxxie when he would bump into us time after time.

After a couple more hours the party ended and we all passed out.

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When I woke up the next morning i noticed I was the only one awake. Or I thought I was. Chris wasn't in my sight and I could see Jal start to get up as well.

I got up from where I was sleeping and walked to the kitchen. Jal was right behind me, when we get in the kitchen we saw Chris putting milk in the fridge with a glum expression.

"You okay Chris?" I asked

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the others asleep."

"Yeah." Jal says and I nod.

"I don't really sleep well in other people's houses." She tells us.

"Do you want me to walk you home?" Chris asks her.

"It's miles, but thanks."

"Right. How about you Xan, need a walking pal home?" Chris asks me

"No, I'm gonna stay here for a while." I tell him

He nods and continues to put milk in the fridge.

Chris ends up asking Jal how her music competition went and if she won, which she sadly didn't.

"Hey, still, a finalist though that's gotta be alright ain't it?" I say

Jal doesn't say anything, instead just walks to sit down.

"What did the winner get?" Chris asks

"Oh, he signed an international recording contact." She tells us

"Cool." I say as I sit down next to her.

"What did you get?" Chris asks, handing the two of us milk bottles and sitting down himself.

"I got £25 to cover my travel."

"Wankers." Chris and I say at the same time.

The three of us bring the milk bottles to our lips and we all take a sip. When finish we are left with little milk mustaches, but none of us wipe it off.

"Chris, where's your mum?" Jal asks

"Dunno, mate."

Silence is all that's left between the three of us.

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"I think she's quit sexy." Michelle says from her spot on the couch. At the moment we were all watching an exercise video on the Telly. Tony, Michelle, Anwar, and the pizza guy were sitting on the couch well Sid, Jal, Maxxie, Cassie, and I were on the floor. Maxxie had his head on my lap while I played with his hair and Cassie painted his toes.

"I've always wanted to fuck an older woman." Anwar informs us. "It's the hips, just above the knickers." He says watching the girl making me make a face. "It's the way the skin bunches, you know? I mean look at their. Very nice hips."

"Where's Chris?" Cassie asks noticing he was missing.

"Right here." Chris says as he walks in where we all are.

"This man won't let us start the pizzas 'till you pay him." Jal informs Chris.

"Okay, anybody got any cash?" Chris asks us. Causing us all to look up at him.

"You've got a grand." Anwar tells him.

"Nah man. I've got a nice hi-fi, about 4,000 beer cans and then a few of these empty wraps. What? Listen yeah, right okay, a thousand pounds ain't even that much money these days, really when you think about it so."

"I'll pay him." I say as I reach into my pocket.

"Xan, you don't have to. Really." Chris tries to tell me but I've already got the money out.

"It's fine Chris, I got it. My treat. Consider it a hangover helper."  I hand the guy the money and he hands over the pizza boxes.

"Have a good day!" I say to him as he leaves and flips me off subtly while rolling his eyes. "Dick." I mutter and open a box to allow everyone to grab a slice.

"Thank you Xan!" Chris says while grabbing a slice.

"It's no big deal." I wave it off. It's just a friend helping a friend, that's all.

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"Xandria. You're up. Go get Chris some trousers." Tony says as we a boy that liked me before walk the halls of college.

Apparently Chris got kicked out of his own house by some druggie or something and was walking the streets naked.

I let my hair out of my ponytail and fixed it a bit then walk over to the boy, his name was Kyle or something.

"Hey Kyle." I say in a flirty voice.

"It's Myles actually." He corrects me but looks me up and down, checking out my body. I try not to roll my eyes. Doing this for Chris I think to myself.

"Right! Myles. Anyway um, do you think by any chance I can uh- borrow your trousers?"

"Why?"

"For a friend."

"What do I get out of it?"

"I'll give you blow job, is that good enough?"

He nods excitedly "yeah. Yeah that's great!"

"Great! So why don't you just go into the toilets and take them off then give them to me."

"Alright. Give me sec." he says as he walks to the boys toilets that are conveniently across the hall and goes to take off his trousers.

I turn my head and wink at everyone else. He comes out ten seconds later with his trousers in hand. "There you go. Pair of trousers."

"Thanks! See you around." I say to him and walk away towards my friends. I toss the trousers to Tony and we start speed walking through the halls.

"Hey! What about my payment!" Myles yells when we start getting farther.

"It's never gonna happen Kyle! But thanks for the trousers!" I yell to him as we all start running to where Chris is.

When we get there we barge into the classroom.

"Hey Chris! Trousers. How good are we?" Maxxie says as we enter.

"We? I got them." I say to him with a look and he just smiles.

"Don't tell him." Anwar says

"You created such a noise, mate." Tony says as he makes it into the class "Everyone's talking about some naked guy who just walked through school."

"People are trying to work out whether you made some kind of political statement." Sid says

"This top any good?" Michelle asks as she walks in

"I think you'll like it." Cassie tells him.

"I didn't think anyone would notice." Chris says

"Yeah, maybe just a bit of people did" I say at the same time Sid says

"Yeah, maybe a few did."

As we look at the window we see a bunch of kids gathered at it all laughing.

"Pull yourself together man. Christ, you need a mom, you big baby." Tony says to Chris

"Tony!" Me and Jal exclaim at the same time.

"Fucking he'll, he's not that pathetic. You can take a joke, can't you Chris."

"Look, you try it okay? No mom, no dad. On your own." Jal yelled Tony.

"Sounds brilliant to me."

"I've got a dad." Chris says making us all look up at him in surprise.

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After collage Jal went with Chris to his dads trying to see if he could stay with him. I went home. When I got there it was like nothing had ever happened the last couple days.

Kai had seemed to already be here, he was in his room cleaning his closet or something. I went to my room and threw myself in my bed.

I was bored. Maxxie was with Anwar. Michelle was busy doing something for her mum, I don't know what Cassie was doing, Sid was doing what ever Sid does when he's not hanging with Tony and I.

Tony. Tony wasn't doing anything, maybe I could do something with Tony. I got off the bed and changed into something different.

I grabbed my backpack and went to Kai's room. "Hey I'm gonna be gone for while, you good alone?" I say as I poke my head in his room and he nods. I smile softly at him and leave the house. I walk straight to Tony's.

Once I get there I knock on the door and Effy opens it ten seconds later.

"Oh hey Eff, Tony in?" I ask and she nods. "Good, grab your stuff we're going shopping." I say to her as she lets me in. I walk up the stairs to Tony's room and open the door.

"Tony, come on let's go. I'm spending the day with my two favorite Stonem siblings."

"We are the only Stonem siblings you know Xan." He says as he gets up from the bed. "Where we going anyway?"

"To the shopping centre." I answer his question as he starts putting on a shirt.

"You're lucky I'm bored." He says as he walks to the room door.

"Yeah, yeah. I should be thrilled over the moon excited that Tony Stonem is gonna spend the rest of the day with me." I sarcastically faint and he quietly chuckles. "Let's go. Effy you ready?" I ask as we walk down stairs.

She nods her head and we leave the house to go shopping. When we get to the shopping centre we go to a few stores and buy some things. I pay for most of mine with money I took from dad before I left the house.

In the middle of our shopping Tony got hungry so we stopped and got some pretzels from a food cart.

"These are amazing." Tony says as he eats his pretzel. Effy and I nod in agreement. These pretzels are the best thing I've ever had. Maybe it's just because we're hungry from shopping but they are over the top, out of this world good.

"Best money I've spent all day." I say in between bites.

Once we finish our snacks we decided to just go back to my place and watch a movie. We decided on a scary movie so I put on The Shining.

When Kai heard the door open when we got home he decided to join us. Now we all sat on the couch in the living room watching the horror film.

I was sat by Tony, Kai was between our legs on the floor and Effy was on the other side of me.

"I'm not gonna kill ya... you didn't let me fishing my sentence. I said I'm not gonna kill ya, I'm just gonna bash your brains in!" Jack, the husband who's now insane, says on the television.

Me and Tony share a mischievous glance and we nod our heads, thinking the same thing. We both reach down and grab Kai, scaring the boy and start fake attacking him making him scream in shock.

Tony and I throw our heads back laughing at the high pitch scream that leaves the boys mouth, Effy laughing as well but the type of laugh were no sound comes out. I always loved Effy's laugh, the way the happiness spread on her face.

The laughing dies down after a minute or two, all of us needing to catch our breath. It's about ten o clock. Remembering that Kai has school in the morning I turn the movie off, Tony and Kai whining about it.

"It's getting late, Kai you have school tomorrow go get ready for bed. Stonems, you two can stay here tonight. Effy you can have my bed. Tony and I will sleep in here." I say to the three of them.

Effy and Kai nod and head upstairs. I go up there to grab some blankets for me and Tony.

Once I grab them I head back downstairs where Tony is.

"Thanks for today Xan, I had fun and I know Effy did too." Tony says to me as I hand him the blanket.

"It's no problem. I was bored earlier and to be completely honest you guys made my day really fun. Especially when we had to run around the centre to get away from that security guy. That was amazing." I say remembering how long we were running around the mall for until we lost him because of how many people were on the escalator.

He laughed slightly, the moment playing in his head. "Yeah that was fun. Can I be honest with you?" He asks me and I nod, setting up my spot on the couch. "I'm really glad I met you Xandria, you're one of my best mates and you make life a little more exciting." He tells me making eye contact with me.

"I'm happy I met you too, Tony. You're my best mate, not second best, best mate." I tell him never breaking eye contact. Tony gets up from his spot on the couch and walks over to me, once he does he wraps his arms around me.

For a moment I'm shocked, I mean anyone would be, Tony Stonem showing affection or care to anyone other than his own sister? That's not something you see everyday. Recovering from my moment of shock I wrap my arms around his torso and let him hug me for how ever long he wants to.

After about four minutes he let's go and gets ready to go to sleep on his spot on the couch. He gets under the blankets I gave him and gets comfortable. As I go to do the same Tony stops me.

"Xan"

"Yeah, Tone?"

"Can you sleep with me tonight? I've been having trouble sleeping lately. I don't know why."

"Yeah, yeah of course." I say nodding my head and walking over to him. He opens up the blanket enough for me to get under int and once I'm under he lets it fall and cover the both of us.

After a while we get comfortable on the small space on the couch. Tony's arms are around my waist and I'm holding onto his hands.

"Night Tony." I whisper to him

"Night Xan." He whispers back and we both fall asleep.

The next morning when I wake up I can still feel Tony's arms around me.

"Oh, you're awake." Tony says from his spot behind me and I nod my head a bit "Sorry, I didn't wanna wake you so I've just been laying like this for five minutes." He tells me.

"Thanks. Get any sleep last night?" I ask and he nods his head while taking his hands away from my waist.

After a while I get up and go to the kitchen to make some breakfast for the four of us considering mom and dad aren't home.

I make some eggs, French toast, and bacon for us and once it's done I serve everyone.

We all eat at the table and the talk to one another, with the exception of Effy nodding or shaking her head when one of us asks her something.

That's how we spend the morning before Kai heads to school, Effy going to do something before she goes to school and Tony and I head to college.

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Hope you liked this chapter! Sorry it took a while to post. Don't forget to vote and comment. Also who should Xandria end up with? I've yet to decide.

Published on June 16, 2021