THE NEW GIRL

5. IT'S A ROYAL PARTY.

KYLIE'S POV:

We reach the second living room upstairs just to find the place full.

Why do they even throw the parties?

What's the point?

I drift my focus to Gabriella by my side, fidgeting as she holds her white iPhone XR.

I reach out to her shoulder, she flinches in fear, because of her nervousness.

"Easy there. Don't be scared, I'm by your side."

"Sorry. I'm just a little bit nervous." She says as she bites her bottom lip.

I chuckle. "You don't have to be. Just be confident, don't be too quiet, feel free, but most importantly, be yourself."

"But-"

"No buts." I caught her off before we both realize what I just said. We both giggle.

Butts.

"Yay. You're smiling. C'mon let's go." We start walking through the tough big crowd.

Did they seriously have to bring half the population of the school?

As we try to manage our way into the crowd, we get a lot of looks, and most people saying 'hey! It's the newb from the cafeteria.' and 'is she seriously here? I can't believe she's here!' even some people were taking pictures of her as she walks. I can feel she's uncomfortable. Then she stops walking.

She places her left palm on her chest and she starts to breath heavily. "Umm, Kylie...can we go...somewhere...a little... less...crowded... I'm...claustrophobic..." She says.

Oh my god, I gotta get her out of here.

"OMG. I am so sorry. Come on, let's go through this way." I lead her through a hallway leading to a door. I open it quickly revealing the game room.

This is the coldest place in the mansion. The temperature for her will be good right now.

I can see her inhale and exhale normally now.

"Oh My Gosh thank you. Sorry, anxiety and claustrophobia."

"No it's OK. It happens. So what do you wanna do first?"

"Ooo let's try the racing simulators!" She jumps in joy. I let out a small laugh.

"C'mon let's go." I drag her hand running like little kids to go get our coins, then run to the simulators giggling. We get the attention of almost everyone in the room as we laugh at ourselves for behaving like kids.

We both sit down on the chairs and insert our coins.

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GABRIELLA'S POV:

At first, as I saw the huge crowd, nervousness hit me. Then people started looking at me, saying all sorts of thing like, "hey you guys should look, it's the newb from the cafeteria!!" and "I can't believe she's here, like seriously she's here." Then their act surprised me. They started taking pictures of me, then at that point, my anxiety hit me. Then another one that hit me was "Why is she here anyway? I wonder if they will do something to her. Maybe revenge? I wouldn't be surprised."

At that point, BOOM!! my claustrophobia came knocking at my door.

I got fully aware my surrounding, the crowd, the tiny amount of oxygen in the room.

The air became tight. I was finding hard to breath.

I kept on trying until I couldn't conceal it anymore, I stopped.