The Game

We gather around the bed once again and I notice out of the corner of my eye, Avery is once again in the corner shaking. "Avery? Are you okay?" She looks up at us, we see her tear stained face but oddly enough she's smiling. "I need to see them. My family is calling, she's calling." What? "Avery snap out of it and come and join us." Leah says, "She's probably worried about her girlfriend.. She doesn't know if she survived or not." I'm hoping she'll be okay but we all didn't know what to do for Avery. We figured she could cry it out and then she would be good. We start playing it's pretty fun, we're all laughing and doing stupid dares. "Okay now, does anyone have any drama that has happened between you and another person in this circle?" Elijah says. I nervously look around, I feel my face turn red. No, I really don't want to tell them about Noah, even Noah doesn't know. I have told Camila and Avery about it though, but Avery seems out of it and Camila knows I got over it. I'm going to say it anyways, "I have one." I speak up, and everyone turns towards me. "I used to have the biggest crush on someone here in the circle but I'm not telling who." Everyone looks around at each other in curiosity. "Same here, but it isn't a used to." Liam speaks up. God fucking dammit Liam, he always teases me about this stuff and I always tease him. "Same here, different person though." Elijah says turning his face away, his whole face turned into a tomato. "I don't have feelings." Leah claims as the asexual of the group, she's the most oblivious (besides me because I and many other people have discovered that I am dense as fuck). "Well then, this is going to be a fun 7 days isn't it? Who knows what could be happening between them." Camila nudges me a bit after saying that then winks at everyone who spoke. "Well me and Deirdre aren't here specifically for the romance but if it's happening then it's happening, just not on our bed okay?" Deirdre said. We blushed. "Really Deirdre? I don't think we would go that far.." I admitted. "I would go that far with you, I mean what?" We all turned to look at Liam who was now hiding his face behind a pillow, I think he was blushing and I swear I was going to hit him. "Okay stop with the drama and romance, Avery are you okay?" We all look to Avery after Jacob finally spoke up about it. She was trembling and crying hysterically but not making any sound whatsoever. She was pale white and all the life had drained from her eyes. She looked up at us, "Hey guys, why are you looking at me like that? I'm fine. I think at least.." She looked back down at the floor and sat down, we had all grabbed clothes (mostly hoodies and jackets) besides food since we knew we had to get clothes since radiation was already on ours. "Avery, are you sure you're okay? You don't look so good." I doubted every single word she was saying. I was scared honestly for her, and if it was something caused by the bomb or just the fear of not having your family. Or, if it was caused by the radiation. That would be worse because then we would all be in danger. We all turn to each other worriedly and start to whisper things Avery cannot hear. "What if its radiation and it's seeping into her brain?" "What if Bird box is real and it's happening?" "I don't think Bird box had a bomb." We all started coming up with crazy things that could be happening to her. I looked over to Noah who had stayed silent the entire time, he realized I was looking at him and said to me, "What if she's going mentally insane?"