A World All Of Her Own

Both of my parents utterly adored Evelyn but they very rare;y got to actually see her, my mum lived close enough to come visit every few months and to spend some quality time with us both, my dad lived far to the north of the country so it was a special occasion when he could come and visit us. Both my mum and dad would ring us both at least once a week and in truth my dad really went the extra mile with Evelyn, in some ways maybe he was trying to make up lost time that she had lost with her own parents? Dad always would ring her first, they both spent an hour or so giggling on the phone to each other before my call would come, it was one of the sweetest things I had seen and they got on pretty well but with them both being pranksters, sometimes they got on a little too well! Mum put just as much effort in with Evelyn and my parents got back the family they had lost in their divorce and as a result of the more turbulent depression of my teenage years.

Life was good, not just for me or Evelyn but for all of us, my parents were talking again, me and my dad had rebuilt our relationship and I had an even bigger and better family than before but more than anything else I had a real friend, Evelyn had a family again and my house had finally become a home. Work was going great and my depression and bipolar disorder calmed so much they had all but faded into the distant past, I still had a few hard moments but for the most part I was growing used to being..... well kinda stable? Most people couldn't understand how much I relished in not being afraid of what version of me was going to crawl out of bed in the morning and how truly addictive for me the mundane and usual was, I couldn't remember the last time "angry Fae" or "I can't leave the house Fae" had fallen out of the duvet blinded by sunlight.

Every day just seemed to grow sweeter and more magnificent as the bond between me and Evelyn grew ever deeper and our lives though slowly diverging as we followed our career paths but we actively found ways to make sure we stayed close. Francois and Colette were both elated with the progress that Evelyn had made in her pursuit of becoming a fashion designer and seamstress, people now actively visited both of their shops exclusively to buy items made by little miss chaos herself. Tony and Evelyn still spent every Wednesday night together wandering around the rooftop garden of the Davizioso talking or just sharing a beer or four before Evelyn would spend the night in her apartment on the top floor of the Davizioso and giving me one night of quiet time. Evelyn had broken our "No interfering" rule to finally help me find a decent guy and as our relationship grew she started spending nights away to give us alone time....... though she did make an active game of seeing how red she could get my cheeks to go by making me blush the next day.

Life was so good yet I felt sorry for my parents as they missed out on so many of the stranger elements of our daily life together, I mean Evelyn is chaotic bizarre and unusual most of the time but every so often I would stumble across her, lost in a daydream, dancing or singing away to herself at the top of her voice in a utter state of bliss. Whenever I told either my mum or dad what curious things my little friend had been up to, they never seemed truly convinced that Evelyn could or would do something quite so strange. Sometimes I wondered if they realised how much of this new element of their family they they were missing out on so I thought maybe we should share some of Evelyn's more unusual moments that they didn't seem to believe were true.

Thankfully pictures and videos tell their own stories and I'm sure Evelyn will forgive me for sending them... someday anyway.