Make Me Better

I had went over to Lindsey's the next morning, filling her in on everything that happened. It took a me a while to explain because Lindsey kept interrupting with questions.

"I don't hang out with you for two days and all of this goes down?" She asked in a light tone trying to cheer up. I wasn't feeling too good about everything, why would I? I was going to make sure to spend less time with Frank, I knew I was his friend and all but Jenna was his girlfriend.

"What? That makes her feel like she got her way if you stop hanging out with Frank." Lindsey rolled her eyes.

"I don't care.' I shrugged. I might have told her tiny lie. Not only did I want to stop hanging out with for that , I needed to stay a way from him to steer clear of these weird feelings. I had thought about it all night yesterday. As much as I came up with possible ideas why I had felt a bit hurt when Frank called me his friend, I knew there was only one reason. I hated that reason, that reason came out of nowhere and caught me off guard. I couldn't tell Lindsey, she would just urge to tell Frank about my feelings, that was the last thing I wanted to do.

I had to spend time away from Frank to get over this stupid feeling. I had been successful in avoiding Frank until I realized that I HAD to see Frank.

I had forgotten all about Frank's birthday. I sure did pick a great time to try and avoid him. I could make up a lame excuse and not go to his party but that would be a bit mean. But staying home and not going would be better then going and avoiding him at his own party. I would sound like a jackass if I called Frank and told him I couldn't go. His birthday was only a day away. I could fake an illness. God, I was pathetic, trying to think of ways to NOT attend my best friend's party. I wasn't being much of a best friend. So, I did what I always did when I usually had a problem. I went to Lindsey, again.

This time I explained that I had some sort of feelings towards Frank. I kept trying to push them away but they were still there, deep down.

"Oh, my! What did I tell you!?" She grinned. She pulled me into a tight hug before laughing.

"This isn't a good thing." I mumbled. "Why not?" She asked slowly.

"I don't want to like Frank." I sighed. Lindsey frowned, "But you two would look cute together, just picture your babies." She grinned.

"Lindsey, no!" I smiled even though I didn't really want to, "I came here to ask if I should go to his party or not."

"Why wouldn't you go? If you don't he'll only worry."

"I just don't want to be there when he'll be with Jenna."

"You're jealous!" She said in a high pitch voice. I refrained from rolling my eyes. "Well, I just told you I liked the kid, what do you expect? Anyway, I don't want to see her either."

"Look, just go. Say hi and just hang with Gee and I. You'll make it obvious that you're trying to avoid him if you don't go. You know Frank will realize and question the hell out of you."

"I don't know...." I trailed off. There was knock on the door. "Is that Gee?" I asked. She nodded. I followed Lindsey out her room and down the stairs, to the front door. I was expecting to see Gerard, but instead I saw Gerard and Frank. I felt the heat rise up into my cheeks. This is just great.

"Oli, hi!" Frank waved. Uh, what do I do? What do I do? Act normal, that's what. I waved quickly. Too quickly. Gerard and Lindsey gave me looks. I need to get out of here.

"So, what are you going to go as?" Frank asked as I made my way down the rest of the stairs.

"What?" I asked, trying so hard to sound casual and not nervous. "For my party."

Oh, right. I had totally forgotten about that. Frank's parties were always costume parties. I didn't even know what I wanted to be. His party was tomorrow, I didn't have much time to go look for a costume.

"Not sure." I shrugged. Gee raised an eyebrow, "You haven't gotten a costume yet? The party is tomorrow, you know."

"I know, I'll go look for one...." I trailed off, "Right now." I smiled walking passed all of them.

"I want to come." Lindsey said after me. I turned around and nodded. She kissed Gerard good bye and followed me."You just going to leave them at your house?"

"Yup, hopefully they won't cause too much damage." She smiled. It was the day before Halloween, so the good costumes were all gone.

"You can be a nurse." She smiled, I crinkled my nose, "That is so short, no ."

"Forget it, I'll be myself, best idea ever!" Lindsey rolled her eyes at me. "Wait, what are you going to be?" I asked.

"I'm going to be Harley Quinn and Gee is going to be The Joker, we wanted to be Batman villains." She smiled. I nodded, following her through the store.

"You can be Poison Ivy." She pointed to the green outfit. I laughed, "That's way too revealing."
We walked around once more, making sure we didn't pass anything good up. Lindsey stopped walking abruptly.

"What?" I asked.

"You can be Catwoman." She walked over to the leather costume.

"Lindsey..." I started to protest.

"Oh,come on. Just try it on." She practically pushed me into the dressing room. I walked out with a frown on. I tried to accommodate the tight leather to fit my body. I stood in front of Lindsey, waiting for her to laugh.

"Buy it!"

"What!" I looked into the mirror. "This is too much." Lindsey made me slide the mask on.

"Frank is going to freak."

"I don't want him to freak, he has a girlfriend, remember?" I asked as I tried to hide more of my cleavage. "My boobs are going to fall out."

"They are not." Lindsey pulled the zipper up higher, I sucked in a deep breath. "Look, I made your boobs even bigger!"

I frowned, I guess it wasn't that bad. "It isn't too sexy?"

"Olive, you know every girl there is going to be wearing nothing, it's not like you're showing off your ass. You boobs, yeah, but that's about it."

"It makes my waist look weird." I mumbled.

"it's showing off your curves." It didn't take long before Lindsey had talked me into buying the costume. I was just hoping that I wouldn't make a complete fool out of myself tomorrow night.