Say It One More Time

I was woken suddenly, too suddenly for my liking, by something jumping on my bed.
Through blurry morning eyes I could make out the figure of a person standing on my bed.
I let out a scream, well… nothing piercing and really loud… But enough to make whoever it was stop jumping and stare at me.
I rubbed my eyes to rid them of the sleep that had accumulated over night to see Frank stood on the end of my bed staring at me as if he’d seen a ghost.
“Fuck’s sake Frank.” I groaned, shooting an evil glare at him. I don’t do mornings.
“Urghh take a picture, it lasts longer.” I shot at him, turning over to go back to sleep. I don’t even know why he’s here so early.
“You really shouldn’t have said Rennie…” Frank laughed as I heard a camera click.
“Fuck you.” I groaned, giving the good ol’ two fingered salute.
“Well… Apparently my new girlfriend already did that to me last night” he said with a wink, still stood at the foot of my bed.
“You’re a tramp… Why are you so early anyway?”
“Well… It’s not actually that early, you missed your alarm… Although I have been in your house for a while, mum’s been at it again…” he explained jumping off my bed and heading to the door. I looked at the time and saw that my alarm had indeed already gone off, about fifteen minutes ago, thank god I don’t need to shower this morning.
“Well, I’m gonna leave you to get dressed” he said opening my door, “Nice hair by the way, it really suits you, kinda… sexy…” he complimented me, slowing down on the last part and looking at the floor, he quickly left and shut the door leaving me staring at it, totally shocked. He said my hair looked sexy!
I jumped out of bed and found my uniform, quickly pulling it on. I dragged my hairbrush through my hair and straightened it; I finished it off by covering it in hairspray and messing it up. I put on my usual makeup, only I used green eye shadow to contrast my new hair colour.
It didn’t take me long to get ready, so I was soon grabbing my bag and running downstairs to get my cuppa and breakfast.
“Morning” I pretty much sang as I entered the kitchen.
Mum was sat at the table reading the paper and Frankie was sat with a mug of coffee and his feet up on the chair next to him.
“Wow, you like to make yourself at home don’t you Frank?” I laughed as I went to the kettle.
“Huh? Oh yeah, why not?” he smirked.
“I swear it feels like I’ve adopted you sometimes…” Mum commented before casually adding, “It’s a good job Laura gave you a glowing reference or you’d be forced to sit on the doorstep and wait” Frank’s jaw dropped as I laughed at him, nearly spilling boiling hot water on my hand in the process.
“Don’t worry, I really don’t mind, you know you’re welcome whenever” she said after to make him feel better about always being here. I definitely don’t complain, I quite like having his sexy face wake me up in the morning… Oops… He must’ve got that word in my head… Oh well, can’t deny it!

I had soon finished eating and we were once again on our way to school. The weather was starting to warm up as summer approached, so I rolled my blazer sleeves up, letting the warm breeze hit my arms.
“So… I was thinking that I could pick you up at about 6 o’clock tomorrow evening… Is that ok?” Frank asked me cautiously.
“Yeah that sounds good” I smiled, “It’ll give me plenty of time to get ready”
He laughed at me, his laugh is so cute…
“You know… Gee is going to go mad when he sees your hair!”
“What makes you think that?” I laughed, imagining him going all sassy on me.
“I think he secretly wants to dye his hair red” Frank couldn’t contain the smirk from forming on his face.
“Ha! That would be awesome!”
“He’d look like a dick?” Frank questioned, looking at me like I was some maniac or something.
“You know you’d find him sexy” I winked, hinting at the little bromance that they have going on.
“I’m not gay Rennie!” He said suddenly going all defensive.
“That’s not what you were saying last night honeybun” Another voice cut into our conversation.
We turned to where it came from and saw Gee leaning up against a tree. He winked at Frank making me laugh.
I could see that Frank was trying to hold in a smile, but he was really struggling, and soon it broke out, that cute little grin of his.

I hadn’t even noticed that we had reached school, I guess I was just too distracted by Frankie…
“You’re hair looks ah-mazing!” Gee said walking over to me and fussing with it.
I couldn’t help but smile.
It wasn’t long before everyone else had noticed our arrival, and inevitably, my red hair.
“Oh my god Rennie!” Ally squealed, “That looks hot!”
Iris soon joined in, “It will look so much hotter tomorrow with what you’re wearing!” she winked at Frank teasingly, knowing that he was desperate to know what they had made me buy.
“Oh totally, we are so going to come round to get you ready, by the time we’ll be done with you, you’ll be so smoking hot that poor Frankie won’t know what’s hit him!” Ally added, I could see a look of frustration mixed with excitement in Frankie’s eyes as he listened.

“Oh my god, we so totally have to help you get ready then Frankie!” Bob imitated while jumping up and down in fake excitement, earning himself a slap round the back of the head from Iris.
“Shut it Bobbo, or we’ll be giving you a makeover.” She threatened. Funnily enough, he didn’t say any more.

Ally started to lead me and Iris away from the guys to talk about tomorrow, but to be honest I wasn't really listening...
We were walking slowly towards the school entrance, so the guys had followed and I couldn't help but overhear their conversation.

"So... You go to Rennie's house every morning before school now?" Ray asked him.
"Yeah, pretty much, for one, it gets me away from my mum's male friends... Plus I get to see Rennie for a little bit longer everyday..." he replied quietly.
"Wow... You really like her, don't you?" Bob asked in a serious tone that I've never heard him use before.
"Yeah, I guess I do..." Frank sighed, it almost sounded like a cheesy dreamy sigh that you get in crappy american teen movies...

"Seriously though, you gotta be careful, don't scare her, this is probably a pretty big thing for her after what happened..." Gee warned, it felt kinda nice to know that there's at least one person who cared about how hard this is for me.
"I know, I'm just gonna take it easy... Let things go at her pace" he replied simply.
"Yeah so like, no sneaking in her room in the mornings if she's not awake" Ray joked, making the guys laugh. Frank stayed silent, which probably gave him away.
"Seriously dude?! Please tell me you're kidding me!" Bob exclaimed, a little too loud as it got the attention of Iris and Ally.
"Ooh kidding you about what?!" Ally asked, completely intrigued.
"Frank sneaks into Rennie's room in the mornings before she's awake" Mikey explained to them. I smiled and rubbed my face in my hands.
"You lot are dicks," Frank cussed, "Her mum has asked me to go wake her up before, that's all, nothing creepy! he defended himself. Mikey was staring from me to him with a raised eyebrow.

"It's all true" I commented holding my hands up like I had a gun pointed at me, "My mum's too lazy to do it herself" I laughed. "Although... Taking that picture this morning could be considered creepy..." I trailed off, allowing a new course of interrogation to take place.

"Hey! In my defence, you told me to!" he said, his voice had gone high pitched as he tried to defend himself, "I couldn't help but stare because her hair had magically turned red, so she told me to take a picture cos it lasts longer... So I did..."
"Well... In that case I guess we'll let you off... Let's see it!" Gee piped up, grabbing at Frankie's phone and immediately opening up his photo album.

"Haha! She doesn't look like a morning person!" he laughed hysterically, handing the phone around.
"Yeah... The amount of 'fuck you's' I got off her this morning would probably agree with that..." Frank laughed, feeling slightly more at ease now.
"Anyway, guys, as amusing as this is the bell just went..." Ally announced, killing all our fun. The guys all let out a groan as they parted to go their separate ways.
"See you guys at lunch, losers!" I called out to them, gaining a few flipped fingers in the process.
Ah how I love my new friends...