My Angel

Ch.10: Hook me Up

Since it's Saturday and the beginning of the new semester I don't have much to do with myself other than laze around in bed all day. It's 12 in the afternoon and the most I've done is have some frozen waffles and watch Encanto for the billionth time this year. Setting the empty plate down on my bedside table I sit up against my headboard and pause the movie. 

" Why do I keep watching this movie?" I ask myself out loud. Maybe it's the musical numbers that keep drawing me in. 

We don't talk about

Bruno-no-no-no

We don't talk about Bruno

I-

I pause the film and quickly sit up when I hear a knock on my door. Sitting there in silence my ears strain against the humming of the ceiling fan I left on in the bathroom. Suddenly three more knocks come through on the door. Getting up I tiptoe to the door hoping the knocker doesn't hear me as my eyes draw downwards towards the slit under the door revealing the shadow of the mystery person. There's no way I'm answering the door looking like this. I think internally looking down and my crumb-covered pyjamas while I'm wearing my old beaten-up purple bonnet. The knocking comes back again but is accompanied by a familiar voice this time. 

" Angel open the door." My eyes light up and I immediately swing it open as I launch myself into his arms before he can take a step in.

" Simon!" I squeeze him so tightly never wanting to let go as I feel him squeeze me back. He bombards me with kisses and then speaks. 

" Though it'd be fun to surprise you." He says grinning into another kiss that falls on my cheek. As the door close behind us.

" I thought you wouldn't be back until Sunday evening," I say clinging onto his warm body. 

"Well I was but I missed you so much that I couldn't wait." He says placing a hand on my head and petting my head lightly.  

I subconsciously melt into his touch as my cheeks burn with affection. Wiggling out of his grasp I take a step back and quickly run into my room before presenting him with his gift. 

" Merry late Christmas!"

***

It doesn't take a while for Simon to join me in bed to watch the movie. While catching up about the things we did over the break my phone pings. The screen says I received a notification from Ricardoxx_. Opening the message I laugh when I see the funny meme he sent me on Dr. who and this draws Simon's attention away from the movie to see what I'm giggling about.  

" What's that?" He says placing his head on my shoulder to look at my phone screen. The ending credits of the movie begin to roll in before Disney + recommends another movie to play.

" I got a funny meme from my friend Ricardo I met him in the laundry room yesterday he's here on scholarship to play basketball." The moment I finish speaking Simon takes my phone and immediately begins scrolling through Ricardo's feed. 

I watch his face grow unimpressed when he looks through his feed. 

" Pshh he's just some light skin pretty boy so what," he says under his breath. 

" Simon!" I say taken aback by his snarky remark. 

" He's probably only talking to you to get in your pants that's all they care about you know," he says in a petty tone. Feeling offended by Simon's tone I rip my phone out of his hand and cross my arms. 

" Why are you being such an asshole I was talking to Ricardo for a while and he doesn't seem like that he's actually really nic-"

" That's what nice guys want you to think then they go and try to get with yo- hey why are you even defending this guy," he says with furrowed brows and a steadily growing angry expression.