Love Is Complicated

Worried

Stephanie groaned and shot out her arm, accidentally shoving her alarm clock onto the floor.

She sat up with a glare and looked around the room. Her walls were covered with movie and band posters, pictures of the trio through the years, and circulating the room were led lights, set to a soft blue. With a sigh, she threw her covers off, turned and planted her feet on the floor.

She felt herself drifting back off to sleep as she sat there, but her phone rang, pulling her out of it.

"Wah!" Stephanie yelped as she landed face down on the floor. She groaned in pain and picked herself back up to grab her phone, glaring at Andy's caller ID. Asshat wanted to video chat at eight in the morning.

"I'll kill you." She answered, rubbing sleep from her face as she got herself the rest of the way up and stumbled over to the light switch, turning it on, effectively blinding herself.

"Good morning to you, too." He chirped on the other end.

Stephanie gave a snort of annoyance and checked the time. "What are you doing up? It's barely eight."

Andy gave an irritated chuckle. "Celeste wants to keep my sleep schedule on track. Which is pointless, but okay."

Stephanie buzzed her lips and made her way to her vanity and sat down.

Her pink curls were an unruly mess on top of her head. She tried to run her fingers through it but found the hair tie she'd forgotten to take out.

"Crap." She groaned and dropped her head. She put her phone down and switched the call to video so she could talk and do her hair. "Okay, what's the plan?" She asked as she started struggling to take the hair tie out.

"Well." Andy started. "Marcus is probably still asleep, but I can wake him up."

Stephanie nodded but was too focused on the knot too really pay attention.

"Alright. I'll call you back with Marc."

"Oki." she said, then resumed what she was doing. 

The call dropped and Stephanie huffed.

She glared at the mess on her head in the mirror then examined the rest of her face. Her blue eyes accompanied her pink hair well. Her natural color was a darker red, but she hated the soulless comments and being called "Ginger" all the time, so she dyed it a florescent pink. But, the color was fading and her roots were showing, so it needed redone. People also picked fun at her for how pale she was. She wasn't as pale as Marcus, but she was a close second.

The phone went off, interrupting her thoughts. She answered and was greeted with the faces of her two best friends.

"You know." She said with a smile. "A girl could get used to wake up calls from her besties.."

"Oh, please don't friend zone me again." Marcus groaned playfully.

Stephanie smiled as she continued to work at the knot in her hair and Andy buzzed his lips.

"What?!" Marcus asked defensively.

"I know you're in love with me." Stephanie snorted.

"Y'know, and I probably will be until I die, so." He shrugged and took a sip of the coffee that was handed to him by someone in the background. "Thank you." He said to the person.

"Okay, so what's the plan?" Stephanie repeated her earlier question, trying really hard not to just rip that chunk of her hair out. She knew that would hurt like a bitch, but she wanted to be done with the yanking of the baby hairs. that shit was sensitive.