indigo | michael clifford

sky

         I honestly don't know how to react when I saw Serena, I haven't seen her in a year ever since, ugh.
That ruined my day completely. 

          The trip in the elevator feels like hours once we get down there, I have to lie to Maria and her questions about why Serena and I don't talk. Something about elevators scare the hell out of me, they're so tenacious and uncomfortable, I always feel like it's going to break down, they're so profaned too.

We walk swiftly out of the building and towards my car in the lot, "Can you play the direction?" Maria requests and grabs for my phone to play her music.

"Sure thing, go ahead." I say, she presses play.

"If you like causing trouble up in hotel rooms and if." I laugh because she already knows their new album.

"Mikey you got a text message from... What's Faith Qt?" She says making me go all red.

"Don't read what she said!" I almost yell.

"She says, hey ass hat. What is ass hat?"

"Oh my gosh, don't say that again."

"Ass hat, ass hat, ass hat!" She sings.

"Don't make me go over there, hell will rise."

"She was right, you are an ass hat."

"What? I'm way cooler than her."

"Who is she?" Maria whines.

"She's my- She's uh, She's just my friend." I pathetically manage to blurt out.

"Wow, you need to get some." What?

"Do you even know what that means?" I ask her, shocked that she's saying things like this.

"I'm not five." She says.

"You're seven. Its only two years away."

"SO! Lukey told me lots of things."

"Why were you talking with him?"

"He's nice, you should be his friend. He says you're too cool for him."

"He did, did he?"

"Yup" She smirks.

I'm surprised that Luke would say this, I thought he thought I was an idiot, for dying my hair all the time. I look over at Maria who's drawing something in the window with a marker.

"Hey, hey please don't draw on my car, unless you want to clean it." I say.

"Oopsie daisy." She giggles and I'm not impressed because i have to clean that shit up somehow.

I look at myself in the mirror when we get to a red light, my hair is all over the place, I try to fix it in place but nothing helps, it's a wreck. We pull up to the old fashioned ice cream place, I lock up my car and we stroll into the store.

Maria chooses bubblegum, as if its not obvious, and I choose mint chocolate chip, both in a waffle cone.

A short girl carrying two large tubs towering over her face, waddles over towards where the ice cream goes, she plops them down and we both share a laugh. 

"I did not expect you to be here." Faith smiles with her dark brown eyes gleaming at me.

"Neither did I." I return.

"My shift ends in ten minutes." She says.

"We'll wait outside?" I say, unsure if she'll wanna hangout after.

"Alright."

Maria stares at her as she wanders into the back of the shop. 

"Was that Foth?" She questions and i left out a laugh towards the mispronounced name.

"Its Faith, not Foth." I mumble and we trudge over to a picnic table.

"I seen her before."

"Yeah, she left my room that one time." I reply.

"She's so pretty." Maria says in awe.

"She is, isn't she?" 

"I'm what?" The familiar voice calls out.

"Mikey was telling me how pretty you are." Maria beams.

I feel my face redden already.

"Really? He thinks I'm pretty?" Faith whispers and crouches down to Maria's height.

"I think you're pretty more than he does!" She whines.

"I'm probably not even half as pretty as you are though." Faith chimes in.

They're both acting so weird right now, I'm still embarrassed . I don't want her to think I'm some sort of pussy who hangs with my sister because I have no friends. Even though that might be true, I don't want to look stupid. Maria seems to like Faith, don't you agree? After minutes of them giggling over something thats completely irrelevant at this time. I gotta admit, Faith is acting so goddamn fucking cute right now. She definitely would look better with indigo colored hair than me. I'd probably look like an anime character or some shit, but is that even a bad thing. 

"Mikey?" They say at the same time.

"Oh shit sorry, what?" I stammer.

"Do you wanna go back now I'm sleepy." Maria yawns.

"Uh.. sure thats fine. Do you have a car?" 

Maria opens her mouth to answer until she realizes I'm not talking to her.

"No, I bus here." Faith says.

"I could give you a lift ?" 

"That'd be cool."

"Alright, are you ready to go?" 

"Yeah I've got my stuff."

"Well if you wanna leave now, if thats cool."

"Yeah, let's go." She says and Maria grabs her hand.

Faith says she can't come over, her mom is in town so she and her dad have to get the house ready, i don't get it but if thats what she needs to do. I take her home and bring Maria back to the apartment before ordering a pizza and before I know it, I'm tired as hell so I doze off on the couch and I'll probably get a fucking headache from the stupid angle my neck is in. I don't really care right now anyways.