The Unlikely Friendship

No one asked for a human alarm

Beep. Beep. Beep.

I reach over and hit the snooze button.

Riiiing. Riiing. Riiing. 

Now my house phone that is on my nightstand starts to ring. I put my pillow over my head trying to ignore the sound. The answering machine picks it up after twelve rings. 

"Andrea you have ten minutes before I burst into your room and pull you out of bed." and then he hangs up the phone. I did not ask for a living breathing human alarm, but I have one and he won't take the hint to turn off. 

I contemplate if I want to get up or if I should stay in bed because I knew he was being serious. It was the first day of school and he couldn't wait to get there to catch up with his friends, not that he didn't see them all summer long because of football practices. I, after thinking for 5 seconds, decide to risk it and fall back asleep for a few minutes. His friends could wait my sleep was more important. I was in a deep and peaceful sleep when all of the sudden the covers came flying off.

"Andrea get up it's been ten minutes." I completely ignore him and bury my head under the pillow some more and start to fall back asleep. 

That was until he grabs both of my feet and pulls me off the bed. Now you are probably wondering why I just didn't grab the bars of the bed's headboard and well the answer is, I was just too tired to. After all, I didn't get to sleep in until 10 o'clock in the morning like I have been for the past two months. And man was it a summer. It's not like we are going to be late, school starts at 7 o'clock and it's a ten-minute drive up the street. But nooo, Mr. Early Bird Catches the Worm over there has to be up at the crack of dawn and wake me up too. For once I would just like to get to school at a normal time.

"What the hell was that for? Couldn't you just spill water on my head instead of heaving me off my bed like a rag doll?"

"Nope because the last time I did that you just went back to sleep."

"I was awake. I just ignored you"

"Exactly," he says sarcastically as he starts to poke me. 

I give him the most vicious look I could muster up this early in the morning. I quickly grab the pillow and chuck it at him. It hits him square in the chest and then falls straight to the floor.

 He raises an eyebrow at me. "Get dressed and meet me downstairs in the kitchen for breakfast I brought freshly baked bagels and Dunk'n Doughnuts coffee."

"I hate you" I yell after him. He turns back and gives me his signature swoon-worthy smile. I just shake my head in disbelief and get up off of the floor.

He pops his head back in and says "Oh and by the way nice ass." and makes a run for it. 

I chased after him and slam the door shut. I hear footsteps walk back to my door, "Come on Andrea don't slam the door, it's not like I haven't seen it before." 

My face goes immediately red. Of course being the cocky asshole that he is he would bring up the few times when he accidentally walked in on me changing or the unfortunate incident where I lost my bikini bottoms after cliff diving. Now I am definitely as red as a tomato and the day has not even started yet. 

"Ben if you know what's good for you, you will go down stairs right now before,"

"Before what?" he asks in a teasing voice.

"Before I open this door and rip your head off," I yell. 

"Boy someone isn't a morning person." I could hear his footsteps going down the stairs.