Amity (phan)

Chapter 6: Is this what normal mornings are like?

I was abruptly woken up by a loud banging in my door the next morning. I checked the time on my phone and groaned at how early it was. I stood up unsteadily and headed towards the door, attempting to find the doorknob, but the darkness inside my room and the fact that I had left my glasses on my night table made it a bit hard. I finally found the doorknob, after caressing the door in ways no door wants to be touched.

"Good morning, darling!" I heard mum say. "I just wanted to make sure that you were awake!" She said before grinning at me and heading towards the stairs, before turning around quickly to tell me that breakfast would be ready soon. She continued with her voyage down the stairs and into, what I supposed, the kitchen.

I closed the door again, and decided that if I wanted to be able to see shit inside my room, I had to open the curtains. Once there was at least some kind of light, I headed towards my closet, grabbing my phone from its usual place in my night table, and turned it on, revealing many messages, including one from Dan. I opened it and read the typical 'good morning, love <3,' the one all couples send each other during their first weeks of dating. I cringed a bit at the 'love' part, as I had never spoken to Dan in that way, but my heart still fluttered at the thought of Dan waking up and thinking about me. I quickly texted back, making sure to send some hearts as well, before resting my phone on one of my drawers, and choosing an outfit for the day. I stared at my clothes for a few moments before finally picking an outfit.

I took my phone and slid it in my front pocket, before heading downstairs towards the kitchen. I gagged at the sight of my parents making out in the middle of the room, and then noticed that the eggs that were being fried on the pan were overcooking, so I coughed slightly before walking past them, lifting the pan from the stove, and placing it on the counter. They shuffled away from each other, giggling softly before looking at me.

"Good morning." I say softly before smiling at them. They mirror my actions, before bringing out three plates from the glass cabinet and placing them on the counter. We have a bit of small talk, asking each other how we had slept, and if we were excited for today. But when I asked them what we were going to do today for our 'super amazing family trip', they opposed to answer my question, leaving me as curious as Curious George.

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We finished eating our breakfast and started to get ready for today's trip. Mum prepared some cheese sandwiches, and dad poured some orange juice into a big thermos. I could tell we were going on a picnic, seeing as they packed everything in containers and bottles. I sat in the kitchen with them, conversating about random things, like music and some stories that had happened some time ago. I learnt small things about them, like who's their favourite artist or what's their favourite meal.

Just as our conversation was heading towards an end, mum told me that I should call Dan and invite him to our small family trip. I smiled fondly at them and ran off upstairs, my heart fluttering with the idea of being with Dan on a picnic at the park. It's not as if we had never been to a picnic together or anything, and we had in fact been to many parks together. Like the ones we had been to whilst searching for a place to get drunk without people seeing us or somewhere pretty where we could take aesthetically pleasing pictures. But my relationship with Dan had changed just a few days ago, and I had barely spoken to him. Today was going to be our real first day as a couple, and I couldn't care less that my parents were going to be around us, even if it meant that we wouldn't be able to be all lovey-dovey; I was still grateful of being with him.

I grabbed my phone and decided to call him, seeing as it wasn't that early, because if I were to text him he wouldn't read the message until late in the morning because that boy sleeps like a log and he wouldn't hear the small 'ding' that iPhones give as soon as you receive a text message.

"hey racoon face" I typed in and chuckled at the nickname I had proudly come up with. I quickly felt my phone buzz with Dan's reply in my hand.

"rACOON FACE?¿? since when am i a racoon wot"

"youve always been a racoon you just never knew it"

"that would explain all my binge eating ngl"

"aNYWAY,,., i was wondering if you cared to join a lovely day out with my parents?"

"aww as in on a date?? but with your mum and dad??" My cheeks flared at that phrase. Wow. This is actually happening. Me and Dan are a thing.

"i guess you can call it that... so you comin?"

"yep"

"ok i guess we'll pick you up soon so you better get ready u rat"

"oh wow i'm a rat now great thanks"

"ok stop texting and go get ready we're leaving soon !!"

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On the way to Dan's house, I sat in the back seat of the car and hummed "Behind the Sea", the extremely underrated song from Pretty. Odd.. It took us literally 3 minutes before we saw him sat down in the porch using his phone. He was wearing a black t-shirt, accompanied with a pair of black skinny jeans: the pair with no stains or white stretch marks on them. Or to put it easier, the ones he wore when he wanted to impress someone. Oh shit. Was he trying to impress me? I was just wearing an old tye-dye blue tee shirt with my every-day pair of skinny jeans.

Dan approached our car and waved at both my parents and smiling at them before opening the door opposite of mine and climbing in. He greeted my parents and turned around to face me with a cheeky smile. He smelled good, like a mix between raspberries and a cologne that was noticeably not his.

"Hey you rat," He greeted me before smiling. Mum and dad had already turned on the car and were leaving Dan's block.

"Oh, wow, great way to greet your best friend." I scoffed before turning and smiling fondly at him. It was as if we shared a secret that no one knew, and no one was ever going to know about. We both turned our heads and stared out the window. Today's going to be interesting.

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hey hey hey your local emo trash here im sorry i kinda never updated this i was v busy with school and was literally dead for a few weeks. dead. for real.

aNYWaY im uploading this the day pretty. odd. came out !! (psa its one of my favourite albums) and a day before mcr leftity left :((((

ik this was rly short but i had to type in it in the middle of a dark room at 1 am whilst listening to absolution. i reread some of the chapters and realised they were shit im so sorry i suck at this whole creativity thing buT that doesnt mean ill stop writing this quirky little fic!! idk what im gonna do with the plot lmao but i lowkey wanna have some drama and yeah,,,

hope you liked it and that this small writer's note didnt want to make you stop reading all my writings lol :)))

hope you have a nice day and that you eat tonnes of good chocolate bye!!