That Boy With The Beanie

Cold Nights

I walked to Michael, Luke’s friend’s, house at around 10pm. Luke offered to walk me, but I wanted to get ready on my own, as I had to curl my hair and Luke would have gotten bored. I agreed to meet him there. I was quite nervous about meeting his friends. What if they didn’t like me? Would it bother Luke? Probably not, Luke told me they can usually tell if he wants them to shut up, that gave me hope. If they didn’t like me, at least I wouldn’t know, and they would keep it to themselves.

It was cold out. It was Christmas Eve too. Luke said he couldn’t see me tomorrow because his mum told him they had to have Christmas at his Aunties’. He said we could meet up on Boxing Day and exchange gifts. I had bought Luke four gifts. I got him: A (quite expensive I may add) blue polo shirt with red and green stripes from Bank, the box set of his favourite show, How I Met Your Mother  series 1-5, Tickets to see All Time Low (My uncle works as a tour guide for the O2 Arena so they were free) and a picture frame from Next that had a picture of us, from the selfies day.

I was wearing some jeans and a hoodie, but I was still cold. I kinda wished Luke was here so that he could, politely, give me his jacket.

Michael’s House was 25 minutes away from my house, and I had been walking for 15. Mum had offered me a lift, but I was worried she would come inside and then she would have sparked up a conversation with Michael’s mum and then never leave.

I was now 5 minutes away and, as the temperature dropped, so did my nerves. I thought ‘They may actually think I’m okay’. I had met Michael before, he was in my Maths class at school, and even though we had only talked twice (him asking me if he could borrow a pencil, and me asking him what the answer to question 2 was) I still felt cool with him. It was Ashton and Calum I was worried about. However, I couldn’t be arsed worrying as I was nearly at Michael’s front door.

I knocked twice, and before I could knock a third time, the door swung open. It was Luke, he had got here early. His face lit up, and he smiled. He stood  there, with his shoes kicked off, wearing some skinny jeans (shocker) and a blue jacket with a plain black top underneath it. He had a grey beanie on, and for the first time ever, his hair was not in a quiff formation, it was a messy fringe. His blond hair was covering one of his eyes.