Rejects

Chapter Seventeen - New Years

"Gee!" Frank hugged me tightly, and then took his shoes off. He just came into my house, he's spending the night with us. Everyone's extra excited cause it's New Years! Frank said his mom was going to a party that he didn't want to go to cause he wouldn't know anyone, so he's staying with us instead. I mean hey, I'm fine with that!

"Hey Frank." I replied. We stepped away from each other when Mikey came down the stairs and saw who was here. "Hey Frank!" He chirped. "Mikey!" Frank replied happily.

"So, what do you guys want to do?" Frank said, wasting no time. "Well," I started, "It's only 4:00, how about we just go up to me and Mikey's room and see what there is to do?" We all agreed on that, so the three of us bolted upstairs to Mikey and I's room. Mikey sat on his bed, Frank and I sat on mine.

"Show us some magic tricks!" Frank chirped excitedly, and I giggled. "Really? Alright."

I looked around the messy room and my eyes landed on some random text book. I focused on it and it slowly began to levitate in the air. Frank gasped and started laughing, yelling, "I can't believe I'm best friends with Luke Skywalker!"

I laughed at his comment and replied, "Does that mean Mikey is Princess Leia?" And that made everyone laugh.

I continued showing off more magic tricks, and then we talked and ran around, and every now and then would make a playful attempt at attacking each other, and before we knew it it was 7:00 PM and my mom was calling us down for dinner. Turns out she ordered pizza, so we were all happy to get sodas and eat away.

"So what have you boys been up to?" Dad asks us, and before me or Mikey can whine about how he doesn't need to know about everything we do Frank answers, "We've just been messing around." To that Mom replied, "I can tell you're having fun, I can hear you yelling a lot."

"Oh crap, you can hear us?" Mikey blurts out, making Mom laugh. "Don't worry," she says, "I don't pay attention to what you're saying." Mikey sighs in relief and we continue eating.

Mom and Dad kept asking Frank a bunch of questions about himself, as this is (surprisingly) one of the first times he's been over and my parents have had the chance to do so. I kept telling them to stop wanting to know everything, but they continued to pester Frank. He didn't seem to mind though really, he answered every question sarcastically before (sometimes) giving a diligent response.

"More pizza?" Mom asks me after I finished my third slice. I'm happy to take it, even though I'm kinda full. I end up only eating half.

Once everyone is done with dinner Frank, Mikey and I go back upstairs and continue messing around.

"My goal for this year is to have you two over to my house finally!" Frank exclaims, and I realize I've never actually been to his house before, even though it's just a couple streets away. "My room is the best! It has posters, and my bed, and a record player and a bunch of vinyls, and my guitar and amps! Oh my god I need to show you guys my instruments! You can finally hear the full extent of my songs!" Frank goes on and on about things in his house, and his instruments, and somehow ends up talking about dogs. He always manages to end up talking about dogs.

"I'll be right back, I gotta take a piss." Mikey says and leaves the room when Frank (finally) stops talking. As soon as the door shuts Frank turns to face me and says, "Hi Gee," in a really childish voice. We're both sitting on my bed, and about 6 inches apart. Frank puts his hands in his lap and looks down for a second before looking up and crashing our lips together.

I gasp, completely taken off guard, before slowly sinking into the kiss, eyes closed. Our lips begin to move, Frank wraps his hands around my neck and I place mine on his waist. He pushes me back gently until I'm laying down on my bed. He crawls on top of me and I feel my pants get tighter, the world around us completely forgotten. I can feel Frank's tongue moving against my lip, so I open my mouth and his tongue slides inside. The kiss gets even more heated, and Frank begins sliding his hands down my chest when...

"Whoa! Okay! Wow! I've seen too much! Seriously you guys?! I'm gone for two fucking minutes!"

Upon hearing Mikey's voice Frank immediately rolls off of me and we both sit up quickly. My brother stands there, in the doorway, pretending to gag. I run a hand through my hair nervously and the black locks fall in front of my face, but I'm happy to hide behind them.

"Sorry..." I mutter, embarrassment flooding my concious.

"Hey you guys can do whatever the hell you want just give me a heads up so I don't walk in on you. I don't need or want to see my brother and my best friend fucking each other."

My face turns redder than a tomato at this comment. We weren't - we weren't gonna fuck! Or...no! No we weren't gonna fuck!

Frank rubs the back of his neck and replies simply, "Alright."

Mikey sighs and sits down on his bed again. Frank places his hand on my thigh, and I remember a problem I have. I shakily stand up and start walking towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Frank asks, and I quickly answer, "To the bathroom." I look over my shoulder at him and see him smirking. I turned my head back and continued walking.

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"Five! Four! Three! Two! One! Happy New Year!!" We all shout in unison. Mom and Dad hug, so do Frank and I, then we high five Mikey. 2017 is over! I wonder what's gonna happen in the year to come. Probably nothing will change, maybe a few small things here and there, but I guess for now I shouldn't worry about that.

2017 was probably the most important year of my life, I finally went to school and was forced to be in public. That definitely had its downs, but I also met Frank, and that I couldn't be happier about.

"Alright, now everyone to bed!" My mom says sarcastically. We all end up standing there, talking and reminiscing for at least another ten minutes before the tv gets turned off and we all say goodnight. Of course, I don't think any of us are gonna fall asleep any time soon, but we'll at least stop standing around.

Once upstairs, Mikey, Frank and I continued to jump around. I think we passed out sometime around 3:00 AM, and I'm not really sure when we woke up, but Frank stayed for most of the day and before he went home we made plans to hang out again, one last time before school started up again.