I'm Sure You've Heard It All Before

i guess it's movie night

Okay, fuck.

Aleeah is on her knees on my bed and yelling at me to answer the phone. But I'm frozen. It's just so weird.

I snap back into reality when Aleeah snatches my phone.

"Hey, give it back, dude!" I try to take my phone back but she already answered.

"Hey, Franco! Aleeah here!"

I look at her desperately to give it back but she keeps talking.

"Yeah from the hallway."

Despite my aching fear that Aleeah will say something that will abruptly end the conversation, I sit there gnawing on my hand.

"Mhm." She says. Looking pleased as fuck when she turns to look at me.

"No, he's not actually." I'm not what? What Aleeah?

She laughs into the phone. "Sure, Franc. Can I call you that? I will."

"Ha, I love you. Okay, here he is."

She hands me the phone and is looking at me expecting to take it. I hesitate for a second but next thing I know, I'm talking to him on the phone.

"Hey," I say. Trying to sound not weird.

"Okay, so sorry for calling you so randomly. Glad I got an introduction from Aleeah. She's my favorite person now."

I think Aleeah heard this because when I turn to her she looks at me and shrugs her shoulder like, I can't help it. I roll my eyes.

"Sorry...she's-"

Franco cuts me off.

"No, stop, I really like her. She stopped me in the hallway earlier and was amazed at how nice she was. You're lucky to have her."

I turn to Aleeah and she is gushing with her hand on her heart. I love him, she mouths. I roll my eyes again but I can't help but smile.

"Oh, yeah, I am. Ha."

He says nothing.

"So, um, why did you call me again?" I ask.

"Oh! Well. Actually, I don't know. Did it on an
impulse, you know? Thought it'd be cool to talk since I'm not doing anything." He sounded so chill. But I was not. He wanted to talk to me and that freaked me out. I do not think of myself as a person you want to call first.

"O-okay," I said, clutching my phone so hard it was starting to hurt.

"What are you doing right now?" He asked.

A sense of worry flashed on my face, I know because Aleeah saw it. She mouthed, what?

"Aleeah and I aren't doing anything actually."

Aleeah crawled to me and was mouthing, Ask him over, ask him over!

She almost let her voice slip out.
I looked at her like she was insane, though.

I heard a chuckle on the phone, "You okay, man?"

"Yep. All good."

Okay, Aleeah was starting to scare me because she looked angry and was looking at me to ask him over.

Fuck fuck fuck.

I gave in and blurted, "Hey, do you want to come over?"

Silence for two seconds. Probably the most excruciating two seconds of my life.

"Yeah," he said. Coming out like a breath." Text me your address. Later."

"Bye," I said. But he had hung up already.

I dropped my phone on my bed. I felt nauseous. Oh god.

Aleeah stood up and clasped her hands together. She looked pretty damn pleased with herself but I was not pleased at all.

Very quietly she started chanting, "movie night, movie night,"

It's not that I don't want to see him because I do. But I just feel, I don't know, weird about this. I just met him and yeah, he's cute, but isn't this a bit much?

But Aleeah was here so unless I wanted to be a victim of murder, I was gonna have to let him come over.

Also if we are going to watch a movie, we won't have to talk.

Okay. Okay. Okay

Aleeah was still fucking chanting, "movie night,"

Movie night it is.

Fuck, I need to send my address to Franco.
I typed my address in, but I hesitated for a split second. God. Whatever. I sent it.

Aleeah saw and when I turned around I started chanting, "movie night, movie night," louder than she had. We chanted louder after every "movie night" and when we stopped, I looked at her and said "Aleeah. Let's pop some motherfucking popcorn."

"Love me some motherfucking popcorn." She pumped her fist in the air and hugged me.

Really damn tight.

When she let go, she started walking to the door but stopped and turned around.

She glanced at me, taking in my outfit. I was still in my uniform.

Aleeah walked towards me and put her hands on my shoulders. I stared at her strangely because god only knows what is running through her head.

"I'm gonna dress you up all pretty, Robin."

And you know what? I let her. Feeling uneasy, yes, but I didn't care. Did I?

I wasn't sure about anything.

AN: OKAY, sorry if it's annoying that this is all taking place on a single day. I'm gonna try to slow things down! Or if you want me to make things go faster, let me know :)