FROZEN IN BETWEEN

GOOD MORNING

JUSTINE'S P.O.V

"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen!"  

This voice just woke me up with the same way over and over again everyday.  Then there's always some additional pounds on my body as he hit this sleeping beauty.  School sucks, I tell you.

"Get over meeee!"  I groaned.

"Nope.  Never.  I'm actually eating my ice cream now."  He answered sassily.

"I don't remember why I have a friend like you."  I fought so hard to be on top of him.  "Step asideeee I wanna bath!"

"Seriously girl, you haven't showered?  Shoot!"  He tickled me.

"Hey hey stop!"  I opened my blanket.

"Morning!"  He landed a kiss on my cheek...which was pretty cold. Wait.

"Hold on.  Toby I told you to not eat in my bed!"  I messed up with his snapback.

"Earth on Justine, what did I tell you?  Shower.  Now.  Go!"  Toby dragged me to the bathroom then locked me from outside.

Oh gosh.  Welcome, welcome.  I hope you have that encouragement to stay in my life.  Because there's always this messy morning everyday with a best friend called Toby.  He's the sassiest boy ever, don't you ask.  We lived pretty much by each other's side.  No I mean our house.  We share the same side garden.  Our Moms went to the same market with a very same schedule every week.  We've been celebrating Christmas and birthdays together, even our dogs' birthdays.  We went to the same school.  I slept at their house like my parents owned both.  Pretty much we were born to a condition like this.

"Toby!  You better go out for a while because heck I'm dressing up!"  I shouted before opening the bathroom door.

"Why don't you just do that.  I do it a lot though."  He slowly went out of my room.

"Shush.  Go.  Meet Mom."  I pushed him away.

"You know, they said this friendship should go both sides."  He smirked.

"I'll slap you!  But later.  Go go go I want to dress up!"  

I locked the door, finally.  There's a lot to offer to him but mostly food, so that he would leave my room for a while.  So I took the chance to dress up as quick as possible before Toby brought me a ton of food again.  Yeah I told you.  We owned each other's room like that.  Sometimes too much.

"Done."  I walked downstairs.  "Morning, Mommy!"

"Morning Justine, eat your breakfast."  She smiled from the kitchen.

"Where's Dad?"  I swallowed by first sandwich bite.

"Getting ready upstairs."  Mom answered shortly.

"Whoa wait.  Where's my sandwich?"  I shouted.  Ha, this isn't good.

"You take too long!  Sandwich is here."  Toby pointed to his tummy.

"Gosh."  I rolled my eyes.  "Mom, I'm leaving!"

"Take care, kids!  Eat your lunch!  Toby, make sure Justine eat her lunch!"  Mom reminded using her knife toward Toby.

"Oo...kay."  He nodded, scared.

"Hahaha...  Alright come here little girl!  Be good, okay?  Bye bye!"  I kissed Starla the puppy, then gave it to Toby.

"Good girl."  Toby hugged Starla.

"Bye bye!"  I closed the front door.

Hey we're 13.  Too young to drive a car, but too old to take a bus.  You know it's weird that we have same perspective for that thing.  So we decided to walk to school, which only like 2 blocks from our neighborhood.  Toby liked to see some people at the park during this hour, so we wouldn't miss that moment everyday.  Funny fact again.  We're only 13 but acted like some cool wise adults.

"One day I want to have 3 kids.  I think that's adorable."  Toby wrapped my shoulders with his arm and pointed to a family at the park.

"Yeah?  Why 3?"  I chuckled.

"Because that'd be like me and my brothers."  He laughed.  "I like the idea of having 3 kids."

"At the age of 13."  I rolled my eyes.

"Jeez, it's called a dream, diude!"  Toby pinched my nose.

"Haha whatever.  Good morniiiing!"  I greeted some of our classmates at the corridor.

"Hey guys!"  They waved back.

"Why always so loud.  My ears hurt."  He slapped me playfully.

"Because everyday needs to be cheered like this."  I smirked.  "Morning all!"

"Morning, Justine!"  My friend who sat at the corner of the classroom noticed.

"Hey, how you doing?"  I put my bag on my table.

"Great!"  She gave me a thumb up.

"See?  That's how it goes."  I pinched Toby's cheek.  He just rolled his eyes.

Our classmates called us 'Thing One' which referred to Toby, and 'Thing Two' for myself.  You don't even have to ask because we also practically chairmates.  We always are in the same study group, or if the teacher ever split us, we'd go mad.  Hah.  They said there's a moment someday when we're tired at each other.  But after 13 years, we're doing great so far.  We were even once getting flu together so our Moms put us isolated in my room, so they could easily control us.  The only different is I'm the only child when Toby has two older brothers.  But either way, even his brothers know how close we are.  Okay last thing for you to know.  We do share our Starbucks treat together.  Whenever I'm planning to get Starbucks and Toby's nowhere on my sight, I'd call him first, asking if he'd get his treat.  If he didn't, then I'd easily, immediately, cancel mine.  The parents said we should've been twins in another life.  

So yeah, good morning.