“Should I get Soft black or Just … black?” I ask Dana, referring to the hair dye I need. Dana Marie is my best friend and has been since seventh grade.
“Black.” She replies, while She gets Her silver hair dye. Dana has Silver hair, with black underneath. She has her nose pierced with a silver hoop in it, almost all the time and her hair is about boobie length. I’m Sam, I have jet black hair that reaches my ribs. I have my Lip pierced, on the left side, with a black ring in it. We’re both extremely pale, and we live in an apartment together, in San Diego California. I was standing in walmart, in the beauty isle, getting hair dye while wearing black jeans, red vans, and a black skin tight t-shirt that had a giant red ‘&’ sign for of mice & men, a band I was in love with. I threw my hair dye in the cart, along with the blanket we got, since our cat decided he wanted something to destroy while we were gone yesterday, and we put in some eyeliner. Dana threw her hair dye in while we went to grab some facewash. We put that in the cart too, and went to get some milk and eggs & shit. We were getting the eggs when four extremely attractive guys were down the isle from us, being super loud, getting ice cream. I chuckled, hearing their conversation from 30 feet away.
“No! Why the HELL would you get chocolate!? Get the fucking Vanilla Preciado!” yelled a tall, slim, tattooed-all-over man.
“No need to yell!” The other man, who was a few inches taller, with dark brown, spiky hair said back.
“Guys, shutup, I’ll get it.” Said one who had shoulder length brown hair, and who was extremely shorter than them all. He was probably about 5’7. The last guy, who was also tattooed all over, had huge stretched ears, and a snapback on. He was quieter than the rest of the guys, but really adorable. They were all just amazingly beautiful, actually. I caught myself staring, when The first guy looked at me, and smiled, walking closer to us. Oh my god, no. I am never good in these kinds of situations, I’m going to scare him off and look like an idiot, oh god. The other three guys followed him and he was now about 2 and a half feet away from me.
“well, hi!” I said excitedly. He smiled back and said ‘hello’ This was so awkward, I just wanted it to be over.
“I’m Mike, this, is Vic,” pointing to the short guy, “that’s Jaime,” the one with the spiky hair. “and, that one with the hat on is Tony.” He said looking at tony, who was blushing every time Dana looked at him. After making awkward small talk, and getting their numbers we left the store, feeling the cool autumn breeze wash over our bare arms. We got to the car, and out the bags in the back, then got in, and drove home.
“So, that guy in the hat seemed to like you.” I said to Dana, winking.
“His name is tony, thank you.” She said smiling. We laughed, then put in the Bring Me the Horizon ‘Suicide Season’ CD. After 10 minutes, we got back to the apartment, and brought all the stuff inside. Our apartment was actually pretty big for an apartment. When you first walk in, it’s the living room, then when you look to the right, there’s a kitchen with an island in the middle of it, and then there’s 2 bedrooms down the hallway, with a bathroom door between those doors. We put everything away and started using the recently purchased hair dye. I got a text from Mike, we texted for a while and then I invited them over. Dana and I rinsed our hair dye out, and blowdryed it. Her hair was pretty curly, while mine was only slightly wavy. Once we were done, we watched tv until the guys came over. I was feeling pretty confident actually, for once. I went out to the kitchen and ate some carrots from the fridge. I lit a cigarette and went outside. I took a long drag in, and blew the smoke out, closing my eyes. Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit. I was on my last drag when a car drove up a little away from me. The guys walked over to me, while I flicked my cigarette and blew out the smoke fast, not wanting them to see, in case they think it’s unattractive. That’s not a very good first impression. They all looked even better than they did in the store, Mike and Vic had their hair straightened, while Jaime’s hair was still spiky. I wonder if it’s naturally straight, or if it’s curly. Tony took the rear, a few feet behind everyone else. He was really quiet, actually. Except for when he was talking to Dana, hah. I said hey to all of them, while I led them upstairs, to our apartment. I opened the door to see Dana on the couch watching tv, she saw tony and her eyes lit up, as she jumped up from the couch, to hug him. They sat on the couch, sitting close. I sat down next to Mike, keeping my distance. I didn’t want him to think I was creepy, or getting too close too soon. Vic and Jaime at the end together, focused on the TV.
“So, does anyone want anything to eat?” I asked, turning my head away from the TV.
“Me!” everyone said at different times.
I laughed and walked out to the kitchen, feeling someone walking silently behind me. I went in the kitchen and turned around to see Mike behind me with a big smile on his face.
“Need any help?” he asked with a huge smile.
“Sure,” I said smiling slightly back. “whatd’ya think everyone would want?”
“probably just bacon. Tons and tons of bacon.”
I gave him a weird look and went in the fridge to get the 3 packs of bacon we had. I got the pan and put it on the stove, then turned around to Mike.
“So.” I said smiling widely.
“what?” he said doing the same.
“Tell me more about you.”
“Well, okay, I’m Michael Fuentes, I’m 17 years old, and I’m the drummer of our band we made a while ago, Pierce The Veil.”
“You guys are in a band!?” I asked.
“well, yeah, but it’s not really a big priority right now. We made it about a year ago, we only have a few songs, but we’re not ready to get all famous yet, if we even are gonna get famous. I mean, I’d rather die than be famous right now.” He said shrugging.
“Well still, I wanna hear you guys play! What type of music do you play, like do you scream, or just sing.”
“It’s a mixture of both, Vic sings more though, he’s the singer, and if I didn’t mention before, he’s also my brother.”
“So, Vic’s your older or younger brother?”
“older.” I made my mouth in a ‘O’ shape and continued cooking the bacon. It was finished soon enough, after talking more about his band. We went back out to the living room and everyone was still watching TV, while Dana and tony were talking, while her head was on his shoulder. They were so damn cute together. I sat the bacon down and within 20 minutes, the three packs of bacon were gone, Mostly devoured my Jaime, who was passed out now. I was sitting on the couch next to Mike, while he stroked my hair. Usually, I would feel really weird if a guy did this to me, but with Mike, it just felt right. It was about 9:00 now and the guys were getting ready to leave. They got up, and headed for the door while Dana and I waved goodbye and continued watching TV.
“So, are you and Tony like… a thing now?” I asked winking at Dana.
“I dunno. I mean, I hope so, I guess, but I don’t really know.”
“You guys looked so cute all cuddled up on the couch together.” I said making my voice higher. She smiled back at me and we both laughed. I was getting tired by now so I went to the bathroom, washed my face, put some sweatpants on and texted Mike until I fell asleep.
