Common People (frerard)

Chapter 9

"Paco," someone said, waking me up with a fright.

I looked over at the doorway of Frank's room at a small, brown haired lady. She wore a t-shirt and I could see she had a tattoo sleeve on her left arm.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you had company," she said.

I looked over at Frank, who was on his couch playing PlayStation with headphones on. He looked between us and took the headphones off.

"Yeah, we got back from Jamia's late so I figured you were already asleep," he said. "This is Gerard."

"Hi, Gerard, I'm Linda, Frank's mom," she said. "Mia's mom was wondering if you and I wanted to grab some breakfast with her and the kids. You can come too if you would like, Gerard."

"Can we just stay in?" He asked.

"Sure, I can make you two something," she said.

"That's okay, you can go out," Frank said. "I can make us breakfast."

"Alright, I'll be back in a bit," she said.

She shut the door when she left and Frank turned off his console and TV. He came over and sat on the bed.

"You wanna hang out today?" He asked. "I got this new game I've been absolutely dying to play but it's more fun to do the campaign co-op. Jamia doesn't want to play it because she's not too big on games and it's too violent for her younger brother. I don't have a whole lot of friends. You wanna play it with me?"

"It's okay with you?" I asked nervously.

"Yeah, of course," he said. "If you want you can grab a shower while I make food and we can eat it up here."

"That sounds good, actually," I said.

Frank smiled, giving me some clothes and a towel before I locked myself in his bathroom. I walked towards the shower and stared at it for a moment. There were white subway tiles lining the wall and floor, as well as the large bench. There were two showerheads, a regular detachable one and a huge rain shower. The whole shower was probably almost three times the size of a regular shower.

I looked at all the knobs and turned one. It turned on the detachable shower. I bit my lip, knowing this was probably my one and only chance to try a rain shower. I turned off the shower and turned the rain one on instead.

I got undressed and looked at the floor to ceiling mirror. My body and face was still bruised and beat up, making me turn away in pure disgust for myself.

The shower was warm and I looked at the assortment of products Frank had on the shelf. Almost all of them had some fancy French name. It definitely wasn't my two dollar products. As I showered, I couldn't help but smile at the scents that smelled like frank. And god, I could not get over how nice a good shower felt, our dorm showers weren't the best quality; it didn't get very hot and the pressure was terrible. I might've stayed in a bit too long just enjoying it because I realized my fingers were getting pruney.

Frank was on the couch watching tv when I stepped out after getting dressed. There was a food tray on the coffee table with an assortment of pancakes, fruits, bacon, muffins, scrambled eggs, cinnamon rolls, yogurt, oatmeal, smoothies, juice and milk.

"I-is it just us two?" I asked.

"Yeah," he said. "Sorry, I didn't know what you liked so I just made a selection. My maid helped me so it didn't take too long, actually."

"You didn't have to do all that for me," I said.

"I wanted to do it for you," he said.

I blushed and sat down next to him on the couch and picked up one of the empty plates. We didn't actually talk much as we ate and watched tv together but it was unusually comfortable. For some reason I wasn't so on edge around him.