Voodoo Doll • Calum Hood

I feel like dancin'

I walk downstairs and see the lights are on in the kitchen. I want to go upstairs but I hear suddenly I hear someone crying. I stop myself from moving and listen who that could be. I can’t figure out who it is so I decide to walk to the kitchen. I see my father leaning to the fridge I figure out that he’s the one who was crying. My father look at me and says: “Sorry, you wasn’t supposed to see this.” I pretend that he didn’t say that and walk to him and hug him. “Daddy it is okay to cry, now I know you have feelings too.” I say to him. “I’m so sorry Jo.” I look fake angry at him and say to him: “Don’t be sorry silly!” I hug him tight and say in his chest: “I’m always here for you dad.”

I wake up and notice I’ve been crying in my sleep. I remember my dream, it was when my parents divorced six years ago. It was horrible when my mother moved out of the house, I missed her so much but I had to care my father, little sister and little brother. I was ten years old but I grew up so fast that I didn’t notice it. I look at my phone and see it’s only five in the morning. I don’t really care because I can’t fall back in sleep. I go downstairs and make myself a cup of tea and eat an apple. I lit up my cigarette when I finished my breakfast.

 I arrive the school or how I call it the hell. I got a text of Marie my internet friend she said: Good luck today, you can do it! She is the cutest, I text her back with: Good luck babe and let everyone see how amazing you are! The first hour has started and the English teacher gives us the test. “I hope you have read the book.” She says. I look at my test confused. It is about our book we have to make a brief about it. Well that’s simple because I have read the book Paper Towns twice. The rest of the day was pretty the same as yesterday. The only difference is I know someone is waiting on me in the park. I’m not sure if he would be there he could have nod because he wanted to get rid of me. I see it in ten minutes if he would be there. The bell rings and I’m the first one out of the classroom. The way to the park looks so much longer then yesterday, or is it just me? I sigh when I see no Michael at the bench. I look at my phone and see it’s half past three. I’m way to late, or he is later then I am. Suddenly I feel two hands in front of my eyes. “Fuck!” I say to that person because it scared me. “Hmm, you want to fuck? Well you had to be on time if you wanted it so badly.” I hear a male voice saying. I giggle a bit of his dirty mind and turn around to see Michael smirking. “I’m not late you’re just too early.” I say. “You’re not getting the D if you’re so cocky all the time.” He answers me in response I roll my eyes. “And don’t roll your eye lady!” He warns me. “Why should I listen to you?” I ask him. He rolls his eyes and says: “If you don’t want to listen that’s alright but then I will walk away.” He starts to walk away from me and I say: “I was kidding!” when he turns around I see him smirking, oh god he does that a lot and it looks so hot. “Me to.” We walk to the bench where we sat yesterday night. “How was your day?” I ask him and grab a cigarette for myself. “Well it was okay, I played some games nothing important.” At the same time when he said it he grabbed my cigarette. “Hey! That’s mine.” I say to him. “You didn’t even ask me if I want one.” He said and put the cigarette between his lips and lit it. I look confused and say to him: “Because you didn’t ask it yesterday for one so I thought you didn’t smoke.” I grab another cigarette and lit it before Michael could grab it again. I inhale the smoke and see Michael doing the same and on the same time we breathe it out. “Well you don’t know me and I don’t know you.” He says. “That’s true.” I say. “We can do twenty one questions if you want to of course.” He offers. “And then you ask what kind of bra I’m wearing, no thank you I’m not going to play twenty one questions.” I tell him and that makes him smile. “That’s a shame I really wanted to know.” I glare at him when he said that. That makes him laugh, and can I say his smile is catching so I smile. “But seriously, how old are you?” he asks me. I decide to play this stupid game and answer him. “I’m sixteen but I’ll turn seventeen in one and a half month, how old are you?” He looks at me with all of his attention. “When is your birthday?” he ignores my question and I don’t answer his second question. “I just turned nine teen, the twentieth of November.” He answers my question. “My birthday is on the fourth of January.” I answer him. “How many times did you dye your hair?” I ask him because his hair is really thin and I’m curious if he did more colours then only red. “I lost the count so you can say I dyed my hair to many times. And I’m kind of getting bold.” He answers me with a smirk. “That’s because you’re so old.” I wink at him and he hits me playful. “What about you?” Michael asks. “I did dye it three times. I was ones white but I didn’t like it so I dyed it back. The third I dyed it was the blond dip dye.” My hair is dirty blond and my ends are light blond. I hate my hair colour I want to have dark blond or brown hair. “Do you want to dye it again?” Michael asks. “Yeah maybe brown or lilac.” I answer him. “I want to dye your hair if you want to because lilac would fit you, I think.” Michael says. “Well maybe you get the honour to dye my hair one day.” I say. We play along this stupid game, we are asking some weird and serious questions until Michael says: “I’m starving and it’s almost half past five.” “Fuck no! Are you serious?” I say more to myself then to him. I won’t get diner if I’m not at home like right now. “What is wrong?” Michael asks, he looks kind of concerned. “Wait a second” I say to him and grab my phone. I have an idea I’ll text my dad I will eat at my Victoria’s place. My dad would be furious if he knew I was with a boy and he would be even more furious if he knew I just met him. “Nothing is wrong but I don’t have any money with me.” I say to Michael. “That’s okay you can eat at my place, I’ll order some pizza.” Michael says and he had me at pizza. “You just make me the happiest girl on the planet.” I say. “Great! I’m with my bike and I guess you walked here like yesterday?” Michael asks and I nod. “There is space enough for two of us.” He winks and we walk to his bike and see it’s a BMX bike. “How?” I ask him and look really confused. Just stand on the back and hold me. He sits on his bike and I walk over to him and climb on the back and hold his shoulders. “See it’s easy, now you have to stand like this while I bike. Do think you can do this.” I swallow because I’m afraid I will fall. “Uhm sure.” I say. Michael start to bike and I expect I would fall but I didn’t. “Michael do you live on your own?” I ask him because he didn’t tell me anything about his family, but I didn’t ask him either. “Kind of sometimes my friends come over.” He response. We arrive his house, it’s more like an apartment. He opens the door for me and says: “This is it, it’s not really big but for me is it good enough. Sorry I didn’t clean it here because I didn’t expect you would come over.” I hear someone in the other room and look at Michael confused. He said he lived alone why do I hear noises? Michael walk to the room and I can see it’s a bedroom, I guess his bedroom. “What the fuck?!” I hear Michael curse in the bedroom. I’m way to curious so I decide to walk to the room and see a Michael standing in the doorway still. Michael turns around when he noticed I was behind him. “Jo, you should go away and me to.” Michael says. He closes the door so I would not watch what was inside. He was a bit late because I could see someone with blonde hair lying in the bed. “Mickey do you have to tell me?” I smirk at him. “I’m not gay!” He says immediately. I start to laugh and say to him: “I was teasing you but if you are don’t worry I’m not homophobic.” He smiles and walks to his kitchen and grab two glasses and coke. “I’m not homophobic either but that was Luke you saw and sometimes he sleeps here when he uhm.. When he is bored. Do you want some to?” He asks with the coke in his hand. I nod and he talks further: “And Luke was naked and I thought maybe you don’t want to say that.” I smile and say: “Maybe I wanted to.” Michael laughs so do I. “Then you have to go in the bedroom right now.” I grab the glass with coke and shake my head. “Neh, that means I have to walk and I’m too lazy right now.” Michael grabs his Iphone of the table and starts to call someone. “What kind of pizza do you want?” Oh right he is going to order the pizza. “Extra cheesy with pepperoni.” I answer him. “Hello, I want to order three pizza’s. Two pepperoni with extra cheese and uhm wait a second.” Michael walks to the bedroom and he probably asks what Luke wants. He came back with Luke but he isn’t on the phone anymore. “The pizza will be here in an half hour.” Michael says. Luke walks towards me and put his hand towards me. I decide to shake it and he says: “Hi my name is Luke.” He looks so cute and tall he’s even taller then Michael. “I’m Joanne.” I say and look into his eyes for a while and he does the same. Those eyes are so familiar but I can’t remember when I saw them before. “Joanne, do you like to play something on the xbox? I get it if you don’t want to because it’s a-” Michael can’t finish his sentence because I interrupt him. “ And why wouldn’t I play a game Michael?” I ask him. “You’re a girl.” Luke says and I see Michael face palming. “Rude! So a girl can’t game?” I ask him fake mad. “Uh.. I d-didn’t say that.” Luke stutters. “I was teasing Luke, get used to it because I will do that a lot.” I tell him. He seems to relax when I told him I was teasing. “You know how to play call of duty? Or do you want to play Mario Kart?” Michael asks while walking to the television. “Call of Duty so I can kill you.” I say to Michael but the last part was more for Luke. Luke rolls his eyes and says: “Only if you got really good luck you can win from me.” I smirk and say: “We’ll see.” We played five games and I won three of them and Michael two, Michael and I were playing then Luke. Because I killed him in one minute or Michael killed him already. I here the bell ringing, Michael and I jump up from the floor. We look at each other and I ran as fast I could with my midget legs. Michael grabbed me from behind and throws me over his shoulder. “Hey, that’s not fair! Put me down!” I say right in his left ear. Michael doesn’t react on me he just walks to the door and open it. Great, the pizza delivery is looking at my booty. “Two pizza peperoni with extra cheese and one hawaii?” the pizza delivery asks. “How much do you get of me?” Michael asks. Seriously, it’s like I’m not even here. “It’s free because I’m fifteen minutes too late.” He says to Michael and I feel Michael is holding me tighter. “Nothing better then free pizza, thank you.” Michael says and closes the door. “Jo, hold the pizza’s.” Michael says and I refuse by doing nothing. “Hold it or you will fall.” Michael warns me and I grab the pizza’s as fast as I can because I’m really afraid he will drop me. I give the pizza to Luke while I’m still on Michael’s shoulder. “Michael put me down because I want to eat.” I say to him and hit his butt. “Excuse me. Did you just hit my ass?” Michael asks and put me down. I walk away of him and sit on the couch. “The first bite is the best and if you eat more it’s only getting better.” I say before I take my first bite. I moan when I eat my pizza and Michael and Luke do the same. “I’ll get you Joanne, I won’t forget what you did.” Michael says with a mouth full of pizza. “Don’t talk with your mouth full of food.” I say to him and he rolls his eyes, swallows his pizza and says: “I do what I want.” We eat further but it’s really quiet and I don’t like this silence. Michael stands up and before I can say something he says: “I hate this silence I put on some music.” He walks to his Iphone and connect it with boxes. “If you don’t like Pierce The Veil the you can go now.” Michael says. “But I want to finish my pizza first.” I joked. “Do I look like I care?” Michael joked back. I hear the chords coming out of the boxes and I immediately know it is Bulls In The Bronx. I finish my pizza and sing with Michael and Luke. “Maybe we’re just having to much fun. Maybe you can’t handle yourself staring at me with your lips and tongue.” When the song finished I ask Luke and Michael: “Can I choose a song?” They both agreed so I walk to the Iphone and put I Feel like Dancin’ by All Time Low. Luke hears the chords and starts to sing:

 “Shorty said she wants to run away
 says I look like a boy she used to date. Took me by the hand and pulled me to the stairs. Put her tongue all up in my ear, almost made me spill my beer. She's up and ready to go, but I don't care. 'Cause I'm in the zone, turn off my phone. I've got my own agenda.” 

Michael joins Luke with singing: “I feel like dancing tonight, 
I'm gonna party like it's my civil right.
 
It doesn't matter where, I don't care if people stare. Because I feel like dancing tonight.”Michael let Luke sing alone again:

 “Everybody getting kind of crunk,
 I think some dude just grabbed my junk. Now I know how Ke$ha must be feelin'.
 Bros try to turn me upside down, 
I put a keg top to my mouth. 
But that's okay, I'm dancin' on the ceiling. 

'Cause I've got the groove, I'll bust a move.
 Just try and stop me.

” And Michael joins him again: “I feel like dancing tonight, 
I'm gonna party like it's my civil right.
 
It doesn't matter where, I don't care if people stare. Because I feel like dancing tonight.” Luke is singing alone again, I don’t get it why doesn’t sing Michael a solo? When I was wondering it Michael grabs my hand and we both are dancing like idiots because we both can’t dance at all. 

”Somebody call the police, I think they're coming to get me.
 They say: You've got the right to remain on the dance floor. So show us what you got because you know that you've got more.

” Michael scream whispers in my ear that I have to sing with them. So I join them with my horrible voice. “I feel like dancing tonight,
 I came to party like it's my civil right.
 It doesn't matter where, I don't care if people stare. 
Because I feel like dancing tonight.

 Oh, one more time, 

I feel like dancing tonight, 
I'm gonna party like it's my civil right. It doesn't matter where, I don't care if people stare. Because I feel like dancing tonight I feel like dancing tonight.” Michael and I sit back on the couch because I’m exhausted. “You sing really good, I wish I could sing and have dance moves because mine are terrible.” Luke chuckled and says: “Not as terrible as Michael’s dance moves.” Michael hits his arm and laugh with us. I never thought I could have so much fun with two guys I just met.