SALLY
I saw the skinny guy coming out of the bus and I thought I was going to scream. His hair was on the outside of his hat and a little in front of his eyes, but I found it so cute. His jacket was too big, but that was just how he liked it, and it made him even more adorable. “Oh my god, Frank!” I shout at him and almost ran him down. He wrapped me in a big hug and I kept holding around him while saying a lot of stuff that no one would ever understand. It was all just some weird crap. We pulled away and his adorable smile appeared on his face. “Merry late Christmas” he said and handed me a little present. I handed him his at the same time and we both started opening. I pulled the little coffin out of the paper and looked at it. He stopped opening his present and stared at me while I unpacked the coffin. I opened it slowly and something shiny caught my eye. The silver heart was so beautiful. I picked it up and looked at it with my eyes wide open. “This is so beautiful,” I said almost crying in happiness. It was so pretty, I didn’t know what to do. I remembered something like that, some necklace pretty alike it. I thought about it and wondered if it was something dad had left from mom. Even though it reminded me of dad and everything around that, it was so pretty. It was perfect.
He took the necklace out of my hands and put it around my neck. I turned around and smiled at him. It was amazing. I couldn’t describe it. He stared at me with a smile, obviously proud of how I behaved when I got it. I locked the little of his eyes I could see. “Thank you,” I whispered. He just nodded without taking his eyes from mine. He was being so adorable. First he came all the way out here just to spend few hours with me before leaving again. And second; he gave me this perfect present. What was this? Did our friendship mean so much to him? Well, it meant a lot to me too. I couldn’t describe how lucky I felt to have him as my best friend. Everything was so much better when I had someone by my side anyway what happened.
He took a step closer to me without disconnecting our eyes. I shivered as he took my hand and pulled me closer. Something made me want to kiss him, but I grabbed him in a big bear hug instead. What was going on with me? We were best friends, and I had a boyfriend. Nothing was changing that. Nothing. “Open yours now!” I smiled and stepped back.
The Christmas lights were all over the city. Everywhere. It had been like it since October and I was so damn tired of it. It was soon New Year, and I was sure the Christmas stuff would be in the city until the end of January.
We had been walking around and around, laughing at people walking by, and laughed at each other. Laughing at the stupid jokes we told each other and laughing at the bird that flied over Frank’s head all the time. Even though I was super tired of all the Christmas lights, I didn’t even think about them now. I enjoyed my self so much. I had never laughed this much in my entire life, and I was sure I’d laughed on a six-pack.
It was never awkward silence between us and we always got out something that both of us found funny. It was how it’d been since the first day we hang out. Well, I had been super stupid and rude to everyone, but we still always found ways to laugh and make fun of people. It was our thing. At least I would call it our thing.
“Oh shit” Frank suddenly shouted. “The bus is leaving in ten!” He screamed. He grabbed my hand and started run against the bus stop. I got the big flashback to the night were Zack and Jack had disappeared. I remembered how I tried to get away from him to get my ass to the guys. I remembered how he knew I lied to him. I remembered our long walk, and when I told him the reason why I had to go in the middle of the night. I remember how he started run because my bus would leave soon, and how he suddenly lifted me up on his back and continued running. I remembered how he had been standing behind me with his arms around me, and his cheek on my shoulder. I remembered how he cared so much, and how he didn’t want me to go all by myself. I had to smile whit the thought. He had been so amazing to me from the start, I realized.
“I will miss you” he said in the hug as I saw the bus coming behind him. “I’ll come home soon, Frank! Say hi to Milly, Rose and Olivia for me,” I said and hugged him tighter. I didn’t want him to go. I didn’t want him to leave me. I just wanted to spend more time with him. I wanted to spend time with him and all the others back home. I just wanted to keep laughing. Keep smiling. Keep feeling like I had a group of friends were everyone cared. Not that I didn’t feel that with the band, but because Jack and Zack it’d been different lately. “See you home then” he said almost sad and pulled away a little. “I’ll count days,” I said with a weak smile. He smiled weakly too and noticed the bus stopping behind him. I stood up on my tiptoes to kiss his cheek, before he turned and got on the bus.
Watching the bus leaving was harder than I thought. It was like my heart tried to tell me that I did a mistake. It was like it told me to join him home. To celebrate New Year with everyone home. With Rose. With Olivia. With Mr. Ralph. With everyone in the teen house.
I took a quick look at the time and noticed that I was supposed to meet the guys soon. I was tired and just wanted to go home and sleep, but I had promised Rian to join them to buy fireworks. It was something Rian and Jack had talked about the whole fucking Christmas holiday. You didn’t need to be a genius to tell that they liked fireworks.
As I walked against where I was supposed to meet them I thought about everything. I kind of hoped that Zack wasn’t there. Why did I hope he wasn’t? Wasn’t I happy with him? I mean happy with him as my boyfriend? Of course I was. I had never felt anything like what I felt for him before. This was perfect. I had to stop thinking negative. Everything was perfect. My friends. My boyfriend. Everything. How could I doubt it all? It was perfect.
