Awkward conversations
Hanna Marin trudged through the road with insect nested water puddled around her weak, sticky legs which were ready to collapse at any minute after walking for 20 minutes. The rain tumbled down her, as if a painting brush swaddled around her face with the determination to mix her mac eyeliner with her Bobbi Brown velvet lipstick.
Her clammy hands quavered over her phone. She gave several attempts to grasp the Justin Bieber covered mobile which was insistent to slip out of her hands as if it was coated with jelly. Once she finally was able to clasp her swollen blue hands over her cell phone which had water gushing through each chink, she pressed the pink button located at the side of her phone but of course it didn't turn on.
In frustration she chucked it into the black abyss of river huddled into the gravel of the road. Hanna felt like screaming but a large tired lump in her throat retracted her from yelping.
Dragging her tottered body out of its state of fatigue she was able to slog over to her friend Aria's house. Hanna always went to Aria when things became difficult, and lately 'A' had made it her number 1 priority to make things difficult. She cursed silently wishing her mom hadn't taken her car away from her. Her eyes recognized the familiar mahogany door with a neon green stripe running down its side. Hanna couldn't help but giggle at the door, Aria's family had always liked to keep things different.
She lightly knocked on the door, and rested her tangled, damp head onto the white plaster. Her eyes sunk to a close and the only thing keeping her awake was her hands pressed onto frosted cold bricks which refused to warm up at her touch.
Hanna heard the door open so she launched herself in, only there was still the door in the way. Hanna popped her eyes open begrudgingly and noticed the door was only open ever so slightly with the annoyed expression of mike Montgomery on the other side of the door. "What do YOU want?" he asked rather accusingly putting emphasis on 'you'. Things hadn't been amazing between Hanna and Mike for the last few years, these had to be the first words mike had ever said to her in the last year.
Hanna ignored mike's question and replied, "Why are you here?" adding a slight sneer at the end.
"Because I live here," he remarked with a 'duh' tone.
Again pretending as if he hadn't spoken Hanna asked "Where's Aria?"
"Not here,"
Hanna didn't know how to respond but as he began to shut the door on her, she put a frantic foot into his doorway, she was not walking in that weather.
"Can't I just wait for Aria inside, please?" she asked tiredly and nicely as she could but there was still agitation hidden in her voice.
He just walked away not bothering to answer, she took this as a yes and closed the door behind her. Her flesh instantly warmed up at the heat radiating from the Montgomery's fireplace, but her fingers stung from the immediate change in temperature.
"Stay on the couch," Mike called as he walked up the stairs without even a single glance in her direction.
Slowly she made her way towards the couch, removing her bag, flats and her jacket. Hanna placed her bag on the edge of the couch and laid her head on the leather, sucking in the smell of perfume. She covered her body with her parka and tucked her knees up with her knee length skirt riding up slightly giving her legs full exposure to soft wool of the inside of her jacket.
A small smile placed itself onto Hanna's face as she felt nostalgia from all the memories they had in Aria's house. Though one memory stuck out.
flashback
"Hey Aria can I have a snack?" Hanna asked after they finished a game of secret teller.
"Hanna if you keep eating you are gonna need another watch for each time zone you are in," Alison laughed at her own joke but her friends only cracked an uncomfortable smile. Hanna became pink with embarrassment.
"Yeah sure ask mike for where they are, and if he stares at you a bit too much just call for me," Aria giggled. Hanna became even redder if it were possible, Aria had always told Hanna of the crush Mike had had on her.
"That's fine, I think I will only get water," even though Hanna's stomach grumbled she chose to ignore it, she didn't want to give Alison more amo.
Hanna walked into the kitchen but her pale pink skirt with faded blue butterflies (which resembled crunched paper), got caught into the ends of the chipped kitchen door. She swivelled round resulting in her skirt to wrap around her legs ending in her legs to snap to the ground with a thud. She unhooked her skirt from the door and rubbed her hand over her head with a light stream of blood running down her hand directing from her head.
She shrieked in worry but quickly shut her mouth she didn't want Alison to come down and start making jokes about how Hanna had tripped over her own fat. Her eyes glanced up and saw a hand held out to her, without even thinking she took the persons hand. The person stumbled back slightly from the amount of pressure she had put on the persons hand.
It had turned out to be Mike, she looked up into his eyes and said "thanks," softly. He only nodded and grabbed a tissue paper. Hanna was about to leave the kitchen and sort herself out in the bathroom but Mike had grabbed her wrist softly and created a parting at the back of her head. He was only 13 but he acted 18, he grabbed her hand and gently rubbed it as the paper towel burned her head creating a stinging pain.
"Umm... do you mind if I cut a piece of your hair off?" he asked Hanna cautiously. Hanna grabbed her hair protectively and peered at Mike's face. He seemed to look as if he knew what he was doing, so she nodded but before he got the scissors out of the drawer she said, "Only a few strands." She undid her plaits and it became a curly mess of hair.
He nodded and chopped a few bits of hair off, she could feel some weight come off her scalp and she felt horrified at what she saw. There was a handful of hair sitting on the floor, that was not a few strands. She took a deep breath and saw Mikes worried reflection in the toaster, she instantly calmed she didn't want to seem angry, he was only trying to help.
She gave a little smile knowing he was looking at her, "Just don't become a hairdresser," she informed him and they both laughed.
Mike had grabbed her an ice pack from the fridge and rested it on top of her head. They both sat on the couch with only 1cm of space.
They both talked for a good 5 minutes, before silence came. Mike had a lopsided grin on his face meanwhile Hanna was thinking about the girls and if they were getting suspicious that she hadn't come up yet. Hanna was so lost in thought that she hadn't noticed Mike's head come closer to hers. He pressed his lips onto hers and Hanna hadn't known how to respond and sat there whilst he lathered his lips onto hers but at that minutes she forgot it was Aria's little brother. It was her first kiss so she eventually kissed him back knotting her chubby fingers into mike's hair.
Mike had gently laid them down, not breaking the kiss once, with Mike on top. He began taking his shirt off and then waited for Hanna to do the same. At first she was nervous but with his encouraging smile she obliged.
Hanna still had her skirt on but Mike only had his boxers on when Alison had caught, but she rather Alison than Mr and Mrs Montgomery.
Mike had kept trying to talk to her for the next year or so but Alison's face kept ringing in her head, "Aria will hate you." They never really made up they just avoided each other after that.
Hanna had to be honest with herself she hadn't expected that much resentment from Mike but it was clear to her that he hated her now, and to be honest he wasn't her favourite person either, that lock of hair had taken a year to grow back as well. She had to endure another one of Alison's teasing's because of it.
Authors not
Who do you guys think A is in the show, I think it is Aria and somehow Wren.
