Stand Up – Chapter 2 – Operation: Up All Night
It's time to get up in the morning
Got Cheerios breakfast for you
Or any other brand
I walked 10 feet to get it
So you better get up and eat it
You don't wanna be a selfish lazy girl
So we gotta get up!
Time to get up!
It's time to get up!
It's time to ge-
"OH MY GOD IT'S SEVEN IN THE MORNING CALLATE!"
An inelegant snort escaped Lily as she stood next to the bundle of sheets on the bed that was the drowsy form of Sunny. The room was dark what with the shades of the window barring light from the room. Lily tapped her foot impatiently with arms crossed as her friend tried to find the land of slumber that had escaped her.
"No pity here, I'm waking up before seven for the rest of my life, Sunny."
The tall brunette harshly muttered something from under the sheets, unfortunately Lily caught her words. The short girl just raised an eyebrow and smirked. She silently strode over to the window, loosening the shades so they let in the light and skipped over next to the sleeping girl with a mess of dark curls bouncing around her.
Suddenly a pair of quick hands pulled away the striped sheets, exposing Sunny's face to her namesake – mister blazing Sun himself. Sunny – who had been slowly stretching herself awake underneath the sheets – immediately closed her eyes and buried her face into the pillow, shouting various Spanish swear words at her best friend.
Lily sat on the bed laughing. "You know, a simple ah, the light would have sufficed."
Thoroughly annoyed, Sunny stuck her tongue out and launched a pillow at Lily's face, which she threw back in return whilst chuckling. She loved to poke a little fun at Sunny in the morning when she slept at her house. Despite her nickname, Sonieliz Robles Gonzalez was most definitely not a morning person.
Sunny threw herself back in bed and mumbled something that vaguely resembled 'get out of my room.' Bouncing up out of the bed, Lily rolled her eyes and trotted towards the door leading into the kitchen. When she reached the doorframe she smiled and said, "Oh, and next time you refer to me as the inappropriate equivalent of a female dog, I'm dumping your breakfast into your face. How's that for a rude awakening?" Hand propped on hip and mischievous glint in her eyes she sang, "Be in the kitchen in five or your food will get cold."
Sunny raised an eyebrow in confusion, "But where are my Cheerios?"
"In the cupboard," Lily shrugged innocently, "I was only kidding before; there are pancakes and bacon on the table calling out your name."
At this, Sunny excitedly threw the covers off her legs and shot out of bed towards the kitchen, almost knocking an astounded Lily to the floor.
"You're welcome," she muttered, sarcasm practically dripping from her words.
"Ugh, I'm so full – can I have another plateful?"
Lily, who had been rummaging in the refrigerator, stuck her head out and sent a disapproving look at Sunny. "You ate three pancakes – with more than enough syrup to send me into a diabetic coma, mind you – five strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, and a hash brown plus you downed an entire sixteen ounce glass of orange juice – non sugar free juice."
Sunny leaned back in the wooden chair, stretched her arms, and smiled sheepishly, "So would that be a maybe?"
"Sadist."
"Fine, fine, fine." Sunny threw her hands in the air. "You win in succeeding to make me feel guilty – I'm sorry for being healthier than you. Speaking of health, did you put your insulin?" It suddenly occurred to her that she hadn't seen Lily do anything remotely medical – besides measure out her food in portions.
A thump sound reverberated behind Sunny, causing her to turn around her chair to face in the direction of her friend. Apparently Lily hadn't heard due to the fact that she was munching on an apple while inspecting some papers clipped on the refrigerator.
"Oye tu, did you or did you not put your insulin," demanded Sunny with a stern edge in her voice.
Lily glanced Sunny's way and scrunched her nose before replying, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, calm your ti-"
"Ahem."
Sighing dramatically, Lily continued, "I woke up before you and did all the yucky stuff before making breakfast."
After a moment of silence in which Lily returned to read the paper on the refrigerator, Sunny asked yet another question.
"May I ask why I'm up so early with you? We're both off from Uni today and this is not how I planned to relax." Sunny snapped her fingers and shook her head in an 'oh no you didn't motion' all with a pout on her face.
To the girl's surprise, Lily burst into laughter, unclipped the papers on the refrigerator, and chucked them in her direction.
Sunny caught the papers –which turned out to be a calendar – and raised a worried eyebrow. Sometimes she didn't know which of the two of them would go insane into old age first. She shook her head and thought, Sometimes, this girl…
Which was promptly interrupted by the page the calendar was open to.
The words at the top clearly read March.
There was a big red circle around a very specific Tuesday – the same Tuesday she had just woken up to in fact.
Tuesday, 20th of March, 2012. Now she remembered why Lily had slept over at her flat last night.
In the little box marked 20th read in bright red letters…
1D ALBUM COMES TO THE AMERICAS!
Holy effin' shit. Insert fangirl squeal here.
"Flip them curls, Lily! FLIP THEM CURLS!"
THE WAY THAT YOU FLIP YOUR HAIR GETS ME OVERWHELMED! YOU DON'T KNOW OH OH! YOU DON'T KNOW YOU'RE BEAUTIFUUUUUULLLL!
"Jesus, Sunny! Don't flip your hair, you almost hit that dog!"
And they were back in Sunny's truck – enduring her terrible driving. On their way to the only modern music store to the closest shopping centre in Aguadilla about an hour – damn that traffic – away from Sunny's hometown of Camuy. Typical Puerto Rico – a small island, too many people on the road and way too much time wasted on short distances.
"But I'm so excited I'm going to explode!" Sunny gripped the steering wheel tightly in her hands as she bounced like a hyperactive monkey in her seat – the driver's seat. Lily had a wide-eyed frightened expression plastered to her face while she re-tightened her seat belt and clutched tightly to the bottom of her seat.
"Why the hell are you so frickin' excited! You just downloaded all their songs from iTunes this morning!"
Sunny had a maniacal grin on her face as she kicked the gas and harshly turned right onto the #2 (the main highway of Northern Puerto Rico). "Because my dear Lily, I'm still going to make the line so I can get two free One Direction posters to hang up in my room."
Lily squeaked in terror as they almost hit a motorcycle driver squeezing between the lanes. She shook her head in exasperation and thought, and yet people wonder why I'm not keen on learning how to drive.
"May I remind you that the only reason we're even actually going is because I need to buy the CD. Not you – Miss I have an iPhone and I'm so cool because of it." Lily emphasized her words by snapping her fingers and pouting her lips in an attempt to imitate a snobby girl.
Sunny laughed and retorted with an obnoxiously high-pitched voice, "And I'm Lily, the weirdo who still uses a working CD player even if they're more ancient than my grandmother's underwear."
The younger girl stuck out her tongue playfully and smacked Sunny on the shoulder. "Because that shizz is expensive, but as soon as I finish paying for college I'll start a 'buy Lily an iPod' fund."
As they entered the car park of the Aguadilla shopping centre, Sunny replied with, "Pfft, yeah when CDs are obsolete and you have no choice but to buy one or else no music for you."
Lily rolled her eyes as she opened the car door and stepped out.
"Whatever."
"Mira nena! Quiero mis chicos ahora así que mueve el trasero o te voy arrancar la ca-"
"Sunny, shut your mouth before you make the poor girl at the register shit bricks!"
With widened eyes and a pout, Sunny whirled around to face Lily, harshly grabbing the girl's upper arms in the process. "Don't you see?" She shook the smaller girl excitedly – a worried look crossed Lily's eyes. "I'm so close to getting two massive posters of the boys! Of One Direction! Do you not comprehend how important this is to me?"
Lily rolled her eyes and let her crazed friend rant. It'd be better if she got it out of her system now rather than explode when they finally reached the front desk.
"And this bitch!" Sunny let Lily go and vaguely back in the direction of the young nerve-wracked cashier a feet away from them. "She's so frickin' slow – she's denying me my right to sexy males being hung up on my wall." At this the short haired brunette looked back and sent her a dirty glare – which unfortunately did not go unnoticed by the pitiable cashier. "She's a female; she should understand me and my womanly needs. This is wrong. This is breaking girl code. You don't mess with girl code."
Lily sighed. "There's no such thing as girl co-"
And yet Sunny interrupted as she continued her tirade – by now she was really into it – and actually had the girls in front and back of them nodding vigorously. They mumbled their agreement with reverent 'you go girl' and 'true that.'
"We who are ruled by estrogen must unite in our right to fangirl! Now Lily my dear friend, what do you have to say to that?"
At this point Sunny's pale cheeks were flushed pink and red, had visibly worked up a bit of a sweat, yet the maniacal look stayed present in her eyes.
Lily bit her lip as she pondered for a moment on how to respond.
"I'm never letting you pour maple syrup onto the bacon again. It makes you way too hormonal."
Sunny groaned and threw her hands up exasperatedly, "Ugh, no one understands me!"
Lily snorted. "Says every teenager in the world. Now move nena, we're up next."
Ding.
The cashier rang the bell at the front desk that signaled for the next customer to move – which just so happened to be a smiling Lily and a bewildered Sunny. Apparently she hadn't noticed that the line had moved considerably during her angry outburst.
The cashier sent a wary look towards Sunny's way as said girl smiled sheepishly while nervously ruffling her hair. The tired employee retightened her bleach-blonde ponytail in an effort to recompose herself from the day's events so far, and it was only half past ten in the morning. A tired – probably mandatory – smile appeared on the girl's face as she readied the cash register.
"El CD de One Direction, verdad," asked the cashier, a bit of exasperation in her voice.
Lily smiled understandingly, "Si, nada mas uno pero dos set de posters para mi y para mi amiga, porfavor."
And so the girl bent down to fetch a brown cardboard box from underneath the counter and propped it in front of them. Several girls giggled excitedly behind the duo – as the package was clearly marked with 1Dand had pictures of the five boys they all obsessed over plastered on the side.
The bleached-blonde rummaged the contents and came out with one copy of the Up All Night album which she dropped into a plastic bag. Lily's fingers unconsciously twitched as she had reflexively wanted to hold the item as soon as she saw it. She took a silent deep breath to calm herself down.
Setting the box aside – to which many girls in the back of the line seemed to magnetically inch towards to – the cashier yet again reached underneath the counter only to come up with two rolls of paper. One she shyly handed to Lily, the other she harshly launched into Sunny's awaiting hands - not even sparing the thrilled girl a glance.
Once all was paid and done -the girls sprinted out of the store, down the main passage of the shopping centre, and skedaddled out of the centre itself towards the vehicle faster than you could say 'SUPERMAAAAN.'
"LLEGUE, I'M HOME!"
"Sonieliz, you don't live here."
"Lily, your mum is being mean to me!"
"And you're not from the UK either."
"BLASPHEMY!"
Lily had been changing into her pyjamas as her mother and her best friend squabbled in the kitchen. She couldn't help but chuckle at their strange antics. She hurriedly slipped on some socks, ran out of the room, down the hallway and entered the kitchen.
Truth be told, the sight before her was a tab bit chuckle-inducing. Her mother was seated at the dining room table calmly grading some papers for her 6th grade English class; a wan smile graced her face, brow furrowed slightly in concentration. Sunny on the other hand was melodramatically huddled in a corner, her eyes verging on tearing up.
She wasn't sure whether to laugh or shake her head exasperatedly so she settled for both. "First of all, Mami you don't say such things to someone who wishes to live in the UK so much they believe they were born in the wrong country."
Her mother rolled her eyes – apparently such traits were inherited – and continued grading papers as if nothing mattered. The scritch-scratch of pencil and pen were her only audible response.
A sudden whimper made Lily turn her head towards Sunny. The tall brunette raised her gaze, which had morphed into a puppy-dog eyed expression. Lily cocked an eyebrow and smirked.
"You and your two years of theatre class don't fool me, now march up to my room Drama Queen or I'm stealing your One Direction posters."
In response, Sunny made a strangled sound followed by a glare and an 'I'm watching you' motion with her hands.
"Lilyyyyyy, I want I want I want to see the posters! I want I want I want Niall in me! I want I want I want for you to sit the fudge down."
Suffice to say, Sunny was feeling sexually frustrated.
"Someone's horny for Horan."
Lily grabbed the posters from her bed and set them in front of Sunny who was seated on the floor. She plugged her stereo and excitedly inserted her brand effin new One Direction CD inside it, and pressed play. She made sure the CD was on 'repeat' for good measure before plucking a pillow from the bed. The striped pillow was thrown onto the floor promptly followed by the curly haired girl's bum.
"Let Operation: Up All Night begin!"
Sunny and Lily looked at each other excitedly and giggled like giddy schoolgirls for a while. After the giggles had been suppressed – for the most part – they focused on the matter at hand.
Paso Numero Uno of the "Epic-tastic Directioner Sleepover:
1 – One Direction's on replay! They're on replay! (Nice touch, Lily :D)
"Step One complete," squealed Sunny. She continued on in an imitation of Niall's voiceover man impression, "And now for what we've all been waiting for…"
Paso Numero Dos
2 – Open up the posters and fangirl over their (almost) presence in Lily's room. (Erase that 'almost'. it will happen one day, Sunny!)
To those unaware, the excitement this step created probably merited some sort of explanation. Fortunately for Puerto Rican Directioners, the purchase of the Up All Night album – or even just making the line – was rewarded with two never before seen (in Puerto Rico) posters.
One would be of a group picture.
"EEEEEH!" Sunny jumped onto Lily's lap and shoved the poster in her hands onto Lily's face. "Look look look, it's a picture from the Gotta Be You video! They're all gathered by the bonfire thing that appeared in it. Dayum, Harry looks sexy in that coat and scarf – sorry Niall," she exclaimed guiltily.
Lily pinched Sunny's bum harshly, which caused the older girl to squeak and land ungracefully onto the bed beside them.
"Uh huh, yes practically orgasmic. Now it's my turn." She calmly unrolled the paper and smiled so hard at the sight in front of her it was a miracle her face didn't crack in half. Before her was a scene from the One Thing video. It had all the boys posing goofily on the top of the bright red bus amidst a busy London.
Lily wordlessly stood up, grabbed the tape on her bed she had reserved earlier for this occasion, and stuck the poster next to her only other 1D poster: the boys on the orange vancamper from the What Makes You Beautiful video.
That much perfection on a wall should be illegal. She shook herself out of her thoughts before they led down into Fantasy Lane and turned towards Sunny with a wide grin. She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively. Sunny laughed and asked, "Are you ready for the real heart-attack inducing moment?"
"If life were Tumblr I'd insert a gif of a screaming Louis with a caption that said SEXUAL FRUSTRATION."
And the other poster was a large image of one of the boys - just one. No refunds at the store, no replacing for one your dream band member. It was all or nothing.
"Okay, we do this at the same time," said Sunny as she closed her eyes and breathed deeply while sending a silent prayer for Niall to appear when she opened the scroll. Lily just nodded her head accompanied by a shrug of her shoulders and replied with a, "Okie doke."
"And one, two, three – "
"Flick!"
Sunny burst into laughter while Lily smiled sheepishly. "Aw come on, you know the moment was begging to happen."
After that they agreed to finally unfurl the posters together.
"Y uno, dos, tres!" exclaimed Sunny. On tres both girls snapped the rubber band holding the scroll together and unrolled the scroll excitedly.
"What? What the hell, no!"
"Allright, don't murder me we can fix this."
Sunny pinned down Lily under her weight and forcefully held up Lily's poster so they could both view it. Lily winced at the sudden pressure, although, the sight of Sunny's murderous face wasn't much help either.
"Explain to me Liana Marie Rosado Medina why in the name of all that is Irish why you're the one who got a Niall frickin' Horan poster and not me!"
From her position all Lily could do was muster a weak, "Fate?" Unfortunately, the look on her friend's face told her that was the wrong answer.
"Screw fate, I'm making my own destiny. We're switching posters, ahora."
Lily had a sneaking suspicion there wasn't any room to say no. Thankful to the fact that she had stayed determined to not choose favorites until she ever met them personally, she quickly complied with her mental friend.
Sunny danced around the room with the flat image of Niall Horan posing topless in Calvin Klein underwear.
Yep, definitely mental.
As Sunny was occupied, she took it upon herself to reach for the scroll that had been hastily thrown to the side in rage earlier. So if it's not Niall, who is it?
She sat down on the floor and gently unfurled the scroll again, flatting out smoothly some of the wrinkles Sunny's hands had created earlier. Once she rid the paper of the creases she took a good look at the boy who would soon honor her wall with his presence. A small gentle smile spread across her lips.
Staring up at her with a topless tanned torso, a cheeky smile, rumpled hair, and blue blue eyes, was Louis 'Culon' Tomlinson himself – and in a pair of tight Calvin Klein shorts as an added bonus.
Authors's note:
Spanish Glossary:
Callate – Shut up
Oye tu – Hey you
¡Mira! – literally means Look! But is commonly used to call someone's attention. (This is actually really rude if the person is a stranger or someone to respect. Personally, I only use it when referring to friends and close family. Generally void calling someone's attention by saying ¡Mira!)
Nena – slang for girl (I'm pretty sure it's most commonly used by Puerto Ricans, but I can't confirm that to you completely. Teenagers tend to use this more than chica or niña).
Quiero mis chicos ahora así que mueve el trasero o te voy arrancar la cara. – I want my boys now so move your bum/butt or I'm going to rip your face off. (Try not to use this one in daily life.)
El CD de One Direction, verdad? – The One Direction CD, right?
Si, nada mas uno pero dos set de posters para mi y para mi amiga, porfavor. – Yes, only one but two sets of posters for me and my friend, please.
llegue - I've arrived
Uno, dos, tres - One, two, three
(And that is your Spanish lesson for the day/night/morning/whatever.)
Author's Note:
Disclaimer: I don't own the Time to Wake Up song. That is unofficially copyrighted to One Direction; although I did have fun using my revised and personalized version.
Trololol, if you think you're in the clear as to who the boy is – you are wrong, girlies. I plan on confusing all of you a hell lot more in the upcoming chapters. Prepare to start thinking: "Wait it has to be this boy!" "No it's not that one, but there's a whole bunch of hints on this!" "Ugh, no that is too obvious, but maybe that's the point." "MY BRAIN HURTS!"
Sucks for you, there's only one person who knows and she better keep her mouth shut or else. Oh, and she'll know what the "or else" is soon enough. You got that "Sunny" aka 1dtomcfly. Or else.
Also, if you're wondering when the hell are the boys going to appear, all I say is soon - very soon. If all goes according to the outline, most likely in two chapters maximum. It would've been the next one but I had to cut off this chapter because it was getting to long (9 freaking pages on Word). The good news is that I'm already started on the next chapter, which will finally partly reveal why the summary is the way it is. Plus, the plot will finally start moving.
Simply,
ThatOneDiabeticGirl
P.S. Go read Sunny's 1D story she just uploaded a few days ago. It's called "Something's Never Change." Her account is "1dtomcfly". It's only a prologue for now but she already has interesting plans for it (I'd know being the beta and all).